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Until 1905 he worked as a baker at Avelghem, a village near Kortrijk.

Berthe-Evelyne Agbo is a writer from Benin who has published poems in French. By 1907, however, there was no sign of national regeneration and the government of the day was making no attempt to control or limit the powers of the Catholic Church. He wrote many book's such as Zindagi, Mehbub-e-Khuda, Deen-e-Islam, Azadi-e-Hind, Mera Afsanah, Jawahraat, Mashooqa-e-Punjab, Shaoor, Dehati rooman, Pakistan and untouchability, Taareekh-e-Ahrar, Dunya may dozakh, Islam and Socialism etc.

After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen.

In 1980 Shamiakin became the chief editor of the Soviet Belarusian Encyclopedia. Has just completed the 8 part series "SCUP", Which he wrote in English but has been translated into Irish.

Bhagat, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is seen more as a youth icon than as an author. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on March 29, 1905, and died in Yevdokovo, Soviet Union on January 1, 1943. in Journalism from the University of Santo Tomas and an M.A. Teaching Berber was prohibited in 1962 by the Algerian government.

Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege, 1908 – Astor, Florida, February 17, 1998) was a Hungarian noble, forest engineer, novelist, poet and member of the Wass de Czege family. Master's Degree in Sociology from Patna University and a post-graduate diploma in Population Studies from the University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K. Winner of Madan Puraskar and Uttam Shanti Puraskar for his biography Antarmanko Yatra written whilst he was in the hospital treating Multiple myeloma of spine he was suffering from. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 14 September 1942, he lived there until 1975. He then emigrated to the United States in 1939, where he taught at Princeton University. Among his best novels is also "Aparição". From 1967 he lived mainly in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris. She married for the second time on 18 August 1914, to the younger brother of Béla Balázs, Ervin Bauer. Until 1905 he worked as a baker at Avelghem, a village near Kortrijk. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region. Not long after his return home he set out upon a new journey to Alexandria. Benjamin, My Son, in particular, examines Caribbean life within the context of established Christian religions and African-Yoruba based traditions while using the framework of Dante's Inferno. She graduated Decebal College in Deva, and the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj. While in prison, law enforcement ransacked his home, and his wife had to flee into exile in Chile, while his children went into hiding. She returned to Equatorial Guinea and worked for the country's Ministry of Culture and Education.

However, it was established that before the attack Rothstock had been a member of the National Socialist party, and although by March 1925 he had left it again, he was nevertheless supported after Bettauer's death by lawyers and friends with close ties to the Nazis. This was followed in 1952 by La Sicilia, il suo cuore, also a poetry collection, illustrated by Emilio Greco.

Paul Kearney was a Northern Irish fantasy author.

Ishwar Chandra joined the Sanskrit College, Calcutta and studied there for twelve long years and passed out of the college in 1841 qualifying in Sanskrit Grammar, Literature, Rhetoric [Alankara Shastra], Vedanta, Smruti and Astronomy.

Konica strove for a more refined Western culture in Albania, but he also valued his country's traditions. While in Vyatka Saltykov got carried away by the idea of radically improving the quality of education for young women and girls. He was also a journalist of Hindi Literature and started several newspapers like Yuvak in 1929 and regularly contributed in various others to spread the idea of nationalism and freedom from British rule. He asked the driver to stop on the bridge so that he could take photographs.

His last will and testament, in which he left his entire estate to a foundation that was to be run jointly by five presidents: "After Choukri's death, this document disappeared without a trace," says Roberto de Hollanda, who was the author's literary agent for many years. " He was a collaborator on the literary magazine, Letra Roja and in a group of painters, sculptors, and writers, El Techo de la Ballena.

During World War I, Pessoa wrote to a number of British publishers in order to print his collection of English verse The Mad Fiddler, but it was refused. Both his parents were theology students, although his father lost his job as a Professor of Theology due to the Nazis, and had to settle on being a pastor instead. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.

Dürrenmatt married another actress, Charlotte Kerr, in 1984. During the Second World War, when a teenager, he went to work for four years in the United States, before returning to Jamaica. He published two other books including Seva, and Writing for Rafa. He retired in 1973, and died in Istanbul on 18 April 1988. He is also regarded as the founder of the Baul music.

Thea began writing poetry and short-stories in 1992 and in 2000 she published her book Not Even My Name, the memoir of her mother who belonged in Turkey's Greek minority. His great novel, Gouverneurs de la Rosée, has achieved a permanent place among great Caribbean and Latin American literature.

Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist.

Lauryn may refer to:

Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages.

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, and books and articles about African culture. During this period he had a significant change in philosophy: he refused to continue writing in French, and instead began working on popular theatre, epical and satirical, performed in dialectal Arabic. Sey Wava was born to a middle-class Catholic family in Kampala, Uganda. His father joined the Reichswehr in 1929 and remained in the Wehrmacht under the Nazis.

Oscar Bento Ribas was an Angolan writer. In 1940, he rented a house at Bagbazar and brought his family to Calcutta. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.

On February 15, 1960, the municipal library of São Paulo was renamed Biblioteca Mário de Andrade. He later acted as co-ordinator between various branches of the organization.

Bitov’s works have been translated into a number of European languages, including English, German, Swedish, French and Italian. He claimed to have explored the Sudan desert, met Buffalo Bill in Nebraska, and sailed the Seven Seas. He was winner of the 2004 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE for Johnny chien méchant.

Teresa de la Parra died in Madrid. Many other novels, short stories, radio plays and essay collections followed, and in 1972 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He adopted her son Daniel. She then lived in London for two years, where she played small roles in James Bond films and modelled for fashion magazines. Sexuality and prostitution would form a consistent theme in his writing.

Mercedes Valdivieso had the extreme audacity to become an innovator; she bridged the gap between romantic and domestic fiction in a society where women have been viewed as a sexless gender, icons of virtue, and depending on men to meet the necessities of life.

Moussa Ould Ebnou was born in Boutilimit. Chronique des années de braise, (dir.

Van der Heijden initially studied psychology and philosophy in Nijmegen but after moving to Amsterdam he turned to writing. After the war he also worked in the cinema, collaborating as screenwriter to films such as Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Nanni Loy's Le quattro giornate di Napoli. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful of short stories have been released. He is buried at the Schoonselhof cemetery in Antwerp.

Kupala ceased working for the Nasha Niva in order to avoid ruining the reputation of the newspaper. This festival is celebrated during the navaratri. In 1915, he ran away from school and rejoined his mother at Kati, where he resumed his studies. Drumul egal al fiecărei zile, a story alluding to intellectual survival in a provincial environment during the aggressive Stalinist 1950s, won her critical acclaim and the Romanian Academy prize.

Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". They were published as The Cinnamon Shops in 1934.

He married the writer Halldis Moren Vesaas and moved back to his home district of Vinje in 1934. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.

Shadbolt suffered from Alzheimer's disease from April 1997 until his death in 2004 at Taumarunui Hospital.

Berhanu Zerihun was an Ethiopian writer noted for his clear and crisp writing style, which contrasted against the more complex writing style popular in his time. " He learned to pilot an aircraft in the French Air Force in Salon-de-Provence and in Avord Air Base, near Bourges.

Juhan Liiv (30 April [O.S. ), Toei (冬栄? In the late 10th century and early 11th century, Fujiwara no Michinaga arranged his four daughters into marriages with emperors, giving him unprecedented power.

Sten Nadolny, is a German novelist.

János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies. He died when he fell from a window on the fifth floor of the Bulovka hospital in Prague where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons.

She later also published a picture book on Zweig.

A 2002 novel by Roberto Castillo, La guerra mortal de los sentidos chronicles the adventures of the "Searcher for the Lenca Language.

She married John Duder in 1964 and following the birth of the first of her four daughters, she was a full-time mother for 7 years, much of it spent in Pakistan.

His mother, Olga Constanţa Esthera Breban, born Böhmler, descended from a family of German merchants who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine. This volume contains the oft-anthologized story, "Swimming Lessons. He was an agnostic. She also wrote lyric poetry as well as novels, but is possibly most famous for her Pisma iz Nisa o Haremima / Letters from Niš Regarding Harems, a semi-fictionalised, semi-historical, anthropological narrative containing portraits of life in the Turkish harems 50 years before her birth when the south-Serbian city of Niš was still a part of the Ottoman Empire, and Pisma iz Soluna / Letters from Salonica, a genuine travelogue from the Ottoman Empire during the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, of which Salonica was the centre. He was born in a small village named Benipur in the Indian state of Bihar. Many of the other chiefs found his position as royal office-holder contrary to their interests, especially the other Sturlungar. Perhaps his most famous novel is Crônica da casa assassinada, 1959, a long, Faulknerian story of a decayed gentry family in Minas Gerais.

Cary worked at various novels and a play, but nothing sold, and the family soon had to take in tenants. Things didn't work out, so she planned to go as far away as possible, and ended up in Spain.

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature. He died on 23 January 1945 at Narsapur[disambiguation needed]. In 2009, he donated the short story Still Life to Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' project—four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Of his 1873 visit to Santiniketan, he wrote: He emigrated to the United States to escape persecution of Hungarian Jews by German authorities during World War II. Despite this, 100 of his theories were condemned by the inquisitor general, Nicholas Eymerich. He found himself in Nazi German captivity in 1944, and spent time in a POW camp near Vienna until the end of World War II. Kako upokojiti Vampira was subsequently translated into Czech in 1980, Polish in 1985, and Italian in 1992, with an English translation finally appearing in 2005.

His maternal grandfather, the doctor and general Juan Pietri, was a personal friend of the dictator. After a year, he left university life behind, finding it insufficiently challenging, and devoted himself to writing his first novel, Le manuscrit, at age 20.

Educated at what is now the National University of Lesotho, Mnthali has been published several times, including a book of poetry called When Sunset Comes to Sapitwa and a novel called My Dear Anniversary. He was also studying law.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel, Ichhamati. He wrote repeatedly about the Jewish community of Montreal and especially about his former neighborhood, portraying it in multiple novels. He was president of the African Studies Association. Her debut novel, the award-winning Beneath the Lion’s Gaze was named one of the 10 best contemporary African books by The Guardian.

Yunus Nadi started to work as a journalist at the newspaper "Malumat" in 1900. The second part was published in 1960 and the final part in 1963. Career as Student Leader He was also included in the 1984 anthology called the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Proust, in La mayor and Joyce, in "Sombras sobre vidrio esmerilado").

Luigi Capuana was born at Mineo, in the Province of Catania. She went to school at the "Heilig Graf" school for girls in Turnhout.

Feeling alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, Hedayat's last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation and a sense of doom experienced only by those subjected to discrimination and repression. He taught African literature at the University of Ghana. In "The Picture of Nahanda and Kagubi," he laments the fate of Nehanda Nyakasikana, a woman who was executed after inspiring a fight for independence in the 19th century: His novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

In fulfillment of his charge, Geijer arranged these papers in a work which appeared in 1843-45 under the title of Gusstaf III's efterlemnade papper, but they contained little or nothing of value. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, were a breakaway from traditional verse-oriented Indian writings, and provided an inspiration for authors across India.

Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. The literary value of his works published during this period was often disputed, and they were seen by many left-wing literary critics as little more than tasteless political pamphlets. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. His first published work was a poem that appeared in 1951, that was later followed by three collections of verse. He stayed in the United States afterwards but he died in the Visayas in 1977 at the age of 59.

Born to Fante-speaking parents, and descending on his father's side from a royal family in the Ga nation, Armah was born in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, Having attended Achimota School, he left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. He was also a notable writer, politician, journalist, lawyer, historian, diplomatic and teacher.

Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the son of Dominic Sabino, and D. Odette Tavares Sabino. in social anthropology under the supervision of Peter Lienhardt.

Manea's most acclaimed book, The Hooligan’s Return, is an original novelistic memoir, encompassing a period of almost 80 years, from the pre-war period, through the Second World War, the communist and post-communist years to the present.

One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership. His 1910 novel for young people, W pustyni i w puszczy, serialized in Kurier Warszawski, finishing in 1911, was much better received and became widely popular among children and young adults.

After five years, in 1846, Vidyasagar left Fort William College and join the Sanskrit College as 'Assistant Secretary'.

In 2011 he published Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers, in which he analyses the claim that two Venetian merchants, the Zeno brothers, sailed over the north Atlantic in a pre-Columbian expedition to North America.

In 1943, accompanied by French theatrical director Louis Jouvet, Carpentier made a crucial trip to Haiti, during which he visited the fortress of the Citadelle Laferrière and the Palace of Sans-Souci, both built by the black king Henri Christophe.

Owen described his apprenticeship as a 'kind of college', and began writing poetry after being influenced by one of his work colleagues. Wickramasinghe was born on May 29, 1890, in the town of Koggala, in Sri Lanka, the only son of Lamahewage Don Bastian Wickramasinghe, and Magalle Balapitiya Liyanage Thochchohamy.

Narayan’s works also include The Financial Expert, hailed as one of the most original works of 1951, and Sahitya Akademi Award winner The Guide, which was adapted for film and for Broadway. They are helped by an old man on their gradual journey into manhood. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans, but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle. She wrote short stories and children's books.

David Ananou was a writer from Togo, and the author of Le Fils du fétiche. During his second and longer incarceration he wrote what most consider to be his best and most characteristic work Amor de Perdição.

In The London Venture, Arlen writes: "I, up at Edinburgh, was on the high road to general fecklessness.

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.

Following her graduation from United College, she married Jack Fergus Laurence, an engineer.

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960.

Nigel Cox was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006. They spent their summers in Normandy. He graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1993, having studied under the writers Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.

Maning's book Old New Zealand is, in part, a lament for the lost freedom enjoyed before European rule. His political views were strongly affected by the war, and as a budding journalist he began to write on topics like nationalism and totalitarianism.

Carl Erik Soya, also known by the single appellation Soya, was a Danish author and dramatist. Four years later, he returned to Cape Verde and he functioned at an English company.

Lawrence Jones said of Morrieson that it is doubtful whether the anti-puritan underside of New Zealand small-town life... has ever been so successfully caught.

Yaşar Kemal, is a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin.

Marie-Claire Blais, CC OQ is a Canadian author and playwright. After suffering through the depression of 1836, her husband Thomas joined the militia in 1837 to fight against the Upper Canada Rebellion. After the war, he completed his studies of art history and philosophy in Vienna and graduated from the University of Belgrade as one of the students of the famous literature critic Bogdan Popovic.

Narcís Oller i Moragas was a Catalan author, most noted for the novels La papallona which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres ; and La febre d'or which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism.

Odian's writings, which include novels and short stories, often humorously point out humanity's vices. His major work began with what is called the "Sunil" series which consists of at least 115 novels. He founded the literary magazine, Revista Literaria Jagüey and organized and presided over the first conference of the Venezuelan Journalists Association. Her book Parle mon fils, parle à ta mère, illustrates the absence of dialogue between two generations who do not speak the same language. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom. She studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster. His ashes were later taken to East Germany.

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties. Most notably the essays published as La Expresión Americana lay out his vision of the European baroque, its relation to the classical, and of the American baroque.

Because of his involvement in such projects, Carpentier was often suspected of having subversive and ultramodern cultural ideas.

Manoj Das was born in the small coastal village of Shankari in the Balasore district of Orissa. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. He in 2009 he received his MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. In 1928, he went to Saint Petersburg to continue his studies, where he attended the Language, history and literature department of University of Leningrad.

In both This Kind of Love and Caliph, Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions. His remains, after lying in state for some days, were followed to the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan by a vast cortege, including the royal princes and all the great officers of state. In the last part of his life he lived and worked in Sajkód.

Other disappointments in love included Sophie Ørsted, the daughter of the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, and Louise Collin, the youngest daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin. In its first-ever session, the legislative body elected him its President. In 1954 he moved to Greece to study Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He taught at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies from 1965 to 1967, then at the university's Mona campus from 1968 to 2001, eventually being appointed professor of English in 1978 and public orator in 1985. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. From 1982 he was editor in chief of Contemporanul.

Being born in Chacao, a small rural village near Caracas in the 19th century, his parents were Juan Díaz Chávez and Dolores Rodríguez, immigrants from the Canary Islands that arrived to Venezuela in 1842. The school, which opened in 1962, provided academic, technical and commercial education for Africans. Recently, many critics have begun to see his works in a new light and they have also attracted the attention of younger readers. Solaris was made into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; in 2002, Steven Soderbergh directed a Hollywood remake starring George Clooney.

Ahmet Ümit started his literary life with short stories but his first work about literature was a poetry book named “Sokağın Zulası”, published in 1989.

Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. Solomon Mikhoels, the popular actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater, was appointed the JAC chairman. His music was primarily guitar-based, although he integrated traditional African instruments as well. He has written over 20 novels, television series and movies. Instead, she studied English Literature at the University of Hong Kong, where she met her lifelong friend, Fatima Mohideen.

Molnár died, aged 74, in New York City. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and strident anti-nationalist he denounced the Raj and advocated independence from Britain. Although he wrote a novel, 1971) and a number of short stories, he is best known for his tales and stories for children. His family left Ethiopia during the war when he was two years old and immigrated to the United States.

Orhan Kemal is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü. He had a de facto wife, who bore him two children.

Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China in 1940, Gao has been a French citizen since 1998. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to studies, leading up to a degree in English and philosophy. Adventure in Ottawa, published in 1991, was his first novel aimed at a younger audience. The English version of his novel After Dark was released in May 2007. He continued to comment on political matters for some time, although he surprised many with his defence of the United States in the Vietnam War. However, some scholars dispute the claim that he was not a communist at that time, noting his close ties to active members, his attendance at communist-led events, and his months-long stay in the Soviet Union in 1922-1923, which he wrote about very favorably.

Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author, initially from Ghana.

Li was an actor, producer, and director as well as a playwright, who traveled with his own troupe. Often the entries are written as if they were part of a novel. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.

Lauryn may refer to: He has published two novels and a short story collection, and has contributed as a writer and/or editor to several short story collections and literary magazines. His father had been a classmate of George Coșbuc's and was an amateur folklorist. He is immortalised by some of his phrases, and in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism or in his own words Vishwa maanavataa Vaada. His works include Rusoaica, Femeia de ciocolată, and his masterpiece, Donna Alba. He also studied under Shaikh Awla Kharpani. Her formal schooling was conducted in Samoa and New Zealand where she also began a BA which was completed at Whitworth College.

Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi to a Christian family on May 15, 1930 in Asembo, in the district of Nyanza, Kenya - a village highly populated by the predominately Christian Luo ethnic group. The jury presented the award "for showing an adolescent's journey to maturity and his coming to terms with his mother.

Alongside full length books, Montalvo was an accomplished essayist, and his Siete Tratados and Geometría Moral were popular in Ecuador and were banned by Veintemilla.

Louis Paul Boon was a Flemish novelist and competes with Hugo Claus only for the title of most important twentieth-century Flemish writer in the Dutch language.

Thea Halo is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Greek heritage. She held a Chair in Literature at the Women's University.

Nooteboom was born in The Hague, where his father was killed in a bombing in 1945.

In addition to his career at Silliman, Tiempo taught fiction and literary criticism for four years in two American schools during the 1960s.

Nirendranath Chakraborty is a popular contemporary Bengali poet.

By 2012 the English translation of his novel Laskar Pelangi had been picked up by FSG, Penguin Books, and Random House for sale in twenty countries; Hirata was the first Indonesian writer to be published with FSG. He belongs to the Majerteen sub-clan of the Darod Somali clan. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on March 29, 1905, and died in Yevdokovo, Soviet Union on January 1, 1943.

The Welsh Language Measure 2011 Act gave the Welsh language official status in Wales, making it the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom. He graduated from a highschool in Sighişoara, and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of Bucharest. The 2011 UK Census counted almost 3 million residents of Wales. She is the author of a memoir, The Devil that Danced on the Water and three novels, Ancestor Stones, The Memory of Love and The Hired Man.

Born 47 years earlier in San Remo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. Before the establishment of democracy in 1958, he was repeatedly forced into exile; afterwards, he was elected to the Venezuelan Senate.

Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English and is resident in America. His grave is in the Aşiyan Graveyard, Istanbul. His first literary works, Novellen um Claudia and Ritualmord in Ungarn, gained him wider recognition. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was published in 2000.

Iván Mándy was a Hungarian writer.

Esterházy, the scion of a comital branch of the Esterházy magnate family, is perhaps best known outside of his native country for Celestial Harmonies which chronicles his forefathers' epic rise during the Austro-Hungarian empire – when Haydn composed music at the family palace – to its dispossession under communism. His poems are considered prime examples of socialist-realistic writing.

Aboulela’s work has been translated into thirteen languages and included in publications such as Granta, The Washington Post and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

In an article entitled "Për themelimin e një gjuhës letrarishte shqip", published in the first issue of Albania, Konica also pointed to the necessity of creating a unified literary language. Both ended in divorce but she bore 4 sons from the marriages. While there, a woman named Suzu Ito (伊藤 すず, Itō Suzu? Bard President Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college. The Catholic Church criticised him on numerous occasions due to the content of some of his novels, mainly The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Cain, in which he uses satire and bible quotes to present the figure of God in a comical and distorted way. For 1899, published in one volume his Cuentos de Color, appeared first in El Cojo Ilustrado, the same year married in Caracas with Graziella Calcaño, traveling again to Paris.

It was during her first visit to Larne that she met Andrew Ross, a widower of 35, who was station master there. Her debut novel, the award-winning Beneath the Lion’s Gaze was named one of the 10 best contemporary African books by The Guardian. At the age of five Wickramasinghe was taught the Sinhala alphabet, at home and in the village temple, by a monk, Andiris Gunananse. For several years he was a labor agent, recruiting workers for the gold mines of Transvaal and the plantations of Natal. For Nove Dimitrijevic won the prestigious Matica Srpska prize for literature in 1912. Since 1983, she has lived mainly in France.

Natsume Sōseki, born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助? He used to live reside in a mud-cell over the advocate's stables, and used to send 60% of his salary back home. Even though most critics consider it as a lesser novel in comparison with La Regenta, it is equal to the former in the skill with which the technical resources are used.

Manuel Antônio de Almeida was a Brazilian satirical writer, medician and teacher. He died at La Celle-Saint-Cloud on May 2, 2003.

Datuk Abdullah Hussain is a Malaysian novelist and writer. The book enjoyed an unexpected publishing success and went through five consecutive editions. Her latest novel, The Captive Wife was runner-up for the Deutz Medal and won the Readers' Choice award at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. His novels include Laro sa Baga, and Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag.

Heiki Vilep is an Estonian poet and children's writer. They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961.

B. Yehoshua. He went to France where he lived in Paris and Nice. Her first novel Breakwater, based on her MA thesis, was published by Victoria University Press in 2001. Finished his Primary, Middle and High School there. She was the Ambassador to Cameroon, and is currently First Secretary at the Chadian Embassy in Nigeria. His writing has been translated into English, German, Armenian, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Urdu, Hindi and Chinese. He assisted in developing a Latin alphabet for the Kurdish language and became a member of the editorial board of the Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze, published in Yerevan from 1930 to 1937. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. The Mahabharata was published in 1978. He quit his investment banking career in 2009, to focus on writing. He died in Warsaw. His father had been trained as a doctor, and was in Nagasaki studying western medicine at the time of the Meiji Restoration.

At the age of 18, Hamid returned to the United States to continue his education. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country. He also published essays, poems, and stories.

Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo was an award-winning Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist and author of the compendium The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. She fell ill with asthmatic bronchitis and she was forced to move from Rome to Orvieto, in Umbria.

Anna Margaret Ross, known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata, Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada, Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il nero.

It was during this period that Kurkov wrote all of his children's stories.

Kaniuk married Miranda, a Christian woman.[when?][where? Other important novels are Şatra, and Jocul cu moartea. Politically active in his youth, in the 1950s he fought against the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez. In 2013 she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young writers,.

Firat Cewerî, is a Kurdish writer, translator and journalist. She was involved in the well known literary festival Ithaka organized at the college.

Gogol was mourned in the Saint Tatiana church at the Moscow University before his burial and then buried at the Danilov Monastery, close to his fellow Slavophile Aleksey Khomyakov. His literary initiation was bound to the group Sardio magazine and to the well-known Techo de la ballena. One of such works was La malora, a long story in the style of Giovanni Verga. His poems were set on music and frequently performed by Russian singer-songwriters

Tannella Boni is an Ivorian poet and novelist.

Zariņš is also the author of around ten collections of short stories and several novels.

Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish.

Russian and world leaders paid tribute to Solzhenitsyn following his death. It depicts an Andean community, living in the Peruvian highlands.

Hayslip was born in Ky La, now Xa Hao Qui, a small town in central Vietnam just south of Da Nang.

In 1982 Kadare was accused by the president of the League of Albanian Writers and Artists of deliberately evading politics by cloaking much of his fiction in history and folklore. He currently lives in Tehran and teaches creative writing and short story writing. Six months after leaving the Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for the Writer’s Association.

Rizal wanted to marry Rivera while he was still in the Philippines because of Rivera's uncomplaining fidelity. His Amharic novel Fəqər əskä Mäqabər is considered a classic of modern Ethiopian literature.

Since 2000, Rushdie has "lived mostly near Union Square" in New York City. He was one of the founders of the Kurdish Writers Association in 2004 and he serves as its public relations officer. Until made financially secure by the success of her novel The God of Small Things, she worked various jobs, including running aerobics classes at five-star hotels in New Delhi.

He was a dedicated champion of democracy and an enemy of the writer Juan León Mera. He became well known in his native region of Transylvania and in Hungary for his stories written in his original Székely style. He passed the matriculation examination in 1915 and took admission in Vidyasagar College, Calcutta.

The femme-fatale is a theme repeated in many of Tanizaki's early works, including Kirin, Shonen, Himitsu, and Akuma.

In 1927, Ramos was elected mayor of Palmeira dos Índios: he took office in 1928 and would abdicate his post in 1930. She has referred to Turkish poet and novelist Attilâ İlhan, and Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Doris Lessing, Turkish woman writer Sevgi Soysal as major influences on her work. He only began writing in 1980, at the age of 63, traveling back and forth between France and Morocco. She has been described as "a key figure in contemporary world literature and in Maori literature in English.

Having attended a Jesuit-run school in his native Turin, Soldati then studied humanities at Turin's university, and later History of Art at the University of Rome.

Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. He was also a delegate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 24th sessions of the League of Nations in Geneva in period 1930–1934. Summary: For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. During World War II he worked for the government as a propaganda writer. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era. Later, his family was living in Kolkata. There he worked and took further courses in engineering and worked towards the baccalauréat. In 1973, he resigned and settled as a full-time writer in Paris. He died in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he had been teaching. He married Fatma İrfan in 1937. Exasperated by a latent conflict with several local politicians and intellectuals, in 1971 he moved to Belgrade, where he lived until his death in 1982.

Agnon was born in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Lauryn may refer to: He was mentioned as being considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature on three separate occasions. From 1931, he was editor of the Erdélyi Helikon, and manager of the Miklós Barabás Guild. Memories of My Melancholy Whores caused controversy in Iran, where it was banned after an initial 5,000 copies were printed and sold.

Mengiste also has an interest in ways that the arts can promote human rights.

Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the son of Dominic Sabino, and D. Odette Tavares Sabino.

Prus resolved, in the best Positivist fashion, to make it "an observatory of societal facts"—an instrument for advancing the development of his country. He is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother, the fourth eldest boy in a large family.

He was the father of another famous writer of Rio Grande do Sul, Luis Fernando Veríssimo. He is fond of employing the short-story as a form.

Cortázar's parents divorced a few years after their return to Argentina.

His death followed ten weeks later. His work has had a major impact on many disciplines including Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Literature, and History. Perfume was on the bestselling list of the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel for nine years.

Like other writers of his time, Ilgaz was imprisoned as a result of one of his publications.

Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1943 and moved to England in 1954. A large public park in his adopted home town Pune was named after him in commemoration.

Joaquín García Monge is considered one of Costa Rica's most important writers. But it will go away, won't it?

She went to live with her maternal grandparents, Alexander Marquis Macneill and Lucy Woolner Macneill, in the nearby community of Cavendish and was raised by them in a strict and unforgiving manner.

Gunadasa Amarasekera is a prominent Sinhala writer, poet, and essayist from Sri Lanka.

His father, Rehmat Khan Tarar, operated a small seed store by the name of "Kisan & co" that developed to become a major business in that sphere.

Ervin Lázár was a Hungarian author. In the 21st century, publications in English of Radetzky March and of collections of his journalism from Berlin and Paris created a revival of interest in the author. In the 1947 general election he ran for the presidency of the republic as the Acción Democrática candidate and won in what is generally believed to be the country's first honest election. His father was a member of the House of Peers and was thus often away from home, and his mother was chronically ill after having given birth to 11 children, so he was brought up mostly by the servants.

In 1585, Cervantes published a pastoral novel named La Galatea. He was a fierce critic of Nazism, and wrote often on the subject in the revered Resistance paper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning. While living there, he represented the Norwegian Labour Party for Sør-Trøndelag in the Storting from 1931 to 1933. He is considered one of the most important showmen, especially after his participation in the TV show Crónicas Marcianas.

Jean Jacques Clark Parent is a writer, poet, composer, singer, playwright, novelist, and philosopher. Other stories are also collected in Face and Other Stories and And Most of All Man, published in the 1940s. She died in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire in France. Winners: 2001 John Maxwell Coetzee ; 2002 John H. Elliott ; 2003 Claudio Magris ; 2004 Eric Rohmer ; 2005 Alice Munro ; 2006 Ray Bradbury ; 2007 George Steiner ; 2008 Umberto Eco ; 2009 Marc Fumaroli.

Nadolny received his PhD in 1976 at the Free University of Berlin.

Halldór Kiljan Laxness ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. In 2001 he was made Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to literature. He was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany. Little did he know that this intermission was to become a major turning point in his life. Her 1989 novel, Dinas bok, was made into a film titled I Am Dina in 2002, starring Maria Bonnevie and Gérard Depardieu. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize for literature. It also spawned three sequels: Sang Pemimpi, Edensor and Maryamah Karpov. The most notable production was a Hungarian-U.S. collaboration released in 1969. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jewish life and language and the modern world. In Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in History and Geography. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain, she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat", translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again.

Mustansar Hussain Tarar is a Pakistani author, actor, former radio show host, and compere.

Hiroyuki Agawa (阿川 弘之, Agawa Hiroyuki? His forte lies in depicting the psychological impact of everyday life experiences. He was rector of Uppsala University during the years 1822, 1830, 1836 and 1843-1844. Together with her sister, she went on to write realistic and descriptive poetry with a romantic undertone.

Lauryn may refer to:

Imre Kertész is a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".

Ferréz is a Brazilian author, rapper, cultural critic and activist from the Zona Sul favela of Capão Redondo in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a member of the literary group Kadra.

Emma Andijewska was born on March 19, 1931 in Donetsk. In 1904 he published some poems in a magazine called Martín Fierro. He then moved to Porto Alegre in 1930, willing to live solely by selling his writing. She returned to Gabon in 1979, working as a translator and interpreter, and writing her first novel, G'amarakano.

Frantz Omar Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French département.

In total, Shadbolt wrote 11 novels, four collections of short stories, two autobiographies, a war history, and a volume of journalism, as well as plays.

In effect, Kleist sought and discovered an overwhelming sense of security by looking to the future with a definitive plan for his life.

Henriett went to Eszterhazy College at the age of 18 to the Psychology Institution but her communication and her behavior problems pensioned with a diagnosis of childhood autism in 2002. After three years of technical education she went to the College for Women in Antwerp. His experiences are related in his most famous work "Manhã Submersa", (Misty Morning, lit. 1924), which served as the basis of the film of the same name ; and The Swan (1920, tr. Sexuality and prostitution would form a consistent theme in his writing. In 1975, after two years living in Brittany, she moved back to Quebec with her partner. He lost both of his parents at an early age.

Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language. In 2006 she was one of three honourees in the 2006 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country. In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was - for political reasons - withdrawn from her on the very day it was given. His first wife Shanti Devi to whom he was married in 1906, died of plague in 1908 along with his one year old son. During this time, he translated a number of works of Russian fiction into the Serbian language.

Mustansar Hussain Tarar is a Pakistani author, actor, former radio show host, and compere. Junzō Shōno was a Japanese novelist. In 1997, he was dean of the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville when war broke out in the Republic of Congo. He lost his father at a very young age, and took responsibility of his family. " These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world.

Kersti Merilass died in Tallinn, Estonia in 1986 at the age of 72. It was adapted a second time in 1934, as Outcast Lady, with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall in the main roles.

Daniel Kehlmann is a member of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.

Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes was a Flemish author. He attended Santa Librada school in Neiva and San Luis Gonzaga in Elías. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Africana Studies Department at Brown University. During these years he kept silent, not publishing at all nor making public appearances.

After the democratic changes in Croatia and the collapse of Yugoslavia, Aralica was elected to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; also, he re-entered politics, this time on the list of Croatian Democratic Union, a party headed by the independent Croatia’s first president Franjo Tudjman. In 2013 her novel Istanbulians is published in USA by Dalkey Archieve with the title of I am Istanbul translated into English by Kenneth J. Dakan She is also celebrating in 2013 the 22nd year's anniversary of her first novel Two Green Otters, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers and All The Others translated by Alex Dawewith its 50th edition which sold over 1 million copies in Turkey and s already a contemporary classic. He lived in Mexico City since 1956, gaining renown there as the result of Octavio Paz's positive reviews of his work. She also wrote a number of stand-alone novels, which were also generally successful, if not as successful as her Anne books. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to studies, leading up to a degree in English and philosophy. Summary: She married Brúnó Fröhlich, a forestry officer, on 17 February 1905.

Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. In his memory, sights of the havoc of war were impressed unerasably.

Schlink became a judge at the Constitutional Court of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Andreas Mand is a German contemporary author of novels, short storys and essays and a playwright. After his retirement, he served at the literary board of the Istanbul Municipal Theatres. He taught at the University of Georgia and was a professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Son David was born in 1955 in the Gold Coast.

Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature.

In the Holocaust he lost his wife Frumme-Liebe and his mother Vella Grade Rosenthal.

Theories that Andersen may have been an illegitimate son of King Christian VII persist. Heinrich went to the United States in 1938, following the Anschluss, and did not return to Austria until 1959. In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize.

In fact, this thesis was an extract from Călinescu's earlier work, Opera lui Mihai Eminescu, which he wrote out longhand in five copies and sent to the members of the Examination Committee.

Hagedorn was born in Manila to a Scots-Irish-French-Filipino mother and a Filipino-Spanish father with one Chinese ancestor. He is known for his fiction centered on World War II, as well as his biographies and essays. The modern Poesías Completas contains 112 poems.

Albahari writes mainly novels and short stories.

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa.

Kaur Kender, is an Estonian author and entrepreneur. In general his work was influenced by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. He has travelled widely but currently lives in Paris with his wife and daughter. Yet there was nothing cosmopolitan about him; his genius fed in solitude on specific local and ethnic sources.

In 1974, Coelho was arrested for "subversive" activities by the ruling military government, who had taken power ten years earlier and viewed his lyrics as left-wing and dangerous.

Doina Ruşti is a contemporary Romanian novelist. " She cancelled the publication of the sixth part of her autobiography Nei Kichu Nei, and—under pressure—deleted some passages from Dwikhondito, the controversial book that was the boost for the riots in Kolkata. He got his degree of secondary education in the area of Philosophy in 1929. Arab Shamilov was a Kurdish novelist.

Before she started work on The Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote The Demonic Child (魔性の子, Mashō no Ko? In 2006, he published his first book of poetry.

Manuel Antônio de Almeida was a Brazilian satirical writer, medician and teacher. Having said that Sen, however, recognised that in terms of popularity, the Autumn Moon was brighter than the Sun. His most famous book is "De komst van Joachim Stiller", in which a mysterious person, named Joachim Stiller, appears as a redeemer, under circumstances reminiscent of the death of Jesus.

Oscar Bento Ribas was an Angolan writer. She was also briefly in the United States during her childhood while her father attended Yale University. She was one of the first women in Honduras to produce literary work. She has also written an illustrated non-fiction book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, with photographer Ruth Corney, and a social history of Camden Lock.

Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. In Bengali culture he has become an icon of religious tolerance whose songs inspired and influenced many poets and social and religious thinkers including Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Allen Ginsberg - though, as he "rejected all distinctions of caste and creed", he was both praised and criticized in his lifetime and after his death.

Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. She returned to England with her daughter after divorcing her husband and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds, and for six years wrote education and careers features for The Independent newspaper.

Delmira Agustini, a Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century. During the 1970s he worked as an editor and writer, negotiating with censors in order to get his work into print, and informing against colleagues. Del Rey Manga has already released the first and second volume in his Zaregoto series.

Di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Le Rosey and Columbia University. He died on 22 February 1984 in Sheerness in England. Although at a relatively young age, like many other Albanian intellectuals he participated in the Anti-Fascist War. While in prison, law enforcement ransacked his home, and his wife had to flee into exile in Chile, while his children went into hiding. She learned of the history of Upper Volta and of children who were born to African women and French soldiers only to be forced to leave their mothers to live in orphanages. "Whenever I was done with work and wasn't preoccupied with finding food and so on, I would sit down and just write," he said.

Moore was a volunteer air raid warden during the bombing of Belfast by the Luftwaffe. Her first novel, Freskó, written in these years was published in 1958 and achieved overwhelming success among readers. She wrote short stories and children's books.

At the age of 13, Mowat founded a nature newsletter, Nature Lore, and had a weekly column on birds in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

His father, Ludvík Kundera, once a pupil of the composer Leoš Janáček, was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 to 1961.

Andrés Rivera, a pseudonym of Marcos Ribak, is an Argentine writer.

Narendranath Mitra, was a renowned Bengali writer, poet.

Findley was also the author of several dramas for television and stage.

Kashmiri was elected as secretary General of All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam in 1946. A central theme in her writings is friendship because, as she maintained, "friendship will be more important than love" in the future. " Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false.

Alicia Freilich is a Venezuelan writer, novelist, journalist and educator. In his youth he worked as a day laborer, driver, construction worker and suffered imprisonment for leftist political views and oppositionist activities.

Odian's writings, which include novels and short stories, often humorously point out humanity's vices.

He began to work as a diplomat at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973, and served at various diplomatic posts in Canberra, New York, and Washington, D.C. Ihimaera remained at the Ministry until 1989, although his time there was broken by several fellowships at the University of Otago in 1975 and Victoria University of Wellington in 1982.

Géza Ottlik was a Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist.

In August 2010 Kona contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison After the death of Muhammad ibn Ismail in the 8th century AD, the teachings of Ismailism further transformed into the belief system as it is known today, with an explicit concentration on the deeper, esoteric meaning of the Islamic religion.

On 26 August 1903, Schnitzler married 21-year old aspiring actress and singer Olga Gussmann who came from a Jewish middle-class family. Williams was a printer, and eventually they bought the printing and publishing house Gwasg Gee, Denbigh, and moved to live in the town in 1935. Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including English and Chinese. It won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker prize. His father was an Orthodox priest in Petricani.

Shōtarō Yasuoka was a Japanese writer. Eventually, he suffered a fatal breakdown: after being slandered for his Floriano speech in a piece by journalist Luís Murat entitled "A Madman in the Cemetery", feeling himself scorned everywhere, he killed himself on Christmas, 1895.

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair, a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence; and a sequel entitled Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon.

Ivan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Peter Weiss earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist. Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer.

In Mikhailovskoe, in 1825, Pushkin wrote the poem To***. Despite having little chance of a decent education, he became familiar with works of literature. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country. Some of her works have also been read on BBC. Măcin is a town in Tulcea County, Dobrogea, Romania. examination.

Maria Dąbrowska was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes. In 1970, he wrote Um Copo de Cólera, published in 1978. He married five times, including a one-year marriage to the poet Fleur Adcock and a twelve year marriage to Robin Lee-Robinson, and had six sons.

Heiki Vilep is an Estonian poet and children's writer.

Alongside full length books, Montalvo was an accomplished essayist, and his Siete Tratados and Geometría Moral were popular in Ecuador and were banned by Veintemilla. His style is best characterized as a variation on magic realism.

Lauryn may refer to: He was inspired by the works of Honoré de Balzac, attempting to write a Romanian novel cycle that would mirror Balzac's La Comédie humaine.

Oliver Duff was a writer and foundation editor of the New Zealand Listener, and Duff inherited his grandfather's love of literature.

Some of Van der Heijden's books have been translated into German, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Spanish and Bulgarian. His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature. Their divorce was finalized on June 5, 1914.

1900. and Mikael Söderberg (b. ... in Iran, I don't think that we needed foreign intervention at any point. Some of his works are written under the pseudonym G. van Hasselt Asked why he did not leave Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, he later said, "Tel Aviv was not radical enough – only the kibbutz was radical enough". Soon after partition, he migrated to Pakistan with his family. After a degree in management and a master's degree in applied economy, she works some years in finance before changing course. She was a journalism student at the Lyceum of the Philippines, but dropped out even before she finished her freshman year.

The Shaoxing Zhou family was very well-educated, and his paternal grandfather Zhou Fuqing held posts in the Hanlin Academy; Zhou's mother, née Lu, taught herself to read. Also in 1938 she joined the Estonian Writers Association. After matriculating at a Lycée in the capital city of Bamako, he went to Paris in 1960, where he studied sociology, philosophy and English at Lycée Henry IV and from 1964 to 1966 he taught at the Lycée de Clarenton in suburban Paris, while studying for a doctorate in sociology at the École Normale Supérieure.

In the same year was founded in Stockholm the Gothic League, a sort of club of young and patriotic men of letters, of whom Tegnér quickly became the chief. She worked as a model for few years. He started infant classes in San Stefano Belbo, but the rest of his education was in schools in Turin. He started his career by writing short stories, considered by some critics as his strongest literary creations. For the first few years of their marriage her husband allowed her to write and publish stories under her pseudonym despite the common idea of writing being a purely masculine field in Egyptian culture.

Memmi has also written extensively on Judaism, including "Portrait of a Jew," "Liberation of the Jew" and "Jews and Arabs.

Milan learned to play the piano from his father; he later studied musicology and musical composition. Many of the situations and characters he encountered there later became part of his fictional world. He later continued his studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leningrad and took up journalism upon his return to Albania, working for the daily newspaper Zëri i Popullit for fifteen years.

His father Khwaja Mohammed Ghose was a businessman and moved with the family to Bombay during the Second World War in 1942. He obtained his early education in his native district. His first novel, The Simple Past, was published in 1954.

Aleksis Kivi ), born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers.

He was also a provincial deputy and a general deputy, and a member of the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute. In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket.

In November 1890, while at Prince Albert, Montgomery had her first work published in the Charlottetown paper The Daily Patriot; a poem entitled "On Cape LeForce".

Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha was the sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram, India. Her first feature-length film is Notre Étrangère, which The Hollywood Reporter called " A nicely observed docudrama about a biracial young French woman who goes back to her roots. After his return to Warsaw in 1887, the third volume of his Trilogy appeared — Pan Wołodyjowski — running in The Word from May 1887 to May 1888. He had two older sisters, Hermine and Mathilde.

Marcos Aguinis is an Argentine writer that has received several prestigious international awards. He was predestined to work in his father’s textile factory in Teesdorf, therefore, he attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college.

Francisco Massiani is Venezuelan a writer and painter. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature. He attended a Jesuit school in Lwów, then studied at a Warsaw Catholic seminary. His wife, Emilie, was buried beside him four years later. Mayombe, for example, is a novel that portrays the lives of a group of MPLA guerrillas who are involved in the anti-colonial struggle in Cabinda, Yaka follows the lives of members of a white settler family in the coastal town of Benguela, and A Geração da Utopia reveals the disillusionment of young Angolans during the post-independence period. In 1944, the family moved again, but this time back to an Assyrian community in Tehran, Iran.

Octavio Paz Lozano ; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

In the spring of 1914 the Singers moved to No.

Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. He launched an alphabetization campaign all over the territory and supervised the distribution of agricultural land to the poorest.

Sarah Bouyain is a French-Burkinabé writer and film director.

Jorge Salgado-Reyes is a Chilean/British science fiction author and private investigator.

He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż. He called for the youth of Latin America to reject materialism, to revert to Greco-Roman habits of free thought and self enrichment, and to develop and concentrate on their culture.

Jamal Mirsadeghi (Persian: جمال میرصادقی, b.

When one of Moscow's theatre directors severely criticised Bulgakov, Stalin personally protected him, saying that a writer of Bulgakov's quality was above "party words" like "left" and "right". His poetry combines formal virtuosity with a sympathy for the ordinary, the neglected and the down-trodden. Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were ruined by the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War of 1926-1928, a Roman Catholic integralist revolt against the government of Mexico following the Mexican Revolution.

Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his novel, St. Peter's Umbrella so much that he visited Mikszáth during his European trip in 1910 solely to express his admiration.

Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. Later, he was appointed Director of Foreign Publicity, Government of Pakistan. Asked about her subsequent prose drought, she explained, "There have been two major reasons for my not having worked on prose since Nervous Conditions: firstly, the novel was published only after I had turned to film as a medium; secondly, Virginia Woolf's shrewd observation that a woman needs £500 and a room of her own in order to write is entirely valid. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the publishing house Sovietskiy Pisatel.

The decision was viewed as evidence of political corruption by the opposition National Peasants' Party, whose press deemed Sadoveanu the "Count of Ciorogârla". His most important teacher at the time was Augusto Monti, writer and educator, whose writing style was devoid of all rhetoric. His novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. He was Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of Malaya until 1997 when he took up writing full time. He wrote on popular culture, Canadian history, critiques of mainstream religion, anthologies, children's books and historical works for youth. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori. He spoke Italian as a second language.

Aminatta Forna is a Scottish-born British writer. Recently, many critics have begun to see his works in a new light and they have also attracted the attention of younger readers.

From 1988–95, editor Rea Wilmshurst collected and published numerous short stories by Montgomery.

Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. He was born in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. He studied law in Patna and then devoted his time to writing. Pompeia was born in 1863, to Antônio d'Ávila Pompeia and Rosa Teixeira Pompeia. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer.

Popescu then worked as a reporter for the literary magazine Steaua from 1956 to 1969, and then as editor of Tribuna magazine, from 1969 to 1982.

] de la Parra travelled and had an intense social life.

Born as Chen Mao Ping, the writer's pseudonym was adopted from a character of acclaimed caricaturist Zhang Leping's most famous work, entitled Sanmao.

Waltari also scripted the popular cartoon Kieku ja Kaiku and wrote Aiotko kirjailijaksi, a guidebook for aspiring writers that influenced many younger writers such as Kalle Päätalo.

In 1988 Mouloud Mammeri received an honorary doctorate from Sorbonne. Then he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children.

In parallel to his writing career, Davidar has been a publisher for a quarter century. His application for a passport was denied. Meanwhile, Aleksei wrote and published his "Trans-Volga" series. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinsón urbano, a collection of his journalistic work, was published in 1984. The novel is set in the somewhat hysterical atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Petersburg and the Russian Revolution of 1905. In 1953, his works were published in the United States for the first time, by Michigan State University Press, who later, relinquished the rights to Viking Press. This volume contains the oft-anthologized story, "Swimming Lessons. He was born in Fes in 1915 of Berber parents. In the same year he published a volume of work which included the drama Ślub and the novel Trans-Atlantyk, where the subject of national identity on emigration was controversially raised. He taught creative writing at UCLA.

From 1969 to 1972, Yunus was assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Born in Buenos Aires to immigrant parents, he was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. She is also an American blogger for the Huffington Post and for her own journalism blog, at-Largely.

In his teens, Galeano worked odd jobs – as a factory worker, a bill collector, a sign painter, a messenger, a typist, and a bank teller. He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories. After studying literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he began teaching. He graduated as a medical doctor, later specializing in psychiatry.

Peter Verhelst is a Belgian Flemish novelist, poet and dramatist.

In 1952, Gao entered the Nanjing Number 10 Middle School which was the Middle School attached to Nanjing University.

In 1980 Shamiakin became the chief editor of the Soviet Belarusian Encyclopedia. With her feelings of social inferiority, her timidity, and the increasing poverty of her family, her diary was the place where she could assert herself. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata, Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada, Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il nero. In 2001 he received the Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen. She studied in the Cathedral and John Connon School.

Because his father's vocation required frequent relocation, Tanpınar continued his education in several different cities, including Istanbul, Sinop, Siirt, Kirkuk, and Antalya.

Rambriksh Benipuri hailed from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and took active part in the Indian freedom movement. Her father was a public prosecutor, but died early on, so the family lived in poverty.

Desai is the daughter of the Anita Desai, herself short-listed for the Booker Prize on three occasions.

Bjørnson is considered as one of The Four Greats Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. He has been a member of the International Jury for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage, 2003 & 2004. The book enjoyed an unexpected publishing success and went through five consecutive editions.

On a trip to the village Sessenheim, Goethe fell in love with Friederike Brion, in October 1770, but, after ten months, terminated the relationship in August 1771. He received the Tamil Nadu Government's literary award for the best Novel for 2011 for his work on tannery workers of Southern Tamil Nadu titled "Thol". On 25 February his poem De-aș avea was published in Iosif Vulcan's literary magazine Familia in Pest.

Ilgaz started writing poetry during his junior school years and evolved into one of the prolific social-realist writers of 20th century Turkish literature.

Andrić attended the Jesuit gymnasium in Travnik, followed by Sarajevo's gymnasium and later he studied philosophy at the Universities of Zagreb, Vienna, Kraków, and Graz.

1904 was Sadoveanu's effective debut year: he published four separate books, including Şoimii, Povestiri, Dureri înăbuşite and Crâşma lui Moş Petcu. These poems included topics and characters previously not shown in Latvian poetry - the city night life, homeless people, prostitutes, poor suburbs, even the sewers in blockhouses. For one thing, he was afraid that the government might stop funding his expensive cancer treatment if he gave away the rights to his work to a foreign entity.

Johnson published some shorter works and continued to do some work as an editor.

Leopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century. She emigrated to the United States with her family after being invited to write the screenplay for the film. However, the writer Jiro Fukushima published a revealing homosexual correspondence between himself and the famed novelist.

Lauryn may refer to:

Hubert Leon Lampo was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. In fact, at least since 1993 a hallmark of his work is an almost frenetic level of writing and publication—two to four novella-length books each year. He also wrote the column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Isyu, an opinion tabloid.

Elif Şafak is an established and outspoken Turkish author, columnist, speaker and academic.

In 1958, his father—head of department in one of the ministries, slandered with accusations of embezzlement, then exonerated by the court of all charges—committed suicide; Péter Nádas became an orphan at 16. She continued her gender-segregated education at the American Girls College in Cairo, Egypt, graduating in 1966.

Son of Anastase and Maria, Leonardos was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 20 February 1937.

Heiki Vilep is an Estonian poet and children's writer. Active member of liberalism, participates in seminars and conferences from the Freedom Foundation organized by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Meanwhile Pontianus himself married the daughter of one Herennius Rufinus; he, indignant that Pudentilla's wealth should pass out of the family, instigated his son-in-law, together with a younger brother, Sicinius Pudens, a mere boy, and their paternal uncle, Sicinius Aemilianus, to join him in impeaching Apuleius upon the charge that he had gained the affections of Pudentilla by charms and magic spells.

Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. His novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia.

Reşat Nuri attended primary school in Çanakkale, the Çanakkale Secondary School and the İzmir School of Freres. Major influences on his writings include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.

Annamarie Jagose is a queer writer of academic and fictional works. She also attended the British Institute in Cairo from 1946 to 1949 where she studied English. Both of these were among the leading Romanian theatrical troupes of their day, the latter including Matei Millo and Fanny Tardini-Vlădicescu. She currently lives in Mumbai. He developed a science fiction website aimed at helping authors working in the genre fer television.

There are few reliable sources for the details of Lalon's early life as he was reticent in revealing his past, though there has been considerable speculation about his physical appearance, religious background etc. Comrade Zylo is a universal figure, a character to be found in any society or age, and critics have been quick to draw parallels ranging from Daniel Defoe and Nikolay Gogol’s Revizor to Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera's Zert. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981.

From 1969 to 1980 Mouloud Mammeri directed the Anthropological, Prehistoric and Ethnographic Research center at Algiers. He was among the first to respond when Neda was shot, but his attempts to save her life were unsuccessful. He attended Yeshivat Kol Torah and Knesses Chizkiyahu and married at age 21. He has taught both in Somalia and the U.S., and is the author of numerous short stories, two novels, a collection of fables, as well as articles and essays.

An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors. She has translated into Romanian Guy de Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Hector Bianciotti's Sans la miséricorde du Christ. " St. Amands, his native city, has dedicated a museum to this giant of Belgian literature, showing many original manuscripts of his works and letters along with works of his artistic friends Théo van Rysselberghe, Leon Spilliaert, Constantin Meunier, Paul Signac and Ossip Zadkine. He also worked in an agency in charge of the translation of Mao Zedong's works for a time. He did not spend long fighting in the front line, being captured by the Russians on September 24, 1915.

Gangopadhyay's body was cremated on 25 October at Keoratola crematorium, Kolkata.

A son, Carlos Fuentes Lemus, died from complications associated with hemophilia in 1999 at the age of 25. Since then his books have enjoyed unprecedented popularity in Estonia with the old and the young, the literary elite and the popular culture. While he was young, his parents changed his name seven times. But it was his discovery of Caryl Phillips' The Final Passage that allowed him to see the possibilities of fiction writing from an authentic Caribbean - specifically Jamaican - perspective.

As well as producing novels and short stories, Abril Espinoza is also a playwright and scriptwriter. Dee was born in Bandung, West Java on 20 January 1976; she was the fourth of five children born to a religious Christian family. Historically it has also been known in English as "the British tongue", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric".

Kupala's first serious literary attempt was Ziarno, a Polish-language sentimental poem which he completed around 1903–1904 under the pseudonym "K-a. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata, Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada, Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il nero. Since 1990 he has been a full-time author.

Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction. In the 1990s, he received numerous prizes, including Ateneo de Sevilla Prize for El amante bilingüe and the Critic Prize and Aristeion Prize for El embrujo de Shanghai. The book takes a critical look at the belief many Africans have that a better life can be found in Europe.

Borgen was editor of the literary magazine Vinduet 1954-1959.

Fanon left France for Algeria, where he had been stationed for some time during the war.

Herbjørg Wassmo is a Norwegian author.

Ott has won other awards, including: Juana Sujo ; the McLaren Comedy Playwriting Competition, for "I Tawt I Taw a Putty Tat" ; Puerto Rico’s Critics’ Award, for "Los peces crecen con la luna"; Best Play, Karzinbarcika Festival and Liverpool Festival for "Pavlov"; Best Play, MB-Prague Festival 2003 for "Passport"; Best Play, Yakumo Festival 2007 for “Wet Dog Waiting”; Venezuela’s Writers’ Circle Award and First Runner-up, Princess Grace Award-New York for "80 Teeth, 4 Feet & 500 Pounds"; CELCIT Award for "80 Dientes..."; "Miss" and Panama’s Escenas Award for “Divorciadas, evangélicas y vegetarianas”; and since 1990 six Municipal Theater Awards, including Best Director in 1998. It is highly musical and lends itself to musical setting; as songs it has developed into the much wider world of popular music and frequently been re-recorded by Swedish singers like Olle Adolphson, Monica Zetterlund, the Värmland group Sven-Ingvars and recently the Swedish band Mando Diao on their album Infruset. This prize is an international environment and development prize, awarded annually. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him. While in prison in Bursa he met Hikmet, who was his major literary influence.

Pinto Coelho grew up in Portugal.

Other themes that occur in Lampo's work are the myths of Orpheus and the Holy Grail.

Rolland was fascinated with Istrati's adventurous life, urging him to write more, and publishing part of his works in the magazine he and Henri Barbusse owned, Clarté. She settled in Bruges and became a teacher at high school. She wrote short stories and children's books.

Raheja did his schooling from Apeejay School and DPS Faridabad.

Jaime Manrique Colombian American author, poet, and journalist. He started his writing career as a journalist and remained a writer of short, humorous blurbs until his death. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. With Los pequeños seres, his first novel, Garmedia showed his remarkable dowries of observation and his interest by the routine existence of the inhabitants of the urban centres and of the alienation that suffer in their work and with their relatives. In 1845 d'Azeglio visited Romagna as an unauthorized political envoy, to report on its conditions and the troubles which he foresaw would break out on the death of Pope Gregory XVI. Later he studied engineering in Electronics from the Madras Institute of Technology.

After the Qur'an school and the schools of Fes Sefrioui has made French his own.

Duignan was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington in 2000. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan.

Lalami became the first Moroccan author to publish a book of fiction written in English with a major commercial press in the United States. In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". In 1927, travels to New York City to treat a throat ailment, dying in that city at the age of 56, his last work was published after his death, entitled Entre colinas en flor.

One of his sons, Martin Crump is now a well-known radio broadcaster.

Lem became truly productive after 1956, when the de-Stalinization period in the Soviet Union led to the "Polish October", when Poland experienced an increase in freedom of speech. He embarked on a full-time literary career only around the age of 40. The following year, he began working at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí. His columns have regularly appeared in El País and Die Welt. On the other hand, the downfall of the provincial lady has place amidst two very diverse suitors: the most handsome man in the city and the cathedral's priest.

Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

Vassanji has been nominated for the Giller Prize for best work of fiction in Canada three times, winning twice. He has published three novels in Danish – Krat, Undtagelsen, and Du Forsvinder. His works have been published in more than 20 languages.

Memmi has also written extensively on Judaism, including "Portrait of a Jew," "Liberation of the Jew" and "Jews and Arabs. Without the Jews to blame, the Nazi party collapsed; the expulsion law was repealed, and the Jews were welcomed back to Vienna. The letter to his publisher said: He never again lived in Germany, though he regularly traveled there. The charges included "reading the works of Maxim Gorky and Nazim Hikmet" and "propagandising for foreign regimes and encouring revolt". After addressing packed audiences about, "the contemptible nature of the White emigration," he returned to Berlin to put his affairs in order.

Kidman grew up in Northland and worked as a librarian in Rotorua after leaving school. Some of his Urdu columns are archived at Urdu-Columns.com. It won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker prize. He received a B.A. He would stay in Florence until 1868. The book enjoyed an unexpected publishing success and went through five consecutive editions. He spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, where he first began to write. Born in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary, he studied engineering at the University of Budapest, and only afterwards turned towards architecture. From 1999 until his death he lived in Rabat.

Marshall has been ranked among the very finest, if not the finest, New Zealand’s short story writers, as reported in the New Zealand Book Council short biography of the author. He moved to his father's hometown of Vienna at the age of six. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte described his death as "a loss for Dutch literature and the Netherlands". Starting in 1924 he worked at MÁVAG, railway machinery plant, and began his true professional life. Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Litoral, where he taught History of Cinematography.

In 1978, after more than two decades of preparation, investigation and study, the first volume of Zlatno runo was published, fully establishing Pekić as one of the most important Serbian authors.

Sarojini Sahoo is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winner Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by ‘Kindle’ English magazine of Kolkata. as he is called among book lovers) is most known for his multi-novel saga De tandeloze tijd about his alter-ego Albert Egberts.

Indeed this does not have to be taken literally, but it does show the type of emotional insecurity that Kawabata felt, especially experiencing two painful love affairs at a young age. He was born in the city of Kars in a Kurdish family in present-day north-eastern Turkey. The Sardar has associates like Tukaram and his henchmen, like Wagle and Irfan, etc.

Six months later, Saramago clarified.

While traveling together in Paris, Tolstoy wrote in his diary, "Turgenev is a bore. He returned to Einaudi in 1950, responsible this time for the literary volumes.

His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation.

As a child, Farah frequented schools in Somalia and adjacent Ethiopia, attending classes in Kallafo in the Ogaden. Although he supported the independence movement in Tunisia, he was not able to find a place in the new Muslim state[clarification needed]. His other novels include Beltenebros, a story of love and political intrigue in post-Civil War Madrid, Los misterios de Madrid, and El dueño del secreto. He has helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House, for whom he wrote the libretto of their first production, a version of Macbeth set among a troop of baboons in the Okavango Delta.

Sardar Surender Singh Sohal, a.k.a. He became a civil servant under British rule and started career as a school teacher.

Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch; Weekendpelgrimage, In de straten van Tepalka ; and De morgen loeit weer aan, which was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize. He studied law in Patna and then devoted his time to writing. At the same time, he began writing more seriously.

Because of his political activities, Andrić was imprisoned by the Austrian government during World War I alongside other pro-Yugoslav civilians. She made her poetry debut in the literary magazine Steaua, and her editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84 at Dacia Publishing House.

Dona Maria José became Joaquim’s godmother; her brother-in-law, commendatory Joaquim Alberto de Sousa da Silveira, was his godfather, and both were paid homage by giving their names to the baby.

Sebbar deals with a variety of topics, and either adopts a purely fictional approach or uses psychology to make her point.

Mishra's latest work is a travelogue on China, A Great Clamour, published by Penguin in 2013. She grew up in a liberal family. He fell in love with a woman called Antonia Quick in 1969. She has also been involved in theater, both as actress and director.

Aldo Busi is an Italian writer and translator mostly active in the last twenty years.

Roland Michel Tremblay is a French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant. In 1896 he was elected to parliament and in 1901 became the president of the Petőfi Society.

Kracht was born in Saanen. " Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa stated, "with him, we lose a writer whose work and whose presence left a deep imprint". Since that book's publication he has written a children's book, an opera for children and several poems.

After his first job with a bank in Hilversum, Nooteboom traveled throughout Europe. He lives in Marrakech. He was among the first to respond when Neda was shot, but his attempts to save her life were unsuccessful. She then lived in London for two years, where she played small roles in James Bond films and modelled for fashion magazines. Later, he became leader of the Socialist Union of the Working People mass organization in Kosovo, and was from 1965 to 1967 manager of the Kosovar publishing house Rilindja. They also published two collections of essays on life in the rural communities as well as the city bourgeousie. He was a colonial administrator in Belgian Congo. She has two brothers, one who is six years older and one who is five years younger.

Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English and is resident in America. His novels have been translated into several languages. After spending his adolescence in Mozambique, he returned to the UK where his further education was completed. In the same year he published La scomparsa di Majorana, dealing with the mysterious disappearance of scientist Ettore Majorana. She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. It became the first in his Adrien Zograffi literary cycle. Brofeldtin saarnoja and his father had been a chaplain and his grandfather a vicar.

Kossi Efoui is a Togolese writer.

Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Defence. He writes frequently for The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian. In the same year he published a volume of work which included the drama Ślub and the novel Trans-Atlantyk, where the subject of national identity on emigration was controversially raised.

In 1933, Petrescu wrote the novel Patul lui Procust. He received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Lahore Literary Festival in 2012.

In 2013, Marías was awarded the prestigious Prix Formentor. As he was unable to publish his works for political reasons, he earned his living translating.

Alavi himself claimed that he was not involved politically at the time and simply was in a group of literati, who among other things read communist writings. " Collin, who preferred women, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering.

In despair, Bulgakov first wrote a personal letter to Joseph Stalin, then on March 28, 1930, a letter to the Soviet government. We were in exile in India for twelve years [1917–1929] so I had my schooling in India, and thereafter I joined my college there.

Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist. She is currently teaching a semester at the University of Richmond.

In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic Republican Party in 1980, Nafisi soon became restless with the stringent rules imposed upon women by the new government.

Farah Mohamed Jama Awl (Somali: Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl, Arabic: فارح محمد جامع عول‎; b. His works dealt mostly with issues related to the rights of the Albanian communities outside Albania, republicanism, emancipation of women and feminism. With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, but was forced to return to Canada in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. It is highly musical and lends itself to musical setting; as songs it has developed into the much wider world of popular music and frequently been re-recorded by Swedish singers like Olle Adolphson, Monica Zetterlund, the Värmland group Sven-Ingvars and recently the Swedish band Mando Diao on their album Infruset. He returned to Mexico City in 1954, where he wrote his great poem "Piedra de sol" in 1957 and Libertad bajo palabra, a compilation of his poetry up to that time. He was also a founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. His work is based on firm political principles and much of it is rooted in the ordinary life and sentiments of ordinary, modest working-class people in Florence. The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post-Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy.

Felix Mnthali is a Malawian poet, novelist and playwright.

Odian spent the last days of his life in Cairo, Egypt where he was buried. The letters cover topics such as their writing projects, books they were reading and personal concerns. He squatted on the floor, and was with difficulty prevailed upon by his wife, Safia, to leave the stage. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924.

Čapek would maintain a close relationship with his brother Josef, living and writing with him throughout his adult life. Francisco Esaú Cossa is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province. A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior lecturer at Pavia University.

An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors.

Paul Kearney was a Northern Irish fantasy author. In this novel, one of the chief characters, Timóteo, is the family's gay scion, who lives secluded in the ancestral mansion, always dressed in drag with his mother's old clothes, and who stands for the unravelling of the traditional order embodied in the mansion.

Lessa died on June 8, 2012 from pulmonary emphysema in London.

Qian was relieved of teaching duties and worked entirely in the Institute of Literary Studies under PKU.

His family name "Choukri" is connected to the name Ayt Chiker which is the Berber tribe cluster he belonged to before fleeing hunger to Tangiers. He is half Danish and holds Danish rather than Norwegian citizenship. He addresses the topic of same-sex love in the tale Cuìyǎ lóu.

Santos received an honorary doctorate degrees in humanities and letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University in 1981. In 1980, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Harvard, and in 1982, he won the Neustadt Prize. He published over 20 novels, of which On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages.

The reunion was so emotional that Appelfeld has never been able to write about it. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. He died in Seattle suffering from an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia.

The best edition of Eötvös collected works is that of 1891, in 17 volumes. Such works represented a turn against the naturalism of the preceding romantics and was both sensuous and mystical. He began working in 1920 in the Ruskica marble mine as a technician.

At the age of 17, Kaniuk joined the Palmach. He spent long time in the Khanaqa of Mawlana Khalid in Sulaimany.

She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film Water. Following his death, the Chilean government recognized him as a central figure of 20th-century Chilean literature.

Haddis Alemayehu 15 October 1910 – 6 December 2003), also transliterated Hadis Alamayahu, was a Foreign Minister and novelist from Ethiopia.

Khan is married to the American writer, David Maine.

Jagadish Mohanty is a renowned Oriya writer, considered as a trendsetter in modern Oriya fiction, has received the prestigious Sarala Award 2003, Orissa Sahitya Akademy Award 1990, Jhankar Award, 1985 Dharitri Award, Prajatantra Award.

Tomasi di Lampedusa was often the guest of his cousin, the poet Lucio Piccolo, with whom he travelled in 1954 to San Pellegrino Terme to attend a literary awards ceremony, where he met, among others, Eugenio Montale and Maria Bellonci.

Saltykov-Shchedrin's last works were published by Vestnik Evropy and Russkye vedomosti, among them a collection of satirical fables and tales which he started back in 1869.

Cao was the son of either Cao Fu or Cao Yong. " As with his earlier visit to America, he still found Americans too casual, friendly and Francophilic for his taste. In 1890, he published a new novel, Su único hijo.

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer.

Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian writer of twenty novels and one collection of short stories.

Mercedes Franco is a Venezuelan author and novelist. This style of education is recounted in his novel Rhys Lewis, given to the character 'Robyn y Sowldiwr'. He has been a member of the International Jury for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage, 2003 & 2004.

In his native town the Biblioteca di Bufalino is now named after him.

Although his father wanted him to become a lawyer, Krúdy worked as an editor at provincial newspapers for several years, then moved to Budapest in 1896.

Amba Bongo is a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo-(Kinshasa. After the war he studied at the Homel Pedagogical University, worked as an editor and had different Communist Party positions in the local party offices in Belarus. His writing is as controversial and provocative as his own life and personality – a semiotician and former advertising executive, he has once said that sometimes he wishes that truck drivers and prostitutes would write more books because they have unusual stories to tell.

Boudjedra was awarded the Prix du Roman Arabe in 2010 for Les Figuiers de Barbarie.

As a child, Linna loved adventure novels which he borrowed from the local library. Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. His writings and openly gay lifestyle were, by 1967, bringing him into conflict with the Communist government.

Khan is married to the American writer, David Maine.

Gao's father was a clerk in the Bank of China, and his mother was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 2008, she published Luisito- A Love Story.

Carmen Covito is an Italian writer and translator. He now spends at least half the year in Maputo working with the theatre and writing.

His grandfather, Dinesh Chandra Sen, was a well-known writer and a doyen of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. He also has the distinction of being the first Somali novelist to write in the nascent Latin script for the Somali language after its formalization in 1972. His most appreciated novels are stories unifying elements from detective novels and romance, always including a highly individual sense of humour. After teaching at Haverford College and Stanford University, he is currently the Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University.

After attending Malvern College and spending a brief time in Switzerland, Arlen enrolled as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, despite his and his family's intention that he go to Oxford University. Abigél was also chosen as the sixth most popular novel at the Hungarian version of Big Read. where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro. In 1940, aged 62, he was again uprooted by the German invasion of France, and spent weeks in a refugee camp in Mende.

Dag Solstad lives in part-time in Berlin and part-time in Oslo. Since that book's publication he has written a children's book, an opera for children and several poems. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide's description of the film is that a woman demands that her husband leave and he complies. From 1965 to 1972 he taught Berber at the university in the department of ethnology. Afeworq's relationship with Taytu only worsened, so he was relieved when he was asked in September 1894 to escort two men to Neuchatel in Switzerland where they had been enrolled at the International School. In 2010, he was a William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and a visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College, California, a jury member of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and an Academie de France Villa Medici fellow in Roma, Italy.

Gheorghiu was ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Paris on May 23, 1963. Her work has been translated into French, German, Catalan, Danish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Portuguese. She has subsequently lived in France. His first book, Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, was a travelogue that described the social and cultural changes in India in the context of globalization.

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties. He died of natural causes at his home in Kawasaki on September 21, 2009.

Aminatta Forna is a Scottish-born British writer.

Named ‘Muhajiroun’, the publisher is intended to print the works of Arab writers free from the difficulties of publishing in the Arab world, which Mus'ad sees as being beset by problems engendered by ‘the state of decline in the Arab political scene’.

Camilo was born out of wedlock and orphaned in infancy, although his origins lay ultimately in Northern Portugal's provincial aristocracy. His first book of short stories,“Çıplak Ayaklıydı Gece“, was published in 1992. He is the author of Full Circle, a literary novel set in Congo.

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL was a Portuguese writer and diplomat.

Ivan became well known in the late 1970s, when he wrote the Assyrian Manifesto; a blue print for the formation of an Assyrian interim government. In 1997, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic, where he won considerable notoriety for his work in the 1990s. He has published two novels and a short story collection, and has contributed as a writer and/or editor to several short story collections and literary magazines. Married Sam Stewart in 1970. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He was president of the Kateb Yacine foundation and he also held the position of vice-president at Amnesty International.

They were the parents of Norwegian author and cultural historian, Erik Lie. The book features 12 interlinked short stories. Ştefănescu, who sees the writer's activities as responsible for making the library "a sui generis literary club". It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire with echoes of the real-life Catalan Company.

Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction.

From 1936, in collaboration with her elder brother Jean Amrouche and her mother, Amrouche collected and began to interpret Kabyle songs. She went on to work as a camerawomen for several films, and eventually directed several of her own. She worked as a model for few years. "

Jaime Manrique Colombian American author, poet, and journalist.

His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. He also wrote a few plays which were performed on stage.

De Lisser was born in Falmouth, Jamaica, and attended William Morrison's Collegiate School in Kingston.

Sia Figiel grew up amidst the traditional Samoan singing and poetry which heavily influenced her writing. Since 2011, she has been the Head of the School of Letters, Art and Media at the University of Sydney.

At the age of 46, Bibhutibhushan married Rama Chattopadhyay and the couple raised a son, Taradas, who was born in 1947. One of his grandfathers was a foreman stonemason in the royal employ. He got his degree of secondary education in the area of Philosophy in 1929. She began her teaching career in 1991 in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Chidgey’s honours include the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters; the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; the Todd New Writers’ Bursary; the Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing at the University of Canterbury; and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Besides this, she offer her opinion on art, film, literature, music, and politics in the blog Ideas de Babel.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää ) was one of the most famous Finnish writers and in 1939 became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Contrasting myths have been built around her life. In 1998 his wife died. She was born in Ivești, Galați County, the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe. Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times". He has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Often the entries are written as if they were part of a novel. Although he wrote a novel, 1971) and a number of short stories, he is best known for his tales and stories for children. In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä, probably the longest autobiographical narrative in the world. Looked beyond the official history of the country and created a parallel narrative to it. He was born in the village of Çalê located in the region of Nusaybin in southeastern Turkey.

Isacovici grew up in Sighetu Marmaţiei on his parents' farm.

Lars Saabye Christensen, born 21 September 1953 in Oslo, is a Norwegian author.

Tannella Boni is an Ivorian poet and novelist. He has written ten novels, numerous short stories, a fiction dictionary, and published some research on literature and the short story.

Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and father of the Flemish movement. His work depicts obsessive, often erotic, feelings. He survived by helping the inmates to write letters to wives and lovers.

Dervishi was born in 1943 in Đakovica/Gjakova in the region disputed between Yugoslavia and Axis-occupied Albania.

In 1957 Tomasi di Lampedusa was diagnosed with lung cancer; he died on July 23 in Rome.

Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour.

Although Ngaahika Ndeenda was a commercial success, it was shut down by the authoritarian Kenyan regime six weeks after its opening. In 2002, he debuted with the novel The Beheading Cycle (クビキリサイクル, Kubikiri Saikuru? . While there, she met visual artist Paul Keele, and they were married in 1968.

Delmira Agustini, a Uruguayan poet, is considered one of the greatest female Latin American poets of the early 20th century. After some family tensions, she returned to Japan to work in a Japanese company in Tokyo. Born in Trifeştii Vechi, Moldavia, he studied at home with a Greek teacher. He was born in a village called Miks in the Hakkari region of the Ottoman Empire.

Van der Heijden has won many awards, including all the big Dutch literary awards: the 2013 P. C. Hooft Award for his entire oeuvre, the 2012 Libris Literatuur Prijs for Tonio, and the 2007 AKO Literatuurprijs for Het schervengericht and the 1997 AKO Literatuurprijs for Onder het plaveisel het moeras. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. He will meet her only when he is in his twenties.

Jaime Manrique Colombian American author, poet, and journalist.

In 1967, his widow Marion Howard Spring wrote an affectionate story of their life together called 'Howard' which was published by Collins.

Larisa Alexandrovna is a journalist, essayist, and poet.

Hasani finished primary school and Gazi Isa-bey medrese in Skopje. His novels include Laro sa Baga, and Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag. Her novellas are considered[who?

Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kōbō? He is fond of employing the short-story as a form. Probably Karatkievich's most popular work is the novel King Stakh's Wild Hunt. After the band’s breakup, he went on to join the rugby club, which he found especially grueling. After attending a gymnasium in Kattowitz, he made extensive studies in history, philosophy and literature at several universities – Breslau, Munich, Berlin, Göttingen, Rostock and Tübingen. He was also active in the Comité Consultatif International de Documentation des Bibliothèques et des Archives and then from 1968 to 1979 served as a UNESCO expert on educational systems for much of West Africa.

From amongst one hundred fifty odd short stories Mandir was selected to be the best of the year - judged by the veteran editor of the Vasumati, Sri Jaldhar Sen. Mandir was published in the name of Surendranath - and was incidentally the first ever printed story by Sarat Chandra.

David Ananou was a writer from Togo, and the author of Le Fils du fétiche. Later he started with teaching Kurdish at basic level. He worked closely with the literary journal Mana, and edited in 1975 collections of poems from Fiji, Western Samoa, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon Islands. Initially he embarked on various literary pursuits, including novels such as Ye'imba debdabbéwoch, a collection of short stories titled Birr ambar sebberelliwo, and writings dealing with Ethiopian political themes such as starvation.

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Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She went to the Catholic Sacred Heart School in Tokyo after elementary school. His most famous novel is Symphony of the Dead. Măcin is a town in Tulcea County, Dobrogea, Romania.

Anne Provoost is a Flemish author who now lives in Antwerp with her husband and three children. She is considered by many to be one of the most important francophone writers in Canadian history and one of the most influential Canadian authors. The book was already printed when Lacroix refused to distribute it to the booksellers as he feared prosecution for blasphemy or obscenity. After the war he studied at the Homel Pedagogical University, worked as an editor and had different Communist Party positions in the local party offices in Belarus. In the same year he completed work on the second part of Faust from.

Bernhard's grandfather, the author Johannes Freumbichler, pushed for an artistic education for the boy, including musical instruction.

Securing his literary legacy was of the utmost importance to Choukri, but the promises that were made to him were not kept "The decision was whether to give it to a European or an American university or whether to entrust it to a Moroccan institution," the literary agent explains.

Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. In 1917, he founded the avant garde Jidishe Kultur Lige in Kiev. However, with the start of the Portuguese Colonial War home in Angola, he was summoned to serve in the Portuguese Armed Forces and decided to flee Portugal. Thanks to a scholarship, he moved to Paris in 1968.

Both his older siblings, brother Israel Joshua Singer, and sister Esther Kreitman, were writers as well.

Mercedes Franco is a Venezuelan author and novelist. Since 1983, she has lived mainly in France. While there, he cowrote what remains the only book on the country's legal system, The Criminal Law of Botswana.

Giulio Angioni is considered, with Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, one of the initiators of a so-called Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena, which followed the works of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta.

Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist. Settling in 1948 in Great Britain, he attended night school, trained and worked as a telegrapher in London, while also writing.

Jorge Icaza Coronel was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel Huasipungo, which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites. That year he wrote his first novel, Piazza d'Italia, in which he tried to describe history from the losers' point of view, in this case the Tuscan anarchists, in the tradition of great Italian writers of a more or less recent past, such as Giovanni Verga, Federico De Roberto, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Beppe Fenoglio, and contemporary authors, like Vincenzo Consolo.

His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes. in History.

One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership. His novels have been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, and Thai. It was in the French translation by Pierre Hourcade. At age 17, Joaquín had his first piece published, in the literary section of the pre-World War II Tribune, where he worked as a proofreader.

Although he only left Cuba on at most two occasions, Lezama's poetry, essays and two novels draw images and ideas from nearly all of the world's cultures and from all historical time periods. She also wrote Pisma iz Indije / Letters from India in 1928, Pisma iz Misira / Letters from Egypt in 1929, and Novi svet ili u Americi godinu dana / The New World, alias: In America for a Year in 1934.

Popescu then worked as a reporter for the literary magazine Steaua from 1956 to 1969, and then as editor of Tribuna magazine, from 1969 to 1982.

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.

Eunice de Souza is a contemporary Indian English language poet, literary critic and novelist. Thus he was able to compile a wealth of information on the amazigh language and literature. The cause of death was ischemic heart disease.

George Leonardos is a Greek author of historical novels.

As his studies did not progress, Goethe was forced to return to Frankfurt at the close of August 1768.

Although the studio was open to men and women, Baum writes in her memoir, It Was All Quite Different, that only a few women trained there: “I don’t know how the feminine element sneaked into those masculine realms, but in any case, only three or four of us were tough enough to go through with it.” Positioning herself as a “New Woman,” she asserted her independence in the traditionally male domain of boxing and challenged old gender categories. He attended vocational studies in motor mechanics.

Unamuno was a well-known lusophile, being probably the best Spanish connoisseur of Portuguese culture, literature, and history of his time. He published his poems, stories and works in some artificial magazines and newspapers such as Adam Sanat, Hişt, Öküz ve Cumhuriyet Kitap and Yeni Yüzyıl At thirteen he attempted suicide by hanging himself.

His family moved several times, and young Henryk spent his childhood on family estates in Grabowce Górne, Wężyczyn and Burzec.

János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies.

Anzia Yezierska was an American novelist born in Maly Plock, Poland. His most famous novel is Symphony of the Dead. He was also an award winner Astrologer.

Dag Solstad is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into several languages.

The Hans Fallada Prize, a literary prize awarded by the city of Neumünster, was named after the author.

Oz's work has been published in some 41 languages, including Arabic, in 35 countries.

In 1957 Tomasi di Lampedusa was diagnosed with lung cancer; he died on July 23 in Rome.

Here the family defined themselves as Afrikaners, with the Behr children attending Afrikaans language schools and the conservative Dutch Reformed church.

As a novelist writing about Polish history, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz.

In a 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuściński and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates. She was the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow for 2006 and President of Honour of the New Zealand Book Council.

Sirah Baldé de Labé was a Guinean novelist and teacher. Upon his return to Japan, he was promoted to surgeon first class in May 1885; after graduating from the Army War College in 1888, he was promoted to senior surgeon, second class in October 1889. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2001-2003 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. But he refused it. He attended University College London, Balliol College, Oxford and has also been Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College.

Gombrowicz wrote in Polish, however, in view of his decision not to allow his works to be published in his native country until the ban on the unabridged version of Dziennik, in which he described the Polish authorities' slanderous attacks on him, was lifted he remained a largely unknown figure to the general reading public until the first half of the 1970s. Then he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children.

Tansi's partner died from the disease on 31 May 1995 and Tansi followed 14 days later. It gained further fame with a film based on the novel. She has served as the Managing Editor of Investigative News of The Raw Story for the last three years, and contributes opinion and columns to online publications such as Alternet. As a boy, he began his education within the system of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, studying at the monasteries of Debre Elias, Debre Werq, and Dima.

During this time Mutis' family stayed at his grandfather's coffee and sugar cane plantation, Coello. His "Thol" Novel is an Apt example of that effort. He subsequently edited the newspaper Pesti Napló.

Davidar has been married to Rachna Singh, a bookseller, since 1997. ) is a Japanese author born on December 24, 1920, in Hiroshima, Japan. Her novels include Light and Darkness Continued, An I Novel from left to right, and A Real Novel, which has been selected for the Japanese Literature Publishing Project, a national program to promote translations of Japanese literature. The following year, she wrote her debut short novel at the age of 12.

Characterised by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simultaneously sought fame and anonymity, Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a magical realist style, garnering numerous local literary prizes despite mixed critical and public reception. However, with the start of the Portuguese Colonial War home in Angola, he was summoned to serve in the Portuguese Armed Forces and decided to flee Portugal. It was in the French translation by Pierre Hourcade.

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Javier Abril Espinoza is a Honduran writer based in Switzerland. It anticipated a utopian world where women held many positions of authority—and coincidentally New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote, and from 1997 to 2008 continuously had a female Prime Minister, while for a short period women simultaneously held all five highest government offices. Of the five hundred who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of ten who survived.

More recently Tremblay has been writing poetry, novels and film scripts mostly in English.

Gheorghiu was ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Paris on May 23, 1963. In 2007, he contributed the original story and wrote the screenplay for the animated film Anna and the Moods. The bulk of her writing can be seen as being somewhat similar in style that of Anita Brookner, Raymond Carver, Margaret Drabble and Bernice Rubens. " The best among them show similar traits: these are essentially novels of complex narrative techniques recreating dramatic events in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina from 16th to 18th century and describing historical fatum of Croats caught in the “clash of civilizations”- a three centuries long warfare between Austria, the Ottoman Empire and Venice. Also, in concert with Pedro Henríquez Ureña, he published a collaboration in the renown Sur magazine.

Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth, was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job as well as the seminal essay 'Juden auf Wanderschaft', a fragmented account about the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

This exceptionally rare and extremely important ivory bust is raised on a Rosso Antico-type marble plinth, the ivory, including turned socle, 11 cm high; 18 cm high overall including marble plinth.The best and most accurate three-dimensional likeness of Rammohun Roy in existence, this ivory bust was made by the famous nineteenth-century ivory carver Benjamin Cheverton in London in 1832.

Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian writer.

Although he only left Cuba on at most two occasions, Lezama's poetry, essays and two novels draw images and ideas from nearly all of the world's cultures and from all historical time periods. He then attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he got his Bachelor's in Technology in Mechanical Engineering but, perhaps more significantly, was for two years one of the editors of the campus magazine, Alankar, where his first journalism and fiction appeared.

Shobhaa was divorced with two children, Aditya and Avantika. Later he did a Masters in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. He was inspired by the works of Ludwig Feuerbach and Charles Fourier. Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including English and Chinese.

According to Max Hayward, "In November 1910, when Tolstoy fled from his home and died in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo, Leonid Pasternak was informed by telegram and he went there immediately, taking his son Boris with him, and made a drawing of Tolstoy on his deathbed. This has caused him to be banned by three different Ethiopian governments.

Clark Parent continues to devote his work in bringing about change in Haiti. " Sharmistha was Dutt's first attempt at blank verse in Bengali literature. He has also been the target of assassination attempts. Then in 1929 he returned to Ishikawa prefecture, this time to visit the scenic Noto Peninsula. He wrote several articles for the paper every day. In 1933 the family moved to Essen and later to Kalmthout.

Ross has worked at Cardiff University, Trinity College Dublin, the City Literary Institute and the Arvon Foundation and is presently Senior Lecturer in the Creative Writing department at Roehampton University in London. as a fictional character, the epitome of exploitation of the working class. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology. She made her poetry debut in the literary magazine Steaua, and her editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84 at Dacia Publishing House. In 1969 he moved to Iraqi Kurdistan, where he became involved in the Kurdish uprising led by Mustafa Barzani.

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture.

Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a religious school the following year, and two public schools afterwards. Her children's novel The Silent One, was made into a 1985 film; other works include Bow Down Shadrach and its sequel Gladly, Here I Come. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country. This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo in 1980. He is associated with the Bengali magazine Desh.

Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay. She has served on the Board of Directors of several organizations including The Rotary Foundation, The Ross Ragland Theater and The South North Development Institute. He died of a cerebral thrombosis in 1922. She was born in Sint-Amandsberg and died at Bruges. He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at home in the salons of the Protestant magnates.

As a result of his refined prose style and the modernista ideology he pushed, Rodó is today considered the preeminent theorist of the modernista school of literature.

From 1980 until his death, Wolkers resided on the Dutch island of Texel. During the 1920s he was considered a leading representative of the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde.

She has one brother and one sister, Juliette Nothomb. After studying in Gweru, he became a teacher and then took degrees at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe. He was devoted to Angolan independence, resulting in his arrest in 1961 after an interview with the BBC in which he disclosed secret lists of deserters from the Portuguese army fighting in Africa. Dr. Kiran Seth of SPIC MACAY and Dr. Sandeep Juneja are his thesis advisors. She was diagnosed with syphilis toward the end of their first year of marriage. He was a member of the Hong Kong Basic Law drafting committee, although, after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he resigned in protest.

This religious, and more specifically Christian, background is an important part of the struggle with identity and belonging which becomes apparent in much of Mus'ad’s writing. She herself is not a princess, since the Akans of Ghana trace their ancestry through the female line.

Odian spent the last days of his life in Cairo, Egypt where he was buried.

She was born the third of four children of Julio César Esquivel, a telegraph operator, and Josefa Valdés. He published his first work, Fantoches, in 1932, with a sequence of short stories, mostly in the form of short plays.

She married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou in a civil ceremony June 28, 1913, and had one child named Julio César Ibarbourou (b.

From the time of his return to Kolkata until he fell ill in 1941, Nazrul composed more than 2,600 songs, many of which have been lost.

Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer. He has made a complete translation of the famous revolutionary Sultan Galiev's writings from Russian to Turkish in 2006. Their home was a center of cultural life, as her parents invited intellectuals, activists and industrialists. Ismailis believe in the oneness of God, as well as the closing of divine revelation with Muhammad, whom they see as "the final Prophet and Messenger of God to all humanity". Kampala fell on 26 January 1986. and Museveni was proclaimed as president, but Uganda remained haunted by civil war. " He has since come to be considered an important literary representative of the Brazilian slum periphery. In 1906 he received a scholarship to study at the normal school in Bogotá.

Schulz was discouraged by influential colleagues from publishing his first short stories. He specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in the seventies and in 1973 he was appointed as teacher of Portuguese Language and Literature in Bologna. His Bayrn Opgrunt, is set in Germany during the hyperinflation of the 1920s.

" While in Southern Italy and Sicily, Goethe encountered, for the first time genuine Greek architecture, and was quite startled by its relative simplicity.

Among other writers and poets, Orpheu published Pessoa, orthonym, and the modernist heteronym, Álvaro de Campos. Later, he passed the matriculation examination from Chittagong Collegiate School ranking 16th of 39,000 students in East Pakistan. ) The five other authors on the shortlist included one other Indian writer and another first-time writer.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century.

Lillo was able to observe similar conditions in the Chilean mines and set out to improve the conditions of the workers by dramatizing their plight.

Siegfried Lenz was born in Lyck, East Prussia. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy. Born in Tønsberg and raised in Larvik, his debut novel was a semi-autobiography called 23-salen, in which he criticized Norway's efforts to take care of psychically challenged individuals.

Natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. She was elected to the Japan Art Academy shortly before her death on November 14, 1986, of a heart attack, suffered while she was at a family event in 1986 at her home in the Yanaka neighborhood of Tokyo.

Anna S. Kashina, Ph.D. is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, as well as a writer. She first published some novels in the magazine L'ultima moda when it still published works in prose and poetry.

Subramaniam Krishnan, popularly known as K. S. Maniam, is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist. Although at a relatively young age, like many other Albanian intellectuals he participated in the Anti-Fascist War. He taught at Federal City College, Washington, DC, and from 1977 to 1987 he lectured in literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine.

Ribas was born in Luanda, the son of Arnaldo Gonçalves Ribas and Maria de Conceição Bento Faria.

Leopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.

Jaime Manrique Colombian American author, poet, and journalist. She grew up in a liberal family. In 1910, he was elected as governor of the province of Rizal under the Nacionalista Party.

In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of India wrote Humayun was a custodian of the Bangladeshi literary culture whose contribution single-handedly shifted the capital of Bengali literature from Kolkata to Dhaka without any war or revolution. He was the president of the Japanese writers' union and a PEN member. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country. During this time he traveled extensively in Britain, France and Africa and witnessed the devastation of WWII first hand.

He is sometimes confused with Vikram A Chandra, an Indian journalist and author who published The Srinagar Conspiracy. In 1970, he published the first volume of his Jahrestage. His health had deteriorated during this stay and he was not able to go back to Argentina. It was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 1997. In 1945 he was appointed chief librarian of the city of Ghent.

According to the James King biography, The Life of Margaret Laurence, the prognosis was grave, and as the cancer had spread to other organs, there was no treatment offered beyond palliative care.

Francisco "Franz" Arcellana was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher.

Ondaatje and his wife, novelist and academic Linda Spalding, co-edit Brick, A Literary Journal, with Michael Redhill, Michael Helm, and Esta Spalding.

Maxamed Daahir Afrax Ph. Born in Ukerewe, Tanganyika, he is currently based at the University of Botswana, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of African Languages.

Chang already displayed great literary talent and her writings were published in the school magazine.

Gezelle was the uncle of Flemish writer Stijn Streuvels. Other collections followed: Darya Hanuz Aram Ast 1960, Bihudegi 1962, Za'eri Zir-e Baran 1968, Pesarak-e Boumi 1971, and Gharibeh'ha 1972.

Desai resides in the United States, where she is a permanent resident. Luke Baldwin's Vow, a slim novel about a boy and his dog, was originally published in a 1947 edition of Saturday Evening Post and soon became a juvenile classic read in school rooms around the world.

Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha was the sixth Peethadhipathi of Sri Viswa Viznana Vidya Adhyatmika Peetham in Pithapuram, India. He is the sixth of eight children. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers from the latter half of the 20th-century. He refused the latter because it is bestowed by the Emperor. His most recent book, set in Tanzania will be published in Canada in 2012. The Fifth Finger was a sequel to that book. Author of well known historical novels, including: Boves, el Urogallo, Los Amos del Valle and La Luna de Fausto. Her health deteriorated and she spent the last year of her life at her apartment in the Carnotstraat in the centre of Antwerp.

Oscar Bento Ribas was an Angolan writer.

Alexander Movsesyan, better known by his pen name Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. After earning his Ph.D. from that institution, he worked as a journalist and then opened a public relations firm. After spending his adolescence in Mozambique, he returned to the UK where his further education was completed.

Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist.

János Kodolányi Hungarian writer of short stories, dramas, novels and sociographies. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966.

Jack Jones was a Welsh novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1930s.

Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his novel, St. Peter's Umbrella so much that he visited Mikszáth during his European trip in 1910 solely to express his admiration. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, as a result of the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of former pre-1946 Italian prisoners of war from the Royal Italian Army in Russia.

Rosalie Loveling was born in Nevele, Belgium, and was the older sister of Virginie Loveling, also an author, with whom she co-wrote part of her oeuvre. He has been dubbed the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose. From 1967 he lived mainly in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris. Having returned to India in 1979, he married Reba Dasgupta, of Bengali origin, in 1982, with whom he has two children.

Baldomero Lillo grew up in these mining communities and worked the mines himself. He arrived back in New Zealand in July 1919, and established a small business.

Gyula Krúdy was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture. His grave is in the Aşiyan Graveyard, Istanbul. Her first travelogue The Travel Notes of A Brunette was published in 1988 and sold more than 300.000 copies. He died on 23 January 1945 at Narsapur[disambiguation needed].

Akosua Gyamama Busia is a Ghanaian actress who now lives in the U.S.. Mishima's story Tabako, published in 1946, describes some of the scorn and bullying he faced at school when he later confessed to members of the school's rugby union club that he belonged to the literary society. Two years later he was appointed special inspector to the normal schools and kept this job until he died at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a suburb of Brussels, on 1 December 1874. She is primarily known for her Alex quartet. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within stories. From 1917 he was married in Denmark to Emelie Voss (b.

Leopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.

Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. As an author he started early and at 16 won the nation's "Institut Français d'Afrique Noire" prize for a novel.

Bernice Rubens was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist. Born in Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she gained a B.A. He was born in a small village named Benipur in the Indian state of Bihar. The Brazilian cinema adapted both of his books ). In her analysis of Blixen's medical history, Linda Donelson points out that Blixen wondered if her pain was psychosomatic even though she blamed it in public on the emotive syphilis: "Whatever her belief about her illness, the disease suited the artist's design for creating her own personal legend. He also worked as a dishwasher with his brother and Lorenzo in the famous Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. His novel La Ragazza di Bube, which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film by Luigi Comencini in 1963.

Ghose also met English poet Ted Hughes and his wife, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and American author Janet Burroway, with whom he occasionally collaborated. In books like her 1989 Coeur en exil ISBN 2-214-07893-2 she expresses a since of homesickness for her native country.

One of his brothers was the well-known italian geneticist Adriano Buzzati-Traverso.

Tadeusz Konwicki is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council. Three million stamps were issued.

During the following years, Kiš received a great number of national and international awards for his prose and poetry. She then lived in London for two years, where she played small roles in James Bond films and modelled for fashion magazines. Since 1969 he has been a freelancer. As a matter of fact, his parents knew Pirandello and were even distant friends, as he tells in his essay on Pirandello Biography of the Changed Son.

Erlend Loe worked at a psychiatric clinic, as a brigade because of his mother working there, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen.

In 1868 Capuana returned to Sicily planning a brief stay, but his father's death and economic hardship anchored him to the island. On the contrary, the language of the common man became almost fashionable and Flemish literature began to thrive. With the jazz musician Umberto Petrin, he also wrote Misterioso. His celebrated Song to the Sun dates from 1817.

Liendo, has used literature to maintain a critical position in the country politics.

As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor, with his mother, and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari.

1899), Tom Söderberg (b. His novels also earned him a large readership. His book Main basse sur le Cameroun, autopsie d'une décolonisation was censored upon its publication by the French Ministry of the Interior Raymond Marcellin on the request, brought forward by Jacques Foccart, of the Cameroon government, represented in Paris by the ambassador Ferdinand Oyono. In "Grayling Cross", Anna and Collie have established themselves in Edmonton as PR experts who keep things quiet for the local magical community. His work Die Vermessung der Welt is the best selling novel in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was influenced by the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. Finished his Primary, Middle and High School there. He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for the film Red Sorghum.

In 1966, Maraini, Moravia and Enzo Siciliano founded the del Porcospino theatrical company which had as its mission the production of new Italian plays.

Shobhaa De was born in Girgaon, Mumbai, India, in a Goud Saraswat Brahmin family.

Edgardo M. Reyes is a Filipino male novelist. He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War.

He was married to Maria Catarina de Abreu Sodré, a cousin of poet Álvares de Azevedo. By 1934, he was recognized as Grand Master of the United Romanian Freemasonry, which regrouped all major local Lodges.

Petronius' development of his characters in the Satyricon, namely Trimalchio, transcends the traditional style of writing of ancient literature. Her mission was to “sing louder than the bombs” and to give theatrical performances for the North Vietnamese troops, but also to tend to the wounded, bury the dead, and accompany the soldiers along.

While in Japan, Nothomb attended a local school and learned Japanese. She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day.

Youssef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon.

Aharon Appelfeld was born in the town of Zhadova or Sadhora, now part of Czernowitz, Bucovina, Romania, now Ukraine. " When speaking to The Observer in 2006 he said "The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels.

Stancu was born in 1902 in Salcia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania.

His father, Arun Sen, an academician of repute, had remarked, "I am the son of an illustrious father and the father of an illustrious son! He edited the landmark anthology News for Babylon, considered "a ground-breaking publication because its publishing house Chatto & Windus was 'mainstream' and distinguished for its international poetry list". He was subsequently brought up in the United Kingdom. Many of his writings are markedly "Indo-nostalgic". He sharpened his writing skills with constant criticism and guidance from Tho.Mu.Si. 1868), an Estonian scholar, doctor of folklore and later diplomat. He has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri [Italy], Association d’Art de La Napoule [France], Chateau de Lavigny Residence pour Ecrivains [Switzerland], Fundacion Valparaiso [Spain], The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio [Italy], Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers [Scotland], and The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ledig House International Writers Colony [US]. She was admired by Cecil Beaton and the patron Pauline de Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

Grace currently lives in Hongoeka Bay, Plimmerton. To experience war and to write about it, he volunteered to join the front during the Iran-Iraq war and served there as an officer for eighteen months.

Abdelkebir Khatibi was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright. After four months, publication of the story created sensation in the literary circles of Bengal and, from then on, the nom de plume stuck. He also published texts in the magazine O Malho, under the pen name Feliciano de Olivença, and founded a short-lived periodical named Echo Viçosense in 1906.

Sinan Hasani was a Yugoslav novelist, statesman, diplomat and a former President of Presidency Yugoslavia, a revolving form of executive leadership which rendered him the President of Yugoslavia at the time as well. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. His first book Vipana Katipaya published in 1960 has had a great influence upon Nepali literature, especially on the genre of short stories.

Crnjanski was born in Csongrád, Hungary, to an impoverished family which moved in 1896 to Temesvár where he grew up in a patriarchal-patriotic community with the implanted cult of Serbia and Serbian heritage in his soul as a precious relic. The movie Tramp at the Door is dedicated to her and supposedly depicts her childhood.

Despite great critical acclaim, Nassar stopped writing in 1984, claiming he had lost interest in literature and wanted to work with agriculture instead.

Massimo Taparelli, marquis d'Azeglio was an Italian statesman, novelist and painter. Between 1967 and 1968, he was editor of Jeune Afrique magazine in Paris.

Stijn Streuvels [born Franciscus Petrus Maria Lateur] is a Flemish writer.

In 2005, Mishra published an anthology of writing on India, India in Mind. His historical trilogy O Tempo e o Vento is considered as his greatest work, written in the period of 1949-1961, from which arose primordial characters such as Ana Terra and Capitão Rodrigo that went on to become popular amongst his readers. Tallinn 1978.

Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during 1942–44. He has received prizes for several of his books and films, as well as for his entire work.

Mutis was born in Bogotá and lived in Brussels from the age of two until eleven, where his father, Santiago Mutis Dávila, held a post as a diplomat.

Mercedes Franco is a Venezuelan author and novelist. During the communist regime his books were banned both in Hungary and in Romania.

In 2011 he published Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers, in which he analyses the claim that two Venetian merchants, the Zeno brothers, sailed over the north Atlantic in a pre-Columbian expedition to North America.

In 1945 Döblin's 18-year-old son Stefan was called up for military service in the French army.

After Partition, when Ashfaq Ahmed arrived at the Walton refugee camp with millions of other migrants, he used to make announcements on a megaphone around the clock. He attended the military school at Kőszeg and Budapest, and studied mathematics and physics at Budapest University 1931-1935. She believes that the reason for faking his death is the fact that despite of using all possible resources she is unable to get the death certificate yet. In 2013, he released a fourth novel, The Hungry Ghosts. In 2009 under the direction of Tlaloc Rivas, CUNY staged a reading of “Miss and Madame”, which explores hatred and admiration during the twentieth century through the rivalry between Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden. In Lenningrad, he also met Qenatê Kurdo and published his work as a document about Kurdish language in Armenia. Mitra was married to the late Madhav Bir, member of the Goa legislative assembly and Gandhian.

Popescu then worked as a reporter for the literary magazine Steaua from 1956 to 1969, and then as editor of Tribuna magazine, from 1969 to 1982.

After her father was killed in the Battle of Ojinaga in 1914, her mother remarried the physician Stephen Campbell from Boston, whose last name the children assumed, and which was altered to Campobello by Nellie.

Although his life was short, Roumain managed to touch many aspects of Haitian life and culture.

Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories. He worked as the director of the Beirut-based daily newspaper An-Nahar until the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1975, when he moved to Paris, which became his permanent home. Gongora quoted him alongside Goya, Whitman, Mallarmé, Wilde, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Marinetti, Cocteau, Picasso, Tzara, Huidobro. He has been a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study.

Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

Beti was inspired to write in part by the execution of Ernest Ouandie by the government of Cameroon. She returned to Gabon in 1979, working as a translator and interpreter, and writing her first novel, G'amarakano.

First to Isabel Cento, with whom he had a daughter named Delia Isabel Picón de Morles Hernández, and to socialite Beatriz Otáñez. Greatly humiliated both mentally and physically, he, according to the official record, committed suicide by drowning himself in Beijing's Taiping Lake in 1966.

Nigel Cox was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006. He was sent to an asylum in Schleswig, and early in 1841 he was cured, and able to return to Växjö. On 26 January 2009, a surgery extirpated eight tumors, along with compromised portions of his small and large intestines and the ureters. But to see the disintegration of Lulla village and the tribal community in Umuofia as parts of the same process of change is to play down the role of colonialism as an agent of disruption. Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Litoral, where he taught History of Cinematography.

Later, Djebar attend a Quranic private boarding school in Blida, where she was one of only two girls.

Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian.

In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been described as “luminous” and “wonderful and vibrant”. But, although Little Man, What Now?

Peretz's 1907 play A Night in the Old Marketplace has been adapted into a multimedia theatrical presentation, with music by Frank London and book and lyrics by Glen Berger, slated to open in 2007; the CD is already on sale.

These books placed Undset apart from the incipient women's emancipation movement in Europe.

Rachid Mimouni was born in Boudouaou, 30 km from Algiers in a family of poor peasants.

Grace currently lives in Hongoeka Bay, Plimmerton.

In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment.

Miguel Otero Silva, was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. Between 1942 and 1943, during the regime of General Ion Antonescu, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania as an embassy secretary.

Dervishi was born in 1943 in Đakovica/Gjakova in the region disputed between Yugoslavia and Axis-occupied Albania. He attended Church College of New Zealand in Temple View, Hamilton, New Zealand. As a young man, he joined a monastery, but left in 1962 in order to study the forces that shaped African history.

Borges's father died in 1938. Millosh's father was a very respected member of the community.

Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten.

Kossi Efoui is a Togolese writer.

Jack died of a stroke.

In 1980, Cha wrote a postscript to Wu Gongzao's tai chi classic Wu Jia Taijiquan, in which he described influences from as far back as Laozi and Zhuangzi on contemporary Chinese martial arts.

After university, Grossman began working in radio, where he'd once been a child actor, eventually becoming an anchor on Kol Yisrael, Israel's national broadcasting service. According to Variety, New Line Cinema has purchased the rights for an American version, to be directed by Hideo Nakata. In the meantime she made her first steps in journalism as freelance journalist for the "De Courant", a daily which appeared from 1937 until 1939. The attempt failed and he was rearrested near Lenin Park and imprisoned at the notorious El Morro Castle alongside murderers and rapists. He attended a Kurdish school in Tbilisi.

In 1923 Istrati's story Kyra Kyralina was published. Her debut collection of stories, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was released in the fall of 2005 and has since been translated into six languages.

She began to research a biography of Simón Bolívar, perhaps inspired by the centenary of his death.

When published in book form, Santos' Banaag at Sikat was then considered as the first socialist-oriented book in the Philippines which expounded principles of socialism and seek labor reforms from the government.

Hoàng Ấu Phương, pen name Bảo Ninh is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, best known for his first novel, published in English as The Sorrow of War.

Gamal El-Ghitani was born to a poor family in the town of Guhayna, Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt and moved with his family to Cairo as a child.

Dinaw Mengestu is an award-winning American novelist and writer. " He continues that the "plants can live without a mouth and a stomach, and the rocks and the soil have their being without any nourishment.

During his hospitalisation, Kiely was given plenty of time to think about the course his life had already taken, and about a course it might take.

In 1892, Arlen's family moved to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, after fleeing Turkish persecutions of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Despite Mutswairo's association with the small intellectual elite in the country, Feso was widely read, and even taught in schools, until it was banned by the government of the new state of Rhodesia in the mid-1960s.

Born on the Cape island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law in Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo.

In Rome, Undset met Anders Castus Svarstad, a Norwegian painter, whom she married almost three years later.

Dai Sijie is a Chinese–French author and filmmaker.

Alan Duff, MBE, is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist. Almost her entire small output is now available in English translation.

Mihail had a brother, also named Alexandru, whose wife was the Swiss-educated literary critic Izabela Morţun. It was ranked second in a poll of favorite books as part of the Hungarian version of Big Read in 2005 and has also been made into a film on several occasions. Despite his great popularity, he was forced to take up an exhausting schedule of lecturing to make ends meet. He was born in Desamparados, Costa Rica in 1881 and was educated in both Costa Rica and Chile, where he fell under the influence of the leading literary currents of his time. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy. When in 1980 his novel Gulti-macruuf began to appear in serialized form in Xiddigta Oktoobar, Somalia's government took offence. This aberrant confluence has facilitated the presence of various interpretations regarding the author's writings, most noticeably of his masterpiece, La Regenta. Caliph, published in 1964, was his break-through novel. She began her writing career as a poet, publishing her first book Bárány in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig in 1949.

Jack Jones was a Welsh novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1930s.

Väinö Linna was born in Urjala in the Pirkanmaa region. He is a graduate of University of Ceylon and a Dental Surgeon by profession. Funeral was attended by a large number of citizens, admirers, journalists etc. by T.N.

Upon finishing his schooling in Lubango, Pepetela travelled to Portugal where he began to study engineering.

She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film Water. The big turning point in his life came in 1933, at age 21, when he met Abdul Bari Alig, a scholar and polemic writer, in Amritsar. Before arriving at Moscow, he traveled to Brussels as a delegate from the Communist Party of Argentina at the "Congress against Fascism and the War". He also kept a rattlesnake, a gopher, two owls, a Florida alligator, several cats, and hundreds of insects as pets. In 1996, the Italian director, Cristina Comencini, made a film with the novel's plot. The book was translated into 14 languages and became the most translated Estonian book of the 1990s. He attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe. She won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 for Myal.

Mercedes Valdivieso had the extreme audacity to become an innovator; she bridged the gap between romantic and domestic fiction in a society where women have been viewed as a sexless gender, icons of virtue, and depending on men to meet the necessities of life. In 1822, A Persian paper called Mirat-ul-Akbar contained a tract entitled "Brief Remarks on Ancient Female Rights"; a book in Bengali called Answers to Four Questions was released the same year. He is a published author and best known for his novel English, August, also adapted into an acclaimed film of the same title.

Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez, was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement. He died in Belgrade in 2009.

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. He lives in the United States, where he is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College. He was devoted to Angolan independence, resulting in his arrest in 1961 after an interview with the BBC in which he disclosed secret lists of deserters from the Portuguese army fighting in Africa. In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer.

In 1982, Khosa worked for the Ministry of Education for over a year.

While in Piura, Vargas Llosa attended elementary school at the religious academy Colegio Salesiano.

Coelho also worked as an actor, journalist, and theatre director before pursuing his writing career.

Guzmán was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Her family had been much involved in the European settling of South America, and she spoke often of their heroic actions. She’s compared to Queneau, or Sarraute. His 1942 book Embers expresses a nostalgia for the bygone multi-ethnic, multicultural society of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, reminiscent of the works of Joseph Roth. She is currently working on her second novel. Major influences on his writings include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.

Luis López Nieves [note 1] is one of the most influential and best-selling Puerto Rican authors ever. His most recent book, set in Tanzania will be published in Canada in 2012. Around 1905, through the articles of Simion Mehedinţi, his work came to be criticized by the traditionalist magazine Sămănătorul, who coupled a rejection of modernism with an appreciation of for folklore. He occasionally gave speeches in public with great applause; he had the charge of exhibiting gladiatorial shows and wild beast events in the province, and statues were erected in his honour by the senate of Carthage and of other senates. Soon after, his father left the family again and never returned. He is a published author and best known for his novel English, August, also adapted into an acclaimed film of the same title. Subsequent to the release of Historietter, a collection of twenty short stories, his next major work - Martin Bircks Ungdom - was released.

While visiting Girona, in Catalonia, circulars were distributed among the crowd bearing Rizal's last verses, his portrait, and the charge that Polavieja was responsible for the loss of the Philippines to Spain. The film is story of a travelling mime company selling products and a writer's views upon its journey, it has two leads Ashish Vidyarthi playing the role mime company's owner while Pawan Malhotra did the role of the writer.

After the Soviet occupation and annexation of Estonia in 1944, Merilaas' work was viewed by authorities as disreputable and promoting "bourgeois nationalism". Her many albums of plant collections are housed in the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature. He returned to Argentina in 1921 publishing his first poems there.

In 1918 the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute put Kafka on a pension due to his illness, for which there was no cure at the time, and he spent most of the rest of his life in sanatoriums. His last home is now a museum. He was expelled for the second time in 1970.

He was the son of the Reverend Thompson Samkange, a Methodist minister and nationalist politician, and his wife, Grace Mano, a Methodist evangelist. His most important work is the Kurdish classic love story "Mem and Zin".

In 1938, Mexico nationalized foreign oil holdings, leading to a national outcry in the U.S. and Fuentes' ostracism by his American classmates; he later pointed to the event as the moment in which he began to understand himself as Mexican.

In Summer 1943, Promet went to work at Estonian language radio in blocked Leningrad.

Barreto used to write for newspapers since 1902, but he achieved fame in 1905, writing for the Correio da Manhã a series of articles regarding the demolition of Castle Hill. He was Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of Malaya until 1997 when he took up writing full time. Their divorce was finalized on June 5, 1914. In the same year, he became the secretary of "Civata Azadî û Yekîtiya Kurd". The early 1990s was a burgeoning period in the history of Ethiopian writing and journalism. This is the period when her first writings, poems, and novels appeared.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was an eminent Russian novelist, historian, and tireless critic of Communist totalitarianism. He ended his life with a gunshot to his head in San Diego in 1989.

Yusuf Atılgan was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli. During the 1970s he worked as an editor and writer, negotiating with censors in order to get his work into print, and informing against colleagues. Many of these essays were published in book form.

Dibyendu Palit is a Bengali writer of poems, novels, and short stories.

In 2005, Mishra published an anthology of writing on India, India in Mind. " He was in prison for two years.

His home in Talpiot, built in 1931 in the Bauhaus style, was turned into a museum, Beit Agnon. Even though most critics consider it as a lesser novel in comparison with La Regenta, it is equal to the former in the skill with which the technical resources are used. Three million stamps were issued. He served as rector of the University of Salamanca for two periods: from 1900 to 1924 and 1930 to 1936, during a time of great social and political upheaval. His only real source of income was through his writing. He is the author of Seminar on Youth and Vita standard di un venditore provvisorio di collant. In 2012, he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. He recounted his life story in his first book, Notes from the Hyena's Belly.

In 1926, Moberg made his breakthrough as a playwright when his comedy Kassabrist had a successful run in Stockholm.

Jha was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, and was raised in Calcutta, West Bengal, where he went to school at St. Joseph's College. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing. He even approached the Marxist leader Pablo Iglesias and persuaded him to join a new organisation called La Conjunción Republicano-socialista, with Galdós as its titular head.

Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer.

Negruzzi also held several functions, including finance minister and deputy under Sturdza-Vodă. She was raised in Cherchell, a small seaport village near Algiers in the Province of Aïn Defla. His father was posted as a diplomat for the Canadian government at the time of his birth. In 1998 she achieved international recognition when she was awarded the Azorín Prize for Best Novel in Spain for El hombre, la hembra y el hambre. In October 1859, at the age of thirteen, he was sent to high school in France by his father.

Rómulo Gallegos Freire died in Caracas on 5 April 1969. The book would later be translated into 30 other languages. In his youth, he went to Cizre region to study under the well-known Kurdish poet, Malaye Jaziri.

Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. There, on 4 April 1951, he committed suicide by gassing himself in a small rented apartment on 37 Rue Championnet.

Jean-Baptiste Nguema Abessolo, also seen as J.-B.

Born in Caracas, Alicia Freilich is the oldest of three girls born to Máximo Freilich and Rebeca Freilich, immigrants of Polish origin. He started writing while he was still in final year of his college. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the former Portuguese colony in the 1950s. He is called the father of Oriya fiction. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship". Her sister Abena is a poet and academic, an associate professor in English at Rutgers University. When he was sent to Europe as a foreign correspondent, Mercedes waited for him to return to Barranquilla.

After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen.

Cao achieved posthumous fame through his life's work.

Manuel Lopes wrote texts in Portuguese, and utilized several works expressed in Cape Verdean Creole.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom.

Tayeb Salih was a Sudanese writer. After finishing high school in Maceió, he became a collaborator of the newspaper Jornal de Alagoas in 1909, where he published a sonnet called "Céptico" under the pen name Almeida Cunha, and some other texts under many different pseudonyms. She also writes essays and literary criticism in major newspapers and journals.

Nadolny's grandfather, Rudolf Nadolny, had in fact led the German delegation. At the story's end there is a strong contrast between the clean, pure and benevolent sky, and the underground monster that devours the humans who dare to penetrate its dark lair. The historical events which mothers take part in acquire the greatness and invincibility of natural phenomena".

Many institutions are named in his honour, for instance the Thomas Mann Gymnasium of Budapest. He has also written the short story collection Passing Through, and the novellas I'm Still Waiting and The Girl with the Golden Shoes.

Lualhati Torres Bautista is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği was published in 1987.

Juan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. In July 1923 his father died.

In 1915, during the Armenian Genocide Yervant Odian was deported from Istanbul to the Syrian desert. It is now the Writer's Workshop in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Through his father, he was a relative of the Hungarian noble Ország-family.

These included the first of his "Cartas de Londres" which were printed in the Lisbon daily newspaper Diário de Notícias and afterwards appeared in book form as Cartas de Inglaterra.

Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist. After the band’s breakup, he went on to join the rugby club, which he found especially grueling. Death occurred whilst the author was staying in Ghatshila.

Kreitman died in 1954 in London. He received his PhD in 1941. These include "Comegato,” a work on the dilemma between decency and crime, stage in Caracas in 1998 directed by the author; "Fotomatón”, an autopsy of the Latin American soul, stage in Caracas in 1999 directed by the author; “80 Teeth, 4 Feet & 500 Pounds”, an epic piece on the subject of guilt; “Tres esqueletos y medio”, a play on the macabre intersection between transcendence and the criminal present, stage in Caracas in 2000 directed by the author; and “Miss” an epic piece on Latin American ambition, stage in Caracas in 2002 directed by the author.

Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author, initially from Ghana. He has written more than ten books in Kurdish and translated literary works of John Steinbeck, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Astrid Lindgren, Yaşar Kemal and Henning Mankell into Kurdish.

Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in Literature in 1990. He failed in an attempt to make a living distilling whiskey, but began to write Hebrew language poetry, songs, and tales, some of them written with his father-in-law ; this collaboration, however, did not prevent his divorce in 1878, after which he promptly remarried. He has routinely been called the greatest living North African writer. After that, he joined Kolkata National Bank.

Therefore, Parijat was intricately connected to Nepal and Nepali literature from her early childhood. In Paris, he befriended Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the foremost poets, critics, and artists at large in the Avant-Garde movement.

Manzoni was born in Milan, Italy, on 7 March 1785. Submerged Morning), which was published in 1953 and made into a film in 1980.

Kundera is a cousin of Czech writer and translator Ludvík Kundera. He also met the famous journalist and statesman Johan Vilhelm Snellman.

Farah has two sons and a daughter. After his lack of success, he returned home again.

At this time Konwicki became the head of the Kadr Film Studio and has since been recognized as one of the most notable members of the Polish Film School. She married Enrique Job Reyes on August 14, 1913 but left him a month later. In English she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, based on the homonymous Greek nymph. He was Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa.

During this period, Nazrul read extensively, and was deeply influenced by Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, as well as the Persian poets Hafez, Rumi and Omar Khayyam. However, when World War I broke out, she became a student nurse at the Stuivenberg hospital in Antwerp.

Hrabal’s uncle was Bohuslav Kilián, a lawyer, journalist and publisher of the cultural magazines Salon and Měsíc. He is the author of 13 novels and 5 books for children.

Instead, Rulfo moved to Mexico City, where he first entered the National Military Academy, which he left after three months and then he hoped to study law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

As a result of his refined prose style and the modernista ideology he pushed, Rodó is today considered the preeminent theorist of the modernista school of literature. He was also an award winner Astrologer.

Shri Harilal Upadhyay January 22, 1916 - January 15, 1994) was a Gujarati author, considered as one of the all-time great authors in the Gujarati language. From 1978 to 1980, he worked for Banque Meridien Biao Mali. This collection won a prize at the same time that his second novel, "More Than Conquerors" won the first prize for the novel. Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues.

Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist. He had accepted a script writing job for the production house Ajanta Cinetone, hoping that the yearly salary of 8000 would help him overcome his financial troubles. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Story twice, for Bimal Roy's Sujata and for Gulzar’s Ijaazat in 1989. Al filo del agua is universally acknowledge as his masterpiece, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616. He was the first Māori writer to publish both a novel and a book of short stories. His anguish was derived from his fear of death, the World War, and personal crisis.

Youssef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon.

Yoshiyuki was born in Okayama, the oldest child of author Yoshiyuki Eisuke, but his family moved to Tokyo when he was 3. Other awards include the Mišićev dukat, Ramonda Serbica award, and the Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša prize.

A greeting in Welsh is one of 55 languages included on the Voyager Golden Record chosen to be representative of Earth in NASA's Voyager program launched in 1977. In 2009, he was recognized as a young achiever by The Times of India. He was awarded the Medal Gonçalves Dias for the National Library of Rio De Janeiro in 1968. The Bakemonogatari prequel and sequel novels have also been adapted as a movie and an anime, respectively. For some time he was employed the Ministry of Education and the Oil Company.

When Emile Verhaeren died on 27 November 1916 at Rouen station, it was Théo van Rysselberghe and his friend, the famous French writer André Gide who informed Marthe Verhaeren of the death of her husband.

Natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim.

By then, Cha's wuxia novels had earned great popularity in Chinese-speaking areas. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue. Among her achievements were gaining an understanding of the lives of Turkish women, including access to the private world of the harem, and undertaking a journey round the world in her sixities.

Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. Their graves were damaged in World War II but restored thereafter.

Henriett was invited to the Friderikusz Sándor's documentary film, to Szólás Szabadsága, in 2005, that was seen by 700,000 people. At the beginning of the First World War, she left her teaching job, to focus full-time on her literary work. An abridged version was published in February 2012.

Waris Dirie is a model, author, actress and human rights activist of Somali origin. His primary concern was the dark alleyways of the human mind, even among the supposedly simple village folk, and not the serene beauty of nature that was always in the background in his novels.

Despite a lack of formal training, Bautista as the writer became known for her honest realism, courageous exploration of Philippine women's issues, and her compelling female protagonists, who confront difficult situations at home and in the workplace with uncommon grit and strength. He has appeared in the Penguin Books- SIP Books Cross Cultural Anthology  : "The Traversal of Lines" with his bestselling short story "Three Days in a Week".

David Davidar is an Indian novelist and publisher. He is the author of Seminar on Youth and Vita standard di un venditore provvisorio di collant.

After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland. His poetry combined an acute eye for, and love of nature, with a deeply felt humanism. He also published essays, poems, and stories.

In his final collection of short stories, The Crooked Coronet, Arlen briefly returns to his earlier romantic, but also comic, style.

She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film Water. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent.

Slavko Janevski is the receiver of many awards, including: AVNOJ and "Makedonsko slovo" for the book "Thought". In 1936, he died from cancer of the palate. The couple had five children together: Daniel, Jacob, Noah, Martha and Emma. She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town and because she had to take care of their four children: Nen, Zoe, Marcela and Elena.

In 1927, Remarque made a second literary start with the novel Station at the Horizon, which was serialised in the sports journal "Sport im Bild" for which Remarque was working. He was a controversial figure from the outset, due to the subject matter and style.

Sarah Bouyain is a French-Burkinabé writer and film director.

Lussu was elected to the Italian parliament in 1921 and, in 1924 was among the Aventine secessionists who withdrew from the Italian Parliament after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti. Several of his books and short tales have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law. There he had hoped, after recovery, to register and study at the Faculty of Arts.

Moa became a writer; Harry married Ingrid Lindcrantz in 1942. These women were chosen by scholars and community leaders for their courage, compassion and commitment in helping to shape society. In 2010 he was offered a residency by the Bogliasco Foundation, but unfortunately had to turn it down due to work demands. Poulet Malassis announced the forthcoming publication of the book the same month in his literary magazine Quarterly Review of Publications Banned in France and Printed Abroad. His father was a judge and his mother a schoolteacher, thus both representative of the modernization of Turkey brought about by Atatürk.

Murilo Rubião is believed to have influenced many Brazilian authors, among them Joseph J. Veiga and Moacyr Scliar. Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai. This period culminated with the publication of his mixed collection Afsane aur Drame in 1943. She worked here for many years, becoming, in 1971, a member of the editorial board. His works have been translated into more than 25 languages.

Lauryn may refer to: Being very poor, he studied assiduously, worked to support himself, and relatively late—at the age of 29—he began his studies in philosophy at the University of Bucharest.

Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.

Following this Temple produced a number of novels - The Explorer, Stations, Beak of the Moon, Sam, Dark of the Moon, and To Each His Own - and many children's books, among which the most notable are The Legend of the Kea, Kakapo, Parrot of the Night, and Kotuku, Flight of the White Heron.

Gee was brought up in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, a location that frequently features in his writing. In the magazine Plural he wrote: "I spent my childhood in a haze full of goblins and elves, with a sense of space and time that was different from everybody else's. In April 1974, after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the overthrow of the Estado Novo regime, Mozambique was about to become an independent republic. Immediately after World War II, he had to spend some time in an hospital for tuberculosis; hence he drew the material for the novel Diceria dell'untore. Together with her sister, she went on to write realistic and descriptive poetry with a romantic undertone.

Having originally studied mathematics, Bouyain later shifted her attention to cinematography, studying at the Louis Lumière School of Cinematography.

Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist. A Masked Deception was accepted by Signet and published in 1985.

Only one of them survived him: Cecilia Fuentes Macedo, born in 1962. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi. He suggested the most obvious solution, that the two main dialects, Tosk and Gheg, should be fused and blended gradually.

Nirendranath Chakraborty is a popular contemporary Bengali poet. Soon in 1956 he was elected as the Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University where he served till retirement in 1960.

From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary. Since 1963, he has been an ashramite at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry. He was born in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. He was a member of the literary group Kadra.

For some time, Nagpur University had included study of Kavthekar's fictions in its Master of Arts curriculum. St. Amands, his native city, has dedicated a museum to this giant of Belgian literature, showing many original manuscripts of his works and letters along with works of his artistic friends Théo van Rysselberghe, Leon Spilliaert, Constantin Meunier, Paul Signac and Ossip Zadkine. A common theme of his early work is the rejection of the adult world by children.

Bessie Emery Head is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.

Dame Fiona Judith Kidman DNZM OBE, is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story author.

Saramago's cremation took place in Lisbon, with his ashes being scattered in his birthplace of Azinhaga and in Tias in Lanzarote, his home until his death. 94.

Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. Het duistere bloed of 1931 was a further success. It was there he gained a love of literature. He demonstrated enormous interest in a variety of subjects, such as literature, chemistry, photography, mechanics, cycling and country life.

Prus wrote several dozen stories, originally published in newspapers and ranging in length from micro-story to novella.

Cezar Petrescu was a Romanian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Koggala was bounded on one side by a reef, and on the other by a large lake into which the numerous tributaries of the Koggala Oya drained. The series has been described as “the most coherent novelistic project of its generation, indispensable for understanding the social psychology and spiritual vicissitudes of the Cuban people.” He was also interested in philosophy—studying, among others, Socrates, Vasile Conta, and the Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, and read works of history—the two Romanian historians who influenced him from early on were Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga. In 1945, he transferred to the University of Bucharest, from which point he collaborated on the prestigious Revistă a Fundaţiilor Regale, edited by Alexandru Rosetti and Camil Petrescu, until the abdication of the King in 1947. ), who had an incredible ability to disguise himself and move throughout society.

His conviction was overturned on appeal in 1975 and Bennett was released from Long Kesh prison near Lisburn, Co. Shortly before the end of World War II, he defected to Denmark, but became a prisoner of war in Schleswig-Holstein. He has a 30,000 volume library in the former and a 20,000 volume library in the latter. In 1965 she published an autobiography, Black Beech and Honeydew.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay ) was an Indian Bengali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature.

They had had two children, a son, Michael John Arlen born in 1930, and a daughter, Venetia Arlen, born in 1933. She began writing novels with Dangerlok in 2001. Voyage to Faremido is an early examination of artificial intelligence, with a pacifist theme. His own literary work was limited to four small collections of short stories for children. In 1899, he enrolled at Debreceni Református Kollégium to study theology, but transferred into law after only six months. He began studying at The University of San Marcos in 1931; there he graduated with a degree in Literature.

In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He got his M.A.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel, Ichhamati.

Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He passed the matriculation examination in 1915 and took admission in Vidyasagar College, Calcutta. He returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found and teach law at the University of Botswana.

Chubak died on July 3, 1998, in Berkeley, California, U.S. He has also been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in its 2010 edition.

In the year 1839, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar successfully cleared his Law examination. He was educated at Gordonstoun school; and then the University of Nice, France, the University of Glasgow, and finally Jesus College, Oxford.

Marcela Serrano is an award-winning Chilean novelist.

Karel van Mander was a Flemish-born Dutch painter and poet, who is mainly remembered as a biographer of Netherlandish artists in his Schilder-boeck.

His father belonged to the Tolstoy family of Russian nobles and was a remote relative of Leo Tolstoy.

She married Ian Kidman in 1960 and they have a son and daughter.

Kemal was a locally noted bard before he started school, but was unappreciated by his widowed mother until he composed an elegy on the death of one of her eight brothers, all bandits.

Dürrenmatt began studies in philosophy, German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1963, he suffered his first major bout of depression. She received primary and secondary education in Touraine, France before attending Université de Dakar. He has found, he says, intuitive ways of making leaps from one to the other, even if they sometimes defy word-for-word translation:

Saramago had suffered from pneumonia a year before his death.

Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist. This novel caused dismay from the reactionary segment of society and loud applause from the critics and is considered a revolutionary departure from the traditional treatment of the feminine role in marriage. another dozen names he uses to camouflage his identity in the Mumbai underworld.

She married John Duder in 1964 and following the birth of the first of her four daughters, she was a full-time mother for 7 years, much of it spent in Pakistan. She also attended the British Institute in Cairo from 1946 to 1949 where she studied English.

Duignan was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington in 2000.

Owen described his apprenticeship as a 'kind of college', and began writing poetry after being influenced by one of his work colleagues.

When he got out of hospital in 1939, Kiely returned to Omagh to recover from his back problem.

Heiki Vilep is an Estonian poet and children's writer. In 1910 she fell in love with Arnold Levitas, but instead married his friend Jacob Gordon, a New York Attorney.

In Mikhailovskoe, Pushkin wrote nostalgic love poems which had been dedicated to Elizaveta Vorontsova, wife of Malorossia's General-Governor.

Jan Nepomucen Potocki was born into the Potocki aristocratic family, that owned vast estates across Poland.

Marsh was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where she also died. He worked in a bank for a while, before returning to studies, leading up to a degree in English and philosophy. Dr. Kiran Seth of SPIC MACAY and Dr. Sandeep Juneja are his thesis advisors. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets.

In 1920, he changed his name to the single appellation, Soya.

While taking on such controversial subjects Fatimah Rifaat’s protagonists remained religiously faithful and passive feelings towards their fate. Having attracted the jealousy of Tigellinus, the commander of the emperor's guard, he was accused of treason.

Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian civil servant who currently serves as Joint Secretary to Government of India in the Ministry of Defence. Koggala was bounded on one side by a reef, and on the other by a large lake into which the numerous tributaries of the Koggala Oya drained. DOINA RUŞTI lives in Bucharest. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He was Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of Malaya until 1997 when he took up writing full time. His partner is Georgina Henry, editor of guardian.co.uk. She was made a Member of Honour of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language. The family lived in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão, north of downtown Rio, before moving to Tijuca. She has also written an illustrated non-fiction book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, with photographer Ruth Corney, and a social history of Camden Lock.

Anne Provoost is a Flemish author who now lives in Antwerp with her husband and three children. There he began to live around writers of renown, such as Mário Quintana, Augusto Meyer, Guilhermino César and others. He devoted his last years to combating religious fundamentalism.

Ramon Muntaner was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company.

Jaime Manrique Colombian American author, poet, and journalist. He spend some time in France, and upon his return to Poland, he became a known publicist, publishing newspapers and pamphlets, in which he argued for various reforms. His poems were set on music and frequently performed by Russian singer-songwriters This novel was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1960, was made into a film in 1967 and was voted to be the 8th most liked novel of Hungary in the Big Read in 2005.

Gadda was a practising engineer from Milan, and he both loved and hated his job. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". For Knjiga za Marka she won the Neven Prize and Prize of Politikin zabavnik. He has gained popularity in Scandinavia with his humorous and sometimes naïve novels, although his stories have become darker in tone, moving towards a more satirical criticism of modern Norwegian society. His parents were professional puppeteers.

Felix Mnthali is a Malawian poet, novelist and playwright. As a member of his PCP he stood for the 1989 Lisbon local election in the list of the Coalition "For Lisbon" and was elected alderman and presiding officer of the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.

Sarojini Sahoo is an Orissa Sahitya Academy Award winner Indian feminist writer, a columnist in The New Indian Express and associate editor of Chennai based English magazine Indian AGE, who has been enlisted among 25 Exceptional Women of India by ‘Kindle’ English magazine of Kolkata.

Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies.

The book's characters act in roles that roughly correspond to Jungian archetypes according to Davies' belief in the predominance of spirit over the things of the world. They moved to Dundarave, West Vancouver, for James's job in a department store. His novels deal predominantly with Belarus's historical past, including the January Uprising 1863 - 1865.

Julio Escoto, born San Pedro Sula, February 28, 1944, is a Honduran short-story teller, novelist and essayist. This course of events was chronicled in his "false novel," Dark Back of Time. From his beginnings as a journalist whose social-political stance was at one moment openly opposed to freedom and progress, he gradually arose to become a poet and romanticist.

Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap, was a Belgian writer.

Joseph Opatoshu, was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer. After his schooling he returned briefly to Sierra Leone, but accepted a position at the University of the Philippines in 1975; he later married a Filipino woman. The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under the leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks.

Indeed this does not have to be taken literally, but it does show the type of emotional insecurity that Kawabata felt, especially experiencing two painful love affairs at a young age. He emigrated to Canada in 1948, worked as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette, and became a Canadian citizen.

Following its success in the United States, Cowley wrote several works for adults: her novels Man of Straw, Of Men and Angels, The Mandrake Root, and The Growing Season typically focused on families dealing with issues such as marital infidelity, mental illness, and death. According to official records of the Nobel Prize committee, the idea of dividing the prize was rejected as an act of disparagement, and only the latter ended up as the laureate.

Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family.

Oscar Bento Ribas was an Angolan writer.

After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland.

Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress/photographer Janet Reid in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later. Arab Shamilov was a Kurdish novelist.

In 1982, with martial law in Poland declared, Lem moved to West Berlin where he became a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.

Dr. Hejazi was present at a rally held in Tehran on June 20, 2009, to protest alleged electoral fraud in the Iranian presidential elections, at which Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed, allegedly by a member of the Basij militia.

Kiš was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Ivo Andrić, among other authors. In 1905 he married Alida Staelens. He received a Sahitya Akademi Award for year 1990 for his critical work Teeka Svayanwar. Other US collections include Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. 5, May 1957), with the sketch Doamna din vis. She briefly taught poetics at the University of Frankfurt. He holds an Honorary degree from the University of Zimbabwe.

Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC's Canada Reads 2002. Although many of his first stories were primarily about sleuthing and the processes used in solving seemingly insolvable crimes, during the 1930s, he began to turn increasingly to stories that involved a combination of sensibilities often called "ero guro nansensu", from the three words "eroticism, grotesquerie, and the nonsensical". As he did not live with his father anymore, it was common for him to eat only once a day for lack of money. ) was a Japanese novelist of the Meiji period. His collected works, Samlade Skrifter, with a bibliographic treatise by Teodblad (8 vols.

The loyalist "Prince" Dwarkanath Tagore, who employed European estate managers and visited with Victoria and other royalty, was his paternal grandfather. He was arrested in 1930 for actively supporting the Indian independence movement, but released later that year. He was also a delegate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 24th sessions of the League of Nations in Geneva in period 1930–1934. In 1996, he published his third major Barcelona novel, this time set in the 1940s, Una comedia ligera.

In March 2005, Waris acquired Austrian citizenship. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he resides in Berlin with his wife. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. She was christened Anna Margaret at Third Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church on 27 January 1861. He was dismissed from his position at the school for his political activism.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää was born into a peasant farming family in Hämeenkyrö.

Hasani finished primary school and Gazi Isa-bey medrese in Skopje. In 1936, he returned to Tuzla to teach in the gymnasium that today bears his name.

Barbara Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognized despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties.

In 1863 he enrolled in the Lycée Louis Barthou in Pau, where he attended classes in rhetoric and philosophy. Her father struggled to buy a lower-rank samurai position, then lost it, worked for the municipal government, but was let go, and then invested all the family's savings in a business venture which failed. In the early 1950s, he visited the Goli otok concentration camp, where the Yugoslav authorities imprisoned political opponents of the Communist Party. However, priests visited him regularly and taught him about the Bible, as well as the Arabic and Syriac languages. The novel Rabies together with The Golden Fleece and The Years the Locusts Have Devoured, were selected by readers as the best novels in the years from 1982 to 1991.

He was married to Annemarta Borgen.

Chang ran away to live with her mother shortly after her 18th birthday, where they remained in a new apartment for nearly two years, until she began to attend university and briefly lived in Hong Kong.

His mother Anu Kivikas was a weaver. He is also featured in Making Music Magazine. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. In 2002 he received a doctorate in literature from Bucharest University for his thesis on Transitivity in Modernist and Post-Modernist Romanian Poetry.

Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. Incidentally, I am moving and hope that, for the first time since Nervous Conditions, I shall have a room of my own.

While stationed there, Savinio gained the chance to rediscover his childhood play-world of Greece, and the influence can be seen in his first published novel, Hermaphrodito.

Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their Bengali heritage, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta. He left Romania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington DC.

The following year, their son Hermann Friedrich Maria was born. In 1909 directs the daily El Progresista, and is appointed as vice rector of the Central University of Venezuela. Although she continued writing in Finnish, she often wrote about Estonian subjects.

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author.

The brochures of aphoristic prose did not have a price; each customer could decide which sum they wanted to pay for it.

Born in Delhi, India, Ahmed Ali was educated at Aligarh and Lucknow universities, graduating with first-class and first in the order of merit in both B.A. On 14 October 1954, he was carelessly crossing a road near Calcutta's Deshapriya Park when he was hit by a tram.

Babits' 1918 novel The Nightmare is a science fiction novel about a split personality influenced by Freudian psychology. The deposed chief of the Bamangwato, Seretse Khama, was soon to become the first President of independent Botswana.

These dramatic personal experiences feature prominently in Frame's autobiographical trilogy and director Jane Campion's popular film adaptation of the texts, with recognisably autobiographical elements further resurfacing in many of her fictional publications.

A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat", translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again. She was born in the Republic of the Congo and lived in France from 1969 with her three sons. He lives in Gurgaon.

Rosalie Loveling died on 4 May 1875 in Nevele. Her debut novel, In the Eye of the Sun, set in Egypt and England, recounts the maturing of Asya, a beautiful Egyptian who, by her own admission, "feels more comfortable with art than with life. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager.

Julián Padrón was a Venezuelan writer, journalist and lawyer. She has made a film about communal violence called The Connection. His third wife, from 1997 to 2004, was Elizabeth West; they have a son, Milan. His poems were set on music and frequently performed by Russian singer-songwriters His works include: The marriage ended on 2 July 2007, with Lakshmi's indicating it was her desire to end it. His body washed ashore on January 18, twelve days after his disappearance, on the coast of Marmara Sea at Beylikdüzü.

Munro returned to Ontario to become writer in residence at the University of Western Ontario, and in 1976 received an honorary LLD from the institution.

This can be compared with the 2001 Census, in which 20.8% of the population reported being able to speak Welsh. Remaining a figure of great reference in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works were strictly related to the social and political history of Venezuela.

Õnnepalu's work often explores topics such as homosexuality, isolation and betrayal. He completed his Masters in Urdu literature from Government College Lahore.

Karinthy was married twice.

Jean-Paul Sartre alluded to Maran in his preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, mocking the French establishment's complacent self-congratulation that they had "on one occasion given the Prix Goncourt to a Negro". Not until the release of The Unknown Soldier did he rise to fame.

Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist.

One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. His first novel, The Blue Mountain, was published in 1988.

The Andrei Bely Prize, one of the most important prizes in Russian literature, was named after him. She began writing children's books in 1818, after the death of her father.

His father Mir Moazzem Hossain was one of the few Muslim zamindars of nineteenth century Bengal.His mother's name is Daulatunnesa. Production was planned for 2011. She started reading material that her employer gave her on politics and sociology and began writing around this time. She is primarily known for her Alex quartet.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century.

Ishwar Chandra was born to Thakurdas Bandyopadhyay and Bhagavati Devi at Birsingha village, in the Ghatal subdivision of Paschim Midnapore District, on 26 September 1820. Indian feminist writer Sarojini Sahoo is his wife and he has two children Anubhav and Sambedana. She has represented the British Council in the USA, South Korea, Slovakia, Romania, Sweden and across the UK. The Fifth Finger was a sequel to that book. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato In 1862, he was arrested and confined in the Fortress of St. Peter and Paul, where he wrote his famous novel What Is to Be Done?

Augustin Buzura is a Romanian novelist and short story writer, also known as a journalist, essayist and literary critic.

Youssef Saadallah Howayek a painter and sculptor from Helta, in modern day Lebanon. "At a tender age I learned that I belonged to an inferior race or, as I saw things at the time, to a category of mangy dogs to be kicked about and chased away. He was educated at St Malachy's College and Queen's University Belfast. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Sciences at Tehran University, graduating in 1980. Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. His fourth son, Bruno, was born in 1938. Whereas he was once known for his witty remarks in literary gatherings, in later days he would not tolerate any criticism.

Since 1951, Lenz worked as a freelance writer in Hamburg and was a member of the literature forum "Group 47". In 1941 he published a History of World Literature which continues to be authoritative today.

Mario Briceño Iragorry, was a Venezuelan intellectual and cultural analyst. In 1930 he was captured by the Yugoslav authorities and evicted to Albania, where he was sentenced to prison for his antimonarchist activities. During this time the Jamaican government asked her to write Ballad for a Rebellion and a biography of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the first prime minister of independent Jamaica. Achebe’s allusion to W.B. “It may be superstitious belief, but in my eyes, any books which could be printed at all in Germany between 1933 and 1945 are worse than worthless and not objects one wishes to touch. English, 1931.

Almost no records of Cao's early childhood and adulthood survive. When he tried to return to India in 1948, K.P.S. Her stage plays were translated into foreign languages, and performed at Polish and European theatres, as well as adapted for radio and film.

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Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who is considered to have been one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature, together with Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Alexander Kielland.

At the age of ten Ruskin went to live at his grandmother's house in Dehradun after his father's sudden death in 1944 from malaria. From 1827 up to 1832 he established himself as a lawyer in Maastricht.

Brodber currently works as a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Jamaica. Born in Romania, he moved to Ecuador following World War II, and co-authored with Juan Manuel Rodriguez the book Man of Ashes. She was awarded the 6 April Prize for her life’s work about Belgrade. Her travels from Oslo through Bergen to Finnmark resulted in Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway meditative travelogue in 1914. She has written several opinion press articles and two novels: La Capa Roja and Crónica Caribana.

During his youth, Dhaliwal grew up with kids that at the early age of 13 year old were packing guns, stealing cars, getting into fights, making alliances, and selling drugs at school with police always close by watching the beginning of the Indo-Canadian gang culture rise. He was subsequently on the staff of the Extra-Mural Department of the University of the West Indies, Mona. from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1991 as a Fulbright scholar. He finished his thesis titled Tokatlı Kani: Sanat, şahsiyet ve psikoloji under supervision of Nihat Tarlan. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. During World War II, she evacuated to Kanazawa.

As a member of a wealthy family, Ana Teresa spent part of her childhood at her father's hacienda, Tazón.

Samkange was born in 1922 in Zvimba, Mashonaland West Province, in the British southern African colony of Rhodesia. He was among the first to respond when Neda was shot, but his attempts to save her life were unsuccessful. Of his prolific poetry of the late 1940s only "El naranjal ardiente" was published. He is listed in the book of The 20th century's 100 most important people in Denmark. He spent his childhood in Bihar and many places in Bengal and Assam accompanying his father, who worked in the railways. News that his long-pending application for British nationality had been granted reached him in France in late December. There he had hoped, after recovery, to register and study at the Faculty of Arts.

In the late 1980s, Albahari initiated the first formal petition to legalize marijuana in Yugoslavia. From Pratapgarh, Dhanpat Rai was relocated to Allahabad for training, and subsequently posted at Kanpur in 1905. The same year he brought out his first great novel, Gyulai Pál.

In addition to his career at Silliman, Tiempo taught fiction and literary criticism for four years in two American schools during the 1960s. He later published a book, Gambia Taizaiki about his experiences at Kenyon. In early 1961, he became a news editor for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, where his mentor was the Jamaican journalist and political analyst John Maxwell.

He was considered a senior member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, among others.

Born into a Bengali Muslim Quazi family, Nazrul received religious education and worked as a muezzin at a local mosque.

Ni's science fiction stories, which have been enjoyed by generations of juvenile readers in Hong Kong, usually take the form of mysteries- often featuring extraterrestrial life as a deus ex machina to explain the impossible and implausible.

" At the 17 April 2009, opening session of the 5th Summit of the Americas held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a copy of Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America to U.S. President Barack Obama, who was making his first diplomatic visit to the region. In 1790 he became the first person in Poland to fly in a hot air balloon when he made an ascent over Warsaw with the aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard, an exploit that earned him great public acclaim. Nevertheless, King Frederick VI took a personal interest in him as a youth and paid for a part of his education. She was born in Karlsruhe.

Agha Shorish Kashmiri was a scholar, writer, debater, and leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He fought as a guerrilla during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. He is also one of the authors of the critically acclaimed anthology of Tagalog Short Stories, the "Mga Agos sa Disyerto". Junzō Shōno was a Japanese novelist.

Camil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued studies in Bamako, Mali. He had eight children, four from each wife.

Guillou grew up with his mother and her new husband in Saltsjöbaden and Näsby Park outside of Stockholm. College in Mumbai. Educated in the United States, he has a global sense of literary history, and has introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literatures to Sierra Leone. After 1983, she worked as an editor for Cartea Românească, were she made efforts to preserve literary standards in front of a new wave of censorship under the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime. He is remembered for his work in the epic fantasy subgenre and his work has been compared to that of David Gemmell. He lives in Toronto, Canada and Karachi, Pakistan. 1965 in Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian novelist, columnist, translator, editor, musician, and publisher.

" The death of Napoleon in 1821 inspired Manzoni's powerful stanzas Il Cinque maggio, one of the most popular lyrics in the Italian language. It transferred him from his study in Lund to the bishop's palace in Växjö; it marked the first breakdown of his health, which had hitherto been excellent; and it witnessed a singular moral crisis in the inner history of the poet, about which much has been written, but of which little is known.

Maria Baciu is a Romanian poet, professor, and literary critic.

Promet was born on 16 February 1922 in Petseri to an Estonian painter, Aleksander Promet. In this novel, Riobaldo, a jagunço is torn between two loves: Diadorim, another jagunço, and Otacília, an ordinary beauty from the backlands.

Ayşe Kulin is a Turkish contemporary novelist and columnist. He was born in the city of Kars in a Kurdish family in present-day north-eastern Turkey.

For some time, Nagpur University had included study of Kavthekar's fictions in its Master of Arts curriculum. Gvozd is now his memorial center. In English she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, based on the homonymous Greek nymph. His best-known book is Pallieter. He was mentioned as being considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature on three separate occasions. Two years later, he became editor of the Peterborough Examiner in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, northeast of Toronto. He hired a new part-time secretary, Cynthia Jefferies, who eventually became his third wife.

Xoxa was born in the town of Fier, Albania on April 15, 1923. There she began writing.

Narcís Oller i Moragas was a Catalan author, most noted for the novels La papallona which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres ; and La febre d'or which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism.

Juan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.

In this novel, Maroufi uses the stream of consciousness technique very effectively.

Jean-Baptiste Nguema Abessolo, also seen as J.-B. After the war he started his own advertising agency, which he ran until his death.

In 1972, Buzzati died of cancer after a protracted illness. As he intended to study at the Polytechnics, he has to work first as an apprentice in the „23 August” Works in Bucharest. He then began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London. She was selected to attend Atlantic College, one of the United World Colleges, in Wales.

Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Odian's writings, which include novels and short stories, often humorously point out humanity's vices. He is buried in Fraugde, Fyn, the parish of his birth.

Perhaps due to his work in film and television, Puig managed to create a writing style that incorporated elements of these mediums, such as montage and the use of multiple points of view. From 1909–1912, he wrote mostly fiction based on his own experiences. In 1809, he traveled in England.

Valdivieso also was founder and director of Adan, a men's magazine, and Breakthrough, a feminist publication, she published articles in newspapers and magazines and she gave many lectures and speeches. He found himself in Nazi German captivity in 1944, and spent time in a POW camp near Vienna until the end of World War II. His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller since its publication. "You could say... that the one thing which most shook the security of my childhood was the 1919 revolution", he later said. During these first few years, the country saw a new wave of writers, a flood of private newspapers and magazines, and the formation of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association or EFJA. He turned his passion for exploration and discovery to writing. In 1948, he started his first job at 'Nikhat Publications' as an Editor in the poetry department.

Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction.

Tanpınar died of a heart attack on the 24 January 1962 in Istanbul.

Jack Jones was a Welsh novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1930s.

Tanizaki was born to a well-off merchant class family in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, where his uncle owned a printing press, which had been established by his grandfather.

Max Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop.

In total, Shadbolt wrote 11 novels, four collections of short stories, two autobiographies, a war history, and a volume of journalism, as well as plays. He was at high school in Ankara, at Ankara College until 1951, and after military service enrolled at Istanbul Technical University, where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1957. As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor had gone through 14 editions by 1900.

In her autobiography, De said that in her late teens she started having friends of the opposite gender and boyfriends, whom she stated as "fine chaps".

Jack Jones was a Welsh novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1930s. He currently writes a weekly column of political commentary for Expresso, and contributes to the sports newspaper A Bola. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers from the latter half of the 20th-century. She is buried in the Central Cemetery of Montevideo.

Mustansar Hussain Tarar is a Pakistani author, actor, former radio show host, and compere.

In his obituary in Aftenposten, Bjørneboe's life and legacy were described as follows: He later did a complete turn around and criticised his own works like "Gandabba Apadanaya". He is currently a professor at the University of Botswana. His mother, who had converted to Catholicism post-divorce, succeeded in having Endō baptized at the age of 11 or 12 in the year 1934.

In despair, Bulgakov first wrote a personal letter to Joseph Stalin, then on March 28, 1930, a letter to the Soviet government. Few things are known about his years of primary studies — although he entered at the Medicine course in 1849, graduating in 1855.

In 2005, two retired Japanese military officers sued Ōe for libel for his 1970 essay, Okinawa Notes, in which he had written that members of the Japanese military had coerced masses of Okinawan civilians into committing suicide during the Allied invasion of the island in 1945. Her novella Tajrobeh'ha-ye Azad was followed by the novel Sag va Zemestan-e Boland, published in 1976.

Schnitzler died on 21 October 1931, in Vienna, of a brain hemorrhage. He grew up amid racial discrimination, poverty, and violence. In 1968, she became the chairwoman of the Iranian Writers Union.

Kirino has lived in many different cities, including her current residence, Tokyo. He founded Ahrar with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari.

Sia Figiel's poetry has won the Polynesian Literary Competition in 1994 and Where We Once Belonged was awarded the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for fiction, South East Asia/South Pacific region. Having failed his exam several times, and already a successful author, this was attached to cultural notions of "saving face.

He called the battle cry of the elite armed forces group named La Legión—"Long live death! He won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja.

She was born Catharine Parr Strickland in Rotherhithe in 1802, sister to authors Agnes Strickland, Susanna Moodie, and Elisabeth Strickland, Traill.

The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Côte d'Ivoire.

Max Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. In 1959 he visited the Soviet Union.

Clarke is buried with Ekanayake, who predeceased him by three decades, in the Colombo central cemetery.

In 1905 together with Henryk Sienkiewicz and Lev Tolstoy, Eliza Orzeszkowa was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The farm in South Africa failed and Stephen's parents returned to Hampshire, where he was born. Official recognition followed with the novel 'Een dure eed' in 1891, which received the quinquennial prize for Dutch literature.

In 1904, the King of Norway awarded Lie with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav. In 1909, his project for the Roman Catholic church in Zebegény, in 1909 the Óbuda Reformed parochial building, and in 1910 the Budapest Zoo complex, were carried out. He wrote Karvan-e-Ahrar, an eight volume series of the history of Indian subcontinent. Vatanen, the hero of this novel, takes an injured young hare with him on his quest, nursing the animal back to health, while his own dissatisfaction with his former urban lifestyle becomes ever more evident. A graduate in Humanities at Mali's Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, he was a teacher for several years before turning to writing.

Rosalie Loveling was a Flemish author of poetry, novels and essays. He has authored many short stories and is a regular contributor to many popular online journals, such as The Youth Express. He was born in Komárom, in the Kingdom of Hungary. His father died when he was two years old and he lived with his mother in Alexandria until 1954.

Lauryn may refer to: He also was a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Pinto Coelho grew up in Portugal. In 1997, he was dean of the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville when war broke out in the Republic of Congo. A second album, Found Music, was brought out by EMI in 2011. He has been married three times and has four adult offspring.

Vicki Baum died of leukemia in Hollywood, California, in 1960. In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair, a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence; and a sequel entitled Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon.

In 1992, Mishra moved to Mashobra, a Himalayan village, where he began to contribute literary essays and reviews to The Indian Review of Books, The India Magazine, and the newspaper The Pioneer. His novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

" Coelho would leave his lucrative career as a songwriter and pursue writing full-time. O'Nolan was an alcoholic for much of his life and suffered from ill health in his later years. He hailed with enthusiasm the foundation of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the revival of Flemish literature; and he published a number of spirited and eloquent writings in support of the claims of the native tongue of the Netherlands. After 1829 he studied medicine and literature. He also translated many plays into Hebrew, including works by Harold Pinter, Neil Simon, Noël Coward and Eugene O'Neill. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. From 1983 to 1986 he held the presidency of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

László Németh was a Hungarian dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist. At that time, Bichitra was a leading periodical which carried stories only by eminent authors. He began to be recognised in the late 1920s when his work was favorably mentioned by some of Japan's top critics. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness.

Janbaz Mirza was a writer, poet, and journalist from Pakistan.

In 1999 Golshiri was awarded the Erich-Maria Remarque Peace Prize for his struggle to promote democracy and human rights in Iran.

Jens Bjørneboe's first published work was Poems in 1951. His first book of poems, Raiz de Orvalho, was published in 1983; it included texts aimed against the dominance of Marxist militant propaganda.

Unlike Mishima, Kawabata left no note, and since he had not discussed significantly in his writings the topic of taking his own life, his motives remain unclear.

Dąbrowska was awarded the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.

His father reluctantly consented, and Massimo settled in Rome, devoting himself to art.

Ashfaq Ahmed authored more than twenty books in Urdu. In 2005, he won a French Award for translated literature "Laure Bataillon", one of the highest French awards to be bestowed upon non-French writers. (V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is of Indian origin, but was not born in India.

In 2008, the Bollywood press romantically linked him to his friend, Indian model Riya Sen. In response to the media speculation about their relationship, she simply stated: "I think when you are Salman Rushdie, you must get bored with people who always want to talk to you about literature. Among the novels that solidified his reputation are: Flying-Away Monakhov, Life in Windy Weather, Pushkin House, Captive of the Caucasus, and The Monkey Link. He has taught both in Somalia and the U.S., and is the author of numerous short stories, two novels, a collection of fables, as well as articles and essays. That magazine, created in 1935, did not last much time. Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologised, including the Brown Sugar erotica series, which zoomed to number three on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller's List. His most noted works include Här har du ditt liv! He was appointed to the first chair in Pacific literature at the University of the South Pacific in Suva. He was also under the influence of the Sămănătorul critique of Romanian society.

In 1933, Petrescu wrote the novel Patul lui Procust. His best known works include the novels Coronación, El lugar sin límites and El obsceno pájaro de la noche.

In 1950, Daneshvar married the well-known Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad. He has written over 20 novels, television series and movies. Also, in 2011, Monte Avila Editores published his first fiction novel: "Yo no sé matar, pero voy a aprender",. Initially his work was published in an insignificant magazine, De jonge Vlaming. Later that year he resigned from the Communist Party and started work on a new novel that in 1941 was published in London with the title Darkness at Noon.

Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, known as Sjón, is an Icelandic poet, novelist, and lyricist.

Among Uruguayan youth, however, he is best known for Parque Rodó, the Montevideo park named after him. From 1909 till 1922 his primary residence and workplace was in Kristiania. She is the author of Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter.

Yoshiyuki was born in Okayama, the oldest child of author Yoshiyuki Eisuke, but his family moved to Tokyo when he was 3. At the age of 19 he went to study engineering in Nancy, France. The announcement was made on 5 July 2012 at the awards ceremony held at One Birdcage Walk in London. In 1986, he played Tío Pancho in the Venezuelan film, Ifigenia.

Marie-Claire Blais, CC OQ is a Canadian author and playwright. They are helped by an old man on their gradual journey into manhood.

Mo Yan was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong province to a family of farmers, in Dalan Township. It was the village where his father was born and where the family returned for the summer holidays each year.

Born at Maastricht, Van Hasselt was first educated in his native town.

In 1997 Catherine was awarded the Adam Foundation Prize for her portfolio produced during study with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington's Creative Writing Programme.

Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes was a Flemish author. He is Lannan Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University. Mad Shadows) in 1959 when she turned 20.

Jagadish Ghimire was an eminent Nepali writer, political analyst and development worker. Darjeeling is inhabited by Nepali people and has never lost its character as a major centre of Nepali language, culture and literature. In 1997, she published "Anima Mundi," the story of a friendship. He was a research student at the University of Manchester from 1966 to 1969.

Buarque also wrote a play named Calabar, about the Dutch invasion of Brazil in the seventeenth century, drawing parallels with the military regime.

He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.

Camil Petrescu lost both his parents early in life and was raised by a relative.

Gheorghe Crăciun was a Romanian writer and translator. Remaining a figure of great reference in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works were strictly related to the social and political history of Venezuela. He is the author of the novel, Benjamin, My Son and five poetry collections: Exodus and Other Poems, hurricane center, Florida Bound, xango music, and Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas.

" Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings. His early short stories were based on the lives of peasants and artisans, and had little appeal.

Other works by Driss Chraïbi:

In 2005, two retired Japanese military officers sued Ōe for libel for his 1970 essay, Okinawa Notes, in which he had written that members of the Japanese military had coerced masses of Okinawan civilians into committing suicide during the Allied invasion of the island in 1945.

At the beginning of World War I, Crnjanski was persecuted as part of the general anti-Serbian retribution of Austria to Princip's assassination in Sarajevo, but instead of being sent to jail, he was drafted to army and sent to Galician frontline to fight against the Russians where he was wounded in 1915. His literature first appeared in the Tagalog magazine, Liwayway. In Paris, he befriended Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the foremost poets, critics, and artists at large in the Avant-Garde movement. After matriculating at a Lycée in the capital city of Bamako, he went to Paris in 1960, where he studied sociology, philosophy and English at Lycée Henry IV and from 1964 to 1966 he taught at the Lycée de Clarenton in suburban Paris, while studying for a doctorate in sociology at the École Normale Supérieure. She married, and has two children.

Sylvia Iparraguirre is an Argentine novelist and human rights activist. In 1993, he published his first and only play, titled "Theatre Menu For Ever and a Day".

In 1958 Wynter met the Guyanese novelist Jan Carew, who became her second husband. This opinion will be refined and elaborated as more of his works emerge in English versions. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling. Her first novel, “Beyond the Horizon,” was originally published in German.

Esterházy, the scion of a comital branch of the Esterházy magnate family, is perhaps best known outside of his native country for Celestial Harmonies which chronicles his forefathers' epic rise during the Austro-Hungarian empire – when Haydn composed music at the family palace – to its dispossession under communism. On the other hand, it would also have been particularly shameful to have given them to one of the countries that had formerly colonized and oppressed Morocco. He studied communication engineering at the University of Kent at Canterbury in England and now lives in London.

Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a middle class Catholic family of European descent.

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture. He lives in Miami, Florida.

On regaining his liberty, he proceeded to Dresden, where, in conjunction with Adam Heinrich Müller, he published the journal Phöbus in 1808. Then, he was transferred to the School of Education in Istanbul, where he graduated in 1926. She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at the height of its struggle against the burgeoning National Socialist German Workers Party. The family moved to Bern in 1935.

Alongside full length books, Montalvo was an accomplished essayist, and his Siete Tratados and Geometría Moral were popular in Ecuador and were banned by Veintemilla.

In 1895, Arlen was born as the youngest child of five, having three brothers, Takvor, Krikor, and Roupen, and one sister, Ahavni.

There is a particular effect that may explain to some extent the attitude of Arturo Uslar Pietri in his youthful days, with respect to political developments led by the university against Juan Vicente Gómez.

The painting manual Jieziyuan Huazhuan was prefaced and published by Li in Jinling.

Herbert George de Lisser CMG was a Jamaican journalist and author.

Nazrul also wrote a large variety of songs inspired by the raga Bhairav. Her novel Elle sera de jaspe et de corail is a song-novel recounted by a misovire in writing a journal on nine themes. Among other places, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Lettre Internationale, Granta, Callaloo, The Granta Anthology of the African Short Story, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She writes that “Sabri put one limitation on women – no sparring in the ring, no black eyes, no bloody noses. " One notable business trip to Kaluga in 1850 led to a close friendship with Nikolay Gogol. She grew up in a Jewish home and attended Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she received a bachelor's degree in literature in 1969. They have two children, Lila and Nayan. In 2010 the novel Boves, el Urogallo, was adapted into a film by director Luis Alberto Lamata, with the title of Taita Boves. The novel was made into a film by the same title in 1975 by Jerzy Antczak. They live in Sydney's inner west.

The next year his mother returned to Austria, where Bernhard spent much of his early childhood with his maternal grandparents in Vienna and Seekirchen am Wallersee north of Salzburg. He was a member of the literary group Kadra. In 1944 his house in Stana was plundered, and he fled to Cluj, where he rejoined his family. He was among the first to respond when Neda was shot, but his attempts to save her life were unsuccessful. He has published three novels in Danish – Krat, Undtagelsen, and Du Forsvinder.

Moberg became a full-time writer when the success of Raskens enabled him to devote himself entirely to writing. In 1928 he emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat. He received the Malaysian National Laureate in 1996 which makes him the 8th recipient of the award. Although he wrote a novel, 1971) and a number of short stories, he is best known for his tales and stories for children.

Peter Weiss earned his reputation in the post-war German literary world as the proponent of an avant-garde, meticulously descriptive writing, as an exponent of autobiographical prose, and also as a politically engaged dramatist.

Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her remains were exhumed and brought to Caracas in 1947.

Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana? Specializing in short stories, she was one of the first important writers to appear in the Meiji period and Japan´s first prominent woman writer of modern times. He has authored many short stories and is a regular contributor to many popular online journals, such as The Youth Express.

Gerard Kornelis van het Reve was a Dutch writer. Around 1905, through the articles of Simion Mehedinţi, his work came to be criticized by the traditionalist magazine Sămănătorul, who coupled a rejection of modernism with an appreciation of for folklore. She was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009.

Bibhutibhushan had a stout constitution and walked miles in the woods every day, usually taking his notebook for the purpose of writing whilst surrounded by the wilderness. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. In 2001 he published the novel La sombra del viento, his first "adult" novel, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and more than a million copies in the UK alone. trouble. While at the university he was active in the left-wing Estonian Students' Society Veljesto. He is currently in the executive committee member of the TNPWA. He is recognized as one of the major Hungarian literary personalities of the 20th century. He was also a delegate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 19th, 21st, 23rd and 24th sessions of the League of Nations in Geneva in period 1930–1934. In 2010 the novel Boves, el Urogallo, was adapted into a film by director Luis Alberto Lamata, with the title of Taita Boves. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly of India. In 1990 he won the Nino Martoglio International Book Award. With Paulo César Saraceni, he was responsible for the first feature-length film of the nascent Cinema Novo, Porto das caixas - based on a true history about a popular miracle said to have happened in the municipality of Itaboraí, then a backwater rural community in the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Born to Laxman Charan Senapati and Tulsi Devi Senapati, Fakirmohan dedicated his life to the progress of Oriya language in the later 19th and early 20th century.

Joseph Opatoshu, was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer.

Saabye Christensen was raised in the Skillebekk neighbourhood of Oslo, but lived for many years in Sortland in northern Norway; both places play a major role in his work.

Findley's first two novels, The Last of the Crazy People and The Butterfly Plague, were originally published in Britain and the United States after having been rejected by Canadian publishers.

In 1983, the fourth volume of Jahrestage was published, but Johnson broke off a reading tour for health reasons. That same year, he spent three months attending a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.

In 2005, Shyamanand Jalan directed film Eashwar Mime Co., an adaptation of Dibyendu Palit's story, Mukhabhinoy, by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar. The teachers of the Gymnasium exerted a great influence on the formation of his literary taste.

Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica.

Educated in Constantine and in Tunis, Boudjedra later fought for the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence. When he began having trouble with an unruly child, he decided to write a story from the child's point of view and read it in front of the entire class, hoping that the child would get the message and calm down. Travel Literature She studied biology and environmental science and has conducted research and presented lectures at universities in Turkey, Norway, the United States, and Finland.

Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (March 2 [O.S.

Other themes that occur in Lampo's work are the myths of Orpheus and the Holy Grail. 1910).

Teki Dervishi is an ethnic-Albanian poet, novelist and playwright.

His mother worked as a sports trainer; his older brother Martin E. Süskind is also a journalist. He is the author of Full Circle, a literary novel set in Congo. His play The Canvas Barricade was the first Canadian play produced at the Stratford Festival of Canada. , 1930 and M.A.

During her lifetime, Montgomery published 20 novels, over 500 short stories, an autobiography, and a book of poetry.

João Ubaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian author born in Itaparica, Bahia on January 23, 1941. He was born in Tehran, and graduated in Persian Literature from the Literature and Human science Faculty of Tehran University.

In 1997 Catherine was awarded the Adam Foundation Prize for her portfolio produced during study with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington's Creative Writing Programme. He was a founding member of the breakaway Italian Communist Party in 1921, and became one of its covert leaders during the Fascist regime. She was one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany. Her novels include Dadabé. The novel deals with the moral and intellectual decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire through the eyes of the book's protagonist Ulrich, an ex-mathematician who has failed to engage with the world around him in a manner that would allow him to possess 'qualities'. She handled also her year of birth indiscriminately as 1909 or 1913. He visited Palestine again in 1936, and returned to settle in the United States in 1938. He was elected for three times in Punjab Assembly. As a late teenager he abandoned his mother and siblings and set off with his best friend to join one of the armed rebel groups.

" Murasaki was aware that others saw her as "pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful".

Sirah Baldé de Labé was a Guinean novelist and teacher.

Anne Provoost is a Flemish author who now lives in Antwerp with her husband and three children.

Despite her attempt at preoccupation through these means Alifa Rifaat remained frustrated at her inability to express herself and the societal issues she faced as a woman through literary means. He attempted to pull together his research into a general theory. Her novellas are considered[who? This came as a blow to Ranpo, who relied on royalties from reprints for income.

From this "new art" surfaced many of Reid’s literary contemporaries, including Roger Mais, George Campbell, M. G. Smith, and H. D. Carberry. His work was published in a critical edition after his death, but controversy remains about his book Il partigiano Johnny, often considered his best work, which was published posthumously in 1968. " Nevertheless, it took a few years for this epic to win recognition all over the country.

Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist.

Tabucchi died in a hospital in Lisbon on March 25, 2012, after a long battle with cancer.

Born in Vancouver, Dhaliwal grew up in Surrey Central, British Columbia in the 1980s, which was a time when Indo-Canadian families were scattered across the suburbs.

Stricken with grief over his wife’s death, Hugh John Montgomery gave custody over to Montgomery’s maternal grandparents.

Tiempo, was a Filipino writer and professor. Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologised, including the Brown Sugar erotica series, which zoomed to number three on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller's List. In the 1880s she attended Marlborough Teacher Training College in Dublin, was appointed Monitor at Millbrook National School, Larne, County Antrim, finished her training at Marlborough and then became a qualified teacher at the same school. Probably this was a reason, why she concealed traces of her past.

Meja Mwangi is one of Kenya's leading novelists. Proust, in La mayor and Joyce, in "Sombras sobre vidrio esmerilado"). A film based on Peščanik, directed by the Hungarian Szabolcs Tolnai, was finished in 2008. Bano Qudsia, his wife and companion in Urdu literary circles, was his classmate at Government College.

Jagadish Mohanty is a renowned Oriya writer, considered as a trendsetter in modern Oriya fiction, has received the prestigious Sarala Award 2003, Orissa Sahitya Akademy Award 1990, Jhankar Award, 1985 Dharitri Award, Prajatantra Award.

In 1865 Kivi won the State Prize for his still often performed comedy Nummisuutarit. During World War II, she evacuated to Kanazawa. The River Between is currently on Kenya's national secondary school syllabus.

Houshang Golshiri was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor.

Mario Briceño Iragorry, was a Venezuelan intellectual and cultural analyst.

It was during her first visit to Larne that she met Andrew Ross, a widower of 35, who was station master there. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works.

Patricia Powell is a Jamaican writer. He returned in 1984 to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth, a physician, and their two daughters Lucy and Emily.

Katherine Duignan is a New Zealand novelist. The Seventh Door and Leaves are among his books translated into English. His grave is at the temple of Hōnen-in in Kyoto. His widow Ana West, died seven years after him, on October 21, 1983.

Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi is a Somali author based in the United States. He went to primary school and then attended the secondary school Fatih Rüştiyesi in the same city. In 1988 he took up a professorship of Pacific studies at the University of Auckland. He spent the first two years of World War II in the hometown Tuzla, where he was arrested for participation in the Partisan anti-fascist resistance movement in 1943.

It is possible that he started this work before his passage to Montevideo, and also continued the work during his ocean journey. " He was described as being "one of the most intriguing writers from the beginning of the 21st century.

The two novels sketched the life and importance of Henry IV of France and were acclaimed by his brother Thomas Mann, who spoke of the "great splendour and dynamic art" of the work. His books have been translated to English, French, German, Danish, Swedish, and Hungarian, among others.

Few of Enchi's works have been translated out of Japanese. She is a university film professor, film writer and specialist in Symbology.

Réjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal.

In 1980 Shamiakin became the chief editor of the Soviet Belarusian Encyclopedia. He also held the title Karnataka kula Thilaka conferred by Udupi Adamaru Math.

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture.

Raj Kamal Jha is a daily newspaper editor and an internationally acclaimed novelist whose works inhabit the surreal, often dark and violent, space between fiction and fact to explore contemporary India. In 2010 he received the Prince of Asturias Award laureate for Letters for his work, an intense mix of suggestive language, historic affairs in a Mediterranean mosaic of languages, cultures and religions and stories of tolerance and reconciliation.

Moses Isegawa, also known as Sey Wava, is a Ugandan author. His father was born in Austria-Hungary with a surname Kon, but changed it to Kis as part of Magyarization, a widely implemented practice at the time.

Sicat graduated with a B.Litt.

In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Grace was made a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service. In 2007 and 2008 he was a writer in residence at Harvard University and in 2009 at Boston College. She was the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow for 2006 and President of Honour of the New Zealand Book Council. In Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in History and Geography.

Duignan held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 2004.

Bhagat writes op-ed columns for popular English and Hindi newspapers, including the The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar, focusing on youth, career and issues based on national development. During World War II, he served on an Extraordinary State Commission which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.

Descriptions of Mowat refer to his "commitment to ideals," "poetic descriptions and vivid images," but also to his strong antipathies, which provoke "ridicule, lampoons and, at times, evangelical condemnation. In 1921, he completed the MA degree in English from University of Calcutta, obtaining a second class. He studied in Louvain, came back to Congo and flew to the USA in 1979 for political reasons.

After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954. Again during the Siege of Mainz he assisted Carl August as a military observer. She was runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut.

In 1975, Soya received Denmark's foremost literary award, Grand Prize of the Danish Academy. In October 1972, he moved to Fussa near the base of the U.S. Air Force and was accepted into the Musashino Art University in the sculpture program. He is also a supporter of Iberian Federalism. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies. A second volume, entitled La otra isla de los canticos, with a prologue by Emilio Oribe and containing a number of poems taken from her unpublished manuscripts, appeared in 1959 shortly after her brother's death. He began studying at The University of San Marcos in 1931; there he graduated with a degree in Literature. In 1974 he moved to Fiji, where he taught at the University of the South Pacific. She has been working in the Mumbai film industry after studying film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. As a Christian writer she drew attention with novels such as Ik was een christen, Dood van een non and Wacht niet op de morgen.

Marnix Gijsen 20 October 1899 - 29 September 1984) was a Flemish writer. He taught for a few years in the University of Rennes.

Edith L. Tiempo, poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language. He is fond of employing the short-story as a form.

Baum took up boxing in the late 1920s.

Juhan Liiv (30 April [O.S.

After one year in Rome, Sciascia moved back to Caltanissetta, in Sicily. He migrated to Spain in protest of the current government in Equatorial Guinea. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised.

After that he went to Gabon, where his father Héménéglide Maran was in the colonial service. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He studied mathematics at ELTE university in Budapest from 1969 to 1974; his first writings were published in literary journals in 1974. Kampala fell on 26 January 1986. and Museveni was proclaimed as president, but Uganda remained haunted by civil war.

Subramaniam Krishnan, popularly known as K. S. Maniam, is an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist.

It is assumed that Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, a Castilian city about 35 kilometres from Madrid, probably on 29 September 1547. She was born to a noble Pawłowski family in Milkowszczyzna, and died in Grodno nearby.

Other works by Shabtai include Uncle Peretz Takes Off, a collection of short stories, and Past Perfect, a continuation of Past Continuous in terms of narrative and style, published posthumously.

Nigel Cox was a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006. As was the custom in the old days in Kurdistan, he started studying the Quran first and Arabic language in mosques in Kurdistan, then he became a Faqi.

Pekić distinguished himself in the 1970s as one of the best Serbian contemporary dramatists. Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer. He was a student of Zafar Ali Khan, but was disappointed by the violence at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque in 1921.

In 1936, Rulfo was able to audit courses in literature there because he obtained a job as an immigration file clerk through his uncle, David Pérez Rulfo, a colonel working for the government, who had also gotten him admitted to the military academy.

Berthe-Evelyne Agbo is a writer from Benin who has published poems in French. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.

Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. This was made into a film in 2006 by Tom Tykwer.

Maguy Rashidi-Kabamba is a writer and translator from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, excluding a brief spell as a schoolmaster before coming to England, his working life was in broadcasting. He died in Rome in 1991.

While living with this brother, McKay became an avid reader of classical and British literature, as well as philosophy, science and theology. Incidentally, I am moving and hope that, for the first time since Nervous Conditions, I shall have a room of my own.

Sara Pinto Coelho was a writer of fiction and plays in the Portuguese language. That year also saw her novel Perahu Kertas published. In 1962 his first novel, While Gods Are Falling, won the Trinidad and Tobago Independence literary competition sponsored by British Petroleum.

Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. This was also the time when socialism becomes an emerging idea in world ideology. He is immortalised by some of his phrases, and in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism or in his own words Vishwa maanavataa Vaada.

Being a communist militant, from 1941 to 1942 Amado was compelled to go into exile to Argentina and Uruguay.

In 1955, while on British Council sponsored study week in Scotland, she met a Canadian engineering student, Donald Hugh Shields.

Javellana was born in 1918 in Iloilo. Married Sam Stewart in 1970.

Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she studied with science fiction writer James Morrow as her mentor and instructor. She was a resident novelist in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2003.

Described as "highly imaginative", Pavić is said to have "[done] everything to disrupt the traditional models of fiction writing such as the development of story and the notions of beginning and end.

Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.

Sardar Surender Singh Sohal, a.k.a.

Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and was forced to support himself, working as a weaver's apprentice and, later, for a tailor. He died in Lisbon, Portugal. After 1970s, he moved to social, cultural, and political criticism. After the war he continued his teacher training and worked from 1 August 1919 as a primary school teacher in Lohne, at that time in the county of Lingen, now in the county of Bentheim.

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. After graduating he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Catania in 1857. He said that Flemish manners and speech could not be rendered faithfully in modern French, and accordingly wrote his best works in the old tongue. He was also included in the 1984 anthology called the Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry.

Later, Shields did post-graduate work at the University of Ottawa, where she received an MA in 1975. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels at Hartzell High school, a missionary school in the Rhodesian town of Umtali. (An omnibus edition of the three Marchbanks books, with new notes by the author, was published under the title The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks in 1985. 3 October] 1912 in Pärnamaa, Saulepi Parish, Lääne County – 19 July 1977 in Solna, Stockholm) was an Estonian writer. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial. Endō died shortly thereafter from complications of hepatitis at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo on September 29, 1996. He refused to join the Hitler Youth during the 1930s.

Richard Dogbeh was a novelist and educator.

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican author making a noted contribution to Latin-American literature.

A year later, Vargas Llosa married his first cousin, Patricia Llosa, with whom he had three children: Álvaro Vargas Llosa, a writer and editor; Gonzalo, a businessman; and Morgana, a photographer. His most important literary works are the novels Cronaca familiare, Cronache di poveri amanti and Metello. He died at the age of 67 on 11 September 2005, in Ulcinj, Serbia and Montenegro. He was elected a posthumous member of the Romanian Academy.

Karel van Mander was a Flemish-born Dutch painter and poet, who is mainly remembered as a biographer of Netherlandish artists in his Schilder-boeck. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.

She was the younger sister of philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira and a contemporary of Delmira Agustini and Julio Herrera y Reissig. He has received a number of prizes, the most important being the Nordic Council Literature Prize, which he received for the perspectivist trilogy about the TV personality Jonas Wergeland.

Yervant Odian is considered to be one of the most influential Armenian satirists, along with the roughly contemporary Hagop Baronian.

Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature.

Haldun Taner is a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.

José Eustasio Rivera was born on February 19, 1888 in Aguas Calientes, a hamlet of the city of Neiva, later that year the hamlet was incorporated into the newly created municipality of San Mateo, which was later renamed Rivera in honour of José Eustasio.

Circa 1952, Graciliano's health gradually began to decline.

Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter of Cairo, Mahfouz was named after Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, the renowned Coptic physician who delivered him. He is the founder of Editions Le Figuier and the director of the Association Etonnants voyageurs Afrique and, along with Michel Le Bris, is the Mali manager of the Festival Etonnants voyageurs, an international book fair. During this period, he was chosen to represent the school prefecture as the Head Boy for two successive academic years. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.

In 1959, Grace Ogot married the professor and historian Professor Bethwell Allan Ogot, a Luo from Gem Location, and later became the mother of four children. Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film. As a child, he had frail health and spent much of his time at the countryside in Zedelgem, with his paternal grandparents. In 1904, they moved to Tartu, Estonia. He subsequently worked as musical critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre.

His great grandfather Krishna Chandra Banerjee aquired the title 'Roy'.

After the German occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938, his family moved to Sweden, and Weiss himself removed to Switzerland. He was buried at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery, a huge crowd attending the burial ceremony. It has been praised by The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Daily Telegraph among other publications. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel about the History of Philosophy. His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, five novels, three historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews.

Ribas was born in Luanda, the son of Arnaldo Gonçalves Ribas and Maria de Conceição Bento Faria. Her formal schooling was conducted in Samoa and New Zealand where she also began a BA which was completed at Whitworth College. In the romance Incidente em Antares, written in 1971, he traces a parallel with Brazilian politics with the use of fantasy, with the rebellion of corpses during a strike of the gravekeepers, in the fictitious city of Antares.

In 2006 Ediciones Destino published a book of Bioy's diary entries on Borges, numbering 1663 pages of anecdotes, witticisms and observations. In 1994 he wrote the script for "Çakalların İzinde", broadcast on ATV.

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican author making a noted contribution to Latin-American literature. He emigrated to Canada with his wife in 1975, settling in Toronto where he studied at the University of Toronto and received a BA in English and Philosophy. In the subsequent years, he travelled alongside his wife to countries such as France, Portugal, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenplay, including 16 Palanca Awards. He is the author of Seminar on Youth and Vita standard di un venditore provvisorio di collant. He retired from this position in 2010. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.

Milan learned to play the piano from his father; he later studied musicology and musical composition. In 1931, he began working on the Kurdish literature at the Oriental Institute of Leningrad. She won the Géza Gárdonyi Prize at the age of 18 for her art and literature. Perhaps his most famous novel is Crônica da casa assassinada, 1959, a long, Faulknerian story of a decayed gentry family in Minas Gerais. Two parts of the 1st volume were translated into English and published in literary magazines. His writing is considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. In 1947, he travelled to Paris to continue studying mechanics.

In 2001, Lahiri married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America, and who is now Senior Editor of TIME Latin America.

Described as "highly imaginative", Pavić is said to have "[done] everything to disrupt the traditional models of fiction writing such as the development of story and the notions of beginning and end. He had been brought there after his doctor had found him collapsed in his Mexico City home.

John Williams' piece 'Hello Francis' is written as a tribute to Bebey. His antisemitism is controversial, having Jewish friends such as Mihail Sebastian.

Aged 30, Onetti was already working as editing secretary of the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha. It was based on his own family situation and described the influence of the English on Portuguese culture. ) dedicated to mystery fiction, and in 1947, he founded the Detective Author’s Club (探偵作家クラブ, Tantei sakka kurabu? After the outbreak of World War II, she and her family were forced to leave their home and evacuated to Tatarstan. Born in Gaziantep in 1960. His father and two brothers, James and Robert, were killed on 10 May 1837 in a mining accident when the Argoed mine became flooded. This thinly fictional account tells of the lives of soldiers during World War I and the trench warfare they encountered. En 1938 he published "Novela de Eterna" y la Niña del dolor, la "Dulce-persona" de un amor que no fue sabido, an anticipation of Museo de la Novela de la Eterna ; in 1941 he published, in Chile Una novela que comienza, and in 1944 a new edition of Papeles de Recienvenido.

Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world.

In 1999, Ghosh joined the faculty at Queens College, City University of New York, as Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature. Until 1879 he was the representative for the Illyefalva District in Transylvania, and from 1892 until his death he represented the Fogaras District. He is the co-founder of Aleph Book Company, a literary publishing firm based in New Delhi. His father was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweler, and his mother was Sufia Khatun. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, translator and essayist.

Although Dinesen's illness was eventually cured, it created medical anguish for years afterward.

While the Protestant branch of the family sent their children to British or American schools, Maalouf's mother was a staunch Catholic who insisted on sending him to Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour- a French Jesuit school.

Still a Chinese citizen, in 1998 Wei established the Wei Jingsheng Foundation in New York City whose stated aim is to work to improve human rights and democratization in China.

Ervin Lázár was a Hungarian author.

Malick has received consistent praise for his work and has been regarded as one of the greatest living filmmakers.

Uzuner wrote two more travel books as Travel Notes of An Urban Romantic which questions the meaning of exoticism and New York Logbook which are all collected lately in Travel Library of Buket Uzuner She also studied at Alliance Girls High School.

Reymont was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko as one of nine children to Józef Rejment, an organist.

Nazrul's mother was Zahida Khatun.

Jean-Baptiste Nguema Abessolo, also seen as J.-B. Preferring solitude to the drudgery of media commitments, he left the country when the opportunity arose, and spent two years in Southeast Asia.

Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed.

José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle. These stories were a chronicle of the Italian Partisans or of rural life. This tactic only succeeded in making him unpopular. " Trefulka described the incident in his novella Pršelo jim štěstí.

John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. He succeeded his father Mohiddin Badusha I. Although he supported the independence movement in Tunisia, he was not able to find a place in the new Muslim state[clarification needed].

Michèle Rakotoson is a writer, journalist, and film maker from Madagascar. This understanding of how they were oppressed was the focus for his novels.

At the 1975 communal elections in Palermo, Sciascia ran as an independent within the Italian Communist Party slate, and was elected to the city council. Venezuelan literary historian and man of letters who played a major role in bringing the works of Latin American writers to world attention. She also publishes poetry and prose in such literary magazines as Tribuna, Steaua, Contrapunct, Apostrof, Contemporanul-Ideea europeană, România literară, Viaţa românească, Poesis, Familia and Vatra. It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas. He was member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He studied at Colegio Williams. In 1986 he met Spanish journalist Pilar del Rio.

Edmondo De Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. Following the extensive influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 17th century to the mid-20th century, through the British Empire, it has been widely propagated around the world, becoming the leading language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions.

In 1918, Kós was asked to be a professor of the College for Applied Arts of Budapest, but he declined, wishing to return to Transylvania. He has one sister, who was born in 1930. On his return from the labour camp he was placed under house arrest for a period of two years in Brăila County. She then went to England to continue her studies at Homerton College, Cambridge University, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Yoshiyuki was born in Okayama, the oldest child of author Yoshiyuki Eisuke, but his family moved to Tokyo when he was 3. He published only one novel, La feria.

João Ubaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian author born in Itaparica, Bahia on January 23, 1941. His favorite authors were Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.

Zsigmond Móricz was born in Tiszacsécse in 1879 to Bálint Móricz and Erzsébet Pallagi.

Thomas worked with the South German Fire Insurance Company in 1894/95.

Florent Couao-Zotti is a writer of comics, plays, and short stories, who lives in Cotonou, Benin.

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL was a Portuguese writer and diplomat.

Twenty-three years after pinning him up the pillory for his "anti-revolutionary activities", the Cuban people pay homage to Lezama Lima through the release of a film, Strawberry and Chocolate : Lezama is a model to Diego, a wayside gay intellectual; and David, a member of the local communists youths, discovers the author of Paradiso, and becomes a man after a grand "a la Lezama" supper.

Annamarie Jagose is a queer writer of academic and fictional works. Together with Nalin de Silva, he was responsible for the Jaathika Chinthanaya movement which dominates Sinhala intellectual debate from mid-1980s to the current date.

Writing in French in the 1950s, Oyono had only a brief literary career, but his anti-colonialist novels are considered classics of 20th century African literature; his first novel, Une vie de boy—published in 1956 and later translated as Houseboy—is considered particularly important. As a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick, he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Brunswickan. He worked to become a teacher and taught at schools in Baja, Szeged, Fogaras, Újpest, and Budapest. Another peculiarity that can be perceived in Beyatlı’s poetry is the almost feminine sensibility that he displayed towards Islam. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his country". As a member of the French Protestant Church of Berlin, he was buried in the congregation's cemetery in on the Luisenstraße. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory and played in an orchestra in Germany for three years. After three years, during which Marieta's health deteriorated rapidly, they moved to the larger city of Recife, Pernambuco, settling in the neighbourhood of Boa Vista, where they lived at number 367 in the Praça Maciel Pinheiro and later in the Rua da Imperatriz. He was the youngest of six children, the others were Rita, Gerald, Eileen, Kathleen and Macartan; four of these predeceased him. In 1977, she published a volume of short stories called Avizeh'ha-ye Bolur.

Ayako Sono is a Catholic Japanese writer. Around this time he also ventured into journalism, fiction, and screenplays. One of his grandfathers was a foreman stonemason in the royal employ. She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her book La mémoire amputée. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria ; then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna in 1861 and 1862.

Diallo's television film Karim et Doussou, the story of a contemporary Malian marriage, was nominated for a 2011 FESPACO award.

Mishra's latest work is a travelogue on China, A Great Clamour, published by Penguin in 2013. His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared in The Second Circle, an online literary review. Sharīf Husain, who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī was an Urdu writer.

In the post-World War I period Krleža established himself both as a major Modernist writer and politically controversial figure in Yugoslavia, a newly created country which encompassed South Slavic lands of the former Habsburg Empire and the kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro.

Rosie Scott is a New Zealand novelist based in Sydney, Australia. She received a Prince Claus Award in 2000 for her contributions to culture and society, and the Noma Award in 2005 for her book La mémoire amputée. Her nonfiction work covers a wide range of topics, including belonging, identity, gender, mental ghettoes, daily life politics, multicultural literature and the art of coexistence.

Despite his atheism, Gorky was not a materialist. He came back to Venezuela in 1936, working as a professor and author. Yet there was nothing cosmopolitan about him; his genius fed in solitude on specific local and ethnic sources. That year also saw her novel Perahu Kertas published. The couple moved to Kenya, where in early 1914 they used family money to establish a coffee plantation, hiring African workers, predominantly the Kikuyu tribes people who lived on the farmlands at the time of their arrival. In 1964 he moved to the Côte d'Azur in the south of France with Rita Labrosse, whom he employed as his secretary. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. While in Haarlem he continued to paint, concentrating his energy on his favorite genre: historical allegories. In 1942, he presided over the Birbhum District Literature Conference and became the president of the Anti-Fascist Writers and Artists Association in Bengal. He was active in the struggle against the United States' occupation of Haiti.

Bernice Rubens was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist. He was born in Fes in 1915 of Berber parents.

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo is an Equatorial Guinean writer/journalist and part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed their African experience and traditions to Hispanic culture.

Sia Figiel grew up amidst the traditional Samoan singing and poetry which heavily influenced her writing. He was conferred Padma Vibhushan by Government of India. He was then editor of Philippine Graphic magazine where he worked with Juan P. Dayang, who was the magazine's first publisher. He received a CBE in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand in 2007.

For some time, Nagpur University had included study of Kavthekar's fictions in its Master of Arts curriculum. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. In the English speaking world his An Invincible Memory has been highly praised. Endō married Okada Junko, a year later. In 1926 and in 1927 he was nominated for the Nobel prize on the score of The Gate of the Life, a historical novel about archbishop Tamás Bakócz, set in 16th century Rome. His first novella was called Calul.

Duignan held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in 2004. In 2006, he published his first book of poetry. Her first novel, All The Blood Is Red was published by Angela Royal Publishing in 1996. It was a woman of many facets, which stood out during the life in areas such as writing, film, rural development, or even as a soldier of the liberation of the country from colonial rule. With Los pequeños seres, his first novel, Garmedia showed his remarkable dowries of observation and his interest by the routine existence of the inhabitants of the urban centres and of the alienation that suffer in their work and with their relatives. His first novel, Der Zug war pünktlich, was published in 1949. This novel was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1960, was made into a film in 1967 and was voted to be the 8th most liked novel of Hungary in the Big Read in 2005. He married Mária Molnár in 1885, but their marriage was unhappy and they separated in 1892.

Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist. It was selected for Oprah's Book Club in November 2001 and sold hundreds of thousands of additional copies throughout North America as a result.

Imre Kertész is a Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". On that day, he took a cab in Esenler on the European side of Istanbul and requested to be driven to Üsküdar on the Asian side. José Rizal's life and writings profoundly influenced José's work.

El Maleh was born in Safi, Morocco to a Jewish family from Safi. He was 68. He was interred at Karacaahmet Cemetery in Üsküdar district of Istanbul.

Camara Laye was an African writer from Guinea. He died of a heart attack in 1922. He received his PhD in 1980. He also established in 1788 in Warsaw a publishing house named Drukarnia Wolna as well as the city's first free reading room. Her writing was inspired by József Kiss, Mihály Szabolcska, and the writers' group of the periodical Hét.

Through learning from his parents, Mao Dun developed great interest in writing during his childhood. He was known as Mufakkir-e-Ahrar.

Krishnamurthy's father was Ramaswamy Aiyar, a poor accountant in Puttamangalam village in the old Tanjore district of erstwhile Madras Presidency.

While in the sanatorium, Istrati met Russian Jewish-Swiss Zionist writer Josué Jéhouda, who became his friend and French language tutor.

Kemény's enthusiasm for Hungarian independence had waned, believing that the European balance of power would never accept an independent Hungary, and advocated a policy of reconciliation with Austria. His reviews, articles, poems and short stories have also appeared in Small Axe, Asili, The Caribbean Writer, Gulf Stream, Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination, Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse.

Nadolny's grandfather, Rudolf Nadolny, had in fact led the German delegation. In 1982 he won a scholarship to join the RAF as a pilot and remained in the RAF for over twenty years, flying Victor air-to-air refueling tankers for three years, then as a flying instructor on Jet Provost and Tucano training aircraft for four years and was then based for eight years at Brize Norton, Oxon, as copilot, captain and instructor on the VC10 aircraft. " President Laurent Gbagbo accused him of supporting rebel groups from the north of the country. In 2003, he won the Camões Prize, considered to be the most important award in the Portuguese language. He has written eight books in all and was awarded the 2008 prix Renaudot for The King of Kahel.

Shields' eldest daughter Anne Giardini is also a writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. Few things are known about his years of primary studies — although he entered at the Medicine course in 1849, graduating in 1855.

Heiki Vilep is an Estonian poet and children's writer.

The story of Fakirmohan is indeed the story of the 'Renaissance' of Oriya literature. Becoming weary of the internal affairs at TVE, he resigned as a journalist and decided to work full-time as a writer. His best-known work was his early short story collection, Luuanda, which received a Portuguese writers' literary award in 1965, though it was banned by the Portuguese government until 1974 due to its examination of the oppressiveness of the colonial administration in Angola. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. Blecha served on the Italian front, before being invalided out of service. Then she worked for the Science and Technology Center in Kumasi.

In 1990, Kadare claimed political asylum in France, issuing statements in favour of democratisation. One early collection of tales, the 213-page The noise of winds of the past, had the distinction of being banned and ‘turned into cardboard.’ The author was accused of Soviet revisionism at a time when the party had called for more Maoist revolutionary concepts in literature and greater devotion to the working masses.

Alan Duff, MBE, is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist.

In 1927 Hedayat attempted suicide by throwing himself into the river Marne, however he was rescued by a fishing boat.

Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC was an American-born Canadian author.

Ultimately, in May 1885, Zamfirescu was dispatched to Italy, as legation secretary in Rome, a position which he filled until 1906, with a hiatus during which he was assigned to Greece and later Belgium. He now made frequent visits to Berlin, Potsdam and Sanssouci at the bidding of Frederick, with whom he cultivated an acquaintance. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His father was a lawyer, and the family followed him through his various assignments in different parts of the country. Dr. Marif Khaznadar and Dr. Kamal Foad both point to the same date too, but Aladdin Sajadi says that he was born in 1797 and died in 1855. He was an avid reader of fiction and history, and as a high school student in Alexandria had his short stories published in Tahidromos and Anatoli, the Greek daily newspapers of the city. Master's Degree in Sociology from Patna University and a post-graduate diploma in Population Studies from the University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K. Winner of Madan Puraskar and Uttam Shanti Puraskar for his biography Antarmanko Yatra written whilst he was in the hospital treating Multiple myeloma of spine he was suffering from. González attended creative writing classes under Wallace Stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford University.

Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964. His stories have been translated into German, French, English, Russian, Greek, Slovanian, Swedish, and Hebrew. He also stated in his note that Émile Ajar was himself.

Marcos Aguinis is an Argentine writer that has received several prestigious international awards. He died six years later in his birthplace, Vicenza. His death was announced only after his funeral. It was published in 2000 in Sweden.

Coming from a long line of marine officers, Bjørneboe also went to sea as a young man.

Due to the manifesto, Wei was arrested and convicted of "counterrevolutionary" activities, and was detained as a political prisoner from 1979–93.

The next year his mother returned to Austria, where Bernhard spent much of his early childhood with his maternal grandparents in Vienna and Seekirchen am Wallersee north of Salzburg. Master's Degree in Sociology from Patna University and a post-graduate diploma in Population Studies from the University of Wales, Cardiff, U.K. Winner of Madan Puraskar and Uttam Shanti Puraskar for his biography Antarmanko Yatra written whilst he was in the hospital treating Multiple myeloma of spine he was suffering from. He died in Warsaw.

Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian writer of twenty novels and one collection of short stories.

Marshall taught in a rural boys' high school for 25 years before becoming a full-time author. Some are courtesans, illegitimate, "fallen" or "ruined" women.

Carmen Covito is an Italian writer and translator. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology. He was also an award winner Astrologer. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer and actor —experiences that he uses in his novels.

Laura Esquivel is a Mexican author making a noted contribution to Latin-American literature. As a child, he had frail health and spent much of his time at the countryside in Zedelgem, with his paternal grandparents. He has won the National Literature Prize on two occasions: first, in 2000, with his book of historical short stories The True Death of Juan Ponce de León; second, in 2005, with his novel Voltaire's Heart.

Today, Andreas Mand is working and living in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Germany. His grave is in the Aşiyan Graveyard, Istanbul.

Oliver Duff was a writer and foundation editor of the New Zealand Listener, and Duff inherited his grandfather's love of literature. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag". Currently, he lives in the city of Córdoba. He also translated the works of Tolstoy and Dumas.

He was born Ryūnosuke Murakami (村上龍之助, Murakami Ryūnosuke? In 1988 “Teatro Cinco” was published in Venezuela with the plays "Los peces crecen con la luna" "El Siglo de las luces," and "Passport", which explores the loss of identity due to arbitrariness and lack of communication. While she wrote in French, she sang in Kabyle.

Financial difficulties inspired him to dedicate himself to literature and journalism.

14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth) and Anna Maria.

In Palestine, Zweig became close to a group of German-speaking immigrants who felt distant from Zionism and viewed themselves as refugees or exiles from Europe, where they planned to return.

Unity Dow received Awards and Honours : Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio USA: Doctor of Laws: Honorary degree awarded May 19, 2001; Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey: The William Brennan Human Rights Award,April 14, 2003; The Vanguard Women Leadership Award: March 2004; St. Michael College, Vermont USA: Doctor of Laws: Honorary Degree awarded May 2007; The Phyllis N. Stern Distinguished Lectureship Award: July 11, 2008; The Prominent Woman in International Law Award: March 26, 2009 in Washington DC; University of Edinburgh: Doctor of Laws: Honorary Degree awarded July 30, 2009; French Medal of Honour July 2010;

Alexander Movsesyan, better known by his pen name Shirvanzade was an Armenian playwright and novelist. Sharīf Husain, who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī was an Urdu writer. He is buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery in Istanbul.

Ferenc Móra was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, into a financially poor family. From June to November 2011 he was 'writer in residence' of the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich. His first successes were the satirical "Göre Gábor" letters on rural life, works which he later repudiated. . At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.

Baugh was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, the son of Edward Percival Baugh, Purchasing Agent and Ethel Maud Duhaney-Baugh. In 1885, he moved to Paris where he studied literature at the Collège de France and the Sorbonne.

Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. She completed her neurosurgery training at Yale.

Kaniuk's mother, born in Odessa, was also a teacher. She married, and has two children. She married Enrique Job Reyes on August 14, 1913 but left him a month later. Her writing has generated some polemical discussions about social issues, such as the practice of polygamy in the country. In 1947-1948, he was, alongside Parhon, Ştefan Voitec, Gheorghe Stere, and Ion Niculi, a member of the Presidium of the People's Republic, which was elected by the BPD-dominated legislative. Sexuality and prostitution would form a consistent theme in his writing. He is also the author of three more young adult novels, El palacio de la medianoche, Las luces de septiembre and Marina.

Camil Petrescu lost both his parents early in life and was raised by a relative. During 1931-32 he contributed four articles written in Kannada for Jaya Karnataka, an influential journal. His father, who was a guard soldier, died in a street battle with the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the course of the Boxer Rebellion events in 1901.

Later Bennett apparently displayed a sympathy towards the Irish National Liberation Army, which made its name after it killed Margaret Thatcher's Northern Ireland advisor Airey Neave in 1979.

Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican writer.

Hoel had a short connection to the landsmål movement, but later played an active part in the riksmål campaign. Since 2011, she has been the Head of the School of Letters, Art and Media at the University of Sydney.

He was born in the Endor Kidane Miheret section of the city of Debre Marqos, the son of an Orthodox priest, Abba Alemayehu Solomon. He was an only child. Her novel Tierra del Fuego: Una Biografia del Fin del Mundo won the 1999 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish.

The novel was originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn, but was published in Hindi first by a Calcutta-based publisher, who offered Premchand 450 for his work. He is one of the founding fathers of the Peradeniya school of literary tradition of modern Sri Lankan literature.

While still in law school, Clarice began working as a journalist, first at the official government press service the Agência Nacional and then at the important newspaper A Noite. He then began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown, for most of his life. He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, Un día volveré and Ronda del Guinardó, followed by the collection of short stories, Teniente Bravo.

More recently, Temple has turned to an autobiographical relation of his own mountaineering adventures ) and a multi-awardwinning history of the Wakefield clan in New Zealand, which won the Ernest Scott History Prize in 2003, the Ian Wards Prize for Historical Writing in 2003, and the Biography category of the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Nadolny worked for about a year as a history teacher before entering the film industry as a production manager, an experience he wrote about in his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Netzkarte. He has gained popularity in Scandinavia with his humorous and sometimes naïve novels, although his stories have become darker in tone, moving towards a more satirical criticism of modern Norwegian society.

Inspired by Scriabin, Pasternak briefly was a student at the Moscow Conservatory.

Wang Shuo is a Chinese author, director, actor, and cultural icon. Viaggio nel silenzio di Thelonius Monk.

Natsume Sōseki, born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助?

Faqi Tayran is considered one of the great classic Kurdish poets and writers. Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this character which became significant in Indian children's literature.

The story of Fakirmohan is indeed the story of the 'Renaissance' of Oriya literature. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. He kept a diary of trivia like the number of tears he shed over a dead friend.

His wife Véra and son Dmitri were entrusted with Nabokov's literary executorship, and though he asked them to burn the manuscript, they chose not to destroy his final work.

The name Scott was originally a first name, and he was named after both Scotland and the writer Walter Scott. He played a role in Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat in 1974.

Leonid was born in Moscow in 1899. He attended school at Kutama College and Marist Brothers Dete, in the Hwange district of Zimbabwe. He has written numerous novels, short stories, poems and critical essays in English.

Christian Jungersen is a Danish novelist whose works have been translated into 18 languages. ] to have a hybrid background. When he found out about the outbreak of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until the war was over, although he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered unfit for military duties. He finished high school in Skopje.From 1945 onwards he was the editor of the first teenage magazine called "Pioneer". The five-part radio serialization of The Translator was short-listed for the RIMA. A few years later, she moved to Lakefield, Ontario. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism. In 1879, he was transferred to Colégio Pedro II, where he wrote his first book, Uma Tragédia no Amazonas. His first successes were the satirical "Göre Gábor" letters on rural life, works which he later repudiated. He assisted in developing a Latin alphabet for the Kurdish language and became a member of the editorial board of the Kurdish newspaper Riya Teze, published in Yerevan from 1930 to 1937. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works. In 1999 she received the Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature. In 1933, passed S. S. C. Level from Vanga High School obtaining first division marks.

The "treatment" lasted over a month, during which time Dazai's wife Hatsuyo committed adultery with his best friend Zenshirō Kodate.

Rao died on July 8, 2006 at Austin, Texas, at the age of 97.

In 1860, he married his cousin Thomasine Henriette Lie. "The bodyguard") as the winner of Marcha's annual literary contest. He attended Dulwich College. But I don't want to save time.

Amado Vera Hernandez, commonly known as Amado V. Hernandez, was a Filipino writer and labor leader who was known for his criticism of social injustices in the Philippines and was later imprisoned for his involvement in the communist movement.

Mann was born Paul Thomas Mann in Lübeck, Germany, and was the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann, and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns.

Amadou Hampâté Bâ was a Malian writer and ethnologist. She describes everyday life in the community, the relationship between Canadians, Americans, and natives, the climate, and local flora and fauna. " Collin, who preferred women, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering. Her novel Awaiting Trespass which is about the politically sensitive theme of torture by the Marcos regime was published by Readers International of London. Characters such as Gospa Nola, are the first strong female characters in Serbian literature, painted in detail in all their courage, pride and determination. His literary debut was the production novel Construction Site, which was followed by the novel Power.

Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch; Weekendpelgrimage, In de straten van Tepalka ; and De morgen loeit weer aan, which was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize. English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The Elephant Vanishes. His lungs had filled with fluid, and he died of a heart attack at 4:55 a.m. on July 22, 1990.

Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism.

Salvador Garmendia Graterón was a notable Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the National Prize for Literature.

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. He has also written a book of traditional Haitian riddles entitled ZoPelinZo, with theorist J.T.

Makanin's writing style may be categorized as realist.

Like other writers of his time, Ilgaz was imprisoned as a result of one of his publications. He was by then also affiliated with Junimea, a workshop and literary society named after its 19th-century predecessor and hosted by the influential critic Ovid Crohmălniceanu. He also wrote many short stories. The Letters were published first in Srpski književni glasnik in 1880-09, and then as a separate book in 1918 in Sarajevo.

Buzzati was the second of his parents' four children. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a leading mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics.

Referring to The Great Winter, a novel in which he portrayed Enver Hoxha in a flattering light, Kadare said the book was "the price he had to pay for his freedom". The couple fell madly in love and plotted to run away together.

Ciro Alegría Bazán was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist.

Mateiu Ion Caragiale (Romanian: [maˈtej iˈon karaˈd͡ʒjale]; also credited as Matei or Matheiu; Mateiŭ is an antiquated version; March 25 [O.S. He died on 23 January 1945 at Narsapur[disambiguation needed].

Many of Vargas Llosa's works are influenced by the writer's perception of Peruvian society and his own experiences as a native Peruvian.

During his years in Palestine, Zweig became disillusioned with Zionism and turned to socialism. As a boy, he witnessed the Finnish Civil War in Helsinki. He became a writer and wrote his first Albanian language novel "The Grape Starts to Ripen" in 1957. This date resulted from several sources, amongst which there was a file of notes on christenings from the archives of the Uspenia Church of Botoșani; inside this file, the date of birth was „15 January 1850” and the date of christening was the 21st of the same month. His work depicts obsessive, often erotic, feelings. The clear mountain air did him some good, but the poverty and misery of the mountain people in and around Puka were even more overwhelming than that which he had experienced among the inhabitants of the coastal plain. When Joaquim was ten years old, his mother died, and his father took him along as he moved to São Cristóvão. He was Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was threatened by Islamic militants for his courageous stance against a movement which he described as based on archaic ideas, irrelevant in the present times. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.

As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao against Sabino Arana.

Paul Kearney was a Northern Irish fantasy author. Hooftprijs. The book was published in 1956 and became an opera in 1959 composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

Rosie Scott is a New Zealand novelist based in Sydney, Australia. He also worked as a playwright and a photographer.

Dervishi was born in 1943 in Đakovica/Gjakova in the region disputed between Yugoslavia and Axis-occupied Albania. In 1998, he became chief editor of Asr-e Panjshanbeh, a monthly literary journal.

Marie-Christine Koundja is a Chadian writer and diplomat.

Hubert Leon Lampo was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders.

At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery. The other way is the more troubled interrogative reading that raises the same questions of cultural identity, through textual elisions and ambivalences inter alia, about writing and the Gorkha/Nepali community. He could not however, gain permission to publish it until five years later. The Hired Man, her third novel, was published in the UK in March 2013.

Euphrase Kezilahabi is a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar. She was a member of the influential group of Estonian poets brought together in 1938 by literary scholar Ants Oras who was greatly influenced by T. S. Eliot.

Lakshmi was born was born in 1939 in the village of Streatham Lodge, in Tunapuna, Trinidad. He assailed the British Raj in India and preached revolution through his poetic works, such as "Bidrohi" and "Bhangar Gaan", as well as his publication "Dhumketu".

Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist based in the United Kingdom. He was by far the most important North German dramatist of the Romantic movement, and no other of the Romanticists approaches him in the energy with which he expresses patriotic indignation. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: Kasho (華胥? During the 1960s, participated in the left guerrilla movement against Venezuelan democracy. He migrated to Spain in protest of the current government in Equatorial Guinea. His works include Rusoaica, Femeia de ciocolată, and his masterpiece, Donna Alba.

Despite Mutswairo's association with the small intellectual elite in the country, Feso was widely read, and even taught in schools, until it was banned by the government of the new state of Rhodesia in the mid-1960s. His interest in the paranormal led him to write popular titles such as Ghost Stories from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, A Face in the Dark and other Hauntings. He spent his childhood in Tuszyn near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work at a richer church parish.

A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat", translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again. He is married and has three children, one of whom is also a writer. He was expelled for the second time in 1970. And in 1970-71 he undertook the job as vice-president of the National Institute of Culture and Bellas Artes. He was Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa.

Bankim Chandra is widely regarded as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as India. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. After the war he studied at the Homel Pedagogical University, worked as an editor and had different Communist Party positions in the local party offices in Belarus.

In Summer 1943, Promet went to work at Estonian language radio in blocked Leningrad. At the time, his style was influenced by the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau. " ("Anguish", 1916.

After completing high school, Narayan failed the university entrance examination and spent a year at home reading and writing; he subsequently passed the examination in 1926 and joined Maharaja College of Mysore.

Kemal worked as a labourer, a weaver and as a clerk in a cotton mill. At the end of the war, he returned to his original home only to find another family in residence. This was followed by Mission terminée, 1957, and Le Roi miraculé, 1958. In 1945–46, he wrote his first play It is Written.

Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. Moved by his reading, President Ben Bella will say from his exile: «Ahlem is an Algerian sun that illuminates the Arab world».

Adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, the artist was released from prison, and fled Kenya. At that time, Pécs and Zagreb were within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. ] lives and works in Mumbai, India.

In 1862, Chernyshevsky was sentenced to civil execution, followed by penal servitude, and by exile to Vilyuisk, Siberia.

David Ananou was a writer from Togo, and the author of Le Fils du fétiche. Mayerová went back to live with her parents in 1911 after he was caught trying to fake his own death. The other tells of a woman who succeeds in saving both herself and her love from a serious matrimonial crisis, finally creating a secure family.

In 2001, Powell was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University. She was the Ambassador to Cameroon, and is currently First Secretary at the Chadian Embassy in Nigeria. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. He collaborated on several screen plays.

Many modern scholars questions the authorship of the last 40 chapters of the novel, whether it was actually completed by Cao. He is buried at the Karacaahmet Cemetery in Istanbul. He studied at Debreceni Református Kollégium, Sárospataki Kollégium, and in Kisújszállás.

In 1954 she also adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo, who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death, leaving two children.

Leila Aboulela, Arabic 'ليلى ابوالعلا' is a Sudanese writer who writes in English. Several of his stories were turned into movies by his students, including Palo y hueso directed by Nicolás Sarquís, Cicatrices directed by Patricio Coll and Nadie Nada Nunca directed by Raúl Beceyro.

Several of Bateman's novels featured the semi-autobiographical Belfast journalist, Dan Starkey. The Bakemonogatari prequel and sequel novels have also been adapted as a movie and an anime, respectively. She was the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow for 2006 and President of Honour of the New Zealand Book Council. Most of her adult life she spent in Portuguese Mozambique, where she taught primary school and wrote radio plays, novels, short stories, and children's books. In 1992 she moved to Los Angeles where she earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California.

George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata, Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada, Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il nero. He forsook the literary Dutch of the Netherlands for regional Belgian Dutch words and expressions with which he colored his writing in a Faulknerian way. He won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja.

Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist.