Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosop…
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 …
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t…
Sun Tzu (traditional Chinese: 孫子; simplified Chinese: 孙子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). Sun …
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an i…
David J. Lieberman, PhD, is a renowned psychotherapist and the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Be Lied to Again. He has trained per…
Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet…
Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si …
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
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…
Alin Mureșan (n. 1983, Oradea) a absolvit Facultatea de Științe Politice, Administrative și ale Comunicării, secția Jurnalism, a Universității „Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca și studii aprofundate în i…
Lavinia Braniște s-a născut la Brăila în 1983. A studiat limbi străine la universitățile din Cluj și București. A debutat în literatură în 2006 cu volumul de poezii „Povești cu mine” (Paralela 45), du…
Mihai Radu (n. 1977) a absolvit Facultatea de Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Este jurnalist la săptămânalul Cațavencii și scrie pentru emisiunea Starea Nației. După…
She was born in Chișinău and studied journalism and communications at Moldova State University. She first gained renown for her "True Stories" column which appeared in the Flux newspaper in the mid-19…
ANDREI URSU a fost directorul științific al Institutului Revoluției Române din Decembrie 1989 şi membru fondator al Fundației „Gheorghe Ursu”. Este interesat de problematica istoriei represiunii din p…
