Krisztina Tóth
Krisztina Tóth is one of the most highly acclaimed Hungarian poets. She is the winner of several awards, including the Graves Prize (1996), Déry Tibor Prize (1996), József Attila Prize (2000), and her poetry has been translated into many languages. She lives in Budapest.
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Mária Szepes
Szepes was born Magdolna Scherbach into a Hungarian family of theater stars in Budapest. Her father, Sándor Papir, was a bon vivant and great star of Budapest's stages. Her mother was primadonna. Her parents and her brother were to her like "brothers and sisters in spirit", as well as she admitted only spiritual relationship: "Everything else is just experience, engagement, disengagement – karma."[clarification needed]
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From 1916 to 1933, she appeared as a film actress (mostly under the name Magda Papir). One year after marrying Béla Szepes in 2 January 1931, she accompanied him to Berlin, where they lived until Hungary's Anschluß towards war's end. In her book Magie der Liebe ("Magic of Love"), Szepes writes about the marriage, which lasted -
Felisberto Hernández
Uruguayan writer and pianist.
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György Dragomán
György Dragomán is a Hungarian author and literary translator. His best-known work, The White King (2005) has been translated to at least 28 langugages.
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He was born in Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely) Transylvania, Romania. In 1988, his family moved to Hungary. He attended high school in the western Hungarian city of Szombathely, then college in Budapest, getting a degree in English and Philosophy. He has received various literary awards for his writings, such as the Sándor Bródy prize. His first novel, Genesis Undone, was published in 2002. He has become famous because of his second book, The White King, which received very favorable reviews from many influential newspapers, such as The New York Times. It is a collection of loosely connected st -
Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Believer. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.
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Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize -
Alba de Céspedes
Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
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Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war -
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989. -
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.
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Although Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.
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Imre Madách
Imre Madách de Sztregova et de Kelecsény was a Hungarian writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust. The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of 19th century Hungarian poets.
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He was born in Alsósztregova, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Dolná Strehová, Slovakia) in 1823. The Madách family was able to trace their descent as far back as the 12th century; with a medieval knight, a Turk-beating hero and a Kuruc officer recorded down the line of the family tree. But a poet was also remembered; Gáspár Madách from the 17th century. And the ties of ki -
Mór Jókai
Mór Jókai, born Móric Jókay de Ásva, outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai or Moriz Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was born in Komárom, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Komárno, Slovakia, southern part remains in Hungary).
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Attila Bartis
Attila Bartis s-a nascut in 1968 la Tirgu-Mures. In 1984 s-a mutat, impreuna cu familia sa, in Ungaria, iar in prezent traieste la Budapesta. Este un fotograf reputat si, totodata, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuti si mai apreciati scriitori maghiari ai momentului, cartile sale fiind traduse in numeroase limbi. A debutat in 1995 cu romanul A seta (Plimbarea), urmat de volumul de povestiri A keklo para (Ceata albastruie, 1998) si de romanele A nyugalom (Tihna, 2001), adaptat pentru scena si marele ecran si tradus in româneste in 2006, cu un succes considerabil in rindurile cititorilor, si A Lazar Apokrifek (Apocrifele lui Lazar, 2005). Attila Bartis a fost distins cu premiile Tibor Dery (1997), Sandor Marai (2002) si Attila Jozsef (2005)
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Jari Järvelä
ENG: Jari Järvelä has written novels, short stories, essays, radio plays and plays. He currently resides at Kotka, living between the ocean and a river, likes both cities on harbours and train stations. His favourite cities are Napoli and Marseille, in both of which nothing is working yet everything works out, everybody believes in miracles and not for nothing. His hobbies include swimming, wines and history (even the one that can be found on a roadside or on rusty tin cans on an old fridge on an attic). Most of all, Järvelä is into punk music and paintings from 1500's renaissance, both of which most of his friends dislike strongly. Both of them include that frenzied indulging which makes art something more than life, or at least more sensi
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Dominique Fortier
Dominique Fortier est née à Québec en 1972. Après un doctorat en littérature à l’Université McGill, elle exerce les métiers de réviseure, de traductrice et d’éditrice. Elle a traduit une quinzaine d’ouvrages littéraires et scientifiques, dans des disciplines aussi diverses que les sciences politiques, la linguistique et la botanique. Elle vit à Outremont. Du bon usage des étoiles est son premier roman.
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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István Örkény
István Örkény was a Hungarian writer. A typical feature of his plays and novels is satiric view and creation of grotesque situations.
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Born in Budapest, the son of a pharmacist, Örkény studied chemical engineering after leaving school and then turned to pharmacy, graduating from Budapest University in 1934. He travelled to London in 1938 and lived in Paris from casual work in 1939. In 1940, he continued his studies at Budapest Technical University, where he graduated in chemical engineering. He was sent to the front on labour service in 1942 and taken prisoner of war in 1943. On his return to Hungary in 1946, he worked as a drama editor for a theatre company. In 1954, he began working as an outside editor for the Szépirodalmi (Literary) publi -
Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.
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Born in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. She started working as a teacher in a Calvinist all-girl school in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. Between 1945 and 1949 she was working in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka in 1947.
She began her writing career as a poet, publishing her first book Bárány ("Lamb") in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig ("Back to the Human") in 1949. In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was--for political reasons--withdrawn from -
Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century.
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Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilated Jewish parents in Budapest, but baptized Catholic. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. From 1924 to 1929 he lived in France and Italy, also spending a year in London, England.
As a student he published essays on Georg Trakl and Stefan George, and quickly established a formidable reputation as a scholar, writing erudite studies of William Blake and Henrik Ibsen among other works. Elected President of the Hungarian Literary Academy in 1933 - aged just 32 -, he published his first novel, The Pendragon Legend (which draws upo -
Kairi Look
Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.
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Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.
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Teffi
Teffi (Russian author page: Тэффи) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая); after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.
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Dénes Krusovszky
Középiskolásként 1998 és 2000 között háromszor nyert arany oklevelet vers kategóriában a sárvári Diákírók és Diákköltők Országos Találkozójának versenyén. Egyetemi tanulmányait 2000-ben kezdte meg az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Karának magyar szakán, majd 2003-tól összehasonlító irodalomtudomány, 2004-től pedig esztétika szakon is a kar hallgatója volt.
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2004-ben készülő első kötete anyagával a Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma által meghirdett Édes anyanyelvünk című pályázaton megosztott harmadik díjat kapott vers kategóriában. Alapító tagja volt 2005 és 2009 között a Telep Csoportnak, továbbá korábban a Puskin Utca és az Ex Symposion irodalmi folyóiratok, illetve a József Attila Kör világirodalmi sorozatának sze -
Zülfü Livaneli
Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı.
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Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı.
Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri -
Márton Simon
"Költő vagyok és slammer. Verseket 2004 óta publikálok, két kötetem jelent meg – 2010-ben a Dalok a magasföldszintről, 2013-ban a Polaroidok.
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Sok évvel ezelőtt otthagytam egy majdnem elvégzett, Pázmányos esztétika-kommunikáció szakot, de ha minden jól megy, 2014 tavaszán végzek a Károlin, japánon. Dolgoztam számtalan alkalommal újságíróként, több alkalommal szerkesztőként és újabban rendszeresen fordítóként: angolból fordítok krimit és szépirodalmat egyaránt (és fontolva haladva japánból, csakis verseket és szinte kizárólag magamnak). Egyébként 1984-ben születtem, Kalocsán. A Pápai Református Kollégiumban érettségiztem. Kamasz korom óta írok.
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Jari Järvelä
ENG: Jari Järvelä has written novels, short stories, essays, radio plays and plays. He currently resides at Kotka, living between the ocean and a river, likes both cities on harbours and train stations. His favourite cities are Napoli and Marseille, in both of which nothing is working yet everything works out, everybody believes in miracles and not for nothing. His hobbies include swimming, wines and history (even the one that can be found on a roadside or on rusty tin cans on an old fridge on an attic). Most of all, Järvelä is into punk music and paintings from 1500's renaissance, both of which most of his friends dislike strongly. Both of them include that frenzied indulging which makes art something more than life, or at least more sensi
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Teffi
Teffi (Russian author page: Тэффи) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая); after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.
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Kalju Kruusa
Kalju Kruusa (kodanikunimi Jaanus Valk) on eesti luuletaja ja tõlkija. Kalju Kruusa lõpetas 1992 Tallinna 20. Keskkooli ja astus aasta pärast Tartu Ülikooli, kus õppis 1993–1997 inglise filoloogiat ja semiootikat. Aastal 1997 läks ta Eesti Humanitaarinstituuti romanistika erialale ja lõpetas Tallinna Ülikooli 2008 bakalaureusetööga "Mallarmé luule: kogelemine". Aastatel 2004–2005 viibis ta vahetusüliõpilasena Tōkyōs Waseda ülikoolis ja õppis jaapani keelt.
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Aastal 2001 asutas ta koos Hasso Krulliga tõlkeluule internetiajakirja Ninniku.
Kalju Kruusa on Eesti Kirjanike Liidu ja Eesti PEN-klubi liige. Kalju Kruusa esimene luulekogu "Meeleolu" ilmus 1999. Täpselt dateeritud luuletused on ka meeleoluliselt täpsed, sündmuspaik tavaliselt suvine aed