What year was the author of Samarkand born?
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Samarkand (novel) Samarkand (French: Samarcande ) is a 1988 historical fiction novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The narrative revolves the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and his poetry collection "Rubaiyat". The novel received the Prix Maison de la Presse.
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Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف‎ ‎ ; born 25 February 1949) is an award-winning Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel "The Rock of Tanios" as well as the 2010 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the Académie française.
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Samra Bukhari Samra Bukhari is a Pakistani novelist and dramatist. She is well known for her novels. She has written a drama serial Gul-e-Rana.
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Bal Samant Bal Gangadhar Samant (May 27, 1924 – January 18 2009) was an Indian writer. He wrote around 80 books in Marathi on a wide range of topics from fiction, biography, Marathi dramas and history. His books include a biography of Richard Francis Burton, (titled "Shapith Yaksha"), Hitler, Deenanath Mangeshkar, Marathi natyasangeet, reincarnation, Bal Gandharva, elephants (titled "Gajaraja"), death and many more.
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Louis Menand Louis Menand ( ; born January 21, 1952) is an American critic and essayist, best known for his book "" (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.
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Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author. She is best known for her novel "The God of Small Things" (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This novel became the biggest-selling book by a nonexpatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.
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Sergo Kldiashvili Sergo Kldiashvili (Georgian: სერგო კლდიაშვილი ) (6 October 1893 – 1986) was a Georgian prose-writer who set out to be Symbolist but then was drawn to conformist Realist prose under Soviet rule.
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Shankha Ghosh Shankha Ghosh (Bengali: শঙ্খ ঘোষ ; born 6 February 1932) is a Bengali Indian poet and critic. He was born in Chandpur of what is now Bangladesh. Shankha Ghosh is regarded a leading authority on Rabindranath Tagore in addition to being one of the most prolific writers in Bengali.
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Saeed Nafisi Saeed Nafisi (also Naficy) (Persian: سعید نفیسی‎ ‎ ; June 8, 1895 – November 13, 1966) was an Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet. He was a prolific writer in Persian.
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Atrpet Sargis Mubayeajian (Armenian: Սարգիս Մուբայաջյան ; January 31, 1860 in Kars – May 27, 1937, Gyumri), better known by his pen name Atrpet ("Adrbed" in Western Armenian, Armenian: Ատրպետ ), was a prolific and multifarious Armenian writer.
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author.
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Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Muhammad (1560 – 1650), also known as Shekh Mahammad (Mohammad), Sayyad Shaikh Mahammad Qadiri, Shaikh Muhammad Shrigondekar (lit. Sheikh Muhammad of Shrigonde), and Sheikh (Shekh) Mahammad-baba, was a Muslim saint-poet who is venerated by Hindus. He is considered the most well-known Muslim Marathi poet. He is the author of the "Yoga-samgrama" ("Yoga-sangrama").
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Håvard Narum Håvard Narum (born 23 June 1944) is a Norwegian journalist and author.
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Awaz Sayeed <div align="justify">Awaz Sayeed (3 March 1934 – 2 July 1995) (Urdu: عوض سعید ), full name Awaz Bin Sayeed Bin Awaz Bin Jabir Bin Abdullah (pen name: Chaand, چاند), was a renowned modern short-story writer, poet, playwright, Khaka-naveez and humorist from Hyderabad, India.
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Guri Vesaas Guri Vesaas (born 13 January 1939) is a Norwegian writer and translator of children's books, and former editor at the publishing house Samlaget. She was awarded the Brage Prize honorary award in 2007, and also the Nynorsk User of the Year award.
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Joseph Samachson Joseph "Joe" Samachson (October 13, 1906 – June 1980) was an American scientist and author, primarily of science fiction and comic books.
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Hamid Olimjon Hamid Olimjon (sometimes spelled Hamid Alimjan in English) (Uzbek: "Ҳамид Олимжон; Hamid Olimjon" ; Russian: Хамид Алимджан; Khamid Alimdzhan ) (12 December 1909 – 3 July 1944) was an Uzbek poet, playwright, scholar, and literary translator of the Soviet period. Hamid Olimjon is considered to be one of the finest twentieth-century Uzbek poets. The Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia calls him "one of the founders of Uzbek Soviet literature". In addition to writing his own poetry, Hamid Olimjon translated the works of many famous foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Taras Shevchenko, and Mikhail Lermontov into the Uzbek language.
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Samad Vurgun Samad Vurgun (Azerbaijani: "Səməd Vurğun" , born Samad Vakilov, March 21, 1906 – May 27, 1956) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet poet, dramatist, public figure, first People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), academician of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (1945), laureate of two USSR State Prizes of second degree (1941, 1942), and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940.
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Prem Parkash Prem Parkash (born 7 April 1932) is a story-teller from Punjab, India. He "is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature." He is also known as Prem Parkash Khannvi.
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Sevan Nişanyan Sevan Nișanyan (Western Armenian: Սեւան Նշանեան , born 21 December 1956) is a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, travel writer, researcher and polymath.
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Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ] ; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
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Asef Soltanzadeh Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh (Persian: محمد آصف سلطان‌زاده‎ ‎ ) (also spelled Assef) was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1964, moved to Pakistan, then Iran in 1985, and in 2002, to Denmark. He is a writer specialising in prose and drama. He writes primarily in Persian.