Writers

Paolo Giordano

5 photographers

Italian writer Paolo Giordano's first book, "The Solitude of Prime Numbers," sold over a milliion copies and has been translated into thirty languages. It was made into into a film in 2010. ›

Donna Tartt

9 photographers

Donna Tartt is a Mississippi born American writer. In 1981 she enrolled at the University of Mississippi, leaving a year later to study at Bennington College in Vermont where she started writing... ›

Chuck Palahnuik

Chuck Palahnuik

6 photographers

American author and journalist Chuck Palhanuik describes his work as "transgressional fiction." He is best known for the book "Fight Club" which was made into a cult film starring Brad Pitt and... ›

Colum McCann

4 photographers

Born in Ireland in 1965, author Colum McCann lives in New York and teaches there at Hunter College. His latest book to be released in 2013, "Transatlantic," will bring his tally of titles to nine.... ›

Junot Diaz

4 photographers

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic in 1968. He is creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and fiction editor at the Boston Review. His book the Brief... ›

Herta Muller

5 photographers

Herta Muller is a Romanian born German speaking writer and poet. Many of her novels deal with Stalinist persecution of the German minority in Romania after WWII. Her first book, Nadirs, a series of... ›

Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath

10 photographers

Patrick McGrath is a British writer who currently divides his time between New York and London. His father was a medical superintendent at Broadmoor hospital, and the subject of his books often... ›

Karen Swan

4 photographers

Kader Abdolah

7 photographers

Kader Abdolah (which is a nom de plume) is a Persian/Dutch writer, poet and columnist born in Arak in Iran in 1954. He studied physics at Tehran University, opposed the Shah and then after the Shah... ›

Vinicio Capossela

Vinicio Capossela

6 photographers

Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino

11 photographers

Paolo Sorrentino. Neopolitan-born Italian screenwriter, novelist and film director. He wrote and directed "The Grande Bellezza"; ("The Great Beauty" in English) which won the Best Foreign Language... ›

Sandro Veronesi

Sandro Veronesi

13 photographers

One of Italy's most admired and popular novelists, Sandro Veronesi originally graduated in architecture before turning to writing, when, in 1984, he published his first book, a collection of poems,... ›