Roald Dahl was a beloved British author, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot, best known for his enchanting and often darkly humorous children's books that have captivated generations of rea…
Arnold Stark Lobel was a popular American author of children's books. Among his most popular books are those of the Frog and Toad series, and Mouse Soup, which won the Garden State Children's Book Awa…
Shaun Tan (born 1974) is the illustrator and author of award-winning children's books. After freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley, Tan relocated to Melbourne, Victoria, in 2007. Tan …
Julian Gough is an award winning author of funny stories about serious things. He won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007 (when it was the biggest prize in the world for a single short story). …
Français: À 17 ans, Sempé roule à bicyclette pour un courtier en vins. En 1960, il démarre avec René Goscinny l'aventure du petit Nicolas, dressant une inoubliable galerie de portraits d' "affreux jojo…
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 No…
Danish writer and essayist Austro-German origin. Educated as a macroeconomist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in resolving conflicts and humanitarian issues around th…
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder ab…
Vyrostl v Lomnici nad Popelkou. Navštěvoval gymnázium v Turnově, po něm vystudoval Pedagogickou fakultu Technické univerzity v Liberci (obor němčina – dějepis). Dále studoval v Praze a Curychu. V lete…
Erik Jakub zmaturoval na gymnáziu v Košiciach a prešiel rôznymi, často kurióznymi zamestnaniami. Až do roku 1989 pôsobil v okruhu literárneho, výtvarného a intelektuálneho undergroundu v Košiciach, zú…
Malířka a spisovatelka, narodila se 5.5.1923 v Praze. Studovala na Uměleckoprůmyslové škole u prof. Antonína Strnadela v letech 1943-1944. Jako výtvarnice se účastnila řady výstav - i spolu s manžele…
