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Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction fina…
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpr…
Arthur Miller
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Works of American playwright Arthur Asher Miller include Death of a Salesman (1949), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, and The Crucible (1953).


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Firoozeh Dumas

Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran and moved to Whittier, California at the age of seven. After a two-year stay, she and her family moved back to Iran and lived in Ahvaz and Tehran. Two years lat…
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Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.

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Martin McDonagh
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While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh filled houses in New York and London, was showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audience…
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سناپور در سال ۱۳۳۹ در کرج به‌دنیا آمد. درس‌خواندهٔ رشتهٔ منابع طبیعی است اما از همان ابتدا به نوشتن و روزنامه‌نگاری روی آورد. در آغاز فعالیت داستان‌نویسی‌اش برای کودکان و نوجوانان می‌نوشت. پسران دهکده…
Ivan Turgenev
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short…
Truman Capote
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حسن کامشاد (زادهٔ چهارم تیر ۱۳۰۴ در اصفهان) مترجم و پژوهشگر ادبیات فارسی است. او استاد زبان فارسی در دانشگاه کمبریج و استاد مدعو در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا و از مسئولان شرکت ملی نفت ایران بود. مهمترین ترجمه…
Irvin D. Yalom
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Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.

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محمد قاضی
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محمد قاضی در ١٢ مرداد ١٢٩٢ در شهر مهاباد استان آذربایجان غربی دیده به جهان گشود. پدر او میرزاعبدالخالق امام جمعه مهاباد بود. محمد قاضی آموختن زبان فرانسه را در مهاباد آغاز کرد. او در سال ۱۳۰۸ با کمک ع…
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Charlie Macksey was born during a snowy winter in Northumberland. He has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis…
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s essays and short stories have been published in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and a Notabl…
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Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.

Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the…
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Magda Szabó
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Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.

Born in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debr…
Voltaire
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In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clev…
احمد محمود
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احمد اعطا با نام ادبی احمد محمود (۴ دی ۱۳۱۰، اهواز – ۱۲ مهر ۱۳۸۱، تهران) نویسندهٔ معاصر ایرانی بود. او را پیرو مکتب رئالیسم اجتماعی می‌دانند. معروف‌ترین رمان او، همسایه‌ها، در زمرهٔ آثار برجستهٔ ادبیا…
Young-ha Kim
Kim Young-ha is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Black Flower - and five short story collections.

He has won every major Korean literature awa…
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بهرام بیضائی
بهرام بیضایی: مروری بر زندگی و آثار یک اسطوره زنده

بهرام بیضایی، نویسنده، کارگردان، پژوهشگر و اسطوره‌شناس برجسته ایرانی، در ۵ دی ۱۳۱۷ در تهران چشم به جهان گشود ور در روز ۵ دی ۱۴۰۴ در سن ۸۷ سالگی، دور ا…