Mineke Schipper is a Dutch author of non-fiction and fiction. As a scholar she is best known for her work on comparative literature mythologies and intercultural studies.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet associated with the American Renaissance literary movement. Among his best-known wor…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UC Berkeley and is one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to re…
Dr. Sigismund Freud, M.D. (University of Vienna)—later changed to Sigmund—was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human pe…
Joseph Gies and his wife Frances were historians and writers. They both collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages, and each also wrote individual works. Joseph Gies graduated from the Un…
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…
محمود درويش Mahmoud Darwish was a respected Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became…
Yazar ve mütercim. 12 Aralık 1916’da Hatay Reyhanlı’da doğdu. Ailesi Balkan Savaşı sırasında Yunanistan’dan göçmüştü. Fransız idaresindeki Hatay’da Fransız eğitim sistemi uygulayan Antakya Sultanisi’n…
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the trainees…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar. Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Gran…
ثروت دسوقي أباظة (15 يوليو 1927 - 17 مارس 2002) كاتب وروائي مصري كبير، يعد من أعلام محافظة الشرقية وله اسهاماته العديدة في الأدب. وهو من عائلة أباظة الشركسية التي تعود بأصولها إلى بلاد شمال القفقاس وب…
عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي شاعر وأديب وصحافي ومؤلف مسرحي ومفكر إسلامي مصري من الطراز الفريد ولد عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي في 10 نوفمبر 1920م بقرية الدلاتون محافظة المنوفية شمال القاهرة، بدئ عبد الرحمن تعليمه في كت…
Ibrahim Aslan (Arabic: إبراهيم أصلان) was born in Tanta, Egypt in 1937. He is culture editor for the Cairo bureau of the London-based daily newspaper al-Hayat.
Diplomat and politician Esendal, who served as ambassador in Tehran, Baku and Kabul, as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for four terms, and as Secretary General of the CHP between 19…
Gardiner Harris covers international diplomacy for The New York Times. He previously served as a White House, South Asia, public health, and pharmaceutical reporter for the publication. Before working…
Among Iranian writers who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik Farrag (Arabic: أحمد خالد توفيق), also known as Ahmed Khaled Tawfek, was an Egyptian author and physician, who wrote more than 200 books, in both Egyptian Arabic and Classical Arab…
Caroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a co…
Ілларіон Павлюк - український письменник, журналіст, продюсер, документаліст. Автор трьох романів: Білий попіл (переклад з рос.: Бриних Михайло, 2018), Танець недоумка (переклад з рос.: Мельників Рост…
