Raphaël Jerusalmy
Raphaël Jerusalmy, né en 1954 à Paris, au pied de la Butte Montmartre, de mère russe et de père turc immigrés en France et brocanteurs de profession, la famille turque de son père fut déportée et exterminée à Auschwitz.
Diplômé de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et de la Sorbonne, a fait carrière au sein des services de renseignements militaires israéliens avant de mener des actions de caractère humanitaire et éducatif. Il est aujourd'hui marchand de livres anciens à Tel-Aviv.
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Erhan Bener
Yazar Erhan Bener, 1929 yılında babasının görevli bulunduğu Kıbrıs’ta dünyaya geldi. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Anadolu’nun çeşitli il ve ilçe merkezlerinde tamamlayan Bener, 1950 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. Bener, 1956 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden de lisans diploması aldı.
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Erhan Bener, 1951-58 yılları arasında Maliye Hesap Uzmanı olarak görev yaptı. 1958-1973 yılları arasında yurt dışında çeşitli görevlerde bulunan Bener, 1975 yılında Emekli Sandığı Genel Müdürü iken kendi isteğiyle emekliye ayrıldı.
Türkiye'nin ilk fen doktorlarından Raşit Bener'le Mediha Hanımın oğlu, felsefeci Cemil Sena Ongun'un yeğenidir. Yazar Vüs'at Orhan Bener'in kardeşi, Yiğit Bener'in babasıdır.
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Ken Follett
Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
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Born on June 5th, 1949 in Cardiff, Wales, the son of a tax inspector, Ken was educated at state schools and went on to graduate from University College, London, with an Honours degree in Philosophy – later to be made a Fellow of the College in 1995.
He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director.
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Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress. She is married to a Bulgarian scholar and has taken his family name.
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Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 and it has become a best-seller.
In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British -
H.P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
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Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir -
Ian Caldwell
Ian Caldwell is an American novelist. After graduating from Princeton University in 1998, he and his childhood friend Dustin Thomason co-wrote the semi-autobiographical The Rule of Four, which was published in 2004.
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Caldwell and Thomason graduated from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1994. Caldwell was a Phi Beta Kappa in history at Princeton. In 2005, Caldwell's wife, Meredith, gave birth to their first child, Ethan Sawyer Caldwell. They live in Vienna, Virginia. -
Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado for two years working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper. He got his start working for Vogue magazine. His first published novel, Eclipse, was about a town and its people, written in the social realist style, and drew on his years in Grand Junction. He started writing for movies in 1937; by the 1940s, he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers for work on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and Kitty Foyle (
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William Kotzwinkle
William Kotzwinkle is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Prix Litteraire des Bouquinistes des Quais de Paris, the PETA Award for Children's Books, and a Book Critics Circle award nominee. His work has been translated into dozens of languages.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.
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Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That -
Nazlı Eray
Nazlı Eray, Ankara'da doğdu. İngiliz Kız Ortaokulu, Arnavutköy Amerikan Kız Koleji ve İstanbul Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'nde okuduktan sonra Turizm ve Tanıtma Bakanlığı'nda tercüman olarak çalıştı. Edebiyatçılar Derneği'nin kurucuları arasında yer alan Eray, Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası'nın kurucusu, Uluslararasi Yazarlar Birligi (PEN) üyesi, 1977 ve 1978 yıllarında Yaratıcı Yazım dersleri verdigi ABD Iowa Üniversitesi'nin onursal üyesidir.
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Yazmaya 1959'da henüz ortaokuldayken kaleme aldığı öyküsü "Mösyö Hristo" ile başlayan Eray'ın ilk öykü kitabı Ah Bayım Ah 1975'te çıktı. "Laz Bakkal" başta olmak üzere pek çok öyküsü kültleşti. "Karanfil Gece Kursu" öyküsüyle 1988 Haldun Taner Öykü Ödülü'nü, kazandı. Aşkı Giyinen Adam romanıyla 2002 Yunu -
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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José Rodrigues dos Santos
José Rodrigues dos Santos is the bestselling novelist in Portugal. He is the author of five essays and eight novels, including Portuguese blockbusters Codex 632, which sold 192 000 copies, The Einstein Enigma, 178 000 copies, The Seventh Seal, 190 000 copies, and The Wrath of God, 176 000 copies. His overall sales are above one million books, astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market.
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José’s fiction is published or is about to be published in 17 languages. His novel The Wrath of God won the 2009 Porto Literary Club Award and his other novel Codex 632 was longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Orhan Kemal
Orhan Kemal, (Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü) writer of short stories and novels was born in Adana in 1914 and died in Sofia in 1970. His father, Abdülkadir Kemali, was an MP from Kastamonu during the first term parliament of the Turkish Republic. Abdülkadir Kemali, a lawyer by profession, established The Ahali Party which was dissolved causing its founder to have to flee to Syria. In order to accompany his father, Orhan Kemal had to miss his final year of secondary school. Orhan Kemal stayed in Syria for a year, returning to Adana in 1932. He worked as a laborer, weaver and clerk in cotton gin mills. During his military service he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his political opinions. Bursa prison became a turning point in his life and art
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Erhan Bener
Yazar Erhan Bener, 1929 yılında babasının görevli bulunduğu Kıbrıs’ta dünyaya geldi. İlk ve orta öğrenimini Anadolu’nun çeşitli il ve ilçe merkezlerinde tamamlayan Bener, 1950 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ni bitirdi. Bener, 1956 yılında Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’nden de lisans diploması aldı.
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Erhan Bener, 1951-58 yılları arasında Maliye Hesap Uzmanı olarak görev yaptı. 1958-1973 yılları arasında yurt dışında çeşitli görevlerde bulunan Bener, 1975 yılında Emekli Sandığı Genel Müdürü iken kendi isteğiyle emekliye ayrıldı.
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Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday was born in Istanbul in 1915. In 1936, he started attending the Faculty of Letters and History-Geography. In 1938, he went to Belgium to study sociology, however, upon breakout of World War II in 1940, he had to return to his homeland. Between 1942 and 1951, he worked as a publication consultant for the Department of Publications of the Turkish Ministry of National Education, and subsequently he was employed as librarian for the Ankara Library. In 1951, he returned to Istanbul and did reporting for the Aksam newspaper. During this period, he wrote short features and essays for Tercüman, Büyük Gazete, Tanin and Cumhuriyet newspapers. He was also in charge of the art and literature sections of the same papers. From 1954 onw
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Stéphane Carlier
Après une hypokhâgne et une maîtrise d'Histoire à Paris IV, il est pigiste dans diverses rédactions parisiennes (France-Soir, Gala, L'Express). En 1996, il entre au ministère des Affaires étrangères qui l'affecte aux Etats-Unis, où il passe dix ans (New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs) puis en Inde, à New Delhi. A son retour, il passe deux ans à Lisbonne avant de s'installer en Bourgogne, où il réside aujourd'hui.
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Afin que son patronyme n'influence pas les éditeurs, il signe son premier roman « Antoine Jasper » et l'envoie par la poste, depuis Los Angeles, où il vit à l'époque. Sylvie Genevoix, alors éditrice chez Albin Michel, est la première à le contacter.
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