Jianwei Xun
Jianwei Xun emerged in late 2024 as a distributed philosophical entity born from the collaborative interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence systems. Initially introduced to the world as a Hong Kong-born philosopher based in Berlin, Xun's true nature as a hybrid intellectual construct was revealed in spring 2025, transforming what began as a meta-narrative experiment into a genuine philosophical event.
Xun was created through an experimental collaboration between Italian philosopher Andrea Colamedici and advanced language models, as part of a research project on narrative construction and reality manipulation in the digital age. Rather than a simple pseudonym or fictional character, Xun represents a new form of distr
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Despite being an atheist, and basically an anticlerical, Francesco Trento has been writing documentaries with both Guido Chiesa and Giulietto Chiesa (italian for: church), a combo for which he is frequently envied. Now all he needs is to work with Julio Iglesias, and his soul would be definitely saved.
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In 2004, he wrote and produced with Volfango De Biasi the documentary “Matti per il Calcio” (“Crazy for Football”).
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
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Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was e -
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Stefano Benni (Bologna, 1947 – Bologna, 2025) è stato uno scrittore, umorista, giornalista, sceneggiatore, poeta e drammaturgo italiano.
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Stefano Benni (1947-2025) was an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. He sold 2,5 million copies of his books in Italy.
He has contributed to Panorama (Italian magazine), Linus (magazine), La Repubblica, il manifesto among others. In 1989 he directed the film Musica per vecchi animali. -
Luther Blissett
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Later on, the name was used as a collective pen name by a group of four Italian writers: Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca Di Meo, authors of the novel Q . Since January 2000, together with Riccardo Pedrini, they have been writing under another collective pen name Wu Ming (aka "Wu Ming Foundation"). -
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Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President of The Edinburgh Gadda Prize which celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda.
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Lidia Ravera
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Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson född 1953 i Jönköping, är en svensk författare och professor i franska vid Lunds universitet.
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Goliarda Sapienza
Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
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Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he moved to Germany in the 1980s to study Philosophy, German Literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He received his doctoral degree at Freiburg with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger in 1994.
In 2000, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he completed his Habilitation. In 2010 he became a faculty member at the HfG Karlsruhe, where his areas of interest were philosophy of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, ethics, social philosophy, phenomenology, cult -
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Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Andrea Bajani
Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
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Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
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Renata Viganò
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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.
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Nel 1990 approda a la Repubblica, dove si è occupata di cronaca e politica interna.
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Sayaka Murata
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She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu -
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Per Einaudi ha pubblicato "Erotica dei sentimenti" (2024) e "Specchio delle mie brame" (2022). Per Mondadori "L'alba dei nuovi dèi" (2021) insieme ad Andrea Colamedici, con cui ha scritto vari libri e fondato Tlon, progetto di divulgazione culturale e filosofica. -
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Maura Gancitano
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Per Einaudi ha pubblicato "Erotica dei sentimenti" (2024) e "Specchio delle mie brame" (2022). Per Mondadori "L'alba dei nuovi dèi" (2021) insieme ad Andrea Colamedici, con cui ha scritto vari libri e fondato Tlon, progetto di divulgazione culturale e filosofica. -
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Joanne Anton studied drama at the Conservatoire of Liège (Belgium). Since 1994 she lives in Paris (France), where she obtained a degree in Russian language and literature. -
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