Ο Δημήτρης Κουφοντίνας γεννήθηκε το 1958 στο καπνοχώρι Τερπνή της Νιγρίτας Σερρών. Το 1972 η εσωτερική μετανάστευση μετέτρεψε την αγροτική οικογένεια σε βιομηχανικούς εργάτες στην Αθήνα. Τέλειωσε το Ε…
Katherine Neville is an American author. Her novels include The Eight, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and she previously worked as a photographer, a mode…
bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender…
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continen…
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…
Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece. Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally …
Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mu…
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, since he founded it in 2018. A forme…
As a player, he won the Ballon d'Or in 1971, 1973, and 1974. Cruyff was the most famous exponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football explor…
Born in Lyons in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for b…
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily…
Ο Διονύσης Χαριτόπουλος γεννήθηκε το 1947 στην Αθήνα και μεγάλωσε στον Πειραιά όπου από μικρή ηλικία έκανε διάφορες χειρωνακτικές δουλειές στο Λιμάνι και στα γύρω μηχανουργεία, εγκατέλειψε νωρίς δύο α…
Ο Χρήστος Βακαλόπουλος σπούδασε οικονομικά στην ΑΣΟΕΕ και κινηματογράφο στο Παρίσι. Εργάστηκε ως κριτικός κινηματογράφου στην εφημερίδα "Αυγή" (1975-1985) και στα περιοδικά "Σύγχρ…
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης) was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean …
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
