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  Robert Penn Warren

  Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
  

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  Angelos Terzakis

  Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.
  
  He was born in Nafplion in 1907 and lived there until 1915, when he moved to Athens, where he finished school and studied law at the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in Greek literature in 1925 with the short story collection The Forgotten. He took part in the war of 1940 and documented this experience in some of his short stories and especially in his book April. In 1969 he was awarded the prize of Literary Excellence (Αριστείο Γραμμάτων) of the Athens Academy.
  
  He died on 3 August 1979 in Athens.
  
  His son, Dimitri Terzakis, is a noted composer.
  
  Novels
  Prisoners (Δεσμώτες, 1932)
  The Decay of the Tough Ones (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933)
  The

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  Henry James

  Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
  He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in

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  Robert Harris

  ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in the village of Kintbury, England, with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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  Philip K. Dick

  Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound philosophical themes, Dick explored the nature of reality, the boundaries of human identity, and the impact of technology and authoritarianism on society. His stories often blurred the line between the real and the artificial, challenging readers to question their perceptions and beliefs.
  Raised in California, Dick began writing professionally in the early 1950s, publishing short stories in various science fiction magazines. He quickly developed a distinctive voice within the genre, marked by a fusion of science fiction concepts with deep existenti

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  Franz Kafka

  Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
  
  Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
  
  His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
  
  Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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  Octavio Paz

  Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")

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  Ersi Sotiropoulos

  Greek: Έρση Σωτηροπούλου

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  Apostolos Doxiadis

  Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.
  Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.
  After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the Internationa

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  Pedro Lemebel

  Hijo de Pedro Mardones, panadero, y Violeta Lemebel, nació "literalmente en la orilla del Zanjón de la Aguada" y "vivió en medio del barro" hasta que, a mediados de los años sesenta, "su familia se mudó a un conjunto de viviendas sociales en avenida Departamental".
  Estudió en un liceo industrial donde se enseñaba forja de metal y mueblería y, después, en la Universidad de Chile, donde se tituló de profesor de Artes Plásticas. Trabajó en dos liceos, de los cuales fue despedido en 1983 "presumiblemente por su apariencia, ya que no hacía mucho esfuerzo por disimular su homosexualidad".
  En sus libros aborda fundamentalmente la marginalidad chilena con algunas referencias autobiográficas. Su estilo irreverente, barroco y kitsch lo ha hecho conocid

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  Fernando Aramburu

  Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc

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  Paul Lynch

  Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2018, among other prizes.
  
  His debut novel RED SKY IN MORNING was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic in 2013. It was a finalist for France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize) and was nominated for the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize). In the US, it was an Amazon.com Book of the Month and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, where Lynch was hailed as “a lapidary young master”. It was a book of the year in The Irish Times, The Toronto Star, the Irish Independent and t

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  Alki Zei

  One could say that our outstanding author Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) has raised with her books lots of children, apart from bringing up two of her own.
  Today’s children in Greece have additionally the chance to know her work in their textbooks where her novels have been anthologized.
  Among the various national and international distinctions she has obtained for her work, the greatest recognition comes from the readers, who read passionately her books and place them in the top of the best seller lists. But what makes Alki Zei’s work really significant is the impression it evokes out of Greece. Her books have often been awarded abroad: Mildred Batchelder in the U.S.A. for Wildcat under glass, Petros’ war and The sound of the dragon’s feet, Acer

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  Mark Fisher

  Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.
  
  Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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  Costas Taktsis

  Greek writer. Described as a 'landmark of post-war literature in Greece, Taktsis (Κώστας Ταχτσής) wrote The Third Wedding (Greek: Tο τρίτο στεφάνι) partly in Australia. The book unfolds in the years before and after World War II through the flowing personal narrative of two women: Ekavi and Nina, who speak in a direct and everyday language about what they live through. Unable to find a publisher in Greece he published it at his own expense in 1962. The book has been translated into 18 languages. The French edition was released by Éditions Gallimard in 1967, translated by Jacques Lacarrière. In 1969 it became the first Greek novel published by Penguin Books. A new English translation by John Chioles, was published as The Third Wedding Wreath

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  Alejandro Zambra

  Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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  Kostis Palamas

  Kostis Palamas (Greek: Κωστής Παλαμάς) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School (or Palamian School, or Second Athenian School) along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioannis Polemis.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Tasos Athanasiadis

  Anastasios (Tasos) Athanasiadis (Greek: Τάσος Αθανασιάδης) son of Michael was a writer and gownsman.

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  M. Karagatsis

  M. Karagatsis (Greek: Μ. Καραγάτσης) is the pen name of the Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France.
  The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name by which the novelist is generally known. The initial "M" stands for Mitya, the Russian diminutive of Dimitris. "Karagatsis" is derived from the "Karagatsi" tree, under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.
  Karagatsis has been characterized as primarily a prose writer of the illusory reality of persons and situations. His writing is bold, sensual, with great imagination and a unique narrative style, and is often studied by Greek students.
  His first three novels (Colonel Liapkin, Chimaera and

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  Edgar Allan Poe

  The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
  
  Just as the bizarre c

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  Lena Kitsopoulou

  Greek: Λένα Κιτσοπούλου

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  Minos Efstathiadis

  Minos Efstathiadis (Greek: Μίνως Ευσταθιάδης) studied Law in Athens and in Hannover. He gave up (probably not soon enough) being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing.
  
  His play “The Meal” received the prize for Original Playwright of E.T.E. and has been translated into English, German, French and Hungarian.
  
  His novel “The second part of the night” has been published in German.
  
  His novel “The Diver” has been published in French and was shortlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature, Violeta Negra Occitanie and Prix du Livre Européen.

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  Emmanuel Rhoides

  Emmanuel Rhoides (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης) was a Greek writer and journalist. He is considered one of the most illustrious and reviving spirits of the Greek letters of his time.
  
  Born in Hermoupolis, the capital of the island of Syros, to a family of rich aristocrats from Chios — who had fled the island after the massacre of its population by the Ottomans in 1822 — he spent much of his youth abroad. Rhoides was erudite and at a young age had mastered not only the languages of continental Europe, but also, ancient Greek and Latin. His early youth years he spent in Genoa, Italy in the times of the revolutions, which were a far reaching repercussion of the French revolution.
  
  He studied history, literature and philosophy in Berlin, and later in I

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  George Theotokas

  Greek: Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς

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  Rhea Galanaki

  Rhea Galanaki (Greek: Ρέα Γαλανάκη) is an author who was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1947. She studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens. She received the Novel Prize of the Greek state in 1999.

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  Georges Ohnet

  Georges Ohnet, de son vrai nom Georges Hénot, né le 3 avril 1848 à Paris et mort le 5 mai 1918 à Paris, est un écrivain populaire français.

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