Mircea Sântimbreanu a fost un scriitor român, director al editurii Albatros, publicist, scenarist și producător de film. Mircea Sântimbreanu este cunoscut mai ales ca scriitor de literatură pentru cop…
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of children's stories, best known for Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area aro…
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". …
Avi is a pen name for Edward Irving Wortis, but he says, "The fact is, Avi is the only name I use." Born in 1937, Avi has created many fictional favorites such as The True Confessions of Charlotte …
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's next book, The Night War, will be published April 9, 2024. She is the author of nineteen previous books, including the Newbery Honor winners Fighting Words and The War that…
Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). He is the most …
S-a născut la Hodora-Cotnari, județul Iași, fiu al inginerului Dimitrie Petrescu, profesor la Școala agricolă Trifești lângă Roman, unde viitorul scriitor a și învățat între 1901-1903. Urmează liceul …
Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and s…
Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is consid…
RO: Ion Minulescu (n. 6 ianuarie 1881, Bucureşti - d. 11 aprilie 1944, Bucureşti) a fost un poet şi prozator român, reprezentant important al Simbolismului românesc. Ion Minulescu este numit director …
Rui Barreira Zink is a professor at New University of Lisbon, where he graduated in Portuguese Studies and obtained the PhD in Portuguese Literature. Reader of Portuguese at the University of Michigan…
Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, ECHO, a 2016 Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She has written over forty books for young people—picture books, early …
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels…
Jo Cotterill has had several careers - actor, musician, teacher, newspaper seller - but is now a full-time writer in Oxfordshire. She loves writing for all ages and has published over twenty books. A …
Tommy Greenwald's book GAME CHANGER has been named an Amazon Best Book Of The Month, a 2019 YALSA Top Ten Pick for Reluctant Readers, and a Junior Library Guild Premier Selection. Tommy is also the au…
Născută în 1979, la Brăila. A absolvit în 2001 o facultate economică la Universitatea Româno-Americană, apoi un curs post-universitar de jurnalism la Universitatea București.
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about mystical nanny Mary Poppins. She was born to bank manager Traver…
Alex Moldovan s‑a născut la Cluj, unde locuieşte şi acum. E pasionat de literatura pentru copii, de muzică şi e voluntar la o asociaţie pentru protecţia animalelor. În copilărie, a fost atât de încânt…