Vahé Katcha, de son vrai nom Vahé-Karnik Khatchadourian, (Damas, 1928 - Paris, 14 janvier 2003) est un écrivain, scénariste et journaliste français d'origine arménienne.
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 …
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of th…
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).
Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence aga…
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…
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by…
Marc Levy was born in France. When he turned eighteen, he joined the Red Cross, where he spent the next six years. In 1983, he created a computer graphics company based in France and the United States…
Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switz…
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…
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…
Axel (Aksel) Bakunts (Armenian: Ակսել Բակունց, real name - Alexander Stepani Tevosyan, June 13 , 1889, Goris - July 8, 1937) was an Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and public activist.H…
Levon Shant (Armenian: Լևոն Շանթ; born Levon Seghoposian on April 6, 1869 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire - died November 29, 1951 in Beirut; Lebanon), was an Armenian playwright, novelist, poet, an…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
Մարկ Արեն (իրական անունը Կարեն Մարգարյան) արդի հայ արձակագիր։ Բնակվում է Մոսկվայում և մասնագիտությամբ տնտեսագետ է։ Առաջին վեպը՝ «Ռեքվիեմ Հուդայի», լույս է տեսել ռուսերեն 2006 թ.։ «Այնտեղ, որտեղ ծաղկու…
David Turashvili [Georgian: დავით (დათო) ტურაშვილი] is a Georgian fiction writer. In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the Davidgareja monasteries in eastern…
