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J.D. Salinger

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Works, most notably novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), of American writer Jerome David Salinger often concern troubled, sensitive adolescents.

People well know this author for his reclusive nature. He published his last original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Reared in city of New York, Salinger began short stories in secondary school and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker, his subsequent home magazine. He released an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss

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Nina Sankovitch

Nina Sankovitch is a bestselling writer, avid historian, and voracious reader. She can be reached via Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, and on her website, www.ninasankovitch.com.

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Arman Arian

English : Arman Arian
آرمان آرین زاده‌ی ۱۳۶۰ است. او با آفرینش اثر سه‌گانهٔ «پارسیان و من» به دنیای ادبیات شناسانده شد. پارسیان و من نام رمانی است در سه جلد که بیان‌کننده‌ی اسطوره، حماسه و تاریخ ایران است.

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Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.

Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the

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Simin Daneshvar

Simin Dāneshvar ‎ was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.

سیمین دانشور نویسنده و مترجم ایرانی است. وی نخستین زن ایرانی است که به صورتی حرفه‌ای در زبان فارسی داستانو رمان نوشت. مهم‌ترین اثر او رمان سووشون است که نثری ساده دارد و به ۱۷ زبان ترجمه شده است و از جمله پرفروش‌ترین آثار ادبیات داستانی در ایران محسوب می‌شود‏.‏
سیمین دانشور در هشتم ارديبهشت ماه سال ۱۳۰۰ در شیراز به دنیا آمد.‏
تحصیلات ابتدایی و دبیرستان را در مدرسه‌ انگلیسی «مهر آیین» به پایان برد. دانشور سپس برای تحصیل در رشته‌ زبان و ادبیات فارسی وارد دانشگاه تهران شد و در سال ۱۳۲۹ با دفاع از رساله خود در مورد زیبایی‌شناسی موفق به كسب درجه دكترا از این د

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Nader Ebrahimi

نادر ابراهیمی در ۱۴ فروردین سال ۱۳۱۵ در تهران به دنیا آمد. تحصیلات مقدماتی را در این شهر گذراند و پس از گرفتن دیپلم ادبی از دبیرستان دارالفنون، به دانشکدهٔ حقوق وارد شد. اما این دانشکده را پس از دو سال رها کرد و سپس در رشتهٔ زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، مدرک لیسانس دریافت کرد. او از ۱۳ سالگی به یک سازمان سیاسی پیوست که بارها دستگیری، بازجویی و زندان رفتن را در دوران پهلوی برایش درپی داشت. ارایهٔ فهرست کاملی از شغل‌های ابراهیمی، کار دشواری است. او خود در دو کتاب «ابن مشغله» و «ابوالمشاغل» ضمن شرح وقایع زندگی، به فعالیت‌های گوناگون خود نیز پرداخته‌است. از جمله شغل‌های او بوده‌است: کمک کارگری تعمیرگاه سیار در ترکمن صحرا، کارگری چاپخانه، حسابداری و تحویلداری بانک، صفحه بندی روزنامه و مجله و کارهای چاپ دیگر، میرزایی یک حجرهٔ فرش در بازار، مترجمی و ویر

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Jean Teulé

Jean Teulé est un romancier français, qui a également pratiqué la bande dessinée, le cinéma et la télévision.

Auteur de bande dessinée dans un premier temps, il a débuté à la télévision dans L'assiette anglaise de Bernard Rapp ou Nulle part ailleurs sur Canal+.

Homme de télévision, scénariste, comédien, cinéaste, il est avant tout écrivain. Ayant abandonné toute autre activité, il se consacre désormais à l’écriture. Il a publié, aux Éditions Julliard, Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1991), L'Œil de Pâques (1992), Ballade pour un père oublié (1995), Darling (1998) et Bord cadre (1999), Longues Peines, Les Lois de la gravité, Ô Verlaine ! (2004), Je, François Villon (2006), Le Magasin des suicides (2007). Finalement, en 2008 "Le Montespan". Tous ses livr

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Abbas Maroufi

Abbas Maroufi (عباس معروفی) was an Iranian novelist and journalist.

Raised and educated in Tehran, Abbas Maroufi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University while teaching at schools and writing for the newspapers. He served as the editor in chief of the literary Gardun magazine from 1990 to 1995. His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled Into the Sun. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage. In his The Last Superior Generation, he touched on social themes. His last collection of short stories, The Scent of the Jasmine was published in the United States.

Maroufi came to prominence with the publication of Symphony of the Dead (1989) which is narrated in the form of a symphony.

Maroufi currently resides i

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Houshang Golshiri

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Writer, critic and editor, Hooshang Golshiri, the prominent Iranian literary figure, published his first collection of short stories, As Always, in 1958. His second book, a short novel, Prince Ehtejab (1959) brought him fame and was later made into an internationally acclaimed film (1974). It has since been translated into several languages. His writings include eight novels, five collections of short stories, two books on literary theory and criticism, and a 2 vol. collected essays and articles.

Alongside his writing, he set up workshops and classes to nurture new generations of writers, edited various literary journals, and actively participated in the struggle for freedom of thought and expression in Ir

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Jalal Al-e Ahmad

جلال‌الدین سادات آل‌احمد، معروف به جلال آل‌احمد، فرزند سیداحمد حسینی طالقانی در محله سیدنصرالدین از محله‌های قدیمی شهر تهران به دنیا آمد. او در سال ۱۳۰۲ پس از هفت دختر متولد شد و نهمین فرزند پدر و دومین پسر خانواده بود. پدرش در کسوت روحانیت بود و از این رو جلال دوران کودکی را در محیطی مذهبی گذراند. تمام سعی پدر این بود که از جلال، برای مسجد و منبرش جانشینی بپرورد.
جلال پس از اتمام دوره دبستان، تحصیل در دبیرستان را آغاز کرد، اما پدر که تحصیل فرزند را در مدارس دولتی نمی‌پسندید و پیش‌بینی می‌کرد که آن درس‌ها، فرزندش را از راه دین و حقیقت منحرف میکند، با او مخالفت کرد: «دبستان را که تمام کردم، دیگر نگذاشت درس بخوانم که: « برو بازار کار کن» تا بعد ازم جانشینی بسازد. و من رفتم بازار. اما دارالفنون هم کلاس‌های شبانه باز کرده بود که پنهان از پدر اسم

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روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)

Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).

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Atieh Attarzadeh

عطیه عطارزاده

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Nader Ebrahimi

نادر ابراهیمی در ۱۴ فروردین سال ۱۳۱۵ در تهران به دنیا آمد. تحصیلات مقدماتی را در این شهر گذراند و پس از گرفتن دیپلم ادبی از دبیرستان دارالفنون، به دانشکدهٔ حقوق وارد شد. اما این دانشکده را پس از دو سال رها کرد و سپس در رشتهٔ زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، مدرک لیسانس دریافت کرد. او از ۱۳ سالگی به یک سازمان سیاسی پیوست که بارها دستگیری، بازجویی و زندان رفتن را در دوران پهلوی برایش درپی داشت. ارایهٔ فهرست کاملی از شغل‌های ابراهیمی، کار دشواری است. او خود در دو کتاب «ابن مشغله» و «ابوالمشاغل» ضمن شرح وقایع زندگی، به فعالیت‌های گوناگون خود نیز پرداخته‌است. از جمله شغل‌های او بوده‌است: کمک کارگری تعمیرگاه سیار در ترکمن صحرا، کارگری چاپخانه، حسابداری و تحویلداری بانک، صفحه بندی روزنامه و مجله و کارهای چاپ دیگر، میرزایی یک حجرهٔ فرش در بازار، مترجمی و ویر

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Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson (born 1960) is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man (1997). The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.

Mick Jackson was born in 1960, in Great Harwood, Lancashire, and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.

Jackson worked in local theatre, studied theatre arts at Dartington College of Arts, and played in a rock band called The Screaming Abdabs. In 1990, he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on The Underground Man. He has been a full-time writer since 1995.

Jackson's other works are t

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Jeffrey E. Young

Jeffrey E. Young is an American psychologist best known for having developed schema therapy. He is the founder of the Schema Therapy Institute.
After earning an undergraduate degree at Yale University, he obtained a higher education degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where he then pursued postdoctoral studies with Aaron T. Beck.
He has written numerous books on cognitive behavioral therapy and schema therapy. His two most famous books are Schema Therapy (for professionals), and Reinventing Your Life (for the general public).

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روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)

Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).

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Farhad Jafari

فرهاد جعفري در هشتم شهريورماه سال 1344 در روستاي شوسف از توابع شهرستان بيرجند به دنيا آمده است.
او روزنامه نگار و فارغ التحصيل حقوق قضايي از دانشگاه آزاد اسلامي واحد مشهد است كه در كارنامه مطبوعاتي خود؛ همكاري پاره وقت با روزنامه قدس در سالهاي 1368 تا 1369؛ با روزنامه توس در فاصله سالهاي 1369 تا 1373؛ سردبيری هفته نامه اجتماعي فرهنگي خاوران در سالهاي 1375 و نيز صاحب امتيازي و سردبيري يك هفته نامه سياسي اجتماعي به نام « يك هفتم » را در پيشينه دارد.
او متاهل و داراي دختري به نام«گل گيسو»ست.
همسرش « پري سيما جوادي » قصه نويس و دبير ادبيات فارسي آموزش و پرورش است.
Farhad Jafari

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Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris is the author of novels Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour as well as a story collection, The Dinner Party. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He was named one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" writers in 2010. He lives in Hudson, New York with his wife and son.

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Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. As a boy he revealed the profound sensitivity to music so evident in his work. Although he was Protestant by birth, he was educated in the Catholic tradition and at the age of 19 received a certificate in Scholastic philosophy from the Catholic Institute of Paris. Three years later he took his "licence de philosophie" under the great Thomist Étienne Gilson. In 1928 he encountered the formidable Louis Massignon, director of Islamic studies at the Sorbonne, and it was he who introduced Corbin to the writings of Suhrawardi, the 12th century Persian mystic and philosopher whose work was to profoundly affect the course of Corbin’s life.

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Don Nardo

Don Nardo (born February 22, 1947) is an American historian, composer, and writer. With close to four hundred and fifty published books, he is one of the most prolific authors in the United States, and one of the country's foremost writers of historical works for children and teens.

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Firoozeh Dumas

Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran and moved to Whittier, California at the age of seven. After a two-year stay, she and her family moved back to Iran and lived in Ahvaz and Tehran. Two years later, they moved back to Whittier, then to Newport Beach. Firoozeh then attended UC Berkeley where she met and married a Frenchman.

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.
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Marcel Brion

Marcel Brion (1895, Marseille - 1984, Paris) was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian.

The son of a lawyer, Brion was classmates in Thiers with Marcel Pagnol and Albert Cohen. After completing his secondary education in Champittet, Switzerland, he studied law at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. Counsel to the bar of Marseille between 1920 and 1924, he abandoned his legal career to turn to literature.

Brion wrote nearly a hundred books in his career, ranging from historical biography to examinations of Italian and German art, and turning later in life to novels. His most famous collection of stories is the 1942 Les Escales de la Haute Nuit (The Shore Leaves Of The Deepest Night). An essay of Brion appears in Our Exagminat

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Michel Peyramaure

Michel Peyramaure est un romancier français, souvent qualifiée d'écrivain de terroir ou d'écrivain régionaliste, auteur d'une centaine de romans, pour la plupart historique. Il est considéré pour beaucoup de personnes comme l'un des "plus grands romanciers historiques". Il a reçu en 1979 le Grand Prix de littérature de la Société des gens de lettres pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

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Michel Peyramaure est né en 1922 à Brive-la-Gaillarde, en Corrèze. À sa sortie du collège, il travaille dans l'imprimerie de son père, où il compose ses premiers poèmes, puis devient journaliste à La Montagne, avant de se consacrer à l'écriture littéraire. En 1954, il publie son premier roman, Paradis entre quatre murs, aux éditions Robert Laffont. L'année

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Oparin

Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also studied the biochemistry of material processing by plants and enzyme reactions in plant cells.

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Zoya Pirzad

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