Aristides Archontakis

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon, on June 13, 1893. He was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Pessoa … Περισσότερα

Ο Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland,U.K, on 16 October 1854. He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The picture of Dorian Gray, … Περισσότερα

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, U.S, on 30 November 1835. He is  better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel”. Twain earned … Περισσότερα

                                                                                                     Ο κοιμισμένος άγγελος     … Περισσότερα

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris, on 2 April 1840. He was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. … Περισσότερα

Hermann Hesse was born in the Black Forest town of  Calw in Wurttemberg, German Empire, on 2 July 1877.He was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual’s search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the … Περισσότερα

Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης γεννήθηκε στο Ηράκλειο, Κρήτη, στις 18 Φεβρουαρίου 1883. Ήταν Έλληνας συγγραφέας, δημοσιογράφος, πολιτικός, μουσικός, ποιητής και φιλόσοφος , με πλούσιο λογοτεχνικό, ποιητικό και μεταφραστικό έργο. Αναγνωρίζεται ως ένας από τους σημαντικότερους σύγχρονους Έλληνες λογοτέχνες και ως ο περισσότερο μεταφρασμένος παγκοσμίως. Έγινε ακόμα γνωστότερος μέσω της κινηματογραφικής απόδοσης των έργων του Ο Χριστός ξανασταυρώνεται, … Περισσότερα

Ο Στρατής Τσίρκας(πραγματικό ονοματεπώνυμο Ιωάννης Χατζηανδρέας) γεννήθηκε στο Κάιρο στις 23 Ιουλίου 1911. Ήταν Έλληνας πεζογράφος από σημαντικότερους της μεταπολεμικής γενιάς. Το ψευδώνυμό το οποίο αποτελείτο απ’ το όνομα Στρατής και το επώνυμο Τσίρκας προήλθε από παρατσούκλι του πατέρα του Κώστα Χατζηανδρέα. Το 1937 νυμφεύεται την Αντιγόνη Κερασώτη (πέθανε στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2012). Το σημαντικότερο έργο του όμως αποτελούν οι … Περισσότερα

Baruch Spinoza was born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic, on 24 November 1632. He was a Dutch philosopher. Spinoza was raised in a Portuguese community in Amsterdam. Jewish religious authorities issued a heven against him. His books were also later put on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. He died in the Hague, Dutch Republic, … Περισσότερα

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in the small town Rocken, near Leipzig, Saxony, Prussia, on 15 October 1844. He was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and Latin and Greek scholar. Nietzsche never married. He proposed to Lou Salome three times, but his proposal was rejected each time. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, he … Περισσότερα