Vladimir Bartol
Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slovene family. His father Gregor Bartol, was a post office clerk, and his mother Marica Bartol Nadlišek was a teacher, a renowned editor and feminist author. Vladimir's parents offered their children extensive education. His mother introduced him to painting, his father to biology. In his autobiographical short stories, Bartol described himself as an oversensitive and slightly odd child with a rich fantasy life. He was interested in many things: biology and philosophy, psychology, art, as well as theatre and literature. As a scientist, he collecte
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La timide et très discrète Muriel Barbery ne s’imaginait sans doute pas faire l’objet de l’engouement qu’elle suscite aujourd’hui, bien malgré elle.
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Melisa Kesmez
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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Rodil se je očetu Štefanu Lainščku in mami Tereziji. Gimnazijo je obiskoval v Murski Soboti. Svojo študijsko pot je nadaljeval na tedanji Fakulteti za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, kjer je študiral novinarstvo. Lainšček ima status samostojnega ustvarjalca v kulturi in je solastnik in urednik Podjetja za promocijo kulture Franc-Franc.
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Feri Lainšček je za svoja literarna dela prejel številne nagrade in priznanja. Leta 1995 mu je Prešernov sklad dodelil nagrado za roman Ki jo je megla prinesla. Dve leti kasneje je prejel nagrado kresnik za roman Namesto koga roža cveti. Leta 2007 je ponovno prejel nagrado kresnik za roman Muriša. Zbirka pravljic Mislice so prejele nagrado večernice za najboljšo slovensko mladinsko literarno delo. -
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An inquisitive Englishman, Sam Baldwin is the author of two books, a writer of hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites; a contributor to one anthology and several guidebooks, and the founder of a Slovenian-flavoured design brand.
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Having lived and worked in seven different countries, including Canada, Scotland, Japan, and Slovenia, he now splits his time between his home in Austria’s ‘Deep South’, and a three-hundred-year-old sausage-curing hut in the Slovenian Hinterlands which became the subject of his new book: Dormice & Moonshine: Falling for Slovenia. -
Albert Caraco
Albert Caraco (8 July 1919 – 7 September 1971) was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is often compared to the philosophers and writers such as Emil Cioran, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicolás Gómez Dávila and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Albert Caraco was born Istanbul on 8 July 1919 to a Sephardi Jewish family. His family relocated in Vienna, Prague and later in Berlin, before settling in Paris. He attended to Lycée Janson de Sailly and graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in 1939. At the same year, Caraco and his family fled to South America due to Nazi threat and approaching World War II. His family received Uruguayan citizenship and converted to Catholicism. In early 1940s, Caraco -
Turgut Özakman
1 Eylül 1930 tarihinde Ankara'da dünyaya geldi. Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. Bir süre avukatlık yaptı. Köln Üniversitesi Tiyatro Bilimi Enstitüsü'ne devam ettikten sonra Devlet Tiyatrosu'na dramaturg olarak girdi. TRT'de Merkez Program Daire Başkanlığı, Genel Müdür Yardımcılığı, Devlet Tiyatrolarında Genel Müdür Başyardımcılığı ve 1983 - 1987 yılları arasında Genel Müdürlük yaptı. 1988-1994 yılları arasında Radyo-Televizyon Yüksek Kurulu'nda üyelik ve başkan yardımcılığı görevlerinde bulundu. Uzun yıllar Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü'nde (DTCF Tiyatro) kadrolu öğretim görevlisi olarak çalıştı ve Dramatik Yazarlık dersleri verdi.
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28 Eylül 1998'de, üstün hizmetleri nedeniyle Anadolu Ünive -
Pierre Razoux
Pierre Razoux is research director at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School ( IRSEM ) . A scholar of international relations and a recognized expert on the Middle East, he is the author of several reference books on contemporary conflict and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Kajetan Kovič
Rodil se je 21. oktobra 1931 v Mariboru., v učiteljski družini. Otroška leta je preživljal v Poljčanah, kjer je končal prve tri razrede osnovne šole. V četrtem razredu pa se je družina zaradi vojne preselila v Hrastje Mota blizu Gornje Radgone. Tam je spoznal kmečko življenje in tegobe vojnega časa, hkrati pa se mu je pokrajina ob Muri močno vtisnila v spomin. Številne njegove pesmi oživljajo prav podobe narave ob Muri. V tem času je obiskoval šolo v Vučji vasi, Gornji Radgoni ter Mariboru. Po vojni se je s starši preselil v Slatino Radenci in nadaljeval s šolanjem v Mariboru. Obiskoval je klasično gimnazijo v Mariboru, kjer je leta 1950 maturiral. Nato se je vpisal na študij primerjalne književnosti na ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti. Dip
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Željko Malnar
Zeljko Malnar is documentarist, TV author and writer. Educated at New Delhi University in mass communications, he made more than 100 documentary films about far east for which he has won some awards. Co-author of the book "U potrazi za staklenim gradom" (In search for glass city). Author of TV series "Nightmare stage (OTV, 1992-1995) and series of interviews in Globus magazine. He even founded satirical micronation the Republic of Peščenica.
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Željko Malnar died at age 69 in Zagreb. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Adriatic Sea. -
Jacqueline Chabbi
Jacqueline Chabbi, born in 1943, is a French historian, professor of Arabic studies at L'Université de Paris-VIII (Paris Saint-Denis). She's specialized in medieval Islamic world history.
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Fikret Başkaya
Doç. Dr. Fikret Başkaya 1940 Denizli doğumlu, eleştirel yazılarıyla tanınan sol görüşlü yazar.
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Lise eğitimini İzmir Atatürk Lisesi’nde yaptı. Daha sonra Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi iktisat ve maliye bölümlerini bitirdi. Paris ve Poitiers üniversitelerinde doktora öğrenimini tamamladı. Yurt dışında bulunduğu süre boyunca; azgelişmişlik, emperyalizm ve kapitalizmden sosyalizme geçiş sorunları üzerine birçok araştırma yaptı.
Türkiye’ye döndükten sonra askerliğini yaptığı Yedek Subay Okulu’nda ‘sakıncalı er’ sayılarak Erzurum’a (Oltu) sürgün edildi. Askerlik sonrası değişik kuruluşlarda araştırmacı olarak çalıştı. Bir süre Sosyal Hizmetler Akademisi’nde iktisat dersleri verdi. Abant Izzet Baysal Üniversitesi iktisat bölümü öğre