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Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής ; German: Sophokles , Russian: Софокл , French: Sophocle , Catalan: Sòfocles ) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three …
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Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet, with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, a…
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, an…
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Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and out…
Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written w…
Thomas Wolfe
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People best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and the posthumously published You Can't Go Home Again (1940).

Wolfe…
Ira Levin
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Levin graduated from the Horace Mann School and New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.

After college, he wrote training films and scripts for television.

Levin's first produced…
John Berger
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John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC s…
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and …
Bohumil Hrabal
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Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.

Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in t…
Alphonse Daudet
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Stories of life of French writer Alphonse Daudet of the naturalist school in his native Provence include Lettres de mon moulin (1869).

Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the young…
Mark Doty
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Mark Doty is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Deep Lane and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award. He lives in New …
Maurice Blanchot
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Maurice Blanchot was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. Blanchot was a distinctly modern writer who broke down generic boundaries, particularly between literature and philo…
László Krasznahorkai
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László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his b…
Emmanuel Carrère
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Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Polit…
اکبر سردوزامی
فارغ‌التحصيل رشته‌ی تئاتر دانشكده‌ی هنرهای زيبای دانشگاه تهران بوده و هم اكنون ساكن دانمارك است. كتاب‌های زير از اين نويسنده منتشر شده

دلواپسي، مجموعه داستان، 1358
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عباس نعلبندیان
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Abas Na'lbandian
عباس نعلبندیان (۱۳۲۸–۸ خرداد ۱۳۶۸) نمایشنامه‌نویس پیشرو ایرانی بود. وی در جشن هنر شیراز مورد تحسین قرار گرفته و جوایز متعددی را به‌دست آورده‌بود. عباس نعلبندیان در سال ۴۸ به عنوان مدیر…
Alejandro Zambra
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Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His …
بیژن نجدی
بیژن نجدی (۲۴ آبان ۱۳۲۰ در خاش - ۳ شهریور ۱۳۷۶ در لاهیجان) شاعر و نویسنده معاصر ایرانی، کارشناس ارشد رشته ریاضیات و دبیر دبیرستانهای لاهیجان بود.‏
Anton Chekhov
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Antón Chéjov (Spanish)

Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
هوشنگ گلشیری
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Writer, critic and editor, Hooshang Golshiri, the prominent Iranian literary figure, published his first collection of short stories, As Always, in 1958. His second…
محمود مسعودی
محمود مسعودی یک نویسنده و مترجمِ فارسی‌زبانِ ساکنِ فرانسه است.‏ گفته میشود ایشان در سالهای سکونت در ایران از دوستان شمیم بهار بوده است.‏
نغمه ثمینی
نغمه ثمینی، نمایش‌نامه‌نویس، متولد ۱۳۵۲ در ایران، دارای دکترای پژوهش هنر (اسطوره و درام) است. از او تاکنون هفت نمایش‌نامه و دو کتاب پژوهشی منتشر شده‌است. هم‌چنین بیش از ده نمایش‌نامه از جمله «شکلک» و …