Peter Philip Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, on 7 May 1943. He is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia’s next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 … Περισσότερα
Φτωχός είμαι, κλέφτης δεν είμαι. Ο Μπάμπης κάποτε δούλευε μεροκάματο στη λαχαναγορά. Φόρτωνε και ξεφόρτωνε καφάσια απ’ τα άγρια ξημερώματα. Η μοίρα του όμως τα ‘φερε, να μείνει άνεργος και μαζί άστεγος. Τώρα πια δεν τον νοιάζει τίποτε, έχει φτάσει στο τελευταίο σκαλοπάτι εξαθλίωσης. Κοιμάται στα παγκάκια της πλατείας. Όλοι οι γύρω καταστηματάρχες τον … Περισσότερα
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt was born in Sainte – Foy – les – Lyon, Rhone, on 28 March 1960. He is a Franco–Belgian playwright, short stories writer and novelist, as well as film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s parents were teachers of physical education and sport, and his father later became a physiotherapist … Περισσότερα
Ο Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (πραγματικό ονοματεπώνυμο: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλης, γεννήθηκε στο Ηράκλειο Κρήτης στις 2 Νοεμβρίου 1911. Ήταν το τελευταίο από τα έξι παιδιά του Παναγιώτη Αλεπουδέλη και της Μαρίας Βρανά. Ο πατέρας του καταγόταν από τον συνοικισμό Καλαμιάρης της Παναγιούδας Λέσβου και είχε εγκατασταθεί στην πόλη του Ηρακλείου από το 1895, όταν σε συνεργασία με τον αδελφό του ίδρυσε ένα εργοστάσιο … Περισσότερα
Jorge Semprún Maura was born in Madrid on 10 December 1923. He was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the … Περισσότερα
Luis Sepúlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province in 4 October 1949. His father, José Sepúlveda, was a militant of the Chilean Communist Party and his mother, Irma Calfucura, was a nurse of Mapuche descent. After High School in Santiago, he studied theatre production at the National University of Chile. Luis Sepúlveda was politically active first as a leader of the student movement … Περισσότερα
Ο Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη στις 9 Μαρτίου 1925. Ήταν Έλληνας ποιητής της πρώτης μεταπολεμικής γενιάς. Αδελφή του ήταν η θεατρική συγγραφέας Λούλα Αναγνωστάκη. Καταγόταν από το χωριό Ρούστικα Ρεθύμνης, όπου σώζεται το σπίτι του πατέρα του Ανέστη. Ο παππούς του Ιωάννης Κασιμάτης ήταν βουλευτής του Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου.Κατά τη διάρκεια της Κατοχής συμμετείχε στην ΕΠΟΝ. Κατά τη διετία 1943-1945 ήταν αρχισυντάκτης του περιοδικού “Ξεκίνημα”, … Περισσότερα
Georges Perec was born in Paris, France on 7 March 1936. He was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust, and many of his works deal with absence, loss, … Περισσότερα
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez was boorn in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain on 25 November 1951. He is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE and was a war correspondent for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his “Alatriste” series of … Περισσότερα
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in Berdychiv, Russian Empire, on 3 December 1857. He was a Polish–British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who … Περισσότερα
