Leo Perutz
Leopold Perutz was an Austrian novelist and mathematician.
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Wolfgang Borchert
German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany. His most famous work is the drama "Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside)", which he wrote in the first days after World War II. In his works he never makes compromises in questions of humanity and humanism. He is one of the most popular authors of the German postwar period, and today his work is often read in German schools.
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897 — 1976) was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels describing the intrusion of otherworldly or unreal experiences into reality, and recreational films. He was born and died in Vienna.
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Noël Burch
Noël Burch is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University Charles de Gaulle in Lille. His book Theory of Film Practice is widely regarded as one of the key works of Western film criticism.
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Jack London
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
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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.
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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. -
Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r -
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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Ken Follett
Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
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Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.
He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.
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Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
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Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse -
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. -
Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
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Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date." -
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth was born into a Jewish family. He died in Paris after living there in exile.
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Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish Tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.
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Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That -
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of stories and two books of literary essays, as well as hundreds of pages of political commentary.
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Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class litera
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Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.
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Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life — Japan of the early to mid twentieth century — in revealing perspective.
1936 Chiba Kameo Prize --- Ruten,流転
1950 Akutagawa Prize --- Tōgyu,闘牛
1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature --- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍
1959 Mainichi Press Prize --- Tun-huang,敦煌
1963 Yomiuri Prize --- Fū -
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. -
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian author.
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His novel Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin. -
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (née Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to parents of French Huguenot and northern German descent. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with an astounding array of luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.
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Andreas-Salomé was a prolific author, writing several plays, essays and more than a dozen novels. It was Andreas-Salome who began calling Rilke "Rainer" instead of "René." Her Hymn to Life so deeply impressed Nietzsche that he was moved to set it to music. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts (a career she maintained until a year before her death) and also one of the first women to write on female sexuality. Her book, Lebensrückblic -
Jean Teulé
Jean Teulé est un romancier français, qui a également pratiqué la bande dessinée, le cinéma et la télévision.
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Auteur de bande dessinée dans un premier temps, il a débuté à la télévision dans L'assiette anglaise de Bernard Rapp ou Nulle part ailleurs sur Canal+.
Homme de télévision, scénariste, comédien, cinéaste, il est avant tout écrivain. Ayant abandonné toute autre activité, il se consacre désormais à l’écriture. Il a publié, aux Éditions Julliard, Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1991), L'Œil de Pâques (1992), Ballade pour un père oublié (1995), Darling (1998) et Bord cadre (1999), Longues Peines, Les Lois de la gravité, Ô Verlaine ! (2004), Je, François Villon (2006), Le Magasin des suicides (2007). Finalement, en 2008 "Le Montespan". Tous ses livr -
Ondjaki
Ndalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda, the capital of the country, and has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts.
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Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, and wrote his graduation paper about Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. His literary debut came in 2002 with the novella O Assobiador (The Whistler), which was followed up with the childhood memoir Bom dia camaradas (Good Morning, Comrades) in 2003. To date (2010) he has published four novels, three collections of short stories, two collections of poetry and three children's books. His books have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Chinese an -
Tânia Ganho
Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that she decided to publish her first novel, "A Vida Sem Ti" ("Life Without You", Oficina do Livro), followed by "Cuba Libre" (Oficina do Livro, 2007), "A Lucidez do Amor" ("The War Wife", Porto Editora, 2010) , "A Mulher-Casa" ("La Femme-Maison", Porto Editora, 2012), and "Apneia" (Casa das Letras, 2020), a disturbing story about domestic violence and child abuse.
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"Apneia" was semifinalist of the Oceanos Prize and finalist of the Bertrand Prize for Best Portuguese Novel of the Year. In 2021, Tânia Ganho won a six-month literary grant from the Minist -
Shirō Hamao
Shirō HAMAO (濱尾 四郎 or 浜尾四郎 after WWII) was born 24th April 1896. He was a Japanese lawyer and detective story writer. He was a Viscount and member of the House of Peers. He died 29th October 1935.
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Maria do Carmo Vieira
MARIA DO CARMO VIEIRA nasceu em Lisboa em 1952. É licenciada em Filologia Românica e mestre em Literatura de Viagens e professora do Ensino Secundário. Coordenou, com Rui Mário Gonçalves, a publicação de Passo e Fico como o Universo, um livro de pintura de influência pessoana. É também autora de Sobre Fernando Pessoa – Drama em Gente e Percurso Pessoano por Lisboa e de A Arte, Mestra da Vida. Coordenou a fixação do texto de Etiópia Oriental e Vária História de Cousas Notáveis do Oriente de Fr. João dos Santos (Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1999). Tem publicado, em jornais diários e semanários, inúmeros artigos sobre o ensino do Português.
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Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.
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Bruno Vieira Amaral
BRUNO VIEIRA AMARAL nasceu em 1978 e licenciou-se em História Moderna e Contemporânea, pelo ISCTE. Em 2002, uma temerária incursão pela poesia valeu-lhe ser seleccionado para a Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores. Colaborou no DN Jovem, na revista Atlântico e no jornal i. É crítico literário, tradutor e autor do Guia para 50 Personagens da Ficção Portuguesa e do blogue Circo da Lama. O seu primeiro romance, As Primeiras Coisas, foi distinguido com o Prémio Literário Fernando Namora e com o Prémio Narrativa do PEN Clube. É editor-adjunto da revista LER e assessor de comunicação das editoras do Grupo Bertrand Círculo.
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Isabel Rio Novo
Isabel Rio Novo nasceu no Porto, onde se doutorou em Literatura Comparada. Leciona Escrita Criativa e outras disciplinas no âmbito da literatura, cinema e outras artes, sendo autora de diversas publicações académicas nessas áreas. Integrou os júris de prémios literários e de fotografia. Os seus textos de ficção estão presentes em várias antologias, com destaque para a primeira coletânea de contos do Centro Mário Cláudio (O País Escondido, 2016). É autora de O Diabo Tranquilo, a partir de poemas de Daniel Maia-Pinto Rodrigues, da novela A Caridade (2005, Prémio Literário Manuel Teixeira Gomes), do livro de contos Histórias com Santos (2014) e dos romances Rio do Esquecimento (2016, finalista do Prémio LeYa e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos),
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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. -
Michael Dillon
Michael Dillon is a China specialist with expertise in teaching the history, politics and society of the Chinese world and the Chinese language. He was founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, where he taught courses on modern China in the Department of East Asian Studies. He has a BA and PhD in Chinese Studies from Leeds University and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. He is a peer reviewer for academic publishers and journals including China Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Inner Asia and is guest editor for a forthcoming special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies focussing on Chinese ethnicity. He is a frequent commentator on Chinese an
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Maria do Carmo Vieira
MARIA DO CARMO VIEIRA nasceu em Lisboa em 1952. É licenciada em Filologia Românica e mestre em Literatura de Viagens e professora do Ensino Secundário. Coordenou, com Rui Mário Gonçalves, a publicação de Passo e Fico como o Universo, um livro de pintura de influência pessoana. É também autora de Sobre Fernando Pessoa – Drama em Gente e Percurso Pessoano por Lisboa e de A Arte, Mestra da Vida. Coordenou a fixação do texto de Etiópia Oriental e Vária História de Cousas Notáveis do Oriente de Fr. João dos Santos (Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1999). Tem publicado, em jornais diários e semanários, inúmeros artigos sobre o ensino do Português.
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Antoinette Peské
Née en 1904, Antoinette Peské, fille d’un peintre, composait déjà d’étonnants poèmes à l'âge de huit ans, qui attirèrent l'attention de Guillaume Apollinaire, ami de son père. Cette vocation précoce se cristallisera dans deux romans, La Boîte en os et Ici le chemin se perd (écrit en collaboration avec son mari Pierre Marty sous le nom de plume Peské-Marty), qui fédéreront autour d’eux l'admiration de Jean Cocteau, Pierre Mac Orlan ou encore Félix Fénéon. Antoinette Peské est morte en 1985.
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Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946, in Malatya, Turkey), is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.
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Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides. -
Reha Çamuroğlu
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü'nü bitirdi. Büyük Larousse ve Ana Britannica ansiklopedilerinde tarih yazarlığı ve redaktörlük, Cem ve Nefes dergilerinin ise yazı işleri müdürlüklerini yaptı. Almanya'da bir dizi üniversitede konuk olarak ders ve konferanslar verdi. 12 telif ve 2 tercüme eseri yayımlandı. TYB tarafından "2001'in En İyi Romanı Ödülü"ne layık görüldü. Aynı yıl "Hacı Bektaş Barış ve Dostluk Ödülü"nü aldı. Evli ve 1 çocuk babasıdır.
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Aline Kiner
Aline Kiner (18 June 1959 – 7 January 2019) was a French journalist and novelist.
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Kiner began as a journalist for Sciences et Avenir in 1995, and was then named editor-in-chief of special issues in 2008. She also collaborated with the French documentary series Thalassa, and for the French newspaper Libération.
She wrote four books and novels, including La nuit des béguines, which won the Prix Culture et Bibliothèques pour tous in 2018. -
Fikret Başkaya
Doç. Dr. Fikret Başkaya 1940 Denizli doğumlu, eleştirel yazılarıyla tanınan sol görüşlü yazar.
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Lise eğitimini İzmir Atatürk Lisesi’nde yaptı. Daha sonra Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi iktisat ve maliye bölümlerini bitirdi. Paris ve Poitiers üniversitelerinde doktora öğrenimini tamamladı. Yurt dışında bulunduğu süre boyunca; azgelişmişlik, emperyalizm ve kapitalizmden sosyalizme geçiş sorunları üzerine birçok araştırma yaptı.
Türkiye’ye döndükten sonra askerliğini yaptığı Yedek Subay Okulu’nda ‘sakıncalı er’ sayılarak Erzurum’a (Oltu) sürgün edildi. Askerlik sonrası değişik kuruluşlarda araştırmacı olarak çalıştı. Bir süre Sosyal Hizmetler Akademisi’nde iktisat dersleri verdi. Abant Izzet Baysal Üniversitesi iktisat bölümü öğre