Homer (Greek: Όμηρος born c. 8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer …
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one …
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…
Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as …
Slovak poet, playwright, writer, translator, lawyer and honorary president of Matica Slovenská. Hviezdoslav is one of the most important figures of Slovak literature of the second half of the 19th and…
Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's …
Narodila sa v rodine evanjelického farára Pavla Slančíka, ktorý bol spoluzakladateľom Matice slovenskej. Mala desať súrodencov (jej brat Bohuslav, evanjelický farár, b…
Pochádzal z tesárskej rodiny, a tak počiatočné klasické i hudobné vzdelanie dostal od rodičov. V klasickom vzdelávaní pokračoval v Prešove, Kecskeméte, teológiu študova…
Andrej Sládkovič (vlastným menom Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonymy Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasyslav Sládkovič) bol slovenský evanjelický kňaz, básnik, kritik literárnych a d…