Mika Waltari
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian.
Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. Later he enrolled in the University of Helsinki as a theology student, according to his mother's wishes, but soon abandoned theology in favour of philosophy, aesthetics and literature, graduating in 1929. While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in 1925. In 1927 he went to Paris where he wrote his first major novel Suuri illusioni ('The Grand Illusion'), a story of bohemian life. In terms of style, the novel is considered to be
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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies.
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He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
Jeffrey has been married for 53 years to Dame Mary Archer DBE. They have two sons, William and James, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and divide their time between homes in London, Cambridge and Mallorca. -
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist who then lived in southwest France where he was in exile for many years. Born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Thích Nhất Hạnh joined a Zen (Vietnamese: Thiền) monastery at the age of 16, and studied Buddhism as a novitiate. Upon his ordination as a monk in 1949, he assumed the Dharma name Thích Nhất Hạnh. Thích is an honorary family name used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, meaning that they are part of the Shakya (Shakyamuni Buddha) clan. He was often considered the most influential living figure in the lineage of Lâm Tế (Vietnamese Rinzai) Thiền, and perhaps also in Zen Buddhism as a whole.
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José Mauro de Vasconcelos
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.
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José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.
José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with -
Keigo Higashino
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* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
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Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).
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Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region. He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1927) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972). However, Linna's father, a butcher, died when Väinö Linna was only eight years old. Thus his mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor. Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature bega -
Aino Kallas
ENG: Aino Kallas' father was a remarkable researcher of folklore, and he died early during Aino's childhood. Aino was married to Oskar Kallas and they has three children, at the time she was still in the beginning of her career as a writer - her "best" years were in between 1920 and 1930, her style being greatly influenced by numerous people, one of which was Eino Leino. Aino spent about half a year at a hospital in 1934, healed well, yet lost her son and a daughter during Estonia's years of war. After her husband died too, Aino began writing memoirs and soon lost her other daughter too. Aino Kallas herself died in Helsinki in 1956.
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Hector Malot
Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
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His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
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Nguyên Phong
Giáo sư John Vũ – Nguyên Phong, là một nhà khoa học nổi tiếng ở Mỹ, đứng trong Top 10 người sáng tạo nhất thế giới (mà đứng đầu là Bill Gates và Steve Jobs). Ông chính là người dịch tác phẩm nổi tiếng Hành trình về Phương Đông, một trong những tác phẩm hay nhất về phương Đông từ trước đến nay. Giáo sư John Vũ cũng là một người rất quan tâm đến khoa học công nghệ, với trên 10.000 bài viết đã được đăng trên blog Science-Tecnology.
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Ông sinh năm 1950, tên thật là Vũ Văn Du trong một gia đình đông con. Cha ông là một dược sĩ, y sĩ có tầm và có tâm, đóng góp rất lớn cho nền y học nước nhà. Năm 1968, ông rời quê hương sang Hoa Kỳ để bắt đầu cuộc hành trình học hành đầy gian nan, vất vả. Tại đây ông tốt nghiệp ngành điện toán và sinh vật học cùng t -
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh là tên và cũng là bút danh của một nhà văn Việt Nam chuyên viết cho tuổi mới lớn. Ông sinh ngày 7 tháng 5 năm 1955 tại huyện Thăng Bình, Quảng Nam.
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Cuộc đời và sự nghiệp
Thuở nhỏ ông theo học tại các trường Tiểu La, Trần Cao Vân và Phan Chu Trinh. Từ 1973 Nguyễn Nhật Ánh chuyển vào sống tại Sài Gòn, theo học ngành sư phạm. Ông đã từng đi Thanh niên xung phong, dạy học, làm công tác Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng Sản Hồ Chí Minh. Từ 1986 đến nay ông là phóng viên nhật báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng, lần lượt viết về sân khấu, phụ trách mục tiểu phẩm, phụ trách trang thiếu nhi và hiện nay là bình luận viên thể thao trên báo Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Chủ nhật với bút danh Chu Đình Ngạn. Ngoài ra, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh còn có những bút danh khác như Anh Bồ Câu, -
Iida Rauma
Iida Rauma on turkulainen kirjailija. Rauma valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi Turun yliopistosta, missä hän opiskeli poliittista historiaa, valtio-oppia, sukupuolentutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittamista. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Katoamisten kirja oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Toinen romaani Seksistä ja matematiikasta voitti Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon sekä Tulenkantaja-palkinnon. Rauman kolmannessa romaanissa Hävitys: tapauskertomus nivoutuvat yhteen kouluväkivalta, ekokriisi ja Turun kaupungin historia. Kirja voitti Finlandia-palkinnon 2022.
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Wojciech Chmielarz
Polski pisarz i dziennikarz. Autor książek z cyklu Jakub Mortka, publikował między innymi dla "Pulsu Biznesu", "Polityki" czy "Nowej Fantastyki".
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W 2013 oraz w 2014 nominowany do Nagrody Wielkiego Kalibru, w 2015 został jej laureatem za powieść Przejęcie. W 2019 roku laureat nagrody "Złoty Pocisk" w kategorii najlepszy kryminał 2018 roku, którą otrzymał za książkę Żmijowisko.
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Juhani Karila
Juhani Karila on Pelkosenniemeltä kotoisin oleva kirjailija. Hän on valmistunut tiedotusopin maisteriksi Tampereen yliopistosta. Karila on työskennellyt toimittajana muun muassa Helsingin Sanomien kulttuuritoimituksessa. Vuonna 2010 Karila voitti J. H. Erkon kirjoituskilpailun, ja hänen esikoisteoksensa Gorilla oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Hänen romaaninsa Pienen hauen pyydystys voitti sekä Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon että Jarkko Laine -palkinnon.
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Nguyễn Phương Mai
Phương Mai viết văn từ lúc học lớp 10 và là cây bút đóng góp cho báo Hoa Học Trò những số đầu tiên. Năm 17 tuổi, Phương Mai ra tập truyện ngắn đầu tay có tên Đối diện. Hai năm sau khi tốt nghiệp Cao đẳng Sư phạm Hà Nội, Phương Mai trở thành thư ký tòa soạn báo Hoa Học Trò ở tuổi 24.
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Nhưng chị sớm từ bỏ vị trí hấp dẫn đó để đi du học Hà Lan, giành học vị Thạc sĩ khoa học ngành Thiết kế giáo dục và Tiến sĩ ngành Giao tiếp đa văn hóa. Từ đó đến nay, Phương Mai là giảng viên tại khoa Kinh tế, Đại học Amsterdam, Hà Lan. Muốn làm "một hòn đá lăn không bám rêu", Phương Mai đã đặt chân đến gần 80 quốc gia trên thế giới. -
Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.
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FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.
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Iida Turpeinen
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentials of scientific research and by the offbeat anecdotes and meanderings from the history of science. Her debut novel, Beasts of the Sea (2023) was praised immediately upon its release as a world-class work, one that brings together a lost world and living literature: for it, she won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize, the Thank You For the Book Prize, and was nominated for the Finlandia Prize and the Torch-bearer Prize in Finland and the Premio Strega Europeo in Italy, among others.
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Amit Goswami
Amit Goswami is a nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968. Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments and to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life.
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He became best known as one of the interviewed scientists featured in the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know!? , the recent documentary Dalai Lama Renaissance , and stars in the 2009 documentary The Quantum Activist .
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Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD – ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.
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"You would have heard the wails of women, the shrieks of infants, shouts of men; some were seeking parents with their voices, others children, others spouses, and by their voices they were recognizing them; some were pitying their own misfortune, others the misfortune of their families; there were those who - due to the fear of death - were praying for death; many raised their hands toward the gods, more were concluding -
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 -
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi (born Alexis Stenvall) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (orig. Seitsemän veljestä). Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.
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Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, into a tailor's family. In 1846 he left for school in Helsinki, and in 1859 he was accepted into the University of Helsinki, where he studied literature and developed an interest in the theater. His first play was Kullervo, based on a tragic tale from the Kalevala.
From 1863 onwards, Kivi devoted his time to writing. He wrote 12 plays and a collection of poetry. The novel Seven Brothers took h -
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Robert Merle
Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.
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His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as -
Nguyên Phong
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Ông sinh năm 1950, tên thật là Vũ Văn Du trong một gia đình đông con. Cha ông là một dược sĩ, y sĩ có tầm và có tâm, đóng góp rất lớn cho nền y học nước nhà. Năm 1968, ông rời quê hương sang Hoa Kỳ để bắt đầu cuộc hành trình học hành đầy gian nan, vất vả. Tại đây ông tốt nghiệp ngành điện toán và sinh vật học cùng t -
Peter Berling
Peter Berling is a writer, actor and movie producer. He was born in Meseritz-Obrawalde, German Reich (now Międzyrzecz-Obrzyce, Poland). Author of the series "Die Kinder des Gral" (The children of the Grail). He played in such movies as The Name of the rose with Sean Connery and Christian Slater, Last temptation of Christ, Aguirre, the Wrath of God
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Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star, published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola).
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Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region. He was the seventh child of Viktor (Vihtori) Linna (1874–1927) and Johanna Maria (Maija) Linna (1888–1972). However, Linna's father, a butcher, died when Väinö Linna was only eight years old. Thus his mother had to support the entire family by working at a nearby manor. Despite his background, Linna's interest in literature bega -
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish emigre. A renowned novelist and playwright who fled Europe during World War II and lived in Los Angeles from 1941 until his death.
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A fierce critic of the Nazi regime years before it assumed power precipitated his departure, after a brief internment in France, from Europe. He and his wife Marta obtained asylum in the United States in 1941 and remained there in exile until they died. -
Mirkka Lappalainen
Filosofian tohtori Mirkka Lappalainen (s. 1975) on helsinkiläinen historiantutkija. Hänen 1500- ja 1600-lukujen historiaa käsittelevät teoksensa ovat saaneet useita tunnustuksia. Väitöskirja Suku, valta, suurvalta: Creutzit 1600-luvun Ruotsissa ja Suomessa (2005) sai Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjapalkinnon ja sen käännös Ruotsissa puolestaan Vasa-museon palkinnon 2008. Lappalaisen esseekokoelma Maailman painavin raha (2006) valittiin vuoden tiedekirjaksi ja 1590-luvun sisällissotaa käsitellyt Susimessu (2009) vuoden historiateokseksi. Susimessu sai myös Lauri Jäntin palkinnin ja Urho Kekkosen 70-vuotisjuhlasäätiön tunnustuspalkinnon.
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Lappalainen toimii tällä hetkellä Suomen ja Pohjoismaiden historian tutkijatohtorina Helsingin yliopiston -
Pauline Gedge
I was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on December 11, 1945, the first of three girls. Six years later my family emigrated to England where my father, an ex-policeman, wanted to study for the Anglican ministry. We lived in an ancient and very dilapidated cottage in the heart of the English Buckinghamshire woodland, and later in a small village in Oxfordshire called Great Haseley. I grew up surrounded by countryside that I observed, played in, and grew to know and love passionately, and I wrote lyrically of its many moods.
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My father had his first parish in Oxford, so in 1956, having passed the eleven-plus exam, a torture now fortunately defunct, I attended what was then the Oxford Central School for Girls. I was a very good student in everythin -
Varg Vikernes
Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian musician. In 1991 Vikernes conceived the one-man music project Burzum, which quickly became popular within the early Norwegian black metal scene. In Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as "the most notorious metal musician of all time".
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"After creating in the course of four early albums an impressive body of art that essentially ended black metal as it was by raising the bar beyond what others could easily participate in, Vikernes was imprisoned for sixteen years for his alleged role in church arson and murder. During the time he was in prison, he put out two more impressive keyboard-based albums and several books’ worth of writings before falling silent around the turn of the mill -
Jürgen Thorwald
Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.
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Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort.
After the war, he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under Allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.
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Anna-Leena Härkönen
ENG: Anna-Leena Härkönen works as a writer and an actor, having acted as a scriptwriter too. Her works have been adapted into movies and plays, and Häräntappoase has been made into a television series of six episodes, too.
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FI: Anna-Leena Härkönen on syntynyt 10.4.1965 Limingassa, kirjoittanut ylioppilaaksi vuonna 1985, opiskellut Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja Tampereen yliopiston näyttelijäntyön laitoksella ja valmistunut näyttelijäksi 1989. Anna-Leena Härkönen asuu Helsingissä ja toimii vapaana kirjailijana ja näyttelijänä.
Anna-Leena Härkönen on teini-ikäisestä alkaen kuulunut kulttuurielämämme huippuihin niin kirjailijana, käsikirjoittajana kuin näyttelijänäkin. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Häräntappoase palkittiin J. H. Erkon rahaston palkinnolla -
Howard Carter
Howard Carter is best known for his discovery of the tomb of the 14th century BCE Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who devoted his life to archaeology. He first travelled to Egypt in 1891, where he held several archaeological positions, until in 1907 he was privately funded by the English aristocrat Lord Canarvon to carry out work at Canarvon's excavation sites. This work was interrupted by World War One, but resumed immediately after. In 1922, growing tired of the lack of results Canarvon offered Carter one more year of funding.
On the 4th of November 1922 Carter discovered the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun. This discovery immediately gained international attention, and huge crowds fl -
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 – ca. 1580) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés. Born in Medina del Campo (Spain), he came from a family of little wealth and he himself had received only a minimal education. He sailed to Tierra Firme in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there. Much of the native population had already been killed by epidemics and there was political unrest. So he sailed to Cuba, where he was promised a grant of Indian slaves. But that promise was never fulfilled, leading Díaz, in 1517, to join an expedition being organized by a group of about 110 fellow settlers from T
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Kate O'Brien
Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
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After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak. She is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The Land of Spices and the 1946 novel That Lady. Many of her books dealt with issues of female sexuality — with several exploring gay/lesbian themes — and both Mary Lavelle and The Land of Spices were banned in Ireland. She also wrote travel books, or rather accounts of places and experiences, on both Ireland and Spain, a country she loved, and which features in a number of her novels. She lived much of her later life in England and d -
Allan Massie
Allan Massie is a Scottish journalist, sports writer and novelist. Massie is one of Scotland's most prolific and well-known journalists, writing regular columns for The Scotsman, The Sunday Times (Scotland) and the Scottish Daily Mail. He is also the author of nearly 30 books, including 20 novels. He is notable for writing about the distant past.
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Marcel Brion
Marcel Brion (1895, Marseille - 1984, Paris) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian.
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The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his secondary education in Champittet, Switzerland, he studied law at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. Counsel to the bar of Marseille between 1920 and 1924, he abandoned his legal career to turn to literature.
Brion wrote nearly a hundred books in his career, ranging from historical biography to examinations of Italian and German art, and turning later in life to novels. His most famous collection of stories is the 1942 Les Escales de la Haute Nuit (The Shore Leaves Of The Deepest Night). An essay of Brion appears in Our Exagminat -
Elmer Diktonius
Elmer Rafael Diktonius (1896-1961) was a Finnish poet and prosaist who wrote in Swedish. After and along with Edith Södergran, he was the most significant Finnish-Swedish modernist and a member of the 1920's young radicals' literary group Tulenkantajat, to whose newspaper he also contributed. There were both expressionist and imagist influences seen in his works.
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Probably best known for experimental 1932 novel Janne Kubik: ett träsnitt i ord (translated into Finnish as Janne Kuutio: puupiirros sanoin by the author himself – ”John Cube: a woodcut put in words”), a story of a red 1918 Civil War fighter, Diktonius was politically active leftist and closely connected to the socialist leader figure Otto Wille Kuusinen. However, he did not take p -
Pentti Haanpää
Pentti Haanpää was a Finnish author.
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Pentti Haanpää (1905–1955) oli kirjailijana erityisesti pohjoisen Suomen ja maaseudun yhteiskuntakriittinen ja realistinen kuvaaja. Häntä pidetään erityisesti novellitaiteen mestarina ja Haanpään tuotantoon kuuluukin kahdeksan romaanin lisäksi satoja novelleja. Hänet palkittiin Pro Finlandia -mitalilla vuonna 1948. -
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Antonio Larreta
Gualberto José Antonio Rodríguez Larreta Ferreira, una de las más talentosas personalidades del teatro uruguayo, nació en el seno de una familia acomodada y culta que facilita sus inquietudes y desarrollo de su creatividad.
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Se ha destacado, además, como periodista, guionista de televisión y cine, cineasta, director teatral, crítico de cine y de teatro (en El País desde 1948 a 1959; en Marcha desde 1963 a 1966).
En 1961 obtuvo el premio Larra que conceden los críticos teatrales madrileños merced a la puesta en escena de "Porfiar hasta Morir" de Lope de Vega; en 1971 se hizo merecedor del Premio Casa de las Américas por su obra teatral "Juan Palmieri", y en 1980 obtuvo el Premio Planeta por la novela "Volavérunt".
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Hannu Salama
Hannu Salama syntyi 4.10.1936 Kouvolassa. Hän opiskeli Kansankorkeakoulussa vuonna 1957 ja työskenteli sähkömiehenä sekä sekatyömiehenä useita vuosia. Vapaa kirjailija hän on ollut 1960-luvun alusta lähtien.
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Hannu Salaman laajaan tuotantoon kuuluu proosaa ja runoja. Kirjallisen läpimurtonsa Hannu Salama teki neljännellä teoksellaan Juhannustanssit (1964). Teoksen ristiriitainen vastaanotto johti kuuluisaan jumalanpilkkaoikeudenkäyntiin ja kirjan osittaiseen sensuroimiseen. Salama on julkaissut kolme rikosromaania salanimellä Aki Rautala.
Salaman romaaneita on dramatisoitu teatteriesityksiksi sekä tv- ja elokuvakäsikirjoituksiksi ja hänen teoksiaan on käännetty kymmenelle kielelle.
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Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen is Finland’s best kept literary secret…
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In the early 70’s, when he was five, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen lived in a block of flats by the Jyväskylä’s (a city in Central Finland) old cemetery and believed in vampires.
In the early 80’s he still had vampire dreams and fell in love with Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut’s Jules et Jim.
Ten years later Pasi wrote his first short stories. He wan the writing competition of SciFi and fantasy stories four times and then decided to become a writer.
Now he is an author, but he is also a Finnish and literature teacher in upper secondary school and the father of three sons.
He hasn’t stopped loving vampires, Jeanne Moreau and old film classics. -
Michel Peyramaure
Michel Peyramaure est un romancier français, souvent qualifiée d'écrivain de terroir ou d'écrivain régionaliste, auteur d'une centaine de romans, pour la plupart historique. Il est considéré pour beaucoup de personnes comme l'un des "plus grands romanciers historiques". Il a reçu en 1979 le Grand Prix de littérature de la Société des gens de lettres pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
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Michel Peyramaure est né en 1922 à Brive-la-Gaillarde, en Corrèze. À sa sortie du collège, il travaille dans l'imprimerie de son père, où il compose ses premiers poèmes, puis devient journaliste à La Montagne, avant de se consacrer à l'écriture littéraire. En 1954, il publie son premier roman, Paradis entre quatre murs, aux éditions Robert Laffont. L'année -
Mauri Kunnas
Mauri Tapio Kunnas is a Finnish cartoonist and children's author. Kunnas is most famous for his numerous children's books, illustrated by himself and featuring anthropomorphic animals.
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Mia Myllymäki
Mia Myllymäki is a Finnish author who writes speculative fiction.
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Mia Myllymäki on kokkolalainen kirjailija ja insinööri, joka kirjoittaa spekulatiivista fiktiota. Häneltä on julkaistu neljä romaania ja useita novelleja. -
Arno Kotro
Filosofian ja psykologian opettaja (lukio ja aikuislukio), kolumnisti, tv-juontaja (Studio: Suoraa puhetta 2008, Studio Kotro 2009-2010, Yle Teema)
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Valtiotieteiden maisteri (Helsingin yliopisto, 1999), ylioppilas (Ressun lukio, 1988)
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Veijo Meri
Veijo Meri was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focused on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor.
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Born in Viipuri (today Vyborg, Russia), Meri graduated from secondary school in Hämeenlinna, then studied history and became an independent writer.
His diverse body of work included novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. -
Erik Hornung
Hornung was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1933 and gained his PH.D. at the University of Tübingen in 1956.
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He was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel from 1967 to 1998.
His main research field has been funerary literature, the Valley of the Kings in particular.
He published the first edition of the Book of Amduat in three volumes between 1963 and 1967.
J. Gwyn Griffiths described Hornung as the foremost authority in such literature.
His book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, The One and the Many has become his best-known work, in which he concludes, whilst acknowledging previous work by Henri Frankfort and his "multiplicity of approaches" and John A. Wilson's "complementary" treatment of Egyptian modes of thought, that "Anyone w -
Veikko Huovinen
Veikko Huovinen was a Finnish novelist known for his realism, pacifism, sharp intellect, and peculiar humor. He wrote 37 books.
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Essi Kummu
Essi Kummu (s. 1977) on suomalainen taiteilija. Kummu on valmistunut vuonna 2003 Oulun yliopistosta filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan kirjallisuus. Hän on muun muassa opettanut käsikirjoittamista Limingan taidekoulussa.
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Kummun esikoisromaani Mania ilmestyi vuonna 2006. Toisessa romaanissaan Karhun kuolema (2010) hän ammentaa aineksia suomalais-ugrilaisesta tarustosta. Hän pitää itseään ruumiillisena kirjoittajana, jonka kirjaimet tulevat esiin kävelemällä, juoksemalla ja tanssimalla. -
Ana-Maria Negrilă
Ana-Maria Negrilă a debutat în 1993 cu povestirea Fragile în Jurnalul SF. Prozele ei au obţinut numeroase premii la concursurile de profil (printre care Premiul Vladimir Colin pentru roman, 2008). A publicat mai multe romane și culegeri de povestiri: „Oraşul ascuns” (2005), Împăratul gheţurilor (2006, reeditare 2018) pentru care a obținut premiul Vladimir Colin în 2008, iar în 2015, alte doua cărți în format ebook, „Cântecul zorilor” şi „Când lumile se prăbuşesc”. În 2016, i-a apărut primul volum al seriei Stelarium, „Regatul sufletelor pierdute”, urmat la câteva luni de volumul al doilea, „Ascensiunea stelară”. Seria se încheie cu volumul „Agenții haosului” (Crux Publishing, 2019). Tot în 2019, „Împăratul ghețurilor” a fost tradus în limba
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