Nicolas Vanier
Nicolas Vanier is a French adventurer, writer and filmmaker.
His latest feature film, Loup ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of caribou, which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves.
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Erin Hunter
Erin Hunter is the pseudonym of five people: Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui T. Sutherland, Gillian Philip, and Inbali Iserles, as well as editor Victoria Holmes. Together, they write the Warriors series as well as the Seekers and Survivors series. Erin Hunter is working on a new series now called Bravelands.
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Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her interest in astronomy and standing stones. -
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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René Barjavel
René Barjavel, né le 24 janvier 1911 à Nyons (Drôme) et décédé le 24 novembre 1985 à Paris, est un écrivain et journaliste français principalement connu pour ses romans d'anticipation.
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Certains thèmes y reviennent fréquemment : chute de la civilisation causée par les excès de la science et la folie de la guerre, caractère éternel et indestructible de l'amour (Ravage, Le Grand Secret, La Nuit des temps, Une rose au paradis). Son écriture se veut poétique, onirique et, parfois, philosophique. Il a aussi abordé dans de remarquables essais l'interrogation empirique et poétique sur l'existence de Dieu (notamment, La Faim du tigre), et le sens de l'action de l'homme sur la Nature. Il fut aussi scénariste/dialoguiste de films. On lui doit en partic -
Joseph Joffo
Joseph Joffo est un écrivain français.
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Honoré de Balzac
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .
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Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.
Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Mar -
David Foenkinos
David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.
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His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.
Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kep -
Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (pronounced:[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912, Warsaw), whose actual name was Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh. He was the leading representative of realism in 19th-century Polish literature and remains a distinctive voice in world literature. Głowacki took the pen name "Prus" from the name of his family coat-of-arms.
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An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
In 1872 at age 25, in Warsaw, Prus settled into a distinguished 40-year journalistic career. As a sideline, to augment -
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.
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Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.
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Giuliano da Empoli
Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza all'Università La Sapienza di Roma e ottenuto il master in Scienze Politiche all'Institut d'études politiques di Parigi. E'presidente del think tank Volta.
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Jules Verne
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
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Fritz Riemann
Fritz Riemann was a German psychologist, psychoanalyst, astrologer, and author.
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Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson et le frère de la comédienne Stéphanie Tesson et de la journaliste d'art Daphné Tesson.
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Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1993 un tour du monde à bicyclette avec Alexandre Poussin avec qui il traverse l'Himalaya à pied en 1997. Il traverse également les steppes d'Asie centrale à cheval avec la photographe et compagne Priscilla Telmon, sur plus de 3 000 km du Kazakhstan à l'Ouzbékistan. En 2004, il reprend l'itinéraire des évadés du goulag en suivant le récit de Sławomir Rawicz : The Long Walk (1955)1. Ce périple l'emmène de la Sibérie jusqu'en Inde à pied.
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Cécile Aubry
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
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She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and reg -
Stephan Orth
Stephan Orth, Jahrgang 1979, verfasste als Sechsjähriger sein erstes Buch mit dem Titel "Die 10 Soldaten" (bislang unveröffentlicht). Später Studium der Fächer Anglistik, Psychologie und Journalismus. Von 2008 bis 2016 arbeitete er als Redakteur im Reiseressort von SPIEGEL ONLINE, bevor er sich als Autor selbständig machte. Besitzt fünf Rucksäcke, vier Schlafsäcke und drei Zelte, aber keinen Rollkoffer. Am 1. März 2019 erscheint sein neues Buch "Couchsurfing in China".
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Aleksander Kamiński
hm. Aleksander Kamiński pseudonim "Kamyk" (ur. 28 stycznia 1903 w Warszawie, zm. tamże 15 marca 1978); przybrane nazwisko: Aleksander Kędzierski, pseudonimy: Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kamyk, Kaźmierczak, Bambaju – pedagog, wychowawca, twórca metody zuchowej, instruktor harcerski, harcmistrz, żołnierz Armii Krajowej oraz jeden z ideowych przywódców Szarych Szeregów. Mąż Janiny Kamińskiej, polskiej archeolog, pedagog i instruktorki Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego. Ojciec Ewy Rzetelskiej-Feleszko (profesor językoznawstwa).
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Anders Bortne
Anders Marius Bortne (født 4. oktober 1973 i Ålesund) er en norsk musiker og forfatter.
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I 1996 stiftet han indierockebandet Whopper hvor han var gitarist, vokalist og låtskriver. Han har også vært vokalist og låtskriver i bandet Kaare Joao, frontet av Kåre Pedersen fra Kåre & the Cavemen. Dannet bandet Corado i 2005 sammen tidligere Whopper-medlem Anders Hole og ga ut platen Corado i 2007 og This Summer Disease i 2009.
I 2005 debuterte han med romanen Et bra band på Tiden Norsk Forlag. Hans andre bok, novellesamlingen "Natt'a der oppe, natt'a der nede", kom ut i 2008. Romanen "Ismannen" kom ut i 2011, og ble nominert til Ungdommens Kritikerpris. Romanen "Karikaturen", om den dødstruede Muhammed-tegneren Bård Anderssen, utkom i 2014.
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Rafał Kosik
Mówi o sobie, że jest niedokończonym architektem. Przerwał studia na Politechnice Warszawskiej, aby otworzyć własną agencję reklamową, w której jest dyrektorem kreatywnym i grafikiem. Jest autorem serii dla dzieci i młodzieży „Felix, Net i Nika”. Dotychczas opublikował: Felix, Net i Nika oraz Gang Niewidzialnych Ludzi (2004), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Teoretycznie Możliwa Katastrofa (2005), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pałac Snów (2006), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pułapka Nieśmiertelności (2007), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek (2008) oraz Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek 2. Mała armia (2009). Dwa pierwsze tomy otrzymały tytuł „Książki Roku 2005” Polskiej Sekcji IBBY, tom trzeci otrzymał nominację do tytułu „Książki Roku 2007” Polskiej Se
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Jozef Karika
Slovenský experimentálny spisovateľ a publicista.
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Vyštudoval históriu a filozofiu na Univerzite Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici. Na širšiu scénu vstúpil v roku 2001 ako kmeňový autor internetových stránok G.O.M.. Pracuje ako historik-kurátor a televízny redaktor. Získal Cenu literárneho fondu za publicistiku. Jeho reportáž Kontroverzná tabuľa získala prvé miesto v kategórii publicistika a Cenu diváka na celoslovenskej prehliadke tvorby lokálnych televízií Workshop 2008. Vyhrala aj prvé miesto v kategórii publicistika na česko - slovenskej filmovej prehliadke KAFKA 2008. V máji 2007 Karika prednášal o mágii v postmodernizme na Prírodovedeckej fakulte Karlovej Univerzity v Prahe. V jeseni 2007 na objednávku Žilinského samosprávneho kraja vytvor -
Philippe Collin
Philippe Collin est un producteur de radio, auteur et journaliste. Il effectue des études d'histoire à l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, à Brest. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise d'histoire contemporaine consacrée à l'épuration des collaborateurs à la Libération.
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Philippe Boxho
Philippe Boxho is professor in de Geneeskunde aan de universiteit van Luik en forensisch arts. Al dertig jaar snijdt hij in lichamen van mensen die onder verdachte omstandigheden zijn overleden om de doodsoorzaak te achterhalen en werkte hij mee aan de geruchtmakendste zaken.
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Cécile Aubry
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox.
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She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and reg -
Anders Bortne
Anders Marius Bortne (født 4. oktober 1973 i Ålesund) er en norsk musiker og forfatter.
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I 1996 stiftet han indierockebandet Whopper hvor han var gitarist, vokalist og låtskriver. Han har også vært vokalist og låtskriver i bandet Kaare Joao, frontet av Kåre Pedersen fra Kåre & the Cavemen. Dannet bandet Corado i 2005 sammen tidligere Whopper-medlem Anders Hole og ga ut platen Corado i 2007 og This Summer Disease i 2009.
I 2005 debuterte han med romanen Et bra band på Tiden Norsk Forlag. Hans andre bok, novellesamlingen "Natt'a der oppe, natt'a der nede", kom ut i 2008. Romanen "Ismannen" kom ut i 2011, og ble nominert til Ungdommens Kritikerpris. Romanen "Karikaturen", om den dødstruede Muhammed-tegneren Bård Anderssen, utkom i 2014.
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Pāvils Rozītis
Pāvils Rozītis (1889–1937) – rakstnieks, dzejnieks, žurnālists, tulkotājs, literāri publicistisku rakstu autors un literatūrkritiķis. Psiholoģiskās prozas tradīciju veidotājs latviešu literatūrā. Izkopis satīras un anekdotiskās noveles žanru, uzskatāms par 20. gadsimta 20. un 30. gadu latviešu anekdotiskās noveles spilgtāko pārstāvi. Sarakstījis 4 romānus, no tiem ievērojamākie ir 1928. gadā iznākušais romāns "Ceplis" un 1936. gadā publicētais darbs "Valmieras puikas". Romāns "Zemes prieks" (1937) nepabeigts. Vairāku dzejoļu, īsprozas un eseju krājumu autors. Rakstījis esejas par Kārli Skalbi, Jāni Akurateru, Jāni Jaunsudrabiņu, Viktoru Eglīti u.c., kas apkopotas 1920. gadā iznākušajā krājumā "Kultūras slāpes". Publicējis teātra recenzijas,
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