Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Translated By: Nizar Aghri A Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator, born…
Waguih Ghali was born in Alexandria, Egypt to a Coptic family. According to Ghali’s friend and editor, Diana Athill, Ghali carefully obscured details about his past.[1] Ghali’s diary confirms his birthdate (25 February), but not his birth year. He was probably born between 1927 and 1929. When he was young, his father died, and his mother (née Ibrahim) remarried. In his diary…
Lina Meruane An award-winning Chilean writer and scholar teaching at New York University. Since 1998, she has authored a short-story collection, a play and five novels. Sangre en el ojo, was awarded the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico 2012), as well as the Premio Valle Inclan Prize (UK 2019) for Megan MacDowell´s translation into English as…
Petra Hůlová Prose writer, the recipient of several literary awards including the Magnesia Litera, the Josef Škvorecký Award and the Jiří Orten Award. Her books have been published in many languages including English, German, Hungarian, Polish and Italian. She was born in Prague on 12 July 1979. Translated By: Khaled Al Beltagy Professor of Language and…
Alexandra Berková She was born on July 2, 1949 in Trenčín . Her father was the conductor of the symphony orchestra Bohumil Berka and her mother was a journalist. From the age of nine until her university studies, she lived in Teplice . She graduated from SUPŠ sklářské in Kamenický Šenov and in 1968–1973 she studied Czech and art education…
Nizar Aghri A Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator, born in Turkey in 1961. He translates from several languages. He published three novels: “The Mullah Papers of Saffron” 2005, “Salem Street” 2017, and “The Search for Azar” 2021. He translated a number of novels by Italian writer Ari de Luca. Lives and works in Oslo. His Novel "In Search For Azar" reached…
Yasser Abdel Latif An award winning writer and poet from Cairo, Egypt. He has lived and worked in Edmonton since 2010. He has published four fiction books, two poetry collections, and translated many literary works from French and English into Arabic. He writes mainly in Arabic although his works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. He…
Mohammed Ali Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century, and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. Hana Ali Hana Yasmeen Ali is the third youngest child of Muhammad Ali. She is the…
Adel Esmat a novelist who was born in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt in 1959. Esmat published his first novel Obsession of Death in 1995; and now he has published nine novels including Stable Life, The Naked Man, People and Places, and The Crow's Sound.[1] In 2011, Esmat received the 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature by an award ceremony held at…
Lina Meruane An award-winning Chilean writer and scholar teaching at New York University. Since 1998, she has authored a short-story collection, a play and five novels. Sangre en el ojo, was awarded the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico 2012), as well as the Premio Valle Inclan Prize (UK 2019) for Megan MacDowell´s translation into English as…
Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French. Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his…
