Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (195…
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist and former painter known for her evocative, lyrical prose and her autoethnographic approach to historical fiction. Drawing deeply from her family's experie…
Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people throug…
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his ef…
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most w…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control…
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe p…
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller…
Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published …
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine.
Auteur prolifique, Jean-Louis Fournier a toujours su mêler humour, culture et sincérité. Entre un frère polytechnicien et une soeur éducatrice spécialisée, il choisit la voie de l'humour et devient le…
Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915. In 1936, he started attending the Faculty of Letters and History-Geography. In 1938, he went to Belgium to study sociology, however, upon breakout of W…
Füruzan Yerdelen was an award-winning self-taught Turkish writer, who is highly regarded for her sensitive characterisations of the poor and her depictions of Turkish immigrants abroad.
Türk yazar. Özellikle Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri ve Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk olmak üzere az sayıda kitabıyla tanınır. Yazar Demir Özlü ile yazar ve çevirmen Sezer Duru'nun kardeşidir.
Writer and translator (b. 22 May 1895, İstanbul – d. 18 January 1960). After he finished Beşiktaş Secondary School, he studied at Galatasaray High School but discontinued his education.
1961’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Ankara’da büyüdü. ODTÜ Endüstri Mühendisliği mezunu ve halen Frankfurt’ta yaşıyor. Romanları Ankara Mon Amour 2003, Bir Akdeniz Kedisinin Hatıraları 2004, Çatıkatı Aşıkları …
IRMAK ZİLELİ, 1978 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. Sosyal Antropoloji öğrenimi gördü. Televizyon ve dergilerde muhabirlik yaptı. Roman Kahramanları dergisinin kuruluşunda görev aldı ve ilk 6 sayı yayın yön…
Cahide Birgül, 1956'da Ankara'da doğdu. Ankara Devlet Mühendislik Mimarlık Akademisi Mimarlık Bölümünü bitiren Birgül, 15 yıl süreyle Ankara'da bir devlet kuruluşunda çalıştı.20'ye yakın radyo oyunu A…
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…
1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a …
1985’de İzmir’de doğdu. Üniversitede fizik öğrenimi gördü. Açık Artırma öyküsüyle, 2015 altKitap Öykü Yarışması’nda birinciliğe layık görüldü. 2015 ve 2016 yıllarında farklı iki dosyayla Yaşar Nabi Na…