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Kobo Abe

Kimifusa Abe (1924-1993) was a Japanese novelist, poet, and playwright. The surrealist, absurdist, and avant-garde nature of his work earned Abe comparisons to Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Samuel Becket. He wrote under the pseudonym Kobo Abe. Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, b....[more]

Apuleius

Apuleius (c. 125 – c. 180) was a Latin novelist, writer, and public speaker. Apuleius is best known for his novel, Metaporphoses. Because his first name was not recorded, Apuleius is sometimes referred to as Lucius Apuleius after the main character in the Metaporphoses. Apuleius was born in present-day Algeria. I....[more]

Federico Garcφa Lorca

Drama

Aitmatov became well known for his Russian-language prose describing the life of his own Kirghiz people. He was born in Kirghiza, in present-day Kyrgyzstan, in 1928. His writings include the novel The White Steamship; the novella Farewell, Gulsary!; and a daring play titled The Ascent of Mount Fuji. Although he was a m....[more]

Rae Armantrout

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Halim I. Barakat

Drama, Fiction

Isaiah Berlin

Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science

Philosopher, political theorist, and essayist, Isaiah Berlin was born in 1909 to Russian-speaking Jewish parents in Latvia. Reared in Latvia and later in Russia, Berlin developed a strong Russian-Jewish identity, having witnessed both the Social-Democratic and the Bolshevik Revolutions. At the age of 12, Berlin moved w....[more]