Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye, Arabic: واريس ديري) (born in 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.
In 1997, Waris abandoned her modeling career to focus on her work against female circumcision. That same year, she was appointed UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM).
If you like author Waris Dirie here is the list of authors you may also like
Buy books on AmazonTotal similar authors (63)
-
Gerald Hüther
Gerald Hüther is a German neurobiologist and author of popular books and other writings on the subject of learning and education.
Buy books on Amazon -
Sally Beauman
aka Vanessa James
Buy books on Amazon
Sally Kinsey-Miles graduated from Girton College, Cambridge (MA in English Literature) She married Christopher Beauman an economist. After graduating, she moved with her husband to the USA, where she lived for three years, first in Washington DC, then New York, and travelled extensively. She began her career as a journalist in America, joining the staff of the newly launched New York magazine, of which she became associate editor, and continued to write for it after her return to England. Interviewed Alan Howard for the Telegraph Magazine in 1970 in an article called 'A Fellow of Most Excellent Fancy'. (Daily Telegraph Supplement, May 29th.) Apparently a very long interview. The following year they met again, and the rest i -
-
Sabine Kuegler
uncommon childhood: from age 7 to age 17 she lived with her parents and two siblings in the jungle of West Papua, with the remote tribe of the Fayu.[1]
Buy books on Amazon
Her parents were the first whites to live with the newly discovered tribe of about 400 people, who still hunted with bow and arrow, ate snakes, insects and worms, and practiced inter-tribal warfare and revenge killings. The Kueglers were there to study the tribe's language and to evangelize, under assignment of the Wycliffe Bible Translators.[2] Her mother, trained as a nurse, performed midwife duties with the tribe. At age 17, Sabine Kuegler left and attended a Swiss boarding school. She has been married and divorced twice and has four children, two from each husband. Her parents have return -
William Hoffer
William Hoffer has been spinning out international best-sellers for more than 20 years.
Buy books on Amazon
He collaborated with Billy Hayes to chronicle the exciting escape from a Turkish prison in Midnight Express, which was later produced into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Brad Davis, John Hurt and Randy Quaid.
William and his wife Marilyn worked with Betty Mahmoody to write Not Without My Daughter, the story of Betty and her daughter’s desperate and dangerous escape from Iran. The book became a stunningly successful international phenomenon, and was produced into a motion picture starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina.
William and Marilyn’s Freefall is the nail-biting thriller recounting the near-tragedy of Air Canada Flight 174 that -
Somaly Mam
Somaly Mam is a Cambodian author and human rights advocate who focuses primarily on sex trafficking.
Buy books on Amazon -
Peter Goes
Peter Goes lives in Belgium where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium
Buy books on Amazon -
Connirae Andreas
Connirae Andreas, PhD is an international leader in the field of personal development of more than four decades. She is best known for her groundbreaking work developing Core Transformation, a method through which our limitations become the doorway to a felt experience many describe "love" "peace" "presence" or "oneness." Through the steps of the process, this felt experience offers a profound healing resolving many limiting emotions and behaviors. Connirae's new Wholeness Work offers a precise way to experience "dissolving the ego" in a way that resolves our life issues and goes even further in a gentle yet systematic process of evolving or awakening. Her work is strongly influenced by her personal experience with the late Dr. Milton H. Er
Buy books on Amazon -
Živilė Juonytė
Živilė Juonytė – Izraelio visuomenės ir politikos specialistė, straipsnių ir paskaitų apie Izraelį autorė, kurį laiką gyveno Izraelyje, su aukščiausiu pagyrimu baigė magistro studijas Jeruzalės Hebrajų universitete, savanoriavo Izraelio kariuomenėje pagal užsieniečiams skirtą programą.
Buy books on Amazon -
Stefano Liberti
Stefano Liberti (1974) pubblica da anni reportage di politica internazionale sul manifesto e altri quotidiani e periodici italiani e stranieri. Nel 2004 ha pubblicato - insieme a Tiziana Barrucci - Lo Stivale meticcio. L’immigrazione in Italia oggi (Carocci). Collabora con il programma televisivo C’era una volta ed è tra i curatori di mwinda, sito di analisi geopolitica sull'Africa. Un suo reportage è incluso nell’antologia Il corpo e il sangue d’Italia (minimum fax 2007). Per minimum fax ha pubblicato A sud di Lampedusa (2008), con il quale ha vinto il prestigioso premio di scrittura Indro Montanelli, e Land grabbing (2011). Ha ottenuto il premio giornalistico Marco Luchetta, il premio Guido Carletti per il giornalismo sociale e il premi
Buy books on Amazon -
Herbjørg Wassmo
Herbjørg Wassmo (born Vesterålen, December 6, 1942) is a Norwegian author. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag" ("Beating of Wings"). Her major breakthrough was her first novel, "Huset med den blinde glassveranda" ("The House with the Blind Glass Porch") in 1981.
Buy books on Amazon
Her best known book is Dinas bok (Dina's Book) from 1989. This novel was made into a film with the title "I Am Dina" in 2002, starring Maria Bonnevie and Gérard Depardieu. -
Corinne Hofmann
AKA Коринна Хофманн (Russian), Corinne Hofmannová (Czech), Korin Hofman (Serbian).
Buy books on Amazon
Corinne Hofmann was born in 1960 of a French mother and a German father in Frauenfield in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, now lives in a villa on Lake Lugano with her teenage daughter. -
-
Ina Les
Ina Les - Danijoje gyvenančios lietuvių autorės ir vertėjos slapyvardis. Kartu su vyru augina du sūnus.
Buy books on Amazon -
-
Tijan Sila
Tijan Sila was born in Sarajevo (1981) in the former Yugoslavia , where he spent his childhood. During the siege of the city in the Bosnian War, he fled with his family and came to Germany in 1994. He grew up in Landau in der Pfalz . As a teenager, he played guitar in the punk band Atlas Lanze.
Buy books on Amazon
Sila studied German and English at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg . His autobiographical debut novel Tierchen unlimited was published in 2017.
In 2018, the novel Die Fahne der Wünsche followed , about an apathetic teenager who grows up in a fictional totalitarian regime. In May 2021, the novel Krach was published , in which Sila processes his youth in the Palatinate province and the punk scene of the late 1990s.
In 2023, Sila published t -
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a British journalist with a focus on feminism and exposing structural racism.
Buy books on Amazon -
Shida Bazyar
Shida Bazyar (1988 in Hermeskeil) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.
Buy books on Amazon -
Kotryna Zylė
Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life that will delight readers.
Buy books on Amazon
Kotryna was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. While still a student, she began to dive into the visual communication of cultural heritage and became interested in Lithuanian mythology. In 2012, she began writing and illustrating children’s books and ever since her love of children’s literature, illustration, and mythology has been a source of inspiration for new books and projects.
She co-organises literature events and festivals, leads creative workshops and writes litera -
Ellie Midwood
Ellie Midwood is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning historical fiction author, whose works have been translated into 20 languages. She owes her interest in the history of the Second World War to her grandfather, Junior Sergeant in the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the First Belorussian Front, who began telling her about his experiences on the frontline when she was a young girl. Growing up, her interest in history only deepened and transformed from reading about the war to writing about it. After obtaining her BA in Linguistics, Ellie decided to make writing her full-time career and began working on her first full-length historical novel, "The Girl from Berlin." Ellie is continuously enriching her library with new research material and fee
Buy books on Amazon -
Angela Marsons
Angela is the author of the Kim Stone Crime series. She discovered a love of writing at Primary School when a short piece on the rocks and the sea gained her the only merit point she ever got.
Buy books on Amazon
Angela wrote the stories that burned inside and then stored them safely in a desk drawer.
After much urging from her partner she began to enter short story competitions in Writer's News resulting in a win and three short listed entries.
She used the Amazon KDP program to publish two of her earlier works before concentrating on her true passion - Crime.
Angela is now signed to write a total of 16 Kim Stone books for http://bookouture.com and has secured a print deal with Bonnier Zaffre Publishing. -
Anya Niewierra
Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.
Buy books on Amazon -
Lisa Regan
Lisa Regan is the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series as well as several other crime fiction titles. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Master of Education Degree from Bloomsburg University. She is a member of Sisters In Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers’ Association, and International Thriller Writers. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, daughter and Boston Terrier named Mr. Phillip.
Buy books on Amazon -
John Ironmonger
I'm the author of 'Not Forgetting the Whale', (also called 'The Whale at the End of the World',) 'The many Lives of Heloise Starchild,' The Coincidence Authority,' ('Coincidence' in the USA), and 'The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder.'
Buy books on Amazon
I'm a Cornishman who was born in Kenya, schooled in Kent, studied in Nottingham and Liverpool, and worked in Nigeria, Slough, Manchester, Edinburgh, Warrington, Warwick and Glasgow. Now I live in Parkgate on the Wirral peninsula overlooking the RSPB marshes.
My lovely wife Sue and I are possibly the only non Indonesians ever to have seen a Javan rhino and her calf. True. You can read about it on my blog at http://notablebrain.blogspot.co.uk/20...
Apart from my family and my writing, my third passion is travel -
Soraya M. Lane
Soraya M. Lane is the Amazon Charts & Kindle #1 bestselling author of THE SECRET MIDWIFE and THE ITALIAN DAUGHTER.
Buy books on Amazon
Soraya is thrilled to be publishing four new novels in 2025. THE PIANIST'S WIFE and THE SPANISH DAUGHTER are both now available, and Soraya's newest WWII novel, THE SECRET LIBRARIAN, was published on August 15th. Book 7 in The Lost Daughters series, THE HIDDEN DAUGHTER, will be published in October.
As a child, Soraya dreamed of becoming an author. Fast forward more than a few years, and Soraya is now living her dream! Soraya describes being an author as "the best career in the world", and she hopes to be writing romance and women's fiction for many years to come.
Soraya loves spending her days thinking up characters for books, a -
Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.
Buy books on Amazon
Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg. -
Karen Swan
Karen Swan began her career in fashion journalism before giving it all up to raise her three children and a puppy, and to pursue her ambition of becoming a writer. She lives in the forest in Sussex, writing her books in a treehouse overlooking the Downs. Her books include Christmas at Tiffany's, Summer at Tiffany's, The Perfect Present, Christmas in the Snow, The Summer Without You, The Paris Secret, and Christmas Under the Stars.
Buy books on Amazon -
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Buy books on Amazon
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. -
Traudl Junge
Traudl Junge (born Gertraud Humps) was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945.Gertraud "Traudl" Humps was born in Munich, the daughter of a master brewer and lieutenant in the Reserve Army, Max Humps and his wife Hildegard (née Zottmann). She had a sister, Inge, born in 1923. As a teenager she thought of becoming a ballerina.
Buy books on Amazon
Traudl Junge began working for Hitler in December 1942. She was the youngest of his private secretaries.
"I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics, it didn't interest me", Junge said decades later, also saying that she felt great guilt for "...liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived."
She said, "I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant bos -
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
Buy books on Amazon
Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.
He was a proponent of epic theate -
Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub
Buy books on Amazon -
Zana Muhsen
Zana Muhsen is a British author who has written about the experiences that she and her sister, Nadia (born 1966), went through when they were sent from their birthplace in Birmingham, England to Yemen in 1980 on a purported holiday to meet the paternal side of their family, but sold unaware into marriage in by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.
Buy books on Amazon
Newspaper :
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/d...
http://web.archive.org/web/2008010914...
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id...
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/... -
Saulius Šaltenis
Saulius Šaltenis - a lithuanian writer known for his free-spirited writing and wide cultural horizons in several generations of readers.
Buy books on Amazon -
Souad
Souad is the pen name of a Palestinian woman who is believed to be living in Europe. Burned Alive is her memoir.
Buy books on Amazon -
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Eckart von Hirschhausen is a German physician and comedian.
Buy books on Amazon
He is known for heavily incorporating his medical knowledge in his comedy acts as well as his books, excerpts from which he sometimes reads on stage. -
Edmundas Malūkas
Edmundas Malūkas gimė 1945 m. balandžio mėn. 15 d. Skuodo rajono Ylakių kaime. Mokėsi Rietavo vidurinėje mokykloje. Baigė Veterinarijos akademiją. Dirbo Neringos veterinarijos stoties viršininku. Vėliau persikėlė gyventi į Vilnių, dirbo Zoologijos ir parazitologijos institute. Baigė Maskvos patentologijos institutą.
Buy books on Amazon
Edmundas Malūkas rašytojas, kuris nuo 1992 metų beveik kasmet išleidžia po romaną, tampantį bestseleriu. E. Malūko išleisti romanai: Kraujo skonis (1992 m.), Juodieji želmenys (1996 m.), Moters kerštas (1994 m.), Šiukšlyno žmonės (1995 m.), Migla I- II dalys (2001m.), Duženos (2002 m.), apsakymų rinkinys Vilko duona (1998 m.).
Savo knygose Edmundas Malūkas pateikia tokią kasdienybę, kokia ji yra iš tikrųjų. Eilinius žmones Malūko -
Gabija Grušaitė
Gabija Grušaitė (gim. 1987 m.) - debiutuojanti jauna lietuvių rašytoja. Ji dvylika savo gyvenimo metų lavino ranką dailės klasėje Vilniaus M. K. Čiurlionio menų mokykloje, o vėliau išvyko studijuoti medijų ir antropologijos į šiandieninę lietuvių menininkų Meką - Londoną. Didžioji Gabijos aistra - keliauti ir pažinti.
Buy books on Amazon -
Mende Nazer
”Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
Buy books on Amazon
Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her “Yebit,” or “black slave.” She called them “master.” She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own.
Normally, Mende’s story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she -
Christiane V. Felscherinow
DE: Vera Christiane Felscherinow wurde als jugendliche Drogenabhängige zu einer Symbolfigur für die Verbreitung des Drogenmissbrauchs in Deutschland und der damit verbundenen Probleme in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Bekannt wurde sie in der Öffentlichkeit gegen Ende der 1970er-Jahre durch eine Reportage und ein begleitendes Buch der Zeitschrift Stern unter der abgekürzten Namensform „Christiane F.“ Sie hatte eine Karriere als Sängerin unter dem Namen Sentimentale Jugend.
Buy books on Amazon
EN: Christiane F. (born Vera Christiane Felscherinow) is a former heroin addict famous for her autobiographical book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo which describes her struggle with drug addiction during her teens. She went on to have a singing career. -
Mario Giordano
MARIO GIORDANO, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Munich. He is the author of 1,000 Feelings for Which There Are No Names; he has also written thrillers, books for children, and screenplays. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions is his first novel translated into English. He lives in Cologne.
Buy books on Amazon
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. -
Nadia Ghulam
Nadia Ghulam Dastgir was born in Kabul (Afganistan) in 1985. Her life, like many other Afghan women, has been marked by the consequences of a cruel civil war, hunger and the Taliban regime. But these adversities couldn’t stop her and Nadia managed to move forward thanks to her ingenuity and courage, passing herself as a boy for ten years in order to feed her family.
Buy books on Amazon -
Ruth Park
Ruth Park was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in Auckland, and her family later moved to Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas.
Buy books on Amazon
During the Great Depression her working class father worked on bush roads, as a driver, on relief work, as a sawmill hand, and finally shifted back to Auckland as council worker living in a state house. After Catholic primary school Ruth won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but this was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend. For a time she stayed with relatives on a Coromandel farming estate where she was treated like a serf by the wealthy landowner until she told the rich woman what she -
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Suzanne Fisher Staples is the author of six books addressed to children and adolescents. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), she grew up in a small community around Northwestern Pennsylvania. She had three siblings, a sister and two brothers. Suzanne went to Lakeland High School in Scott Township, Pennsylvania. Later, she graduated from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She got a job for 10 years being a news reporter and editor for the United Press International. She worked in many places across the U.S.A. and Asia, including Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, New York, and Washington DC. In 1985, she returned to Pakistan to assess the conditions of poor, rural women and report back to the United States Agency for Interna
Buy books on Amazon -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
Buy books on Amazon
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.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Neel Doff
Neel Doff was the pen name of Cornelia Hubertina Doff. She died in Elsene, Belgium. In spite of her Dutch origin, she wrote in French and her work is therefore seen as part of French literature.
Buy books on Amazon -
Lisa Jones
I did not write Bulletproof Diva, although I kind of wish I had. Another Lisa Jones wrote that. Please see my blog on the challenges of being an author named Lisa Jones. I have been a journalist for 25 years, specializing in the Rocky Mountain West, but also covering crime, food, travel, spirituality, geese as pets, swamp coolers for cars and the hazards of dating biologists.
Buy books on Amazon
My writing has appeared in High Country News, Orion, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Tin House, National Public Radio, the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, the Denver Post, the Christian Science Monitor and the Tico Times (in San Jose, Costa Rica, where I worked for a year.)
She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats. Broken: A Love Story is her first bo -
James A. Levine
Born and educated in England, James A. Levine is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic who has worked with impoverished children in the United States and internationally for more than thirty years. He has won more than fifty major awards in science, consulted to numerous governments, and lectures to humanitarian groups around the world. He is the author of the novel The Blue Notebook.
Buy books on Amazon -
Jean Hatzfeld
Jean Hatzfeld is a journalist. He worked for many years as a war correspondent for Libération, a French newspaper, before leaving to focus on reporting the Rwandan genocide.
Buy books on Amazon -
Lilli Thal
German-born in 1960, Thal was educated in medieval history, information technology, and multimedia before beginning her freelance writing career in 2002. That same year she won the "Martin" award for the best children's mystery story and has continued earning prizes for her work. Thal lives and works from her home in Germany.
Buy books on Amazon -
Barbara Goldsmith
an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. She received critical and popular acclaim for her best selling books, essays, articles, and her philanthropic work. She was awarded four honoris causa doctorates, and numerous awards; been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two Presidential Commissions, and the New York State Council on the Arts; and honored by The New York Public Library Literary Lions as well as the Literacy Volunteers, the American Academy in Rome, The Authors Guild, and the Guild Hall Academy of Arts for Lifetime Achievement. In 2009, she received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit medal from the Republic of Poland. In November 2008, Goldsmith was elected a “Living Landmark” by the New York Lan
Buy books on Amazon -
Charif Majdalani
Charif Majdalani quitte son pays en 1980 à destination de la France pour suivre des études de lettres modernes à l'université d'Aix-en-Provence. Il revient au Liban en 1993 après avoir soutenu sa thèse sur Antonin Artaud.
Buy books on Amazon
Dans un premier temps, il occupe un poste d'enseignant à l'université de Balamand puis à l'université Saint-Joseph où il est professeur de lettres.
À partir de 1995, il participe à la revue d'opposition L'Orient-Express, en charge de la rubrique littéraire. Cette collaboration s'achèvera en 1998 année de la cessation de publication de ce journal.
En 1999, Charif Majdalani revient à l'enseignement dans l'université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth où il est en charge du département de Lettres Françaises. Ce poste lui permet d'accueill -
Bernhard Grzimek
Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek was a renowned German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.
Buy books on Amazon -
Stéphane Hessel
Escaping twice Nazi concentration camps
Buy books on Amazon
Member of the Résistance
Coauthor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D., has served as president of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis and is the author of thirty books, including The Angry Book, Lisa and David, Jordi, The Winner's Notebook, and Lisa and David Today. His books have been translated all over the world. He lives and practices psychiatry in New York City.
Buy books on Amazon -
Niromi de Soyza
Niromi de Soyza speaks fluent Tamil and Sinhalese and writes vivid beautiful English. For many years she worked for the Red Cross in Sydney, where she still lives with her husband and two young children.
Buy books on Amazon -
Marius Repšys
Kino ir teatro aktorius. Vaidina Nacionaliniame dramos teatre, „Lėlės“ teatre, dalyvauja jaunųjų menininkų judėjime „No Theatre”.
Buy books on Amazon
M. Repšys baigė Vilniaus Gerosios Vilties vidurinę mokyklą, mokėsi Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademijoje.
Oskaro Koršunovo režisuotame spektaklyje „Išvarymas“ 2011 m. (Vandalo vaidmuo) apdovanotas už geriausią antraplanį vaidmenį „Auksiniu scenos kryžiumi“.
Nominuotas geriausio antro plano aktoriumi „2010 m. Sidabrinės gervės“ apdovanojimuose. 2012 ir 2017 m. apdovanotas „Sidabrine gerve“ kaip geriausias metų aktorius. -
Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Dongala born July 14, 1941 is a Congolese Chemist ,short story writer, novelist and playwright, schooled in Brazzaville , and studied in the United States where he earned a BA in Chemistry from Oberlin College and an MA from Rutgers University . He then left the United States for France , where he was awarded a PhD in Organic Chemistry. Upon his return to the Congo he worked as a teacher and dean until 1998, when he was forced to leave because of the civil war. Helped by his friend, the writer Philip Roth, Dongala now lives in the United States , where he teaches at Bard College and holds the Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences.
Buy books on Amazon
Dongala, who writes in French and whose books have been translated into a dozen languages, has pu -
Büşra Sanay
Büşra Sanay, 1986 Kasım’ında İstanbul’da doğdu. İşçi emeklisi anne babanın üç çocuğundan ikincisi. İlk-orta ve lise eğitimini İstanbul Avcılar’da gördü. Konya Selçuk Üniversitesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. CNNTürk haber merkezi ve Cumhuriyet gazetesinde staj yaptı. İş hayatına üniversite üçüncü sınıftayken İstanbul CNN Türk Haber Merkezi’nde haber spikeri olarak başladı. Günün sıcak gelişmelerini anlatırken bir taraftan da www.cnnturk.com için röportajlar yaptı. Özellikle “Ensest” konusunda mağdurlarla yaptığı röportajlar, Türkiye’nin gündemini sarstı.
Buy books on Amazon -
Dora Heldt
Dora Heldt is the pen name of Bärbel Schmidt, a popular German author. Her 2009 novel, Tidal Shift, reached second place on the bestseller list in Germany.
Buy books on Amazon -
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian (born 1949 in Paris) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.
Buy books on Amazon
Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer (1982) and Zone érogène (1984) before gaining fame with his subsequent novels 37°2 le matin (1985) which was filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1986; English title Betty Blue), Maudit Manège (1986), Echine (1988), Crocodiles (short stories) (1989), Lent dehors (1991), Sotos (1993), and Assassins (1994). -
Evald Flisar
Evald Flisar, born in 1945 in Slovenia, then still part of Yugoslavia, is an iconic figure of contemporary Slovenian literature. Novelist, playwright, essayist, editor, globe-trotter (travelled in 98 countries), underground train driver in Sydney, Australia, editor of (among other publications) an encyclopaedia of science and invention in London, author of short stories and radio plays for the BBC, president of the Slovene Writers’ Association (1995 – 2002), since 1998 editor of the oldest Slovenian literary journal Sodobnost (Contemporary Review), he is also the author of 16 novels (eleven of them short-listed for kresnik, the Slovenian “Booker”), two collections of short stories, three travelogues, two books for children (both nominated f
Buy books on Amazon -
Danuta Butrima
Danuta Butrima (1968) – bioloģe, vides zinātņu speciāliste. Vairāku gadu ilgumā savas profesionālās zināšanas un prasmes izmantojusi pedagoģiskajā darbā, šobrīd tās liek lietā vides veselības jomā. Lugu un romānu autore. Papildinājusies Literārajā akadēmijā.
Buy books on Amazon -