1895 yılında İstanbul'da doğan Mahmut Yesari, 16 Ağustos 1945'te öldüğünde arkasında en az yirmi beş roman, yüzlerce hikâye, elliden fazla oyun bıraktı. Geçimini kalemiyle sağladı; otuz yılı aşkın çal…
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in…
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
James C. Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, and an…
Suzuki Kōji (鈴木光司) is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written sev…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear…
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned …
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Hi…
Erich Scheurmann (* 24. November 1878 in Hamburg; † 4. Mai 1957 in Armsfeld) war ein deutscher Maler und Schriftsteller. Bekannt geworden ist er als Verfasser des Bestsellers Der Papalagi (1920).
Ömer Seyfettin was born in 1884 in Gönen. He wrote under various aliases such as Ayas, Camsâp, C. Nazmi, C. Nizami, Ç. Kemal, F. Nezihi, Feridun Perviz, Kâf-ı Farsî, Kaygusuz, M. Enver, M. Enver Pervi…
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (d. 23 Mart 1875, Çermik – ö. 25 Ekim 1924, İstanbul), yapıtları ve görüşleriyle Türkçülüğü ve Türk milliyetçiliğini önemli ölçüde etkileyen Türk toplumbilimci, yazar, şair ve siyas…
Erenköy Kız Lisesi'nin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında çeşitli edebiyat ve kültür dergilerine yazılar yazmaya başladı. Edebiyat üzerine…
Mudurnu'dan İstanbul'a göçen Karakayış ailesinden Maliye Başveznedarı Mehmed Halit Bey'in oğlu olarak 15 Mart 1888’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Galatasaray Sultanisi'nde ve Hukuk Mektebi'nde okudu. Maliye Ne…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the…
Askeri Kâtip Okulu'nu bitirdi. Şevket Paşa'ya yapılan suikastla ilgili olarak Sinop'a sürülmeden önce çeşitli yerlerde memurluk yaptı. 1918'de malulen emekliye ayrıldıktan sonra sütçülük, vapur biletç…
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yap…
Selim Nüzhet Gerçek (1891-1945), Türkiye bibliyografyasının kurucusu, yazar, gazeteci, çevirmen, tiyatro araştırmacısı ve matbaacı. Türkiye’de gazetecilik, matbaacılık ve kitap basımının tarihine ve ge…
Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve ulusl…
