José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."
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Augusto Jorge Cury (Colina, 2 de outubro de 1958) é um médico, psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e escritor de literatura psiquiátrica brasileiro. Desenvolve em Espanha pesquisa em Ciência da Educação e, após a construção da teoria de Inteligência Multifocal, continua a desenvolver estudos sobre as dinâmicas da emoção e da construção dos pensamentos. Dirige a Academia da Inteligência no Brasil, um instituto de formação para psicólogos, educadores e outros profissionais, e actualmente os seus livros são usados em pesquisas de pós-graduação nas mais diversas áreas das Ciências Humanas.
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Augusto Cury
Augusto Jorge Cury (Colina, 2 de outubro de 1958) é um médico, psiquiatra, psicoterapeuta e escritor de literatura psiquiátrica brasileiro. Desenvolve em Espanha pesquisa em Ciência da Educação e, após a construção da teoria de Inteligência Multifocal, continua a desenvolver estudos sobre as dinâmicas da emoção e da construção dos pensamentos. Dirige a Academia da Inteligência no Brasil, um instituto de formação para psicólogos, educadores e outros profissionais, e actualmente os seus livros são usados em pesquisas de pós-graduação nas mais diversas áreas das Ciências Humanas.
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Germán Castro Caycedo
Germán Castro Caycedo nació en Zipaquirá, una ciudad cercana a Bogotá, en 1940.
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Actualmente es el escritor colombiano de literatura no-ficción más leído en su país. Sus libros alcanzan tirajes que hoy sobrepasan un millón de libros acogidos por el público colombiano. La sólida credibilidad con que goza el autor sumada a la calidad literaria de su trabajo son parte del resultado.
Sus historias cortadas de la realidad son tejidas con base en investigaciones minuciosas y vivencias propias en los lugares donde acontecen los hechos.
Escribe utilizando la misma técnica de la novela en cuanto a estructura, manejo del tiempo dramático, equilibrio en los clímax y todos aquellos factores de la gran narrativa, pero rechaza crear situaciones ficticias.
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Manuel Scorza
Manuel Scorza (September 7, 1928 - November 27, 1983) was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima.
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He is best known for the series of five novels, known collectively as "The Silent War," that began with Redoble por Rancas (1970). All five have been translated into more than forty languages, including English.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Nacido dentro de una prominente familia de banqueros, sus padres fueron Francisco Bryce Arróspide y Elena Echenique Basombrío de Bryce. Su tatarabuelo, José Rufino Echenique, fue presidente del Perú en 1851, y su familia está relacionada con la francesa Flora Tristán y con el barón Clemens Althaus de Hesse.
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Bryce Echenique, educado en el seno de la oligarquía limeña, cursó sus estudios primarios, en el Inmaculado Corazón, y secundarios, en el Santa María Marianistas y, luego, tras un incidente en este colegio por el que hubo de ser hospitalizado, ingresó al San Pablo, un internado británico en Lima. En 1957, ingresó a la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y se licenció en Derecho, obteniendo el título de Doctor en Letras en (1977). Fue -
Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière was a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony on French Guiana.
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Stephen Markley
Stephen Markley's debut novel "Ohio" will be published in August of 2018 by Simon and Schuster.
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Markley is the author of the memoir "Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold, and Published This Very Book" (2010) and the travelogue "Tales of Iceland."
His work has appeared in Paste Magazine, Slate.com, The Iowa Review, Chicago's RedEye, The Week, The Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus, Weber: A Study of the Contemporary West, and the Chicago Reader. He’s also the author of the e-reader short "The Great Dysmorphia: An Epistemological View of Ingesting Hallucinogenic Mushrooms at a 2012 Republican Presidential Debate." -
Natalie Díaz
Natalie Díaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Her second poetry collection, Postcolonial Love Poems is published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Díaz teaches at the Arizona State Un
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol, was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia.
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Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.
Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound.
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie (ou Estienne de La Boetie was a French judge, writer and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France". He is best remembered as the great and close friend of the eminent essayist Michel de Montaigne "in one of history's most notable friendships", as well as an earlier influence for anarchist thought.
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Étienne de La Boétie (or Estienne de La Boetie est un écrivain humaniste et un poète français. La Boétie est célèbre pour son Discours de la servitude volontaire. À partir de 1558, il fut l’ami intime de Montaigne, qui lui rendit un hommage posthume dans ses Essais. -
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino, regista e sceneggiatore, è nato a Napoli nel 1970. Nel 2001 realizza il suo primo lungometraggio, L’uomo in più, con Toni Servillo e Andrea Renzi. Il film, selezionato alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, viene candidato a tre David di Donatello, vince un Nastro d’Argento come miglior regista esordiente e due Grolle d’Oro. Nel 2004 porta a termine il suo secondo film Le conseguenze dell’amore. Unico italiano in concorso al Festival di Cannes, il film ottiene numerosi riconoscimenti tra cui cinque David di Donatello, quattro Nastri d’Argento e cinque Ciak d’Oro. Nel 2006 realizza il suo terzo film L’amico di famiglia, presentato in concorso al Festival di Cannes, partecipa a numerosi festival internazionali. Nel 2008 con Il d
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Jorge Albaladejo Pomares
Ingeniero de software y de telecomunicaciones, programador autodidacta, políglota, viajero, maestro cervecero, diseñador web, experto en economía doméstica, pensador sistémico, aspirante a polímata, filósofo costumbrista, entusiasta de los unicornios...
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Mikhail Naimy
Mikha'il Na'ima (also spelled Mikhail Naimy; Arabic: ميخائيل نعيمة) (b.1889 in Mount Sannine in modern day Lebanon, d. 1988) was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.
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He wrote 99 books, including drama, essays, poetry, criticism, short stories and biography.
Among his best known books is the Book of Mirdad, a mystical text first published in Lebanon in 1948, which was translated into English and published in London in 1962.
The mystic Osho had this to say about The Book of Mirdad. He said, "There are millions of books in the world, but 'The Book of Mirdad' stands out far above any book in existence."
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Isak Dinesen
Pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Blixen.
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Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), born Karen Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.
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Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʃ vaʃ dɨ kaˈmõȷ̃ʃ]; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens; c. 1524 – June 10, 1580) is considered Portugal's, and the Portuguese language's, greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil, and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry (in Portuguese and in Spanish) and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime.
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Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998. He has covered numerous conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, reported frequently from Latin America and the Caribbean, and written profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is the author of several books, including The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Guerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, and The Fall of Baghdad.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (山本 常朝), also read Yamamoto Jōchō (June 11, 1659 – November 30, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige.
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For thirty years Yamamoto devoted his life to the service of his lord and clan. When Nabeshima died in 1700, Yamamoto did not choose to follow his master in death in junshi because the master had expressed a dislike of the practice in his life. After some disagreements with Nabeshima's successor, Yamamoto renounced the world and retired to a hermitage in the mountains. Later in life (between 1709 and 1716), he narrated many of his thoughts to a fellow samurai, Tashiro Tsuramoto. Many of these aphorisms concerned his lord's father and grandfather Naoshige and the fail -
Eduardo Barrios
Eduardo Barrios Achurra was a Chilean writer and poet born in Valparaíso in 1884.
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After his father’s death, at the age of 5 his family moved to Lima until the age of 15 where he was the victim of harassment by his classmates. After high school he joined the Chilean Military School but quit before graduating as an officer. He spent much of his young adulthood travelling throughout Latin America doing a colorful array of odd jobs to earn a living. By 1915 he was back in Chile working for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including La Mañana, Zig Zag, revista Pacifico and revista Atenea. From 1925 to 1959 he held various positions in government, museums and the local Press. He was elected to the Chilean, Argentinian and the Brazilian Acade -
Archil Kikodze
არჩილ ქიქოძე დაიბადა 1972 წელს, თბილისში. 1989 წელს დაამთავრა თბილისის მესამე ექსპერიმენტული სკოლა. 1989 წლიდან 1992 წლამდე სწავლობდა თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერისტეტის აღმოსავლეთმცოდნეობის ფაკულტეტზე, 1992 წლიდან სწავლობდა თბილისის სახელმწიფო თეატრისა და კინოს ინსტიტუტში ჯერ კონოსაოპერატორო, შემდეგ კი კინოდრამატურგიის ფაკულტეტზე, რომელიც დაამთავრა 1999 წელს. 1991-1994 წლებში იყო სამაშველო სამსახურ “სანთელის” წევრი და მონაწილეობას იღებდა სამთო სამაშველო ოპერაციებში. გატაცებული იყო ალპინიზმით. დღემდე მუშაობს როგორც გამყოლი ველური ბუნების და ეკოტურიზმის გამყოლი. 21 წლის ასაკიდან დაკავებულია ლიტერატურული მოღვაწეობით.[1]
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არჩილ ქიქოძის მოთხრობები, ესსეები, სტატიები და ფოტოები უკანასკნელი ათი წელია იბეჭდება ქართულ ჟურნალებში და ლიტერატურულ პერიოდიკ -
Carlo M. Cipolla
Carlo M. Cipolla (August 15, 1922 – September 5, 2000) was an Italian economic historian. He was born in Pavia, where he got his academic degree in 1944.
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As a young man, Cipolla wanted to teach history and philosophy in an Italian high school, and therefore enrolled at the political science faculty at Pavia University. Whilst a student there, thanks to professor Franco Borlandi, a specialist in Medieval economic history, he discovered his passion for economic history. Subsequently he studied at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics.
Cipolla obtained his first teaching post in economic history in Catania at the age of 27. This was to be the first stop in a long academic career in Italy (Venice, Turin, Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore -
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Escritor de origem cubana, Guillermo Cabrera Infante nasceu a 22 de Abril de 1929, em Gibara, Cuba, e faleceu a 22 de Fevereiro de 2005, em Londres, Inglaterra.
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Filho de pais directamente ligados à política - fundadores, em Gibera, do Partido Comunista - desde cedo se viu confrontado com um forte ambiente de consciência política. Motivado pela profissão dos pais, Cabrera Infante viu-se forçado a mudar para Havana em 1941.
Em 1959 Cabrera Infante era já bastante conhecido pelas fantásticas críticas de cinema que publicava na revista Carteles e por alguns textos e contos que publicava em revistas como Ciclón. Mas foi, indubitavelmente, em 1964 que ganhou notoriedade ao publicar a sua "obra-prima" Tres Tristes Tigres, publicada depois em Espanha -
Eça de Queirós
José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon
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Teolinda Gersão
TEOLINDA GERSÃO nasceu em 1940, em Coimbra. Licenciada em Filologia Germânica e Doutorada em Literatura Alemã, com a tese Alfred Döblin: indíviduo e natureza (1976), pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Foi Assistente na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Leitora de Português na Universidade de Berlim.
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Autora de vários trabalhos de crítica literária, recebeu duas vezes o prémio de ficção PEN Clube, atribuído ao seu livro de estreia, O Silêncio, em 1981, e ao romance O Cavalo de Sol, em 1989. Foi também galardoada com o Grande Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores em 1995 e, na Roménia, com o Prémio de Teatro Marele do -
Eduardas Mieželaitis
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Samael Aun Weor
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"Do not follow me. I am just a signpost. Reach your own Self-realization."
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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"). -
Maria Alberta Menéres
Maria Alberta Menéres nasceu em 1930, em Vila Nova de Gaia. Tem uma vasta obra poética, estando representada em várias antologias literárias nacionais e estrangeiras. Foi professora dos Ensinos Básico e Secundário nas disciplinas de Língua Portuguesa e História. É autora de inúmeros programas televisivos para crianças, tendo sido Diretora do Departamento de Programas Infantis e Juvenis da RTP de 1974 a 1986. Publicou mais de 69 livros para crianças (contos, poesia, BD, teatro e novela). Em 1986, recebeu o Grande Prémio Calouste Gulbenkian de Literatura para Crianças "pelo conjunto da sua obra literária e pela manutenção de um alto nível de qualidade".
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Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (6 March 1910 – 3 April 1993) was a Colombian journalist and writer. As a journalist, he worked for the main Colombian newspapers, including El Tiempo and El Espectador. Also he was a diplomat from Colombia in Peru, Argentina, Spain and France. Caballero was elected as congressman two times for the department of Boyacá and was mayor of Tipacoque.
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Cabellero Calderón began writing in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. His most known books are El Cristo de espaldas (Backwards Christ) (1952), Siervo sin tierra (Landless Servant) (1954), La penúltima hora (The Hour Before the Last) (1955), and Manuel Pacho (1962), which are mainly depictions of events related to the bipartisan violence in Colombia -
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey David Sachs, is an American economist, public policy analyst, and former director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty.
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Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a professor of health policy and management at Columbia's School of Public Health. As of 2017, he serves as special adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in -
Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics and is famous for his successful application of microcredit--the extension of small loans given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Dr. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below." He has also received several other national and international honors. Dr. Yunus is one of the founding members of Global Elders, a group of public figures noted as elder statesmen, peace activists, and human rights advocates whose goal is to solve global problems by using "almost 1,000 years of
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Raoul Vaneigem
Raoul Vaneigem (born 1934) is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines (Hainaut, Belgium). After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970. He currently resides in Belgium and is the father of four children.
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Vaneigem and Guy Debord were the two principal theoreticians of the Situationist movement. Although Debord was the more disciplined thinker, Vaneigem's slogans frequently made it onto the walls of Paris during the May 1968 uprisings. His most famous book, and the one that contains the famous slogans, is The Revolution of Everyday L -
Diego De Silva
Diego De Silva, scrittore, giornalista e sceneggiatore, è nato a Napoli nel 1964. Il suo romanzo "La donna di scorta" (1999) è stato finalista del premio Montblanc, "Certi bambini" (2001) è stato selezionato per il premio Campiello e "Non avevo capito niente" (2007) ha vinto il premio Napoli ed è stato finalista al premio Strega. Da "Certi bambini", la crudele storia di un ragazzo di strada assoldato come killer dalla camorra, è stato tratto nel 2004 l'omonimo film diretto dai fratelli Frazzi, vincitore di numerosi riconoscimenti nazionali e internazionali, fra i quali l'Oscar europeo e due David di Donatello. Molti suoi racconti sono apparsi in svariate antologie, fra le quali "Disertori e Crimini". Dal racconto "Il covo di Teresa", in par
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Nikos Kazantzakis
(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης)
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Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide. -
Jonathan Jakubowicz
Jonathan Jakubowicz is Venezuela's most celebrated filmmaker and writer, whose film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards and was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" in 2005. He is Jewish of Polish descent.
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Secuestro Express became the nation's biggest box office hit of all time, which enraged then President Hugo Chavez, whose government opened two trials against Jakubowicz, who was forced to leave Venezuela.
Jakubowicz latest film, Hands of Stone (2016), is about the relationship between Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (played by Édgar Ramírez) and his trainer Ray Arcel (played by Robert De Niro). Hands of Stone premiered in the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and was warmly received with -
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 -
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President, Centre Policy Research, New Delhi, one of India's top think tanks. Before he started engaging with contemporary affairs, he taught political theory at Harvard, and briefly at JNU.
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He has written extensively on intellectual history, political theory, law, India's social transformation and world affairs. He writes regularly for the Indian Express. He is the recipient of the Infosys Prize, the Adisheshiah Prize and the Amartya Sen Prize.
He believes the purpose of writing is to provoke thinking not to provide instruction.
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José Eduardo Agualusa
«José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] nasceu no Huambo, Angola, em 1960. Estudou Silvicultura e Agronomia em Lisboa, Portugal. Os seus livros estão traduzidos em 25 idiomas.
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Escreveu várias peças de teatro: "Geração W", "Aquela Mulher", "Chovem amores na Rua do Matador" e "A Caixa Preta", estas duas últimas juntamente com Mia Couto.
Beneficiou de três bolsas de criação literária: a primeira, concedida pelo Centro Nacional de Cultura em 1997 para escrever « Nação crioula », a segunda em 2000, concedida pela Fundação Oriente, que lhe permitiu visitar Goa durante 3 meses e na sequência da qual escreveu « Um estranho em Goa » e a terceira em 2001, concedida pela instituição alemã Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Graças a esta bolsa viveu -
José Rodrigues dos Santos
José Rodrigues dos Santos is the bestselling novelist in Portugal. He is the author of five essays and eight novels, including Portuguese blockbusters Codex 632, which sold 192 000 copies, The Einstein Enigma, 178 000 copies, The Seventh Seal, 190 000 copies, and The Wrath of God, 176 000 copies. His overall sales are above one million books, astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market.
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José’s fiction is published or is about to be published in 17 languages. His novel The Wrath of God won the 2009 Porto Literary Club Award and his other novel Codex 632 was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Isabel Stilwell
Isabel Stilwell é jornalista e escritora. Directora do jornal Destak, foi directora, igualmente, da revista Notícias Magazine, tem um longo percurso na imprensa escrita e sempre se confessou apaixonada por romances históricos.
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Maitena Ines Burundarena
Maitena Inés Burundarena, better known as Maitena, is a cartoonist.
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Germano Almeida
Germano de Almeida nasceu na ilha da Boavista, Cabo Verde, em 1945. Licenciou-se em Direito em Lisboa e exerce actualmente advocacia na cidade do Mindelo. Estreou-se como contista no início da década de 80, colaborando na revista Ponto & Vírgula. A sua obra de ficção representa uma nova etapa na rica história literária de Cabo Verde. Está publicada em Portugal pela Caminho e começa a despertar interesse no estrangeiro, nomeadamente o romance O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno da Silva Araújo, do qual vários países compraram os direitos, encontrando-se já publicado no Brasil, na Itália e França. O filme de baseado nesta obra (O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno) foi recentemente galardoado com o 1º Prémio do Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano
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Masato Tanaka
Masato Tanaka estudió en la London College of Communication y se graduó en bellas artes. Ha publicado numerosas obras, todas ellas destacan por su gran valor visual y por su cuidado diseño. La Historia visual de la filosofía que publica Blackie Books es una de sus obras de divulgación más reconocidas y de más éxito internacional.
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1970年出生於東京。倫敦藝術大學（University of the Arts London）倫敦傳媒學院畢業。於MORNING GARDEN公司主要從事平面設計擔任書籍企畫及製作。 -
Xavier Velasco
Enamorado impenitente de la música, las motocicletas, la adrenalina y las palabras en esteroides, Velasco comenzó a escribir a los nueve años, como una forma de escapar a las aulas. Ejerce desde entonces la literatura como un vicio secreto, al que años después da curso a través de experimentar con la crónica y la forma de vida del rock. Tránsfuga de las carreras de Ciencias Políticas y Literatura, ejerce luego oficios variopintos, como el de director creativo (de lo cual dice haber extraído "algún dinero y ningún orgullo") y editor de una revista de aristócratas. Acostumbrado a dobles y triples vidas, Velasco desempeña al mismo tiempo los papeles de copywriter, periodista, rockero, socialité, noctámbulo barriobajero y escritor subrepticio.
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Richard Slotkin
Richard Slotkin is an American cultural critic, historian, and novelist. He is Olin Professor of English and American Studies Emeritus at Wesleyan University, where he was instrumental in establishing the American Studies and Film Studies programs. His work explores the mythology of the American frontier and its influence on national identity. His trilogy—Regeneration Through Violence, Fatal Environment, and Gunfighter Nation—is widely regarded as a seminal analysis of the frontier myth in American culture. Slotkin has also written historical novels, including Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln and The Crater: A Novel of the Civil War. His contributions to scholarship and literature have earned him numerous accolades, including the Albert J.
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M.A. Screech
Michael Andrew Screech was a cleric and a professor of French literature with special interests in the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne and François Rabelais.
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Georges Politzer
French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (philosophe roux).
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Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the Hungarian insurrection of 1919. He went into exile at age seventeen following the failure of the Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Béla Kun when the country fell under the rule of the repressive government of Austro-Hungarian Admiral Miklós Horthy.
He settled in Paris in 1921 after meeting Freud and Sándor Ferenczi in Vienna. He joined the French Communist Party sometime between 1929 and 1931.
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Darko Tuševljaković
Rođen u Zenici, 1978. godine. Objavio je pet romana (Senka naše želje, 2010; Jaz, 2016; Jegermajster, 2019; Uzvišenost, 2021; Karota, 2025) i tri zbirke priča (Ljudske vibracije, 2013; Naknadne istine, 2018; Hangar za snove, 2022). Dela su mu se našla u užim izborima za relevantne književne nagrade u Srbiji i regionu. Dobitnik je nagrade "Lazar Komarčić", Evropske nagrade za književnost (2017) i Andrićeve nagrade (2023). Roman Jaz je preveden na engleski, italijanski, bugarski, albanski, rumunski, slovenački, španski, grčki i makedonski jezik.
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Born in 1978, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives in Serbia. He has published five novels and three story collections. His works have been shortlisted for several prestigious Serbian literary a -
Iñaki Piñuel
Iñaki Piñuel y Zabala (Madrid, 1965) es un psicólogo, ensayista, investigador y profesor español de la materia Organización y Recursos Humanos en la Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Ciencias del Trabajo de la Universidad de Alcalá.
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Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Андреев; 1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. His first story published was About a Poor Student, a narrative based upon his own experiences. It was not, however, until Gorky discovered him by stories appearing in the Moscow Courier and elsewhere that Andreyevs literary career really began. His first collection of stories appeared in 1901, and sold a quarter-million copies in short time. He was hailed as a new star in Russia, where his name soon became a byword. He published his s
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Maria Judite de Carvalho
MARIA JUDITE DE CARVALHO nasceu em Lisboa a 18 de Setembro de 1921. Estreou-se com o livro de contos Tanta Gente, Mariana (1959) e foi galardoada com o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco pela colectânea As Palavras Poupadas (1961). Além de contos, publicou romances e crónicas, cultivando também o jornalismo. Na sua obra reflecte-se o dramatismo da solidão do mundo urbano, onde há muita gente e pouca alma. Publicou Paisagem Sem Barcos (1965), Os Armários Vazios (1966), Flores ao Telefone (1968), Os Idólatras (1969), Tempo das Mercês (1973), A Janela Fingida (1975), O Homem no Arame (1976), Além do Quadro (1983), Seta Despedida (1995), A Flor que Havia na Água Parada (1998) e Havemos de Rir? (1998). Reuniu parte das suas crónicas em Este Tempo (199
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Conceição Lima
Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima (Santana, December 8, 1961), also known as Conceição Lima, is a Santomean poet from the town of Santana in São Tomé, one of two islands in the small nation of São Tomé and Príncipe situated in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western coast of Africa. She studied journalism in Portugal and worked in radio, television and in the print press in her native country. In 1993, Conceição Lima founded the weekly independent publication O País Hoje (The Country Today) which she directed and wrote for during its circulation. She received a degree in Afro-Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from King's College in London. Lima resides in London where she works as a journalist and producer for the BBC Portuguese Language Services.
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Francisco Coloane
"The Jack London of South America"
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He was born in the southern Chilean island of Chiloé. Among his most famous works (translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Polish and Dutch) are: "La Tierra del Fuego se Apagó" (Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out, 1945), "Golfo de Penas" (Gulf of Sorrow, 1957), "El Camino de la Ballena" (The Whale's Path, 1962), "El Guanaco Blanco" (The White Guanaco, 1980), and "El Corazón del Témpano" (The Heart of the Iceberg, 1991).
Coloane was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Chilean National Prize for Literature) in 1964. In 1997, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Republic, where he won considerable notoriety for his work in the 1990s.
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James Clavell
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape, The Fly and To Sir, with Love.
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Amyr Klink
Amyr Klink (born September 25, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is an explorer and sailor. His project "Antarctica 360" was circumnavigating the Antarctic continent on his own, in 79 days in 1998.
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Klink has written seven books about his voyages, including Between Two Poles about his trip from Antarctica to the Arctic Pole, starting in 1989 and taking 642 days. Klink helped in the construction of the polar vessel used in this trip, named Paratii after the town of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
His chronicles 100 Days Between Sea and Sky reports on how he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 100 days on his own by rowing a small boat with his arms in 1984 from Africa to the state of Bahia in Brazil. The food portions in this trip were compac -
Amara Lakhous
عمارة لخوص روائي جزائري مقيم في إيطاليا يكتب باللغتين العربية والايطالية. من أعماله «البق والقرصان»، التي ترجمت إلى الايطالية، و»كيف ترضع من الذئبة دون أن تعضك»، التي أعاد كتابتها بالايطالية وحولت إلى فيلم سينمائي. حاز على جائزة فلايانو الأدبية الدولية وجائزة المكتبيين الجزائريين
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Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Living Islam as a Minority.” His first novel, Le cimici e il pirata (Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italy’s prestigious Flaiano pri -
Robert Jackman
Robert Jackman is a best selling author, inner child expert and a board certified psychotherapist with the National Board of Certified Counselors who has helped many people on their healing path for more than twenty years. In addition to his private practice, he has taught master’s level classes at National Louis University in the Chicago area, led outpatient groups in clinics and hospitals and been a guest speaker on podcasts, panels and telesummits on the topics of codependency, boundary setting, couples communication, inner child, mindfulness and the role of spirituality in healing, and participated in numerous weekend retreats with Victories for Men.
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Diego Marani
Diego Marani works as a senior linguist for the European Union in Brussels.
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Every week he writes a column for a Swiss newspaper in Europanto, a language he has invented. He also published a collection of short stories in Europanto, in France.
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Margarida Rebelo Pinto
Margarida Rebelo Pinto licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas na Universidade Clássica de Lisboa e iniciou a actividade de jornalista em várias publicações como: O Independente, Se7e, Marie Claire e Diário de Notícias. Enquanto escritora, escreveu seis romances, quatro livros de crónicas, um livro para crianças e uma biografia.
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O seu primeiro livro, Sei lá, publicado em 1999, foi um dos maiores sucessos de vendas em Portugal, atingindo números de vendas pouco usuais para o país. Mais tarde, com os seus títulos seguintes, rapidamente alcançou um êxito similar. Actualmente, as suas obras encontram-se traduzidas na Espanha, Brasil, Países Baixos, Bélgica, Alemanha e Lituânia.
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Maria João Lopo de Carvalho
Maria João Lopo de Carvalho nasceu em 1962 e licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Professora de Português e de Inglês no ensino público e privado, representante em Portugal dos colégios ingleses Pilgrims, fundou e dirigiu a Know How, Sociedade de Ensino de Línguas e a Know How, Edições Produções e Publicidade destinada à tradução e à criação de livros personalizados para crianças e à conceção anual do Guia da Criança.
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Publicou o primeiro romance, o best-seller Virada do Avesso, em 2000 e Acidentes de Percurso, em 2001.
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Angelos Terzakis
Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.
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He was born in Nafplion in 1907 and lived there until 1915, when he moved to Athens, where he finished school and studied law at the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in Greek literature in 1925 with the short story collection The Forgotten. He took part in the war of 1940 and documented this experience in some of his short stories and especially in his book April. In 1969 he was awarded the prize of Literary Excellence (Αριστείο Γραμμάτων) of the Athens Academy.
He died on 3 August 1979 in Athens.
His son, Dimitri Terzakis, is a noted composer.
Novels
Prisoners (Δεσμώτες, 1932)
The Decay of the Tough Ones (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933)
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Robert Pogue Harrison
Robert Pogue Harrison is a critic, radio host, and the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University. His most recent book is Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age.
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Achilleas Sirigos
Achilleas Sirigos was born in Athens on 24th May 1973.
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He undertook a Law degree at Athens University and fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a sportscaster at SKAI TV at the age of 21. Since 1994 he has written more than 1.000 articles in the biggest Greek magazines and newspapers (including interviews with Paolo Coehlo, Michael Jordan, Luc Besson, Professor Nanopoulos and many others). In addition he has edited 2 books, hosted TV and radio shows and worked in more than 50 prime time TV shows as an executive producer, project manager or editor in chief, aired by the biggest TV stations in Greece (MEGA, ANT1, STAR, SKAI, ALPHA). He has also worked with all the leading Production Companies in Greece (ENA Productions, ANOSI, Studio Ata, -
Jeffrey E. Young
Jeffrey E. Young is an American psychologist best known for having developed schema therapy. He is the founder of the Schema Therapy Institute.
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After earning an undergraduate degree at Yale University, he obtained a higher education degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where he then pursued postdoctoral studies with Aaron T. Beck.
He has written numerous books on cognitive behavioral therapy and schema therapy. His two most famous books are Schema Therapy (for professionals), and Reinventing Your Life (for the general public). -
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDERSEN nasceu no Porto, a 6 de Novembro de 1919. Entre 1936 e 1939 frequentou o curso de Filologia Clássica na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, que não concluiu. Foi Presidente da Assembleia Geral da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores e Deputada à Assembleia Constituinte, pelo Partido Socialista (1975). A sua obra reparte-se pela ficção e pela poesia, embora seja nesta última que a sua inspiração clássica dá ao seu verso uma dimensão solar e luminosa, que permite ouvir nitidamente a palavra com todo o peso da sua musicalidade limpa, ao encontro do modelo clássico. Entre as suas obras poéticas contam-se Coral (1950), Mar Novo (1958), Livro Sexto (1962), Geografia (1967), Navegações (1983), Ilhas (1989
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Tiago Rebelo
Tiago Rebelo é um dos romancistas mais brilhantes das letras portuguesas. Na última década manteve uma produção literária constante e os seus livros tornaram-se há muito presença habitual nos lugares cimeiros das principais tabelas de vendas nacionais. Com títulos disponíveis em diversos países, desde o Brasil a Angola e Moçambique, foi igualmente editado em Itália e na Argentina. Depois dos enormes sucessos aplaudidos pelo público e pela crítica, O Tempo dos Amores Perfeitos e O Último Ano em Luanda, o seu útlimo romance, O Homem Que Sonhava Ser Hitler, editado em 2010 pela ASA, é um magistral e absorvente relato de uma face desconhecida da sociedade actual. A par da actividade literária, Tiago Rebelo tem já uma longa carreira de jornalist
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara lives in New York City.
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Vuk Drašković
Vuk Drašković (1946, Međa kod Žitišta), pisac, političar, osnivač i predsednik Srpskog pokreta obnove. Po završenim studijama prava u Beogradu 1968, radio kao novinar u Tanjugu i dopisnik iz afričkih zemalja. Od 1980. posvetio se književnosti, a od kraja 80-ih godina do danas je i politički angažovan.
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Osnovao je stranku Srpski pokret obnove 1990. godine i bio najsnažniji i najuticajniji predstavnik opozicije i protivnik režima Slobodana Miloševića u poslednjoj deceniji HH veka, zbog čega je više puta, sa suprugom Danicom, bio zatvaran i izlagan policijskoj torturi, a nekoliko puta i meta atentata kriminalizovanih struktura državne bezbednosti.
Objavio je romane „Sudija“ (1982), „Nož“ (1982, ekranizovan 1999), „Molitva“ (1985), „Ruski konzul“ -
Elio Vittorini
Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.
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Vittorini was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and throughout his childhood moved around Sicily with his father, a railroad worker. Several times he ran away from home, culminating in his leaving Sicily for good in 1924. For a brief period, he found employment as a constr -
Roberto Innocenti
Italian illustrator Roberto Innocenti (born 1940) is known for his highly detailed, painterly style and his devotion to realistic representation in such classic works as Cinderella, The Adventures of Pinocchio, A Christmas Carol, and Nutcracker. He is also the illustrator of an original Holocaust tale, Rose Blanche, that has been highly publicized throughout Europe and the United States. Innocenti's illustrations are unmistakable, demonstrating a delicacy of palette as well as a refinement of line, both of which are surprising in light of the fact that Innocenti is completely self-trained in art.
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Ray Loriga
Jorge Loriga Torrenova, más conocido como Ray Loriga es un escritor, guionista y director de cine español.
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Tras trabajar en diversos oficios y publicar relatos en diferentes publicaciones como Underground o El canto de la tripulación, debutó en 1992 con su novela Lo peor de todo. Ésta tuvo gran éxito de público y crítica y fue publicada en toda Europa, como ejemplo de la literatura de la llamada Generación X, término que al autor le ha resultado siempre más que dudoso. -
Walter F. Otto
Deutscher Altphilologe, der besonders für seine Arbeiten über Bedeutung und Nachwirkung der griechischen Religion und Mythologie bekannt ist, vor allem durch das Standardwerk Die Götter Griechenlands (zuerst 1929).
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Tim Bowler
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Tim Bowler is one of the UK’s most compelling and original writers for teenagers. He was born in Leigh-on-Sea and after studying Swedish at University he worked in forestry, the timber trade, teaching and translating before becoming a full-time writer. He lives with his wife in a small village in Devon and his workroom is an old stone outhouse known to friends as ‘Tim’s Bolthole’.
Tim has written twenty books and won fifteen awards, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for River Boy. His most recent novel is the gripping Bloodchild and his provocative Blade series is being hailed as a groundbreaking work of fiction. He has been described by the Sunday Te -
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
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It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h -
Hermann Hesse
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.
In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great -
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić) is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.
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He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams, or people with unique talents in obscure fields. -
Paul Lafargue
French revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.
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Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
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Carlo Michelstaedter
Carlo Michelstaedter (3 June 1887 - 17 October 1910) was an Italian writer, philosopher, and man of letters.
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Carlo Michelstaedter was born in Gorizia, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as the youngest of four children in a well-to-do Italian-speaking Jewish family. From his father Alberto, the head of an insurance office and president of the Gabinetto di Lettura goriziano, he received a push towards literary study; from his mother Emma Luzzatto, a great love for family and country.
He was a scrappy and introverted boy, but by the end of high school (completed in Gorizia), he developed into a brilliant, athletic, intelligent youth. He enrolled in the department of mathematics in Vienna, but soon moved to Flore -
Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez
Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez nasceu em Coimbra, em 1958. É licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas – Variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses – pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Vive em Lisboa e tem como passatempo a pintura.
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Foi professora de Português, Inglês e Francês, no ensino particular e público, entre 1982 e 1997, em Alverca do Ribatejo, Manique e Lisboa.
Muito cedo sentiu despertar o gosto pelas histórias ouvidas e lidas em família. Por volta dos nove anos, começou a sentir o gosto pela escrita, escrevendo poemas e histórias com regularidade. Iniciou a sua carreira na escrita em 1989, quando ainda era professora.
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Stuart Chase
Stuart Chase was an American economist and engineer trained at MIT. His writings covered topics as diverse as general semantics and physical economy. His hybrid background of engineering and economics places him in the same philosophical camp as R. Buckminster Fuller. Chase's thought was shaped by Henry George, Thorstein Veblen and Fabian socialism. Chase spent his early political career supporting "a wide range of reform causes: the single tax, women's suffrage, birth control and socialism." Chase's early books The Tragedy of Waste (1925) and Your Money's Worth (1928) were notable for their criticism of corporate advertising and their advocacy of consumer protection. Although not a Marxist, Chase admired the planned economy of the Soviet U
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Tricia Hedge
Tricia Hedge is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Nottingham University. Since 1972 she has taught students and teachers in universities in Sweden, Japan and the UK on a wide variety of programmes: English for Academic Purposes, English for Professional Purposes, and both pre-service and in-service education.
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Tricia is the author of Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom and Resource Books for Teachers: Writing, the first edition of which won the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh award. She is also co-editor of Power, Pedagogy and Practice and founder editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library series, published by Oxford University Press. She is a former editor of ELT Journal. -
António Damásio
Damásio studied medicine at the University of Lisbon Medical School in Portugal, where he also did his medical residency rotation and completed his doctorate. Later, he moved to the United States as a research fellow at the Aphasia Research Center in Boston. His work there on behavioral neurology was done under the supervision of Norman Geschwind.
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As a researcher, Dr. Damásio's main interest is the neurobiology of the mind, especially neural systems which subserve memory, language, emotion, and decision-making. His research has helped to elucidate the neural basis for the emotions and has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. Damásio has formulated the somatic markers hypothesis.
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Barry Hatton
British-born Associated Press correspondent Barry Hatton has made his home in Portugal for over 25 years. He continues to cover Portuguese politics for the AP while writing books on the side.
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Namik Kabil
Namik Kabil djetinjstvom i prvom mladošću Trebinjac, rođen je 1968. u Tuzli, a prije rata je umjereno neuspješno studirao medicinu. Kada je u Trebinju započela vojna mobilizacija za napad na Dubrovnik, sklanja se na nekoliko mjeseci u rodnu Tuzlu. Kada je i u Tuzli počeo rat, preko američke humanitarne agencije bježi preko oceana i stiže u Los Angeles. Godina je 1993, i sljedećih devet godina ostaje u Americi. Potom se vraća i nastanjuje u Sarajevu, gdje nikad ranije nije živio. Postaje šire poznat kao scenarist filma “Kod amidže Idriza”, redatelja Pjera Žalice.
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Kabilov dokumentarni film 'Informativni razgovori' dobitnik je nagrade "Srce Sarajeva" na Sarajevo Film Festivalu 2007. godine, a dugometražni igrani film 'Čuvari noći' imao je svjet -
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 -
Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
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Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002). -
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the La Nación newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels, La Novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995). In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Martínez was the director.
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On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of poli -
Jesús Marchamalo
Jesús Marchamalo García (Madrid, 1960) es periodista y escritor, y cuenta con una amplia experiencia en medios de comunicación. Comenzó a trabajar en el diario Pueblo a principios de los ochenta, de donde pasó a Informaciones y, posteriormente, a Radio Nacional y Televisión Española, donde ha desarrollado gran parte de su carrera. Su trabajo ha merecido importantes galardones, entre ellos el Premio ÍCARO de Periodismo, 1989; Premio Internacional de Radio URTI, París 1989; Premio Internacional de Radio, Montecarlo, 1991, y Premio Nacional de Periodismo Miguel Delibes, 1999.En Radio Nacional trabajó durante más de una década como reportero, guionista y como director y presentador de diversos programas en Radio 3, primero, y después en Radio 1
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Vittorio Zucconi
Vittorio Zucconi, nato a Bastiglia il 16 agosto 1944, è un giornalista e scrittore italiano.
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Laureato in lettere e filosofia all'Università degli Studi di Milano, è il figlio del giornalista Guglielmo Zucconi (che fu direttore de Il Giorno). Ha la doppia cittadinanza, italiana e, più recentemente, americana.
È stato corrispondente da Bruxelles per La Stampa di Torino, da Parigi per la Repubblica, dalla Russia durante il periodo della Guerra Fredda e dal Giappone. Da diversi anni vive a Washington, dove ricopre l'incarico di corrispondente dagli Stati Uniti per la Repubblica. In passato ha lavorato per il Corriere della Sera e La Stampa.
È attualmente direttore del quotidiano on-line la Repubblica.it e di Radio Capital. Cura inoltre una rubrica -
Mário de Carvalho
Mário de Carvalho nasceu em 1944, em Lisboa. Licenciou-se em Direito pela Universidade de Lisboa em 1969. Desde jovem que se envolveu na luta antifascista, tendo estado preso ainda na década de 1960 e durante o serviço militar. A sua luta política leva-o ao exílio, primeiro para a França, depois para a Suécia, em 1973. Após o 25 de Abril regressa a Portugal. A sua estreia literária dá-se em 1981, tendo desde aí publicado regularmente numa grande diversidade de géneros: romance, drama, contos, guiões.
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A sua escrita é extremamente versátil e torna-se impossível incluí-lo numa escola literária. A crítica considera-o um dos mais importantes ficcionistas da actualidade e a sua obra encontra-se traduzida em vários países (Inglaterra, França, Gréci -
Yehuda Berg
Yehuda Berg is a renowned authority on Kabbalah. Touted as "the people's kabbalist," he shares these teachings as a technology to improve everyday life. In 2007 Newsweek named Yehuda one of the top 5 rabbi's in the US. Yehuda believes that only by transforming our negativity can we unlock our greatest blessings. A bestselling author whose books include The Power of Kabbalah and 72 Names of God, Yehuda is a true spiritual activist. He lives in LA with his wife and 5 children."
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José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco Berny fue un poeta y ensayista mexicano nacido en Ciudad de México en 1939.
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Empezó a brillar desde muy joven en el panorama cultural mexicano, gracias a su dominio de las formas clásicas y modernas y al enfoque universal de su poesía.
Además de poeta y prosista se ha consagrado también como eximio traductor, trabajando como director y editor de colecciones bibliográficas y diversas publicaciones y suplementos culturales. Ha sido docente universitario e investigador al servicio de entidades gubernamentales.
Entre sus galardones se cuentan: Premio Nacional de Poesía, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Literario, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Magda Donato, Premio José Asunción Silva en 1996,el Premio Octavio Paz en el año 2003 -
Fernando Egídio Reis
FERNANDO REIS nasceu em 1960. Doutorou-se em História e Filosofia das Ciências pela Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa em 2007, com a dissertação Os Periódicos Portugueses de Emigração (1808-1822) - as ciências e a transformação do país. Concluiu o Mestrado em História e Filosofia das Ciências em 1999 pela mesma Universidade. Foi professor de História desde 1982 e esteve integrado no Quadro da Escola Secundária Cacilhas-Tejo, em Almada, desde 1991.
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Exerceu diversos cargos nas escolas, a par da actividade lectiva. Foi formador de professores nas áreas de Didáctica Específica da História, Avaliação Externa e Tecnologias Educativas e colaborou com o Ministério da Educação na área disciplinar de História do 3.º cic -
Pilar del Río
Nascida em Sevilha, em 1950, e formada em jornalismo, Pilar del Río iniciou a sua carreira profissional na rádio pública, tendo trabalhado em meios como TVE, Canal Sur, Cadena Ser e El País. Em 1986 conheceu o escritor José Saramago, com quem se casou dois anos depois em Lisboa, onde fixou residência.
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Em 2010, após a morte do marido, Pilar adotou a nacionalidade portuguesa e volta a morar em Lisboa para presidir a Fundação José Saramago. Recebeu a Medalha da Andalucía e o Prémio Luso-Espanhol de Arte e Cultura. É autora do livro “A Intuição da ilha. Os dias de José Saramago em Lanzarote”, publicado em 2022. Desde 2013 está pessoalmente envolvida na elaboração da Declaração Universal dos Deveres Humanos, proposta que parte de uma ideia de Jos -
Nuno Palma
Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. Research Fellow at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. Research Fellow at CEPR, London.
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Carlos Reis
CARLOS REIS nasceu em 28 de setembro de 1950, em Angra do Heroísmo. É Licenciado em Filologia Românica (1974) e doutorado em Literatura Portuguesa (1983) pela Faculdade de Letras Universidade de Coimbra, onde é professor catedrático, desde 1990. Foi professor convidado das Universidades de Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Wisconsin-Madison, Massachusetts-Dartmouth e da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.
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Foi ainda Diretor do Centro de Estudos de Língua e Cultura Portuguesa da Universidade Aberta (1988-1998), Diretor da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, entre Maio de 1998 e Outubro de 2002 e reitor da Universidade Aberta (2002-06). Coordenador de várias coleções, de onde se destacam a História Crítica da Literatura Portugues -
Milorad Pavić
Milorad Pavić was a Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian.
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Pavić wrote five novels which were translated into English: Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel, Landscape Painted With Tea, Inner Side of the Wind, Last Love in Constantinople and Unique Item as well as many short stories not in English translation. -
José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera Salas was a Colombian lawyer and poet primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.
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After a failed attempt to be elected for the senate, he was appointed Legal Secretary of the Colombo-Venezuelan Border Commission to determine the limits with Venezuela, there he had the opportunity to travel through the Colombian jungles, rivers, and mountains, giving him a first hand experience of the subjects he would later write. Disappointed with the lack of resources offered by his government for his trip, he abandoned the commission and continued travelling on his own.
In this venture he became familiar with life in the Colombian plains and with problems related to the extraction of rubber in the Amazon jungle, a matter that wou