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  B.H. Liddell Hart

  British military authority Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart early advocated tank and air warfare.
  
  Usually known as captain before his knighthood, this English soldier and historian led theorists.
  
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  Reza Amirkhani

  رضا امیرخانی (زاده ۱۳۵۲، تهران) نویسنده و منتقد ادبی ایرانی است که مدتی نیز رئیس هیئت مدیره انجمن قلم ایران بود. وی به غیر از نگارش رمان و داستان بلند و یک مجموعه داستان کوتاه، به تألیف سفرنامه و مقالات بلند تحلیلی اجتماعی نیز پرداخته است

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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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  Samad Behrangi

  Samad Behrangi was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish.

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  Annemarie Selinko

  Annemarie Selinko (September 1, 1914 - July 28, 1986) was an Austrian novelist who wrote a number of best-selling books in German from the 1930s through the 1950s. Although she had been based in Germany, in 1939 at the start of World War II she took refuge in Denmark with her Danish husband, but then in 1943, they again became refugees, this time to Sweden.
  
  Many of her novels have been adapted into movies and all have been translated into numerous languages. Her last work Désirée (1951) was about Désirée Clary, one of Napoleon's lovers and, later, a queen of Sweden. It has been translated into 25 languages and in 1956 was turned into a movie with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. It is dedicated to her sister Liselotte, who was murdered by the

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  Homa Katouzian

  محمدعلی همایون کاتوزیان

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  Suad Amiry

  Suad Amiry (Arabic: سعاد العامري) is a Palestinian writer and architect has been living in Ramallah since 1981.
  Born in Damascus, Amiry grew up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, Michigan, US, and in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  Amiry is author of the well-known book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law which has been translated into 17 languages and was awarded the prestigious 2004 Viareggio Prize.
  She is the founder and Director of the Riwaq: Centre for Architectural Conservation. Amiry is the vice-president of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University.
  Her book Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge was published in India by Women Unlimited (2010) Her latest book Nothing to Lose But yo

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  Edogawa Rampo

  Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎), better known by the pseudonym Rampo Edogawa ( 江戸川 乱歩), sometimes romanized as "Ranpo Edogawa", was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery fiction.

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  Atieh Attarzadeh

  عطیه عطارزاده

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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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  Amy B. Harris

  Amy Bjork Harris

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  Darren Hardy

  Darren Hardy is today’s preeminent Success Mentor having been a central business leader in the personal growth and success industry now for more than 20 years. He has led three success television networks producing over 1,000 TV shows featuring most every influential thought leader of our times. And for eight years Darren led the rebirth of SUCCESS Magazine as its publisher and founding editor.
  
  These positions have given Darren unprecedented access to interview, investigate and publish the stories of the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders in the world, including Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Howard Schultz, Steve Wynn, Jack Welch and many more.
  
  Through this special access Darren has bee

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  Yixing Zhang

  Zhang Yixing better known by his stage name Lay, is a Chinese singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He is a member and main dancer of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo and its sub-unit Exo-M.

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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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  Akira Yoshimura

  Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄,engl. prison break) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.

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  Arman Arian

  English : Arman Arian
  آرمان آرین زاده‌ی ۱۳۶۰ است. او با آفرینش اثر سه‌گانهٔ «پارسیان و من» به دنیای ادبیات شناسانده شد. پارسیان و من نام رمانی است در سه جلد که بیان‌کننده‌ی اسطوره، حماسه و تاریخ ایران است.

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  Touraj Daryaee

  Touraj Daryaee holds the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and is the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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  Zoya Pirzad

  Zoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. She is the author of the international bestseller Things We Left Unsaid, and her most recent collection of stories, The Bitter Taste of Persimmon, won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 in France.
  
  زویا پیرزاد نویسنده و داستان نویس معاصر در سال ۱۳۳۱ در آبادان از مادری ارمنی تبار و پدری روس تبار به دنیا آمد. در همان جا به مدرسه رفت و در تهران ازدواج کرد و دو پسرش ساشا و شروین را به دنیا آورد
  

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  Irvin D. Yalom

  Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
  
  Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating with a BA from George Washington University in 1952 and as a Doctor of Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital i

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  Thomas A. Harris

  Thomas Anthony Harris (April 18, 1910 – May 4, 1995) was an American psychiatrist and author who became famous for his self-help manual I'm OK, You're OK (1967). The book was a bestseller and its name became a cliché during the 1970s.
  
  During 1985, Harris published Staying OK, a sequel to I'm OK, You're OK, written with his wife, the journalist and lecturer Amy Bjork Harris (born 1929).

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  Forugh Farrokhzad

  Forough Farrokhzad was born in Tehran to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. The third of seven children, she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girl's school for the manual arts. At age sixteen she was married to Parviz Shapour, an acclaimed satirist.
  
  Within two years, in 1954, Farrokhzad and her husband divorced; Parviz won custody of the child. She moved back to Tehran to write poetry and published her first volume, entitled The Captive, in 1955.
  
  In 1958 she spent nine months in Europe. After returning to Iran, in search of a job she met film-maker and writer Ebrahim Golestan, who reinforced her own inclinations to express herself

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  Nizami Ganjavi

  Nizami Ganjavi, also spelled Nezāmi, (Persian: نظامی گنجوی) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی), the son of a wealthy land owner, was born in 935 in a small village named Paj near Tus in Khorasan which is situated in today's Razavi Khorasan province in Iran.
  He devoted more than 35 years to his great epic, the Shāhnāmeh. It was originally composed for presentation to the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the revival of Iranian cultural traditions after the Arab conquest of the seventh century. Ferdowsi started his composition of the Shahnameh in the Samanid era in 977 A.D. During Ferdowsi's lifetime the Samanid dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Empire. After 30 years of hard work, he finished the book and two or three years after that, Ferdowsi went to Gha

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  Reza Baraheni

  Reza Baraheni (born 1935) is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic and political activist.
  
  See also رضا براهنی

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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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  Jonathan Lear

  Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2014 to 2022.

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  Robert Merle

  Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.
  
  His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as

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  Iraj Pezeshkzad

  Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My Uncle Napoleon") published in the early 1970s.
  
  Iraj Pezeshkzad was educated in Iran and France where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines. His novels include "Haji Mam-ja'far in Paris", and "Mashalah Khan in the Court of Haroun al-Rashid". He has also written several plays and various articles on the Irania

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  Liza Baker

  Liza Baker is a children's book editor and the author of several books for young readers, including two previous titles illustrated by David McPhail, I Love You Because You're You, and Mama's Right Here. Liza lives in Westchester, New York, with her husband, Aaron, a Lieutenant in the New York City Fire Department, and her three very busy young sons, Gardner, Byron, and Caleb. [From Scholastic.com.]

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  Woody Allen

  Noted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as Annie Hall (1977) and Deconstructing Harry (1997).
  
  This director, jazz musician, and playwright thrice won Academy Award. His large body of work mixes satire, wit and humor in the most respected and prolific cerebral style in the modern era. Allen directs also in the majority of his movies. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and city of New York, where he lives.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_A...
  

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  Robert Wicks

  Associate Professor Robert Lawrence Wicks
  
  There is more than one author with this name. See also: Robert Wicks & Robert J. Wicks

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  Mick Jackson

  Mick Jackson (born 1960) is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man (1997). The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.
  
  Mick Jackson was born in 1960, in Great Harwood, Lancashire, and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.
  
  Jackson worked in local theatre, studied theatre arts at Dartington College of Arts, and played in a rock band called The Screaming Abdabs. In 1990, he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on The Underground Man. He has been a full-time writer since 1995.
  
  Jackson's other works are t

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  Payam Ebrahimi

  I was born in 1988 and started writing stories when I was 5. Then I went to school and kept writing stories. At the time I was 16, I started working for magazines as a humorist and kept writing stories. When I grew up, I studied nuclear physics and kept writing. As a university student, I worked as a graphic designer, film editor, teacher, and journalist and kept writing always. Now I am working as a copywriter, editor, and teacher and still keep writing stories.
  So, I am anything but a writer!

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  Steve Toltz

  Steve Toltz (born in 1972) is an Australian novelist.
  
  Toltz graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter.
  
  A Fraction of the Whole, his first novel, was released in 2008 to widespread critical acclaim. It is a comic novel which tells the history of a family of Australian outcasts. The narration of the novel alternates between Jasper Dean, a philosophical, idealistic boy, who grows up throughout the novel and his father, Martin Dean, a philosopher and shut-in described at the start of the novel as "the most h

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  روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)

  Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
  He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
  His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
  His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
  In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
  He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).
  

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  Alba de Céspedes

  Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
  
  Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
  
  Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war

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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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  Christopher de Bellaigue

  Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. His latest book is Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

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  Nahal Tajadod

  Nahal Tajadod was born in Teheran in 1960 and left Iran for France in 1977. She studied at INALCO where she obtained a doctorate in Chinese. Her thesis was on Mani, the Buddha of light and gave for the first time a translation of a Manichean text in Chinese, a real textbook written by the Manicheans themselves. She has been researching the Iranian contributions to Chinese civilisation. Buddhism, Christianism, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Islam were all spread in China by Iranian missionaries. Born into a family of Iranian erudites, Nahal Tajadod was initiated into Sufism in childhood. She has contributed to the translation of the Rûmi and has written a fictionalized biography of the great master of Sufism. She is the wife of fam

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  Houshang Golshiri

  From the Golshiri foundation website
  
  Writer, critic and editor, Hooshang Golshiri, the prominent Iranian literary figure, published his first collection of short stories, As Always, in 1958. His second book, a short novel, Prince Ehtejab (1959) brought him fame and was later made into an internationally acclaimed film (1974). It has since been translated into several languages. His writings include eight novels, five collections of short stories, two books on literary theory and criticism, and a 2 vol. collected essays and articles.
  
  Alongside his writing, he set up workshops and classes to nurture new generations of writers, edited various literary journals, and actively participated in the struggle for freedom of thought and expression in Ir

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  Ariel Dorfman

  Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.
  
  

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  Farhad Jafari

  فرهاد جعفري در هشتم شهريورماه سال 1344 در روستاي شوسف از توابع شهرستان بيرجند به دنيا آمده است.
  او روزنامه نگار و فارغ التحصيل حقوق قضايي از دانشگاه آزاد اسلامي واحد مشهد است كه در كارنامه مطبوعاتي خود؛ همكاري پاره وقت با روزنامه قدس در سالهاي 1368 تا 1369؛ با روزنامه توس در فاصله سالهاي 1369 تا 1373؛ سردبيری هفته نامه اجتماعي فرهنگي خاوران در سالهاي 1375 و نيز صاحب امتيازي و سردبيري يك هفته نامه سياسي اجتماعي به نام « يك هفتم » را در پيشينه دارد.
  او متاهل و داراي دختري به نام«گل گيسو»ست.
  همسرش « پري سيما جوادي » قصه نويس و دبير ادبيات فارسي آموزش و پرورش است.
  Farhad Jafari
  
  

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  Haim G. Ginott

  Haim G. Ginott was a teacher, child psychologist and psychotherapist, who worked with children and parents. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child,. stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today.

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  Shahriar Mandanipour

  Shahriar Mandanipour is an award-winning Iranian novelist in modern Persian literature and is now a well-known international writer. He won the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel of 2004; the Golden Tablet Award for best fiction of the past 20 years in Iran, 1998; and Best Film Critique at the Press Festival in Tehran (1994). Mandanipour "was prohibited from publishing his fiction in his native country between 1992 and 1997. He came to the United States in 2006, as an International Writers Project Fellow at Brown University, and stayed in America."

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  Henry Corbin

  Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. As a boy he revealed the profound sensitivity to music so evident in his work. Although he was Protestant by birth, he was educated in the Catholic tradition and at the age of 19 received a certificate in Scholastic philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Three years later he took his "licence de philosophie" under the great Thomist Étienne Gilson. In 1928 he encountered the formidable Louis Massignon, director of Islamic studies at the Sorbonne, and it was he who introduced Corbin to the writings of Suhrawardi, the 12th century Persian mystic and philosopher whose work was to profoundly affect the course of Corbin’s life.

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  Sadegh Chubak

  صادق چوبک زاده تیرماه ۱۲۹۵ در بوشهرنویسنده ایرانی است.وی به همراه صادق هدایت از پیشگامان داستان نویسی مدرن ایران است. از آثار مشهور وی مجموعه داستان انتری که لوطی اش مرده بود ورمانهای سنگ صبور و تنگسیر نام برد.اکثرداستان‌های وی حکایت تیره روزی مردمی است که اسیر خرافه و مذهب و نادانی خویش هستند. چوبک با توجه به خشونت رفتاری ای که در طبقات فرودست دیده می شد سراغ شخصیت ها وماجراهایی رفت که هرکدام بخشی از این رفتار را بازتاب می دادند و به شدّت ره به تاریکی میبردند. او یک رئالیست تمام عیاربود که با منعکس کردن چرک ها و و زخمهای طبقه رها شده فرودست نه در جستجوی درمان آنها بود و نه تلاش داشت پیشوای فکری نسلی شود که تاب این همه زشتی را نداشت.به همین دلیل چهره کریه و ناخوشایندی که از انسان بی چیز، گرسنه و فاقد رویا ارائه می دهد، نه تنها مبنای آرمان گ

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  Jean-Claude Carrière

  Jean-Claude Carrière is a writer, playwright and screenwriter, who has also written under the pseudonym Benoît Becker.

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  Afsaneh Najmabadi

  Afsāneh Najmābādi (Persian: افسانه نجم آبادی‎) (born 1946) is an Iranian-American historian and gender theorist. She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. At present she chairs the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is further Associate Editor of Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, in six volumes.
  
  Afsaneh Najmabadi moved as student from University of Tehran to Radcliffe College in 1966. She obtained her BA in physics in 1968 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her MA in physics in 1970 from Harvard University. Following this, she pursued social studies, combining academic interests with engagement in social activism, first in the Un

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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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  Sattareh Farman Farmaian

  Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān (1921 – 23 May 2012; Persian: ستاره فرمانفرمائیان‎ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma of the Qajar dynasty.
  
  In addition to her autobiography, Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem through the Islamic Revolution (1992), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, she published "Social Work as Social Development: A Case History" (1996), On the Other Side of the China Wall (1977), "Early Marriage and Pregnancy in Traditional Islamic Society" (1975), Prostitution Problems in the City of Tehran (1969), Children and Teachers (1966), Country Profile of Iranian Family Planning and Social Welfare (1965), and Children's Ne

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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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  Hamid Reza Sadr

  Hamid Reza Sadr Was Born in 1957 in Mashhad, Iran. But His Family Lives in Mashhad Just for Two Weeks. He Spend His Childhood in Kermanshah & then They Went to Tehran. He Writing for Haft Monthly Magazine in Iran.

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  Albert Ellis

  Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded and was the President of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades.
  He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of USA and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history (Carl Rogers ranked first in the survey; Sigmund Freud was ranked third).

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  Bachtyar Ali

  Bachtyar Ali Muhammed, also spelled as Bakhtiyar Ali or Bakhtyar Ali, (Kurdish: Bextyar Elî -بەختیار عەلی) Ali was born in the city of Slemani (also spelt as Sulaimani or Sulaymaniy), in Iraqi Kurdistan (also referred to as southern Kurdistan) in 1960. He is a Kurdish novelist and intellectual. He is also a prolific literary critic, essayist and poet. Ali started out as a poet and essayist, but has established himself as an influential novelist from the mid-1990s. He has published six novels, several poetry collections as well as essay books. He has been living in Germany since the mid-1990s (Frankfurt, Cologne and most recently Bonn). In his academic essays, he has dealt with various subjects, such as the 1988 Saddam-era Anfal genocide cam

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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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  Mikhail Zoshchenko

  Mikhail Zoshchenko (Russian: Михаил Зощенко) was born in Poltava, Ukraine, on 29th July, 1895. He studied law at the University of Petersburg, but did not graduate.
  During the First World War Zoshchenko served in the Russian Army. A supporter of the October Revolution, Zoshchenko joined the Red Army and fought against the Whites in the Civil War.
  In 1922 Zoshchenko joined the literary group, the Serapion Brothers. Inspired by the work of Yevgeni Zamyatin, the group took their name from the story by Ernst T. Hoffmann, the Serapion Brothers, about an individualist who vows to devote himself to a free, imaginative and non-conformist art. Other members included Nickolai Tikhonov, Mikhail Slonimski, Victor Shklovsky, Vsevolod Ivanov and Konstantin

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  Richard Paul

  Librarian note:
  There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

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  Karen Horney

  Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology. As such, she is often classified as Neo-Freudian.

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  Annette Langen

  Annette Langen is a German author of children’s and young adult literature, best known for her picture book series about Felix, a traveling stuffed rabbit.

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  Hans Bertens

  Hans Bertens, born Johannes Willem Bertens, is a Dutch academic writer and professor emeritus of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He specialised in American studies and comparative literature.
  
  He was born in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, and studied in Utrecht.

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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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  W. Brad Johnson

  W. Brad Johnson is Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a Faculty Associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. A clinical psychologist and former commissioned officer in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson served at Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor where he was the division head for psychology. He is a recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Teaching Excellence Award, and has received distinguished mentor awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous publications including 14 books, in the areas of gender in the wor

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  James Mills

  James Mills is an American novelist, screenwriter and prize-winning journalist.
  
  Mills wrote two New York Times bestsellers, Report to the Commissioner, a novel, and , a study of international narcotics trafficking. As a result, he testified before a panel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as an expert. His books The Panic in Needle Park and Report to the Commissioner were later made into major motion pictures.

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  Kay Dick

  Dick was born Kathleen Elsie Dick at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, England, UK, but was but raised in Switzerland by her mother, Kate Frances Dick, being educated in Geneva, as well as at the Lycée Français in London. In early life, Kay Dick worked at Foyle's bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road and, at 26, became the first woman director in English publishing at P.S. King & Son. She later became a journalist, working at the New Statesman. For many years, she edited the literary magazine The Windmill, under the nom de plume Edward Lane.
  
  Dick wrote five novels between 1949 and 1962, including the famous An Affair of Love (1953) and Solitaire (1958). She also wrote literary biography, researching the lives of Colette and Carlyle. In 1

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  John Suchet

  John Suchet presents Classic FM's flagship morning programme. His informative style of presentation, coupled with a deep knowledge of classical music, has won a wide spectrum of new listeners to the station. Before turning to classical music, John was one of the UK's best known television newscasters, regularly presenting ITN's flagship News at Ten, as well as all other bulletins, over a period of nearly 20 years. John has been honoured for both roles. He is the author of several bestselling composer biographies, including Beethoven: The Man Revealed.

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  Abbas Milani

  Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a visiting professor in the department of political science. In addition, Dr. Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
  

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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.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_...

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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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  Barbara De Angelis

  Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of relationships and personal growth. For the past twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. As a best-selling author, popular television personality and sought after motivational speaker, Barbara has been a pioneer in the field of personal transformation as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television.
  
  

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  Charles Kurzman

  Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.

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  Michael Daniels

  Michael Daniels PhD was formerly senior lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. His academic research and publications are in the areas of transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, and Jungian psychology. He is also a keen amateur magician and mentalist, and the author of a number of technical ebooks based on magical effects he has created. He has developed and maintains three educational-entertainment websites: www.psychicscience.org; www.transpersonalscience.org; and www.mindmagician.org.

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  Nile Green

  Nile Green is Professor of History at UCLA, with an interest in the multiple globalizations of Islam and Muslims. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.
  
  In pursuit of the patterns of both global and local Islams, he has traveled and researched in India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Chinese Central Asia, the Caucasus, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, South Africa, Myanmar, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
  
  His seven monographs, seven edited books, and over seventy articles have traced Muslim networks that connect South and Central Asia with the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, Africa, Japan, Europe and the United States. His most recent book, The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane

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  Baba Tahir

  Baba Tahir, born c. 1000 in Loristan or Hamadan, Iran and died after 1055 in Hamadan, was one of the most revered early poets in Persian literature.
  
  Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan. His byname, ʿOryān (“The Naked”), suggests that he was a wandering dervish, or mystic. Legend tells that the poet, an illiterate woodcutter, attended lectures at a religious college, where he was ridiculed by the scholars and students because of his lack of education and sophistication. After experiencing a vision in which philosophic truths were revealed to him, he returned to the school and spoke of what he had seen, astounding those present by his wisdom. His poetry is written in a dialect of Persian, and he is most famous

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  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  محمدرضا پهلوی
  
  (Former) Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia (Persian: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی ; [mohæmˈmæd reˈzɒː ˈʃɒːhe pæhlæˈviː]), ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He was the second and last monarch of the House of Pahlavi of the Iranian monarchy. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi held several titles: His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah (King of Kings, Emperor), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) and Bozorg Arteshtārān (Head of the Warriors, Persian: بزرگ ارتشتاران).
  
  The young prince came to power during World War II after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father Reza Shah. During his reign, the Iranian oil industry was nationalized under Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Ira

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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.
  
  Biographie
  
  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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  Ernst Kreuder

  German novelist.

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  Linda Elder

  Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and a prominent authority on critical thinking. She is President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking. Dr. Elder has taught psychology and critical thinking at the college level and has given presentations to more than 20,000 educators at all levels. She has co-authored four books, including Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life and Twenty-Five Days to Better Thinking and Better Living. She has co-authored eighteen thinker’s guides on critical thinking and co-authors a quarterly column on critical thinking in the Jou

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  Didier van Cauwelaert

  Didier van Cauwelaert est un romancier et dramaturge français, né d'une famille d'origine belge.
  
  Didier van Cauwelaert is a French novelist and playwright with Belgian roots.
  
  Well-known French writer Didier van CAUWELAERT has some very big literary successes in his portfolio.
  
  From the age of 8 he dreamed of taking up a pen to become independent and feed his family.
  
  After devoting several years to theatre, to playing Sartre and directing Beckett, Anouilh, Ionesco, and after a brief career as a children's book critic, a chance meeting with a certain Greta GARBO got his foot in the door.
  
  In 1982 he published (at last) his first book “Vingt ans et des poussières” with Editions du Seuil, just after his 22nd birthday. He would reach an ever wider publ

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  Roger Martin du Gard

  Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1937 "for the artistic power and truth with which he has depicted human conflict as well as some fundamental aspects of contemporary life in his novel cycle Les Thibault."
  
  Roger Martin du Gard (23 March 1881 - 22 August 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details. For his concern with documentation and with the relationship of social reality to individual development, he has been linked with the realist and naturalist traditions of the 19th century. His major work was Les Thibault, a roman fleuve about the Thibault family, originally

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  Roger M. Savory

  Roger Savory is a British-born Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto who is an Iranologist and specialist on the Safavids. His numerous writings on Safavid political, military history, administration, bureaucracy, and diplomacy-translated into several language have had a great impact in understanding this period.

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  Asadollah Alam

  اسدالله خان عَلَم امیر قاینات (مرداد ۱۲۹۸ بیرجند - ۲۵ فروردین ۱۳۵۷ آمریکا) مشهور به اسدالله علم، یکی از مهم‌ترین چهره‌های سیاسی دوران محمدرضا شاه پهلوی، وزیر دربار و نخست‌وزیر ایران پس از علی امینی از سال تیرماه ۱۳۴۱ تا اسفند ۱۳۴۲ پیش از حسنعلی منصور بوده است
  
  وزیر دربار مشغول به کار ۱۳۴۵ – ۱۳۵۶ پس از حسین قدس نخعی و پیش از امیرعباس هویدا. رئیس دانشگاه پهلوی (دانشگاه شیراز فعلی) مشغول به کار ۱۳۴۳ – ۱۳۴۷ پس از لطفعلی صورتگر و پیش از حسن نهاوندی و فرماندار سیستان و بلوچستان
  
  اسدالله علم در روز جمعه ۲۵ فروردین ۱۳۵۷ درگذشت. او یادداشت‌های روزانهٔ محرمانه‌ای به جای گذاشت و وصیت کرد که پس از مرگ وی و در زمانی که خاندان پهلوی روی کار نیست انتشار یابد. این یادداشت‌ها به عنوان گزارشی دقیق از وضعیت دربار پهلوی و شخص شاه اعتبار زیادی دارد. ده سال بعد از ا

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  Muhammad Ibn Jarir Al-Tabari

  Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (224 – 310 AH; 839 A.D–923 A.D) was a prominent and influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur'an from Tabaristan, modern Mazandaran in Iran. Even if today he's better known for his expertise in Islamic sciences (Qur'anic commentary and law) or history, he has been described as "an impressively prolific polymath. He wrote on such subjects as poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine."
  
  His most influential and best known works are his Qur'anic commentary known as Tafsir al-Tabari and his historical chronicle Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk (History of the Prophets and Kings), often referred to Tarikh al-Tabari. Al-Tabari founded his own madhhab which is usually desi

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  Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

  "Shahāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardī (Persian: شهاب‌ الدین سهروردی‎‎, also known as Sohrevardi) was a Persian philosopher and founder of the Iranian school of Illuminationism, an important school in Islamic philosophy and mysticism that drew upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas.
  He is referred to by the honorific title "Shaikh al-ʿIshraq" (Master of Illumination) and "Shaikh al-Maqtul" (the Murdered Master) in reference to his execution for heresy.

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  Vitaly Shentalinsky

  Vitaly Shentalinsky (Виталий Шенталинский in Russian) - poet and writer - was born in Siberia. He studied journalism and worked as a journalist and for radio and television. He spent the winter at the polar station on Wrangel Island, and participated in five high latitude expeditions.

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