Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea …
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movi…
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and out…
Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later sym…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Jean Hegland's first novel, INTO THE FOREST, has been translated into eleven languages and is a frequent choice for campus- and community-wide reading programs. A film version starring Ellen Page and …
Oliver Jeffers' work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his award-winning picture books, now translate…
Née en 1960, Nadine Brun-Cosme vit en région parisienne. Après avoir exercé plusieurs professions en contact avec des enfants et des adolescents, elle consacre à présent tout son temps à l'écriture. N…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta.
Anna Walker writes and illustrates children’s books, including six with author Jane Godwin as well as her own Florette. The illustrator’s imagery is inspired by tiny details in the world around her. S…
Beatrice Alemagna was born in Bologna, Italy in 1973. She graduated from the Istituto Superiore for industrial arts in Urbino, Italy. She has won numerous international awards for her illustration. Sh…
1956'da Aydın'da doğdu. Liseyi Robert Kolej’de bitirdi. Şiir bursu alarak Floransa’ya gitti. Türkiye’ye dönerek birer yıl ODTÜ Elektronik ve Ekonomi bölümlerine devam etti. 1977’de İngiltere’ye gitti:…
Ahmet Haşim was an influential Turkish poet of the early 20th century. He was born in Baghdad, probably in the year 1887. In 1906, having graduated from the Mekteb-i Sultanî (now Galatasaray High Scho…
Originaire de l'île de la Réunion, Lou Lubie publie son premier roman à dix-huit ans, avant de s'orienter vers la bande dessinée. Ses cinq premiers livres voient le jour chez des éditeurs réunionnais.…
Terry Fan received his formal art training at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. His work is a blend of traditional and contemporary techniques, using ink or graphite mixed with dig…
Victoria Mas was born in 1987. The Mad Women's Ball, her first novel, has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lycéens) and been hailed as the bestselling d…
Dr. Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of The Book of Human Emotions. In 2014, she was named a BBC New Generation Thinker, and her TED talk The History of Emotions has over 1.5 mill…
Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Cam…
İstanbul’da, 1949 yılında doğan Bülent Eczacıbaşı, İstanbul Alman Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra yüksek öğrenimini Londra’da Imperial College’da sürdürdü ve ABD’de Massachusetts Institute of Technology’d…
