Veronika Šikulová je prozaička, autorka kníh pre deti a mládež.Pôsobila ako novinárka a popritom sa venovala písaniu próz. Prvé prózy publikovala v literárnej prílohe denníka Smena, v literárnych časo…
Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well …
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in…
Audre Lorde was a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in bla…
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her n…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Jana Bodnárová sa narodila v Jakubovanoch. V rokoch 1965 – 1968 študovala na Strednej všeobecnovzdelávacej škole v Liptovskom Mikuláši, v rokoch 1968 – 1976 dejiny umenia (začas aj knihovedu a latinči…
Narodil se v roce 1961 v Bratislavě. Knižně debutoval v roce 1997 Pohádkami pro neposlušné děti a jejich starostlivé rodiče. Kniha vyšla v krátké době ve třech vydáních, byla přeložena do polštiny a č…
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
(1921-2003) Slovakian Romani poet, story writer, and playwright born in Velky Šariš region. She has written several plays, novels, and stories about the Romani Holocaust experience. Her plays have bee…
Johannes Krause is a German biochemist with a research focus on historical infectious diseases and human evolution. Since 2010, he has been professor of archaeology and paleogenetics at the University…
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut …
Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V …
Alena Sabuchová vyštudovala filmovú a televíznu scenáristiku a dramaturgiu na VŠMU v Bratislave. Za svoj literárny debut Zadné izby získala Cenu Ivana Kraska aj Cenu Nadácie Tatra banky v kategórii Ml…
Nicol Hochholczerová študuje na katedre grafiky Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici. Ocenenia za prozaickú tvorbu získala v literárnych súťažiach Poviedka, Medziriadky, Literárny Kežmarok, Kukučínova Re…
