Ephraim Kishon
Ephraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sob
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He was born on March 3rd 1947. in Mramorak, Serbia. He's since lived in Vrsac, Pancevo and, finally, Belgrade, where he still resides. He majored in journalism at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences. He'd worked in the Laza Kostic Library (aka. Belgrade City Library) until his recent retirement. In Serbia, he's most famous for his book series about the boy Hajduk, a whacky guy from Danube, his life, loves and bad telephone reception (those who know will know). His poems and stories have been translated to English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Macedonian language.
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Miroslav Antić
Miroslav "Mika" Antić was a Serbian poet, movie director, journalist and painter. Antić was born in Mokrin, Kikinda municipality, Vojvodina, Serbia (then Yugoslavia). He had six children. His oldest son, Igor Antic, is a visual artist.
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He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries. As film-maker, he was considered as a part of the "Black Wave" of the Yugoslav film. His films, in particular "Breakfast with the devil" in whom Antic criticized the double morality of the communists at the Tito’s time, were forbidden and destroyed. They were rediscovered and restored in the end of the 90s. Mika also acted in several movies, and was a painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in World War II an -
Siniša Glavašević
Novinar, publicist i prozaik.
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U rodnom Vukovaru je završio osnovnu i srednju školu, a u Sarajevu studij komparativne književnosti i bibliotekarstva. Bio je urednik Radija Vukovar i ratni izvjestitelj. Odveden je 19.XI.1991. iz vukovarske bolnice i od tada mu se izgubio trag. Ekshumiran je iz masovne grobnice Ovčara i identificiran. Sahranjen je 14. ožujka 1997. u Zagrebu, na Mirogoju.
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Hrvatska književnica za djecu i mlade. U Zagrebu je završila gimnaziju, apsolvirala na FPN, paralelno upisala studij filozofije i indologije na FF i pohađala predavanja na pravnom fakultetu, trudeći se dobiti što šire obrazovanje, a onda je sve napustila i odlučila putovati. Dugo godina se bavila astronomijom, alpinizmom, te prodavala američke građevinsku i brodograđevnu opremu diljem Europe. Počinje pisati tek u zreloj dobi.
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John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
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Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
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Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German writer of fantasy and children's literature. He was the son of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende.
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Ende was one of the most popular and famous German authors of the 20th century, mostly due to the enormous success of his children's books. However, Ende was not strictly a children’s author, as he also wrote books for adults. Ende claimed, "It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories," and that "[my books are] for any child between 80 and 8 years" (qtd. Senick 95, 97). Ende’s writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. The reader is often invited to take a more interactive role in the story, and the worlds in his books often mirror our reality, using -
Thomas Brussig
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
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Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) was a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
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He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
He has sold roughly 50 million copies worldwide.
He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry. His parents were teachers. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer. Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21-year-old lieutenant in 1944. He spent the next five years in various POW camps in the -
Tove Ditlevsen
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Meša Selimović
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.
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David Vann
Published in 19 languages, David Vann’s internationally-bestselling books have won 15 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain and, most recently, the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize 2013, and appeared on 70 Best Books of the Year lists in a dozen countries. He has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s, and other magazines and newspapers. A former Guggenheim fellow, National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, and John L’Heureux fellow, he is currently a Professor at the
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Momo Kapor
Momčilo "Momo" Kapor was a Serbian novelist, painter, and short story writer. Several successful films have been based upon his novels.
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Born in Sarajevo in 1937. He graduated the painting in 1961 at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovic. He has published many titles, novels and collections of stories. He has a large number of documentary films and television shows, all according to his screenplays, as well as several feature films (Almonds Beyond Death, Banquet (film), Walter Defends Sarajevo, Jolly DJ, End the Weekend). Una and The Book of Complaints were adapted as such. They have been translated into French, German, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Swedish.
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Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson (born as Karl Stig-Erland Larsson) was a Swedish journalist and writer who passed away in 2004.
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As a journalist and editor of the magazine Expo , Larsson was active in documenting and exposing Swedish extreme right and racist organisations. When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers and unfinished manuscripts for more. The first three books ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ) have since been printed as the Millenium series. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries, including the United States and Canada.
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Dinko Šimunović
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Ante Tomić
Ante Tomić is Croatian writer and journalist.
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A native of Split, Ante Tomić begin to write as a reporter for local daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. His articles showed great literary talent that would manifest in his 2000 debut novel Što je muškarac bez brkova. Three years later he wrote novel Ništa nas ne smije iznenaditi, describing the life of recruits in Yugoslav People's Army. Both novels are adapted to screen.
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Nada Mihelčić
Hrvatska književnica za djecu i mlade. U Zagrebu je završila gimnaziju, apsolvirala na FPN, paralelno upisala studij filozofije i indologije na FF i pohađala predavanja na pravnom fakultetu, trudeći se dobiti što šire obrazovanje, a onda je sve napustila i odlučila putovati. Dugo godina se bavila astronomijom, alpinizmom, te prodavala američke građevinsku i brodograđevnu opremu diljem Europe. Počinje pisati tek u zreloj dobi.
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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
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She started writing poetry, diaries and essays rather early but her works were not published until the beginning of the 20th century.
Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today.In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats. It was this that earned her comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Tolkien who also wrote completely new stories but based in some elements of real mythology.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Gradimir Stojković
He was born on March 3rd 1947. in Mramorak, Serbia. He's since lived in Vrsac, Pancevo and, finally, Belgrade, where he still resides. He majored in journalism at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences. He'd worked in the Laza Kostic Library (aka. Belgrade City Library) until his recent retirement. In Serbia, he's most famous for his book series about the boy Hajduk, a whacky guy from Danube, his life, loves and bad telephone reception (those who know will know). His poems and stories have been translated to English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Macedonian language.
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Dragutin Tadijanović
Dragutin Tadijanović (Rastušje, kod Sl. Broda, 4. studenog 1905. - Zagreb, 27. lipnja 2007.), hrvatski pjesnik.
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Dragutin Tadijanović rođen je 4. studenoga 1905. godine u Rastušju, kod Slavonskog Broda, kao najstariji sin zemljoradnika Mirka Tadijanovića i Mande. Polazio je Nižu pučku školu u susjednom selu Podvinju (1912. - 1916.) i u Slavonskom Brodu dva razreda Više pučke škole (1916. - 1925.), a od 1918. Realnu gimnaziju. Od jeseni 1920. godine, stanujući u brodskom samostanu, kao učenik petog razreda gimnazije, piše pjesme.U Zagrebu je na Gospodarsko-šumarskom fakultetu upisao studij šumarstva (1925.), ali je kasnije prešao na Filozofski fakultet (povijest južnoslavenske književnosti i filozofija 1928.). Diploma Filozofskog fakulteta Sve -
Siniša Glavašević
Novinar, publicist i prozaik.
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Kristian Novak
Kristian Novak is a Croatian writer, linguist and university professor. He was born into a family of Croatian migrant workers in Germany, but spent his childhood and youth in a small village in Međimurje, the most northern part of Croatia.
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He moved to Zagreb, to college in 1997.
He was standard member of the Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global championships.
In 2006. he was European Vice-Champion.
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.
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Đorđe Lebović
Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog
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Miodrag Majić
Miodrag Majić (Beograd, 1969) sudija je Apelacionog suda u Beogradu. Doktorirao je krivično pravo specijalizujući se za međunarodno-krivičnopravnu oblast. Samostalno i u koautorstvu, objavio je deset monografija i više od trideset članaka iz oblasti krivičnog i međunarodnog krivičnog prava, i učestvovao je u izradi najznačajnijih zakona u ovim oblastima. Predsednik je Upravnog odbora i jedan od osnivača Centra za pravosudna istraživanja (CEPRIS). Već desetak godina redovno objavljuje tekstove na svom blogu (www.misamajic.com), u kojima otvoreno govori o korupciji, nepotizmu i političkim pritiscima u pravosuđu. Roman Deca zlanjegov je prvi roman. Živi sa suprugom, dva sina i šnaucerom u Beogradu.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the Unit
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Mirjana Drljević
Mirjana Drljević, rođena 1971. u Beogradu, autorka je drame San o Svetom Petru Cetinjskom igrane u Crnogorskom narodnom pozorištu i javno čitane u Narodnom pozorištu u Beogradu, kao i drame Suncokreti izvođene u Narodnom pozorištu „Sterija“ u Vršcu.
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Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo njen je debitantski roman.
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Dinko Šimunović
Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent most of his life as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of southern Croatia.
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Branka Primorac
Branka Primorac rođena je 1964. godine u Zagrebu gdje je ostala i cijeli svoj život . Sve škole (od osnovne do Fakulteta političkih znanosti) pohađala je i završila u Zagrebu. U zagrebačkoj redakciji Večernjeg lista radi kao novinarka i urednica kulture. Pisanjem se bavi cijeli život, a u književnost ulazi s dvije knjige u jednoj godini: Maturalcem (Knjiga je uvrštena u popis lektire za 7. razred osnovne škole), koji dobiva Nagradu "Mato Lovrak" za najbolji roman za mladež objavljen u 1993. godini, i Mama, pazi pas! Slijedi Sve zbog Ane (1996.), svojevrsni nastavak Maturalca pa Ljubavni slučaj mačka Joje (1998.).
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Napisala je i biografski roman (dokumentarnu prozu), knjigu Perešin, život i smrt (2001.) za koju je dobila Nagradu "Bili su prvi -
Karim Zaimović
Karim Zaimović was born in Sarajevo, May 6, 1971. After completing High School in Sarajevo in 1989, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, but after a few months transferred to the study of comparative literature at the University of Philosophy in Sarajevo. In his youth he was deeply involved with drawing and tireless reading, especially the works of fiction.
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Already in those years with him with great love for comics thanks to which grows into a versatile connoisseurs of domestic and international comic book so that he wrote a number of valuable articles, criticisms, and reviews in this area. Very early he started his career in journalism (as a 14-year-old he has been collaborating with Radio Sarajevo).
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Dragutin Tadijanović
Dragutin Tadijanović (Rastušje, kod Sl. Broda, 4. studenog 1905. - Zagreb, 27. lipnja 2007.), hrvatski pjesnik.
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Dragutin Tadijanović rođen je 4. studenoga 1905. godine u Rastušju, kod Slavonskog Broda, kao najstariji sin zemljoradnika Mirka Tadijanovića i Mande. Polazio je Nižu pučku školu u susjednom selu Podvinju (1912. - 1916.) i u Slavonskom Brodu dva razreda Više pučke škole (1916. - 1925.), a od 1918. Realnu gimnaziju. Od jeseni 1920. godine, stanujući u brodskom samostanu, kao učenik petog razreda gimnazije, piše pjesme.U Zagrebu je na Gospodarsko-šumarskom fakultetu upisao studij šumarstva (1925.), ali je kasnije prešao na Filozofski fakultet (povijest južnoslavenske književnosti i filozofija 1928.). Diploma Filozofskog fakulteta Sve -
Damir Miloš
Damir Miloš rođen je 1954. godine u Opatiji. Objavljivao je drame, prozne, esejističke i teorijske tekstove, knjige i priručnike o jedrenju. Prozne knjige: Bijeli klaun, Zoe, Kapetanov dnevnik, Nabukodonozor, jedriličarski brevijar Pod jedriljem krstača.
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