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Bernard Schwartz

Bernard Schwartz was Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa, and is the author of forty books on the law and the history of the Supreme Court.

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Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.

Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the

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Simin Daneshvar

Simin Dāneshvar ‎ was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.

سیمین دانشور نویسنده و مترجم ایرانی است. وی نخستین زن ایرانی است که به صورتی حرفه‌ای در زبان فارسی داستانو رمان نوشت. مهم‌ترین اثر او رمان سووشون است که نثری ساده دارد و به ۱۷ زبان ترجمه شده است و از جمله پرفروش‌ترین آثار ادبیات داستانی در ایران محسوب می‌شود‏.‏
سیمین دانشور در هشتم ارديبهشت ماه سال ۱۳۰۰ در شیراز به دنیا آمد.‏
تحصیلات ابتدایی و دبیرستان را در مدرسه‌ انگلیسی «مهر آیین» به پایان برد. دانشور سپس برای تحصیل در رشته‌ زبان و ادبیات فارسی وارد دانشگاه تهران شد و در سال ۱۳۲۹ با دفاع از رساله خود در مورد زیبایی‌شناسی موفق به كسب درجه دكترا از این د

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Romain Gary

Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .

Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.

He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then

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Abbas Maroufi

Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.

Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.

Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.

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Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.

هدایت از پیشگامان داستان‌نویسی نوین ایران و از روشنفکران برجسته ایرانی بود. برترین اثر وی رمان بوف کور است که آن را جزو مشهورترین آثار ادبیات داستانی معاصر ایران دانسته‌اند. حجم آثار و مقالات نوشته شده درباره نوشته‌ها، نوع زندگی و خودکشی صادق هدایت بیانگر تأثیر ژرف او بر جریان روشنفکری ایران است. هرچند شهرت عام هدایت نویسندگی است، آثاری از نویسندگان بزرگ را نیز ترجمه کرده‌است. صادق هدایت در ۱۹ فروردین سال ۱۳۳۰ در پاریس خودکشی کرد. آرامگاه وی در گورستان پرلاشز پاریس واقع است

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Atieh Attarzadeh

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André Gide

Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapproving society; he won the Nobel Prize of 1947 for literature.

André Paul Guillaume Gide authored books. From beginnings in the symbolist movement, career of Gide ranged to anticolonialism between the two World Wars.

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes the conflict and eventual reconciliation to public view between the two sides of his personality; a straight-laced education and a narrow social moralism split apart these sides. One can see work of Gide as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face o

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Sam Austen

Sam Austen is a certified feline linguist and former Professor of Feline Psychology at Golden State Medical University. He also hosts Meow: A Literary Podcast for Cats, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Play.

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Jalal Al-e Ahmad

جلال‌الدین سادات آل‌احمد، معروف به جلال آل‌احمد، فرزند سیداحمد حسینی طالقانی در محله سیدنصرالدین از محله‌های قدیمی شهر تهران به دنیا آمد. او در سال ۱۳۰۲ پس از هفت دختر متولد شد و نهمین فرزند پدر و دومین پسر خانواده بود. پدرش در کسوت روحانیت بود و از این رو جلال دوران کودکی را در محیطی مذهبی گذراند. تمام سعی پدر این بود که از جلال، برای مسجد و منبرش جانشینی بپرورد.
جلال پس از اتمام دوره دبستان، تحصیل در دبیرستان را آغاز کرد، اما پدر که تحصیل فرزند را در مدارس دولتی نمی‌پسندید و پیش‌بینی می‌کرد که آن درس‌ها، فرزندش را از راه دین و حقیقت منحرف میکند، با او مخالفت کرد: «دبستان را که تمام کردم، دیگر نگذاشت درس بخوانم که: « برو بازار کار کن» تا بعد ازم جانشینی بسازد. و من رفتم بازار. اما دارالفنون هم کلاس‌های شبانه باز کرده بود که پنهان از پدر اسم

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Ardaviraf

Arda Viraf is chosen for his piety to undertake a journey to the next world in order to prove the truth of Zoroastrian beliefs, after a period when the land of Iran had been troubled by the presence of confused and alien religions. He drinks wine and a hallucinogen, after which his soul travels to the next world where it is greeted by a beautiful woman named Den who represents his faith and virtue. Crossing the Chinvat bridge, he is then conducted by "Srosh, the pious and Adar, the angel" through the "star track", "moon track" and "sun track" – places outside of heaven reserved for the virtuous who have nevertheless failed to conform to Zoroastrian rules. In heaven, Viraf meets Ahura Mazda who shows him the souls of the blessed (ahlav). Eac

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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.

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Nader Ebrahimi

نادر ابراهیمی در ۱۴ فروردین سال ۱۳۱۵ در تهران به دنیا آمد. تحصیلات مقدماتی را در این شهر گذراند و پس از گرفتن دیپلم ادبی از دبیرستان دارالفنون، به دانشکدهٔ حقوق وارد شد. اما این دانشکده را پس از دو سال رها کرد و سپس در رشتهٔ زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، مدرک لیسانس دریافت کرد. او از ۱۳ سالگی به یک سازمان سیاسی پیوست که بارها دستگیری، بازجویی و زندان رفتن را در دوران پهلوی برایش درپی داشت. ارایهٔ فهرست کاملی از شغل‌های ابراهیمی، کار دشواری است. او خود در دو کتاب «ابن مشغله» و «ابوالمشاغل» ضمن شرح وقایع زندگی، به فعالیت‌های گوناگون خود نیز پرداخته‌است. از جمله شغل‌های او بوده‌است: کمک کارگری تعمیرگاه سیار در ترکمن صحرا، کارگری چاپخانه، حسابداری و تحویلداری بانک، صفحه بندی روزنامه و مجله و کارهای چاپ دیگر، میرزایی یک حجرهٔ فرش در بازار، مترجمی و ویر

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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience.

برنده لوح زرین بیست سال داستان‌نویسی بر کلیه آثار، به همراه امین فقیری ۱۳۷۶
دریافت جایزه یک عمر فعالیت فرهنگی، بدر نخستین دوره جایزه ادبی یلدا به همت انتشارات کاروان و انتشارات اندیشه سازان ۱۳۸۲
برنده جایزه ادبی واو ۱۳۹۰
Award for International Literature at the House of Cultures in Berlin 2009
Nominated Asian Literary Award for the novel Collon Collin 2011
Nominated for Man Booker International prize 2011
برنده جایزه ادبی هوشنگ گلشیری برای یک عمر فعالیت ۲۰۱۲
English translation of Colonel's novel, translated by Tom Petrodill, nominee for the best tr

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Parvaneh Pourshariati

Parvaneh Pourshariati is Associate Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She also has courtesy appointments in the department of History at OSU and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) at the university, where she teaches regularly. Born in Tehran, where she completed her primary and secondary education, Pourshariati received her BA in sociology from New York University and her M. Phil. and PhD. degrees in history from Columbia University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia, in the late antique and medieval periods. Her general interests lie in cross-cultural

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Elizabeth Rose

Elizabeth Rose (née Elizabeth Jane Pretty, b. 1933) is an English children's book author. She has published a number of books, together with her illustrator husband, Gerald Rose.

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Michael J. Martin

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Fakhraddin Gorgani

Gorgani was an 11th-century Persian poet. He is most famous for versifying the legend of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Parthian period.

Many transliterations of his name exist in English:
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani,
Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani,
Fakhr-od-Dīn Ās'ād Gorgānī,
Asad Gorgani,

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Christopher Frank

British-born French screenwriter, director, and novelist Christopher Frank (1942-1993)in this photo stands outside his home. After working at the Royal Court Theatre in London as a photographer and translator, he became known for his first novel Mortelle (Mortel), published 25 years later.

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Abbas Maroufi

Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.

Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.

Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.

Maroufi currently resides i

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Romain Gary

Romain Gary was a Jewish-French novelist, film director, World War II aviator and diplomat. He also wrote under the pen name Émile Ajar .

Born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: קצב, Russian: Кацев), Romain Gary grew up in Vilnius to a family of Lithuanian Jews. He changed his name to Romain Gary when he escaped occupied France to fight with Great Britain against Germany in WWII. His father, Arieh-Leib Kacew, abandoned his family in 1925 and remarried. From this time Gary was raised by his mother, Nina Owczinski. When he was fourteen, he and his mother moved to Nice, France. In his books and interviews, he presented many different versions of his father's origin, parents, occupation and childhood.

He later studied law, first in Aix-en-Provence and then

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Abutorab Khosravi

ابوتراب خسروی در سال ۱۳۳۵ در شهر فسا متولد شده‌است. پدر وی نظامی بود و به همین دلیل او در سال‌های جوانی در شهرهای مختلف ایران زندگی کرده بود. در سال‌های ۱۳۴۸ و ۱۳۴۹ در دبیرستانی در اصفهان درس می‌خواند و شاگرد هوشنگ گلشیری نویسنده ایرانی بوده‌است

او لیسانس آموزش ابتدایی دارد. وی سال‌ها در شهر شیراز به کودکان عقب‌مانده ذهنی آموزش می‌داد. در حال حاضر او بازنشسته شده‌است و در شیراز زندگی می‌کند. خسروی متأهل است و سه فرزند دارد

آثار ابوتراب خسروی با مضامینی گاها سوررئال، با تکیه بر ویژگیهای رمان‌های پست مدرن قابلیت کنکاش دارد.او مثل هیچ‌کس نمی‌نویسد و بر ادبیات کهن احاطه دارد

در آثار خسروی زبان ویژه‌یی را که تمایل به باستان گرایی، کهن الگویی و بازگشت به زبان متون مقدس دارد، می‌بینیم. گفت وگوی متن‌های گوناگون و بینامتنیت در آثار خسروی دیده می‌شود. ن

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Shahrnush Parsipur

(Persian: شهرنوش پارسی‌پور)

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Goli Taraghi

Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gulī Taraqqī) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely anthologized, including in Reza Aslan’s Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . She lives in Paris.

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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

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Piero Ferrucci

Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and a philosopher. He graduated from the University of Torino in 1970.

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Saadi

Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi (Persian: ابومحمد مصلح الدین بن عبدالله شیرازی‎, Arabic: سعدي الشيرازي) better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī (Persian: سعدی) or simply Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but has also been quoted in western sources. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest masters of the classical literary tradition.

His best known works are Bostan (The Orchard) completed in 1257 and Gulistan (The Rose Garden) in 1258. Bostan is entirely in verse (epic metre) and consists of stories aptly illustrating the

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.
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Pauline Kaldas

Pauline Kaldas is an Egyptian-American novelist, scholar and professor.

She was born in Egypt and immigrated with her parents to the United States at the age of eight in 1969. She spent her first eight years in the Cairo suburb of Mohandessein with her parents, grandmother, and aunt. When her family immigrated, they settled in the Boston area.

She attended Clark University in Worcester, MA, where she majored in English and Business. She went on to receive her M.A. in English at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University.

After receiving her M.A., she moved to Providence, RI, where she taught at Rhode Island College and Rhode Island School of Design. In 1990, she went to Egypt with her h

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Michel Peyramaure

Michel Peyramaure est un romancier français, souvent qualifiée d'écrivain de terroir ou d'écrivain régionaliste, auteur d'une centaine de romans, pour la plupart historique. Il est considéré pour beaucoup de personnes comme l'un des "plus grands romanciers historiques". Il a reçu en 1979 le Grand Prix de littérature de la Société des gens de lettres pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

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Michel Peyramaure est né en 1922 à Brive-la-Gaillarde, en Corrèze. À sa sortie du collège, il travaille dans l'imprimerie de son père, où il compose ses premiers poèmes, puis devient journaliste à La Montagne, avant de se consacrer à l'écriture littéraire. En 1954, il publie son premier roman, Paradis entre quatre murs, aux éditions Robert Laffont. L'année

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