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  In 2005, he took up the chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics.

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  Julian Barnes

  Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
  In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize.

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  John Kennedy Toole

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  Toole was born to a middle-class family in New Orleans. From a young age, his mother, Thelma, taught him an appreciation of culture. She was thoroughly involved in his affairs for most of his life, and at times they had a difficult relationship. With his mother's encouragement, Toole became a s

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  Roland Barthes

  Roland Barthes of France applied semiology, the study of signs and symbols, to literary and social criticism.
  
  Ideas of Roland Gérard Barthes, a theorist, philosopher, and linguist, explored a diverse range of fields. He influenced the development of schools of theory, including design, anthropology, and poststructuralism.
  
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  Will Durant

  William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for his book, The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which was considered "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy."
  
  They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1967 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.

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  John Fante

  Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.
  
  In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.
  
  He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He

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  Joseph Roth

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  Alba de Céspedes

  Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
  
  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

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc

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  Ágota Kristóf

  Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
  
  Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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  Fred Uhlman

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  Dag Solstad

  Dag Solstad was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He wrote nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times.
  His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation. His early books were considered somewhat controversial, due to their political emphasis (leaning towards the Marxist–Leninist side of the political spectrum).

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  Steve Toltz

  Steve Toltz (born in 1972) is an Australian novelist.
  
  Toltz graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter.
  
  A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts. The narration of the novel alternates between Jasper Dean, a philosophical, idealistic boy, who grows up throughout the novel and his father, Martin Dean, a philosopher and shut-in described at the start of the novel as "the most h

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  Tormod Haugland

  Tormod Haugland (f. 1962) debuterte med romanen Under i 1994, og har sidan gjeve ut romanar, noveller, dikt og dramatikk.

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  Karl Ove Knausgård

  Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
  
  Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.

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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),
  
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  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Kyrre Andreassen

  Kyrre Andreassen er en norsk forfatter, utdannet cand.mag. ved Universitetet i Oslo med fagene idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og nordisk. Han debuterte i 1997 med novellesamlingen «Det er her du har venna dine».
  
  For sin andre bok, romanen «Barringer» (1999), ble han nominert til Brageprisen. Han har også skrevet to teaterstykker: enakteren «Dette stedet» (2002) og «Polar» (2003). I 2006 kom romanen «Svendsens Catering», som Andreassen ble tildelt Språklig samlings litteraturpris for, og i 2007 mottok han Sultprisen for sitt forfatterskap.

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  Edogawa Rampo

  Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎), better known by the pseudonym Rampo Edogawa ( 江戸川 乱歩), sometimes romanized as "Ranpo Edogawa", was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction.

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  Mímir Kristjánsson

  Mímir Kristjánsson er samfunnsdebattant, forfatter og politiker. Han har vært nyhetssjef i Klassekampen, og har i tillegg til Jon Michelet. En Folkets helt (2021) gitt ut bøkene Mamma er trygda (2019), De superrike (2011), Frihet, likhet, Island (2015) og Hva ville Gerhardsen gjort? (2018).

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  Johan B. Mjønes

  Johan B. Mjønes er en norsk forfatter og skribent fra Orkanger.
  
  Mjønes debuterte i 2009 med romanen Terminalhastighet på Aschehoug forlag.
  I august 2010 ga han ut sin andre roman Orkanger. Boken handler om mobbing, hevn og livslangt skjebnefellesskap. 27. februar 2013, på førtiårsdagen for okkupasjonen av Wounded Knee, ga Mjønes ut Fortellingen om sju bål.
  I oktober 2013 debuterte Mjønes som ungdomsbokforfatter med romanen Død manns kiste. Mellom 2009 og 2014 foreleste Mjønes på Aschehougs forfatterskole sammen med Kari Fredrikke Brænne.

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  Maria Kjos Fonn

  Maria Kjos Fonn (f. 1990) ble nominert til Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris og mottok Aschehougs debutantstipend for novellesamlingen Dette har jeg aldri fortalt til noen i 2014. Romanen Kinderwhore kom ut høsten 2018. Den fikk strålende kritikker, er oversatt til flere språk og ble blant annet nominert til Brageprisen og P2-lytternes romanpris. Maria Kjos Fonn arbeider også som frilansskriben

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  Thomas Korsgaard

  "Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.

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  Oliver Lovrenski

  Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.

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  Roland Barthes

  Roland Barthes of France applied semiology, the study of signs and symbols, to literary and social criticism.
  
  Ideas of Roland Gérard Barthes, a theorist, philosopher, and linguist, explored a diverse range of fields. He influenced the development of schools of theory, including design, anthropology, and poststructuralism.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_...
  

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  Todd May

  Todd May was born in New York City. He is the author of 18 books of philosophy. He was philosophical advisor to NBC's hit sit-com The Good Place and one of the original contributors to the New York Times philosophy blog The Stone. Todd teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College.

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  Helen Fisher

  Helen E. Fisher is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and is one of the major researchers in the field of romantic interpersonal attraction.Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
  
  By many accounts, Fisher is considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love. Presently, Fisher is the most referenced scholar in the love research community. In 2005, she was hired by match.com to help structure the chemistry.com pair-matching website using both hormonal-based and personality-based matching techniques.

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  Mariana Alessandri

  Dra. Alessandri is a teacher, philosopher, accidental activist, and mother, but si pudiera ser superheroe, her cape would read: “Defender of Dark Moods.” You can find her at mariana.alessandri.com and you can find her nonprofit at rgvpuede.org

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  Marc Wittmann

  Marc Wittmann is Research Fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany, and the author of Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time (MIT Press).

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  Kjetil Try

  Kjetil Try is a Norwegian author.

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  Alexander Nehamas

  Alexander Nehamas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 1946) is Professor of philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory.
  
  He was born in Athens, Greece in 1946. In 1964, he enrolled to Swarthmore College. He graduated in 1967 and completed his doctorate on Predication in Plato's Phaedo under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.
  
  His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy

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  Øyvind Berg

  Øyvind Berg er en norsk lyriker, dramatiker, skuespiller og oversetter. Berg har mellomfag i filosofi og litteratur samt studier i egyptologi fra Universitetet i Bergen og Universitetet i Tromsø.
  Berg debuterte med diktsamlingen Retninger i 1982.
  Hans forfatterskap inneholder både lyrikk, drama og gjendiktninger.
  Han er også en av drivkreftene i teatergruppen Baktruppen.

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