Filip Florian
Between 1990-99, he worked as a journalist and editor for the Cuvîntul (The Word) weekly and then as a correspondent for the Free Europe and Deutsche Welle radio stations. He spent five years in the mountain town of Sinaia writing his first novel Little Fingers, which was published to great critical acclaim in 2005. Greeted as the work of a distinctive and original new voice, the novel was awarded the România literarã (Literary Romania) magazine Prize for Debut, the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Best Prose Debut, and the National Union of Employers Prize for Excellence.
Together with Matei Florian, his younger brother, Filip Florian recently published the unusual dialogic novel The Băiuț Alley Lads (2006), also warmly praised by critics
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Savatie Baștovoi
Savatie Baştovoi – ieromonah, poet, prozator, publicist şi editor. Studii de pictură, filozofie şi teologie. Membru al Uniunii Scriitorilor şi al Uniunii Jurnaliştilor din Republica Moldova.
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Este deţinătorul Premiului pentru Poezie al Uniunii Scriitorilor din Moldova, pentru volumul Elefantul promis (1996) – pentru acelaşi volum a mai obţinut Premiul Salonului Naţional de Carte de la Iaşi şi Premiul pentru debut al Fundaţiei Soros. În 2007 a obţinut Premiul Uniunii Scriitorilor din Moldova pentru Eseu pentru volumul Ortodoxia pentru postmodernişti (Cathisma, 2007).
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
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Tracy Chevalier
Born:
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19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.
Childhood:
Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Education:
BA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. No one was surprised that I went there; I was made for such a progressive, liberal place.
MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, d -
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P -
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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D.H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
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Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time -
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".
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For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.
Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The -
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Marin Preda
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers.
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He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu.
He finished the first 7 classes in this village, he was then educated at the Normal School in Abrud, next at Cristuru-Odorhei, and after that in Bucharest.
He graduated the capacity exam, but eventually stopped going to school because of various reasons.
He became clerk at the Institute for Statistics in Bucharest, he was then press corrector at Timpul magazine, where he also made his debut in 1942 with the short story Pârlitu.
Encouraged, he published prose and was remarked by Eugen Lovinescu at the Sburatorul literary club.
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Camil Petrescu
Camil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, poet and philosopher. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romanian literature.
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Liviu Rebreanu
Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.
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Born in Târlişua (currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County), Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru (where he was taught by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa, to military school at Sopron and then to the military academy in Budapest. He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.
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J. Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
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In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.
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Jaume Cabré
Jaume Cabré i Fabré (Barcelona, 1947) is a philologist and Catalan writer.
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Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
During many years he has combined literary writing with teaching. He has also worked in the television and cinematographic scripting. With Joaquim Maria Puyal he was the creator and scriptwriter of the first Catalan television series: La Granja (1989-1992), after which followed other titles like Estació d'Enllaç (1994-1998), Crims (2000) and the tvmovies La dama blanca (1987), Nines russes (2003) and Sara (2003). He has also written, together with Jaume Fu -
Radu Paraschivescu
Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that life is sweet and must be greedily crunched.
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He is a translator and co-author of two reference works in the sports literature (Larousse Encyclopedia of footbal and Athens Olympic Games in Athens: 1896-2004). He translated nearly sixty books of English, American, Canadian and French authors.
He published two novels (Efemeriada şi Balul fantomelor), a volume of stories about Bucharest (Bazar bizar) and one essay about dishonesty in sports (Fanionul roșu - 2005), for which he received the "Ioan Chirilă" National Award for best sports book of the ye -
Dan Lungu
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi.
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Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona.
Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris).
În 1996, iniţiază grupul literar Club 8.
Intre 2001 si 2002, redactor-şef al revistei de cultură „Timpul”.
Face parte din grupul de scriitori români invitaţi la Les belles étrangères (Franţa, 2005), alături de Gabriela Adameşteanu, Ştefan Agopian, Ana Blandiana, Mircea Cărtărescu, Gheorghe Craciun, Letiţia Ilea, Ion Mureşan, Marta Petreu, Simona Popescu, Cecilia Ştefănescu şi Vlad Zografi.
I se montează piesele Cu cuţitul la os (Green Hours, Teatrul Luni, 2002), Nuntă la parter (spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Odeon, 2003; spectacol-lectură la Teatrul Luceafărul, Iaşi, 2006 -
Max Blecher
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, in 1928, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) and forced to abandon his studies. He sought treatment at various sanatoriums: Berck-sur-Mer in France, Leysin in Switzerland and Tekirghiol in Romania.
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
Karl Ove Knausgård
Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. -
George Călinescu
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies.
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He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century. -
W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
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His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one -
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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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II, (also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer.
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A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century".
His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearance -
Adrian Schiop
Adrian Schiop a absolvit Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, secţia pedagogie - limba şi literatura română, a Universităţii "Babeş-Bolyai" din Cluj. Urmează, apoi, un Master în Lingvistică Integrală la Facultatea de Litere a aceleiaşi Universităţi.
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A lucrat ca profesor de limba şi literatura română (1997 - 2001, Cluj-Napoca), zugrav (2002, Auckland, Noua Zeelandă), jurnalist (2004 - 2010, Evenimentul Zilei, Prezent, Romania Liberă).
A debutat în revista Fracturi (2001) şi a publicat două romane: pe bune/pe invers (Polirom, 2004) şi Zero grade Kelvin (Polirom, 2009).
In 2009, a fost inclus in antologia 100towatch, a celor mai promiţători 100 de artişti români, coordonată de Tom Wilson şi Miloš Jovanović. -
Cosmin Leucuța
Cosmin Leucuța s-a născut la Arad și a început să scrie povești la vârsta de 14 ani.
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2013
Laptele negru al mamei (Adenium) - roman, câștigătorul primului concurs de debut al editurii
2017
Numele altora (Casa de Pariuri Literare) - proză scurtă
2018
Hoodoo (Polirom) - roman, premiul „Tânărul Prozator al Anului” la Gala Tinerilor Scriitori
2020
Cum te vei îmbrăca la sfârșitul lumii? (Casa de Pariuri Literare) - proză scurtă, premiul „Tânărul Prozator al Anului” la Gala Tinerilor Scriitori
2022
Cerul ca oțelul (Humanitas) - roman, nominalizare la Premiul Naţional de Proză „Ziarul de Iaşi” și Premiul FILIT 2023; una dintre cele 15 carți alese pentru a reprezenta România la Salonul Internațional de Carte de la Paris
2024
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml
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Anca Vieru
Anca Vieru este absolventă de politehnică și are un master în comunicare. A publicat în volumele colective Moș Crăciun & co. (Editura Art, 2013) și Ficțiuni reale (Editura Humanitas, 2013), proiect inițiat de Florin Piersic jr.
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În anul 2015 i-a apărut la Editura Polirom volumul de proză scurtă Felii de lămâie, nominalizat la premiile revistei Observator cultural și reeditat în 2018 în colecția Top10+. A mai publicat, tot la Editura Polirom, romanul Spulberatic (2018), volumul de proză scurtă Fără poză de profil (2022), nominalizat la Premiile Sofia Nădejde, și biografia romanțată Pallady. Ulise legat de catarg (2023). I-au apărut povestiri și fragmente de roman în revistele iocan și Familia. -
Guzel Yakhina
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.
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Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare.
She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting.
Yakhina worked in public relations and advertising. She began her writing career with publications in the journals Neva and Oktyabr. Sections of her debut novel Zuleikha appeared in the journal Siberian