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Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival
ITEF - Istanbul International Literature Festival, is an international literary event held in the city of Istanbul to focus on a variety of genres, and to bring together writers, publishers, literary translators, critics and journalists for a series of inspirational encounters. Tanpınar is the author of famous novels such as ''A Mind at Peace'', ''Song in Mahur'', ''Waiting In The Wings'', ''The Institute of Synchronized Clocks'', and ''Woman in the Moon''. ITEF - The Istanbul International Literature Festival establishes an annual forum for followers of Turkish and international literature. Authors, publishers, critics, translators, and members of the press from around the world will have the opportunity to meet, discuss and exchange ideas, and discover more about the rich literary voices coming out of Turkey today. Participating authors Attracting many important international literary figures, its six-day program, starting at the end of May, now features many events includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Mak
Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 December 1946 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer. Honors For his book ''In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century'' he received the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäische Verständigung (2008) and the Otto von der Gablentz Prize (2009). The French government also awarded him the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2008). In the Netherlands, his exceptional engagement with international history has earned him the Golden Goose’s Feather (2015), the Comenius Prize (2016) and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize for his entire oeuvre (2017). In the statement that accompanied the honorary degree from Münster, Mak was dubbed a “gifted storyteller” capable of “combining hard science, popularization, originality and engagement.” Historians are generally cautious when judging Mak’s work. Books In 1999, to mark the end of the century, Mak spent an entire year crisscrossing Europe for ''NRC Handelsblad'' and publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life". For her novel ''Flights'', Tokarczuk has been awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize (translated by Jennifer Croft). Her works include '' Primeval and Other Times'', ''Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'', and ''The Books of Jacob''. Tokarczuk is noted for the mythical tone of her writing. A clinical psychologist from the University of Warsaw, she has published a collection of poems, several novels, as well as other books with shorter prose works. For ''Flights'' and ''The Books of Jacob'', she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Manea
Norman Manea (; born July 19, 1936), is a Romanian Jewish writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is a Professor and writer in residence at Bard College. He left Romania in 1986 with a DAAD-Berlin Grant and in 1988 went to the US with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Catholic University in Washington DC. He won the 2002 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Manea's most acclaimed book, '' The Hooligan's Return'' (2003), is an original fictionalized memoir, encompassing a period of almost 80 years, from the pre-war period, through the Second World War, the communist and post-communist years to the present. Manea has been known and praised as an internationally important writer since the early 1990s, and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received more than 20 awards and honors. Early years Born to Jewish parents in the neighbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi ( ar, نوال السعداوي, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman". She was founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. She was awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In 2004, she won the North–South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium,"PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi" YouTube. 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mima Simić
Mima Simić (born Ana Marija Simić; 4 February 1976) is a Croatian writer, an awarded film critic, translator and an LGBTIQ+ media activist. She holds degrees in Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and Gender Studies from the Central European University. Simić was Croatia's first openly out LGBTIQ+ political candidate. Career Simić wrote for the ''Feral Tribune'' in the 2000s. She is the author of a short story collection ''Pustolovine Glorije Scott'' (The Adventures of Gloria Scott, AGM, 2005), which is currently being made into an animated series and a collection of film essays ''Otporna na Hollywood'' (HFS, 2009). Her short stories and various other texts have been published in numerous Croatian and international magazines, journals and anthologies. Activism and media work Simić is particularly interested in activist interventions in the media. In 2007, Simić went on '' Tko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Freely
Maureen Deidre Freely Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born July 1952) is an American journalist, novelist, professor, and translator. She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996. Biography Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Neptune, New Jersey, she is the daughter of author John Freely, and has a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely grew up in Turkey. She graduated from Harvard College. She now lives in England. She is the mother of four children and two step-children. She was married to Paul Spike, with whom she had a son and a daughter. Freely is an atheist. Work Freely lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Independent'' newspapers. She is the current president of English PEN, the founding centre of PEN International. Among her novels is ''The Life of the Party'', set in Turkey. She has also written ''The Other Rebecca'', a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier's classic 1938 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Levi
Mario Levi (February 25, 1957 in Istanbul (German, looked up on 7 August 2011)) is a modern novelist of Turkish literature. Biography Levi graduated from Saint Michel High School in 1975, from Istanbul University the Faculty of Literature French Language and Literature Department in 1980. His first articles were published in the newspaper "Şalom". These were followed by his other articles in the publication organs like "Cumhuriyet", "Studyo Imge", "Milliyet Sanat", "Gosteri", "Argos", "Gergedan", "Varlik". His first published book was "Jacques Brel: A Lonely Man" (1986). This book is a novelized version of his university graduation thesis. His first book of short stories, "Not Being Able to Go to a City" was published in 1990. These autobiographical stori ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Filipova
Lyudmila Orlinova Filipova ( bg, Людмила Орлинова Филипова) (born April 10, 1977) is a Bulgarian novelist and journalist. Since 2006, Filipova has written seven novels, all of which have become best-sellers. In October 2011, a television team from National Geographic filmed a documentary based on the discoveries described in her novel ''"The Parchment Maze"''. In November 2011, the movies based on her novels ''Glass Butterflies'' and ''Scarlet Gold'' won first place in the competition organised by the Bulgarian National Film Center. Her most recent book, ''The War of the Letters'', was published in 2014 and describes the creation of the Cyrillic script during the Golden Age of Simeon I the Great. It is considered by many critics a unique story about one of the most significant developments in the history of Bulgaria Biography Lyudmila Filipova was born on 10 April 1977. She is the granddaughter of the former Bulgarian Prime Minister, Grisha Filipov. She gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasana M
Lasana is a small village located northeast of the city of Calama in the Calama province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. It sits along the banks of the Loa River. Pukará de Lasana, (Quechua ''pukara'' fortress), a pre-Columbian fortress built in the 12th century, is the main architectural attraction of the village. It is located north of San Francisco de Chiu Chiu and was declared a national monument in 1982. Petroglyph A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...s can also be found in the area. References External linksSernatur - Lasana {{coord, 22, 16, 15, S, 68, 37, 57, W, display=title Archaeological sites in Chile Populated places in El Loa Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kang Sok-kyong
Kang Sŏk-kyŏng , who was born on 10 January 1951, is a South Korean author with two works translated into English."강석경 " biographical PDF available at: http://www.klti.or.kr/ku_01_02_011.do?method=author_detail&AI_NUM=587&admin_top_lid=ka_01&admin_m_p_seq=45&admin_s_seq=0&user_system=kuser Life Kang was born in Daegu, and attended Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Originally a student of fine arts, she stumbled into a literary career quite accidentally when she entered a creative writing contest to raise tuition for graduate studies in sculpture and art criticism. Her debut works were "Roots" (''Geun'') and "Open Game" (''Opeun Gaeim'') for which she received the Literary Ideology Award in 1974. Her talent was unmistakable from the beginning, and for more than thirty years since her debut, she has remained a prolific and respected writer. Work Kang has focused on the "search for the self" in her fiction. Having faced a difficult choice between fine art and writing, Kang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Hristov (writer)
Ivan Hristov or Ivan Christoff ( bg, Иван Христов; born February, 1978 in Borovo, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian poet, and critic. His first book of poetry, ''Sbogom devetnajsti vek'' (''Farewell to the 19th century''), was published in 2001 and won the prestigious 2002 Southern Spring award for the best debut book. His second book of poetry, ''Bdin'', was published in 2004 and received critical acclaim, as well as the 2006 Svetlostruj Prize for poetry. He is also the author of the poetry collections ''Amerikanski poemi'' (''American Poems'', 2013), as well as of ''Luboven recnik'' (''A Dictionary of Love'', 2018) which received The Culture is The Refuge of Humanity award at Safi International Forum of Poetry, Morocco 2018. Ivan Hristov's works have been translated into a dozen of languages. In 2015, ''Bdin'' was published in Turkish. The next year ''Bdin followed by American Poems'' came out in Romania. In 2019, within the framework of the European project Versopolis his th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
