Ivo Andrić was born in Travnik in Austrian-occupied Bosnia, on 9 October 1892. He was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.  Andrić’s works found an international audience and were translated into a number of languages. In subsequent years, he received a number of awards in … Περισσότερα

Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on 19 March 1933. He was an American novelist.  Roth is one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. Roth’s first book Goodbye, Colombus and five short stories won The National Book Award in 1960. Roth’s novel Everyman, a meditation on illness, aging, desire … Περισσότερα

                                                                 Η δεσποινίς με το σκυλάκι                        Τα νιάτα πέρασαν, η ομορφιά όμως  έμεινε, μετεξελισσόμενη σε γοητεία. Το ροδαλό πρόσωπο απέκτησε γωνίες που ζηλεύουν … Περισσότερα

Santiago Gamboa was born in Bogota on 1965. He studied literature at the Javerian University of Bogotá. He moved to Spain, where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He then moved to Paris, where he studied Cuban literature at the Sorbonne. He made his debut as a novelist … Περισσότερα

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