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Ferdinand Oyono

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for irony that shows how easily people can be fooled. Beginning in the 1960s, he had a long career of service as a diplomat and as a minister in the government, ultimately serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1997 and then as Minister of State for Culture from 1997 to 2007.

Oyono's novels were written in French in the late 1950s and were only translated into English a decade or two afterward.

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Mason Funk

Mason Funk was born in Los Angeles in 1958, graduated from Stanford University, and lived in Tacoma, Washington, Portland, Maine and Lisbon, Portugal before returning to Los Angeles and beginning his career as an award-winning writer/producer of non-fiction television programs and documentary films. His TV and film projects have covered topics ranging from Mother Teresa to the history of secret White House recordings to the long-term effects of concussions in professional football to an American teenager's quest to keep her undocumented Guatemalan mother from being deported. He has received two Emmy nominations for his work in television. In 2016, Mason launched OUTWORDS to capture the timeless, inspiring stories of LGBTQ pioneers and elder

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Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a Mauritanian citizen who has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp since August 4, 2002. In 2005, he wrote the nonfiction book Guantánamo Diary , which was published 10 years later.

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Mustafa Khalifa

Mustafa Khalifa, also spelled as Moustafa Khalifa (born in 1948) is a Syrian novelist, political writer, and topographer.

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Samar Yazbek

- Syrian writer
- born in Jableh city, 1970
- published her first stories collection in 1999
- wrote many scripts for movies and TV series while working in the Syrian state TV, and she produced and presented the show of "Library Story" in 2008
- worked in Al-Hayat newspaper for 10 years, and published in many Syrian and Arab newspapers
- published four novels, and three books
- her A Woman in The Crossfire was translated into five languages
- co-founded in 2012 "Women NOW" development organization that is concerned with educational and economical empowerment of women and children

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Kim Barker

Kim Barker was the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009, based in New Delhi and Islamabad.

Barker is now a metro reporter at The New York Times, specializing in investigative reporting and narrative writing. Before joining The Times in mid-2014, Ms. Barker was an investigative reporter at ProPublica, writing mainly about campaign finance and the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

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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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

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.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Youssef Ziedan

(Arabic: يوسف زيدان)

Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.

Awards and Grants:
- 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation
- Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.
- ‘Abdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Fawā’ih al-Jamāl wa Fawā’ih al Jalāl- ‘Fragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic’ by Nijm al-Dīn Kubrā.
- A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.

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Iraj Pezeshkzad

Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My Uncle Napoleon") published in the early 1970s.

Iraj Pezeshkzad was educated in Iran and France where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines. His novels include "Haji Mam-ja'far in Paris", and "Mashalah Khan in the Court of Haroun al-Rashid". He has also written several plays and various articles on the Irania

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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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Basem Khandaqji

Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024.
He has studied at An-Najah National University and Al-Quds University. He was arrested by the Israeli defence forces on November 2, 2004, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has published several novels, poems, and studies from prison.

باسم خندقجي، كاتب وشاعر فلسطيني من مواليد 1983. درس في جامعة النجاح الوطنية في قسم الصحافة والإعلام. اعتُقِل من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلية في 2004، وحكم عليه بالسجن مدى الحياة.
له عدة روايات ودواوين شعر كتبها من داخل السجن.
فازت روايته «قناع بلون السماء» بالجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية 2024.

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Melisa Kesmez

MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.

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Mustafa Khalifa

Mustafa Khalifa, also spelled as Moustafa Khalifa (born in 1948) is a Syrian novelist, political writer, and topographer.

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Mustafa Halife
مصطفى خليفة

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Azher Jirjees

Iraqi author

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Mohamed Samir Nada (محمد سمير ندا)

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محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القترة بين عاميّ ١٩٨٤ و١٩٩٠. عقب ذلك شدّ والديه الرحال مجدّدًا، غربًا هذه المرّة، ليقضي مرحلة صباه في طرابلس-ليبيا، حتّى عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر مجدّدًا عام ١٩٩٦.

تخرّج في كليّة التجارة، وعمل محاسبًا في المجال السياحي، حتّى استقرّ به الحال في منصب ماليّ وإداريّ في إحدى الشركات العاملة في مجال السياحة والمطاعم. له أخّين هو الأوسط بينهما. متزوّج منذ عام ٢٠٠٨، ولديه ولدين.

والده هو سمير ندا (١٩٣٨-٢٠١٣)، الأديب المصري المتفرّد الذي لمع نجمه في ستينيّات القرن الماضي، وقدّم للأدب المصري قامات أدبية شابة آنذاك؛ مثل جمال الغيطاني ويوسف القعيد وغيرهما. كما

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Bothayna Al-Essa

Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction in their category for translated literature.

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Nikos Kazantzakis

(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης)
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.

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Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a late-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a Rotary Scholar in Tunisia. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland, his writing has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, and the Georgia Review. He has received scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. When he isn’t writing, he teaches creative writing to third and fourth graders.

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Božena Slančíková Timrava

Slovenská prozaička a dramatička.

Narodila sa v rodine evanjelického farára Pavla Slančíka, ktorý bol spoluzakladateľom Matice slovenskej. Mala desať súrodencov (jej brat Bohuslav, evanjelický farár, bol jej dvojčaťom), z ktorých 6 sa dožilo dospelého veku, a viacerí z nich boli neskôr literárne činní. Vzdelanie získala najprv v rodisku, potom ju učil otec, v Banskej Bystrici ukončila 4. triedu meštianskej školy. Nevydala sa, vďaka čomu mala celý život existenčné problémy. Hoci sa neustále snažila oslobodiť od rodiny, jej pokusy nájsť si prácu neboli veľmi úspešné. Chvíľu bola spoločníčkou vdovy v Dolnom Kubíne, neskôr sa stala v Martine opatrovateľkou zbierok Slovenského národného múzea, no vydržala tam tiež len krátko. V roku 1909 sa presť

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Snigdha Poonam

Snigdha Poonam is a national affairs writer with The Hindustan Times in Delhi. Her work has appeared in Scroll, The Caravan, The Times of India, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times. Her article 'Lady Singham’s Mission Against Love' was runner-up in the Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize, 2015. She won the 2017 Journalist of Change award of Bournemouth University for an investigation of student suicides that appeared on Huffington Post. Dreamers is her first book. It won 2018’s Crossword Book Award (Jury) for nonfiction and was longlisted for PEN America Literary Awards. Dreamers also featured in many best-books lists including The Financial Times’ and The Hindu’s.

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Craig Higginson

Craig Higginson is an internationally acclaimed writer who lives in Johannesburg. His plays have been performed and produced at the National Theatre (London), the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Trafalgar Studios (on London’s West End), the Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Stadsteater (Stockholm), Salisbury Theatre, the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow), Live Theatre (Newcastle), Next Theatre (Chicago), Theatre 503 and the Finborough Theatre (both London), the Market Theatre (Johannesburg) and several other theatres and festivals around the world.

Craig's plays include: Laughter in the Dark, Lord of the Flies, Truth in Translation (co-writer), Dream of the Dog, Ten Bush (co-writer), The Jungle Book, The Girl in the Yellow Dress, Little Foot and Th

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Masoud Kimiai

Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, Come Stranger, in 1968. With his second film, Qeysar (1969), he and Dariush Mehrjui with The film Cow, caused a historical change in Iranian film industry. But Dariush Mehrjui's film with more artistic values has sustained its level of greatness through history of Iranian cinema . Kaisar became a great success at the box office and opened the way for many young, talented filmmakers who never had a chance in the industry before. He also received many good reviews by manipulating the film critics. His films deal with people in the margin of the society with his anti-hero characters that die at the end. Many directors of commercial films imitated his Kaiser/ Qeysar for abou

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Fadi Azzam

Fadi Azzam (Arabic: فادي عزام) is a Syrian journalist and fiction writer.
He studied Arabic at Damascus University and graduated in 1998. He now lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.
His first collection of short stories "Thahtaniat" was published in March 2010.
His debut novel Sarmada has been translated into English.

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