Chingiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чингиз Айтматов, Tschingis Aitmatow, Čingiz Ajtmatov, Tšõngõz Ajtmatov, Cengiz Aytmatov, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov, Tchinguiz Aïtmatov, جنكيز ايتماتوف) was an author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan literature.
Aitmatov's parents were civil servants in Sheker. The name Chingiz is the same as the honorary title of Genghis Khan. In early childhood he wandered as a nomad with his family, as the Kyrgyzstan people did at the time. In 1937 his father was charged with "bourgeois nationalism" in Moscow, arrested and executed in 1938.
Aitmatov lived at a time when Kyrgyzstan was being transformed from one of the most remote lands of the Russian Empire to a republic of the USSR. The future aut
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Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu -
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Born in Alpine, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University, where his interest in the peoples and history of Asia began. Lamb built a career with his writing from an early age. He got his start in the pulp magazines, quickly moving to the prestigious Adventure magazine, his primary fiction outlet for nineteen years. In 1927 he wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned more and more to the writing of non-fiction, penning numerous biographies and popular history books until his death in 1962. The success of Lamb's two volume history of the Crusades led to his discovery by Cecil B. DeMille, who employed Lamb as a technical -
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Karl Erich Scheurmann wurde in Hamburg geboren, wo er die Realschule zu Altona besuchte. Im Alter von neunzehn Jahren unternahm er eine Wanderung durch Deutschland. Nach dem Besuch von Kunstschulen in Hamburg und Nürnberg studierte er bis 1900 an der Münchener Kunstakademie. Ab 1903 lebte er am Bodensee auf der Halbinsel Höri. Dort traf er in den Jahren von 1904 bis 1907 mit dem fast gleichaltrigen Hermann Hesse zusammen.
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Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books.
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Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a career officer for several years, he became the editor of a series of satirical periodicals with a socialist slant. He was jailed several times and placed under surveillance by the National Security Service (MAH in Turkish) for his political views. Among the incriminating pieces of evidence they found against him during his military service was his theft and sale for 35 Lira of two goats intended for his company—a violation of clause 131/2 of the Military Penal Code. One 98-year-old former MAH officer named Neşet Güriş alleged that Nesin was i -
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I'm the author of Restless Valley Revolution Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia, a nonfiction account of skulduggery and true crime in a region that has served as America's launchpad for the war in Afghanistan. In my previous life, I was an award-winning staff correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, reporting from all over the world. For my sins, I got to run WSJ's Baghdad bureau during the height of Iraq's sectarian war. And I've also written extensively about Turkey, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the U.S., Europe, and of course Central Asia. A fellow at the Asia Society, I now live in Beijing. In my writing, I'm drawn to life's many absurdities, stranger-than-fiction plot twists, and unlikely characters, plenty of whom populat
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Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) was born in Atar, Mauritania, in 1957. A journalist, he founded the country's first ever independent newspaper, Mauritanie Demain, in 1988, and is a recognised champion of free speech. He was honoured for his media work in 2006 through an appointment to the Higher Authority for the Printed and Audiovisual Press in Mauritania, and he is currently an advisor to the President of the Republic.
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He has written four books, including three novels: Et le ciel a oublié de pleuvoir (2006); Le Griot de l'émir, (2013) and The Desert and The Drum (Le Tambour des larmes, 2015).
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Halikarnas Balıkçısı
Asıl adı Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı olan Balıkçı 17 Nisan 1890'da doğdu. İlköğrenimini Büyükada Mahalle Mektebi'nde, ortaöğrenimini Robert Koleji'nde yaptı (1904). Oxford Üniversitesi'nde dört yıl Yakın Çağlar Tarihi okudu, üniversiteyi orada bitirdi. İstanbul'a dönünce Resimli Ay, İnci vb. dergilerde yazılar yazdı, kapak resimleri ve süslemeler yaptı, karikatürler çizdi (1910-1925). Cumhuriyetten sonra asker kaçaklarıyla ilgili bir yazısı yüzünden üç yıl kalebentlikle Bodrum'a sürüldü. Cezasının son yarısını İstanbul'da çektikten sonra yeniden döndüğü Bodrum'da kaldı; Anadolu ve Akdeniz kültürünün tanınması için çalıştı, kapsamlı araştırmalar yaptı. Araştırma sonuçlarını denemeleriyle dünya okuruna sundu. Serveti Fünun, Cumhuriyet ve daha sonr
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Azra Erhat
4 Haziran 1915’te İstanbul-Şişli’de doğdu. İlk ve ortaöğrenimini Belçika’da yaptı. 1939’da Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi’ni bitirerek Klasik Filoloji Bölümünde asistan olarak göreve başladı. 1946’da doçent oldu. 1948’de aynı fakültedeki öğretim üyeleri Pertev Naili Boratav, Behice Boran, Adnan Cemgil, Niyazi Berkes’le birlikte üniversiteden uzaklaştırıldı. 1949-1950 arasında Yeni İstanbul ve Vatan gazetelerinde çalışti. Uluslararası Çalışma Örgütünde (ILO) kütüphanecilik yaptı.
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İlk çevirileri Tercüme dergisinde çıktı. Sofokles, Aristofanes gibi yazarların eserlerini Türkçeye kazandırdı. Yeni Ufuklar dergisinin yazarlarından biri olan Erhat, bu dergi çevresinde gelişen hümanist anlayışın öncüleri arasında yer aldı. Batı -
Maha Gargash
Maha Gargash was born in Dubai. She has a Bachelors degree in Radio/Television from the George Washington University in Washington D.C. and a Masters from Goldsmiths’ College in London. In 1985, she joined Dubai Television to pursue her interest in documentaries. It was a field that provided extensive travel opportunities and opened many doors. Through her programmes, which focus mainly on traditional Arab societies, she became involved in research and scriptwriting, which evolved into her first novel, The Sand Fish (Oct/Nov 2009).
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Maha Gargash is a woman of many talents. As well as researching, scripting, directing and fronting Arabesque, the cultural series on Dubai TV, she rides horses, plays the piano -
Yaakov Shabtai
Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was born in Tel Aviv. After his military service, he moved to a kibbutz and started to write. Ten years later, he returned to Tel Aviv with his family and devoted himself to his literary career. He wrote two novels, a book of short stories, a children`s book, two collections of plays and a collection of poems and ballads.
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Shabtai holds a unique place in Hebrew literature. His novel, Past Continuous, is considered one of the high points of modern Hebrew fiction. It received the Kenneth B. Smilen Award for Literature and is included in "The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" (2001). In 2007, Past Continuous topped the list of the most important as well as "best loved" books since the creation of the Stat -
Aslı Erdoğan
Aslı Erdoğan (born 1967) is a prize-winning Turkish writer, human rights activist and former columnist for the newspaper Radikal, whose second novel has been published in English Language translation.
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Born in Istanbul, she graduated from Robert College in 1983 and the Computer Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University in 1988. She worked at CERN as a particle physicist from 1991 to 1993 and received an MSc in physics from Boğaziçi University as a result of her research there. She began research for a PhD in physics in Rio de Janeiro before returning to Turkey to become a full-time writer in 1996.
Her first story The Final Farewell Note won third prize in the 1990 Yunus Nadi Writing Competition. Her first novel, Kabuk Adam (Crust Man), was -
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 -
Ak Welsapar
Ak Welsapar was born in 1956 in the former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan. He received his Master’s degree in Journalism from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1979. In 1987, Ak Welsapar became a member of the Soviet Writers’ Association and received his second Master’s degree in Literary Theory from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 1989.
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In 1993, after spending a year under house arrest, he was excluded from the Writers’ Association following the publication of some investigative articles about colossal ecological problems in Central Asia, mostly caused by the overuse of pesticides needed for cotton production. The consequences of this were terrible and even resulted in the Aral Sea drying up.
The regime in Turkmenistan declared A -
Grigory Petrov
(1868 - 1925), Orthodox priest and a leading proponent of Christian social activism.
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Grigory Petrov was born in Iamburg, St. Petersburg province. He was educated at the diocesan seminary and the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy (1887 - 1891), and on graduating became a priest in a St. Petersburg church.
Petrov was also active as a writer. In his most successful work, The Gospel as the Foundation of Life (1898), he argued that Christian believers were required to apply the literal teachings of Jesus to every aspect of their lives in order to begin building the Kingdom of God here on earth. Petrov knew of the American Social Gospel movement, but his ideas were shaped by his encounters with new conceptions of pastorship and Christian activi -
Nguyễn Tường Bách
Năm 1948: Sinh ra tại TP Huế.
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Năm 1967 - 1971: Du học Đức ngành xây dựng.
Năm 1975 – 1979: Nghiên cứu và bảo vệ thành công luận án tiến sĩ ngành vật lý ĐH Stuttgart.
Năm 1979 – 1992: Giám đốc kinh doanh tập đoàn ABB chuyên sản xuất từ thiết bị phát điện.
Năm 1992 - đầu 2008: Giám đốc điều hành một công ty thương mại chuyên xuất khẩu các thiết bị công nghiệp.
- Tác phẩm dịch: Con đường mây trắng, Đạo của vật lý, Đối diện cuộc đời, Sư tử tuyết bờm xanh.
- Tác phẩm: Đêm qua sân trước một cành mai, Lưới trời ai dệt, Mùi hương trầm. -
Michael David Lukas
Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a late-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a Rotary Scholar in Tunisia. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland, his writing has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and the Georgia Review. He has received scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. When he isn’t writing, he teaches creative writing to third and fourth graders.
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Lydia Chukovskaya
Lydia Chukovskaya wrote 'Sofia Petrovna', a harrowing story about life during the Great Purges. But it was a while before this story would achieve widespread recognition. Out of favour with the authorities, yet principled and uncompromising, Chukovskaya was unable to hold down any kind of steady employment. But gradually, she started to get published again: an introduction to the works of Taras Shevchenko, another one for the diaries of Miklouho-Maclay.
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By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscri -
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart (or Ella K. Maillart, or Kini Maillart) (February 20, 1903, Geneva - March 27, 1997, Chandolin) was a French-speaking Swiss adventurer and travel writer, as well as a sportswoman. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's ice hockey team and was an international skier. She also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics as sailor in the Olympic monotype competition
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From the 1930s onwards she spent years exploring oriental republics of the USSR, as well as other parts of Asia, and published a rich series of books which, just as her photographs, are today considered valuable historical testimonies. Her early books were written in French but later she began to write in English. Turkestan Solo describes a journey in 1932 in Soviet Turkes -
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Deepak Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi and a resident of the States, who has lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York and Chicago, Illinois. He has studied and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People, his first book, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
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Olivier Rolin
Olivier Rolin spent his childhood in Senegal. He then studied at the Louis-le-Grand high school and the Ecole Normale Superieure. He graduated in philosophy and literature.
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He works as a freelancer of the French paper Libération and Le Nouvel Observateur. He was the companion of the singer Jane Birkin.
His work is inspired by May 68 and the proletarian Left, romantic adventures in Arabia, the writers Rimbaud and Conrad and his travels.
He received the "Prix Femina" for Port Sudan in 1994, the "Prix France Culture" for Tiger Paper in 2003 and the "price of Style" for The Meteorologist just now in 2014.
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Dan Kindlon
Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., a member of the Harvard University faculty for over fifteen years, teaches child psychology and conducts research in child development. A leading clinical and research psychologist specializing in behavioral problems in children and adolescents, Dr. Kindlon has focused on the diagnosis and treatment of emotional issues, learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders in over 20 years of clinical practice. He is the author of many articles in scientific journals and several books, including Alpha Girls, Raising Cain, Too Much of a Good Thing, and Tough Times, Strong Children. Dr. Kindlon lectures widely to groups of parents, educators, and mental health professionals, and has made many national media appearances, in
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Taner Akçam
Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish historian and sociologist, recognized as a "leading international authority on the Armenian genocide". He is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and openly discuss the Armenian Genocide.
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Alan Ken Thomas
Alan Ken Thomas is a graduate of Union College, has worked both newspaper publishing and book publishing. He lives and works in Schenectady, New York.
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Peyami Safa
1899 yılında İstanbul’da doğar. Servet-i Fünun dönemi şairlerinden İsmail Safa'nın oğludur. Sivas'a sürgüne gönderilen babasının orada ölmesi üzerine 1901 yılında iki yaşında yetim kalmış, bu yüzden "Yetim-i Safa" adıyla anılmıştır. Babasız büyümenin acılarının yanı sıra, sekiz dokuz yaşlarında yakalandığı bir kemik hastalığı dolayısıyla çocukluk ve ilk gençlik yılları hastane koridorlarında geçmiştir. Bilahare bu günlerini eserlerine soğukkanlı bir ciddiyetle yansıtacaktır.
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Hastalık ve savaşın yol açtığı maddî sıkıntılar dolayısıyla öğrenimini sürdüremez, babasının arkadaşı olan Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem Marif Nazırlığına veda edince onu Galatasaray Lisesi'nde okutma vaadini yerine getiremez. Peyami hayatını kazanmak ve annesine bakmak için V -
Amir Gutfreund
Hebrew name: אמיר גוטפרוינד
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Award winning author Amir Gutfreund was born in Haifa, Israel in 1963. He earned a MA in applied-mathematics at the Israeli Technological Institute (ITI) and served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force for 20 years, retiring with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
His first novel, Our Holocaust, is based on his memories as a son of Holocaust survivors, and has been translated from Hebrew into many languages including English. "The World a Moment Later" was published in 2005 and has also been translated. Gutfreund won the 2002 Buchman prize from the Yad Vashem Institute as well as the Sami Rohr Choice Award from the Jewish Book Council in 2007. He was also awarded the prestigious Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent of the M -
James Lord
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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James Lord was an American writer. He was the author of several books, including critically acclaimed biographies of the artists Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso (with whom he became acquainted in Paris during his Army service in the Second World War). -
Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok (Russian: Александр Александрович Блок) was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were men of letters, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University. After his parents' separation, Blok lived with aristocratic relatives at the Shakhmatovo manor near Moscow, where he discovered the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, and the verse of then-obscure 19th-century poets, Fyodor Tyutchev and Afanasy Fet. These influences would be fused and transformed into the harmonies of his early pieces, later collected in the book Ante Lucem.
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He fell in love with Lyubov (Lyuba) Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (daughter of the reno -
Martin Wickramasinghe
The search for roots is the central theme in Martin Wickramasinghe’s writings on the culture and life of the people of Sri Lanka. He imaginatively explored and applied modern knowledge in natural and social sciences, literature, linguistics, the arts, philosophy, education, and Buddhism and comparative religion to reach beyond the superficial emotionalism of vulgar nationalism, and guide us to the enduring roots of our common national identity that exists in the folklife and folk culture of Sri Lanka...
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Martin Wickramasinghe’s vision was primarily nurtured in the tolerant, humane, realistic attitude to life traditional to Buddhist folk culture. He valued the intellectual freedom and independence inspired by the Buddha’s ‘Kalama Sutta’ which -
Karolina Pavlova
Karolina Pavlova, born Karolina Jaenisch in 1807, was a Russian poet and translator and presided over a famous Moscow literary salon. She died in Dresden in 1893, having abandoned Russia not because of tsarist oppression but because of hostile criticism of her poetry and her personal life. A Double Life is her major work.
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Nevzat Tarhan
1952 yılında Amasya Merzifon’da doğdu. 1969 yılında Kuleli Askeri Lisesini, 1975 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesini bitirdi. GATA stajı, Kıbrıs ve Bursa kıta hizmetinden sonra 1982 yılında GATA' da Psikiyatri uzmanı oldu. Erzincan ve Çorlu' da hastane hekimliği sonunda GATA Haydarpaşa' da Yardımcı Doçent (1988) ve Doçent (1990) oldu. Klinik Direktörlüğü yaptı. Albaylığa (1993) ve Profesörlüğe (1996) yükseldi. 1996-1999 yılları arasında Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesinde öğretim üyeliği ve Adli Tıp Kurumunda bilirkişilik yaptı. Kendi isteğiyle emekli oldu. 1998 yılında Memory Centers of Amerika' nın Türkiye Temsilciliğini aldı.
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Halen Türkiye'nin ilk Nöropsikiyatri hastanesi olan NPİSTANBUL Nöropsikiyatri Hastanesi Yönetim Kurul -
Cengiz Dağcı
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9 Mart 1919 tarihinde Kırım’ın Yalta şehrinin Gurzuf köyünde doğar. Çocukluğu kıtlık, yoksulluk, Rus emperyalizminin zulmü ve büyük baskılar altında geçer. İlkokulu köyünde, ortaokulu Akmescit'te bitirir. Kırım Pedagoji Enstitüsü ikinci sınıfında iken İkinci Dünya Savaşı çıkar. 1941’de Ukrayna cephesinde Almanlara esir düşer. Almanların yenilmesi üzerine esir kampından kurtularak müttefik devletler safına sığınır. 1946’da Londra’ya yerleşir. İngiltere’deki hayatı da hiç kolay olmaz; bir taraftan yazarken en vasıfsız ve ağır işlerde çalışmak zorunda kalır.
“Türkçe bana anamın konuştuğu dil” diyerek yazı dili olarak Türkçeyi kabul eder. Türkiye Türkçesindeki ilk kitabı 1956 yılında Varlık Yayınları tarafından yayınlanan Korkunç Yıllar’dır. Yaş -
Gurgen Mahari
Gurgen Mahari (Gurgen Grigori Ajemian) was an Armenian writer and poet.
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In 1915 during the Armenian genocide Gurgen's family emigrated to Russia. His first book, Titanic was published in 1924. Then he wrote his autobiographical trilogy which tells his story of survivor and the tragedy experienced by Armenians in Western Armenia.
He was arrested by Soviet secret police at the period of Stalinism and released after Joseph Stalin's death (Mahari was sentenced to 10 years' confinement in 1937, returned in 1947 and one year later exiled again). -
Yuri Rytkheu
In Cyrillic: Юрий Рытхэу
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Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu. He was a Chukchi writer, who wrote in both his native Chukchi and in Russian. He is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature.
Yuri Rytkheu was born on March 8, 1930 in the village of Uelen in the Far Eastern Territory (now the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) in the family of a hunter-St. John's wort. His grandfather was a shaman. At birth, the boy was given the name Rytkheu, which means "unknown" in Chukchi. Since the Soviet institutions did not recognize the Chukchi names, in the future, in order to obtain a passport, the future writer took a Russian name and patronymic, and the name "Rytkheu" became his last name.
Rytkheu graduated from a seven-year school in Uelen and wanted to continue -
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Yochi Brandes
Yochi Brandes was born in Israel in 1959 to a family of Hassidic rabbis. With degrees in both Biblical Studies and Judaic Studies, she has been a prominent and sought-after lecturer on the Bible and on Jewish cultural topics for many years.
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One of Israel's bestselling writers, she is the author of seven historical novels and two non-fiction books, all centered on Jewish ideas, history, and culture. She has been awarded the Book Publishers Association's Platinum Book Prize for all her novels, including The Secret Book of Kings.
The Secret Book of Kings is her first novel to appear in English translation.
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Kunzang Choden
Kunzang Choden was born in 1952, in the year of the dragon, in Bumthang, Central Bhutan. She spent her early childhood in Bhutan but went to India (Darjeeling) for her primary and secondary education. She has a BA Honours in Psychology from Indraprastha College in Delhi and a BA in Sociology from the University of Nebraska, USA.
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She has worked as a teacher and later for the UNDP in Bhutan. From 1990 onwards, Kunzang has been writing on Bhutanese oral traditions, folklore and women. She lives in Thimphu Bhutan with her husband and continues to research and document Bhutan's oral traditions. -
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946, in Malatya, Turkey), is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.
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Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides. -
Reinhart Koselleck
Reinhart Koselleck was a German historian, considered as one of the most important historians of the twentieth century. He held an original position in the historical discipline and was not part of any historical 'school', working in such varied fields as Conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte), the epistemology of history, linguistics, the foundations of an anthropology of history and social history, the history of law and the history of government.
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Yuri Felsen
Pseudonym of the Russian émigré author Nikolai Freudenstein.
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Felsen was very popular in the 1930s, known by critics as the Russian Proust, but close to forgotten after dying in Auschwitz, in 1943. His manuscripts and letters were lost – possibly destroyed – after his arrest.
Academic and translator Bryan Karetnyk discovered Felsen’s name while reading literary criticism from the 1930s, finding that he was widely praised, and going on to track down Felsen’s own writings. -
Vladimir Obruchev
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (Russian: Владимир Афанасьевич Обручев) was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.
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Dũng Phan
Dũng Phan là một trong những cá nhân đứng sau Fanpage “The X File of History” dành cho cộng đồng người yêu lịch sử với hơn 120.000 lượt theo dõi, và đặc biệt là chủ nhân của cuốn sách làm mưa làm gió trong thời gian qua với 5.000 bản in được đặt mua trước khi chính thức phát hành. Tôi đang nói đến Dũng Phan và ''Sử Việt - 12 khúc tráng ca."
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Mustafa Kutlu
1947'de Erzincan'da doğdu. Erzincan Lisesi'ni (1963), Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünü bitirdi (1968).
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Tunceli ve İstanbul'da edebiyat öğretmenliği yaptı. Öğretmenlikten ayrılarak (1974) Dergâh Yayınları'nda idareci olarak çalışmaya başladı.
Hareket ve Dergâh dergileriyle, Türk Dili Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi'nin yayın faaliyetlerini yürüttü.
Senaryolar yazdı. Televizyonda sohbet programları yaptı.
Mustafa Kutlu Eserleri
Hikaye
Ortadaki Adam (1970),
Gönül İşi (1974),
Yokuşa Akan Sular (1979),
Yoksulluk İçimizde (1981),
Ya Tahammül Ya Sefer (1983),
Bu Böyledir (1990),
Sır (1990),
Arkakapak Yazıları (1995),
Hüzün ve Tesadüf (1998)
Uzun Hikâye (2000),
Beyhude Ömrüm (2001),
Mavi Kuş (Hikaye 2002).
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Mohammad al Murr
Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Al Murr Al Falasi (born 1955 in Dubai) is a short-story writer from the United Arab Emirates.
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He has published over 15 volumes of short stories and has had two collections translated into English: Dubai Tales and The Wink of the Mona Lisa.
Al Murr graduated from Syracuse University in the United States, and has been a member of a number of UAE academic institutions and councils. He is the head of the Dubai Cultural Council, recently reorganized as the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
In 2011 Al Murr was appointed to the Federal National Council's 15th Chapter as a representative of the Emirate of Dubai, and elected uncontested as Speaker. He served as the speaker from 2011 to 2015. -
Adem Güneş
İlk orta ve Lise öğrenimini Türkiye’de yaptı. Rotterdam Üniversitesi Pedagoji Bölümü mezun oldu. Uzunca yıllar yurt dışında yaşadı. Avrupa eğitim sistemlerini ve çocuk eğitimi modellerini bizzat yerinde inceleme fırsatı buldu.
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Pedagojinin kültürden bağımsız olamayacağını dile getiren Güneş, Anadolu pedagojisi değerlerinin altını çizmekte ve duyarlılık eğitimi olmadan davranış eğitiminin yetersiz kalacağını dile getirmektedir.
2008 yılından bu yana Türkiye’de bulunan Adem Güneş, haftalık Aksiyon dergisinde köşe yazarlığı ve Burç FM’de Radyo programları yapmaktadır.
Pedagojide uzmanlık sahası “Şiddet”, “Taciz” ve “Suistimaller” olan Adem Güneş Fatih Üniversitesinde Öğretim Görevlisidir.
Yayınlanmış 14 Türkçe ve 2 İngilizce kitabı bulunan Adem Gün -
Sarah A. Al Shafei
Sarah Al Shafai comes from an island in the Middle East known as the Kingdom of Bahrain. She studied in Boston and Miami and graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts. She is a constant traveller and enjoys writing short stories and poetry at the same time. She is a monthly correspondent in a local English women's magazine where she writes about real life stories in the Arab world. Yummah is her first novel. She is a twenty-four-year-old housewife and currently lives with her husband, Mohammed, and her two daughters, Noor and Dana, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Wajdi Al-Ahdal
(Arabic: وجدي الأهدل)
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Wajdi al-Ahdal (وجدي الأهدل) (born 1973) is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born near Bajil in the province of Al Hudaydah and studied at the University of Sanaa. Ahdal has published four novels, four collections of short stories, a play and a film screenplay.
In 2002-03, Ahdal's novel Qawarib Jabaliya (Mountain Boats) created a considerable amount of controversy in Yemen and he was forced to leave the country due to threats from radical conservatives. He spent some time in Lebanon before returning to Yemen. A more recent novel The Quarantine Philosopher was nominated for the Arab Booker Prize in 2008. In 2010, Ahdal was selected as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the ag -
Rania Mamoun
Rania Ali Musa Mamoun (born 1979) is a Sudanese journalist, novelist and writer. She was born in the city of Wad Medani in east-central Sudan, and was educated at the University of Gezira. As a journalist, she is involved in both print media and television. She edits the culture page of the journal al-Thaqafi, writes a column for the newspaper al-Adwaa, and presents a cultural programme on Gezira State TV.
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As an author, Mamoun has published a book of short stories ("The Thirteen Months of Sunrise") 2009, and a novel ("Green Flash") 2006. One of her stories ("The Thirteen Months of Sunrise") has appeared in English translation in Banipal magazine, and she has many stories & articles has been translated to English & French. Mamoun was the reci -
Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Rasim Özdenören
1940’ta Maraş’ta doğdu. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Maraş, Malatya, Tunceli gibi Güney ve Doğu şehirlerinde tamamladı. İ.Ü. Hukuk Fakültesi’ni ve İ.Ü. Gazetecilik Enstitüsü’nü bitirdi. Devlet Planlama Teşkilâtı’nda uzman olarak çalıştı. Bir ara araştırma amacıyla ABD’nin çeşitli eyaletlerinde, 1970-1971’de iki yıl kadar kaldı. 1975 yılında Kültür Bakanlığı Bakanlık Müşavirliği görevine geldi. Aynı bakanlıkta bir yıl da müfettişlik yaptı. 1978’de istifa ederek ayrıldığı devlet memurluğuna bir süre sonra(1980)Devlet Planlama Teşkilâtı’nda çalışmak üzere tekrar döndü. Uzman, daire başkanlığı, genel sekreter yardımcılığı, genel sekreterlik, müşavirlik görevlerinde bulundu. 2005 yılında, devlet memurluğuna noktayı koyarak kendi deyimiyle özgürlüğünü
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Hüseyin Nihal Atsız
Türkçülüğün öncülerinden olan Nihal Atsız, Turancı çevreler tarafından aynı zamanda güçlü bir Türkolog olarak kabul edilir. Bu çevrelere göre Türk dilini, tarihini ve edebiyatını gayet iyi bilen Atsız, özellikle Türk tarihinin Göktürk kısmında uzmanlaşmıştı. Çok sevdiği bu devreyi Bozkurtların Ölümü ve Bozkurtlar Diriliyor adlı iki eser ile romanlaştırmıştır. Deli Kurt adlı romanı Osmanlı tarihinin ilk devrelerinin romanlaştırılmış şeklidir. Ruh Adam’daki Selim Pusat'ın şahsiyetinde Atsız'ı görürüz. Ruh Adam’ın devamı olarak Yalnız Adam’ı yazacağını söylüyordu. Yine yazacağını bildirdiği bir eseri de Bozkurtlar serisinin 3. cildi idi. Yayınlanmamış eserlerinin içerisinde II. Mahmut'tan Günümüze Kadar Osmanlı Hanedanı Tarihi adlı bir eseri d
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Gülten Dayıoğlu
Dayıoğlu completed her education at Beşiktaş Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi and also attended the Istanbul University Faculty of Law.
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In third grade, her teacher realized that she had immense writing skills and at the age of 15, one of the stories she wrote was published in a local newspaper in 1950. Since then, she has written 73 books for children and teenagers. -
Manjula Senaratne
මංජුල සේනාරත්න (Sinhala)
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Manjula Senaratne is a prominent Sri Lankan author known for his diverse literary contributions. He began his writing career at the young age of 18 as a feature writer for the "Tharunaya" newspaper. A year later, he became the sports editor for the "Lankadeepa" newspaper, making him one of the youngest journalists in the media industry at that time.
Senaratne's works often explore themes of love, human relationships, and their complexities. He has written several popular books, including "12.12.12," a detective and mystery thriller that gained significant popularity. Other notable works include "Bureau," "Rosa Maligave Manusaththu," and "Priya Samaga Iridawak," which span genres from romance to suspense.
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