Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction fina鈥�
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via
I received my doctorate in 1998 from the University of Oxford, where I worked with Bill Newton-Smith. I then held a post-doctoral position at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM鈥�
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libert脿". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet鈥�
Simin D膩neshvar 鈥� was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
Afs膩neh Najm膩b膩di (Persian: 丕賮爻丕賳賴 賳噩賲 丌亘丕丿蹖鈥�) (born 1946) is an Iranian-American historian and gender theorist. She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard U鈥�
V谩clav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989鈥�92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993鈥�2003)鈥�
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) (Persian: 丌氐賮 亘蹖丕鬲) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Mid鈥�
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: 袥械胁 袧懈泻芯谢邪械胁懈褔 孝芯谢褋褌芯泄; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short鈥�
Lars Fredrik H盲ndler Svendsen is a Norwegian author and philosopher who is professor at the University of Bergen. He has published several books translated into 24 languages. He is also engaged as pro鈥�
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "D膩'i J膩n Napoleon" (丿丕蹖蹖 噩丕賳 賳丕倬賱卅賵賳) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My鈥�
Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gul墨 Taraqq墨) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely antho鈥�
