Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.
From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu
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Cho Nam-Joo
Associated Names:
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* 조남주 (Korean)
* Cho Nam-Joo (English)
* 趙南柱 (Chinese)
* โชนัมจู (Thai)
* チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.
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Fugard also served as an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego.
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Shailja Patel
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Muhidin M. Dahlan
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Menulis empat novel dan terlibat sebagai tim editor buku-buku Pramoedya Ananta Toer di lentera Dipantara sejak 2003, spesial penulis "Pengantar Penerbit" dan sampul belakang.
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Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis lahir tanggal 7 Maret 1922 di Padang. Mendapat pendidikan di Sekolah Ekonomi INS Kayu Tanam, Sumatera serta Jefferson Fellowship East and West Center, Universitas Hawai. Aktif sebagai penerbit dan Pemimpin Redaksi Harian Indonesia Raya Jakarta. Memperoleh Magsaysay Award untuk jurnalistik dan kesusasteraan, Golden Pen Award dari International Association of Editors and Publishers, Hadiah Sastra dari Badan Musyawarah Kebudayaan Nasional, Hadiah Penghargaan dari Persatuan Wartawan Indonesia, Hadiah dari Departemen P dan K tahun 1975 bagi novelnya "Harimau! Harimau!", dan Hadiah sastra dari Yayasan Jaya Raya untuk buku terbaik tahun 1977-1978, tanggal 15 Desember 1979, untuk romannya "Maut dan Cinta".
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Neamat Imam
Neamat Imam is a Bangladeshi author based in Canada. His first novel, The Black Coat, was first published by Penguin Books India in 2013. It was published in 2015 by Periscope Books in Britain. It is a dystopian portrait of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Mujib and a "dark political satire fuelled by anger and absurdist humour" (Independent). In a review, Outlook India called the novel "an extraordinary book ... a fine work of fiction." The Sunday Guardian said it was "destined to be a future classic."
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Reviews:
"Dark political satire fuelled by anger and absurdist humour." - The Independent, UK
"...one of the best to come out of the subcontinent in the recent past." - Financial Express
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Kamal Ben Hameda
Kamal Ben Hameda (born 1954) is a Libyan jazz musician and writer. Born in Tripoli, he moved in his early twenties to France. He now lives in the Netherlands. Kamal has published several collections of poetry, and a novel titled La Compagnie des Tripolitaines (2012). The book was nominated for several literary prizes, and is due to appear in an English translation from Peirene Press in 2014, under the title Under the Tripoli Sky.
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Tessa McWatt
Guyanese-born Canadian writer Tessa McWatt is the author of six novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018, for her memoir: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. She is also a librettist, and works on interdisciplinary projects and community-based life writing through CityLife: Stories Against Loneliness. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Qaisra Shahraz
Qaisra Shahraz, born in Pakistan, is a critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter and has lived in Manchester since she was nine. She has degrees in English and two Masters in European Literature (Manchester Universities) and Scriptwriting ( Salford University ). Qaisra has a successful career in education – school teacher, examiner, teacher trainer, lecturer, development officer and quality improvement manager etc. She is currently a college inspector for Ofsted and Estyn, and an education consultant.
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Qaisra is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Member of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of the Arts Council Award. Her novels are translated into several languages. The Holy Woman won the Golden Jubilee Award and was Book -
Nathalie Handal
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France and the Arab world. Described as “a Renaissance figure,” Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Kumunyakaa writes, “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía, which Alice Walker lauds as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve,” and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, which The New York Times says is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” Handal is the editor of the groundbreaking classic The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland Josep
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Marguerite van Geldermalsen
Marguerite van Geldermalsen’s parents were from the Netherlands but she was born in New Zealand where she grew up on an orchard not far from Nelson. She graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1976.
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She married Mohammad Abdallah two years later, living with him in a cave in Petra. She ran a small clinic for the local people while Mohammad sold souvenirs. A project to remove inhabitants from the site culminated in their move to a red brick settlement in 1985 where she settled into village life and their children went to school.
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Alex la Guma
Alex la Guma was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa. La Guma's vivid style, distinctive dialogue, and realistic, sympathetic portrayal of oppressed groups have made him one of the most notable South African writers of the 20th century. La Guma was awarded the 1969 Lotus Prize for Literature.
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Nel Noddings
Nel Noddings is an American feminist, educationalist, and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy of education, educational theory, and ethics of care.
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Noddings received a bachelors degree in mathematics and physical science from Montclair State College in New Jersey, a masters degree in mathematics from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in education from the Stanford University School of Education.
Nel Noddings worked in many areas of the education system. She spent seventeen years as an elementary and high school mathematics teacher and school administrator, before earning her PhD and beginning work as an academic in the fields of philosophy of education, theory of education and ethics, specifically moral education and ethics of car -
Umar Kayam
Many predicate have been given to Umar Kayam. He was a writer, lecturer, bigscreen artist. Most of his time was spended as a lecturer at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.
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Bibliography:
* Sri Sumarah (Pustaka Jaya, 1975)
* Para Priyayi (Pustaka Jaya, 1992)
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Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin) started writing since 1951. In 1953, her short stories can be found in most of national magazines like Kisah, Mimbar Indonesia, and Siasat. She also writes poems, radio play, and novel.
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Bibliography:
* Padang Ilalang di Belakang Rumah
* Dari Parangakik ke Kampuchea
* Sebuah Lorong di Kotaku
* Jepun Negerinya Hiroko
* Langit dan Bumi Sahabat Kami
* Namaku Hiroko
* Tirai Menurun
* Pertemuan Dua Hati
* Sekayu
* Pada Sebuah Kapal
* Kemayoran
* Keberangkatan
* Kuncup Berseri
* Dari Fontenay Ke Magallianes
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Angelina Enny
ANGELINA ENNY is a writer from Kotabumi, Lampung, who now resides in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her stories "Nokturnal Melankolia" (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2017) was named to the Long-list of Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa. She published the poetry collection "In Between, Di Antara" (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2019), alongside Dutch artist Robin Block and translated it into the performance form "A Passage, Sebuah Antara." Her script, "The Fifteenth Night" about the May 1998 riots, was longlisted for the Jakarta Film Fund in 2021. She just wrote "Finding Sita in the Indies" (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2024), a novelette on the search for identity during colonial times.
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Nada Samih-Rotondo
Nada Samih-Rotondo is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer, educator, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. When she is not befriending trees or attuning to hidden stories, she is leading transformational educational experiences and addressing the social-emotional needs of historically underserved and multilingual youth. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works as the manager of education at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. All Water Has Perfect Memory, her first bo
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Hakan Bıçakcı
Hakan Bıçakcı was born in Istanbul in 1978. After completing his primary and secondary education in Istanbul, he went to university in Ankara in 1996. In 2001 he graduated in economics from Bilkent University and returned to Istanbul.
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His first novel, Romantic Fear, 2002, his second novel, Dream Diary, 2003, his third novel, Spare Time, 2004, his first book of short stories, A Midsummer's Nightmare, 2005, and his fourth novel, The Apartment Shaft, 2008 were published by Oğlak Publishing House.
His fifth novel, Dark Room, was published in 2010 by İletişim Publishers. In 2011, the Apartment Shaft, Spare Time and Dream Diary were republished by İletişim Publishers. His book of new and old short stories, Me Against All of You, was published by İl -
Iwan Simatupang
Iwan Simatupang dilahirkan di Sibolga, Sumatera Utara, 18 Januari 1928, dan meninggal di Jakarta, 4 Agustus 1970.
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Sastrawan yang pernah memperdalam antropologi dan filsafat di Belanda dan Perancis serta sempat meredakturi Siasat dan Warta Harian. Ia dikenal dengan novel-novelnya yang mengusung semangat eksistensialisme: Merahnya Merah (1968), Kooong (1975; mendapat hadiah Yayasan Buku Utama Departemen P dan K, 1975), Ziarah (1969), Kering (1972). Dua novel yang disebut terakhir diterjemahkan Harry Aveling ke dalam bahasa Inggris.
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Cemal Kafadar
Cemal Kafadar, halen Harvard Üniversitesi Ortadoğu Tarihi Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (İki Cihan Âresinde) adlı Osmanlı'nın kuruluş düzenini anlattığı 1995 tarihli bir kitabı bulunmaktadır.
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Dea Anugrah
Dea Anugrah is a writer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. His most recent poetry collection Misa Arwah (2015) was longlisted in 2016 Khatulistiwa Literary Award. His collection of short stories Bakat Menggonggong (2016) was recognized by Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine as one of the best Indonesian books of 2016; it was also shortlisted in 2017 Khatulistiwa Literary Award. He regularly writes essays and journalistic reports for Tirto.id.
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Emmanuel Rhoides
Emmanuel Rhoides (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης) was a Greek writer and journalist. He is considered one of the most illustrious and reviving spirits of the Greek letters of his time.
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Born in Hermoupolis, the capital of the island of Syros, to a family of rich aristocrats from Chios — who had fled the island after the massacre of its population by the Ottomans in 1822 — he spent much of his youth abroad. Rhoides was erudite and at a young age had mastered not only the languages of continental Europe, but also, ancient Greek and Latin. His early youth years he spent in Genoa, Italy in the times of the revolutions, which were a far reaching repercussion of the French revolution.
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Moni Mohsin
Mohsin grew up in Lahore, and describes herself as being from a family of "educated, westernised people". When General Zia ul-Haq came to power in a coup in 1977, her family began to feel less comfortable in the new, religious Pakistan, where political repression against nonconformists became routine, but remained in Lahore. Mohsin left Pakistan at 16 to study at a boarding school in England, and later attended Cambridge University, where she studied anthropology and archaeology. Afterward she returned to Pakistan, where she founded the country's first nature magazine. After General Zia's death she moved more decisively into the public sphere, working for the independent "Friday Times", where she rose to the ranks of features editor.
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Dave Robinson
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Achdiat K. Mihardja
ACHDIAT K. Mihardja dilahirkan di Cibatu, Garut, 6 Maret 1911. Setelah tamat HIS, melanjutkan ke MULO di Bandung, terus ke AMS-A di Bandung juga. Karena bertengkar dengan salah seorang guru, dia pindah ke AMS-A juga di Solo, tetapi mengambil jurusan Ketimuran, sekelas antara lain dengan Tatang Sastrawiria dan Amir Hamzah.
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Para siswa yang pada masa itu belajar di Solo banyak yang aktif dalam gerakan kebangsaan. Achdiat pun bersama dengan Amir Hamzah, Armijn Pane, Tatang Sastrawiria, dan lain-lain aktif dalam organisasi "Indonesia Moeda" yang baru didirikan (30 Desember 1930) sebagai realisasi keputusan Kongres Pemuda (1928) yang membubarkan organisasi-organisasi pemuda daerah seperti Jong Java, Sekar Roekoen (organisasi pemuda Sunda), Jong Ce -
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent. She was the first Pacific Islander to graduate with a PhD in English from The University of Auckland and is now Associate Professor in the English Department, specialising in Pasifika literature. Her first collection, the bestselling Fast Talking PI, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2010. She has published two additional collections, Dark Sparring (2013) and Tightrope (2017). Marsh represented Tuvalu at the London Olympics Poetry Parnassus event in 2012; her work has been translated into multiple languages and has appeared in numerous forms live in schools, museums, parks, billboards, print and online literary journals. As
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Cynthia Eller
Cynthia Eller is Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and the author of five scholarly books and two textbooks. She loves to cross-stitch in her free time.
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Duncan Pritchard
Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field, including the books Epistemic Luck (2005), Knowledge (2009), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar & A. Haddock, 2010), and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012). In 2007 he was awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his research. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. She is known for her English translation of Jacques Derrida's seminal work Of Grammatology, and her own philosophical writings on the postcolonial condition that introduced the term "subaltern" into the philosophical lexicon.
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Idrus
Idrus adalah sastrawan kelahiran Padang 21 September 1921. Ia dikenal sebagai pengarang pembaharu prosa di kalangan angkatan '45.
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Setelah menamatkan SMT, ia menjadi redaktur Balai Pustaka di tahun 1943, kemudian bekerja sebagai Kepala Bagian Pendidikan Garuda Indonesia Airways tahun 1950-1952. Mahir menulis sketsa, kumpulan sketsanya Corat-coret di Bawah Tanah, ia buat pada masa pendudukan Jepang. Beberapa drama yang ditulisnya, Ave Maria tahun 1948, Keluarga Surono tahun 1948, Kejahatan Membalas Dendam tahun 1948, Bisma tahun 1945 dan Jibaku Aceh tahun 1945.
Karya-karyanya:
Bisma (1945)
Jibaku Aceh (1945)
Surabaya (1946)
Coret-coret di Bawah Tanah (1946)
Surabaya (1946)
Ave Maria ke Jalan Lain ke Roma (1948)
Tanah (1948)
Keluarga Surono (1948)
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Marco Kartodikromo
Marco Kartodikromo was a journalist and also Indonesia independent activist, who makes him several times detained in the colonial era. All his works were created in prison, such as Student Hijo.
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He also founder of Inlandsche Journalisten Bond, a journalist group on 1914. He became a student of Tirto Adhi Soerjo, another avant-garda journalist in that era.
He died in exile at Boven Digoel on 1935.
Bibliography:
* Mata Gelap (1914)
* Student Hidjo (1918)
* Matahariah (1919)
* Rasa Mardika (1918) and reprinted 1931
* Sair Rempah-rempah (1918)
* Sair Sama Rasa Sama Rata (1917)
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Khrisna Pabichara
Khrisna Pabichara lahir di Borongtammatea—sebuah kampung di Jeneponto, Sulawesi Selatan—pada 10 November 1975. Kumpulan cerpen debutnya, Mengawini Ibu, terbit pada 2010. Novel debutnya, Sepatu Dahlan, terbit pada 2012. Sedangkan kumpulan puisi pertamanya, Pohon Duka Tumbuh di Matamu, terbit pada 2014. Penyair yang kerap diundang sebagai pembicara dan pembaca puisi ini memulai karier kepengarangannya di dunia buku-buku seputar neurologi. Penyuka FC Barcelona ini sekarang bekerja sebagai penyunting lepas dan aktif dalam kegiatan literasi. Bisa diajak berbincang berbagai hal, terutama #bahasaIndonesia, lewat akun twitter @1bichara dan instagramnya @khrisna_marewa.
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Virginia Held
Virginia Potter Held (born October 28, 1929) is a leading moral, social/political and feminist philosopher whose work on the ethics of care sparked significant research into the ethical dimensions of providing care for others and critiques of the traditional roles of women in society. Held defends care ethics as a distinct moral framework from Kantian, utilitarian and virtue ethics. Held's work on the morality of political violence viewed through the window of ethics of care has also been significantly influential.
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Held was named Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York – Graduate Center and Hunter College in 1996, received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in 1968 and worked at Hunter College as lecturer (19 -
Yalçın Tosun
Yalçın Tosun (Ankara, 1977) Galatasaray Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden mezun oldu. Aynı üniversitede Özel Hukuk Doktorasını tamamladı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışıyor.
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Öyküleri Adam Öykü, Notos Öykü ve Kitap-lık dergilerinde yayımlandı. -
Anca Vieru
Anca Vieru este absolventă de politehnică și are un master în comunicare. A publicat în volumele colective Moș Crăciun & co. (Editura Art, 2013) și Ficțiuni reale (Editura Humanitas, 2013), proiect inițiat de Florin Piersic jr.
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În anul 2015 i-a apărut la Editura Polirom volumul de proză scurtă Felii de lămâie, nominalizat la premiile revistei Observator cultural și reeditat în 2018 în colecția Top10+. A mai publicat, tot la Editura Polirom, romanul Spulberatic (2018), volumul de proză scurtă Fără poză de profil (2022), nominalizat la Premiile Sofia Nădejde, și biografia romanțată Pallady. Ulise legat de catarg (2023). I-au apărut povestiri și fragmente de roman în revistele iocan și Familia. -
Binyavanga Wainaina
Binyavanga Wainaina was a short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
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He was the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya, and he directed the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College.
He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and wrote for many journals, including Vanity Fair, National Geographic, One Story, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harper's, Granta, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times. -
Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot is an Egyptian-born historian, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written on the history of Egypt since the eighteenth century.
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Taha Kılınç
1980, Anamur doğumlu. Kartal Anadolu İmam-Hatip Lisesi ve İstanbul Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi’ni bitirdikten sonra başladığı gazetecilik mesleğini sürdürüyor. Ortadoğu ve İslâm dünyası, uzun yıllardır yoğunlaştığı çalışma sahası. Hâlen Yeni Şafak gazetesinde, haftanın iki günü, sıklıkla seyahat ettiği İslâm coğrafyasının gündemine dair köşe yazıları yazıyor. Aynı zamanda aylık Derin Tarih dergisi ve gzt.com/mecra sitesinin genel yayın yönetmeni.
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Yayımlanmış kitapları:
- Şam Kitabı
- Çocuk Ansiklopedisi
- Eski İstanbul Fotoğrafları
- 365 Günde Peygamberimin Arkadaşları
- Ali Emiri’nin İzinde
- Söylemesem Olmazdı
- Ortadoğu’dan Notlar
- Kırmadan İncitmeden
- Kudüs Yazıları
- Seyrüsefer
- Ortadoğu’ya Dair Yirmi Tez
- Neyi, Nasıl Yapmalı?
- Hatırda Kala -
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Asaf Hâlet Çelebi
Dahiliye Nezareti Şifre Kalemi Müdürü Mehmet Sait Halet Bey'in oğlu olan Çelebi İstanbul'da doğdu. Galatasaray Lisesi'nde 8 yıl eğitim gördü. Babasından Fransızca ve Farsça, Mevlevi Şeyhi Ahmet Remzi Dede (Akyürek) ile Rauf Yekta Bey'den musiki ve nota dersleri aldı. Kısa bir süre kaldığı Fransa'dan dönüşünde üç yıl Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi'nde öğrenim gördü. Adliye Meslek Mektebi'nden mezun oldu.
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Üsküdar Adliyesi Ceza Mahkemesi zabıt kâtipliği yaptı. Osmanlı Bankası, Devlet Deniz Yolları İşletmesi'nde çalıştı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü kitaplığında görevliyken yaşamını yitirdi.
Gençlik yıllarında divan edebiyatından etkilendi. Gazeller ve rubailer yazdı. 1937'den sonra serbest ölçü kullanmaya ve Batı şiirinin tek -
Verena Cavalcante
Verena Cavalcante é mãe, escritora, tradutora, revisora de textos e professora de idiomas. Formou-se em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCC) e atualmente também divide seu tempo com o estudo da psicanálise. Verena publicou seu primeiro livro, Larva em 2015, aos 25 anos. Em 2018, lançou seu segundo livro, O Berro do Bode. Sua voz única e visceral carrega um alto teor de verdade, especialmente quando aborda a infância e os terrores do universo feminino. A realidade na ficção de Verena Cavalcante é absolutamente chocante, e ela mergulha em diferentes universos (femininos e masculinos, infantis e adultos, mágicos e mundanos) de maneira bastante peculiar. Nesses tempos pandêmicos, vive reclusa em uma casa no interior d
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Leigh Hunt
British writer James Henry Leigh Hunt, known for his essays, defending Romanticism, edited the Examiner from 1808 to 1821.
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This English critic, essayist, poet lived.
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Büşra Sanay
Büşra Sanay, 1986 Kasım’ında İstanbul’da doğdu. İşçi emeklisi anne babanın üç çocuğundan ikincisi. İlk-orta ve lise eğitimini İstanbul Avcılar’da gördü. Konya Selçuk Üniversitesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. CNNTürk haber merkezi ve Cumhuriyet gazetesinde staj yaptı. İş hayatına üniversite üçüncü sınıftayken İstanbul CNN Türk Haber Merkezi’nde haber spikeri olarak başladı. Günün sıcak gelişmelerini anlatırken bir taraftan da www.cnnturk.com için röportajlar yaptı. Özellikle “Ensest” konusunda mağdurlarla yaptığı röportajlar, Türkiye’nin gündemini sarstı.
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Sundari Mardjuki
Sundari Mardjuki is an Indonesian author living in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. She was born in Temanggung, Central Java in December 1975. She moved to Depok, West Java in 1994 to pursue her study at University of Indonesia, Faculty of Cultural Studies. She found her passion in writing since she was in high school, where she wrote short stories but kept it for herself.
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She used to work as Senior Marcomm Manager at Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia, where she closely works with many popular Indonesian artists such as Isyana Sarasvati, Fatin Shidqia, Judika, GAC, TheOvertunes, among others.
During her stay in The Netherlands, she studied about writing at the Amsterdam Writing Workshop from 2010 – 2011.
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Nukila Amal
Nukila Amal mendapat perhatian besar di dunia sastra Indonesia setelah menerbitkan novelnya, Cala Ibi (2003), yang masuk lima besar Khatulistiwa Literary Award. Kumpulan cerpennya, Laluba (2005), mendapat penghargaan Karya Sastra Terbaik majalah Tempo. Nukila juga meraih penghargaan Cerpen Terbaik Kompas 2008 melalui cerpennya, "Smokol." Karya terbarunya adalah buku anak Mirah Mini: Hidupmu, Keajaibanmu (2013).
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Pada tahun 2006 Nukila diundang sebagai peserta Iowa International Writing Program di Amerika Serikat. Ia pernah menjadi anggota Komite Sastra Dewan Kesenian Jakarta dan menerjemahkan sejumlah kumpulan puisi. Lulusan Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata Bandung ini juga mengelola bisnis roti dietetik. -
Wiji Thukul
Wiji Thukul Wijaya lahir di Sala 24 Agustus 1963 sebagai anak tukang becak dari keluarga Katolik. Selepas SMP, selama kurang dari dua tahun dia belajar di sekolah Menengah Karawitan Indonesia, sampai putus sekolah pada 1980.
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Di Solo, Thukul dibesarkan di kampung miskin yang sebagian besar penghuninya hidup dari menarik becak. Ketika itu bis kota mulai menguasai jalanan, mengakibatkan penderitaan yang berkepanjangan bagi para tukang becak yang penghasilannya semakin merosot. Rentenirpun telah menjadi pengunjung tetap yang kedatanganya selalu menggelisahkan para penghuni kampung.
Semenjak putus sekolah, Thukul mencari nafkah sendiri melalui berbagai pekerjaan tidak tetap. Dia pernah menjadi tukang koran, tukang semir mebel, maupun buruh harian. -
Djenar Maesa Ayu
Djenar Maesa Ayu started her writings on many national newspapers. Her first book "Mereka Bilang Saya Monyet!" has been reprinted more than 8 times and shortlisted on Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2003.
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Her short story “Waktu Nayla” awarded the best Short Story by Kompas in 2003, while “Menyusu Ayah” become The Best Short Story by Jurnal Perempuan and translated to English by Richard Oh with title “Suckling Father”.
Her second book "Jangan Main-main (dengan Kelaminmu)" was launch February 2005 and also received great success. The amazing part is this book reprinted two days after the launching.
Other books by Djenar:
* Nayla
* Cerita Pendek Tentang Cerita Cinta Pendek -
Semaoen
Semaoen (1899–1971), also spelled Semaun, was the first chairman of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and was a leader of the Semarang branch of the Sarekat Islam.
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Hamsad Rangkuti
Cerpen-cerpennya dimuat dalam berbagai harian dan majalah dalam dan luar negeri. Beberapa cerita pendeknya diterjemahkan dalam bahas Inggris dan Jerman.
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Kumpulan cerpennya yang telah terbit adalah Lukisan Perkawinan (1982), Cemara (1982), Sampah Bulan Desember (2000) dan Bibir dalam Pispot (2003).
Novel pertamanya Ketika Lampu Berwarna Merah merupakan pemenang sayembara penulisan roman Dewan Kesenian Jakarta pada tahun 1981. -
Armijn Pane
Armijn Pane adalah seorang Sastrawan Indonesia. Pada tahun 1933 bersama Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana dan Amir Hamzah mendirikan majalah Pujangga Baru yang mampu mengumpulkan penulis-penulis dan pendukung lainnya dari seluruh penjuru Hindia Belanda untuk memulai sebuah pergerakan modernisme sastra. Salah satu karya sastranya yang paling terkenal ialah novel Belenggu.
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Tahun 1969 Armijn Pane menerima Anugerah Seni dari pemerintah Republik Indonesia karena karya dan jasanya dalam bidang sastra. Pada bulan Februari 1970, beberapa bulan setelah menerima penghargaan tersebut, ia meninggal. -
Ahmet Tulgar
1959 yılında doğdu. Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi'ni bitirdikten sonra Viyana Üniversitesi'nde Siyaset Bilimi, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı okudu. 1987'de Sabah Dergi Grubu'nda başladığı gazeteciliğe çeşitli gazete, dergi ve TV kanallarında muhabir, yazar ve yönetici olarak devam etti.
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-Henüz Zaman Var, 2013 Roman
-Çocuklar ve Canavarları, 2012 Roman
-Diller, Çehreler, Barış, 2010 Yazı
-Birbirimize, 2009, Hikaye
-Ben Onlardan Biriyim, 2007 Yazı
-Volkan'ın Romanı, 2006, İlk romanı
-Ne Olmuş Yani? Korsan Yazılar, 2005 ---Yazı
-Tam Yakalandığımız Yerden, 2004, Yazı
-Mahallede Herkes Kahramandır, 2004, Röportaj
-Evsiz Ülke Hikayeleri, 1989, İlk öykü kitabı -
Muhammad Faisal
Muhammad Faisal adalah seorang youth researcher, pendiri Youth Laboratory Indonesia, sebuah biro riset pertama di Indonesia yang mendedikasikan diri pada studi perilaku dan budaya anak muda Indonesia.
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Beberapa lembaga dan brand yang pernah dibantu Youthlab antara lain, Nike, Google, Coca-Cola, TNI AD, Kementrian Pekerjaan Umum, Kepolisian Republik Indonesia, Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), dan Kantor Staff Kepresidenan.
Penulis pernah menjabat sebagai Head of Asia di Youth Research Partners, sebuah jaringan peneliti kepemudaan global yang terdiri dari 20 anggota dari berbagai negara. Penulis juga dipercaya sebagai narasumber untuk media internasional ternama terkait tema anak muda Indonesia, yaitu Spiegel Magazine dari Jerman, dan Le Mond -
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (STA) menamatkan HKS di Bandung (1928), meraih Mr. dari Sekolah Tinggi di Jakarta (1942), dan menerima Dr. Honoris Causa dari UI (1979) dan Universiti Sains, Penang, Malaysia (1987). Diberi nama Takdir karena jari tangannya hanya ada 4.
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Pernah menjadi redaktur Panji Pustaka dan Balai Pustaka (1930-1933), kemudian mendirikan dan memimpin majalah Pujangga Baru (1933-1942 dan 1948-1953), Pembina Bahasa Indonesia (1947-1952), dan Konfrontasi (1954-1962). Pernah menjadi guru HKS di Palembang (1928-1929), dosen Bahasa Indonesia, Sejarah, dan Kebudayaan di UI (1946-1948), guru besar Bahasa Indonesia, Filsafat Kesusastraan dan Kebudayaan di Universitas Nasional, Jakarta (1950-1958), guru besar Tata Bahasa Indonesia di Univer -
Abdoel Moeis
Abdoel Moeis adalah seorang sastrawan, politikus, dan wartawan Indonesia. Dia merupakan pengurus besar Sarekat Islam dan pernah menjadi anggota Volksraad mewakili organisasi tersebut. Abdoel Moeis dikukuhkan sebagai Pahlawan Nasional yang pertama oleh Presiden RI, Soekarno, pada 30 Agustus 1959.
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Bonnie Burstow
Bonnie Burstow was a Canadian psychotherapist, author, and anti-psychiatry scholar. She was a professor in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.
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Karl Schembri
Karl Schembri, born in 1978, is a novelist and poet who branched out of investigative journalism into the humanitarian field, all the while maintaining a healthy literary output. His first published work appeared in 1997 with the self-published poetry anthology Frekwenzi ta’ Spirti fis-Sakra (Frequencies of Drunken Spirits). Next came the short story collection Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx (Under the Sun, Minima) in 2002, which placed Schembri in the roster of alternative literary voices gathered under the umbrella of the short-lived but deeply influential micro-publisher Minima. But it was the release of his debut novel Il-Manifest tal-Killer (Choppy Books, 2006) which secured his position as a notable and urgent literary voice, even leading vet
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Keith Foulcher
Dr Keith Foulcher PhD retired in February 2006 as lecturer and coordinator of the Indonesian Studies program. Before his appointment to the University of Sydney in 1996, he taught at Monash University in Melbourne and Flinders University in Adelaide. He has an international reputation for his work on modern Indonesian literature, and has been an invited speaker at various universities and associations in Indonesia, Singapore, The Netherlands and the United States.
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His writings:
* "On Being a Modern Writer: Translation and the Angkatan 45" in Henri
Chambert-Loir (ed.), Translation in Indonesia (EFEO, Paris)
* "Moving Pictures: Western Marxism and Vernacular Literature in Colonial
Indonesia" in Doris Jedamski (ed), Chewing Over the West (Rodop -
Fatimah Busu
FATIMAH BUSU dilahirkan pada bulan Januari 1943 di Kampung Pasir Pekan, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Setelah tamat pendidikan formalnya di sekolah rendah dan menengah, beliau menyambung pengajian dengan mengikuti kursus perguruan di Maktab Perempuan Melayu, Durian Daun, Melaka. Kemudian, beliau berkhidmat sebagai guru untuk beberapa tahun. Pada awal dekan 1970-an, Fatimah Busu menyambung pengajian tingginya di Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Pulau Pinang. Berkat kesungguhannya dalam bidang akademik, Fatimah Busu memperoleh Ijazah Sarjana Sastera (1978) dan Doktor Falsafah (1994) di universiti yang sama. Kemudian beliau bertugas sebagai pensyarah sehingga bersara pada tahun 1998. Kini beliau berkhidmat secara kontrak sebagai penyarah di USM.
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Cezar Paul-Badescu
Cezar Paul-Badescu (born 1968, in Bucharest, Romania) graduated from Bucharest University with a Degree in Literature in 1996 and was awarded an MA in the Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature by the same institution in 1995. Since 1996, he has worked as an editor for Dilema magazine (in the meantime renamed Dilema Veche). In 1997, he edited an issue of the magazine that questioned the mythologies surrounding Romania’s national poet, Mihai Eminescu. The issue provoked irate reactions in the Romanian press and led to statements being made in Romania’s Parliament. Cezar Paul-Badescu was threatened with a “firing squad” in nationalist publications. In 1999, he edited an anthology named The Eminescu Case (Paralela 45 Publishing House,
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