Mario Levi was born in 1957 in Istanbul. He graduated from Saint Michel High School in 1975, from Istanbul University the Faculty of Literature French Language and Literature Department in 1980. His f…
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 …
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Libr…
Sandra Cisneros is internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowshi…
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Span…
Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comp…
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варлам Тихонович Шаламов; June 18, 1907–January 17, 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist and poet.
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish No…
Takashi Nagai was a physician specializing in radiology, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned him the affe…
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…
4 Haziran 1915’te İstanbul-Şişli’de doğdu. İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Belçika’da yaptı. 1939’da Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi’ni bitirerek Klasik Filoloji Bölümünde asistan olarak gör…
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye…
1997 yılında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi İktisat bölümünden mezun oldu. Ölümsüz Öyküler Yayınevi'nin düzenlediği 'Xasiork 2002 Kısa Öykü Yarışması'nda Kayıp Dua Kitab…
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family o…
Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New …
1980’de Çanakkale’de doğdu. Arkeoloji ve tarih okudu. Hayatını çeviriler yaparak ve yazarak sürdürüyor. Gençlerbirliklidir; söylenişi bile güzel. Kitapları: Bangır Bangır Ferdi Çalıyor Evde... (2012)…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Yazarlık, gazetecilik ve fotoğrafçılık alanında eğitim aldı. Yazılı basında kültür sanat yazıları, söyleşi…
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Page…
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…
