Kornel Filipowicz
Kornel Filipowicz was a Polish novelist, poet and screenwriter, most notable for his short stories.
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Michał Bilewicz
Polski psycholog społeczny, socjolog, publicysta, doktor habilitowany nauk społecznych, profesor nadzwyczajny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Kierownik Centrum Badań nad Uprzedzeniami UW oraz wykładowca na Wydziale Psychologii UW. Był zastępcą przewodniczącego Komitetu Psychologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk oraz członkiem zarządu Międzynarodowego Towarzystwa Psychologii Politycznej.
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Zośka Papużanka
Z wykształcenia teatrolog, pracuje jako nauczycielka języka polskiego. Za debiutancką powieść Szopka (Świat Książki, Warszawa 2012) była nominowana do Paszportów Polityki 2012 oraz do Nagrody Literackiej Nike 2013. Wg opinii zamieszczonych na portalu culture.pl Szopka to: „bez wątpienia najlepszy, najgłośniejszy i najbardziej obiecujący literacki debiut roku”. Opowiadania publikowała w Tygodniku Powszechnym i w Radarze. Recenzje literackie pisała do Nowych Książek i Tygodnika Powszechnego. Tłumaczenia jej recenzji ukazały się w piśmie New Eastern Europe.
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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych konkursach na Historyczną Książkę Roku (im. K. Moczarskiego i O. Haleckiego), cenionej biografii Kazimiery Iłłakowiczówny Iłła (Marginesy 2017), nominowanej do Nagrody im. Józefa Łukaszewicza, oraz bestsellerowej książki Służące do wszystkiego (Marginesy 2018), która znalazła się na liście dziesięciu najważniejszych książek 2018 roku dwumiesięcznika "Książki. Magazyn do Czytania" i dostała nominację do Nagrody Historycznej "Polityki" oraz Nagrody "Newsweeka" im. T. Torańskiej. Jej najnowsza książka Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Marginesy
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Kanae Minato
Kanae MINATO (湊 かなえ, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thriller.
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She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions (告白, Kokuhaku) became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. The movie Confession directed by Tetsuya Nakashima was nominated to 2011 Academy Award.
She has been described in Japan as "the queen of iyamisu"(eww mystery), a subgenre of mystery fiction which deals with grisly episodes and the dark side of human nature. -
Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.
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She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).
Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer. -
Magdalena Grzebałkowska
Magdalena Grzebałkowska ukończyła historię na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim, jest reporterką "Gazety Wyborczej".
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Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published fifteen books of stories, essays, and novels, including Enough About Love (Other Press, 2011), The Sextine Chapel (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), and A Thousand Pearls (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011).
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Yan Ge
Yan Ge (Chinese: 颜歌; born 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer Dai Yuexing (戴月行).
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Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in 1984 in Sichuan, China. She began publishing in 1994. She completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing uses a lot of Sichuanese, rather than Standard Chinese (Mandarin).[1] People’s Literature (Renmin Wenxue 人民文学) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's ‘20 under 40’ – as one of China's twenty future literary masters. In 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize (华语文学传媒大奖 最佳新人奖). -
Han Kang
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
Wit Szostak
Wit Szostak (pseudonim, ur. 1976) to polski pisarz, z wykształcenia doktor filozofii, absolwent Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej. Mieszka w Krakowie. Członek Towarzystwa Tischnerowskiego i miłośnik twórczości Tolkiena. Jest znawcą muzyki ludowej, od kilku lat zapisuje nuty ostatnich skrzypkow ludowych, gra na skrzypcach, gęślach i dudach.
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Jako autor debiutował w roku 1999 opowiadaniem „Kłopoty z błaznem” zamieszczonym w „Nowej Fantastyce”.
Jak sam mówi, używa pseudonimu nie po to, by się ukrywać, lecz aby zasygnalizować, że rozgranicza różne dziedziny swoich zainteresowań, jako że pod swoim prawdziwym nazwiskiem publikuje teksty dotyczące filozofii. -
Wiesław Myśliwski
Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist. In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He is twice the winner of the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize) for Widnokrąg (1996) and Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli (2006).
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His first novel translated into English was The Palace, translated by Ursula Phillips. His novel Stone Upon Stone (Kamień na kamieniu), won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award, translated by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books). -
Marek Hłasko
One of the most popular Polish writers of the 20th century. Author of numerous short stories and novels. Some of his works were adapted into films. His works were ruled by the idea of an evil dominating over good, inevitable loss of ideas in clash with the reality, as well as with the masculinist point of view. He wrote about protest of a moral nature. In his works he depicted the lives of the lower classes as dominated by hopelessness and cynicism. His characters dream about changes which come out to be vain.
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After initial approval of his talent, his nonconformism and critique of communism forced him to leave Poland, and he spent the rest of his life abroad (mainly in Israel, Germany and U.S.A.) He died in Wiesbaden (Germany) in 1969. The -
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher of Jewish descent. He was regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century.
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At a very early age, Schulz developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lwów University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his profession as a schoolteacher, apparently maintaining it only because it was his so -
A.A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.
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A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the atten -
Yōko Ogawa
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
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A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og -
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l -
Virginia Woolf
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
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During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." -
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation: [vʲisˈwava ʂɨmˈbɔrska], born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niektórzy lubią poezję] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.
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Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as -
Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
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Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
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Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperh -
Andrés Neuman
Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados (de madre violinista, de origen ítalo-español, y padre oboísta, de origen judío alemán), tiene la ciudadanía argentina y española. La historia novelada de su familia, infancia argentina y ancestros europeos puede leerse en su libro Una vez Argentina. A los catorce años se trasladó a Granada, donde realizó sus estudios secundarios, obtuvo la licenciatura en Filología Hispánica por su Universidad, cursó el doctorado e impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana.
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Neuman debutó en la literatura como poeta y narrador breve. Su primera publicación fue un cuaderno de poemas titulado Simulacros, aparecido a principios de 1998 en una pequeña editorial de Granada. A finales de 1999 se publicó su primera novela, -
Afşin Kum
1972 İzmir doğumlu. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde bilgisayar mühendisliği, Bilgi Üniversitesi'nde sinema-televizyon öğrenimi gördü. Çeşitli kurumlarda yazılımcı ve yönetici olarak çalıştı. Doksanlı yıllardan itibaren müzik ve senaryo çalışmalarında bulundu. Afili Filintalar sitesinde ve Ot dergisinde deneme ve öyküleri yayınlandı. 2016 yılı Kasım ayında ilk romanı Sıcak Kafa, 2020 Şubat ayında da ikinci romanı Kübra okurla buluştu.
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