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

Συμμετέχω και εγώ με ένα κείμενο μου το μήνα Δεκέμβρη…https://tovivlio.net/%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CE%97%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF-2018/                                              Ο κοιμισμένος άγγελος Πλησίαζαν Χριστούγεννα το 20… Ένα πολύ δικό μου πρόσωπο με επισκέφτηκε χωρίς προειδοποίηση. Σαν να τον περίμενα εγώ, αυτή η … Περισσότερα

Joseph Roth was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg (now Lviv) in East Galicia, on 2 September 1894. He was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist. Shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, in February 1933, Roth wrote in a prophetic letter to his friend, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig: You will have … Περισσότερα

Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Iran on 22 October 1919. She was a British novelist, poet, playwrigth, librettist, biographer and short-story writer. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Times ranked her fifth … Περισσότερα

Danilo Kis was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Servia) on 22 February 1935. He was a Yugoslav novelist, short-story writer and poet who wrote in Serbian. Kis was influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Ivo Adris, among other authors. He left Belgrade for Paris in the summer of 1979. In 1983 … Περισσότερα