Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
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Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but wealthy nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honor to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles Ménage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin. Ménage would lead her to join the fashionable salons of Madame de Rambouillet and Madeleine de Scudéry. Her father, Marc Pioche de la Vergne, had died a year before, and the same year her mother married Renaud de Sévigné, uncle of Madame de Sévigné, who would remain her lifelong intimate friend.
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Caroline Moorehead
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Paulo Coelho
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Alessandro Baricco
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He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
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Aldous Huxley
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Stefan Zweig
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Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
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A historical novel that has become an unprecedented bestseller, recognized by both readers and critics, and whose publication rights have been sold to thirty-two countries. The winner of several awards, including the 2006 Silver Euskadi Prize for best Spanish language novel, the 2007 Qué Leer Prize for best Spanish language book of the year, and the prestigious Italian award, Giovanni Boccaccio, for best foreign author of 2007. -
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Cathy Cassidy
I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too - pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions.
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I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine.
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Honoré de Balzac
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .
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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.
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Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) was a French novelist, official and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses.
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A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goals, with the fame of his masterwork Les Liaisons dangereuses . It is one of the masterpieces of novelistic literature of the 18th century, -
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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Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
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Cao Xueqin
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Leïla Slimani
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Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt. -
Genki Kawamura
Associated Names:
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* Genki Kawamura (English)
* 川村元気 (Japanese)
* คาวามูระ เก็งกิ (Thai)
Genki Kawamura (川村元気) is a Japanese film producer, writer, screenwriter.
中文 >> 川村元氣.
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Prosper Mérimée
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Henri Bosco
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He was born of an Italian family from Cipressa, above San Remo, who had settled in Marseille, France, between 1837 and 1847. His father, Louis Bosco, was a stone-cutter before becoming a highly talented opera singer. His childhood and his youth were spent a few kilometers from Avignon, in the neighbourhood of Monclar, which was still in the country at that time. He studied classics at the Lycée d'Avignon, and took music for eight years at the Conservatory in Avignon. His university studies in Grenoble led to the successful completion of the Italian agrégation in 1912. In 1913, he was appointed to Philippeville, Algeria, where he taught classics.
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies. An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
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Anne Lister
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Diana G. Gallagher
Diana G. Gallagher was an American author who wrote books for children and young adults. She also wrote the space opera The Alien Dark (1990), but was best known for her tie-in work for television properties including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Charmed, Star Trek and The Secret World of Alex Mack, among others.
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She was also a prolific filk creator, winning Pegasus Awards in 1986 and ’94. Gallagher won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 1988 under the name Diana Gallagher Wu. She sometimes also wrote under the name Diana Burke.
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Elia Kazan
Credits of Turkish-born American stage and film director Elia Kazan include A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) of Tennessee Williams and the movies On the Waterfront (1954) and East of Eden (1955).
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This award-winning theatrical producer, screenwriter, and novelist co-founded of the influential actors studio in New York in 1947. Kazan won Academy Award thrice, Tony Award five times, and Golden Globes four times and received numerous awards and nominations in other prestigious festivals as the Cannes film festival and the Venice film festival.
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Mark Aren
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 ծաղկում են վայրի վարդեր. անատոլիական պատմություն»-ը նրա երկրորդ վեպն է, որը հրատարակվել է հայերեն և ռուսերեն 2008 թ.։
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Riccardo Stephens
Riccardo Stephens was a Cornish physician, writer and student of the occult who settled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he frequented Patrick Geddes' University Hall, at Ramsay Garden.
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Stephens was secretary of Geddes' Edinburgh Summer School in 1895 and contributed poetry to The Evergreen (1895) and Elizabeth A. Sharp's Lyra Celtica (1896). His first novel, The Cruciform Mark (1896) is a Conan Doyle style mystery thriller which draws on his involvement with the Geddes circle. -
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Nives Madunić Barišić
NIVES MADUNIĆ BARIŠIĆ rođena je 1968. godine u Osijeku koji još uvijek smatra svojim gradom premda živi i radi u Zagrebu. Školovala se na Filozofskom fakultetu i Akademiji dramskih umjetnosti u Zagrebu. Za djecu je napisala nekoliko igrokaza, poput „Mala zelena gusjenica“, „Naša je mama postala zmaj“, „Ispod zvončića se rodio kraljević“, „Luzer ili faca“, romane „Tajna čokoladnih bombona“, „Lunapark“ kao i romane serijala o Hani i Janku. Objavljuje priče u časopisima za djecu Prvi izbor i Radost. Objavila je nekoliko pripovjedaka, a jedna od njih uvrštena je i u antologiju „Svaka priča na svoj način”. Primila je i neke nagrade za svoj rad, ali za njih još ne mora imati posebnu policu. Mama je dvjema djevojčicama koje su njezin najveći uspje
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Đoàn Giỏi
Đoàn Giỏi (1925-1989) sinh tại Tân Hiệp - Châu Thành tỉnh Tiền Giang. Ông xuất thân từ một gia đình địa chủ lớn, có hàng trăm mẫu ruộng màu mỡ ven sông Tiền. Nhà ông xưa toà ngang dãy dọc, nơi mà bây giờ trở thành trụ sở Ủy ban nhân dân huyện Châu Thành. Tất cả nhà và đất gia đình ông đã tự nguyện hiến cho kháng chiến ngay từ đầu. Sau ngày thống nhất đất nước, nhà văn Đoàn Giỏi ra vào Nam – Bắc như cánh chim trời. Ở Hà Nội thì ông ở trụ sở Hội Nhà văn, vào Mỹ Tho thì ở cơ quan Hội Văn Nghệ, còn ở Sài Gòn ông tá túc tại nhà một người bạn trên đường Võ Văn Tần. Cho đến khi qua đời ở tuổi 65 (1989), ông vẫn chưa có một mái nhà riêng. Đoàn Giỏi là con đẻ và là kết tinh của nền văn hoá phương Nam, ông đã hiến trọn của cải vật chất và tinh thần c
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Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann was one of the most successful writers in the history of American publishing. Her first novel, Valley of the Dolls, published in 1966, is one of the best-selling books of all time. When The Love Machine was published in 1969, it too became an immediate #1 bestseller and held that position for five months. When Once is Not Enough was published in 1973, it also moved to the top of the best-seller list and established Jackie as the first novelist in history to have three consecutive #1 books on The New York Times Best Seller list. She was a superstar, and became America's first brand-name author.
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Grace James
Grace Edith Marion James (1882–1965) was an English writer, born in Tokyo. She was both an author of children's literature and a Japanese folklorist.
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Marius Chivu
Marius Chivu (n. 1978) este cronicar literar, scriitor, traducător şi redactor‑editor al revistei Dilema veche. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii din Bucureşti şi a debutat publicistic cu recenzii literare în anul 2000 în revista România literară. A publicat : Vîntureasa de plastic (poezie, Brumar, 2012 ; nominalizare la Premiul Cartea Anului acordat de revista România literară, Premiul pentru debut al revistei Observator cultural şi Premiul pentru debut al USR) ; Trei săptămîni în Himalaya (jurnal de călătorie, Humanitas, 2012) şi Ce‑a vrut să spună autorul (interviuri, Polirom, 2013). A iniţiat şi coordonat proiectul caritabil Cartea cu bunici (Humanitas, 2008), albumul de proză scurtă & fotografie Iubire 13 (ART, 2010) şi v
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Regina Maria Roche
Regina Maria Dalton (1764–1845) married Ambrose Roche at Rathkyran in Kilkenny, in May 1792. She is considered today to be a minor Gothic novelist who wrote in the shadow of Ann Radcliffe. She was, however, a best seller in her own time. The popularity of her third novel, The Children of the Abbey, rivaled that of Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.
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Her book Clermont was Roche’s only real attempt at writing a truly Gothic novel, and is decidedly darker in tone than anything else she wrote. Both novels went through several editions and were translated into both French and Spanish.
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Maszlee Malik
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Prof Dr. Maszlee bin Malik is a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Education in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to his resignation in January 2020. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Simpang Renggam since May 2018 until November 2022. He was a member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) from March 2018 to his membership termination in May 2020 and became an independent MP until November 2021. In 27 November 2021 he joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat. He was elected with the highest votes to the Parti Keadilan Rakyat Central Leadership Council (Majlis Perwakilan Pusat/ MPP) in August 2022. However, he lost in -
Vincenzo Bellini
Operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer, include La Sonnambula and Norma in 1831.
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Guido Gozzano
Guido Gustavo Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer.
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He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Massimo D'Azeglio. He spent his life in Turin and in Agliè (in the Canavese area), where his family owned several buildings and a large estate: Villa Il Meleto.
Of delicate health (but nevertheless practicing sports such as ice-skating, cycling, and swimming), he completed primary school with mediocre results, and attended Liceo classico Cavour; in 1903, after secondary school, he studied law at the University of Turin but never graduated, preferring to attend the crepuscolari torinesi, i.e. literature lessons by poet Arturo Gr -
Tudor Mușatescu
Tudor Muşatescu was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.
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Muşatescu was born in Câmpulung to a family of middle-class intellectuals — his father was a lawyer while his mother was a writer. He began writing during his early years in school. He completed studies at the University of Bucharest where he earned a degree in Law and one in Literature.
Much of his work centers on provincial life in his native city, and includes political satires such as Titanic Vals (arguably, his most influential writing). -
Helen Grant
Helen Grant has a passion for the Gothic and for ghost stories. Joyce Carol Oates has described her as 'a brilliant chronicler of the uncanny as only those who dwell in places of dripping, graylit beauty can be.' A lifelong fan of the ghost story writer M.R.James, she has spoken at two M.R.James conferences and appeared at the Dublin Ghost Story Festival. She lives in Perthshire with her family, and when not writing, she likes to explore abandoned country houses and swim in freezing lochs.
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Gregorio de Laferrère
Gregorio de Laferrère was an Argentine politician and playwright.
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Gregorio de Laferrère was born in Buenos Aires to Mercedes Pereda, a local heiress, and Alfonso de Laferrère, a prominent French Argentine landowner. One of three brothers, he earned his secondary school education at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. He began a career in journalism, and wrote for the satirical El Fígaro briefly under the pseudonym of "Abel Stewart Escalada." Joining his family for a visit to Paris on the occasion of the 1889 World's Fair, he lost his father to a sudden illness while in the French capital; there, however, he became acquainted with the theatre after attending a number of performances of Molière's works by the Comédie-Française.
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Leonid Dobychin
Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Добы́чин) (June 17 [O.S. June 5] 1894, Ludza, Vitebsk Governorate — March 28, 1936) was a Russian writer.
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His first stories were published in 1924 in the Leningrad journal Russkii sovremennik. In the autumn of 1925 Dobychin made his first, unsuccessful, attempt to relocate to Leningrad. At this time he came to know the Chukovskys; later he became acquainted with a wide circle of authors, including Mikhail Slonimsky, Veniamin Kaverin, Yury Tynyanov, Evgeny Shvarts, Gennady Gor, and Leonid Rakhmanov. His story collections Vstrechi s Liz (Encounters with Lise, 1927) and Portret (The portrait, 1931) portray the clash of the former Russian world with the new Soviet reality; they exemplify a ly -
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈrita ˈlɛvi montalˈtʃini]; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). Also, from 2001, until her death, she served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and the first ever to reach a 100th birthday. On 22 April 2009, she was feted with a 100th birthday party at Rome's city hall.
Born on 22 April 1909 at Turin to a wealthy Italian family, she and her twin sister Paola were the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathem -
Marijana Dragičević
Marijana Dragičević rođena je i živi u Bjelovaru. Magistirala je arheologiju i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Trenutno radi kao kustosica Arheološkog odjela u Gradskom muzeju Bjelovar. U slobodno vrijeme trči, a najbolji partner za istrčavanje joj je pas Duma. Svoj prvi objavljeni roman “Rock strana bajke” počela je pisati kada je čekala obranu diplomskog rada iz arheologije 2015. godine. Pisanjem se s prekidima bavi otkad je dobila prvo računalo, davne 2000. godine.
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A.M. Klein
Canadian poet Abraham Moses Klein
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Daniel Arasse
L'historien de l’art français, spécialiste de la Renaissance et de l'art italien.
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Dũng Phan
Dũng Phan là một trong những cá nhân đứng sau Fanpage “The X File of History” dành cho cộng đồng người yêu lịch sử với hơn 120.000 lượt theo dõi, và đặc biệt là chủ nhân của cuốn sách làm mưa làm gió trong thời gian qua với 5.000 bản in được đặt mua trước khi chính thức phát hành. Tôi đang nói đến Dũng Phan và ''Sử Việt - 12 khúc tráng ca."
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Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc
Anne-Marie DESPLAT-DUC est née à Privas en Ardèche mais vit actuellement en région parisienne avec son mari et son chien. Sa fille grande à présent, vole de ses propres ailes !
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Anne-Marie DESPLAT-DUC occupe toutes ses journées à écrire, écrire, écrire. Elle a des idées de romans plein la tête.
Elle aime les enfants. C'est pour cela qu'elle écrit pour eux des romans qui finissent bien.
Anne-Marie DESPLAT-DUC est membre de la CHARTE DES AUTEURS ET ILLUSTRATEURS DE JEUNESSE.
Elle se déplace avec plaisir dans les classes et les bibliothèques pour dialoguer avec les enfants, leur faire découvrir le métier d'écrivain et leur faire partager sa passion de la lecture et de l'écriture.
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Patrick McGuinness
Born in Tunisia in 1968 to a Belgian French-speaking mother and an English father of Irish descent, he grew up in Belgium and also lived for periods in Venezuela, Iran, Romania and the UK. He currently lives in Oxford and in Wales teaching French and Comparative Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Richard Cumberland
English dramatist whose plays were in tune with the sentimental spirit that became an important literary force during the latter half of the 18th century. He was a master of stagecraft, a good observer of men and manners.
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Marko Šelić
Marko Šelić, poznatiji kao Marčelo, (rođen 22. januara 1983. godine u Paraćinu) je srpski hip hop muzičar.
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Pored muzike, Marčelo se bavi i pisanjem proze, studira srpski jezik i književnost na Filološkom fakultetu u Beogradu.
U februaru 2008. godine objavio je roman Zajedno sami (Vegamedia). Godinu dana kasnije objavio je zbirku tekstova O ljudima, psima i mišima (Vegamedia). 2012. godine izdaje roman Rubikova stolica (početak trilogije Maltrego).
Marčelo je 2006. dobio nagradu "Davorin" za najbolji rok/pop/hip-hop album iz Srbije, kao i nagradu TV Metropolis za najbolju pesmu godine, što je jedinstveno priznanje za njegovo muzičko stvaralaštvo. U poslednje vreme je više okrenut svom glavnom zanimanju - pisanju. Redovni je kolumnista dnevn -
Manuel Curros Enríquez
Manuel Curros Enríquez, nado en Celanova o 15 de setembro de 1851 e finado na Habana o 7 de marzo de 1908, foi un poeta e xornalista galego, un dos tres principais representantes do Rexurdimento da literatura galega, xunto a Rosalía de Castro e Eduardo Pondal.
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Dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas en 1967. -
Carmen Lyra
Carmen Lyra, seudónimo de María Isabel Carvajal Quesada (San José, 15 de enero de 1887 - México, 14 de mayo de 1949) fue una escritora, pedagoga y política costarricense. Es considerada una de las escritoras más entrañables y significativas de la literatura costarricense. Se le ha señalado como la fundadora de la narrativa de tendencia realista en Costa Rica. Su obra más conocida es Cuentos de mi tía Panchita, una serie de cuentos infantiles publicados en 1920, una de las obras literarias más importantes de la literatura nacional. Además, escribió obras de teatro, ensayos políticos y las novelas En una silla de ruedas y Las fantasías de Juan Silvestre.
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Educadora por antonomasia y renovadora de la docencia, fundó y dirigió la Escuela Normal M -
Michael Howard
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Michael Howard is Senior Lecturer in history of art and design at the Metropolitan University in Manchester. He is a prolific writer of books on art and a contributor to Art Quarterly, Art Newspaper, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a practical artist and has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. -
Khachik Dashtents
Khachik Dashtents was born in a shepherd's family on May 25, 1910 in the Dashtadem village of Ottoman Empire's Bitlis Vilayet in Western Armenia (current-day Turkey). After the Armenian Genocide, he moved to Soviet Armenia and graduated from the Yerevan State University (1932), and then from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages. Dashtents has authored poetry collections ("Songbook", 1932; "Spring Songs", 1934; "Fire", 1936), "Tigran the Great," a historical drama (1947), translations of William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Saroyan. The "Khodedan" (1950) and "Call of Plowmen" (published posthumously, in 1979) novels tell the tragic story of Western Armenians during World War I.
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Phạm Công Luận
Phạm Công Luận sinh năm 1961 tại Sài Gòn.
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Hiện làm việc tại báo Sinh Viên Việt Nam - Hoa Học Trò, cơ quan đại diện tại TP.HCM.
Ngoài hai cuốn Sài Gòn - Chuyện đời của phố, anh còn là tác giả của một số cuốn sách được độc giả trẻ mến mộ như Trên đường rong ruổi, Lạc giữa nhân gian, Những lối về ấu thơ, 2011; Nếu biết trăm năm là hữu hạn, 2011 (bút danh Phạm Lữ Ân, viết cùng người bạn đời của anh - chị Đặng Nguyễn Đông Vy)... -
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American Physicist, creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of the very few physicists in history to excel both theoretically and experimentally. Fermi held several patents related to the use of nuclear power. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and the discovery of transuranic elements.
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He made significant contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics. attended a local grammar school, and his early aptitude for mathematics and physics was recognized an -
Danila Comastri Montanari
Danila Comastri Montanari was an Italian historical mystery fiction writer. She wrote the Publius Aurelius Statius series.
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