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List Of Novelists
Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: ''See also'': Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors Afghanistan * Aliyeh Ataei (born 1981) *Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) Albania * Dritero Agolli (1931–2017) *Ismail Kadare (born 1936) *Fatos Kongoli (born 1944) *Faik Konitza (1875–1942) *Migjeni (1911–1938) * Haki Stermilli (1895–1953) *Jakov Xoxa (1923–1979) Algeria *Marguerite Taos Amrouche (1913–1976) *Rachid Boudjedra (born 1941) *Albert Camus (1913–1960) *Mohammed Dib (1920–2003) *Tahar Djaout (1954–1993) *Assia Djebar (1936–2015) *Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), originally from Martinique *Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962) *Mouloud Mammeri (1917–1989) *Rachid Mimouni (1945–1995) *Ahlam Mostaghanemi (born 1953) *Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) *Kateb Yacine (1929–1989) Roman Empire, Ancient Latin authors *Apuleius (c. 124–c. 170) *Petronius (c. 27–66) Angola *José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) *Sousa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Authors
The following are lists of writers: Alphabetical indices A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z Lists by genre Top of page Lists by language (non-English) Top of page Lists by ethnicity or nationality Top of page Lists of women writers and works Main list * Women writers: (A-L), (M-Z) By country Other lists of women writers Top of page Lists by publisher * List of Alfred A. Knopf authors * List of Minerva Press authors Top of page See also * Lists of books * List of literary awards External links * * "Poets & Writers Directory."''Poets & Writers'' "Authors A-Z."''The Guardian'' "Browse By Author."''Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After university he worked as a journalist for ''Algérie Actualité'', and by the late 1980s, he became one of Algeria's foremost literary talents. Assassination He was assassinated by the Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism. He was attacked on 26 May 1993 as he was leaving his home in Algiers, Algeria. He died on 2 June, after lying in a coma for a week. One of his attackers professed that he was murdered because he "wielded a fearsome pen that could have an effect on Islamic sectors." After his death the BBC made a documentary about him entitled 'Shooting the Writer', introduced by Salman Rushdie. Work * '' The Last Summer of Reason'' Novel, Ruminator Books, 2001] (French ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sousa Jamba
Sousa Jamba (born 9 January 1966)"Who's Who - Angola: Sousa Jamba" ''Africa Confidential''. is an n author and journalist. Biography Sousa Jamba was born in 1966 in Dondi, , in central Angola. His family were all supporters of the (UNITA), whic ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960) is an Angolan journalist and writer of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambique, working as a writer and journalist. He also has been working to establish a public library on the island. Agualusa writes predominantly in his native language, Portuguese. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages, most notably into English by translator Daniel Hahn, a frequent collaborator of his. Much of his writing focuses on the history of Angola. He has seen some success in English-speaking literary circles, most notably for ''A General Theory of Oblivion''. That novel, written in 2012 and translated in 2015, was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, and was the recipient of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. Bibliography * ''A Conjura'' (novel, 1989) * ''D. Nicolau Água-Rosada e ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apuleius
Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near ancient Tripoli, Libya. This is known as the ''Apologia''. His most famous work is his bawdy picaresque novel the ''Metamorphoses'', otherwise known as ''The Golden Ass''. It is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. It relates the adventures of its protagonist, Lucius, who experiments with magic and is accidentally turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause. Biography Kateb Yacine was officially born on 6 August 1929 in Constantine, though it is likely that his birth occurred four days earlier. Although his birth name is Yacine Kateb, he once said that he was so used to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name. He was born into a scholarly maraboutic Chaoui Berber family from the modern Sedrata, in ''wilaya'' of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès region). His maternal grandfather was the 'bach adel', or deputy judge of the qadi in Condé Smendou (Zirout Youcef). His father was a lawyer, and the family followed him through his various assignments in different parts of the country. Young Kateb (which means 'writer'), attended the Sedrata Quran school in 1937, then in 1938 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leïla Sebbar
Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father, she spent her youth in French Algeria before leaving aged seventeen for Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ..., where she now lives. Career Sebbar writes in French about the relationship between France and Algeria and often juxtaposes the imagery of both countries to show the difference in cultures between the two. She deals with a variety of topics, and either adopts a purely fictional approach or uses psychology to make her point. Many of Sebbar's novels express the frustrations of the Beur, the second generation of Maghribi youth who were born and raised in France and who have not yet in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahlam Mostaghanemi
Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian woman to publish fiction in Arabic. Biography Birth in exile and return to Algeria Ahlem was born in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the daughter of a militant political activist who was forced into exile during the Algerian liberation war. In the wake of independence, her family moved back to Algeria, where her father, an intellectual and a humanitarian, occupied high positions in the first Algerian government. He launched a literacy campaign all over the territory and supervised the distribution of agricultural land to the poorest. Early poetry In the 70s, following the assassination attempt during the Boumediene coup d’état, and the consequent hospitalization of her father, who was also targeted, Ahlem, as the eldest sibling, took up the respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachid Mimouni
Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by Islamic militants for his stance against a movement which he described as being based on archaic ideas, irrelevant in the present time. Biography Rachid Mimouni was born in Boudouaou, 30 km from Algiers to a family of poor peasants. Mimouni studied science at the University of Algiers before becoming a teacher at the ''École supérieure du commerce'' (business school) in Algiers. He was president of the Kateb Yacine foundation and he also held the position of vice-president at Amnesty International. He fled Algeria for France in 1993 to escape the civil war and the assassinations of intellectuals. He died in Paris in 1995 of hepatitis Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. Some people or animals with hepatitis have no sympto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouloud Mammeri
Mouloud Mammeri () was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist. Biography He was born on December 28, 1917, in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat. Four years later he returned to Algiers and pursued his studies at Bugeaud College, before continuing his education at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, intending to join the École Normale Supérieure. Conscripted in 1939 and discharged in October 1940, Mammeri registered at the Faculté des Lettres d’ Alger. Re-conscripted in 1942 after the American landing, he participated in the allied campaigns in France, Italy, and Germany. After the end of the war, he received his degree as a professor of arts and returned to Algeria in September 1947. He taught in Médéa, and then in Ben Aknoun, and published his first novel, ''The Forgotten Hill ''in 1952. He was forced to leave Algiers in 1957 becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (8 March 1913 – 15 March 1962) was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and German. In 1951, he corresponded with the Algeria-born French author Albert Camus. He was kidnapped and assassinated by the French OAS on 15 March 1962. All of his works describe Feraoun's native society – the Berber mountain farmers – and their life, poverty, the love of one's homeland, emigration, and the consequences of French colonialism. On 3 March 2022, in a ceremony in Algiers, French president Emmanuel Macron honored Feraoun and other victims of the OAS. Biography Feraoun was born in 1913, belonging to a family of poor farmers. His father, who was illiterate, had to migrate several times to seek employment, for example to Tunisia and even to northern France, where he worked in the coal mines of the Nord departement. There, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
