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Carrie Snyder

Carrie Snyder's second book, The Juliet Stories, was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for fiction. Her first book, Hair Hat, was nominated for a Danuta Gleed Award. Carrie has also won a CBC Literary Award for short fiction (2006). Carrie makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband, four children, and two dogs. She blogs as Obscure CanLit Mama.

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Karl Marx

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism

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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.
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."

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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".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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Max Aub

Max Aub Mohrenwitz was a Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.

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Antonio Muñoz Molina

Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the director of the Instituto Cervantes of New York.
He was born in the town of Úbeda in Jaén province.
He studied art history at the University of Granada and journalism in Madrid. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinsón urbano, a collection of his journalistic work, was published in 1984. His columns have regularly appeared in El País and Die Welt.
His first novel, Beatus ille, appeared in 1986. It features the imaginary city of Mágina — a re-creation of his Andalusian birthplace — which would reappear in some his later work

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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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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist, best known for her novel, The Piano Teacher.

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."

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Nikolai Gogol

People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).

Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.

Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".

For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.

Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The

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Ferenc Karinthy

Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He wrote more than a dozen novels. Epepe ("Metropole") and Budapesti Tavasz ("Spring Comes to Budapest") have been translated into English, as have two of his plays.

Karinthy worked as a script editor for Nemzeti Színház and Madách Theatre, as well as theatres in Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen. Between 1957 and 1960, Karinthy translated a number of writers into Hungarian including Machiavelli and Molière. He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.

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Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.

He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).

After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own p

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Al Berto

Al Berto, pseudonym of Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares, was a poet, painter, editor and cultural worker.

He was born in an high class burgeois family (with english origins from his grandmother). A year later he moved to Alentejo and in Sines he gets through all his childhood and teenagehood until his family sent him to the arts school António Arroio in Lisbon.

14th of April 1967, he went to study paiting in Belgium at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels, in Brussels.

After getting his degree, he decided to abandon painting in 1971 and get dedicated exclusively to writting. He comes back to Portugal at 17th November 1974 and at that time, writes his first book entirely in portuguese, Á procura do Vento num Jardim

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Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes nasceu em 1909, em Gestaçô, concelho de Baião, distrito do Porto.

Viveu em Espinho, dos 6 aos 10 anos de idade, onde recebeu a instrução primária e onde passou o Verão nos primeiros anos da sua vida.

Sendo filho de agricultores decidiu estudar na Escola de Regentes Agrícolas de Coimbra, onde tirou o curso de Regente Agrícola, e, quando finalizou os estudos, viajou para Angola em 1930, trabalhando na Companhia do Catumbela , onde trabalhou por mais de um ano, regressando a Portugal em 1931, descontente com as condições de trabalho naquela província.

Quando regressou a Portugal, casou-se com a compositora Manuela Câncio Reis. Aos 22 anos fixou-se em Alhandra, onde vivia o seu sogro, como empregado administrativo na f

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Sandro Veronesi

Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.

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Carrie Snyder

Carrie Snyder's second book, The Juliet Stories, was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for fiction. Her first book, Hair Hat, was nominated for a Danuta Gleed Award. Carrie has also won a CBC Literary Award for short fiction (2006). Carrie makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario with her husband, four children, and two dogs. She blogs as Obscure CanLit Mama.

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Álvaro Cunhal

ÁLVARO BARREIRINHAS CUNHAL nasceu em Coimbra, a 10 de Novembro de 1913. Estudante da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, filiou-se no Partido Comunista Português (1931) e foi eleito secretário-geral das Juventudes Comunistas. Em 1936 passou à clandestinidade e em 1937 entrou para ao comité central do partido. Após várias prisões temporárias, foi preso no Forte de Peniche, de onde se conseguiu evadir em 1960. Foi Secretário-Geral do partido de 1961 até 1992. Regressado a Portugal em 1974, fez parte, como Ministro sem pasta, dos I, II, III e IV Governos Provisórios (1974-1975). Deputado entre 1974 e 1992, raramente ocupou o lugar na Assembleia da República. Foi ainda membro do Conselho de Estado de 1982 a 1992. Publicou vários livros, sob o pseud

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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.

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

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Afonso Cruz

Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador.
Escreveu seis livros: A Carne de Deus (Bertrand), Enciclopédia da Estória Universal (Quetzal - Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2010), Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai (Caminho - Prémio Literário Maria Rosa Colaço 2009), A Contradição Humana (Caminho - Prémio Autores 2011 SPA/RTP; escolha White Ravens 2011; Menção Especial do Prémio Nacional de Ilustração 2011) e A Boneca de Kokoschka (Quetzal), O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças (Caminho). Participou ainda nos livros Almanaque do Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead de Doenças Excêntricas e Desacreditadas (

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Ahmet Büke

1997 yılında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi İktisat bölümünden mezun oldu. Ölümsüz Öyküler Yayınevi'nin düzenlediği 'Xasiork 2002 Kısa Öykü Yarışması'nda Kayıp Dua Kitabı isimli hikâyesi birincilik ödülüne layık görüldü. 2008'de Alnı Mavide ile Oğuz Atay Öykü Ödülü'nü, 2011'de Kumrunun Gördüğü adlı kitabı ile Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı'nı aldı. Öyküleri, e edebiyat, AdamÖykü, Özgür Edebiyat ve Patika dergilerinde yayımlandı. Sosyal Ayrıntılar Ansiklopedisi ve Derkenar isimli internet dergilerinde kısa öyküler yazmaya devam ediyor.

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Téa Obreht

Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, was published by Random House in March 2011. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty and included in the National Book Foundation’s list of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in Ithaca, New York.

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Eça de Queirós

José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon

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Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues nasceu em 1977 e desenvolve o seu trabalho como ator, encenador, produtor e dramaturgo. Colaborou com os Artistas Unidos,
o coletivo SubUrbe e, desde 1998, com a companhia belga tg STAN, tendo entretanto co-criado, interpretado, encenado e apresentado espetáculos em mais de 15 países. Em 2003 cria a estrutura Mundo Perfeito, em conjunto com Magda Bizarro, onde desenvolve um trabalho baseado na colaboração artística e nos processos coletivos. Com o Mundo Perfeito criou e coordenou os projetos Urgências, no âmbito da nova dramaturgia portuguesa, e Estúdios, dedicado à colaboração artística entre criadores portugueses e estrangeiros. Os seus espetáculos têm sido produzidos por festivais prestigiados (Alkantara Festival, Festival

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Ferenc Karinthy

Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He wrote more than a dozen novels. Epepe ("Metropole") and Budapesti Tavasz ("Spring Comes to Budapest") have been translated into English, as have two of his plays.

Karinthy worked as a script editor for Nemzeti Színház and Madách Theatre, as well as theatres in Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen. Between 1957 and 1960, Karinthy translated a number of writers into Hungarian including Machiavelli and Molière. He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.

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Miguel Torga

Miguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.

He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).

After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own p

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Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Joaquim Soeiro Pereira Gomes nasceu em 1909, em Gestaçô, concelho de Baião, distrito do Porto.

Viveu em Espinho, dos 6 aos 10 anos de idade, onde recebeu a instrução primária e onde passou o Verão nos primeiros anos da sua vida.

Sendo filho de agricultores decidiu estudar na Escola de Regentes Agrícolas de Coimbra, onde tirou o curso de Regente Agrícola, e, quando finalizou os estudos, viajou para Angola em 1930, trabalhando na Companhia do Catumbela , onde trabalhou por mais de um ano, regressando a Portugal em 1931, descontente com as condições de trabalho naquela província.

Quando regressou a Portugal, casou-se com a compositora Manuela Câncio Reis. Aos 22 anos fixou-se em Alhandra, onde vivia o seu sogro, como empregado administrativo na f

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Yalçın Küçük

Yalçın Küçük (d. 1 Temmuz 1938, İskenderun), Türk sosyalist, yazar, düşünür, ekonomist, tarihçi, isim-bilimci, medya ve edebiyat eleştirmeni, Kürdolog,Sovyetolog, siyaset bilimci, teorisyen, gençlik önderi.

Yalçın Küçük, İskenderun'a Halep'ten gelip yerleşmiş bir ailenin çocuğudur. Baba tarafından Türkmen, anne tarafından ise Kafkasyalı bir aileye mensuptur. Kabataş Lisesi'nden mezun olmasının ardından, Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ndeki öğrencilik hayatı boyunca; Fikir Kulüpleri Federasyonu, ardından Sosyalist Fikir Kulüpleri Federasyonu, Dev-Genç ve Türkiye Halk Kurtuluş Partisi olan Fikir Kulübü Başkanlığı’nı yaptı. Siyasal Bilgiler’i 1960 senesinde birincilikle bitiren Küçük, 27 Mayıs Darbesinde, büyük öğrenci eylemleri

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