Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797 in London. She was an English author best known for writing the novel Frankenstein. She was in her teens when she wrote the book that is now a classic. During May of 1816, Mary and her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, travelled to Lake Geneva to spend summer near the famous poet Lord Byron. In terms of English … Περισσότερα
Μ’ ένα βιβλίο υπό μάλης Περπατούσε πάντα σκεπτικός, μ’ ένα βιβλίο υπό μάλης. Το βιβλίο κάτω απ’ τη μασχάλη, σφιχτά παγιδευμένο, περίμενε … Περισσότερα
Juan Marsé Carbó was born in Barcelona, on 8 January 1933. He is a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, “the Spanish-language equivalent” to the Nobel Prize in Literature. He married Joaquina Hoyas and began working in advertising and writing dialogues for films. He wrote La oscura historia de la prima Montse (The Dark Story of Cousin Montse), which was not … Περισσότερα
Virginia Wolf was born in Kensington Middlesex, England, on 25 January 1882. She was an English writer. She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Born in an affluent household in Kensington, London, she attended the Ladies’ Department of King’s College and was acquainted with the … Περισσότερα
Ο Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας ήταν Έλληνας λογοτέχνης, κριτικός, θεατρικός συγγραφέας, ποιητής και πεζογράφος. Το έργο του, εντυπωσιακό σε έκταση και ποικιλία, σημαδεύτηκε από την έντονη αντιδικία του με τις καθιερωμένες αξίες της ζωής και του αστικού πολιτισμού. Εισήγαγε επίσης υπερρεαλιστικά στοιχεία στην ελληνική πεζογραφία. Θεωρείται ένας από τους πρωτοπόρους της ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας. Γεννήθηκε στην Αγία Ευθυμία Φωκίδας στις 28 Σεπτέμβρη 1893. Ο Γιάννης … Περισσότερα
Eric Arthur Blair better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He was born in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India on 25 June 1903.Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is … Περισσότερα
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts, U.S, on 19 January 1809. He was an American writer, editor, and literaty critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as … Περισσότερα
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu was born on 18 January 1689, in Chateau de la Brede, La Brede, Aquiaine,in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux, France. He was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, … Περισσότερα
Nâzım Hikmet Ran was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire, today Thessaloniki Greece, on 15 January 1902. He was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the “lyrical flow of his statements”. Described as a “romantic communist” and “romantic revolutionary”, he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult … Περισσότερα
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England on 27 January 1832. He was better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll , was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem “Jabberwocky“, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. … Περισσότερα
