André Gide
Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society; he won the Nobel Prize of 1947 for literature.
André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face o
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Gaétan Soucy
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Gaétan Soucy est né à Montréal, le 21 octobre 1958. Après des études en physique et en mathématiques à l’Université de Montréal, il termine des études littéraires à l’Université du Québec, puis obtient une maîtrise en philosophie par un mémoire remarqué sur la théorie transcendantale des sciences dans la philosophie critique kantienne. Enfin, il consacrera quelques années à l’étude exclusive de la langue et de l’écriture japonaises.
Il publie son premier roman, L’Immaculée Conception, en 1994. Il donne ensuite L’Acquittement (Boréal, 1997), qui remporte le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Toutefois, c’est son troisième roman, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (Boréal, 1998), traduit en une vingtaine de langues, qui établit sa re -
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Baldassare Castiglione
Best known Italian diplomat Count Baldassare Castiglione in 1528 wrote Il Cortegiano , which describes the perfect courtier.
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Probably most famous prominent soldier Baldassarre Castiglione of Casatico in Renaissance authored the book. The very influential work, an example of a book, dealt with questions of the etiquette and morality in 16th-century European circles.
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Serge Joncour
Serge Joncour est un auteur français. Originaire d’une famille de paysans, il a grandi à Paris. Il a passé son enfance entre la Nièvre, l'Eure-et-Loir et le Valais suisse. Pendant des années, tout en menant parallèlement toutes sortes d’activités (dont maître-nageur et publicitaire), il écrit : de la poésie, des nouvelles, des romans… Finalement, son premier roman, "Vu", est publié aux éditions du Dilettante en 1998. Il a alors 37 ans. Depuis il a publié plus d’une quinzaine de livres, dont "U.V." (2003) qui a obtenu le prix France-Télévision, "L’Idole" (2004) récompensé par le Prix de l’Humour noir, "L'écrivain national" (2014) Prix des Deux Magots 2015, "Repose-toi sur moi" (2016) Prix Interallié et élu Meilleur roman français 2016 du Mag
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Anatole France
French critic Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault wrote sophisticated, often satirical short stories and novels, including Penguin Island (1908), and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for literature.
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Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist. From 1867, he as a journalist composed articles and notices.
In 1869, Le Parnasse Contemporain published La Part de Madeleine of his poems. In 1875, he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation. He moved Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé aside.
Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, protagonist of famous Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), embodied own personality of the author. The academy praised its elegant prose.
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James Stephens
James Stephens was an Irish novelist and poet. James' mother worked in the home of the Collins family of Dublin and was adopted by them. He attended school with his adopted brothers Thomas and Richard (Tom and Dick) before graduating as a solicitor's clerk. They competed and won several athletic competitions despite James' slight stature (he stood 4'10" in his socks). He was known affectionately as 'Tiny Tim'. He was much enthralled by tales of military valour of his adoptive family and would have been a soldier except for his height. By the early 1900s James was increasingly inclined to socialism and the Irish language (he could speak and write Irish) and by 1912 was a dedicated Irish Republican. He was a close friend of the 1916 leader Th
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Tatamkhulu Afrika
Tatamkhulu Afrika was born Mohamed Fu'ad Nasif in Egypt to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother, and came to South Africa as a very young child. Both his parents died of flu, and he was fostered by family friends under the name John Charlton.
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He fought in World War II in the North African Campaign and was captured at Tobruk, his experiences as a prisoner of war featuring prominently in his writing.
After World War 2 he left his foster family, and went to Namibia (then South-West Africa), where he was fostered by an Afrikaans family, taking his third legal name of Jozua Joubert.
In 1964 he converted to Islam and his name was again legally changed to Ismail Joubert. He lived in Cape Town's District 6, a mixed race inner-city community. Distri -
Kim Ae-ran
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AE-RAN KIM was born in Incheon, South Korea, the youngest of three daughters. She has won the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award, Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, and the Prix de l'Inaperçu, among others, for her short fiction and collections. My Brilliant Life is her first novel.
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Victor Hugo
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
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This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad. -
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.
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Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the -
Simin Daneshvar
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
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سیمین دانشور نویسنده و مترجم ایرانی است. وی نخستین زن ایرانی است که به صورتی حرفهای در زبان فارسی داستانو رمان نوشت. مهمترین اثر او رمان سووشون است که نثری ساده دارد و به ۱۷ زبان ترجمه شده است و از جمله پرفروشترین آثار ادبیات داستانی در ایران محسوب میشود.
سیمین دانشور در هشتم ارديبهشت ماه سال ۱۳۰۰ در شیراز به دنیا آمد.
تحصیلات ابتدایی و دبیرستان را در مدرسه انگلیسی «مهر آیین» به پایان برد. دانشور سپس برای تحصیل در رشته زبان و ادبیات فارسی وارد دانشگاه تهران شد و در سال ۱۳۲۹ با دفاع از رساله خود در مورد زیباییشناسی موفق به كسب درجه دكترا از این د -
Christopher Frank
British-born French screenwriter, director, and novelist Christopher Frank (1942-1993)in this photo stands outside his home. After working at the Royal Court Theatre in London as a photographer and translator, he became known for his first novel Mortelle (Mortel), published 25 years later.
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Reza Amirkhani
رضا امیرخانی (زاده ۱۳۵۲، تهران) نویسنده و منتقد ادبی ایرانی است که مدتی نیز رئیس هیئت مدیره انجمن قلم ایران بود. وی به غیر از نگارش رمان و داستان بلند و یک مجموعه داستان کوتاه، به تألیف سفرنامه و مقالات بلند تحلیلی اجتماعی نیز پرداخته است
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Abutorab Khosravi
ابوتراب خسروی در سال ۱۳۳۵ در شهر فسا متولد شدهاست. پدر وی نظامی بود و به همین دلیل او در سالهای جوانی در شهرهای مختلف ایران زندگی کرده بود. در سالهای ۱۳۴۸ و ۱۳۴۹ در دبیرستانی در اصفهان درس میخواند و شاگرد هوشنگ گلشیری نویسنده ایرانی بودهاست
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او لیسانس آموزش ابتدایی دارد. وی سالها در شهر شیراز به کودکان عقبمانده ذهنی آموزش میداد. در حال حاضر او بازنشسته شدهاست و در شیراز زندگی میکند. خسروی متأهل است و سه فرزند دارد
آثار ابوتراب خسروی با مضامینی گاها سوررئال، با تکیه بر ویژگیهای رمانهای پست مدرن قابلیت کنکاش دارد.او مثل هیچکس نمینویسد و بر ادبیات کهن احاطه دارد
در آثار خسروی زبان ویژهیی را که تمایل به باستان گرایی، کهن الگویی و بازگشت به زبان متون مقدس دارد، میبینیم. گفت وگوی متنهای گوناگون و بینامتنیت در آثار خسروی دیده میشود. ن -
Sadegh Chubak
صادق چوبک زاده تیرماه ۱۲۹۵ در بوشهرنویسنده ایرانی است.وی به همراه صادق هدایت از پیشگامان داستان نویسی مدرن ایران است. از آثار مشهور وی مجموعه داستان انتری که لوطی اش مرده بود ورمانهای سنگ صبور و تنگسیر نام برد.اکثرداستانهای وی حکایت تیره روزی مردمی است که اسیر خرافه و مذهب و نادانی خویش هستند. چوبک با توجه به خشونت رفتاری ای که در طبقات فرودست دیده می شد سراغ شخصیت ها وماجراهایی رفت که هرکدام بخشی از این رفتار را بازتاب می دادند و به شدّت ره به تاریکی میبردند. او یک رئالیست تمام عیاربود که با منعکس کردن چرک ها و و زخمهای طبقه رها شده فرودست نه در جستجوی درمان آنها بود و نه تلاش داشت پیشوای فکری نسلی شود که تاب این همه زشتی را نداشت.به همین دلیل چهره کریه و ناخوشایندی که از انسان بی چیز، گرسنه و فاقد رویا ارائه می دهد، نه تنها مبنای آرمان گ
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Christian Bobin
Christian Bobin is a French author and poet. He received the 1993 Prix des Deux Magots for the book Le Très-Bas (translated into English in 1997 by Michael H. Kohn and published under two titles: The Secret of Francis of Assisi: A Meditation and The Very Lowly
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Abbas Maroufi
Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.
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Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.
Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.
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Goli Taraghi
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Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gulī Taraqqī) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely anthologized, including in Reza Aslan’s Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . She lives in Paris. -
Sadegh Hedayat
Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.
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هدایت از پیشگامان داستاننویسی نوین ایران و از روشنفکران برجسته ایرانی بود. برترین اثر وی رمان بوف کور است که آن را جزو مشهورترین آثار ادبیات داستانی معاصر ایران دانستهاند. حجم آثار و مقالات نوشته شده درباره نوشتهها، نوع زندگی و خودکشی صادق هدایت بیانگر تأثیر ژرف او بر جریان روشنفکری ایران است. هرچند شهرت عام هدایت نویسندگی است، آثاری از نویسندگان بزرگ را نیز ترجمه کردهاست. صادق هدایت در ۱۹ فروردین سال ۱۳۳۰ در پاریس خودکشی کرد. آرامگاه وی در گورستان پرلاشز پاریس واقع است -
Jalal Al-e Ahmad
جلالالدین سادات آلاحمد، معروف به جلال آلاحمد، فرزند سیداحمد حسینی طالقانی در محله سیدنصرالدین از محلههای قدیمی شهر تهران به دنیا آمد. او در سال ۱۳۰۲ پس از هفت دختر متولد شد و نهمین فرزند پدر و دومین پسر خانواده بود. پدرش در کسوت روحانیت بود و از این رو جلال دوران کودکی را در محیطی مذهبی گذراند. تمام سعی پدر این بود که از جلال، برای مسجد و منبرش جانشینی بپرورد.
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جلال پس از اتمام دوره دبستان، تحصیل در دبیرستان را آغاز کرد، اما پدر که تحصیل فرزند را در مدارس دولتی نمیپسندید و پیشبینی میکرد که آن درسها، فرزندش را از راه دین و حقیقت منحرف میکند، با او مخالفت کرد: «دبستان را که تمام کردم، دیگر نگذاشت درس بخوانم که: « برو بازار کار کن» تا بعد ازم جانشینی بسازد. و من رفتم بازار. اما دارالفنون هم کلاسهای شبانه باز کرده بود که پنهان از پدر اسم -
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
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Jalal Al-e Ahmad
جلالالدین سادات آلاحمد، معروف به جلال آلاحمد، فرزند سیداحمد حسینی طالقانی در محله سیدنصرالدین از محلههای قدیمی شهر تهران به دنیا آمد. او در سال ۱۳۰۲ پس از هفت دختر متولد شد و نهمین فرزند پدر و دومین پسر خانواده بود. پدرش در کسوت روحانیت بود و از این رو جلال دوران کودکی را در محیطی مذهبی گذراند. تمام سعی پدر این بود که از جلال، برای مسجد و منبرش جانشینی بپرورد.
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جلال پس از اتمام دوره دبستان، تحصیل در دبیرستان را آغاز کرد، اما پدر که تحصیل فرزند را در مدارس دولتی نمیپسندید و پیشبینی میکرد که آن درسها، فرزندش را از راه دین و حقیقت منحرف میکند، با او مخالفت کرد: «دبستان را که تمام کردم، دیگر نگذاشت درس بخوانم که: « برو بازار کار کن» تا بعد ازم جانشینی بسازد. و من رفتم بازار. اما دارالفنون هم کلاسهای شبانه باز کرده بود که پنهان از پدر اسم -
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (née Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to parents of French Huguenot and northern German descent. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with an astounding array of luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.
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Andreas-Salomé was a prolific author, writing several plays, essays and more than a dozen novels. It was Andreas-Salome who began calling Rilke "Rainer" instead of "René." Her Hymn to Life so deeply impressed Nietzsche that he was moved to set it to music. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts (a career she maintained until a year before her death) and also one of the first women to write on female sexuality. Her book, Lebensrückblic -
Ardaviraf
Arda Viraf is chosen for his piety to undertake a journey to the next world in order to prove the truth of Zoroastrian beliefs, after a period when the land of Iran had been troubled by the presence of confused and alien religions. He drinks wine and a hallucinogen, after which his soul travels to the next world where it is greeted by a beautiful woman named Den who represents his faith and virtue. Crossing the Chinvat bridge, he is then conducted by "Srosh, the pious and Adar, the angel" through the "star track", "moon track" and "sun track" – places outside of heaven reserved for the virtuous who have nevertheless failed to conform to Zoroastrian rules. In heaven, Viraf meets Ahura Mazda who shows him the souls of the blessed (ahlav). Eac
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Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).
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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russian: Евгений Замятин, sometimes also seen spelled Eugene Zamiatin) Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia (1924, We) prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949). The book was considered a "malicious slander on socialism" in the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1988 when Zamyatin was rehabilitated. In the English-speaking world We has appeared in several translations.
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"And then, just the way it was this morning in the hangar, I saw again, as though right then for the first time in my life, I saw everything: the unalterably straight streets, the sparkling glass of the sidewalks, the divine parallelepipeds of the transparent -
Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.
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Mérimée loved mysticism, history, and the unusual, and may have been influenced by Charles Nodier (though he did not appreciate his works), the historical fiction popularised by Sir Walter Scott and the cruelty and psychological drama of Aleksandr Pushkin. Many of his stories are mysteries set in foreign places, Spain and Russia being popular sources of inspiration.
In 1834, Mérimée was appointed to the post of inspector-general of historical monuments. He was a born archaeologist, combining linguistic faculty of a very unusual kind with accurate scholarship, -
Margery Kempe
The following biography information provides basic facts and information about the life and history of Margery Kempe, a famous Medieval character:
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Nationality: English
Lifespan: c1373 - c1438
Time Reference: Lived during the reign of the English kings Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
Date of Birth: She was born Margery Brunham at King's Lynn, Norfolk (then called Bishop's Lynn) in approximately 1373
Family connections : She was the daughter of John Brunham, a wealthy merchant in King's Lynn who was involved in local politics and achieved the position of mayor and Member of Parliament
Education: Margery Kempe was unable to read or write but had people read to her. She dictated her memoirs which were transcribed as 'The Book of Margery Kempe'
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Tristan Tzara
Romanian-born French poet and essayist known mainly as a founder of Dada, a nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts.
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The Dadaist movement originated in Zürich during World War I; Tzara wrote the first Dada texts - La Premiére Aventure cèleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (1916; "The First Heavenly Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine") and Vingt-cinq poémes (1918; "Twenty-Five Poems") - and the movement's manifestos, Sept manifestes Dada (1924; "Seven Dada Manifestos").
In Paris he engaged in tumultuous activities with André Breton, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon to shock the public and to disintegrate the structures of language. About 1930, weary of nihilism and destruction, he joined his friends in the more constructive activities of Surrealis -
Blaise Cendrars
Frédéric Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.
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His father, an inventor-businessman, was Swiss, his mother Scottish. He spent his childhood in Alexandria, Naples, Brindisi, Neuchâtel, and numerous other places, while accompanying his father, who endlessly pursued business schemes, none successfully.
At the age of fifteen, Cendrars left home to travel in Russia, Persia, China while working as a jewel merchant; several years later, he wrote about this in his poem, Transiberien. He was in Paris before 1910, where he got in touch with several names of Paris' bélle époque: Guillaume Apollinaire, Modigliani, Marc Ch -
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Alfred Kubin
Kubin was born in Bohemia in the town of Leitmeritz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Litoměřice). From 1892 to 1896, he was apprenticed to the landscape photographer Alois Beer, although he learned little. In 1896, he attempted suicide on his mother's grave, and his short stint in the Austrian army the following year ended with a nervous breakdown. In 1898, Kubin began a period of artistic study at a private academy run by the painter Ludwig Schmitt-Reutte, before enrolling at the Munich Academy in 1899, without finishing his studies there. In Munich, Kubin discovered the works of Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Henry de Groux, and Félicien Rops. He was profoundly affected by the prints of Max Klinger, and later recounted: "Here a new
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Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (translated into English as Froth on the Daydream and Heartsnatcher, respectively). He is also known for highly controversial "criminal" fiction released under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and some of his songs (particularly the anti-war Le Déserteur). Vian was also fascinated with jazz: he served as liaison for, among others, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz Hot, Paris Jazz) and published numerous articles dealing with jazz both in the United States and in France.
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Chizuko Ueno
Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".
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Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").
Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the comp -
J.C. McKeown
J. C. McKeown is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Ovid's Amores.
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Walter F. Otto
Deutscher Altphilologe, der besonders für seine Arbeiten über Bedeutung und Nachwirkung der griechischen Religion und Mythologie bekannt ist, vor allem durch das Standardwerk Die Götter Griechenlands (zuerst 1929).
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Emmanuel Bove
Emmanuel Bove, born in Paris as Emmanuel Bobovnikoff in 1898, died in his native city on Friday 13 July 1945, the night on which all of France prepared for the large-scale celebration of the first 'quatorze juillet' since World War II. He would probably have taken no part in the festivities. Bove was known as a man of few words, a shy and discreet observer. His novels and novellas were populated by awkward figures, 'losers' who were always penniless. In their banal environments, they were resigned to their hopeless fate. Bove's airy style and the humorous observations made sure that his distressing tales were modernist besides being depressing: not the style, but the themes matched the post-war atmosphere precisely.
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Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.
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Gérard de Villiers
Gérard Adam de Villiers est un écrivain, journaliste et éditeur français.
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George Ritzer
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He has named at Distinguished-Scholar Teacher at Maryland and received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. Among his academic awards are an Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin; and the 2012-2013 Robin William Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. He has chaired four Sections of the American Sociological Association- Theoretical Sociology, Organizations and Occupations, first Chair of Global and Transnational Sociology, and the History of Sociology.
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André Malraux
Malraux was born in Paris during 1901, the son of Fernand-Georges Malraux and Berthe Lamy (Malraux). His parents separated during 1905 and eventually divorced. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, Berthe and Adrienne Lamy in the small town of Bondy. His father, a stockbroker, committed suicide in 1930. Andre had Tourette's Syndrome during his childhood, resulting in motor and vocal tics.
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At the age of 21, Malraux left for Cambodia with his new wife Clara Goldschmidt. In Cambodia, he undertook an exploratory expedition into the Cambodian jungle. On his return he was arrested by French colonial authorities for removing bas-reliefs from one of the temples he discovered. Banteay Srei (The French government itself had removed lar -
Benjamin Constant
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born, nobleman, thinker, writer and French politician.
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Constant was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to descendants of noble Huguenots who fled France during the Huguenot wars in the early 16th century to settle in Lausanne. He was educated by private tutors and at the University of Erlangen, Bavaria, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the course of his life, he spent many years in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Great Britain.
He was intimate with Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and their intellectual collaboration made them one of the most important intellectual pairs of their time. He was a fervent liberal, fought against the Restauration and was active in French politics as a public -
Eugène Sue
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Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (20 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist.
He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828). In 1829 his father's death put him in possession of a considerable fortune, and he settled in Paris.
A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the 18th Arrondissement: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the Poissonnière Metro station, and is not far from Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur. -
Carolyn Cassady
Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady was a memoirist/ American writer associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat figures. She became a frequent character in the works of Jack Kerouac and became a prominent figure in documentaries, movies, lectures, books, and events discussing the legacy of the Beat Generation Movement.
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Ms. Cassady, whom Jerry Cimino, director of the Beat Museum in San Francisco, called “the grande dame of the Beat Generation,” was a central figure in the real-life circle of friends whose travels across the country in search of kicks and revelation were immortalized in “On the Road.” She was the inspiration for the character Cam -
Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo (Chinese: 王小波) was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death.
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Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory. He met Li Yinhe in 1977, who was working as an editor for "Guangming Daily", and she later became his wife. He was accepted by Renmin University of China in 1978 where he studied economics and trade and got his Bachelor's Degree. He received his Master's Degree at the Univ -
René Daumal
René Daumal was a French spiritual surrealist writer and poet. He was born in Boulzicourt, Ardennes, France.
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In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, Le Grand Jeu with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. He is known best in the U.S. for two novels A Night of Serious Drinking and the allegorical novel Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing both based upon his friendship with Alexander de Salzmann, a pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff.
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Xavier de Maistre
Xavier de Maistre of Savoy (at the time, a region of the Kingdom of Sardinia), lived largely as a military man, but is known as a French writer. The younger brother of noted philosopher and counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre, Xavier was born to an aristocratic family at Chambéry in October 1763. He served when young in the Kingdom of Sardinia army, and wrote his fantasy, Voyage autour de ma chambre (Journey Around My Room, published 1794) when he was under arrest in Turin as the consequence of a duel.
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Xavier shared the politics and the loyalty of his brother, and after a French revolutionary army annexed Savoy to France in 1792, he left the service, and eventually took a commission in the Russian army. He served under Alexander Suvorov -
Jean d'Arras
Jean d'Arras was a 15th-century North French poet-composer (trouvere) of whom little is known.
He collaborated with Antoine du Val and Fouquart de Cambrai in putting together a collection of stories entitled L'Évangile des quenouilles ("The spinners' gospel"). The frame story is that these are the narratives told a group of ladies at their spinning, who relate the current theories on a great variety of subjects. The work dates from the middle of the 15th century and is of considerable value for the light it throws on medieval manners, and for its echoes of folklore, sometimes deeply buried under layers of Christianity.
Jean d'Arras, perhaps the same, wrote, at the request of John, duke of Berry he says in his introduction, a long prose romanc
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Christopher Frank
British-born French screenwriter, director, and novelist Christopher Frank (1942-1993)in this photo stands outside his home. After working at the Royal Court Theatre in London as a photographer and translator, he became known for his first novel Mortelle (Mortel), published 25 years later.
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Abbas Maroufi
Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.
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Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.
Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.
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Victor Hugo
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
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This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad. -
Yaakov Shabtai
Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was born in Tel Aviv. After his military service, he moved to a kibbutz and started to write. Ten years later, he returned to Tel Aviv with his family and devoted himself to his literary career. He wrote two novels, a book of short stories, a children`s book, two collections of plays and a collection of poems and ballads.
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Shabtai holds a unique place in Hebrew literature. His novel, Past Continuous, is considered one of the high points of modern Hebrew fiction. It received the Kenneth B. Smilen Award for Literature and is included in "The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" (2001). In 2007, Past Continuous topped the list of the most important as well as "best loved" books since the creation of the Stat -
Abutorab Khosravi
ابوتراب خسروی در سال ۱۳۳۵ در شهر فسا متولد شدهاست. پدر وی نظامی بود و به همین دلیل او در سالهای جوانی در شهرهای مختلف ایران زندگی کرده بود. در سالهای ۱۳۴۸ و ۱۳۴۹ در دبیرستانی در اصفهان درس میخواند و شاگرد هوشنگ گلشیری نویسنده ایرانی بودهاست
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او لیسانس آموزش ابتدایی دارد. وی سالها در شهر شیراز به کودکان عقبمانده ذهنی آموزش میداد. در حال حاضر او بازنشسته شدهاست و در شیراز زندگی میکند. خسروی متأهل است و سه فرزند دارد
آثار ابوتراب خسروی با مضامینی گاها سوررئال، با تکیه بر ویژگیهای رمانهای پست مدرن قابلیت کنکاش دارد.او مثل هیچکس نمینویسد و بر ادبیات کهن احاطه دارد
در آثار خسروی زبان ویژهیی را که تمایل به باستان گرایی، کهن الگویی و بازگشت به زبان متون مقدس دارد، میبینیم. گفت وگوی متنهای گوناگون و بینامتنیت در آثار خسروی دیده میشود. ن -
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Goli Taraghi
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Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gulī Taraqqī) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely anthologized, including in Reza Aslan’s Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . She lives in Paris. -
Claude Simon
Awarded 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, for being an author "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition."
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Albert Cohen
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Born Abraham Albert Cohen in Corfu, Greece, in 1895, as part of an important Sephardic Jewish community on the island. Albert’s parents, who owned a soap factory, moved to Marseille, France when he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le livre de ma mère (The Book of my Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school. In 1904, he started high school at Lycée Thiers, and graduated in 1913.
In 1914, he left Marseille for Geneva, Switzerland and enrolled in Law school. He graduated from Law School in 1917 and enrolled in Literature School in 1917 until 1919. In 1919, He became a Swiss citizen. That same year he married Elisabeth Broch -
John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor.
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He was a researcher of the nature of consciousness using mainly isolation tanks, dolphin communication, and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. -
Jules Romains
Jules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule (August 26, 1885 - August 14, 1972), was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. His works include the play Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine, and a cycle of works called Les Hommes de bonne volonté (Men of Good Will).
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Jules Romain was born in Saint-Julien-Chapteuil in the Haute-Loire but went to Paris to attend first the lycée Condorcet and then the prestigious École normale supérieure. He was close to the Abbaye de Créteil, a utopian group founded in 1906 by Charles Vildrac and René Arcos, which brought together, among others, the writer Georges Duhamel, the painter Albert Gleizes and the musician Albert Doyen. He received his agrégation in philosophy in -
Anna de Noailles
Born Princess Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan in Paris, she was a descendant of the Bibescu and Craioveşti families of Romanian boyars. Her father was Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba, a son of Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibesco and Zoe Mavrocordato-Bassaraba de Brancovan. Her Greek mother was the former Ralouka (Rachel) Mussurus, a musician, to whom the Polish composer Ignacy Paderewski dedicated several of his compositions. Via her mother, Anna de Noailles is a great-great-granddaughter of Sophronius of Vratsa, one of the leading figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, through his grandson Stefan Bogoridi, caimacam of Moldavia.
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In 1897 she married Mathieu Fernand Frédéric Pascal de Noailles (1873–1942), the fourth son of -
Corey Brettschneider
Corey Brettschneider is a professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches constitutional law and politics. He has also been a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, The University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School. His writing has appeared in Time, Politico, and the New York Times. His new book is The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.
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Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party.
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The son of a French father and an English mother, Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France in 1873. Although he grew up in a small town, he left for Paris in 1889 at age 16. In 1914, at the age of 41, he enlisted in the French Army and served against Germany in World War I. Invalided out of the army three times, Barbusse would serve in the war for 17 months, until the end of 1915, when he was permanently moved into a clerical position due to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, and dysentery.
Barbusse first came to fame with the publication of his novel Le Feu (translated as Under Fire) in 1916, which was based on his experiences during World War I. B -
Leonid Tsypkin
Tsypkin was born in Minsk, Soviet Union (now the capital of Belarus), to Russian-Jewish parents, both of whom were medical specialists.
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At the start of Stalin's Great Terror, in 1934, Tsypkin's father, Boris, an orthopaedic surgeon, was arrested on trumped-up charges, but was later released after a suicide attempt in which he broke his back.
Two of Boris Tsypkin's sisters and a brother were also arrested, and were murdered by Stalin's NKVD.
When the war was over Leonid returned with his parents to Minsk, where Leonid graduated from medical school in 1947; despite Stalin's policies of anti-Semitism, Tsypkin became a noted researcher in polio and cancer, and published more than 100 papers in scientific journals in Russia and abroad. While practi -
David Eagleman
David Eagleman is an internationally bestselling author, a TED speaker, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He teaches neuroscience at Stanford University and is CEO of a neurotech startup, Neosensory. At night he writes. His books have been translated into 33 languages.
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Julien Gracq
Julien Gracq (27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007), born Louis Poirier in St.-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French "département" of Maine-et-Loire, was a French writer. He wrote novels, criticism, a play, and poetry.
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Gracq first studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV, where he earned his baccalauréat. He then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1930, later studying at the École libre des sciences politiques.
In 1932, he read André Breton's Nadja, which deeply influenced him. His first novel, The Castle of Argol is dedicated to that surrealist writer, to whom he devoted a whole book in 1948. -
Michael Schumacher
A lifelong resident of the Great Lakes region, Michael Schumacher is the author of twelve books, including biographies of Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, and Eric Clapton, and the award-winning book Wreck of the Carl D. He has also written twenty-five documentaries on Great Lakes shipwrecks and lighthouses.
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Leatrice Eiseman
Leatrice Eiseman is an American color specialist, who assists companies in their color choice in a range of areas, including packaging, logos, and interior design.
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Eiseman holds a degree in psychology from Antioch University, and a counseling certificate from UCLA. She has studied and taught in the fields of fashion and interior design. She is an allied member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Fashion Group International, and has received a prestigious service award from the Color Marketing Group.[2] She also selects the 10 top fashion colors twice yearly for Pantone and Women’s Wear Daily. -
Michel Butor
Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. He has taught in Egypt, Manchester, Thessaloniki, the United States, and Geneva. He has won many literary awards for his work, including the Prix Apollo, the Prix Fénéon; and the Prix Renaudot.
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Journalists and critics have associated his novels with the nouveau roman, but Butor himself long resisted that association. The main point of similarity is a very general one, not much beyond that; like exponents of the nouveau roman, he can be described as an experimental writer. His best-known novel, La Modification, for instance, is written entirely in the second person. In his 1967 La critique et l'invention, he fa -
Abbas Milani
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
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Cengiz Dağcı
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9 Mart 1919 tarihinde Kırım’ın Yalta şehrinin Gurzuf köyünde doğar. Çocukluğu kıtlık, yoksulluk, Rus emperyalizminin zulmü ve büyük baskılar altında geçer. İlkokulu köyünde, ortaokulu Akmescit'te bitirir. Kırım Pedagoji Enstitüsü ikinci sınıfında iken İkinci Dünya Savaşı çıkar. 1941’de Ukrayna cephesinde Almanlara esir düşer. Almanların yenilmesi üzerine esir kampından kurtularak müttefik devletler safına sığınır. 1946’da Londra’ya yerleşir. İngiltere’deki hayatı da hiç kolay olmaz; bir taraftan yazarken en vasıfsız ve ağır işlerde çalışmak zorunda kalır.
“Türkçe bana anamın konuştuğu dil” diyerek yazı dili olarak Türkçeyi kabul eder. Türkiye Türkçesindeki ilk kitabı 1956 yılında Varlık Yayınları tarafından yayınlanan Korkunç Yıllar’dır. Yaş -
Gert Hofmann
Gert Hofmann (1931 – 1993) was a German writer and professor of German literature.
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Mikhail Artsybashev
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator.
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Artsybashev was born in Khutor Dubroslavovka, Akhtyrka Uezd, Kharkov Gubernia (currently Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). His father was a small landowner and a former officer. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was only 3 years old. He attended school in Okhtyrka until the age of 16. From 1895 to 1897 he was an office worker. He studied at the Kharkov School of Drawing and Art (1897–1898). During this time he lived in povert -
Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar
He was born in the mansion of his maternal grandfather Muhtar Bey in Rumelihisarı. Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar's childhood was spent in Rumelihisarı, Büyükada and Çamlıca. In 1898, he entered Galatasaray Sultanisi.
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Without informing his family, he left Galatasaray Sultanisi in 1905 and went to Paris. He attended the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris until 1908. In Paris, he frequently met with Prince Sebahattin, Dr. Nihat Reşat Belger, Ahmet Rıza Bey and Yahya Kemal.
He returned to Turkey after the declaration of the Second Constitutional Monarchy (1908). He worked for French and German companies, the Ottoman Bank, the Reji Administration, and after 1931 he settled in Ankara and worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1948, he ret -
Ron Butlin
With a reputation as an international prize-winning novelist, Ron Butlin has also been Edinburgh's Poet-Laureate.
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Before becoming a writer he was a lyricist with a pop band, a footman attending embassy receptions and weekend house parties, a barnacle-scraper on the Thames and a male model.
He has published almost twenty books including novels, short stories, and poetry as well a novel and an illustrated book of verse for children.
His work has been widely translated and twice been awarded a Best Foreign Novel prize. His most recent novel, Ghost Moon, was nominated for the highly prestigious international IMPAC Award 2016. Ron has 3 new books coming out in 2017. See his Goodreads blog for details. -
Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages.
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James Barr
James Fugaté published the novel Quatrefoil and other works under the pseudonym James Barr, an alias he also used in his work as an activist in the homophile movement of the 1950s.
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Fugaté was born on February 13, 1922 in an oilfield boomtown in either Texas or Oklahoma. His mother died of childbed fever; he never knew his father.
Fugaté's illegitimate birth haunted him as a child, but his adoptive parents, who had money from wheat and oil in Kansas, gave him a good education. His best-known work, the novel Quatrefoil (1950), is based on his experience in the U.S. Navy during World War II, but a central character is patterned after a fraternity brother with whom Fugaté had sex as a university student. (He appears to have been a student either -
Atsushi Nakajima
Atsushi Nakajima (中島敦, Nakajima Atsushi, 5 May 1909 – 4 December 1942) was a Japanese author known for his unique style and self-introspective themes. His major works include "The Moon Over the Mountain" and "Light, Wind and Dreams".
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During his life he wrote about 20 works, including unfinished works, typically inspired by Classical Chinese stories and his own life experiences. -
Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider is a German novelist. His novel Lenz, published in 1973, had become a cult text for the Left, capturing the feelings of those disappointed by the failure of their utopian revolt. Since then, Peter Schneider has written novels, short stories and film scripts, that often deal with the fate of members of his generation. Other works deal with the situation of Berlin before and after German reunification. Schneider is also a major Essayist; having moved away from the radicalism of 1968, his work now appears predominantly in bourgeois publications.
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Hozumi
Works (in chronological order):
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- Shiki no Zenjitsu [式の前日] (2012)
- Sayonara Sorcier [さよならソルシエ] (2012-2013, 2 volumes)
- Usemono Yado [うせもの宿] (2014, 2 volumes, ongoing)
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G.V. Desani
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani or G. V. Desani, (1909–2000) was a Kenyan-born, British-educated Indian writer and Buddhist philosopher. The son of a merchant, he began his career as a journalist, and achieved fame with the cult novel All About H. Hatterr (1948), considered one of the finest examples of literature in English and a novel that compares favourably with Joyce's Ulysses. He was for a time a university professor in America, and spent many years engaged in meditation at various monasteries. A second volume, Hali and Collected Stories, was published in 1991.
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Jiří Marek
Jiří Marek (Josef Jiří Puchwein) (May 30, 1914, Prague, December 10, 1994, Prague) was a Czech writer, educator, journalist and screenwriter. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Sima Qian
Sima Qian (Szu-ma Chien; 司馬遷 c. 145 or 135 BC – 86 BC) was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his work, the Records of the Grand Historian, a Jizhuanti-style (纪传体) general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to his time, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Although he worked as the Court Astrologer (Chinese: 太史令; Tàishǐ Lìng), later generations refer to him as the Grand Historian (Chinese: 太史公; taishigong or tai-shih-kung) for his monumental work. (Wikipedia)
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Natália Correia
Natália de Oliveira Correia foi uma escritora e poeta portuguesa. Deputada à Assembleia da República (1980-1991), interveio politicamente ao nível da cultura e do património, na defesa dos direitos humanos e dos direitos das mulheres. Autora da letra do Hino dos Açores. Juntamente com José Saramago (Prémio Nobel de Literatura, 1998), Armindo Magalhães, Manuel da Fonseca e Urbano Tavares Rodrigues foi, em 1992, um dos fundadores da Frente Nacional para a Defesa da Cultura (FNDC). Tem uma biblioteca com o seu nome em Lisboa em Carnide.
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Rachid Boudjedra
Rashid Boudjedra, رشيد بوجدرة, (born September 5, 1941, Aïn Beïda, Algeria) prolific and revolutionary Algerian writer whose first novel, La Répudiation (1969; The Repudiation), gained notoriety because of its explicit language and frontal assault on Muslim traditionalism in contemporary Algeria. Because of that work, Boudjedra was hailed as the leader of a new movement of experimental fiction.
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Boudjedra was given a traditional Muslim upbringing in Algeria and Tunisia, then continued his education in Spain, Algeria, and Paris, where he obtained a degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. He later taught philosophy in Paris and at Rabat, Morocco, before returning to Algeria and working for the Algerian Bureau of Cinematography.
La Répudiation drew