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
Daniel Gerhard Brown was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S on June 22, 1964. He is an American author of thriller fiction . In 2006 Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code was released as a film by Columbia Pictures. The next film, Angels & Demons was released on May 15, 2009. Brown’s prose style has been … Περισσότερα
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig, present Gdansk, Poland on 22 February 1788. He was a German philosopher. Schopenhauer said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant and Plato. He died on 21 September 1860, at the age of 72, in Frankfurt. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Die Kunst, glucklich zu sein (2013) … Περισσότερα
Luigi Pirandello was born in Sicily, Italy, on 28 June 1867. He was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short-story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pirandello died alone in his home at Via Bosio, Rome, on 10 December 1936, in Rome, at the age of … Περισσότερα
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Ο λάτρης του ωραίου (Διήγημα) Είναι αλήθεια ότι καθημερινά ένα τυχαίο γεγονός μπορεί να μας γεμίσει χαρά. Ειδικά όταν πρόκειται … Περισσότερα
Imre Kertesz was born in Budapest on 9 November 1929. He was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history”. He died on 31 March 2016, aged 86, at his home in Budapest after suffering from Parkinson’s … Περισσότερα
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