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Marita Mathijsen

Marita Mathijsen is emeritus hoogleraar Moderne Nederlandse Letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ze schreef verschillende standaardwerken, waaronder De geest van de dichter, De gemaskerde eeuw en Historiezucht.

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Edmund Fawcett

Edmund Fawcett is a British political journalist. Formerly chief correspondent of The Economist, he now writes for The New York Times, The Guardian and New Statesman. His latest book is Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (traditional Chinese: 孫子; simplified Chinese: 孙子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period (771–256 BC). Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thought. Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure. His birth name was Sun Wu (traditional Chinese: 孫武; simplified Chinese: 孙武) and he was known outside of his family by his courtesy name Changqing (Chinese: 長卿). The name Sun Tzu—by which he is more popularly known—is an honorific which means "Master Sun".
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Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan, FRSL (born 1968) is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author.

He is the author of the novels Our Fathers, Personality, and Be Near Me, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and The Guardian (U.K.). In 2003, O’Hagan was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. He lives in London, England.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.

See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.

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Marita Mathijsen

Marita Mathijsen is emeritus hoogleraar Moderne Nederlandse Letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ze schreef verschillende standaardwerken, waaronder De geest van de dichter, De gemaskerde eeuw en Historiezucht.

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.

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Robert Anker

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Jan van Aken

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Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941) was a French novelist, best known as the creator of gentleman thief (later detective) Arsène Lupin.

Leblanc began as a journalist, until he was asked to write a short story filler, and created, more gallant and dashing than English counterpart Sherlock Holmes.

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Antonio Scurati

Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche del linguaggio televisivo. Nel 2005 Scurati diviene Ricercatore in Cinema, Fotografia, Televisione. Nel 2008 si trasferisce alla Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM di Milano, dove svolge l'attività di ricercatore e docente titolare nell'ambito del Laboratorio di Scrittura Creativa e del Laboratorio di Oralità e Retorica.

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Eric Storm

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Marente de Moor

Marente de Moor (b. 1972) studied Slavonic Languages and lived in the 1990’ s in Russia, where she worked for both Russian and Dutch media. Her columns about the absurdist Russian everyday life were collected and published as Petersburgse vertellingen in 1999. After her return to the Netherlands she worked several years at the weekly HP/De Tijd. Her highly praised debut novel De overtreder (The Transgressor) came out in 2007 and was published in German in 2010 by Suhrkamp Verlag, under the title Amsterdam und zurück. Since 2009 she has worked as a weekly columnist for the political magazine Vrij Nederland. In 2010 her second novel, the historical De Nederlandse maagd (The Dutch Maiden). was published, and translated into German (Die niederl

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Edmund Fawcett

Edmund Fawcett is a British political journalist. Formerly chief correspondent of The Economist, he now writes for The New York Times, The Guardian and New Statesman. His latest book is Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

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Slobodan Šnajder

Slobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist. He studied Philosophy and English at the University of Zagreb. Šnajder was the long-standing editor-in-chief of the Yugoslavian theatre magazine Prolog. Since 1994 he has been working as a columnist for the daily newspaper Novi List. Between 2001 and 2004 he was the director of the Zagreb Youth Theatre. He has been working as a writer since 1966, publishing prose and essays, but mostly focusing on theatre plays. His most renowned play internationally, Hrvatski Faust [The Croatian Faust], was staged at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim in 1982 and at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1993. Many of his other plays have been published and put on stage in German-language countries. Between 2005 a

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Dirk Tieleman

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Nino Haratischwili

Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.

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.

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Johan Op de Beeck

Johan Op de Beeck is a well-known TV face and has had a renowned career in media and journalism for 35 years. Previously, he was active as an anchor of the VRT news, documentary maker, director of Canvas, presenter and interviewer of various talk shows and editor-in-chief of various media at home and abroad. Today he is an independent communications consultant and author of a series of successful non-fiction books, which do very well in the bestseller lists and are always well received.

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Sacha Bronwasser

Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.

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Bart Van Loo

Schrijver en conferencier Bart Van Loo (1973) heeft zich de voorbije jaren ontwikkeld tot een zeldzaam dubbeltalent. Met zijn virtuoze minicolleges in De Wereld Draait Door raakte hij bekend bij het grote publiek, maar in de eerste plaats is Van Loo natuurlijk schrijver. Van zijn hand verschenen de alom geprezen Frankrijktrilogie en de bestsellers Chanson en Napoleon. In zijn nieuwste boek De Bourgondiërs is Bart Van Loo op het toppunt van zijn kunnen.

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Bas von Benda-Beckmann

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Koert Debeuf

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml

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Maxim Osipov

Maxim Osipov is a Russian writer and cardiologist. In the early 1990s he was a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, before returning to Moscow, where he continued to practice medicine and also founded a publishing house that specialized in medical, musical, and theological texts. In 2005, while working at a local hospital in Tarusa, a small town ninety miles from Moscow, Osipov established a charitable foundation to ensure the hospital’s survival. Since 2007, he has published short stories, novellas, essays, and plays, and has won a number of literary prizes for his fiction. He has published five collections of prose, and his plays have been staged all across Russia. Osipov’s writings have been translated into mor

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, né le 4 avril 1971 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. Il reçoit le prix Femina des lycéens et le prix du premier roman pour son premier livre, Ma reine, sorti en 2017, le Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2021, ainsi que le prix Goncourt 2023 et le Grand prix des lectrices de Elle pour son quatrième roman, Veiller sur elle.

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Joren Vermeersch

Joren Vermeersch is jurist, historicus, auteur en adviseur ideologie voor N-VA. Bijdragen zijn steeds in eigen naam. Hij publiceerde ‘1349: Hoe de Zwarte Dood Vlaanderen en Europa veranderde’, en met Theo Francken ‘Continent zonder grens’ en ‘Migratie in 24 vragen en antwoorden’.

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Tim 'S Jongers

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Eric Storm

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Willem de Bruin

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