Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
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In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educated, he began writing clever verses by the age of 12. He launched a lifelong, successful playwriting career in 1718, interrupted by imprisonment in the Bastille. Upon a second imprisonment, in which Francois adopted the pen name Voltaire, he was released after agreeing to move to London. There he wrote Lettres philosophiques (1733), which galvanized French reform. The book also satirized the religious teachings of Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, including Pascal's famed "wager" on God. Voltaire wrote: "The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the exi -
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Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salgari. He wrote more than two hundred short stories and novels, many of which are considered classics. Setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures, Mr. Salgari brought the wonders of the world to the doorstep of generations of readers. -
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Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
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In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste--a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
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Sallust
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86 BC-34 BC), better known as 'Sallust' was a Roman politician and historian who supported Populares party of Julius Caesar.
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His historical works included romanticized views of events, which served as polemics against his moral opponents, including Cicero. It was a style which set him apart from the dry historians who proceeded him.
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Angelina Weld Grimké
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 1919, he studied chemistry at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. During World War II, Levi joined the Italian resistance, but was captured by Fascist forces in 1943. Because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where he endured ten harrowing months before being liberated by the Red army.
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After the war, Levi returned to Turin and resumed work as a chemist, but also began writing about his experiences. His first book, If This Is a Man (published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz), is widely regar -
Luigi Pirandello
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
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Gabriele d'Annunzio
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D'Annunzio combined in his work naturalism, symbolism, and erotic images, becoming the best interpreter of European Decadence in post-Risorgimento Italy.
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Erich Auerbach
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Ludovico Ariosto
Known Italian writer Ludovico Ariosto, or Lodovico Ariosto first published Orlando Furioso his primary epic comic poem, in 1516.
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He best authored the romance. This continuation of Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Maria Boiardo describes the adventures of Charlemagne and the Franks, who battle against the Saracens, with diversions into many side plots. Ariosto composed in the ottava rima scheme and introduced narrator commentary throughout the work.
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Louis Aragon
French writer Louis Aragon founded literary surrealism.
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Louis Aragon, a major figure in the avant-garde movements, shaped visual culture in the 20th century. His long career as a poet, novelist, Communist polemicist and bona fide war hero secured his place in the pantheon of greats.
With André Breton and Phillipe Soupault, Aragon launched the movement and through Paysan de Paris (Paris Peasant), his novel of 1926, produced the considered defining text of the movement.
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Luigi Malerba
Co-founder of the Gruppo 63. Luigi Malerba (born Luigi Bonardi; November 11, 1927 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian author who wrote short stories (often written with Tonino Guerra), historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism. Umberto Eco said that Malerba was defined post-modern, but that's not all true, because he is maliciously ironic, unpredictable, and ambiguous. He was one of the most important exponents of the Italian literary moviment called Neoavanguardia, along with Balestrini, Sanguineti, and Manganelli.
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He was the first writer to win the Prix Médicis étranger in 1970. He also won the Brancati Prize in 1979, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 (with Stefano Jacomuzzi and Raff -
William Shakespeare
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Grazia Deledda
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
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P.G. Wodehouse
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An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English litera -
Gabriel García Márquez
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
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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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Bertolt Brecht
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Molière
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
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Italo Calvino
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Elsa Morante
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Karel Hynek Mácha
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Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s generation (for example Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá) and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism, and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.
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Ladislav Fuks
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Karel Jaromír Erben
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
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Viktor Dyk
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
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Jan Otčenášek
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
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Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
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The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
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John Parrington
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Vittorio Alfieri
Works, including 19 tragedies, of Italian playwright Conte Vittorio Alfieri influenced nationalism.
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Carlo Gozzi
Carlo Gozzi (Venezia, 1720 – Venezia, 1806) è stato un drammaturgo e scrittore italiano. Negli anni '60 del Settecento fu protagonista di una polemica sul teatro con il conterraneo Carlo Goldoni: Gozzi difendeva i vecchi artifici della Commedia dell'Arte contro le novità introdotte nel teatro da Goldoni.
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Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – April 4, 1806) was an Italian playwright.
Born in Venice, he came from an old Venetian family from the Republic of Ragusa. His father's debts forced him to look for a means of supporting himself, and at the age of sixteen, he joined the army in Dalmatia; three years later he returned to Venice, where he soon made a reputation for himself as the wittiest member of the Granelleschi society, to which the pu -
Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements.
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1580), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. He died a few days before he was due to be crowned as the king of poets by the Pope. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Tasso remained one of the most widely read poets in Europe.
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Charles-Louis Philippe
Charles-Louis Philippe (4 August 1874 – 21 December 1909) French novelist, was born in Cérilly, Allier, Auvergne, on 4 August 1874, and died in Paris on 21 December 1909.
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Annibale Ruccello
Annibale Ruccello (7 February 1956 – 12 September 1986) was an Italian playwright, theatre director, and actor.
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He studied philosophy and anthropology, his plays reveals his interests. He also studied neapolitan dialect and linguistics. In 1978 he started directing and writing plays with themes borrowed by neapolitan folklore. Ruccello was recognized as one of the most original and promising Italian playwright of his time. He died in a car crash in 1986. -
Karel Poláček
Karel Poláček byl český spisovatel, humorista, novinář a filmový scenárista. Dílo K. Poláčka představuje jednu z nejvýznamnějších hodnot české meziválečné prózy. Ve svých humoristických románech se zaměřil na zobrazení tragikomedie maloměstského života.
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Poláčkovy prózy lze rozdělit na humoristické a společensko-kritické. Snad nejúspěšnějším dílem je posmrtně vydaný příběh Petra Bajzy Bylo nás pět. -
Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Zdeněk Jirotka
Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
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Madame d'Aulnoy
Madame d'Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy) (1650/1651–4 January 1705) was a French writer known for her fairy tales. When she termed her works contes de fées (fairy tales, or literally, "Tales of the Fairies."), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. Her 'fairy tales' were written in a style suitable for entertaining in adult salon gatherings, and not with a child audience in mind.
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d'Aulnoy also wrote works of history (although not using modern attitudes to historical accuracy), pseudo-memoirs, and a few historical novels.
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Gianni Celati
Gianni Celati (Sondrio, 1937) è stato uno scrittore, traduttore, anglista, critico letterario e documentarista italiano.
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Nasce a Sondrio, dove si trova la famiglia a causa del lavoro del padre, usciere di banca spostato spesso di sede in sede a causa dei litigi con i suoi superiori. Il padre Antonio era originario di Bondeno, vicino a Ferrara, mentre la madre, Exenia Dolores Martelli, era nata a Sandolo, vicino al delta del Po. Celati passa l'infanzia e l'adolescenza in provincia di Ferrara.
Laureatosi in letteratura inglese presso l'Università di Bologna scrive articoli per Marcatré, Lingua e stile, Il Verri, Il Caffè, Quindici, Sigma, ecc. oltre a pubblicare le prime traduzioni. Assume la cattedra di letteratura angloamericana del DAMS di B -
Paola Mastrocola
Born in 1956, she works presently as high school teacher. She has won some of the most prestigious Italian literature prizes.
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Mauro Covacich
Mauro Covacich è uno scrittore italiano contemporaneo nato a Trieste nel 1965. Il suo esordio avviene nel 1993 con “Storie di pazzi e di normali” (Theoria 1993, Laterza 2007). Romanzo incentrato su uno dei profili più misteriosi dell’essere umano poichè racconta storie di persone apparentemente normali che improvvisamente diventano efferati omicidi. Tematica molto attuale e che riempie le pagine della cronaca nera dei nostri quotidiani.
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La sua attività
Attento alle varie sfaccettature dell’individuo nel contesto sociale contemporaneo, il suo stile caratterizza tutta la sua produzione narrativa. Nello specifico, le successive pubblicazioni sono “Colpo di lama” (edito da Neri Pozza 1995), “Mal d’autobus” (edito da Tropea 1997), “Anomalie” (edit -
Hanibal Lucić
Hanibal Lucić (1485., Hvar – 1553., Hvar) rodio se u imućnoj plemićkoj obitelji, a obavljao je poslove i dužnosti hvarskoga suca, odvjetnika, branitelja plemićkih prava protiv zahtjeva pučana i izaslanika Velikog vijeća u Mlecima.
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Lucić je kritički uništio veći dio svoga stvaralaštva, a nevelik mu je opus objavljen tek nakon smrti.
Stvarao je vješto, u duhu petratkističko-trubadurskoga pjesništva - prema stranim (Ovidije, Petrarca, Bembo, Ariosto), ali i prema domaćim uzorima (Džore Držić) i osobito prema narodnom stihotvorstvu.
Zahvaćen renesansnim duhom, Lucić je oko 1530. počeo nedaleko od grada graditi svoj renesansni ljetnikovac. Umro je u Hvaru i pokopan u obiteljskom grobu u crkvi franjevačkog samostana. -
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Iginio Ugo Tarchetti was an Italian author, poet, and journalist.
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Born in San Salvatore Monferrato, his military career was cut short by ill health, and in 1865 he settled in Milan. Here he entered literary study, becoming part of the Scapigliatura, a literary movement animated by a spirit of rebellion against traditional culture. He worked on several newspapers and published short stories, novels, and poems. He contracted tuberculosis and died in poverty at the age of 29. [wikipedia] -
Luigi Pulci
Luigi Pulci, (born August 15, 1432, Florence [Italy]—died November? 1484, Padua, Republic of Venice), Italian poet whose name is chiefly associated with one of the outstanding epics of the Renaissance, Morgante, in which French chivalric material is infused with a comic spirit born of the streets of Florence. The use of the ottava rima stanza for the poem helped establish this form as a vehicle for works of a mock-heroic, burlesque character.
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For many years Pulci lived under the protection of the Medici family, especially Lorenzo the Magnificent, who first introduced him into the circle of poets and artists that was gathering around him and later, after assuming power, entrusted him with various embassies and diplomatic missions. Nevertheles -
Daniele Benati
Daniele Benati, nato a Masone nel 1953, è scrittore e traduttore. Dopo aver insegnato in varie università in Irlanda e negli Stati Uniti, ha collaborato alla rivista «Il semplice» con Gianni Celati ed Ermanno Cavazzoni, dove ha pubblicato racconti e traduzioni.
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Sempre con Celati, ha curato Storie di solitari americani (Rizzoli, 2006), dove ha tradotto racconti di Mark Twain, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Delmore Schwartz e Flannery O’Connor. Ha anche tradotto opere di Flann O’Brien (La miseria in bocca; Il boccale traboccante; L’ardua vita, Cronache dublinesi), James Joyce (Gente di Dublino), Ring Lardner (Tagliando i capelli), Tony Cafferky (Storie di identità), e Seumas O’Kelly (La tomba del tessitore) e ha curato l’edizion -
Radek John
Roku 1979 vystudoval scenáristiku a dramaturgii hraných filmů na Filmové a televizní fakultě Akademie múzických umění. V letech 1980 až 1993 byl redaktorem časopisu Mladý svět, do kterého přispíval reportážemi o narkomanech, vekslácích, prostitutkách, vlajkonoších a o panice kolem nemoci AIDS a také sériemi cestopisných reportáží.
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V 80. letech pracoval ve Filmovém studiu Barrandov jako scenárista a spolupracoval i s televizí. Je autorem scénářů k filmům Jen si tak trochu písknout, Sněženky a machři, Bony a klid, Proč?, Tankový prapor, Ta naše písnička česká II, Prachy dělaj člověka aj. Ve své literární tvorbě se zaměřuje zejména na problémy mladých lidí v dnešním světě, zejména pak drogy, násilí a prostituci. Jeho nejznámější román Memento b -
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Janko Polić Kamov
Rebellious by nature, he was expelled from Rijeka high school and dropped out of the school in Zagreb. Because of his participation in the demonstration against the Hungarian governor in Croatia, Khuen-Héderváry, he was sentenced to three months in prison in 1903. Headstrong and temperamental, he called himself Kamov, after Ham (or Kam) from the Old Testament, who saw his father Noah naked but unlike his siblings Shem and Japhet did not cover his nakedness, thus issuing a curse. Kamov probably saw himself as a revealer of bourgeoise hypocrisy and wrote to his brother Vladimir in 1910 - "Kamov to me is a literary program..."
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His literary work was small, but very significant, because in his poems and plays he expressed his anger and displeasur -
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Beppe Roncari
Beppe Roncari (Milano, 1978), è scrittore, traduttore, editor. Ha lavorato nella produzione di fiction e come traduttore di coproduzioni internazionali di Lux Vide; alla Digital Transformation della Scuola Holden e nella comunicazione social per l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA). È redattore di corsi di inglese per Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Esperto di Tolkien, tiene una rubrica dedicata al fantastico per la collana Urania di Mondadori, che ha pubblicato alcuni suoi racconti.
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Nel 2021, esce il romanzo storico “Numa Pompilio. Il figlio dei numi” (Mondadori), scritto a più mani, e nel 2023 la dilogia “Engaged” (Sperling & Kupfer), retelling fantasy storico de “I Promessi Sposi” di Manzoni.
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Vladimír Páral
Vladimír Páral, pseudonym Jan Laban, je spisovatelem prózy. Pochází z Prahy jako syn důstojníka. Brzy po jeho narození se rodina přestěhovala do Brna, kde prožil dětství, studium na reálném gymnáziu a první rok na brněnské technice. Nakonec se však rozhodl pro chemii a vystudoval vysokou školu v Pardubicích. Stal se inženýrem.
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Po ukončení studií pracoval Vladimír Páral v chemickém průmyslu postupně v Liberci, Jablonci na Jizerou, Plzni a Ústí nad Labem. Při tom psal a když již měl za sebou několik úspěšných románů, chemický obor opustil a stal se v letech 1967 - 72 spisovatelem z povolání.
Od roku 1972 do 1979 pracoval jako redaktor Severočeského nakladatelství v Ústí nad Labem a nyní se opět věnuje psaní.
Od roku 1995 žije střídavě v Praze a