Alex Drace-Francis
Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.
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Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
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Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a -
Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. He shipped out in the Merchant Marine and at age 24 became managing editor of Esquire magazine. At age 29, he became chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. Since 1989 he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes Life magazine.
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He is the author of twelve books, most of them national bestsellers. They include: The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday and Supreme Courtship.
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Roderick Beaton
Roderick Macleod Beaton, FBA, FKC (born 1951) is a retired academic. He was Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1988 to 2018.
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Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the
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Annie Duke
Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is also a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars and the Board of Directors of the Franklin Institute. In 2020, she joined the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.
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Liviu Rebreanu
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
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Born in Târlişua (currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County), Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru (where he was taught by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa, to military school at Sopron and then to the military academy in Budapest. He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Radu Paraschivescu
Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that life is sweet and must be greedily crunched.
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He is a translator and co-author of two reference works in the sports literature (Larousse Encyclopedia of footbal and Athens Olympic Games in Athens: 1896-2004). He translated nearly sixty books of English, American, Canadian and French authors.
He published two novels (Efemeriada şi Balul fantomelor), a volume of stories about Bucharest (Bazar bizar) and one essay about dishonesty in sports (Fanionul roșu - 2005), for which he received the "Ioan Chirilă" National Award for best sports book of the ye -
Miljenko Jergović
Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You -
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu s-a născut la Iași, într-o familie de profesori (mama, Maria, era profesoară de română la liceu, iar tatăl, Ostin-Costel, profesor de farmacologie la Facultatea de Medicină). A urmat cursurile Facultăţii de Litere din Iași, perioadă în care a scris la Opinia studenţească și a lucrat la diverse publicaţii, la radio și televiziune. În 1998 a absolvit Academia de Teatru și Film din București. Pe parcursul studiilor universitare și după aceea, a realizat mai multe filme de scurtmetraj.
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Ca autor de lungmetraj, a debutat în 2002 cu Occident, care a avut premiera la Cannes. În 2003 a publicat la Editura Liternet volumul de scenarii literare 7 povestiri. Cristian Mungiu a scris scenariile tuturor filmelor sale, fiind recompensat cu -
Ioana Bradea
A studiat vioara, timp de opt ani, la Liceul de Muzică „Tudor Jarda”, şi apoi limbi străine la Colegiul Naţional „Liviu Rebreanu” din Bistriţa şi la Universitatea din Bucureşti (secţia portugheză–franceză). A muncit în Bucureşti, într-o piaţă şi apoi la o revistă de scurtă durată, în Bistriţa, prin fabrici şi uzine, ca translator, la un post de radio şi la o cafenea proprie etc. În prezent este căsătorită, are trei copii şi trăieşte la Bistriţa, unde lucrează la un cotidian online.
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Narine Abgaryan
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Lavinia Braniște
Lavinia Braniște s-a născut la Brăila în 1983.
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A studiat limbi străine la universitățile din Cluj și București.
A debutat în literatură în 2006 cu volumul de poezii „Povești cu mine” (Paralela 45), după care a publicat o colecție de proză scurtă, „Cinci minute pe zi” (Casa de Pariuri Literare) în 2011.
Polirom i-a publicat și colecția de povestiri „Escapada” (2014). „Interior zero” este primul ei roman. -
Mihai Radu
Mihai Radu (n. 1977) a absolvit Facultatea de Filosofie din cadrul Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Este jurnalist la săptămânalul Cațavencii și scrie pentru emisiunea Starea Nației. După volumul de proză scurtă Hobby și alte povestiri, apărut în 2009, a publicat, împreună cu Simona Tache, Femeile vin de pe Venus, bărbații de la băut (2013) și Bărbații vin de pe Marte, femeile de la coafor (2015). De același autor, la Editura Polirom au mai apărut romanele Sebastian, ceilalți și-un câine (2014), Extraconjugal (2017, 2018) și Contaminare (2019).
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Cosmin Leucuța
Cosmin Leucuța s-a născut la Arad și a început să scrie povești la vârsta de 14 ani.
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Laptele negru al mamei (Adenium) - roman, câștigătorul primului concurs de debut al editurii
2017
Numele altora (Casa de Pariuri Literare) - proză scurtă
2018
Hoodoo (Polirom) - roman, premiul „Tânărul Prozator al Anului” la Gala Tinerilor Scriitori
2020
Cum te vei îmbrăca la sfârșitul lumii? (Casa de Pariuri Literare) - proză scurtă, premiul „Tânărul Prozator al Anului” la Gala Tinerilor Scriitori
2022
Cerul ca oțelul (Humanitas) - roman, nominalizare la Premiul Naţional de Proză „Ziarul de Iaşi” și Premiul FILIT 2023; una dintre cele 15 carți alese pentru a reprezenta România la Salonul Internațional de Carte de la Paris
2024
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Cătălin Vasilescu
CĂTĂLIN VASILESCU (n. 1959), profesor de chirurgie la Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din București și șef al Disciplinei Chirurgie Generală a Institutului Clinic Fundeni, a adus contribuții importante în chirurgia oncologică, chirurgia robotică și cercetarea medicală, mai ales în genomică. Are preocupări constante pentru istoria medicinei și istoria ideilor, mai ales din timpul Primului Război Mondial, domenii în care a publicat articole despre Dimitrie Gerota („Istoria lucrului bine făcut“, 2005), Toma Ionescu („Thoma Ionescu sau Wilhelm von Waldeyer? Istoria unei idei călătoare“, 2010), Victor Gomoiu („Operația Thoma Ionescu–Victor Gomoiu“, 2016), Fritz Haber („Chimia aerului – tragicul caz al lui Fritz Haber, laureat al Premiului
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Raluca Nagy
Raluca Nagy, Dr. (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) studied economics and anthropology in Bucharest and Brussels.
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Her first novel, 'Un cal într-o mare de lebede' (Nemira, 2018), won the national debut prizes 'Sofia Nădejde' and 'Observator Cultural'; it was shortlisted for the Festival du Premier Roman de Chambéry, France. Her second novel, 'Teo de la 16 la 18' (Nemira, 2021), was Romania's finalist to the 2022 European Prize for Literature (EUPL). It was shortlisted for the 'Sofia Nădejde', 'Ziarul de Iaşi', 'Observator Cultural' and 'Leibniz' prizes.
Raluca's most recent book, the memoir 'Despre memoriile femeii şi alți dragoni' (N'autor/Nemira, 2023), marks her debut in non-fiction. It was shortlisted for the 'Observator Cultural' and PEN Romania priz -
Guzel Yakhina
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.
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Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare.
She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting.
Yakhina worked in public relations and advertising. She began her writing career with publications in the journals Neva and Oktyabr. Sections of her debut novel Zuleikha appeared in the journal Siberian -
Tatiana Niculescu Bran
Tatiana Niculescu este o scriitoare română, fost producător de programe și prezentator la radio BBC World Service Londra și redactor-șef al secției BBC WS în limba română, autoare de biografii interbelice, cărți neficționale, romancieră și dramaturg.
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Tatiana Niculescu a studiat Litere la Universitatea București, absolvind ulterior și Institutul european de jurnalism Robert Schuman din Bruxelles (în original, Robert Schuman European Institute of Journalism). Între 1994 și 2004, a fost editor și prezentator al secției române a BBC World Service din Londra. Între 2004 și 2008 a condus biroul BBC World Service din București.
În 2006 a publicat prima sa carte de non-ficțiune, Spovedanie la Tanacu, numită de critică un "In cold blood" românesc. -
Alexandra Furnea
Alexandra Furnea este redactor de carte, jurnalist și activist social. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere din cadrul Universității „Petru Maior“ din Târgu Mureș și are un masterat în studii americane la Universitatea din București. Între 2011 şi 2020 a fost redactor la revista muzicală Maximum Rock Magazin. Scrie poezie, proză și articole dedicate scenei muzicale underground pe blogul ei, www.genunderground.ro. Este supraviețuitoare a incendiului din clubul Colectiv, din 30 octombrie 2015.
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Ioana Bradea
A studiat vioara, timp de opt ani, la Liceul de Muzică „Tudor Jarda”, şi apoi limbi străine la Colegiul Naţional „Liviu Rebreanu” din Bistriţa şi la Universitatea din Bucureşti (secţia portugheză–franceză). A muncit în Bucureşti, într-o piaţă şi apoi la o revistă de scurtă durată, în Bistriţa, prin fabrici şi uzine, ca translator, la un post de radio şi la o cafenea proprie etc. În prezent este căsătorită, are trei copii şi trăieşte la Bistriţa, unde lucrează la un cotidian online.
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