Miroslav Válek
bol slovenský básnik, prekladateľ, publicista, kultúrny organizátor, politik, významný reprezentant modernej slovenskej poézie a autor literatúry pre deti a mládež.
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Rudolf Fabry (* 8. február 1915, Budmerice – † 11. február 1982, Bratislava) bol slovenský avantgardný básnik, prozaik, publicista a surrealistický grafik.
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Začiatky jeho básnickej tvorby siahajú do obdobia jeho stredoškolských štúdií, kedy v roku 1933 uverejnil prvú báseň v študentskom časopise Svojeť, no prispieval i do časopisu Postup. Prvá básnická zbierka mu vyšla knižne len o dva roky neskôr, v roku 1935, a niesla silné znaky nadrealizmu. Okrem poézie písal prózy s vojnovou tematikou, reportáže a cestopisy (Salaim aleikum – Rozprávanie o starom a novom Egypte). Okrem poézie a prózy písal tiež libretá, scenáre a komentáre k filmom a spolupracoval pri zostavovaní výtvarných a reprezentačných obrazových publikácií a príležitostne sa venova -
Patrick Süskind
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
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After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. -
Romain Rolland
Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.
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The committee awarded him "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings."
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
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His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, and the New Statesma -
Paolo Maurensig
Paolo Maurensig (Gorizia, 1943-Udine, 2021) è stato uno scrittore italiano.
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Approdato alla scrittura dopo aver fatto l'agente di commercio, il successo letterario è arrivato nel 1993 con La variante di Lüneburg, che narra di una partita fra due maestri di scacchi che si prolunga idealmente attraverso gli eventi storici della seconda guerra mondiale, con il colpo di scena finale che rivelerà la vera natura dei giocatori.
Il secondo romanzo, Canone inverso del 1996, è invece incentrato sulla musica, in una cornice mitteleuropea
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Stephenie Meyer
Stephenie Meyer is the author of the bestselling Twilight series, The Host, and The Chemist. Twilight was one of 2005's most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list. Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an "ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults," an Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade So Far," and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.
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Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and three sons. -
Ján Johanides
Slovenský prozaik a esejista.
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Narodil sa v rodine predavača a vzdelanie získaval v Dolnom Kubíne a v Bratislave, kde začal v roku 1954 študovať na filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského estetiku a dejiny umenia, no štúdium po troch rokoch nedokončil. Pracoval ako psychológ, referent vo Zväze slovenských spisovateľov, dramaturg a redaktor programového magazínu v dome kultúry a osvety v Bratislave a na mnohých ďalších miestach. Od roku 1972 sa venoval prevažne slobodnému povolaniu. Žil na viacerých miestach Slovenska – v Martine, v Trnovci nad Váhom, od roku 1972 žil v Šali, kde aj zomrel.
Svoje prvé literárne diela začal uverejňovať v časopise Mladá tvorba a Slovenské pohľady, neskôr prispieval do všetkých literárnych časopisov. Prvé knižn -
Rudolf Sloboda
Rudolf Sloboda was a Slovak writer, poet, playwright and scriptwriter.
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He was one of the most original and important Slovak writers in the second half of the 20th century. Most of Sloboda's writings are based on his real life and experiences. His works are characteristic for their brilliant narrative style, closely following their themes and plot, as well as for the author's profound thoughts and depth of feeling. Sloboda's books are often built on the motive of love and related motives such as jealousy, eroticism, sex, but also loneliness, faith in God and search for the meaning of life. -
Peter Pišťanek
Pišťanek was a prose writer who managed to come out with a new type of prose at the beginning of the 1990's. He began publishing at the end of the 1980's in Slovenské pohľady, the best literary magazine in those years. His novelistic debut, Rivers of Babylon was an unusual success with the readers as well as the critics. The author described what was then a non-traditional topic for the Slovak literature - the Bratislava underground - using very expressive language and a variety of stylistic levels. The characters that fill his novel are small-time crooks and bigime entrepreneurs-privatizers as well as prostitutes. The only ambition of these people is to make their life more pleasant which, in their understanding, means to cheat, exploit, o
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Pavel Vilikovský
Pavel Vilikovský sa narodil 27. júna v Palúdzke (dnes súčasť Liptovského Mikuláša), vyrastal v Bratislave. Matka Júlia, rod. Bárdošová (1909 – 1984), bola učiteľkou angličtiny a slovenčiny, otec Jan Vilikovský (1904 – 1946) vysokoškolský pedagóg, literárny historik staršej českej a slovenskej literatúry, brat Ján (1937) je anglista a prekladateľ. V školskom roku 1958/59 študoval filmovú réžiu na pražskej FAMU, v rokoch 1960 – 1965 angličtinu a slovenčinu na FF UK v Bratislave. Pracoval ako redaktor v mesačníku Slovenské pohľady (1964, 1966 – 1970), po nútenom odchode z časopisu na začiatku normalizácie sa zamestnal ako redaktor vydavateľstva Tatran, v rokoch 1976 – 1996 pracoval ako redaktor v časopise Romboid, v 90. rokoch aj v slovenskej
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Dušan Mitana
Do literárneho života sa Dušan Mitana zapojil otvoreným listom básnickej skupine Osamelí bežci, publikovaným v Mladej tvorbe. Debutoval poviedkou Oáza s jabloňami v Mladej tvorbe v roku 1965 a od roku 1967 bol externým redaktorom tohto časopisu. Od roku 1973 pracoval ako redaktor časopisu Romboid, zo „znormalizovanej“ redakcie však v roku 1975 odišiel a odvtedy žije v Bratislave ako spisovateľ „na voľnej nohe“.
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Dušan Mitana patrí do súčasnej slovenskej prózy. Ako jeden z prvých písal experimentátorskú postmodernistickú prózu v slovenskej literatúre.
Knižným debutom Psie dni (1970) sa zaradil do silnej generácie spisovateľov, ktorí v tomto desaťročí razantne vstúpili do slovenskej literatúry. Príbehy vychádzajúce z bežných životných situácií -
Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, children's writer and academic.
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He was born in Závažná Poruba, in the Zilina region. As a student at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava he studied Slovak language and literature, and history. From 1952-1989 he lectured at the university on the history of Slovak and Czech literature. From 1971-1972 he taught at a university in Naples. He retired in 1990 and lived with his family in Bratislava. At age 80 he died at University Hospital in that city.
Rúfus published his first poems in the 1940s and his first collection, Až dozrieme ("When We Grow Mature") in 1956. Another 20 poetry books followed. A children's book, Modlitbičky ("Little Prayers") has been called his most successful wo -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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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),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Gianfranco Calligarich
Gianfranco Calligarich was an Italian novelist, screenwriter and dramatist.
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Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt's debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (2020), won the Laurel Prize in 2021. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (2022), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022. He lives in Dublin.
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Ladislav Ballek
Ladislav Ballek sa narodil 2. apríla 1941 v Teranoch (okres Krupina) ako druhý syn finančného a colného úradníka Jozefa Balleka a Jolany Ballekovej. Vyštudoval slovenčinu, dejepis a výtvarnú výchovu na Pedagogickej fakulte v Banskej Bystrici.
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Debutoval prózou uverejnenou v roku 1964 v zborníku stredoslovenských autorov Silueta. V roku 1965 v hodnosti nadporučíka skočnil vojenskú službu a začal vyučovať v Habkove na Orave. V roku 1966 nastúpil na miesto redaktora Československého rozhlasu v štúdiu Banská Bystrica, kde pripravoval reláciu Rádio mladých poslucháčov a zakladal Rádiovíkend.
Knižne debutoval novelou Útek na zelenú lúku, za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska za najlepší debut roka, a tiež Cenu vydavateľstva Slovenský spisovateľ.
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Ivana Gibová
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.
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Katarína Kucbelová
Absolvovala filmovú a televíznu dramaturgia a scenáristiku na Vysokej škole múzických umení v Bratislave. V roku 2006 založila spolu s Marekom Turňom literárnu cenu Anasoft litera, ktorú dodnes organizuje.
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Knižne debutovala zbierkou poézie Duály (2003). Nasledovali zbierky Šport (2006), Malé veľké mesto (2009) a Vie, čo urobí (2013). Básne publikovala aj v rôznych zahraničných antológiách a zborníkoch. -
Marek Torčík
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.
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Nicol Hochholczerová
Nicol Hochholczerová študuje na katedre grafiky Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici. Ocenenia za prozaickú tvorbu získala v literárnych súťažiach Poviedka, Medziriadky, Literárny Kežmarok, Kukučínova Revúca a za knižnú ilustráciu v súťaži Najkrajšie knihy Slovenska. Novela Táto izba sa nedá zjesť je jej knižným debutom
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Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, children's writer and academic.
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He was born in Závažná Poruba, in the Zilina region. As a student at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava he studied Slovak language and literature, and history. From 1952-1989 he lectured at the university on the history of Slovak and Czech literature. From 1971-1972 he taught at a university in Naples. He retired in 1990 and lived with his family in Bratislava. At age 80 he died at University Hospital in that city.
Rúfus published his first poems in the 1940s and his first collection, Až dozrieme ("When We Grow Mature") in 1956. Another 20 poetry books followed. A children's book, Modlitbičky ("Little Prayers") has been called his most successful wo -
Ladislav Ballek
Ladislav Ballek sa narodil 2. apríla 1941 v Teranoch (okres Krupina) ako druhý syn finančného a colného úradníka Jozefa Balleka a Jolany Ballekovej. Vyštudoval slovenčinu, dejepis a výtvarnú výchovu na Pedagogickej fakulte v Banskej Bystrici.
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Debutoval prózou uverejnenou v roku 1964 v zborníku stredoslovenských autorov Silueta. V roku 1965 v hodnosti nadporučíka skočnil vojenskú službu a začal vyučovať v Habkove na Orave. V roku 1966 nastúpil na miesto redaktora Československého rozhlasu v štúdiu Banská Bystrica, kde pripravoval reláciu Rádio mladých poslucháčov a zakladal Rádiovíkend.
Knižne debutoval novelou Útek na zelenú lúku, za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska za najlepší debut roka, a tiež Cenu vydavateľstva Slovenský spisovateľ.
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