Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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Catherine Fletcher
Catherine Fletcher holds a PhD in history from the University of London. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships at the British School at Rome and the European University Institute in Florence and takes up a position as a Teaching Fellow in History at the University of London in the Fall. Divorce of Henry VIII is her first book.
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Alexander MacLeod
Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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The son of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Alistair MacLeod, he was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father taught at the University of Windsor. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint Mary's University. -
Šimon A. Đarmati
Dr Šimon A. Đarmati, profesor u penziji, rođen je 1952. godine u Zrenjaninu. Živi i stvara u Beogradu. Autor je i koautor velikog broja univerzitetskih udžbenika, monografija, naučnih i stručnih radova, feljtona, članaka i učesnik mnogih televizijskih ostvarenja. Najpoznatije knjige su mu: A u srcu Banat (2003), Tajna poslednjeg gutljaja – Otrovi, trovači i otrovani (2004), Razorne sile (2004), Starinski zidni sat u ulici Uroša Predića (2005), Otrovni Šekspir – Šekspirovi otrovi (2006), Marijaš, poslednji banatski razbojnik (2007), Trovanja u Torku (2008), Vračare, nadrilekari, vampiri i zli dusi u Srbiji (2009), Hajdučka vremena u Srbiji (2009). Osim za odrasle piše i za decu i najpoznatiji njegovi naslovi su: Ekokolologija (2003) i Imate
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Tomáš Forró
Tomas Forro is a Slovak reporter covering crises and conflicts mostly in the regions of Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia.
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He is publishing mostly long-form reportages with investigative elements in various Central and Eastern European media such as Dennik N (Slovakia), Polityka (Poland) and others.
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Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play.
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Huch was born in Braunschweig and died in Schönberg in the Taunus (today, part of Kronberg). She was the daughter of Richard Huch, a wholesale merchant, and his wife Emilie (née Haehn). She also used the pseudonym Richard Hugo and published her first poems under the alias R. Ith Carda. She prepared for university work privately and studied in Zürich, where she received her doctorate in 1891. Her brother, Rudolf, and her cousins, Friedrich and Felix, were also well-known writers.
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Bernhard Schlink
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Rohinton Mistry
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Chinua Achebe
Works, including the novel Things Fall Apart (1958), of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe describe traditional African life in conflict with colonial rule and westernization.
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This poet and critic served as professor at Brown University. People best know and most widely read his first book in modern African literature.
Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria reared Achebe, who excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. World religions and traditional African cultures fascinated him, who began stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian broadcasting service and quickly moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention in the late 1950s; his la -
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Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.
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He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. -
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Brigitte Reimann (1933 - 1973) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel, Franziska Linkerhand.
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Brigitte Reimann wrote her first amateur play at the age of fifteen. In 1950 she was awarded the first prize in an amateur drama comeptition by the Berlin theater Volksbühne. After graduating, Reimann worked as teacher, bookseller and reporter. After a miscarriage in 1954, she attempted suicide. In 1960, she started to work at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers. There, she writes the narrative Ankunft im Alltag, which is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism.
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Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.
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Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.
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Eduardo Halfon
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Jančar je najprej začel s pisanjem pripovednih del v modernistični pripovedni tehniki in pod vplivom francoskega novega romana. V pripovednih delih obravnava spore posameznika z aktualnim družbenim okoljem (roman Petintrideset stopinj, novele O bledem hu -
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Rob van Essen
Rob van Essen (1963). Schrijver, vertaler, recensent Angelsaksische literatuur voor NRC Handelsblad.
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Laurent Binet
Son of an historian, Binet was born in Paris, graduated from University of Paris in literature, and taught literature in Parisian suburb and eventually at University. He was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel, HHhH.
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Laurent Binet est né à Paris. Il a effectué son service militaire en Slovaquie et a partagé son temps entre Paris et Prague pendant plusieurs années. Agrégé de lettres, il est professeur de français en Seine-Saint-Denis depuis dix ans et chargé de cours à l'Université. HHhH est son premier roman. -
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Ocean Vuong
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Christine Dorothea Antoinette (Christien) Brinkgreve is sociologe en schrijfster. Zij is gehuwd met Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en moeder van twee schrijvende zonen Daan en Thomas.
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Tine Høeg
Tine Høeg debuterede med digtromanen Nye rejsende, der udkom i januar 2017 og vandt BogForums Debutantpris samme år.
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Bogen har været månedsbog i Samlerens Bogklub og med i projektet KGL Dansk på Det Kongelige Teater.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
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Sheila Sitalsing
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Irene Vallejo
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Jean-Baptiste Andrea
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Safae el Khannoussi
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
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František Šusta
RNDr. František Šusta, PhD. je autorem desítek odborných, vědeckých i popularizačních článků. V letech 2008 až 2017 pracoval jako specialista tréninku zvířat v Zoo Praha a po odchodu ze zoo pokračuje v této práci jako profesionální trenér zvířat "na volné noze". Je členem České a slovenské etologické společnosti a několika odborných organizací sdružujících trenéry zvířat – jako první Čech se stal členem Animal Behavior Management Alliance a International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association. V roce 2014 se jako držitel čtyř různých ocenění ABMA stal nositelem historicky největší sbírky cen udělovaných touto celosvětovou asociací profesionálních trenérů zvířat (Training Achievement Award, 2011 – na téma tréninku divokých koňovitých, Wellsprin
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Otto Skorzeny
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Skorzeny was also the leader of Operation Greif, in which German soldiers were to infiltrate through enemy lines, using their opponents' language, uniforms, and customs. At the end of the war, Skorzeny was involved with the Werwolf guerrilla movement and the ODESSA network where he would serve as Spanish coordinator. -
Alisa Ganieva
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Ganieva was born in Moscow in an Avar family but moved with her family to Dagestan, where she lived in Gunib and later attended school in Makhachkala. In 2002 she moved back to Moscow and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She works as a literary critic for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily.
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Dušan Mikušovič
Reportér domáceho spravodajstva Denníka N a moderátor videopodcastov V redakcii.
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Vyštudoval žurnalistiku a politológiu na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne, po škole pracoval ako copywriter.
Od roku 2013 do konca roka 2014 redaktor SME, od začiatku roka 2015 reportér Denníka N. Venuje sa domácemu spravodajstvu, politike a médiám, je autorom kníh „Matovič. Premiér v teniskách“ a "Neprišli sme vraždiť".
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James McCudden
James Thomas Byford McCudden was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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With his six British medals and one French one, McCudden received more medals for gallantry than any other airman of British nationality serving in the First World War. He was also one of the longest serving, having joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1913.
McCudden's story is all the more remarkable as he rose through the RFC ranks (from Air Mechanic to Major) during the war to become one of the most decorated and honoured soldiers of the conflict. At his death he had amassed 57 victories, making him the seventh highest scoring ace of World War I.
Tragically, he