Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa
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Cédric Villani
Cédric Villani is a French mathematician who has received many international awards for his work including the Jacques Herbrand Prize, the Prize of the European Mathematical Society, the Fermat Prize and the Henri Poincaré Prize.
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In 2010 he was awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. Often called ‘the mathematicians’ Nobel Prize’, it is awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the highest honour a mathematician can achieve.
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Cédric Villani
Cédric Villani is a French mathematician who has received many international awards for his work including the Jacques Herbrand Prize, the Prize of the European Mathematical Society, the Fermat Prize and the Henri Poincaré Prize.
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In 2010 he was awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. Often called ‘the mathematicians’ Nobel Prize’, it is awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the highest honour a mathematician can achieve.
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Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. Anne's two novels, written in a sharp and ironic style, are completely different from the romanticism followed by her sisters, Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë. She wrote in a realistic, rather than a romantic style. Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters. However, her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.
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The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. In Elizabeth Gaskell's b -
Niki Segnit
Niki Segnit had not so much as peeled a potato until her early twenties, when, almost by accident, she discovered that she loved cooking. Much as she enjoys haute cuisine, she’s not likely to reproduce it at home, preferring to experiment with recipes from domestic kitchens abroad. Her background is in marketing, specialising in food and drink, and she has worked with many famous brands of confectionary, snacks, baby foods, condiments, dairy products, hard liquors and soft drinks. Since summer 2010 she has written a weekly column on food combinations for The Times. She lives in central London with her husband.
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Harry Bernstein
Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his abusive, alcoholic father, the anti-Semitism he encountered growing up in a Lancashire mill town (Stockport - now part of Greater Manchester) in northwest England, and the Romeo and Juliet-like romance experienced by his sister and her Christian boyfriend. The book was started when Bernstein was 93 and published in 2007, when he was 96. The loneliness he encountered following the death of his wife, Ruby, in 2002, after 67 years of marriage, was the catalyst for Bernstein to begin work on his book. His second book, The Dream, published in 2008, centered on his family’s move to the United St
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Nicolas Bouvier
Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998) was a Swiss writer and photographer.
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His travels all over the world incited him to recount his experiences and adventures. His work is marked by a commitment to report what he sees and feels, shorn of any pretence of omniscience, leading often to an intimacy bordering on the mystical. His journey from Geneva to Japan was in many ways prescient of the great eastward wave of hippies that occurred in the sixties and seventies - slow, meandering progress in a small, iconic car, carefully guarded idiosyncrasy, a rite of passage. Yet, it differs in that the travelogues this journey inspired contain deep reflections on man's intimate nature, written in a style very much aware and appreciative of the traditions and possib -
Jim George
Jim George is a bestselling author and national speaker dedicated to helping people live a life after God’s own heart. For over 30 years, the teachings and steadfast example of Jim has helped countless men and women:
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- Simplify life by focusing on God’s priorities.
- Appreciate God’s Word and apply it to everyday situations.
- Respond to circumstances with confidence by seeing yourself through God’s loving eyes.
- Increase closeness in marriage by serving and honoring each other.
- Powerfully shape the hearts of children and teenagers.
- Enjoy greater intimacy with God.
Jim is the bestselling author of A Man After God’s Own Heart and two-time finalist for the Gold Medallion Book Award. Besides writing, he has served as a pastor, seminary professo -
Francis Sanzaro
Francis Sanzaro (Ph.D., Religion), is the author of three books whose genres range from sexuality to technology to athletics, and he is currently hard at work on a thriller. He has appeared on BBC World News, and in their international podcast series, BBC Radio. His essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Review, The Scotsman, Huffington Post, The Baltimore Post Examiner, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among a dozen others. His books are The Infantile Grotesque: Pathology, Sexuality and a Theory of Religion, (2016); The Boulder: A Philosophy for Bouldering (2013); and Society Elsewhere: Why the Gravest Threat to Humanity Will Come From Within (2018). He is Editor of Rock and Ice and Ascent maga
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J.C. Cole
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, J. C. Cole spent most of his young adult life dearly holding on to the art and music scenes of Seattle, Washington. After finishing his degrees, he worked as a school teacher, focusing on helping kids and families find their path in life. He met his beautiful wife and mother to their future two sons in the most unlikely of circumstances. They quickly married, and with nothing but two suitcases and the clothes on his back, he flew to Amsterdam to be with her. It was there where he took on the project to write his first book "Beginnings," a short-story anthology, followed by an interactive children's book and an award winning memoir. He has now returned back with his family to the PNW were he released
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Eça de Queirós
José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon
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Gradimir Stojković
He was born on March 3rd 1947. in Mramorak, Serbia. He's since lived in Vrsac, Pancevo and, finally, Belgrade, where he still resides. He majored in journalism at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences. He'd worked in the Laza Kostic Library (aka. Belgrade City Library) until his recent retirement. In Serbia, he's most famous for his book series about the boy Hajduk, a whacky guy from Danube, his life, loves and bad telephone reception (those who know will know). His poems and stories have been translated to English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Macedonian language.
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Yukiya Shoji
Yukiya Shōji (小路 幸也) made his debut as a writer by winning the 2002 Mephisto Award for Sora o miageru furui uta o kuchizusamu (Singing an Old Song about Looking Up at the Sky). Among his many works published since then are the Tokyo bandowagon (Tokyo Bandwagon) series, Cow House, and Hanasaki kōji yonchōme no seijin (The Holy Man of Hanasaki Street). He works at the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, in genres ranging from family novels to mysteries.
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Linda Leaming
Linda Leaming went to Bhutan for the first time in 1994. "A nice diversion," is how the travel agent described it. It was. And it still is. She found a home and a voice among the remote and mysterious Himalayan mountains. She also found romance with an intriguing Bhutanese painter. Her work has appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, Mandala, Guardian UK, A Woman’s Asia (Travelers’ Tales, 2005), and many other publications. Eric Weiner included her in his 2008 bestseller, The Geography of Bliss. Originally from Nashville, she has an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona, and she regularly speaks about Bhutan at colleges, churches, seminars, and book groups. She is married to the renowned Bhutanese thanka painter, Phurba Namgay. Find he
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María Baranda
María Baranda es una poetisa, narradora y traductora. Ganó el Premio Nacional de Poesía Efraín Huerta 1995 por su obra Los memoriosos. Fue embajadora de Embajadora de la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la FILIJ 2017.
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Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub
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Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books, such as Old Calabria (1915), were also appreciated for the quality of their writing.
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Hikaru Okuizumi
1956年、山形県生まれ。国際基督教大学教養学部人文科学科卒業。同大学院修士課程修了(博士課程中退)。現在、近畿大学教授。1993年『ノヴァーリスの引用』で野間文芸新人賞、1994年『石の来歴』で芥川賞受賞。2009年『神器 軍艦「橿原」殺人事件』で野間文芸賞受賞。著書に『バナールな現象』『『吾輩は猫である』殺人事件』『グランド・ミステリー』 『鳥類学者のファンタジア』『浪漫的な行軍の記録』『新・地底旅行』『モーダルな事象-桑潟幸一助教授のスタイリッシュな生活』などがある。
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N.H. Kleinbaum
Nancy Horowitz Kleinbaum was an American writer and journalist. She is the author of the novel Dead Poets Society, which is based on the movie of the same name.
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Ayn Rand
Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.
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Fiction of this better author and philosopher developed a system that she named. Educated, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early initially duds and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame. In 1957, she published Atlas Shrugged , her best-selling work.
Rand advocated reason and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism as opposed to altruism. She condemned the immoral initiation of force and supported laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system, based on recognizing individual rig -
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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Euripides
Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). There are many fragments (some substantial) of most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined—he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh -
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
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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 -
Witold Gombrowicz
Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law.) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (staˈɲiswaf lɛm) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer of Jewish descent. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world.
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His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humankind's place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but others are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of -
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
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1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a philosopher, musician, and poet, wrote plays. He figured centrally in component of the Renaissance, and people most widely know his realist treatises on the one hand and republicanism of Discourses on Livy .
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David McKee
David McKee was a British writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations. He also used the pseudonym Violet Easton. He is frequently referenced as David (John) McKee. He has been commended for his gentle, playful but insightful stories.
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René Barjavel
René Barjavel, né le 24 janvier 1911 à Nyons (Drôme) et décédé le 24 novembre 1985 à Paris, est un écrivain et journaliste français principalement connu pour ses romans d'anticipation.
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Certains thèmes y reviennent fréquemment : chute de la civilisation causée par les excès de la science et la folie de la guerre, caractère éternel et indestructible de l'amour (Ravage, Le Grand Secret, La Nuit des temps, Une rose au paradis). Son écriture se veut poétique, onirique et, parfois, philosophique. Il a aussi abordé dans de remarquables essais l'interrogation empirique et poétique sur l'existence de Dieu (notamment, La Faim du tigre), et le sens de l'action de l'homme sur la Nature. Il fut aussi scénariste/dialoguiste de films. On lui doit en partic -
B.K.S. Iyengar
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳೂರ್ ಕೃಷ್ಣಮಾಚಾರ್ ಸುಂದರರಾಜ ಐಯಂಗಾರ್), (also known as Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar) (Born December 14, 1918 in Bellur, Kolar District, Karnataka, India) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has written many books on yogic practice and philosophy, and is best known for his books Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He has also written several definitive yoga texts. Iyengar yoga centers are located throughout the world, and it is believed that millions of students practice Iyengar Yoga.
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Julia Donaldson
Growing up
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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).
Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us. A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes.
I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.
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Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.
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Rod Campbell
He was brought up in Zimbabwe and returned to Britain where he completed a doctorate in organic chemistry. In 1980 he became involved in children's publishing where he began designing innovative books with interactive elements and repetitive phrases.
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Hervé Tullet
Hervé Tullet is the creator of more than fifty children’s books, including Press Here, which has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He loves to provoke surprise with his books, as well as in the dynamic workshops that he takes part in. He lives in Paris and is celebrated internationally for his playful, inventive, and interactive storytelling.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.
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Jules Verne
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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Leila S. Chudori
Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, prinsip dan pengorbanan. Mendapat pengaruh dari bacaan-bacaan dari buku-buku yang disebutnya dalam cerpen-cerpennya yang kita ketahui dari riwayat hidupnya ialah Franz Kafka, pengarang Jerman yang mempertanyakan eksistensi manusia, Dostoyewsky pengarang klasik Rusia yang menggerek jauk ke dalam jiwa manusia. D.H Lawrence pengarang Inggris yang memperjuangkan kebebasan mutlak nurani manusia, pengarang Irlandia James Joyce, yang terkenal dengan romannya Ullysses. Suatu pelaksanaan proses kreatif Stream of Consciousnes, Herman Jesse, Freud, Erich Fr
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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
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Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital i -
Daniele Del Giudice
Daniele Del Giudice è stato uno scrittore e giornalista italiano.
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Dopo un periodo come critico e giornalista per Paese Sera, Del Giudice ha esordito nel 1983 con il romanzo Lo stadio di Wimbledon, scoperto da Italo Calvino, edito, come i successivi, da Einaudi, ed incentrato sulla figura di Bobi Bazlen. Il suo secondo libro è stato Atlante occidentale (1985), che racconta il rapporto tra il fisico Pietro Brahe e lo scrittore Ira Epstein. Nel 1988, Del Giudice ha pubblicato Nel museo di Reims, storia di Barnaba e del suo volersi fissare nella memoria le immagini di un museo, prima di diventare cieco. Nel 1994 esce Staccando l'ombra da terra, libro che contiene sei racconti dedicati al volo, che vinse il Premio Bagutta.
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Arkady Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady Strugatsky [Russian: Аркадий Стругацкий] and Boris Strugatsky [Russian: Борис Стругацкий] were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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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 -
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen, a recent British Children’s Laureate, has written many acclaimed books for children, including WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and I’M NUMBER ONE and THIS IS OUR HOUSE, both illustrated by Bob Graham. Michael Rosen lives in London.
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Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.
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Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
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Kamel Daoud
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
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The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author -
Yukiya Shoji
Yukiya Shōji (小路 幸也) made his debut as a writer by winning the 2002 Mephisto Award for Sora o miageru furui uta o kuchizusamu (Singing an Old Song about Looking Up at the Sky). Among his many works published since then are the Tokyo bandowagon (Tokyo Bandwagon) series, Cow House, and Hanasaki kōji yonchōme no seijin (The Holy Man of Hanasaki Street). He works at the entertainment end of the literary spectrum, in genres ranging from family novels to mysteries.
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Venedikt Erofeev
Venedikt Vasilyevich Erofeev (Венедикт Ерофеев) was a Russian writer.
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He managed to enter the philology department of the Moscow State University but was expelled from the University after a year and a half because he did not attend compulsory military training.
Later he studied in several more institutes in different towns including Kolomna and Vladimir but he has never managed to graduate from any, usually being expelled due to his "amoral behaviour" (freethinking).
Between 1958 and 1975 Yerofeyev lived without propiska in towns in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, also spending some time in Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan, doing different low-qualified and underpaid jobs.
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Chigozie Obioma
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize and have been translated into 30 languages. He has an LA Times book prize, the prestigious Internationalerpris, FT/Oppenheimer prize for fiction, an NAACP Image award and has been nominated for two dozen prizes for fiction. He was a judge of the Booker prize in 2021. He is a Distinguished writer in Residence at Wesleyan University, CT, the James E. Ryan Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the program director of the Oxbelly Writers retreat. His third novel, The Road to the Country, will be published in 2024.
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Sundara Ramaswamy
Sundara Ramaswamy (1931–2005), fondly known as "Su.Ra" in literary circles, was one of the exponents of Tamil modern literature. He edited and published a literary magazine called Kalachuvadu. He wrote poetry under the penname "Pasuvayya". His novels are Oru Puliya Marathin Kathai (The Story of a Tamarind Tree), J.J Silakuripukal (J.J: Some Jottings, tr, A.R Venkadachalapathy, Katha, 2004) and Kuzhanthaikal, Penkal, Aankal (Children, Women, Men).
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Ramaswamy was born on 30 May 1931, in Thazhuviya MahadevarKovil,[1] a village in Nagercoil). At 20, he began his literary career, translating Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's Malayalam novel, Thottiyude Makan into Tamil and writing his first short story, "Muthalum Mudivum", which he published in Pudima -
Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 in Lyon – 16 June 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans) was a medieval historian, University Professor and French Army officer. Bloch was a founder of the Annales School, best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft. He was captured and shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.
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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 -
Bernhard Roetzel
Bernhard Roetzel is a German author. He is known for writing Gentleman. A Timeless Guide to Fashion.
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II.
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The most highly decorated German serviceman of the war, Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, and the only person to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, 4 armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat He was shot down or forced to land 30 times due to anti-aircraft artillery, was wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy-he -
Ali Almossawi
Ali Almossawi is the author of books on critical thinking. His books have reached 3.5 million readers, translated into 22 languages, and have sold over 370,000 copies in print. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
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Hernando Téllez
Narrador, periodista y crítico literario colombiano.
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Fue un poeta del ensayo; fue un gran artesano del idioma, maestro en un manejo sobrio y eficaz del lenguaje. Fue un observador sensible de la vida cotidiana, un agudo crítico de la vida social y política del país, junto con Jorge Zalamea, fue uno de los primeros escritores sobre la violencia colombiana. -
Matthew Parker
I'm the author of a number of books including Monte Cassino, about the Western Allies' hardest battle against Germany in WWII, Panama Fever/Hell's Gorge, the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal, The Sugar Barons, about the rise and fall of the British West Indian sugar empire, Willoughbyland, the story of the forgotten English colony in Suriname, exchanged with the Dutch for New York and Goldeneye, about the influence of Jamaica on Ian Fleming's creation of James Bond. My new book is called One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the brink. It is a snapshot of one day - 29 September 1923 - when the British Empire reached what would turn out to be its maximum territorial extent. It was the sole global superpower, but it was also an empi
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Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé was a French novelist, children's writer, humour writer, screenwriter and theatre playwright. His writings include The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Le Passe-Muraille), one of his most famous short stories for which there is a monument in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.
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Dušan Kovačević
Dušan Kovačević is serbian playwright and director best known for his theater plays and movie scripts. He graduated from a grammar school in Novi Sad, and received a Bachelor's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade in 1973.
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Kovačević's prolific work is well known and popular in Serbia. His comedies have been translated into 17 languages, but his work didn't become available in English until the mid-1990s.
A declared royalist, Dušan Kovačević is a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karađorđević. He is also a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. -
José Luis Zárate
Sus novelas de mayor renombre son "Xanto, novelucha libre" (1994), "La ruta del hielo y la sal" (1998) y "Del cielo oscuro y del abismo" (2001), que forman una trilogía, llamada por el autor "Las fases del mito", sobre personajes icónicos de la cultura popular. En ellas el Santo (el luchador/superhéroe fílmico mexicano), el conde Drácula y Superman, respectivamente, son vistos desde la perspectiva que tendrían los habitantes de sus propios mundos ficticios. Entre sus libros de cuentos destaca "Hyperia" (1999), que toma elementos de muchas vertientes distintas de la ciencia ficción y se convierte en un panorama muy completo de los intereses del escritor y del estado del género fantástico a fines del siglo XX.
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Rinker Buck
Rinker Buck began his career in journalism at the Berkshire Eagle and was a longtime staff writer for the Hartford Courant. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, Life, and many other publications, and his stories have won the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award. He is the author of The Oregon Trail as well as the acclaimed memoirs Flight of Passage and First Job. He lives in northwest Connecticut.
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Ernest K. Gann
Ernest K Gann was an aviator, author, filmmaker, sailor, fisherman and conservationist.
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After earning his pilot license, Gann spent his much of his free time aloft, flying for pleasure. The continuing Great Depression soon cost him his job and he was unable to find another position in the movie business. In search of work, he decided to move his family to California. Gann was able to find odd jobs at Burbank Airport, and also began to write short stories. A friend managed to get him a part-time job as a co-pilot with a local airline company and it was there that he flew his first trips as a professional aviator. In the late 1930s many airlines were hiring as many pilots as they could find; after hearing of these opportunities, Gann and his f -
A.J. Hoge
AJ Hoge is the world’s best known English coach. More than 1 million people to date across 16 countries have connected with his better way to teach and easier way to learn English as a second language. His programs accelerate the learning process by bypassing the traditional methods of textbooks, grammar drills, and classrooms to focus on intuitive learning through strategic storytelling and highly effective interactive exercises.
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While AJ’s pioneering TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) methodology has captured the attention of language educators and students worldwide, his most impactful work is at the nexus of career development and English language fluency. AJ’s decade-long interest and studies in the personal development field -
Togʻay Murod
Tog‘ay Murod (taxallusi; asl ism-sharifi Mengnorov Tog‘aymurod) (1948.3.2, Surxondaryo viloyati Denov tumani Xo‘jasoat qishlog‘i — 2003.27.5, Toshkent) — O‘zbekiston xalq yozuvchisi (1999). Toshkent davlat universitetining jurnalistika fakultetini tugatgan (1972).
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Respublika radiosida muharrir (1972—75), «O‘zbekiston fizkulturachisi» gazetasida (1976—78), «Fan va turmush» jurnalida (1982—84) adabiy xodim bo‘lib ishlagan. 1984—86 yillarda Moskvada Oliy adabiyot kursida o‘qigan.
Dastlab kichik hikoyalari, ocherklari e’lon qilingan. Birinchi yirik qissasi — «Yulduzlar mangu yonadi» (1976). «Ot kishnagan oqshom» (1979), «Oydinda yurgan odamlar» (1980), «Momo Yer qo‘shig‘i» (1985) qissalarida qishloq hayotiga xos manzaralar aks etgan. Ularda halol -
Antonio Santa Ana
Antonio Santa Ana nació en 1963 en Buenos Aires, donde vive actualmente con sus dos hijos. Trabaja desde hace diez años con el Grupo Editorial Norma en Argentina, donde se ocupa de la edición y circulación de las colecciones infantiles y juveniles. Antes de vincularse a Norma trabajó durante diez años en la organización de la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires y en la editorial Libros del Quirquincho. Miembro de la comisión directiva de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) y del comité editorial de la Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil que publica Fundalectura (seccional de IBBY), Santa Ana ha sido jurado de importantes concursos literarios y es parte activa de actividades varias en torno
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Roger Frison-Roche
Born in 1906 in Paris, Roger Frison-Roche, an alpinist, mountain guide, journalist, and explorer before he turned novelist, produced fiction that celebrated the splendors and rigors of the Alps, the Sahara, and the Scandinavian North. Two of his Alpine novels, Premier de cordée, translated into English as First on the Rope, and La Grande Crevasse, present adventure stories whose mountain-guide protagonists titillate readers with the appealing skill and daring exacted by the mountain.
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Lygia Bojunga Nunes
Lygia Bojunga (often known with the addition of Nunes, her pen name) (born August 26, 1932 in Pelotas) is a Brazilian author of children's books. She worked of TV and radio until her first book was published in 1972. A major element of her books is the usage of the child's point of view.
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Lygia Bojunga is part of the tradition of magical realism and fantasy-filled storytelling of South America, a tradition she has developed and perfected. In her word of mouth-style narratives, characterised by a strongly dramatic presence, anything can happen. In a deeply original way she fuses playfulness, poetic beauty and absurd humour with social critique, a love of freedom and a strong empathy with the vulnerable child. Fantasy often functions as a way o -
Juliana Muñoz Toro
Escritora y periodista bogotana. Estudió la maestría de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y es autora de varios libros que combinan las trampas de la memoria con el realismo lírico como "24 señales para descubrir a un alien", "A la sombra de un naranjo", "Diario de dos Lunas", "El vuelo de las jorobadas", "La Quitapenas" y "Albina". También es docente y bordadora de historias.
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Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, West with the Night.
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Amelia Earhart
American aviator Amelia Earhart, the first such woman, flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and from Hawaii to California in 1935. While attempting to fly around the world, she crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1937 and presumably died, and people never found her.
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People note Amelia Mary Earhart, a pioneer and author. Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross, award. She set many other records and wrote best-selling books about her experiences; she instrumentally formed The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
During a circumnavigation of the globe, Earhart disappeared over the near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. She went missing July 2, 1937, and people decl -
Andrée Chedid
Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Christian Lebanese descent.
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When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go to an American university. Her dream was to become a dancer. She got married to a physician when she was twenty-two, with whom she has two children: Louis Chedid, now a famous French singer, and Michèle. Her work questions human condition and what links the individual to the world. Her writing seeks to evoke the Orient, but she focuses more in denouncing the civil war that destroys Lebanon. She has lived in France since 1946. Because of this diverse background, her work is truly multicultural. Her first book was -
Trần Dần
Trần Dần tên thật là Trần Văn Dần, là nhà thơ, nhà văn Việt Nam. Ông được đánh giá là người cách tân trong thơ cả về hình thức (với lối thơ bậc thang) lẫn tư tưởng (đa diện, triết lý...)
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Tác phẩm:
Chiều mưa trước cửa (Thơ - 1943);
Hồn xanh dị kỳ (Thơ - 1944);
Người người lớp lớp (Truyện dài - 1954);
Nhất định thắng (Thơ - 1956);
Cách mạng tháng Tám (1956);
Đêm núm sen (Tiểu thuyết - 1961, chưa xuất bản);
Jờ Joạcx (Thơ - 1963, xuất bản di cảo);
Những ngã tư và những cột đèn (Tiểu thuyết - 1964, xuất bản năm 2011);
Một ngày cẩm phả (Tiểu thuyết - 1965, chưa xuất bản);
Con trắng (Thơ - hồi ký - 1967);
177 cảnh (Hùng ca lụa - 1968);
Động đất tâm thần (Nhật ký - thơ - 1974);
Thơ không lời - Mây không lời (Thơ - họa - 1978);
Bộ tam Thiên Thanh - 77 - Ngày ngày -
Isabel Mesa de Inchauste
Librarian Note: This author also goes by Isabel Mesa Gisbert and Isabel Mesa.
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Nació en La Paz en 1960. Es licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación y escritora de literatura infantil y juvenil. Tiene cursos de especialización en la Universidad de Arkansas y una maestría sobre Libros y Literatura Infantil con la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y el Banco del Libro de Venezuela. Es maestra del ciclo primario desde hace muchos años y trabajó como autora de módulos de aprendizaje en la Reforma Educativa Boliviana de 1994. Ha participado como editora de libros de texto para niños y en la antología de literatura infantil La magia de la Lectura de Editorial Santillana. Ha sido directora del departamento de Literatura Infantil de Editorial Gente Co -
Juan José Arreola
Juan José Arreola fue el cuarto hijo del matrimonio formado por Felipe Arreola y Victoria Zúñiga. Nació en México en 1918. Entre 1926 y 1929 desarrolló sus estudios básicos en su ciudad natal.
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En 1930 empezó a trabajar como encuadernador, e inició una larga serie de oficios. En 1934 escribió sus tres primeros textos literarios. Después de tres años, en 1937, se instaló en México, D.F., y se inscribió en la Escuela Teatral de Bellas Artes.
En 1941, mientras trabajaba como maestro, publicó su primera obra, Sueño de Navidad. Posteriormente trabajó como periodista. En 1945 colaboró con Juan Rulfo y Antonio Alatorre en la publicación de la revista Pan, de Guadalajara. Viajó a París bajo la protección del actor Louis Jouvet. Allí conoció a J. L. Ba -
Claudia Celis
Claudia Celis es una escritora mexicana de literatura infantil y juvenil. Es profesora de educación preescolar y ha dedicado la mayor parte de su vida a la docencia. También es colaboradora tanto en periódicos como en revistas culturales de circulación nacional.
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Cursó la diplomatura de Creación Literaria en la Escuela para Escritores de la Sogem.
Celis ha publicado con gran éxito tanto en su país de origen como en España.
Siendo Donde habitan los ángeles (1997) su obra más conocida, también ha publicado, entre otros: Sueños de una niña enamorada (mención honorífica en el Premio FILIJ, 1994) y Atados a una estrella (2002). -
Philippe Nessmann
Passionné de science, d’histoire et d’écriture, Philippe Nessmann est, jusqu’en 2003, journaliste pour le magazine Science et Vie Junior. Il dirige désormais la collection «Kézako» aux éditions Mango Jeunesse. Chez Flammarion jeunesse il a publié de nombreux récits historiques, notamment Les exploits de l’Aérospaciale et Lucie Aubrac Résistante.
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Diana Athill
Diana Athill was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company André Deutsch Ltd.
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She was born in Norfolk in 1917 and educated at home until she was fourteen. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and graduated in 1939. She spent the war years working at the BBC Overseas Service in the News Information Department. After the war she met André Deutsch and fell into publishing. She worked as an editor, first at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch, until her retirement at the age of 75 in 1993.
Her books include An Unavoidable Delay, a collection of short stories published in 1962 and two 'documentary' books After A Funeral a -
Francisco Balagtas
Francisco Baltazar, known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, "Florante at Laura", is regarded as his defining work.
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Stjepan Tomaš
Stjepan Tomaš je rođen 1947., poslije II. Svjetskog rata u Novoj Bukovici kod Slatine. Gimnaziju je završio u Našicama, a Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu. Živi i radi u Osijeku.
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Objavio je nekoliko romana za djecu: «Moljac i noćni čuvar», «Dobar dan, tata» i «Halo, ovdje komandosi». Knjiga ratnih dnevničkih zapisa «Moj tata spava s anđelima» nadopunjena pojavila se ponovno pod naslovom «Mali ratni dnevnik».
Napisao je i četiri zbirke pripovijedaka za odrasle: «Sveti bunar», «Tko kuca otvorit će mu se», «Smrtna ura», «Anđeli na vrhu igle» te romane: «Građani u prvom koljenu», «Taninska četvrt», «Život u provinciji», «Zlatousti».
Zastupljen je u nekoliko antologija suvremene hrvatske i jugoslovenske proze. Kritika je uglavnom povoljno ocijenila -
Richard Hull
Richard Henry Sampson FCA (6 September 1896 – 1973), known by the pseudonym Richard Hull, was a British writer who became successful as a crime novelist with his first book in 1934.
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Emanuel Elizondo
Emanuel Elizondo (MS, MDiv, DMin) es editor en jefe de Biblias Holman. Enseña teología en la Universidad Cristiana de las Américas y es pastor en la iglesia Vida Nueva en Monterrey, México, donde vive con su esposa Milka. Es doctor en exposición bíblica por The Master’s Seminary. Es editor de varios libros, incluyendo “Cómo leer tu Biblia” (B&H) y autor de “Mi Mesías: Una novela de redención”. Su más reciente libro es “Enséñanos a orar” (B&H).
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Ana Lydia Vega
Recipient of both the Premio Juan Rulfo (1982) and the Premio Casa de las Américas (1981). Vega belongs to a generation of Puerto Rican writers that has integrated into their writing mordant reflections on the ambiguous political status of their island nation. Ana Lydia Vega pursued an academic career as a professor of both French literature and Caribbean studies at the same time that she became an accomplished author.
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Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan
22 Ağustos 1926 tarihinde Mersin'in Tarsus ilçesinde doğdu. Eskişehir Ticaret Lisesi’ni bitirdi (1946). Türkiye İş Bankası’na girerek Adana, Ankara ve İstanbul’da çalıştı. Halkla İlişkiler Müdür Yardımcısı oldu. Bu görevdeyken Haziran 1977'de emekli oldu. İstanbul’da kendi adını taşıyan bir sanat galerisi kurdu.
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Şiire 1940 yılında Yedigün şairleri arasında başladı. 1975 yılına kadar 33 şiir, 4 düzyazı kitabı, 13 antoloji ve biyografik eser olmak üzere toplam 50 kitap çıkardı. Şiir plakları, şarkı sözleri ve yergileriyle tanındı. 4 Kasım 1984 tarihinde öldü.
Genellikle Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel duyarlılığında ve aşk, ayrılık, özlem temaları ekseninde çoğalttığı şiirini, 1973’te büyük oğlu Vedat’ın ölmesi üzerine, hayatın boşluğu, ölüm ve acı gibi d -
Nicolás Schuff
Nació el 24 de noviembre de 1973. Vive en Buenos Aires. Ha publicado, entre otros libros: El viaje a la Luna, El misterio de las medias, El bajaestrellas, Leyendas urbanas, versiones de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn y de Odisea y, en esta misma colección, Hugo Besugo y el misterio del perro salchicha.
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Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.
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Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also a member of the Académie française from 1962 to 1979. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French F -
Daniele Del Giudice
Daniele Del Giudice è stato uno scrittore e giornalista italiano.
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Dopo un periodo come critico e giornalista per Paese Sera, Del Giudice ha esordito nel 1983 con il romanzo Lo stadio di Wimbledon, scoperto da Italo Calvino, edito, come i successivi, da Einaudi, ed incentrato sulla figura di Bobi Bazlen. Il suo secondo libro è stato Atlante occidentale (1985), che racconta il rapporto tra il fisico Pietro Brahe e lo scrittore Ira Epstein. Nel 1988, Del Giudice ha pubblicato Nel museo di Reims, storia di Barnaba e del suo volersi fissare nella memoria le immagini di un museo, prima di diventare cieco. Nel 1994 esce Staccando l'ombra da terra, libro che contiene sei racconti dedicati al volo, che vinse il Premio Bagutta.
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Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest. His most famous novel is EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE (1946), about life under the rule of a ruthless dictator. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule.
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Lydia Carreras de Sosa
Lydia Carreras de Sosa nació en 1949 en Rosario, Argentina, donde vive actualmente. Es profesora de inglés y tiene una academia, en la que ha trabajado durante los últimos veintiséis años.
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Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine is a zoologist who achieved widespread recognition for his Last Chance to See conservation expeditions with Douglas Adams, first aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Since then he has become a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer.
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Ricardo Mariño
Ricardo Mariño is an Argentinian writer, journalist and scripwriter, mostly known for his children books.
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He has worked for Children's magazines like Billiken, Humi, AZ Diez and for Clarín's and Página/12's Sunday supplements. Previously he worked as a journalist at the press agency DAN, scriptwriter of children's TV programs, and director of the literary magazine Mascaró between 1985 and 1988. He was a workshop instructor at the Dirección Nacional del Libro between 1987 and 1989. He was also jury at various writing competitions. -
Ana María del Río
Ana María del Río (Santiago de Chile, 1948) es una profesora de literatura, escritora feminista y novelista chilena adscrita a la nueva narrativa chilena de los noventa post-dictadura.
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Realizó estudios de literatura en la Universidad Católica de Chile y especializaciones en las universidades de Rice y Pittsburg. Su producción se ha publicado tanto en Chile como en España, Argentina y Estados Unidos.
Debutó en el ámbito literario con su libro Entreparéntesis en 1985, mientras que un año después, lanza su primera novela con el título Óxido de Carmen, que abordaría la subjetividad femenina imperante en la literatura femenina latinoamericana de la década de 1980 observable también en Alessandra Luiselli, María Luisa Puga, Elena Poniatowska y Carm -
Kenneth Brower
Kenneth Brower is an American nonfiction writer. He is the oldest son of the late environmentalist David R. Brower.
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He is best known for his many books about the environment, national parks, and natural places, many of them in hundreds of libraries and by major publishers, including several titles in the series The Earth's Wild Places published by the Friends of the Earth in the 1970s. His most widely read book, on Yosemite, is in over 1200 worldCat libraries. Many of his books have been published by The National Geographic Society. Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, German, Spanish, and Hebrew.
He is also known for being the author of The Starship and the Canoe, a comparison of the lives of scientist Freeman Dyson and -
Dross
Ángel David Revilla (alias “Dross” o “DrossRotzank”) nació el 16 de julio de 1982 en Caracas, Venezuela. Desde niño, su gran pasión ha sido escribir y su primer libro publicado, Luna de Plutón (Temas de Hoy, 2015), es un extraordinario éxito de ventas, que ha deslumbrado y mantiene expectante al mundo hispano con una épica galáctica que transporta a los lectores a universos con personajes jamás imaginados. En su segundo libro, El Festival de la Blasfemia (Temas de Hoy, 2016), el autor se luce con una historia de terror y humor negro como solo él puede contar.
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La Guerra de Ysaak, la secuela de Luna de Plutón, Dross presenta una historia repleta de oscuridad, acción, suspenso y horror, que nos exigirá hacer pequeñas pausas de alivio, en busca -
Fernanfloo
Luis Fernando Flores Alvarado (1993), conocido como Fernanfloo o Fernan, es un youtuber y streamer de salvadoreño. En sus inicios, sus vídeos trataban de tutoriales, y sketches de acción pero luego cambió la actividad realizando gameplays.
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Orígenes Lessa
Orígenes Lessa (Lençóis Paulista, 12 de julho de 1903 — Rio de Janeiro, 13 de julho de 1986) foi um jornalista, contista, novelista, romancista e ensaísta brasileiro, e imortal da Academia Brasileira de Letras.
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Ana María Shua
Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of many books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays.
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Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literar -
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, also known under the pseudonym "Stary Doktor".
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He was born Henryk Goldszmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods; his passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood. He studied medicine and also had a promising career in literature. When he gave up his career in literature and medicine, he changed his name to Janusz Korczak, a pseudonym derived from a 19th century novel, Janasz Korczak and the pretty Swordsweeperlady.
In 1912, Korczak established a Jewish orphanage, Dom Sierot, in a building which he designed to advance his progressive educational theories -
Laima Lavaste
Laima Žiūkienė Lavaste – lietuvių žurnalistė, dienraščio „Lietuvos rytas“ korespondentė Suomijoje.
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Laima Lavaste taip pat rašė leidiniui „Ekstra“; savo straipsniuose aprašo Suomijos aktualijas, yra parašiusi keletą straipsnių ir Lietuvos tematika, sulaukusių rezonanso visuomenėje. -
Sofía Olguín
Soy fundadora de Bajo el arcoíris Editorial, la primera editorial de Latinoamérica dedicada a los cuentos infantiles de temática LGBT para niños.
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Escribo novelas, cuentos y poemas de temática LGBT.
Mis publicaciones, participaciones y reconocimientos:
• Novela Menfis, Eldalie Publicaciones, Madrid, 2010.
• “Amigo mío”, cuento finalista en el 1er Certamen de relatos cortos LGBT Harvey Milk.
• Novela Todos mis sueños, tuyos, Editorial Stonewall, Madrid, 2012.
• “Un mundo al revés”, cuento ganador del 3er puesto en el concurso de relatos LGBT de la Asociación Ojalá Málaga.
• “La rueda del tiempo”. Relato en Nocturnabilia: relatos de Stonewall 2012. Editorial Stonewall, Madrid, 2012.
• Taller de Literatura Queer. VIII Encuentro de Estudiantes de Letr -
Erika Armstrong
Author of A CHICK IN THE COCKPIT. I am a Goodreads author, pilot, professor, aviation analyst and Murphy Law Breaker. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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Gabriel Sundukian
Gabriel Sundukian (Armenian: Գաբրիել Սունդուկյան) was an outstanding Armenian writer and playwright, the founder of modern Armenian drama.
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Born in Tiflis, in a wealthy Armenian family, Sundukian learned both classical and modern Armenian, French, Italian and Russian, studied at the University of Saint-Petersburg, where he wrote a dissertation on the principles of Persian versification. Then he returned to Tiflis and entered the civil service. In 1854-58 he was banished to Derbend (Dagestan, Russia). In 1863, the Armenian theatre company of Tiflis staged his first play, Sneezing at Night's Good Luck. His well-known play "Pepo" (1871) was made into the first Armenian talkie in 1935. Another famous film based on his work is "Khatabala" (1971). -
Françoise Bourdin
Françoise Bourdin was born listening to opera. Her parents, both opera singers, helped her to develop an appreciation for strong characters and destinies, and for the music of words. As a teenager, she discovered horseback riding and it became her exclusive hobby. She dedicated her teens to this passion and to reading the works of classical authors that she discovered in her father’s huge library. Bourdin started to write short stories when she was very young. Her first novel was published by Editions Julliard when she was only twenty. Writing became the most important thing in her life and her second novel, two years later, was adapted for TV.
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Her fiction describes family stories, secrets, and passions. She values brave characters who face