Antonio Skármeta
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
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Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré was born in Puerto Rico, where her father served as governor. She was best known for her novels and short stories. In 1992, Ferré was awarded the Liberatur Prix award at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the German translation of her novel Sweet Diamond Dust. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for her novel The House on the Lagoon in 1995.
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Torcuato Luca de Tena
Torcuato Luca de Tena y Bruet was a journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet. Son of novelist Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres, marqués de Luca de Tena, Marquis of Luca de Tena. Grandson of journalist Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio, who was made marqués de Luca de Tena in 1929.
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Su Tong
Su Tong (simplified Chinese: 苏童; traditional Chinese: 蘇童; pinyin: Sū Tóng; born January 23, 1963) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui (童忠贵 Tóng Zhōngguì). He was born in Suzhou and lives in Nanjing.
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He entered the Department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1980, and started to publish novels in 1983. He is now vice president of the Jiangsu Writers Association. Known for his controversial writing style, Su is one of the most acclaimed novelists in China.
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Gilbert Sinoué
See also: جيلبرت سينويه
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At age 19, after studying at a Catholic Jesuit school in Cairo, Sinoué went to France to study at the national music conservatory in Paris. He became skilled in classical guitar. He later taught classical guitar to others and started writing.
In 1987, at about age 40, he published his first novel, La Pourpre et l’olivier ou Calixte 1er le pape oublié (The Crimson and the Olive Tree or Calixte I the Forgotten Pope). It earned the Jean d’Heurs prize for best historical novel. In 1989, he published Avicenne ou La route d'Ispahan, relating the life of Avicenna (Abu Ali Ibn Sina in Arabic), the Persian doctor, philosopher and scientist.
His novels and other books span a variety of genres. Sinoué's third novel The Egyptian is -
Luisa Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.
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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
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Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the -
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them tha -
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known for developing deconstruction, a method of critical analysis that questioned the stability of meaning in language, texts, and Western metaphysical thought. Born in Algeria, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he was influenced by philosophers such as Heidegger, Husserl, and Levinas. His groundbreaking works, including Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), and Speech and Phenomena (1967), positioned him at the center of intellectual debates on language, meaning, and interpretation.
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Derrida argued that Western philosophy was structured around binary oppositions—such as speech over writing, presence over absence, or reason over emotion—that falsely pr -
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg.
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Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony. His father was a clergyman and the author of theological writings. After visiting Latin School in Kamenz (from 1737 onwards) and the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen (from 1741 onwards) he studied theology and medicine in Leipzig (1746–1748).
From 1748 to 1760 he lived in Leipzig and Berlin and worked as reviewer and editor for, amongst others, the Voss -
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
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Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
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Hernán Rivera Letelier
Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town (north of Chile), after that his family moves to Antofagasta city, where he works in numerous jobs. For three years he travel by Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Argentina , and later started living at Pedro de Valdivia (another saltpeter mining town), where he finish high school and graduates as secondary teacher in INACAP.
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He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro (Chilean National Book Award) twice, in 1994 and 1996.
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Patrick Süskind
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
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After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. -
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
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Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Georg Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
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Adelaida García Morales
Nacida en Extremadura, se trasladó a Sevilla a los 13 años; posteriormente fue a vivir a Madrid, donde se licenció en Filosofía.
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Publicó su primera obra en 1985, El Sur y Bene, un libro de relatos que sería utilizado como base para la película "El Sur", de Víctor Erice.
Con su siguiente obra, El Silencio de las Sirenas, obtuvo el Premio Herralde de Novela.
Otras obras: La Lógica del Vampiro, Las mujeres de Héctor, La tía Águeda, Nasmiya, Mujeres solas, El secreto de Elisa, La señorita Medina, El testamento de Regina y una Historia perversa. -
Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad Complutense.
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His first novel was influenced by Julio Cortázar and consequently shows the influence of the then-prevalent literary experimentalism, as well as the uncertainty of a fledgling author. Although very original, his second book, Cerbero son las sombras (1975), obtained the Premio Sésamo and received a positive critical response.
Thanks to an enthusiastic member of the judges panel for the Premio Sésamo, Juan García Hortelano, he was able to publish Visión del ahogado (1977) and El jardín vacío (The empty garden) (1981) with the prestigi -
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro is Mexico's preeminent novelist. Born in Mexico City in 1956, he is the author of half a dozen prize-winning novels and is also a journalist. In 2004, he received the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo (The Witness).
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James Baikie
Rev. James Baikie (1866-1931) was a Scottish prolific writer, in the early 20th century, on subjects like astronomy, the bible and ancient history.
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James Baikie married Constance Newman Smith in October 1903 and they had two sons, Hugh Edward, born 1906, who studied at New College from 1927-1930, and James Eric McAndrew, born 1909, who also became a minister, studying George Watson’s College. Not much is known of Constance although she was clearly a very competent artist, provided the illustrations for many of her husband’s books and had quite a prolific output. Constance was born on 16th October 1875 and died on 4th June 1960. -
Afonso Cruz
Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador.
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Escreveu seis livros: A Carne de Deus (Bertrand), Enciclopédia da Estória Universal (Quetzal - Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2010), Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai (Caminho - Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço 2009), A Contradição Humana (Caminho - Prémio Autores 2011 SPA/RTP; escolha White Ravens 2011; Menção Especial do Prémio Nacional de Ilustração 2011) e A Boneca de Kokoschka (Quetzal), O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças (Caminho). Participou ainda nos livros Almanaque do Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead de Doenças Excêntricas e Desacreditadas ( -
Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler is an Austrian living in Berlin and is the author of four previous novels. A Whole Life is his first work to be translated into English and is already a German bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies. The book has been translated from its original German by Charlotte Collins.
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Anton Chekhov
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
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Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 -
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
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Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني)
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Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began wri -
Bothayna Al-Essa
Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.
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Jérôme Ferrari
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome ("The Sermon on the Fall of Rome").
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Ferrari has lived in Corsica and taught philosophy at the lycée international Alexandre-Dumas in Algiers for several years, then at the Lycée Fesch of Ajaccio.
Currently, he is professor of philosophy at the French School of Abu Dhabi.
One work has been translated into English, Where I Left My Soul (2012), it "is set in the mid-1950s during the Algerian war, looking backwards to the second world war and the French defeat in Indochina, and forwards to the collapse in 1958 of the Fourth Republic. -
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
C.F. Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer. Born in Lausanne and educated there he moved to Paris in 1903 where he first published a collection of poems, 'Le petit village.' At the outbreak of WWI in 1914 he returned to Switzerland and devoted his life to writing which included the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's 'Histoire du Soldat' in 1918. He died near his home town. His image now appears on the 200 Swiss Franc note and his foundation awards the quintannual Grand Prix C.F. Ramuz.
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Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. was an American political scientist. He and Robert Keohane co-founded the international relations theory of neoliberalism, which they developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence. Together with Keohane, he developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence. They also explored transnational relations and world politics in an edited volume in the 1970s. More recently, he pioneered the theory of soft power. His notion of "smart power" ("the ability to combine hard and soft power into a successful strategy") became popular with the use of this phrase by members of the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration. These theories from Nye are very commonly seen in courses across the U.S., su
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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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Vernon Lee
Violet Paget, known by her pen name Vernon Lee, is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel, poetry and contributed to The Yellow Book. An engaged feminist, she always dressed à la garçonne, and was a member of the Union of democratic control.
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Her literary works explored the themes of haunting and possession. The English writer and translator, Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction."
She was responsible for introducing the concept of empathy (Einfühling) into the English language. Empathy was a key concept in Lee's psychological -
Rasul Gamzatov
Rasul Gamzatov (Avar: Расул ХIамзатов) was probably the most famous poet writing in the Avar language. Among his poems was "Zhuravli", which became a well-known Russian song.
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He was born on September 8, 1923, in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus. His father, Gamzat Tsadasa, was a well-known bard, heir to the ancient tradition of minstrelsy still thriving in the mountains.
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Benoît Duteurtre
Benoît Duteurtre (20 March 1960 – 16 July 2024) was a French novelist and essayist. He was also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spent his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.
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Benoît Duteurtre was born in Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, where he spent his first years. He was the son of Jean-Claude Duteurtre and Marie-Claire Georges. He was also the great-grandson of the French president René Coty. He attended Saint-Joseph, a Catholic educational institution in Le Havre. Duteurtre began to write at an early age. At fifteen, he presented his first texts to Armand Salacrou, a French dramatist established in Le Havre, who encouraged him to pursue his efforts. Le Havre, a heavily -
Janine Di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called "established, accomplished brilliance" and she has been cited as "the finest foreign correspondent of our generation".
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Born in the US, she began reporting by covering the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s and went on to report nearly every violent conflict since then. Her trademark has always been to write about the human cost of war, to attempt to give war a human face, and to work in conflict zones that the world's press has forgotten.
She continued writing about Bosnia long after most people forgot it. In 2000, she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of -
Alexander Key
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An American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience. He became a nationally known illustrator before he became an author. After he began writing novels for young people, he moved his family to the North Carolina mountains, and most of his books include that wild and rugged landscape.
His novel Escape to Witch Mountain was made into a popular film in 1975 and again in 1995. His novel The Incredible Tide became a popular anime series, Future Boy Conan.
He is known for his portrayals of alien but human-like people who have psychic powers and a close communion with nature, and who can speak with animals. In The Strange White -
Magdalena Petit
Fue una escritora chilena, recordada por sus populares novelas La Quintrala, Los Pincheira y Los hijos del Caleuche, entre otras. Escribió asimismo obras de teatro, ensayos y biografías.
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Yiğit Bener
Yiğit Bener (d.1958, Brüksel), Türk yazar ve çevirmen.
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Yiğit Bener, 1958 yılında Brüksel'de doğdu. Yazar Erhan Bener'in oğlu, Vüs'at O. Bener'in yeğenidir. Evli ve bir kızı var. İstanbul'da yaşıyor.
İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Paris ve Ankara'da tamamladıktan sonra, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi'nde okudu. 12 Eylül 1980 darbesinden sonra son sınıf öğrencisiyken eğitimini yarım bıraktı, on yıl boyunca Brüksel ve Paris'te yaşadı. Çocuk bakıcılığı, dergi yöneticiliği, göçmen sorunları danışmanlığı, çevirmenlik gibi işlerde çalıştı. Halen yazarlığın yanı sıra profesyonel konferans tercümanı olarak çalışıyor. Meslek örgütleri TKTD ve AIIC'de yöneticilik yaptı. Bilkent Üniversitesi'nde Konferans Tercümanlığı Yüksek Lisans programında öğretim görevlis -
Miguel Barnet
Miguel Barnet, is one of Cuba's most distinguished writers and poets as well as a member of the island's National Assembly. He is also the president of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), an organization with more than 8,000 members. He is an outspoken intellectual, having studied first in the United States and later at the University of Havana. He is best known for his testimonial novel Biography of a Runaway Slave, Biografía de un Cimarrón in Spanish, but he has written dozens of other novels, poems and articles, including a number of stories for Cigar Aficionado. He's been called the Truman Capote of Cuba.
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Barnet first came to national attention as the poet of La piedra fina y el pavorreal (1963) and the much-prais -
Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva
VÍTOR MANUEL DE AGUIAR E SILVA nasceu em 1939, na freguesia de Real, em Penalva do Castelo, Viseu. Licenciou-se em Filologia Românica pela Universidade de Coimbra (1962) e doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra. Foi professor catedrático da Universidade de Coimbra até Setembro de 1989, data em que se transferiu para a Universidade do Minho. Nesta Universidade, desempenhou diversos cargos, nomeadamente o de vice-reitor, de 1990 a 2002. Como professor visitante, exerceu funções docentes em várias Universidades estrangeiras. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da Teoria da Literatura. Os estudos camonianos têm constituído objecto constante da sua actividade de investigador, sendo numerosas as suas publicações nesta área. Foi ainda deputado à A
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