Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company execut…
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and …
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers. He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu. He finished the first 7 classes in t…
Anița Nandriș-Cudla (1904-1986) s-a născut într-o familie de ţărani din Bucovina. 13 000 de români din acest ţinut au trăit, în iunie 1941, groaza deportării. Între ei, şi Aniţa cu întreaga familie. A…
Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that…
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi. Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona. Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris). În 1996, iniţiază grupul li…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
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…
Daniel Z. Lieberman, M.D. is a clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. Dr. Lieberman is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association…
Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. Her mother was a nun, her father was a monk, and she was brought up Catholic. She studied classics at Cambridge and taught the subject for several yea…
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a do…
