Haruki Murakami (村上春树) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Fa…
The Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: ????? ????)has been described as the "genius of the modern Arabic novel." He has lived abroad for most of his life, yet his fiction is firmly rooted in the…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: ???? ?????) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: ???? ??????) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024. He has studied at …
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: ????? ??????? Tawfīq al-?akīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
