Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke (simplified Chinese: 阎连科; traditional Chinese: 閻連科; pinyin: Yán Liánkē; Wade–Giles: Yen Lien-k'e, born 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned.
He started writing in 1978 and his works include: Xia Riluo (夏日落), Serve the People (为人民服务), Enjoyment (受活), and Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦). He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories. Enjoyment, which was published in 2004, received wide acclaim in China. His literature has been published in various nations, and some of his works have been banned in China.
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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.
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Chu Lai
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Ông là con trai của nhà viết kịch Học Phi. Trong chiến tranh Việt Nam ông công tác trong đoàn kịch nói Tổng cục Chính trị rồi trở thành chiến sĩ đặc công hoạt động trong vùng Sài Gòn. Sau 1973, ông về làm trợ lý tuyên huấn Quân khu 7. Đến cuối năm 1974 ông tham dự trại sáng tác văn học Tổng cục Chính trị và sau đó học tại Trường Viết văn Nguyễn Du khóa 1. Sau khi tốt nghiệp, ông biên tập và sáng tác cho Tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Nhà văn Chu Lai còn viết một số kịch bản sân khấu, kịch bản phim và tham gia đóng -
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His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
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Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
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Keigo Higashino
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* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
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Sibel K. Türker
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Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi mezunudur.
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Mo Yan
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
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Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
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At the age of seven, António Lobo Antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school - he is a psychiatrist. During this time he never stopped writing.
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By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola, from 1970 to 1973. It was there, in a military hospital, that he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium.
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey) between 1942 and 1946.
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Tanpınar was born in Istanbul on 23 June 1901. His father was a judge, Hüseyin Fikri Efendi. Hüseyin Fikri Efendi was Georgian from Maçahel. Tanpınar's mother died at Mosul, when Tanpınar was thirteen. Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya. After quitting veterinary college, he resumed his educational career at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University, wh -
Abraham Pais
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Alai
Alai (Chinese: 阿来; pinyin: Ālái; Tibetan: ཨ་ལེ་, Wylie: a-le, ZYPY: Alê, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ɑ́lè]; born 1959 in Sichuan province) is a Chinese poet and novelist of Rgyalrong Tibetan descendent. He was also editor of Science Fiction World.
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Alai's notable novel Red Poppies (The Dust Settles - Chen'ai Luoding), published in 1998, follows a family of Tibetan chieftains, the Maichi, during the decade or so before the liberation of Tibet by the People's Liberation Army in 1951. Their feudal life in the Tibetan borderlands, narrated by the youngest "idiot" son, is described as cruel, romantic, and full of intrigue (with the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China presented as a great advance for the Tibetan peasantry). Red Poppi -
Jessie Greengrass
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Peter Rock
Peter Rock was born and raised in Salt Lake City. His most recent novel, Passersthrough, involves a murder house, a fax machine, communications between the living and the dead, and a mountain lake that moves from place to place. He is also the author of the novels The Night Swimmers, SPELLS, Klickitat, The Shelter Cycle, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves and This Is the Place, as well as a story collection, The Unsettling. Rock attended Deep Springs College, received a BA in English from Yale University, and held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He has taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Deep Springs College, and in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. His
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Lê Lựu
Nhà văn Lê Lựu sinh ngày 12 tháng 12 năm 1942 tại xã Tân Châu, huyện Khoái Châu - Hưng Yên, là một nhà văn Việt Nam, thành viên của Hội nhà văn Việt Nam từ năm 1974, chuyên về tiểu thuyết và truyện ngắn, tiêu biểu là Thời xa vắng đã được đạo diễn Hồ Quang Minh của Hãng phim Giải Phóng dựng thành phim truyện nhựa và ra mắt công chúng năm 2004. Ông hiện nay đang đảm nhiệm chức Giám đốc của Trung tâm Văn hóa Doanh nhân tại Hà Nội.
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Henri Troyat
Troyat was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
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Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
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Born in Perth, Western Australia, Mel Tregonning was a published cartoonist since primary school and began a long-running comic strip in a national magazine at 16. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design at Curtin University and won the international Illustrators of the Future competition in 2006.
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Tregonning ended her life at age 31, at the end of an acute period of depression. Her unfinished wordless comic Small Things, touching on the subject of depression and anxiety, was completed with the help of artist Shaun Tan and published in 2016 to critical acclaim. -
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ludmilla Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Петрушевская) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
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Her works include the novels The Time Night (1992) and The Number One, both short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and Immortal Love, a collection of short stories and monologues. Since the late 1980s her plays, stories and novels have been published in more than 30 languages. In 2003 she was awarded the Pushkin Prize in Russian literature by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. She was awarded the Russian State Prize for arts (2004), the Stanislavsky Award (2005), and the Triumph Prize (2006). -
Vedat Türkali
1919 yılında Samsun’da doğan Vedat Türkali, yüksek öğrenimini İstanbul Üniversitesi Türkoloji Bölümü’nde tamamladı. Maltepe ve Kuleli askeri liselerinde edebiyat öğretmenliği yaptı. 1951’de siyasal eylemlerde bulunmakla suçlanarak tutuklandı. Askeri mahkeme tarafından dokuz yıl hapis cezasına çarptırıldı. Yedi yıl sonra koşullu olarak serbest bırakıldı.
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Vedat Türkali 1944-1950 yılları arasındaki ağır baskı döneminde devrimci sanat çevrelerinde elden ele gizlice dolaştırılan şiirleriyle, özellikle “İstanbul” şiiri ile tanındı. Şiir uğraşını hapishane yıllarında da sürdürdü. 1958 yılında tahliye olduktan sonra sinema alanında çalıştı. 40’ın üzerinde senaryo yazdı ve üç filmin yönetmenliğini yaptı. Yazdığı dört tiyatro oyunu, ulusal gelenek ve -
Álvaro Bisama
Álvaro Bisama Mayné is a Chilean writer and literary critic. He was named as one of the best young writers in Latin America by the Hay Festival Bogota.
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He was born in Valparaíso, and studied at the Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación and the University of Chile. He teaches at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado. -
Basil Hall Chamberlain
B. A. Chamberlain was a professor of Japanese at the Tokyo Imperial University and was one of the greatest European Japanologists, along with Ernest Mason Satow, Lafcadio Hearn, and William G. Ashton.
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He arrived in Japan on the eve of June 1873, left for Geneva in 1911 where he lived until his death in 1935. -
Cemal Kafadar
Cemal Kafadar, halen Harvard Üniversitesi Ortadoğu Tarihi Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (İki Cihan Âresinde) adlı Osmanlı'nın kuruluş düzenini anlattığı 1995 tarihli bir kitabı bulunmaktadır.
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Orhan Duru
Ankara Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi’ni bitirdi (1956). Bir süre veterinerlik ve aynı fakültede asistanlık yaptıktan sonra gazeteciliğe yöneldi. 1961’de Ulus’ta başladığı mesleğini 1993’e dek Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, Güneş, Hürriyet ve Star TV’de sürdürdü; bir süre Yeni Yüzyıl gazetesinde yazdı. İlk öyküsü “Kadın ve İçki” 1953’te Küçük Dergi’de çıktı. Mavi, Evrim, Yeni Ufuklar, Pazar Postası, Yelken ve Dost dergilerindeki ürünleriyle dikkat çekti. “a Kuşağı” ve “Mavi Hareketi” yazarları arasında yer aldı; 1950 Kuşağı öykücüleri arasında öne çıkan isimlerden biri oldu. “Ağır İşçiler” adlı öyküsüyle 1970 TRT Sanat Ödülleri Yarışması’nda başarı ödülünü, Sarmal ile 1996 Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Ödülü’nü, Fırtına ile 1998 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağ
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Gökhan Atılgan
Doktora derecesini Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Siyaset Bilimi Bölümü’nden, yüksek lisans derecesini Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden aldı. Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Maliye Bölümü mezunu.
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Behice Boran: Öğretim Üyesi, Siyasetçi, Kuramcı (Yordam Kitap, 2007) adlı bir kitabı, değişik sosyal bilimler dergilerinde ve kitaplarda yayımlanmış makaleleri var.
Praksis dergisi yayın kurulu üyesi. Gazi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde çalışıyor. -
George Salis
George Salis is the author of Sea Above, Sun Below. His fiction is featured in The Dark, Black Dandy, Zizzle Literary Magazine, Three Crows Magazine, Mad Scientist Magazine, and elsewhere. His criticism has appeared in Isacoustic, Atticus Review, and The Tishman Review, and his science article on the mechanics of natural evil was featured in Skeptic. He is currently working on a maximalist novel titled Morphological Echoes. He has taught in Bulgaria, China, and Poland. He's the winner of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing. Find him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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He is the editor of The Collidescope. Joseph McElroy, the legendary author of Women and Men, said, "I've checked out The Collidescope and loved what I found." Patric -
Leonid Dobychin
Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Добы́чин) (June 17 [O.S. June 5] 1894, Ludza, Vitebsk Governorate — March 28, 1936) was a Russian writer.
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His first stories were published in 1924 in the Leningrad journal Russkii sovremennik. In the autumn of 1925 Dobychin made his first, unsuccessful, attempt to relocate to Leningrad. At this time he came to know the Chukovskys; later he became acquainted with a wide circle of authors, including Mikhail Slonimsky, Veniamin Kaverin, Yury Tynyanov, Evgeny Shvarts, Gennady Gor, and Leonid Rakhmanov. His story collections Vstrechi s Liz (Encounters with Lise, 1927) and Portret (The portrait, 1931) portray the clash of the former Russian world with the new Soviet reality; they exemplify a ly -
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İlhan Berk
İlhan Berk was a leading contemporary Turkish poet. He was a dominant figure in the postmodern current in Turkish poetry (termed, "İkinci Yeni"; "The second new generation") and was very influential among Turkish literary circles.
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Berk was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1918 and received a teacher's training in Balıkesir. He graduated from the French Language Department of Gazi University in Ankara. Between 1945-1955, Berk served as a teacher. He later began to work for the publishing office of Ziraat Bank as a translator (1956–1969). He became specialized in translation of poetry notably by translating into Turkish works by Arthur Rimbaud and Ezra Pound. In his later years, Berk resided in Bodrum where he died on 28 August 2008.
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Victoria Ocampo
Writer, critic and publisher of the legendary literary magazine Sur, she was one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Sister of the writer Silvina Ocampo.
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Carolina Sanín
Es licenciada de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de los Andes y PhD en literatura española y portuguesa de la Universidad de Yale.
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Fue profesora del Purchase College de la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York y es profesora de la Universidad de los Andes.
Ha sido columnista de El Espectador, Semana.com, Lasillavacia y la revista Arcadia. -
Li Ang
Li Ang (李昂; real name Shih Shu-tuan with Li Ang being her pen name) (born April 7, 1952, in Lukang, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese feminist writer. After graduating from Chinese Culture University with a degree in philosophy, she studied drama at the University of Oregon, after which she returned to teach at her alma mater. Her major work is The Butcher's Wife (殺夫: 1983, tr. 1986), though she has a copious output. Feminist themes and sexuality are present in much of her work. Many of her stories are set in Lukang.
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Li Ang is known for her idiosyncratic, candid and penetrating insights on gender politics in the social life in contemporary Taiwan. Beginning her writing career at the age of 16, she has published nearly twenty novels and collections of s -
Asaf Hâlet Çelebi
Dahiliye Nezareti Şifre Kalemi Müdürü Mehmet Sait Halet Bey'in oğlu olan Çelebi İstanbul'da doğdu. Galatasaray Lisesi'nde 8 yıl eğitim gördü. Babasından Fransızca ve Farsça, Mevlevi Şeyhi Ahmet Remzi Dede (Akyürek) ile Rauf Yekta Bey'den musiki ve nota dersleri aldı. Kısa bir süre kaldığı Fransa'dan dönüşünde üç yıl Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi'nde öğrenim gördü. Adliye Meslek Mektebi'nden mezun oldu.
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Üsküdar Adliyesi Ceza Mahkemesi zabıt kâtipliği yaptı. Osmanlı Bankası, Devlet Deniz Yolları İşletmesi'nde çalıştı. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü kitaplığında görevliyken yaşamını yitirdi.
Gençlik yıllarında divan edebiyatından etkilendi. Gazeller ve rubailer yazdı. 1937'den sonra serbest ölçü kullanmaya ve Batı şiirinin tek -
Nguyễn Bình Phương
Nhà thơ, nhà văn Nguyễn Bình Phương sinh năm 1965 tại một làng quê ở Thái Nguyên. Tốt nghiệp trường viết văn Nguyễn Du, Nguyễn Bình Phương bắt đầu viết văn từ năm 1986. Anh đã trải qua những năm tháng rèn luyện trong quân đội nên có một vốn sống rất phong phú.
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Là nhà văn quân đội, Nguyễn Bình Phương vẫn không ngừng sáng tác, anh còn làm thơ. Dĩ nhiên, nhà xuất bản thơ của anh cũng cảnh báo trong lời nói đầu với độc giả: thơ của Nguyễn Bình Phương không phải dễ đọc. Nhưng người yêu thơ có thể tìm thấy trong đó, những vần thơ thoáng buồn, không như thế giới rờn rợn trong tiểu thuyết của anh.
Một số tiểu thuyết gần đây của anh gây được tiếng vang như Vào Cõi (NXB Thanh Niên 1991), Những đứa trẻ chết già (NXB Văn Học 1994), Người đi vắng (NXB Văn -
Gürsel Korat
Gürsel Korat, 1960’ta doğdu. Çocukluğu ve ilkgençliği Kayseri’de geçti. Yüksek öğrenimini Ankara Üniversitesi’nde tamamladı. Çeşitli gazete ve dergilerde yazılar yayımladı. Bazı film projelerinde senarist olarak yer aldı, çeşitli üniversitelerde dersler verdi.
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Oktay Rifat
10 Haziran 1914'de Trabzon'da doğdu. Babası, o doğduğu sırada Trabzon valisi olan şair ve dilbilimci Samih Rıfat, annesi Hasan Enver Paşa’nın kızı Münevver Hanım’dır. Pek çok sanatçı ve yazar içeren bir ailede yetişti. Büyük dedesi Macar Hurşid Bey, hem Türk hem batı müziği konusunda donanımlı bestekardı; dedesi Albay Hasan Rıfat Bey şiir ilgilenirdi. Amcası Ali Rıfat Bey değerli bir udî ve besteci, annesinin teyzesinin oğlu Ali Fuat Bey cumhuriyet devrinin ünlü asker ve siyaset adamı, teyzesi Celile Hanım bir ressam, teyzesi Celile Hanım’ın oğlu Nazım Hikmet ünlü bir şairdir.
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Ortaöğrenimini 1925-1932 yıllarında Ankara Erkek Lisesi'nde yaptı. Bu okulda ünlü şair Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın öğrencisi oldu, ilk şiirlerini kaleme aldı ve ileride bi -
Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an emeritus Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Cassin is a program Director at the International College of Philosophy and the director of its Scientific Council and member of its board of directors. She was a director of Collège international de philosophie established by Jacques Derrida.
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Hüseyin Nihal Atsız
Türkçülüğün öncülerinden olan Nihal Atsız, Turancı çevreler tarafından aynı zamanda güçlü bir Türkolog olarak kabul edilir. Bu çevrelere göre Türk dilini, tarihini ve edebiyatını gayet iyi bilen Atsız, özellikle Türk tarihinin Göktürk kısmında uzmanlaşmıştı. Çok sevdiği bu devreyi Bozkurtların Ölümü ve Bozkurtlar Diriliyor adlı iki eser ile romanlaştırmıştır. Deli Kurt adlı romanı Osmanlı tarihinin ilk devrelerinin romanlaştırılmış şeklidir. Ruh Adam’daki Selim Pusat'ın şahsiyetinde Atsız'ı görürüz. Ruh Adam’ın devamı olarak Yalnız Adam’ı yazacağını söylüyordu. Yine yazacağını bildirdiği bir eseri de Bozkurtlar serisinin 3. cildi idi. Yayınlanmamış eserlerinin içerisinde II. Mahmut'tan Günümüze Kadar Osmanlı Hanedanı Tarihi adlı bir eseri d
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