Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
Janusz Leon Wiśniewski (ur. 18 sierpnia 1954 w Toruniu) – naukowiec i pisarz polski, magister fizyki (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), magister ekonomii (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), doktor informatyki (Politechnika Warszawska), doktor habilitowany chemii (Politechnika Łódzka).
Wiśniewski pracował w latach 1979–1987 w Ogólnouczelnianym Ośrodku Obliczeniowym UMK. Na stałe mieszka we Frankfurcie nad Menem, gdzie pracuje w międzynarodowej firmie informatycznej zajmującej się tworzeniem oprogramowania dla chemików. Współautor pierwszego w świecie programu komputerowego AutoNom do automatycznego tworzenia systematycznych nazw organicznych związków chemicznych na podstawie ich wzorów strukturalnych. W latach 1999–2007 pracował na stanowisku pr
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Absolwent Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu – politologia, specjalizacja doradztwo polityczne i medialne i studiów podyplomowych z public relations w warszawskiej Szkole Głównej Handlowej.
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Kanae MINATO (湊 かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
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She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
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Napisał rownież kilkanaście opowiadań ogłoszonych w prasie i w antologiach. Przełożył z języka angielskiego wiele pozycji, między innymi Brudne wojny Jeremy’ego Scahilla, Paryż wyzwolony Antony’ego Beevora, Moją prawdę Mike’a Tysona i zbiór korespondencji pod tytułem Listy niezapomniane. Publikował w „Newsweeku”, „Polityce”, Angorze”, „Znaku”, „Nowej Fantastyce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”.
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Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.
People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss -
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Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
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A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og -
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Boris Akunin
Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (Russian: Борис Акунин; Georgian: გრიგორი შალვას ძე ჩხარტიშვილი; Аlso see Grigory Chkhartishvili, Григорий Чхартишвили), born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanese. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel Azazel (to English readers known as The Winter Queen), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin.
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B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and Akuna, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.
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Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.
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His first book was Lenin in Eastern Folk Art (Moscow, 1930), which he described as "a volume of Central Asian post-revolutionary folklore." His masterpiece is Tale of Hodja Nasreddin, which Alexei Tolstoy hailed as a work of unusual talent.
During the Second World War, Solovyov served as a war correspondent and produced several wartime stories and screenplays.
In 1946, Solovyov was accused of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism against the Soviet state. He was interned in several prison camps until 1954, when he was cleared of all charges