Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes¡
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian-American novelist. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to i¡
Gabriel Jos¨¦ de la Concordia Garc¨ª?a M¨¢rquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc¨ª?a M¨¢rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere¡
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. The most famous of his novels are Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whi¡
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France¡¯s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won¡
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias¡
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A¡
Viktor Marinov Paskov (Bulgarian: §£§Ú§Ü§ä§à§â §®§Ñ§â§Ú§ß§à§Ó §±§Ñ§ã§Ü§à§Ó; 10 September 1949 ¨C 16 April 2009) was a Bulgarian writer, musician, musicologist and screenwriter. Paskov was born in the capital Sofia and fin¡
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t¡
Born Fran?oise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the So¡
Lao Tzu (Chinese: ÀÏ×Ó; pinyin: L¨£oz¨«; Wade-Giles: Laosi; also Laozi, Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Lao Zi, Laocius, Lao Ce, and other variations) was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, b¡
Emilian Stanev §¦§Þ§Ú§Ý§Ú§ñ§ß §³§ä§Ñ§ß§Ö§Ó was the pseudonym Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (§¯§Ú§Ü§à§Ý§Ñ §³§ä§à§ñ§ß§à§Ó §³§ä§Ñ§ß§Ö§Ó), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Also spelled as Emiliian Stanev or Emiliyan Stanev.
Anton Donchev graduated from the University of Sofia in 1953, but soon declined a position as a judge in a regional court and started writing. His first book was published in 1961 and was followed by ¡
Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part o¡