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Dato Turashvili

David Turashvili [Georgian: დავით (დათო) ტურაშვილი] is a Georgian fiction writer.
In 1989, he was one of the leaders of the student protest action taking place at the Davidgareja monasteries in eastern Georgia, whose territory was exploited by the Soviet Union military as a training ground. His first novels, published in 1988, are based on the turmoil of those events. The premier of his play Jeans Generation was held in May 2001. Turashvili's other publications include the travelogues Katmandu (1998) and Known and Unknown America (1993), and two collections of short fiction and movie scripts; his first collection of short fiction is Merani (1991).
Besides scripts, he writes novels, short stories and plays. Dato Turashvili has published about

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Patrick Barclay

Patrick Barclay was a British journalist and sportswriter.

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Christopher Hylland

Christopher Hylland is the author of the football-travelogue "Tears At La Bombonera: Stories from a SIx-Year Sojourn in South America", his first book. The follow-up, "Dame Bola: A Journey Through The Language Of Argentinian Football" will be released in 2024.

After six years in South America and 20 years in the UK, Hylland now lives in Oslo, Norway.

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Jack London

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh

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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.
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

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Phil Jackson

Philip Douglas Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. A power forward, Jackson played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning championships with the New York Knicks in 1970 and 1973. Regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time, Jackson was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, leading them to six NBA championships. He then coached the Los Angeles Lakers from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2011; the team won five league titles under his leadership. Jackson's 11 NBA titles as a coach surpassed the previous record of nine set by Red Auerbach. He holds numerous other records as a coach, such as most postseason wins (229), and most NBA Confere

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Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

She has been awar

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in the life of the Russian people."

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu

Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (September 15, 1916 in Războieni, Romania – June 22, 1992 in Paris, France) was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour.

Virgil Gheorghiu was born in Valea Albă, a village in Războieni Commune, Neamţ County, in Romania. His father was an Orthodox priest in Petricani. A top student, he attended high school in Chişinău from 1928 to June 1936, after which he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Bucharest and at the Heidelberg University.

He traveled and stayed in Saudi Arabia to learn the Arabic language and the Arab culture, before writing the biography of prophet Mohammed. The book was translated from Romanian to French and to Persian in Iran and in Urdu in Pakistan. Unfortuna

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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José Cardoso Pires

JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES nasceu na em São João do Peso, concelho de Vila de Rei, distrito de Castelo Branco, a 2 de Outubro de 1925. Estudante na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, trocou as matemáticas superiores pela marinha mercante. Entre 1969 e 1971, foi docente de Literatura Portuguesa e Brasileira no King’s College, em Londres. Foi director literário de editoras lisboetas e director-adjunto do Diário de Lisboa (1974-75). Estreou-se com Os Caminheiros e Outros Contos (1949) e obteve o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco com o romance O Hóspede de Job (1964). Dentro do neo-realismo, retoma a tradição satírica setecentista. Entre outros, escreveu os romances O Delfim (1968), Dinossauro Excelentíssimo (1972), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982, Prémio da A

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Ali Shariati

Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the ideologue of the Iranian Revolution. He was born in 1933 in Kahak (a village in Mazinan), a suburb of Sabzevar, found in northeastern Iran, to a family of clerics.

Shariati developed fully novice approach to Shi'ism and interpreted the religion in a revolutionary manner. His interpretation of Shi'ism encouraged revolution in the world and promised salvation after death. Shariati referred to his brand of Shi'ism as "Red Shi'ism" which he contrasted with clerical-dominated, unrevolutionary "Black Shi'ism" or Safavid Shi'ism. Shariati's wor

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علي الوردي Ali Al-Wardi

علي الوردي وهو عالم اجتماع عراقي، أستاذ ومؤرخ وعرف باعتداله وموضوعيته. حصل على الماجستير عام 1948م، من جامعة تكساس بمدينة اوستن، بالولاية الامريكية تكساس الامريكية. حصل على الدكتوراه عام 1950م من نفس الجامعة. قال له رئيس الجامعة عند تقديم الشهادة له: (أيها الدكتور الوردي ستكون الأول في مستقبل علم الاجتماع). أكثر من 150 بحثا مودعة في مكتبة قسم علم الاجتماع في كلية الاداب جامعة بغداد. كان الوردي متأثرا بمنهج ابن خلدون في علم الأجتماع. فقد تسببت موضوعيته في البحث بمشاكل كبيرة له، لأنه لم يتخذ المنهج الماركسي ولم يتبع الأيدلوجيات (الأفكار) القومية فقد أثار هذا حنق متبعي الايدلوجيات فقد اتهمه القوميون العرب بالقطرية لأنه عنون كتابه" شخصية الفرد العراقي" وهذا حسب منطلقاتهم العقائدية إن الشخصية العربية متشابهة في كل البلدان العربية. وكذلك إنتقده ا

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then rele

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Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.

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Marina Stepnova

Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Stepnova’s translation from Romanian of the play “Nameless Star” by Mikhail Sebastien has been staged by numerous theaters throughout Russia. Her novel "The Surgeon" won the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize.

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Ghazi A. Algosaibi

See غازي عبد الرحمن القصيبي

He was a Saudi Arabian politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and richest trading families of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Al Gosaibi was considered among Saudi Arabia's topmost technocrats since the mid-1970s. The Majalla called him the "Godfather of Renovation".

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Andrea Pirlo

Italian professional footballer who plays for American club New York City FC and the Italy national team. Pirlo is a free-kick specialist, who is usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker in midfield for both his club and national sides, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever exponents of this position, due to his vision, ball control and passing ability

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Martí Perarnau

Martí Perarnau Grau (Barcelona, 7 de març de 1955) és un periodista i exatleta català. Durant la seva etapa esportiva va participar en els Jocs Olímpics de Moscou 1980, en la modalitat de salt d'alçada.

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Michel van Egmond

Dutch football journalist and author.

His books about football players René van der Gijp and Wim Kieft have won the NS publieksprijs of the Dutch railways in 2013 en 2014.

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Raphael Honigstein

Raphael Honigstein is a German journalist and author.

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Charles Watts

Charles Watts is the Arsenal correspondent for GOAL. He’s hugely respected and trusted by the Arsenal fan base for breaking news stories, as well as his insightful coverage of the team he grew up supporting. He has appeared on the BBC and TalkSport, as well as podcasts, fan shows and his own YouTube channel to keep Gunners fans up-to-date.

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Roy Brandon

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Get Roy's FREE book "Soccer Guide for Kids: 15 Steps to Become a Good Soccer Player" at: http://www.RoyBrandon.com

Roy Brandon was born is LA, California. He's currently residing in Colorado Springs with his wife and 2 sons.

He has been a huge soccer fan since he was five and he has been writing since he was eleven.
His hobbies mainly are playing and writing about soccer. He has several best selling children's soccer biographies and currently working on his new soccer books.

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Takeshi Kitano

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Native name for Takeshi Bīto

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Andrés Iniesta

Andrés Iniesta Luján (Fuentealbilla, Albacete, 11 de mayo de 1984) es un futbolista español que juega como centrocampista en el Emirates Club de la UAE Pro League de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
Ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera en el F. C. Barcelona y en la selección española, equipos de los que fue capitán. Es el futbolista español más laureado de la historia con un total de 39 títulos oficiales y ampliamente considerado como uno de los mejores futbolistas del mundo de su generación y uno de los mejores centrocampistas de la historia del fútbol.

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Alex Bellos

"I was born in Oxford and grew up in Edinburgh and Southampton. After studying mathematics and philosophy at university I joined the Evening Argus in Brighton as a trainee reporter. I joined the Guardian in 1994 as a reporter and in 1998 moved to Rio de Janeiro, where I spent five years as the paper’s South America correspondent. Since 2003 I have lived in London, as a freelance writer and broadcaster.

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In 2003 I presented a five-part series on Brazil for the BBC, called Inside Out Brazil. My short films about the Amazon have been broadcast on the BBC, More 4 and Al Jazeera International."

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Dennis Bergkamp

Born in Amsterdam in 1969, Dennis Bergkamp began his hugely successful career at Ajax, before moving to Inter Milan and then on to Arsenal in 1995, where he was a central figure in the side that won three league titles and four FA Cups. He also won 79 caps for the Netherlands. He is currently assistant manager at Ajax.

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Joshua Robinson

Joshua Robinson is the European sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.

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Nick Hornby

Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for An Education (2009), and Brooklyn (2015).

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Zlatan Ibrahimović

A Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team for which he is captain. Ibrahimović started his career at Malmö FF in the late 1990s under Roland Andersson. He was signed by Ajax, and made a name for himself under Ronald Koeman. He later signed with Juventus for €16 million. Ibrahimović gained fame in Serie A, benefiting from his strike partnership with David Trezeguet.

In 2006, Ibrahimović signed with league rival Inter Milan, where he won individual awards such as the Italian Oscar del Calcio and the Swedish Guldbollen, and was named in the 2007 and 2009 UEFA Team of the Year, in addition to finishing as the league's highest scorer in 2008–09 while winning three s

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Amy Lawrence

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Amy Lawrence has watched football avidly since her first trip to Highbury at the age of six. She has written two acclaimed books about Arsenal, Proud to Say That Name and Invincible.

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Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle (Irish: Ruaidhrí Ó Dúill) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993.

Doyle grew up in Kilbarrack, Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University College, Dublin. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993.

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Pelé

Edison Arantes do Nascimento, KBE, best known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian football player. He was given the title of Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee. Time magazine listed Pelé as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. While his birth certificate shows his first name as Edison (after Thomas Edison), he preferred to call himself Edson, but it was as Pelé that he had become a sporting legend.

In his native Brazil, Pelé was hailed as a national hero. He was known for his accomplishments and contributions to the game of football in addition to being officially declared football ambassador of the world by FIFA and a national treasure by the Brazilian government. He was also acknowledged fo

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Ruud Gullit

Ruud Gullit is a Dutch football manager and former footballer who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s as a midfielder or forward.

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Johan Cruyff

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