American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Libr…
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. In 2008 The Times…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
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…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for socia…
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Fir…
Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 27 countries. In 2013, her latest novel, The Carrier, won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at th…
15 Nisan 1910’da İstanbul’da doğdu. 21 Nisan 1973’te İstanbul’da yaşamını yitirdi. Asıl ismi Kemal Tahir Demir. Deniz yüzbaşı olan babası, Sultan II. Abdulhamid’in yaverlerinden. Babasının görevleri n…
Haldun Taner, a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.He was born on March 16, 1915 in Istanbul. After graduating from the Galatasaray High School in 1935, he studied politics and econo…
Halide Edib Adıvar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of mos…
Mudurnu'dan İstanbul'a göçen Karakayış ailesinden Maliye Başveznedarı Mehmed Halit Bey'in oğlu olarak 15 Mart 1888’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Galatasaray Sultanisi'nde ve Hukuk Mektebi'nde okudu. Maliye Ne…
Ahmet Mithat was an Ottoman journalist, author, translator, and publisher during the Tanzimat period. In his works, he was known as Ahmet Mithat Efendi, in order to distinguish him from the contempora…