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  Dan Stanca

  Dan Stanca a debutat editorial cu romanul Vintul sau tipatul altuia. A lucrat multi ani la cotidianul Romania libera, unde a publicat sute de articole. De asemenea, prezenta sa in presa culturala, de la Romania literara la Luceafarul si de la Apostrof la Convorbiri literare, acopera un interval de peste doua decenii. Vocatia sa este insa aceea de romancier. A publicat pina in prezent 17 romane, dintre care amintim: Morminte stravezii, Muntele viu, Ritualul noptii, Mila frunzelor, Mut, Cei calzi si cei reci, Noaptea lui Iuda, A doua zi dupa moarte, Ultima biserica, Apocalips aminat. I s-a decernat de doua ori Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania si in alte doua rinduri a fost nominalizat la aceeasi distinctie. A primit premiul Asociatiei

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Written in stolen moments under truck chassis and on park benches to a soundtrack of The Downward Spiral and Pablo Honey, Fight Club came into existence. The adaptation of Fight Club was a flop at the box office, but achieved cult status on DVD. The film’s popularity drove sales of the novel. Chuck put out two novels in 1999, Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Choke, published in 2001, became Chuck’s first New York Times bestseller. Chuck’s work has always been infused with personal experience, and his next novel, Lullaby, was no exception. Chuck credits writing Lullaby with helping him cope with the tragic death of his father. Diary and the non-fiction guide to Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, were released in 2003. While on the road in sup

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  Franz Kafka

  Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
  
  Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
  
  His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
  
  Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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  Charles Bukowski

  Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books
  
  Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to

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  Mircea Eliade

  Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.
  

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  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
  Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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  Nikolai Leskov

  also:
  Николай Лесков
  Nikolaj S. Leskow
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Lesskow
  Nikolaj Semënovič Leskov
  Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov
  Nikolai Ljeskow
  Н. С. Лѣсков-Стебницкий
  Микола Лєсков
  
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Лесков; 16 February 1831 — 5 March 1895) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) (which was later made into an o

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  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who was described as East Africa's leading novelist.
  He began writing in English before later switching to write primarily in Gikuyu, becoming a strong advocate for literature written in native African languages. His works include the celebrated novel The River Between, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children's literature. He was the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri. His short story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright was translated into more than 100 languages.
  In 1977, Ngũgĩ embarked upon a novel form of theatre in Kenya that sought to liberate the theatrical process from what he held to be "the genera

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  Panait Istrati

  Panait Istrati was a Romanian working-class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
  
  Born in Brăila, Istrati was the son of the laundress Joița Istrate and of a Greek smuggler from the village of Faraklata in Kefalonia (whom Panait never met).
  
  His first attempts at writing date from around 1907 when he started sending pieces to the socialist periodicals in Romania, debuting with the article, Hotel Regina in România Muncitoare. Here, he later published his first short stories, Mântuitorul ("The Redeemer"), Calul lui Bălan ("Bălan's Horse"), Familia noastră ("Our Family"), 1 Mai ("May Day"). He also contributed pieces to

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  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871, Camden, New Jersey – October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. In New Thought circles, she is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925).
  
  Her books "Your Word Is Your Wand" and "The Game of Life and How To Play It" were released as audiobooks in 2014 and 2015 respectively and were narrated by actress Hillary Hawkins.
  
  Shinn is considered part of the New Thought movement, as her writings follow in the tradition of Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), and both Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931), co-founders of the Uni

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  Nawal El Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.
  
  From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu

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• Thierry Wolton

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  Ioana Pârvulescu

  Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)

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  Ion Agârbiceanu

  Ion Agârbiceanu (September 12, 1882 – May 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. A native of Transylvania, he graduated from Budapest University, following which he was ordained. He was initially assigned to a parish in the Apuseni Mountains, which form the backdrop to much of his fiction. Before 1910, Agârbiceanu had achieved literary fame in both Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania, his work disputed between the rival schools of Sămănătorul and Poporanism.
  
  Committed to social and cultural activism in Transylvania, Agârbiceanu spent the 1910s officiating near Sibiu, with a break during World War I that eventually took him deep into Ukraine. He moved to Cluj i

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  Doina Ruști

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  DOINA RUŞTI is one of Romania’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, known for her powerful blend of historical imagination, realism, and political depth. She is the author of fourteen novels and three short story collections, translated into more than fifteen languages and studied in Romanian schools.
  Her most awarded novel, The Ghost in the Mill, is a haunting parable of communism. Her Phanariot Trilogy — The Phanariot Manuscript, The Book of Perilous Dishes, and Homeric — reimagines 18th-century Balkan history through fantastical and symbolic lenses. The Book of Perilous Dishes appeared in English with Neem Tree Press (UK, 2022 & 2024), was reviewed in The Guardian, praised by the Historical Novels Society, and selected by Amazon boo

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  Mihail Drumeş

  Mihail Drumeş (n. Mihail V. Dumitrescu, 26 noiembrie 1901, Ohrida, Macedonia - d. 7 februarie 1982, Bucureşti) a fost un romancier român, foarte popular in perioada interbelică.
  
  Fiul lui Vasilie Dimitrie (devenit Dumitrescu) şi al Despinei (n. Gero). Familia sa, la origine aromână, se stabileşte în Oltenia.
  Liceul l-a urmat la Caracal şi Craiova, bacalaureatul l-a obţinut în 1925. Urmează Facultatea de litere şi filozofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti, absolvită în 1928. O vreme funcţionează ca profesor de liceu, va trece mai apoi în învăţământul superior.
  Debut la revista Flamura în 1922, debut editorial cu volumul de nuvele şi schiţe Capcana in 1927. Între anii 1922 şi 1924 Teatrul Naţional din Craiova îi înscrie în repertoriu piesa Rămăşagu

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• Maria Orban

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  Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu

  Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu (n. 1979) este scriitor, eseist, traducător, editor, preşedintele Festivalului Internaţional de Literatură de la Bucureşti (FILB). A debutat cu cronică literară în revista Luceafărul (1999), pe cînd era junior editor al Ziarului de Duminică. A publicat proză scurtă în majoritatea antologiilor „Prima mea…” de la Editura ART. În 2010 a publicat împreună cu Vasile Ernu volumul Ceea ce ne desparte. Epistolarul de la Hanul lui Manuc (Polirom), iar în 2012 a debutat ca poet, cu volumul Apoi, după bătălie, ne-am tras sufletul (Cartea Românească), nominalizat la premiile revistei Observator cultural şi la premiile Radio România Cultural pe anul 2012. În 2013 a publicat la Editura ART volumul Enter Ghost. Scrisori imaginare

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  Marian Coman

  Marian Coman is a Romanian writer, comic book scriptwriter, and editor. He is the author of acclaimed novels and short story collections such as Haiganu. Fluviul Șoaptelor, Haiganu. Furia Oarbă, Testamentul de ciocolată, Omulețul din perete, and Ultima carte. His work has received multiple national and international awards, has been translated into several languages, and featured in numerous anthologies.
  
  He was editor-in-chief for various cultural and mainstream publications and wrote the scripts for some of the most enduring Romanian comic book series since 1989, including Harap Alb continuă and Tinerețe fără bătrânețe. He is a member of PEN Romania and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).
  
  Since 2018, he has been leading

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  Fredrik Backman

  Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, as well as two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime. Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, his first work of non-fiction, will be released in the US in May 2019. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @backmansk.

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  Alina Nelega

  
  Alina Nelega (n. 1960) este un critic literar, dramaturg, eseist, prozator și publicist român contemporan.
  
  Piesele ei sunt traduse în engleză, germană, franceză, maghiară, poloneză, bulgară, italiană, albaneză, catalană; publicate în antologii, reviste sau volum acestea sunt reprezentate în țară și internațional. Traduce și regizează spectacole pe texte noi, conduce workshopuri și masterclasses în țară și internațional. Participă la rezidențe de dramaturgie în Marea Britanie și Statele Unite.
  
  Din anul 2010 este profesor universitar și conduce masteratul de scriere dramatică al Facultății de Teatru din cadrul Universității de Arte din Tg. Mureș. Din 2015 este profesor abilitat și conduce doctorate în cadrul școlii doctorale UAT.
  (Wikipedia)

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  Liliana Corobca

  Liliana Corobca s-a nascut la 10 octombrie 1975, in satul Saseni, judetul Orhei, Republica Moldova. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii de Stat din Moldova, sectia romana-latina. Este doctor in filologie (conducator stiintific: prof. Nicolae Manolescu) la Universitatea din Bucuresti, cu teza Personajul in romanul romanesc interbelic, Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2003. A debutat cu romanul Negrissimo, Editura Arc, Chisinau, 2003 (Premiul „Prometheus“ pentru debut al revistei Romania literara, Premiul de debut al Uniunii Scriitorilor din Republica Moldova). A editat corespondenta din exil a lui Al. Busuioceanu, Un roman epistolar al exilului romanesc, vol. I si II, Editura Jurnalul literar, Bucuresti, 2003, 2004), Poezia roman

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  Alexei Navalny

  Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный) was a Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and anti-corruption activist. He came to international prominence by organizing anti-government demonstrations and running for office to advocate reforms against corruption in Russia, and against President Vladimir Putin and his government. Navalny has been described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most" by The Wall Street Journal. He was the leader of the Russia of the Future party and the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

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• Lucia Dărămuș

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  Cristian Fulaș

  Cristian Fulaș a absolvit Litere, apoi studii aprofundate de teoria literaturii. Debutează în 2015 cu Fîșii de rușine (Gestalt Books; Premiul Observator cultural pentru debut; Premiul Colocviilor „Liviu Rebreanu”; Premiul revistei Accente; nominalizat la Premiile USR pentru debut; nominalizat la Premiul Cartea Anului al Ziarului de Iași). Fragmente din roman au fost traduse în franceză, italiană, germană, engleză, bulgară, croată, suedeză, maghiară. În 2015 publică Jurnal de debutant (Editura Tracus Arte), iar în 2016 După plîns (Casa de Editură Max Blecher & Gestalt Books; nominalizat la Premiul Cartea Anului al Ziarului de Iași). A tradus aproximativ cincizeci de titluri din engleză, italiană și franceză, dintre care amintim: Visul lui Ma

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• Camelia Cavadia

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  Djaïli Amadou Amal

  Djaïli Amadou Amal, née en 1975 à Maroua dans le département de Diamaré situé dans la région de l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, est une militante féministe et écrivaine camerounaise.
  
  Djaïli Amadou Amal entreprend des études supérieures en gestion commerciale. Mariée à dix-sept ans dans le cadre d'un mariage arrangé, Djaïli a connu tout ce qui rend si difficile la vie des femmes du Sahel. « Dans tout ce que je fais, j'essaie surtout de parler des discriminations faites aux femmes ; c'est mon cheval de bataille ! La presse camerounaise m'a même surnommée la "voix des sans voix" ! ». Djaïli Amadou Amal dénonce les pesanteurs sociales liées aux traditions et aux religions1. A travers l'écriture elle dénonce en somme les problèmes sociaux de sa régio

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• Ioana Maria Stăncescu

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