Authors Similar like Peter Balko

Jaroslava Blažková

Narodila sa 15. 11. 1933 vo Valašskom Meziříčí v Českej republike. Dnes žije v Kanade. Roky detstva prežívala v Prahe, Přelouči a v ďalších mestách, v ktorých pracoval jej otec. Zmaturovala na gymnáziu v Bratislave r. 1952. Ponajprv nastúpila do Československého rozhlasu, v rokoch 1954-59 pracovala v denníku Smena ako redaktorka kultúrnej rubriky. V 60. rokoch až po odchod do emigrácie r. 1968 sa venovala literárnej a publicistickej tvorbe. V Kanade spolupracovala s vydavateľstvom 68 Publishers'Corp. V Toronte ako lektorka slovenských rukopisov až do roku 1988, keď sa s manželom D. Pokorným presťahovali do univerzitného mestečka Guelph v provincii Ontario.Do literatúry vstúpila v skupine mladých autorov sústredených okolo časopisu Mladá tvo

Buy books on Amazon

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact

Buy books on Amazon

Adam Hochschild

Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.

Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books

Buy books on Amazon

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised, have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive international critical response, Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Platefo

Buy books on Amazon

Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).

Profile in Bulgarian: Георги Господинов.

Buy books on Amazon

Jürgen Thorwald

Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II.

Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, and attended the University of Cologne. He started his career in 1933 in Nazi Germany, writing for publications such as Die Braune Post ("The Brown Mail"), the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps") and the NSDAP paper National-Zeitung. During the war he worked as a propaganda writer focusing on the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine and the general German war effort.

After the war, he used the pseudonym Jürgen Thorwald in order to be able to work under Allied occupation. In 1947, he legally adopted the new name.

Thorwald's book 'The Century of the

Buy books on Amazon

Helen Weinzweig

Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010) was a Canadian writer. The author of two novels and a short story collection, her novel Basic Black with Pearls won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and her short story collection A View from the Roof was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1989.

Born in Poland in 1915, she emigrated to Canada at age 10 with her mother, and married composer John Weinzweig on July 12, 1940. She published her first short story, "Surprise!", in Canadian Forum in 1967, and her debut novel Passing Ceremony was published in 1973. She came to be regarded as one of Canada's first important feminist writers. Her style was marked by experimental forms with some aspects of metafiction; in her

Buy books on Amazon

Rudolf Sloboda

Rudolf Sloboda was a Slovak writer, poet, playwright and scriptwriter.

He was one of the most original and important Slovak writers in the second half of the 20th century. Most of Sloboda's writings are based on his real life and experiences. His works are characteristic for their brilliant narrative style, closely following their themes and plot, as well as for the author's profound thoughts and depth of feeling. Sloboda's books are often built on the motive of love and related motives such as jealousy, eroticism, sex, but also loneliness, faith in God and search for the meaning of life.

Buy books on Amazon

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

Buy books on Amazon

Mariusz Szczygieł

Mariusz Adam Szczygieł is a Polish journalist and writer.

Buy books on Amazon

Helen Sarah Fields

Writes crime, mystery and thrillers. Loves historical fiction. Big horror fan. Goes back to one classic novel each month, to save her soul.

Buy books on Amazon

Balla

BALLA (vlastným menom Vladimír Balla) sa narodil 8. mája 1967 v Nových Zámkoch. Absolvoval Vysokú školu ekonomickú v Bratislave (1990), odvtedy pracuje na Okresnom úrade v Nových Zámkoch. Poviedky začal uverejňovať od roku 1992 najmä v časopisoch Dotyky a Literárny týždenník. Knižne debutoval zbierkou poviedok Leptokaria (1996), za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska. Vo svojej druhej knihe Outsideria (1997) sa pokúsil spojiť pôvodne samostatné poviedky do románového celku. Roku 2000 vydal zbierku krátkych próz Gravidita, roku 2001 Tichý kút, v roku 2003 knihu Unglik, v roku 2005 De la Cruz, v roku 2008 knihu s názvom Cudzí (2008) a v roku 2011 rozprávačské až autobiografické prózy V mene otca.

Buy books on Amazon

Erik Tabery

Erik Tabery, Jr. is a Czech journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper Respekt.

Buy books on Amazon

Ivana Gibová

Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.

Buy books on Amazon

Samuel Bjørk

Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien.

Bjørk’s first installment in the Mia and Munch Series, I’m Traveling Alone, is an international success story that has gained critical acclaim and captivated readers all over the world, including hitting #1 on German newspaper Der Spiegel‘s bestseller list.

Samuel Bjørk has been compared to the likes of both Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø, and has proved himself to be a force to be reckoned with in the crime genre.

Buy books on Amazon

Marek Torčík

Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.

Buy books on Amazon

Nina Špitálníková

Nina Špitálníková je česká koreanistka, odbornice na Korejskou lidově demokratickou republiku, aktivistka za ženská práva a také spisovatelka. Své knihy zatím směřuje právě k této ostře sledované části Asie – jedná se o tituly Propaganda v KLDR (2014) a Na studiích v KLDR s chytlavým podtitulem Mezi dvěma Kimy (2017).

Angažuje se v aktivitách zaměřených na problematiku genderové nerovnosti a matek samoživitelek. V roce 2017 spoluzaložila projekt Woman on a mission, který má upozornit na znevýhodněné postavení žen v hudebním průmyslu. Pracuje v pražském multikulturním centru Crossclub jako produkční a dramaturg.(zdroj životopisu: KnihyDobrovský.cz)

Buy books on Amazon

Nicol Hochholczerová

Nicol Hochholczerová študuje na katedre grafiky Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici. Ocenenia za prozaickú tvorbu získala v literárnych súťažiach Poviedka, Medziriadky, Literárny Kežmarok, Kukučínova Revúca a za knižnú ilustráciu v súťaži Najkrajšie knihy Slovenska. Novela Táto izba sa nedá zjesť je jej knižným debutom

Buy books on Amazon

J.M. Dalgliesh

Jason Dalgliesh was born on the south coast of England and grew up in Hampshire, UK. He has worked in the power transmission industry, the retail sector, call centres and as a night-owl in a bakery. His greatest challenge of all is ongoing, as a stay at home parent.

He is presently writing the Dark Yorkshire crime-series, featuring DI Nathaniel Caslin.

The novels are set in Yorkshire, England. The medieval City of York is Caslin's home town and the plot lines take in some of the UK's most rugged and beautiful landscapes, from the windswept North Sea coastline and across the stunning North York Moors.

Penned in the style of the Crime Noir genre, Caslin is a deep character, as flawed as he is brilliant, battling his own demons as much as those h

Buy books on Amazon

Marek Hudec

Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii festivalu BRaK a Dúhového PRIDE.

Po literárnom debute Prosté rozprávky vydal v roku 2022 dokumentárny román Uzol o bombardovaní jeho rodného mesta. Nominovali ho na Cenu René a ocitla sa aj ankete Kniha roka Denníka N.

Ďalšia reportážna kniha Spúšť o teroristickom útoku pred barom Tepláreň sa zas objavila v ankete Kultúrna udalosť roka 2024. Komiks Veľká vzdialenosť bol zaradený do užšieho výbereu nesúťažnej sekcie Nejkrásnejší kniha Slovenska.

Za divadelnú hru Nebolo to náhodou o živote speváčky Melánie Olláryovej bol ocenený v súťaži Dráma 2025.

Buy books on Amazon

Tomáš Forró

Tomas Forro is a Slovak reporter covering crises and conflicts mostly in the regions of Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia.
He is publishing mostly long-form reportages with investigative elements in various Central and Eastern European media such as Dennik N (Slovakia), Polityka (Poland) and others.
Tomas Forro is an author of a book Donbas: Wedding Apartment in the Hotel War (2019), he was twice shortlisted for the Czech Journalism Award and he is a holder of 3 Slovak Journalism Awards (2016)

Buy books on Amazon

Peter Balko

Total similar authors (21)