Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), was an English author of espionage novels. Le Carré had resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Grea…
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–87) was born in Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania. She spent her teenage years in a Siberian gulag. At twenty-one she escaped and returned to her home country only to b…
Aleksandrs Grīns (īstajā vārdā Jēkabs Grīns, dzimis 1895. gada 15. augustā [v.s. 1895. gada 3. augustā], Jēkabpils apriņķa Biržu pagasta "Ziedos", miris 1941. gada 25. decembrī) bija latviešu rakstnie…
Rūdolfs Kārlis Leonīds Blaumanis bija latviešu prozaiķis, dramaturgs un žurnālists. Viņa darbi ir tulkoti angļu, vācu, lietuviešu, somu, igauņu, ungāru, ukraiņu, krievu valodā. Pēc vairāku viņa darbu …
Jānis Joņevs (1980) is a prose writer. His first novel Jelgava '94 immediately became a cult book among readers. During the TV show Great Reading the novel was chosen among the 100 most favourite Latv…
I am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an academy awar…
