Ota Pavel
A Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter. He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
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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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Viktor Dyk
Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings. (source: Wikipedia.org)
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Naoki Higashida
Naoki Higashida (東田 直樹 Higashida Naoki) is the Japanese author of The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism. He was born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism when he was five. He was 13 years old when he wrote the book which was published in English in 2013. Reviews have been mixed, both celebrating the accomplishment of a mentally and emotionally challenged young author and expressing discomfort with the involvement of Higashida's communications facilitator (his mother) and English language translators (Keiko Yoshida and her husband David Mitchell).
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Bohumil Hrabal
Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
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Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
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Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová, rozená Barbora Novotná, později Barbora Panklová (4. února 1820? Vídeň – 21. ledna 1862, Praha), byla česká spisovatelka. Je považována za zakladatelku novodobé české prózy.
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Příjmení Panklová získala, až když si její matku Terezii Novotnou v létě roku 1820 vzal Johann Pankl. Roku 1821 se Panklovi přestěhovali do Ratibořic, kam se za nimi přistěhovala i její babička – Magdaléna Novotná (1825), která malou Barunku velmi ovlivnila; v dospělosti si babičku velmi zidealizovala.
V roce 1841 se vdala za Josefa Němce, který pracoval jako komisař finanční stráže (celník), jeho nadřízení s ostražitostí sledovali jeho projevy češství a služební horlivosti. V souvislosti s tím byl často služebně překládán a rodina se s ním stěhovala.
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Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story, a bestseller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit.
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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Gabriel Krauze
Gabriel Krauze grew up in London in a Polish family and was drawn to a life of crime and gangs from an early age. Now in his thirties he has left that world behind and is recapturing his life through writing. He has published short stories in Vice. Who They Was is his first novel.
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William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer, renowned for his novels, plays, and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his unique literary style, often characterized by a deep appreciation for everyday life and human resilience. His works frequently explored themes of Armenian-American immigrant experiences, particularly in his native California, and were infused with optimism, humor, and sentimentality.
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Saroyan's breakthrough came with The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), a short story that established him as a major literary voice during the Great Depression. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940 for The Time of Your Life, though he declined the award, and in 1943, he won an Academy Award fo -
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
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Jacek Karczewski
Ja, Jacek, z pierwszego wykształcenia psycholog (studiowałem jeszcze francuski i ochronę Przyrody). Pracę zaczynałem jako nauczyciel i korepetytor, byłem też barmanem i dekoratorem - wreszcie przez wiele lat trenerem i konsultantem w dziedzinie zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi i komunikacji społecznej we własnej firmie Karczewski Doradztwo Personale. Ale ptaki nie dawały mi spokoju i wciąż uważałem, że to co robię nie jest dość ważne. Rozwojowe, satysfakcjonujące, nawet potrzebne – tak – ale na pewno nie tak ważne jak ochrona Przyrody…
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Koos Dijksterhuis
Koos Dijksterhuis is een Nederlandse schrijver, journalist en dichter.
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Dijksterhuis groeide op in Amersfoort, waarna hij biologie en sociologie studeerde in Groningen. Hij heeft een dagelijkse column over natuur in het dagblad Trouw. Ook schrijft hij artikelen in NRC Handelsblad. Dijksterhuis schrijft boeken, columns, recensies en reportages over vooral natuur en milieu, wetenschap, reizen en internationale samenwerking. Dijksterhuis schrijft ook korte verhalen en gedichten. Hij werkte drie jaar in Pakistan als voorlichter en redacteur, en was enkele jaren uitgever van het milieutijdschrift De Kleine Aarde. -
Annie Ernaux
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.
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Michał Korkosz
Michał Korkosz won the 2017 Saveur Blog Award for best food photography (both Editors’ and Readers’ Choice). He is a food journalist, cake lover, croissant gourmand, and the author of two cookbooks: Fresh from Poland and Polish’d. On his blog, Rozkoszny (which means “delightful”), he connects this love of cooking with another hobby—photography that captures both his delicious dishes and the loved ones he shares them with. He was born and raised in Poland.
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Anne Broeksma
Anne Broeksma (1987) is a Dutch poet, prose writer and journalist. In 2014 she made her literary debut with poetry collection “Regen kosmos kamerplant”, for which she received the C.C.S. Crone Stipend. “Vesper” followed in 2021, and was nominated for the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize. Broeksma wrote many short stories as part of the Shortreads Collective and is coordinator of De Eenzame Uitvaart, an initiative that provides funeral ceremonies with a poem for those who passed away without relatives, and the Silent Poetry Lab in Utrecht, an open space where one can write poetry in silence. She also works as a freelance fundraiser for museums and nature organizations.
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Hanna Krall
Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.
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Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.
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Hans Erich Nossack
Hans Erich Nossack war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der zunächst als Lyriker und Dramatiker, später jedoch vor allem als Prosaautor in Erscheinung trat.
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Lara Pawson
Lara Pawson lives in London. She is the author of three books.
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Spent Light (January 2024) is a hybrid text, a work of prose fiction, combining fiction, memoir and history. It has received superb reviews in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, The Idler, and the Daily Mail.
This Is the Place to Be (CB editions, 2016) is a fragmentary memoir. In 2017, it was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize, and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. It has been translated into French as Là où tout se passe (Les Éditions de l’Observatoire, 2018) and into Spanish as Este es el lugar (LOM Ediciones, 2021).
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Ziemowit Szczerek
Dziennikarz portalu Interia.pl, współpracuje z „Nową Europą Wschodnią”, autor opowiadań publikowanych m.in. w „Lampie”, „Studium”, „Opowiadaniach” i E-splocie oraz współautor wydanej w 2010 r. książki pt. Paczka radomskich. Pisze doktorat z politologii, zajmuje się wschodem Europy i dziwactwami geopolitycznymi, historycznymi i kulturowymi. Jeździ po dziwnych miejscach i o tym pisze. Ostatnio najbardziej inspiruje go gonzo i literatura / dziennikarstwo podróżnicze. Laureat Paszportu „Polityki” 2013 za książkę Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli tajna historia Słowian.
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Knut Hamsun
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
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He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. -
Kacper Pobłocki
Kacper Pobłocki (ur. 11 czerwca 1980 w Bydgoszczy) – polski antropolog i społecznik. W 2010 wykładowca na Uniwersytecie w Utrechcie, od 2011 adiunkt w Instytucie Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu..
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Jest absolwentem University College Utrecht (2000-2003) i Central European University (2004-2010). W latach 2008/2009 przebywał jako stażysta (visiting fellow) w Center for Place, Culture and Politics przy Uniwersytecie Miejskim (CUNY) w Nowym Jorku, kierowanego przez prof. Davida Harveya. Jego praca doktorska pt. „The Cunning of Class: Urbanization of Inequality in Post-War Poland” została w 2011 r. wyróżniona nagrodą Prezesa Rady Ministrów.
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Zyta Rudzka
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j
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Tomasz Stawiszyński
Tomasz Stawiszyński – filozof, eseista, dziennikarz, autor bestsellerowych książek: “Potyczki z Freudem. Mity, pokusy i pułapki psychoterapii” (2013) oraz „Co robić przed końcem świata?” (2021). Od wielu lat zajmuje się problemami z pogranicza filozofii i psychoterapii. Wcześniej związany z wieloma redakcjami: pracował m.in w „Dzienniku” „Newsweeku” i „Przekroju”. W latach 2013-2016 prowadził w Polskim Radiu RDC autorski program “Niedziela Filozofów, czyli potyczki z życiem”. Od 2016 związany z Radiem TOK FM, gdzie prowadzi m.in. “Godzinę filozofów”, “Kwadrans filozofa” oraz – wraz z żoną, Cvetą Dimitrovą – internetowy podcast “Nasze wewnętrzne konflikty”. Jego teksty i audycje można znaleźć na stronie www.stawiszynski.org, a rozmowy z ciek
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Safae el Khannoussi
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
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Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. By turns humorous, wise, eloquent and humanistic, Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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Natalia de Barbaro
Polska pisarka i psycholożka społeczna, socjolożka, trenerka umiejętności społecznych. Autorka książki Czuła Przewodniczka, Przędza oraz zbioru wierszy Krwawnik, mniszek, ułudka. Prowadzi autorskie warsztaty Własny Pokój , Dzikie Dziewczynki oraz Czułe Struny. Jej książka Czuła Przewodniczka wydana pod koniec lutego 2021 r. została bestsellerem roku EMPIK w kategorii "Rozwój Osobisty" i będzie wydana w dziewięciu krajach (Brazylia, Bułgaria, Chorwacja, Czechy, Hiszpania, Litwa, Słowacja, Portugalia, Niemcy). Laureatka wielu nagród.
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Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection "Kytice", which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.
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He was born on November 7, 1811 in Miletín u Jičína. He went to college in Hradec Králové. Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law. He started working in the National Museum (Národní muzeum) with František Palacký in 1843. He became editor of a Prague's newspaper in 1848. Two years later, in 1850, he became archives' secretary of the National Museum. He died on November 21, 1870 of tuberculosis. -
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict, noted anthropologist, studied Native American and Japanese cultures.
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Ruth Fulton Benedict, a folklorist, attended Vassar College, and graduated in 1909.
She entered graduate school at Columbia University in 1919 under Franz Boas. She received her Philosophiae Doctor and joined the faculty in 1923. She perhaps shared a romantic relationship with Margaret Mead, and Marvin Opler ranked among her colleagues.
Work of Ruth Fulton Benedict clearly evidences point of view of Franz Boas, her teacher, mentor, and the father. The passionate humanism of Boas, her mentor, affected affected Ruth Benedict, who continued it in her research and writing.
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Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Čapek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. His play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) first popularized the word "robot".
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Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.
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Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.
Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing -
Václav Hrabě
Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia. Hrabě was born in Příbram to Jan Hrabě and Magdalena Kalinová. He spent his childhood and youth in Lochovice and attended a high school in nearby Hořovice. He graduated in 1957 and moved to Prague, where he continued his education at the Faculty of Pedagogy, studying Czech language and History. After graduation from the university in 1961 he served two years in the army. Upon his discharge he worked in a variety of jobs - as laborer, librarian, writer for the literary magazine Tvář (Face), and finally as teacher. Hrabě's untimely death at the age of twenty-five (he died in his sleep, accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide), robbed Czech l
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Roland Topor
A French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril.
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Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, who develops an obsession regarding what has happened to his apartment's previous tenant. It is a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves. The later novel Joko's Anniversary (1969), another fable about loss of identity, is a vicious satire on social conformity. Themes Topor returne -
Vítězslav Nezval
One of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia.
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Wiesław Łuka
Polski prozaik, reportażysta, krytyk literacki i scenarzysta filmowy.
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Ukończył filologię polską (1964 r.) na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, po maturze w siedleckim Liceum im. S. Żółkiewskiego (1959 r.). Debiutował jako krytyk filmowy w tygodniku "Dookoła Świata". Jako reportażysta debiutował na łamach tygodnika "Życie Literackie". W latach 1964-1970 był redaktorem Wytwórni Filmowej "Czołówka", w następnych latach pracował w redakcjach m.in. "Walki Młodych", "Prawa i Życia", "Ekspress Reporterów", "Sztandaru Młodych" oraz "Głosu Nauczycielskiego". Otrzymał wiele nagród klubowych Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy Polskich oraz w konkursach na reportaż, organizowanych przez redakcje czasopism.
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Jolanta Brach-Czaina
Polska filozofka i feministka; profesor filozofii, wieloletnia wykładowczyni akademicka; autorka i współautorka książek z zakresu estetyki, filozofii sztuki i kultury, antropologii, gender studies.
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Kateřina Šardická
Pracuje jako redaktorka a příležitostná scenáristka. Napsala dva young adult romány. Zmizení Sáry Lindertové (2019) zvítězilo v anketě Kniha roku v kategoriích YA roku & Objev roku. Práva na její druhý román Noci běsů (2020) se prodala do USA, Jižní Koreje a na Ukrajinu. Je autorkou čarodějné sbírky povídek Apotéka Agnes Divotvorné (2025) a spoluautorka komiksu pro děti Stella a strážci závoje (2025). Neklidný hrob (2025) je jejím prvním krůčkem k dospělé fantasy. Bydlí v Brně u svých dvou kocourů a ve volném čase obráží filmové festivaly, cestuje a ráda peče.
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Bernard Newman
Bernard Charles Newman was a prolific English author who published fiction and non-fiction. He was considered an authority on espionage (and a possible spy himself) and wrote spy novels and books on espionage. He was also a travel writer, wrote science fiction, and published crime fiction, sometimes using the pseudonym "Don Betteridge".
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.
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Molière
Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the -
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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Bohumil Hrabal
Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
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Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.
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His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to severa -
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.
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As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was mistakenly destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 anti-Nazi uprising.
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Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Hynek Mácha was a Czech romantic poet. His lyrical epic poem Máj (May), published in 1836 shortly before his death, was judged by his contemporaries as confusing, too individualistic, and not in harmony with the national ideas. Máj was rejected by publishers, and was published by a vanity press at Mácha's own expense, not long before his early death.
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Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s generation (for example Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá) and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism, and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.
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Ladislav Fuks
Ladislav Fuks byl český prozaik, autor především psychologické prózy s tématem úzkosti člověka ohrožovaného nesvobodou a násilím. Jako symbol tohoto tématu si pak zvolil druhou světovou válku a holokaust. Většina jeho díla je autobiografická, často skrytě - téměř všemi jeho knihami prochází figura senzitivního, slabého hocha, žijícího ve svém vnitřním světě a toužícího po citovém přátelství. Právě tato stále se vracející postava trpícího a mučeného chlapce má silnou míru autobiografičnosti. Fuksovo dílo je někdy také autobiografickou travestií – např. Vévodkyně a kuchařka. Fuks je ve svém díle též mistrem masky, jinotajů a náznaků, k čemuž byl jako homosexuál přirozeně donucen dobou, v níž žil a tvořil. Ve svých knihách se také často dopouš
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Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Čapek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. His play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) first popularized the word "robot".
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Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection "Kytice", which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.
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He was born on November 7, 1811 in Miletín u Jičína. He went to college in Hradec Králové. Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law. He started working in the National Museum (Národní muzeum) with František Palacký in 1843. He became editor of a Prague's newspaper in 1848. Two years later, in 1850, he became archives' secretary of the National Museum. He died on November 21, 1870 of tuberculosis. -
Zdeněk Jirotka
Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came -
Viktor Dyk
Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings. (source: Wikipedia.org)
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
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Karel Poláček
Karel Poláček byl český spisovatel, humorista, novinář a filmový scenárista. Dílo K. Poláčka představuje jednu z nejvýznamnějších hodnot české meziválečné prózy. Ve svých humoristických románech se zaměřil na zobrazení tragikomedie maloměstského života.
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Poláčkovy prózy lze rozdělit na humoristické a společensko-kritické. Snad nejúspěšnějším dílem je posmrtně vydaný příběh Petra Bajzy Bylo nás pět. -
Zyta Rudzka
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j
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Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová, rozená Barbora Novotná, později Barbora Panklová (4. února 1820? Vídeň – 21. ledna 1862, Praha), byla česká spisovatelka. Je považována za zakladatelku novodobé české prózy.
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Příjmení Panklová získala, až když si její matku Terezii Novotnou v létě roku 1820 vzal Johann Pankl. Roku 1821 se Panklovi přestěhovali do Ratibořic, kam se za nimi přistěhovala i její babička – Magdaléna Novotná (1825), která malou Barunku velmi ovlivnila; v dospělosti si babičku velmi zidealizovala.
V roce 1841 se vdala za Josefa Němce, který pracoval jako komisař finanční stráže (celník), jeho nadřízení s ostražitostí sledovali jeho projevy češství a služební horlivosti. V souvislosti s tím byl často služebně překládán a rodina se s ním stěhovala.
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Simona Kossak
Simona Gabriela Kossak (30 May 1943 – 15 March 2007) was a Polish biologist, ecologist, and professor of forest sciences. Kossak is known for her efforts to preserve the remnants of natural ecosystems in Poland. Her work dealt with, among other things, the behavioral ecology of mammals. She sometimes referred to herself as a "zoo-psychologist."
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Marek Hłasko
One of the most popular Polish writers of the 20th century. Author of numerous short stories and novels. Some of his works were adapted into films. His works were ruled by the idea of an evil dominating over good, inevitable loss of ideas in clash with the reality, as well as with the masculinist point of view. He wrote about protest of a moral nature. In his works he depicted the lives of the lower classes as dominated by hopelessness and cynicism. His characters dream about changes which come out to be vain.
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After initial approval of his talent, his nonconformism and critique of communism forced him to leave Poland, and he spent the rest of his life abroad (mainly in Israel, Germany and U.S.A.) He died in Wiesbaden (Germany) in 1969. The -
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Iwaszkiewicz was born in Kalnik (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). After the death of his father (an accountant), he and his mother lived in Warsaw between 1902–1904, and then moved back to Ukraine in 1904–1912. He graduated from a secondary school in Kiev in 1912 and enrolled at the Law Faculty of Kiev University. After World War I, in October 1918 he returned to Warsaw. There, he joined a group of local artists who had started Pro Arte et Studio arts magazine. Iwaszkiewicz with Julian Tuwim and Antoni Słonimski co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets in 1919.
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In 1922 he married Anna Lilpop, a daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, and the couple settled in Podkowa Leśna in the suburb of Warsaw. In 1928 they moved to a newly buil -
Irena Dousková
Irena Dousková se narodila roku 1964 v Příbrami v herecké rodině. Od roku 1976 žije v Praze, kde absolvovala gymnaziální studia (gymnázium Nad štolou) a posléze Právnickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy. Právnické profesi se ale nikdy nevěnovala. Vystřídala různá zaměstnání, většinou nějakým způsobem související s novinařinou. Posledních několik let je na volné noze a věnuje se psaní.
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Maxim Osipov
Maxim Osipov is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, before returning to Moscow, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical, musical, and theological texts. In 2005, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa, a small town ninety miles from Moscow, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital’s survival. Since 2007, he has published short stories, novellas, essays, and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov’s writings have been translated into mor
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Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.
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His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to severa -
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.
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As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was mistakenly destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 anti-Nazi uprising.
After the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and then worked for a number o -
Jaroslav Seifert
Awarded 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man."
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Ladislav Fuks
Ladislav Fuks byl český prozaik, autor především psychologické prózy s tématem úzkosti člověka ohrožovaného nesvobodou a násilím. Jako symbol tohoto tématu si pak zvolil druhou světovou válku a holokaust. Většina jeho díla je autobiografická, často skrytě - téměř všemi jeho knihami prochází figura senzitivního, slabého hocha, žijícího ve svém vnitřním světě a toužícího po citovém přátelství. Právě tato stále se vracející postava trpícího a mučeného chlapce má silnou míru autobiografičnosti. Fuksovo dílo je někdy také autobiografickou travestií – např. Vévodkyně a kuchařka. Fuks je ve svém díle též mistrem masky, jinotajů a náznaků, k čemuž byl jako homosexuál přirozeně donucen dobou, v níž žil a tvořil. Ve svých knihách se také často dopouš
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Karel Poláček
Karel Poláček byl český spisovatel, humorista, novinář a filmový scenárista. Dílo K. Poláčka představuje jednu z nejvýznamnějších hodnot české meziválečné prózy. Ve svých humoristických románech se zaměřil na zobrazení tragikomedie maloměstského života.
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Poláčkovy prózy lze rozdělit na humoristické a společensko-kritické. Snad nejúspěšnějším dílem je posmrtně vydaný příběh Petra Bajzy Bylo nás pět. -
Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Zdeněk Jirotka
Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came -
Wiesław Myśliwski
Wiesław Myśliwski is a Polish novelist. In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He is twice the winner of the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Prize) for Widnokrąg (1996) and Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli (2006).
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His first novel translated into English was The Palace, translated by Ursula Phillips. His novel Stone Upon Stone (Kamień na kamieniu), won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award, translated by Bill Johnston (Archipelago Books). -
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Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
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Jára Cimrman
Jara Cimrman was a Vienna-born Czech polymath. He was a pedagogue, dramatist, philosopher, gynecologist-amateur, skier, inventor, a close friend of Einstein and a private enemy of Edison. His strongest character trait was patriotism, and he liked to come to Bohemia, which he considered his true home. Here his life work culminated.
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In 2005, Jara Cimrman won the title of The Gratest Czech as a result of a poll organised by the Czech Television.
Early life
Jara Cimrman was born in the years 1850-1870 in Vienna. Because Franz Huschkov, the registrar of the 4th Vienna Parish, was making most of his entries in a state of inebriation, it cannot be said with any degree of certainty whether Jára Cimrman was born to Marlén and Leopold Cimrman on a free -
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Ota Filip
Ota Filip (* 9. března 1930, Slezská Ostrava) je jedna z předních postav české exilové literatury.
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Po maturitě (1948) pracoval v různých zaměstnáních (sportovní redaktor Mladé Fronty, horník, v letech 1968 – 1969 redaktor ostravského nakladatelství Profil, dělník). V roce 1970 byl odsouzen za podvracení republiky. V roce 1974 se nuceně vystěhoval do Německa. V Německu pracoval jako publicista a komentátor a jako lektor nakladatelství Fischer Verlag. Je členem Bavorské akademie věd a umění. Žije v podalpském městečku Murnau am Staffelsee. -
Tomasz Różycki
Tomasz Różycki (ur. 29 maja 1970 w Opolu) - polski poeta, tłumacz, romanista, mieszka w Opolu. Laureat Nagrody Kościelskich, którą otrzymał za poemat "Dwanaście stacji" (2004). Publikował w licznych czasopismach w Polsce i za granicą. Jego wiersze tłumaczone były na wiele języków europejskich. Fragment utworu "Dwanaście stacji" stał się tematem rozszerzonej matury z języka polskiego w roku 2007. Tom "Kolonie" był nominowany do Literackiej Nagrody Nike w roku 2007 i znalazł się w finałowej siódemce tej nagrody. W 2010 roku został laureatem Nagrody "Kamień", przyznawanej podczas Festiwalu "Miasto Poezji".
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Torbjørn Færøvik
Torbjørn Færøvik is an author and former journalist, educated in Asian history.
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Torbjørn Færøvik (f. 1948) er cand. philol. med kinesisk historie som hovedfelt. Han har nær tretti års praksis som journalist, blant annet fra NRK, hvor han var utenriksmedarbeider fra 1991 til 1999.
Færøvik har utgitt flere kritikerroste reiseskildringer og ungdomsbøker. Tre ganger har han mottatt Brageprisen; i 1999 for India - Stevnemøte med skjebnen og i 2003 for Kina - En reise på livets elv, og i 2012 for Maos rike - En lidelseshistorie. I 2006 ble han tildelt Cappelenprisen for sitt fremragende forfatterskap.
I 2024 utga han et utvidet og revidert utgave av den kritikerroste Midtens rike - En vandring i Kinas historie (2009). Før det utkom reiseboken O -
Cezary Harasimowicz
Harasimowicz is a Polish writer, actor, playwright and novelist.
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He completed acting study at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław in 1980, and graduated from the study of screenwriting at the Film School in Łódź. In 1989, his film "300 Miles Into the Sky" was honored with the Award of the European Film Academy, of which he is also a member. In 1994, his screenplay for the film "Bandyta" won first prize in the contest sponsored by Hartley-Merrill in the United States. As a result of this award, Harasimowicz participated in Robert Redford's workshop at the Sundance Institute, where his script was deemed best, emphasizing its outstanding humanistic qualities.
Harasimowicz created eight feature films and television series, including "Przeprowadzki", th -
Iulian Bocai
Iulian Bocai (n. 1986) este scriitor, redactor și traducător (din engleză, franceză și germană). Absolvent al secției de Literatură universală și comparată a Facultății de Litere, Universitatea din București, a urmat mai apoi un masterat în teoria literaturii și literatură comparată, la aceeași facultate. Pregătește o teză de doctorat în istorie intelectuală, despre introducerea curriculumului literar în universitățile occidentale în secolul al XIX-lea. Este cîștigătorul Concursului de Debut al Editurii Polirom din 2018, cu romanul Ciudata și înduioșătoarea viață a lui Priță Barsacu, care i-a adus în 2019 și Premiul pentru Debut al revistei Observator cultural, precum și Premiul Festivalului Primului Roman de la Chambéry, Franța. Constantin
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William Wharton
William Wharton (7 November 1925 - 29 October 2008), the pen name of the author Albert William Du Aime (pronounced as doo-EM), was an American-born author best known for his first novel Birdy, which was also successful as a film.
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Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1943, and was inducted into the school's Wall of Fame in 1997. He volunteered to serve in the United States Army during World War II, and was assigned to serve in a unit to be trained as engineers. He ended up being assigned to serve in the infantry and was severely wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. After his discharge, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles and received a undergraduate degree in art and a d -
Petr Šabach
Český spisovatel, známý svými humoristickými romány a povídkami. Jeho otec byl voják z povolání.
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Šabach od roku 1966 studoval Střední knihovnickou školu, po 1. ročníku přestoupil na gymnázium, z něhož byl roku 1969 vyloučen, externě přijat zpět na SKŠ, kde v roce 1974 maturoval. Následovalo dálkové studium kulturologie na filozofické fakultě UK (obor absolvoval 1979).
Od roku 1974, do doby, kdy odešel na volnou nohu, vystřídal různá povolání (noční hlídač, metodik kulturního domu v Domě u Kamenného zvonu aj.). Po roce 2000 vyučoval tvůrčí psaní na Literární akademii (Soukromá vysoká škola Josefa Škvoreckého v Praze). Petr Šabach byl členem neformálního hospodského společenství Zlatá Praha.
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Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter, translator from French, English and German, graphic designer. Member of poetry groups Skupina 42, Umělecké besedy and Křižovatka. His work was divided between literary and visual art.
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Ivan Olbracht
Ivan Olbracht, vlastním jménem Kamil Zeman, byl český spisovatel-prozaik, publicista, novinář a překladatel německé prózy, národní umělec.
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Juliusz Strachota
Juliusz Strachota - napisał m.in. powieści ''Relaks amerykański" oraz "Turysta polski w ZSRR". Za tę drugą nominowany był do Nagrody Literackiej Nike. Razem z Jakubem Żulczykiem prowadził podcast "Co ćpać po odwyku".
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Karel Michal
Vlastním jménem Pavel Buksa. První manžel spisovatelky Violy Fischerové (v r. 1993 vydala sbírku Zádušní básně za Pavla Buksu). – Narodil se v rodině lékaře. Po maturitě na gymnáziu (1951) rok příležitostně pracoval jako kovodělník, přidavač u zedníků, vedoucí geometr stavby hutí. 1952 začal studovat na Lékařské fakultě UK, po sedmi semestrech však studia opustil. Před nástupem základní vojenské služby (1957–59) byl správcem jízdárny, po ní dlaždičem a správcem přístavu. Po vydání první knihy (1961) se stal spisovatelem z povolání, současně působil jako externí lektor nakladatelství Čs. spisovatel, filmový dramaturg (1963) a redaktor Literárních novin (od 1966). 1968 odešel do exilu. Usadil se ve Švýcarsku, v Basileji, a začal pracovat jako
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Leonard J. Pełka
Doktor nauk humanistycznych, nauczyciel akademicki, członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Religioznawczego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Polskiego Towarzystwa Uniwersalistycznego. Współpracował z pismami "Studia religioznawcze", "Nomos. Kwartalnik religioznawczy", "Lud", "Parerga. Międzynarodowe studia filozoficzne" i "Res Humana".
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Był uczniem Bohdana Baranowskiego. Doktorat uzyskał w 1977 r. na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim broniąc pracę pt. Demonologia ludowa regionu lubelsko-rzeszowskiego (studium etnologiczno-historyczne). -
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Jarmila Glazarová
Jarmila Glazarová byla prozaička a publicistka.
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Otec Jarmily Glazarové byl správcem velkostatku. Když bylo Glazarové osm let, rodina se přestěhovala do Prahy. Zde v roce 1916 zemřela matka a po přestěhování do Hořic v dalším roce i otec.
Ve svých šestnácti letech nalezla Jarmila Glazarová spolu se svojí sestrou útočiště v internátní hospodářské škole v Klimkovicích ve Slezsku. Glazarová se po absolvování této školy v roce 1922 provdala. Se svým mužem lékařem, žila v Klimkovicích až do jeho smrti v roce 1934. Poté se odstěhovala opět do Prahy, kde pracovala jako úřednice.
Úspěch první knihy přivedl Jarmilu Glazarovou na dráhu spisovatelky. Po 2. světové válce byla více veřejně i politicky činná. Soustředila se na publicistiku, hodně cestovala a -
Květa Legátová
Květa Legátová, born Věra Hofmanová, was a Czech novelist and writer whose work spanned a period from the 1950s to the 2000s. Her best known work, a 2001 collection of short stories and essays entitled "Želary," and her 2002 book, "Jozova Hanule," were adapted into the 2003 film, Želary.
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Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, journalist, traveler, globetrotter, explorer, anti-communist, university professor, a member of the French Academy, political activist.
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After World War II all his books were covered by the censors in Poland because of his anti-communist beliefs. Only since 1989, his work can be officially published in Poland again.
He is best known for his books:
Beasts, Men and Gods – 1922
(org. title: Przez kraj ludzi, zwierząt i bogów. Konno przez Azję Centralną)
The Shadow of the Gloomy East: A Moral History of the Russian People – 1923
(org. title: Cień ponurego Wschodu. Za kulisami życia rosyjskiego)
Lenin: God of the Godless – 1930
(org. title: Lenin)