Alexander Belyaev
Alexander Romanovich Belyaev (Russian: Александр Беляев); born 16 March 1884 in Smolensk, Russian Empire; died 6 January 1942 in Pushkin, USSR]
Born in Smolensk, at the age of 30 Alexander became ill with tuberculosis. Treatment was unsuccessful; the infection spread to his spine and resulted in paralysis of the legs. Belyayev suffered constant pain and was paralysed for six years. In search for the right treatment he moved to Yalta together with his mother and old nanny. During his convalescence, he read the work of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and began to write poetry in his hospital bed.
By 1922 he had overcome the disease and in 1923 returned to Moscow where he began his serious literary activity as writer of sci
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During the WWII evacuation in Yaroslavl, Kaverin completed his best-known novel, The Two Captains (1938-44), which colourfully recounts the adventures of Russian polar explorers before and after the Revolution. The book, awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946, was reissued 42 times in 25 years and was adapted for the screen twice, in 1955 and 1976. In 19 -
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He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
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Arkady Strugatsky was born 25 August 1925 in Batumi; the family later moved to Leningrad. In January 1942, Arkady and his father were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad, but Arkady was the only survivor in his train car; his father died upon reaching Vologda. Arkady was drafted into the Soviet army in 1943. He trained first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter -
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Jack London
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London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w -
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His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.
Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.
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Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. At age 17, he joined the U.S. Maritime Service as ship's purser. He obtained a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, and after a stint in fashion photography (partner in a photography studio), earned a Master's Degree in English and American Literature at night while teaching English in New York City public schools during the day and writing weekends.
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Lermontov died in a duel like his great predecessor poet, Aleksander Pushkin.
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People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
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Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Robert M. Wegner
Debiutował w 2002 r. w 19 numerze „Science Fiction” opowiadaniem Ostatni lot Nocnego Kowboja. Następnie było Ponieważ kocham cię nad życie, Honor górala, I będziesz murem, dwa opowiadania tworzące mikropowieść – Sen przedwiecznych i Przebudzenie; Światło na klindze miecza, Gdybym miała brata oraz Wszystkie dzieci Barbie – wszystkie w SFF&H.
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Mieszka i pracuje na Śląsku, gdzie, jak mówi, przeprowadził się za panią swojego życia, która też zjechała tu z innych stron – „I tak spotkaliśmy się mniej więcej pośrodku drogi”.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.
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Wasi Ahmed
ওয়াসি আহমেদের জন্ম ১৯৫৪ সালে, সিলেট শহরের নাইওরপুলে। স্কুলের পাঠ বৃহত্তর সিলেটের নানা জায়গায়। পরবর্তী শিক্ষাজীবন ঢাকা কলেজ ও ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে। কবিতা দিয়ে লেখালেখির শুরু। ছাত্রাবস্থায় প্রকাশিত কবিতা সংকলন ‘শবযাত্রী স্বজন’। কথাসাহিত্যে, বিশেষত গল্পে, মনোনিবেশ আশির দশকে। প্রথম গল্প সংকলন ‘ছায়াদণ্ডি ও অন্যান্য’ প্রকাশিত হয় ১৯৯২ সালে। পুস্তকাকারে প্রথম উপন্যাস ‘মেঘপাহাড়’ প্রকাশ পায় ২০০০ সালে। সরকারি চাকরিজীবী হিসেবে কূটনীতিকের দায়িত্ব পালনসহ কাজ করেছেন আন্তর্জাতিক বাণিজ্যের নানা অঙ্গনে। সাহিত্যকৃতির স্বীকৃতি হিসেবে পেয়েছেন বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কারসহ দেশের প্রায় সব প্রধান সাহিত্য পুরস্কার।
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Pyotr Yershov
Pyotr Yershov (Russian: Пётр Павлович Ершов, Polish: Piotr Jerszow) was a Russian poet, the author of the famous fairy-tale poem The Humpbacked Horse (konyok-gorbunok). Yershov published many lyrical verses, a drama called Suvorov and a Station Master, and several short stories, but none of these had the same success as The Humpbacked Horse.
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Caner Taslaman
Caner Taslaman resides and conducts his scholarly research in Istanbul, Turkey. After completing undergraduate studies in Sociology at Bosphorus University he obtained his master's and doctoral degrees in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Marmara University. Taslaman also studied Political Science at Istanbul University, and was visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. His particular areas of interest include the Quran and science, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, globalization and Islam and the sociology of religion. In addition to this book, he is the author of Fabricated Islam versus Quranic Islam, The Big Bang and God, and The Theory of Evolution and God.
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Paul Aron
Paul Aron is senior editor at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Previously he was a reporter for The Virginia Gazette and executive editor at Simon & Schuster.
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