French essayist, translator, and poet. He is also a blues musician under the stage name Dan Giraud. He has translated poems by Chinese writers such…
Spanish poet, storyteller, essayist, translator. He died in 2003. Link to Wikipedia (German)
Flemish language writer, poet and Roman Catholic priest from Belgium, famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect. For his linguistical mastery, Gezelle is…
Dutch classicist, poet in the post-symbolist tradition and translator of Latin and Hebrew poetry. Ida Gerhardt was the second of the three surviving children of…
German journalist, author and translator who published a 1932 biography of Theodor Herzl, with introductions by Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein. He left Germany after…
Israeli poet, playwright, writer, songwriter, journalist, satirist, comedian, TV presenter and translator. His son is the musician Aviv Geffen. Link to Wikipedia biography
French poet, journalist, teacher, essayist, and translator.
Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language, he was a key member in the literary revival of the…
English translator of 71 volumes of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov…
British writer and publisher, a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group known by the nickname “Bunny” to friends and intimates all his life. He was…
Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art, whose notable works include La aparición de lo invisible (1968) and Las huellas de…
Prince of Naples and Sicily, as the fourth son of King Carlos III and Maria Amalia of Saxony. His father was the King of Naples…
Scottish poet and translator. He has lived in Stavanger, Norway, since 1973 working as a university lecturer. Fulton holds a PhD from Edinburgh University. He…
German-Jewish singer who became known as the founder, arranger and third tenor of the Berlin ensemble Comedian Harmonists. After their debut performance in 1928 and…
Spanish politician, orator, poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and diplomat. He died 23 August 1862 Link to Wikipedia biography (Spanish)
Slovene folk writer, particularly known for his novels and short stories, although he also wrote poems and plays. He was also a Roman Catholic priest,…
Italian ecclesiastic, ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1473. He was a homeopathic physician, an astrologer, philosopher, author, lecturer and alchemist. A true renaissance man,…
Writer, translator and scholar of linguistics of the sixties who wrote in the Catalan language. His poetical work is one of the most important among…
Norwegian journalist, editor, writer, and translator who worked at United Press from 1950 to 1957 before being editor of a weekly magazine. As a writer…
German classical philologist, poet and translator. In 1831 he published a volume of Hilarolypo’s poems in Greek. His second work, The Legend of Odysseus after…
German poet and author, married from 1904 to the German translator and writer Hedda Eulenberg. Herbert Eulenberg was the publisher of many books, for which…
American early gay rights advocate and author, best known for his 1978 book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. In 1975, he formed the Faery Circle…
Costa Rican philologist, translator, essayist and journalist. He distinguished himself mainly as a columnist in the newspapers La Nacion and University and directed the English…
Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with an estimated 100 million records sold worldwide,…
Clayton Eshleman: A Comprehensive Biography of the Poet, Translator, and Human Design Generator Clayton Eshleman, born on June 1, 1935, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a…
Mexican pioneering aviator who was the first woman to attain a pilot’s licence in her country, on 4 December 1932. Encinas became a protégé of…
Norwegian poet, translator, literary critic, and psychoanalyst. She was the daugher of psychoanalyst Ola Raknes and poet and playwright Aslaug Vaa. In 1938 she married…
French film historian and critic, who specializes in Soviet cinema, especially its unknown side. He is also a translator, film restoration manager, director, producer and…
Dutch writer, poet, critic and translator of world literature, who married thrice. Clara Eggink was the daughter of Hendrik Jan Eggink (1882) and Clara W.M.C.…
Dutch writer, poet and translator, particularly known as the author of the novel Pastoor Poncke (“Pastor Poncke”). During the Second World War Eekhout was a…
American whistleblower, this beautiful woman, fluent in Turkish and Farsi, worked as a translator for the FBI. In the days following the 9/11 attacks, she…
American poet and translator who has published many books of poetry, translations, and scholarly criticism, and whose work has appeared in many literary magazines and…
Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in…
Brazilian film, television and theatre actress, language interpreter, writer, critic, biographer, translator and social scientist. The daughter of Syrian immigrants of Jewish origin, she learned…
German poet, writer, dramatist and translator.
French editor, writer and translator of English and Spanish into French. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French chef and restaurateur who opened the most expensive restaurant in New York City in June 2000. At the Essex House, dinner for two can…
Australian Aboriginal actor and comedian with a magnetic screen presence who has broken new ground in the popular presentation of his native culture during an…
French poet, freemason and translator. The publication (1769) of his translation of the Georgics of Virgil made him famous. Voltaire recommended the poet for the…
French novelist, short story writer, essayist, adapter, translator, and literary events designer. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French journalist, poet, novelist, sculptor, historian and designer. She was a prolific writer who produced more than 70 books. She was married to the translator…
French novelist, dramatist, playwriter, actress and translator. Delay was elected to the French Academy on December 14, 2000. Link to Wikipedia biography
Jean Del Val: A Journey from Silent Films to Sci-Fi with a Unique Human Design Jean Del Val, originally born as Jean Jacques Gauthier on…
Italian writer, journalist, translator and literary critic Italian. He was a prolific translator, especially from the French. He died 30 September 2003. Link to Wikipedia…
Spanish journalist, writer, translator and women’s rights activist, also known as Colombine, Gabriel Luna, Perico el de los Palotes, Raquel, Honorine and Marianel. She is…
Danish astrologer since 1975, a full time pro; lecturer, teacher, and writer, educated in electronics. He published “Astrological Handbook” in June 1985. The son of…
Norwegian novelist, crime fiction writer, playwright, children’s writer, non-fiction writer, translator, literary critic, and journalist. He made his literary debut in 1968 with the short…
John Cournos: A Literary Journey with Human Design Insights John Cournos, born on June 3, 1881, in Zhitomir, Ukraine, was a prominent Russian-Jewish writer and…
Belgian writer, a poet, translator and editor. His work sang of the quiet joys of home life and conjugal happiness. Cort died 1/18/1878, near Brussels.