Henriette Yvonne Stahl
A fost o scriitoare și traducătoare română, sora sociologului H. H. Stahl și fiica scriitorului Henri Stahl.
Intre anii 1952-1957 a fost căsătorită cu scriitorul Petru Dumitriu.
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Eric Knight
An author who is mainly notable for creating the fictional collie Lassie.
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He was a native of Yorkshire in England, and had a varied career, including service in the Canadian Army during World War I and spells as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.
His first novel was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about the working class in Northern England. As "Richard Hallas," he wrote the hardboiled genre novel "You Play The Black and The Red Comes Up" (1938). Knight's "This Above All" is considered one of the significant novels of The Second World War.
Knight and his wife Jere Knight raised collies on their farm in Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His novel Lassie Come-Home (ISBN 0030441013) appeared in 1940. It was adapt -
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
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Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from -
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books
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Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to -
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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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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Maria Banuș
Marioara Banuș was a Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator.
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Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, her parents were Max Banuș, an accountant and later a director at the Carol Street branch of Marmorosch Blank Bank, and his wife Anette (née Marcus). Due to her fragile health, she began primary school with private lessons, taking tests at the Lucaci Street School from 1920 to 1923.
She attended high school at the Pompilian Institute from 1923 to 1931, and from 1931 to 1934, studied at the University of Bucharest's faculties of law and literature. She made her published debut as an adolescent, with the poem "14 ani", which appeared in Bilete de Papagal in 1928, under her birth name Marioara Banuș. In 1932, while she was a student -
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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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Ileana Vulpescu
Ileana Vulpescu (n. 21 mai 1932, Bratovoești, județul Dolj) este o prozatoare și romancieră română.
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După o licență in litere (limba și literatura franceză), la Facultatea de Filologie a Universității din București (1953-1958), a lucrat ca lexicograf la Institutul de Lingvistică al Academiei și a colaborat la redactarea lucrărilor Dicționarul limbii române și Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române (1959-1975).
A fost soția poetului și traducătorului Romulus Vulpescu.
Cel mai cunoscut roman al ei este Arta conversației, care a reușit să ajungă best-seller înainte de 1989.
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Ioana Pârvulescu
Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)
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Eugen Barbu
Romanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
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His most famous writings are the novels Groapa (1957) and Principele (1969). Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for archaisms, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.
Barbu also wrote several film scripts,some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress Marga Barbu (Florin Piersic's Mărgelatu series). -
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 -
Anton Holban
Scriitor, romancier și eseist român, Anton Holban s-a născut pe 10 februarie 1902 la Huși. Este fiul lui Gheorghe Holban, ofițer, și al Antoanetei (născută Lovinescu), precum și nepotul de soră al criticului Eugen Lovinescu. Urmează cursurile școlii primare "Al.I.Cuza" din Fălticeni, și cursurile Facultății de Litere din București, secția limba și literatura franceză.
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Anton Holban frecventează cenaclul lui Eugen Lovinescu, Sburătorul, unde citește povestiri și fragmente din romane. În perioada 1928-1932 activează ca profesor de limba franceză la Liceul de Baieți "V. Alecsandri" din Galați, iar în 1934 este transferat la Seminarul Central din București.
Scriitorul își face debutul în anul 1928 în revista lui Liviu Rebreanu, "Mișcarea literară -
Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu a fost o prozatoare, romancieră și nuvelistă importantă din perioada interbelică.
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Debutează în presa culturală cu articole în limba franceză (1912). Scrie și poezii în această limbă.
În anul 1913 publică la revista Viața românească, formarea sa ca scriitoare fiind marcată de personalitatea lui Garabet Ibrăileanu, cel care o ajuta sa debuteze. Debuteaza editorial in 1919 cu volumul "Ape adânci", lăudat de Garabet Ibrăileanu. În timpul Primului Război Mondial lucrează ca infirmieră voluntară la Crucea Roșie, experiența fiind apoi relatată în romanul Balaurul.
Din anul 1919 începe să colaboreze cu cenaclul criticului Eugen Lovinescu și să publice în revista acestuia, Sburătorul. De acum, rolul hotărâtor în orientarea pr -
Gheorghe Crăciun
Gheorghe Craciun (1950-2007), prozator, eseist, teoretician literar si editor, unul dintre reprezentantii de marca ai postmodernismului romanesc, a absolvit Facultatea de Filologie din Bucuresti si a fost profesor la Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii „Transilvania” din Brasov si director editorial la Editura Paralela 45. A publicat romane – Acte originale/Copii legalizate (1982), Compunere cu paralele inegale (1988), tradus in limba franceza de Odile Serre si publicat in 2001, cu titlul Composition aux paralleles inegales, la Editura Maurice Nadeau, insotit de o consistenta prefata, semnata de Serge Fauchereau, Frumoasa fara corp (1993), Pupa russa (2004) –, volume de eseuri, teorie literara si publicistica, precum si volumul de proza sc
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Marius Chivu
Marius Chivu (n. 1978) este cronicar literar, scriitor, traducător şi redactor‑editor al revistei Dilema veche. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii din Bucureşti şi a debutat publicistic cu recenzii literare în anul 2000 în revista România literară. A publicat : Vîntureasa de plastic (poezie, Brumar, 2012 ; nominalizare la Premiul Cartea Anului acordat de revista România literară, Premiul pentru debut al revistei Observator cultural şi Premiul pentru debut al USR) ; Trei săptămîni în Himalaya (jurnal de călătorie, Humanitas, 2012) şi Ce‑a vrut să spună autorul (interviuri, Polirom, 2013). A iniţiat şi coordonat proiectul caritabil Cartea cu bunici (Humanitas, 2008), albumul de proză scurtă & fotografie Iubire 13 (ART, 2010) şi v
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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. -
Narine Abgaryan
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Andrei Dósa
Andrei Dósa (n.1985, Braşov), a absolvit cursurile masterului de Inovare Culturală (denumit anterior master de Scriere Creatoare) din cadrul Facultăţii de Litere Braşov.
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A publicat volumele: Când va veni ceea ce este desăvârşit (2011), American Experience (2013), Nada (2015), adevăratul băiat de aur (2017).
A tradus mai multe cărţi din engleză şi maghiară. Din 2012, este redactor al revistei ''Poesis internaţional''. -
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Maria Banuș
Marioara Banuș was a Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator.
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Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, her parents were Max Banuș, an accountant and later a director at the Carol Street branch of Marmorosch Blank Bank, and his wife Anette (née Marcus). Due to her fragile health, she began primary school with private lessons, taking tests at the Lucaci Street School from 1920 to 1923.
She attended high school at the Pompilian Institute from 1923 to 1931, and from 1931 to 1934, studied at the University of Bucharest's faculties of law and literature. She made her published debut as an adolescent, with the poem "14 ani", which appeared in Bilete de Papagal in 1928, under her birth name Marioara Banuș. In 1932, while she was a student