Charlotte Delbo
Charlotte Delbo was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
Born in Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne near Paris, Delbo gravitated toward theater and politics in her youth, joining the French Young Communist Women's League in 1932. She met and married George Dudach two years later. Later in the decade she went to work for producer Louis Jouvet and was with his company in Buenos Aires when Wehrmacht forces invaded and occupied France in 1940.
She could have waited to return when Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime, established special courts in 1941 to deal with members of the resistance. One sent
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Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
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Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.
In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi -
Marc Giró
Marc Giró i Costa (Barcelona, 18 de setembre de 1974) és un historiador de l'art i periodista català especialitzat en moda i estil.
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Va llicenciar-se en història de l'art per la Universitat de Barcelona. Durant disset anys ha estat l'editor de moda de la revista Marie Claire, feina que ha combinat amb col·laboracions a programes de televisió com Està passant (TV3) presentat per Toni Soler, Zapeando (La Sexta) presentat per Frank Blanco, En el aire (La Sexta), amb Andreu Buenafuente, Divendres (TV3) presentat per Xavi Coral i Helena García Melero i Espejo público (Antena 3) amb Susanna Griso. Des de 2019 presenta el programa Vostè primer a RAC1. -
Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens sur les hommes qu'elle décrit dans son livre..
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Elle ne va pas à leur rencontre, du moins pas comme on pourrait croire. Elle ne fond pas sur eux pour les capter, les saisir, leur parler. Elle les regarde. Elle se replit de leur iamge comme un lac du reflet d'un ciel. Elle les maintient d'abord dans cette distance qui permet de les réfléchir. Les hommes restent donc là longtemps, en face d'elle. Elle les regarde, elle les observe, elle les contemple. Elle les voit toujours comme ces voyageurs assis vis-à-vis d'elle dans les trains maintenant rares où cette disposition existe encore : non pas à côté d'elle, dans le même sens, mais en face, de l'autre côté de la tablette où gît le livre qu'elle écrit. Ils se tiennent là. C'est le -
Régis Messac
Régis Messac (1893–1945) was a French essayist, poet, translator and Résistance fighter. Died in early 1945, prisoner of Nazi Germany.
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Formidable précurseur, Régis Messac, né en 1893, fils d’instituteur, qui deviendra enseignant, il est le premier Français à s’être intéressé de près au « roman de détection » — appellation d’époque du polar — , en le portant sur les bancs de l’université avec une thèse qui fait date, « Le »Detective novel« et l’influence de la pensée scientifique », rédigée à son retour d’un long séjour en Amérique du Nord. Auteur prolifique sur une courte période, habile à manier l’anticipation et la chronique sociale, il s’était très tôt rebellé contre un système (on lui doit un pamphlet À bas le latin !) qui le marginalise -
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
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She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. These included fry cook, sex worker, nightclub performer, Porgy and Bess cast member, Southern Christian Leadership -
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 -
Jean Anouilh
Works, such as Antigone (1944), of French playwright Jean Anouilh juxtapose harsh reality and fantasy.
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A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist, whose summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon supplemented the meager income of the family.
He attended école primaire supérieure and received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, a pupil at the same time and later a major director, recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure, who hardly noticed a boy some t -
Dorothy Allison
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.
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Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e -
Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny was an Austrian born journalist, biographer and historian. She passed away in England aged 91, following a long illness.
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Gitta attributed her fascination with evil to her own experiences of Nazism as a child of central Europe in the early 20th century. Hers was not a happy childhood. She was born in Vienna, the daughter of a beautiful Austrian actress, whom she later described as "without moral opinions", and a wealthy Hungarian landowner. Her father, Gyula, died when she was a child; her elder brother left home at 18 and disappeared from her life; Gitta herself was sent to Stonar House boarding school in Sandwich, Kent, an experience she remembered with some affection.
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Stefan Zweig
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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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Annie Ernaux
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Andrée Chedid
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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 -
Richard Wagamese
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Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel. French poet, a founder of Surrealism with Louis Aragon and André Breton among others, one of the important lyrical poets of the 20th century. Éluard rejected later Surrealism and joined the French Communist Party. Many of his works reflect the major events of the century, such as the World Wars, the Resistance against the Nazis, and the political and social ideals of the 20th-century.
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Ramón J. Sender
Ramón José Sender Garcés fue un novelista español. De espíritu rebelde y autodidáctico, se sintió siempre atraído por la ideología del anarquismo, incluso cuando, avanzada la vida, se apartó de las actitudes izquierdistas de su juventud. Tras realizar el servicio militar en Marruecos, se inició en el periodismo y colaboró en publicaciones radicales y libertarias.
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Sus primeras novelas son de testimonio social y propósito denunciatorio: el antimilitarismo de Imán (1930), sobre la guerra de Marruecos; su ataque al régimen policiaco en O.P.: orden público (1931); la lucha anarquista en Siete domingos rojos (1932) y el relato de la insurrección cantonal de Cartagena (1873) en Mr. Witt en el cantón (1935). Durante la guerra civil luchó en Sierra d -
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Leïla Slimani
Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
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Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt. -
Mariana Salomão Carrara
Mariana Salomão Carrara é paulistana, escritora e Defensora Pública, nascida em 1986. Tem publicados um livro de contos (Delicada uma de nós – Off-Flip, 2015), e os romances Idílico (EI, 2007), Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Quintal Edições, 2017), Se deus me chamar não vou (Editora nós, 2019, entre os 10 indicados ao Prêmio Jabuti 2020, em Romance Literário), “É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém” (Editora Nós, 2021, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo 2022 e entre os 10 indicados ao Jabuti 2022),”Não fossem as sílabas do sábado” (Todavia, junho/2022, Vencedor do Prêmio São Paulo 2023, Melhor Romance do Ano) e A árvore mais sozinha do mundo (Todavia, agosto/2024). Por contos e poemas avulsos, recebeu na juventude prêmios nacionais como Off-flip
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Paco Cerdà
Paco Cerdà nació en Genovés, Valencia, en 1985
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Es periodista del diario Levante-EMV desde 2007.
Premio Extraordinario en Periodismo por la Universitat de València, es Máster en China y en Relaciones Internacionales por la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, razón por la que fue enviado especial del periódico a cubrir los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008.
Ha publicado dos libros periodísticos: 'La revolució va de bo! La modernització de la pilota valenciana' (Publicacions Universitat de València, 2009) y 'El cant socarrat' (Obra Social de Caixa Ontinyent, 2012), ambos escritos junto a Purificació Mascarell.
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Lucas Harari
Lucas Harari est né à Paris en 1990, où il vit toujours. Après un passage éclair en architecture, il entreprend des études aux arts décoratifs de Paris dans la section image imprimée, dont il sort diplômé en 2015. Sensibilisé aux techniques traditionnelles de l’imprimé, il commence par publier quelques petits fanzines dans son coin avant de travailler comme auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur pour l’édition et la presse. L’Aimant est sa première bande dessinée publiée.
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Jacobo Bergareche
Jacobo Bergareche (London, 1976) abandoned his Fine Arts studies in Madrid to study Literature and Writing at Emerson College in Boston. He combines writing with his work as a producer and scriptwriter of series. He is author of the poem collection Playas (2004), the play Coma (2015), the series of children’s books Aventuras en Bodytown (2017), the autobiographical novel about his brother’s murder Estaciones de regreso (2019) and the novel Los días perfectos (Libros del Asteroide, 2021). He lived in Austin, Texas, for four years, and was able to conduct research into the private correspondence of various writers at the Harry Ransom Center; Perfect Days (Los días perfectos) is one of the fruits of that research. He lives in Madrid with his w
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Jean Renart
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Jean Renart aussi connu comme Jean Renaut est un poète français de la fin du 12ième siècle et de la première partie du 13ième siècle.
Jean Renart also known as Jean Renaut was a French poet of the late 12th century and the first part of the 13th century. -
Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny was an Austrian born journalist, biographer and historian. She passed away in England aged 91, following a long illness.
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Gitta attributed her fascination with evil to her own experiences of Nazism as a child of central Europe in the early 20th century. Hers was not a happy childhood. She was born in Vienna, the daughter of a beautiful Austrian actress, whom she later described as "without moral opinions", and a wealthy Hungarian landowner. Her father, Gyula, died when she was a child; her elder brother left home at 18 and disappeared from her life; Gitta herself was sent to Stonar House boarding school in Sandwich, Kent, an experience she remembered with some affection.
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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 -
Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona is a South African writer.
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Magona is a native of the former Transkei region. She grew up in Bouvlei near Cape Town, where she worked as a domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa and earned her Masters of Science in Organisational Social Work from Columbia University.
She starred as Singisa in the isiXhosa classic drama Ityala Lamawele.
She worked in various capacities for the United Nations for over 20 years, retiring in 2003.
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Kathleen M. Blee
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Anne Dufourmantelle
Docteur en philosophie et diplômée de Brown Univesity, Anne Dufourmantelle a enseigné à l’école d’architecture UP6-la Villette, et donné un séminaire à l’Institut des Hautes Etudes en Psychanalyse à l’Ecole normale supérieure. Anne Dufourmantelle meurt le 21 juillet 2017 en tentant de sauver l'enfant d'une amie de la noyade sur une plage du sud de la France.
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Will Henry
Also wrote westerns as Clay Fisher.
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Henry Wilson Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and screenwriter. He used several different pseudonyms for his works. His 50+ novels of the American West were published under the pen names Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen's screenplays and scripts for animated shorts were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.
Allen's career as a novelist began in 1952, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen-name to avoid trouble.[3] He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will He -
R. Marie Griffith
Marie Griffith is the Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as the John C. Danfoth Professor of Humanities. She has written extensively about religion in U.S. history and in the present. She focuses particularly on issues of gender and sexuality, matters that have grown ever more divisive in American society and politics in recent years. She has taught at Northwestern, Princeton, and Harvard, Universities and has published in both scholarly and popular venues. She is committed to civil discourse across political and religious lines, and she intends her writing to be accessible to a wide array of readers (not simply scholars). Her latest book, *Moral Comb
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Kelly J. Baker
Kelly is the author of Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930, The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture, Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces, and Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.
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She's also the editor of Women in Higher Education, a feminist print monthly, and a freelance writer with a religious studies PhD who covers religion, higher education, gender, labor, motherhood, and popular culture.
She's written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Killing the Buddha, The Rumpus, Sacred Matters, Chronicle Vitae, Religion & Politics, Washington Post, and Brain, Child.
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Sophie Bessis
Sophie Bessis (Arabic: صوفي بسيس) is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women. A history scholar and former editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Jeune Afrique, she is currently a research associate at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris and Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation of Rights Leagues (FIDH). She has taught the political economy of development at the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne and in the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). She is a consult
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