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  Vladimir Suteev

  Vladimir Grigor'evich Suteev (Russian: Владимир Сутеев) was a Russian author, illustrator and animator who primarily wrote stories for children. He was the founder of animated cartoon industry in the USSR.

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  Pramathanath Bishi

  Pramathanath Bishi (1901-1985), a writer and educationist, was born on 11 June 1901 at Joari in Rajshahi, the son of Nalininath Bishi and Sarojbasini Devi. He studied for seventeen years at Brahma Vidyalaya in santiniketan, where he became closely acquainted with rabindranath tagore. He passed the Matriculation (1919) from Santiniketan and took a break of several years before going on to complete the IA (1927) and BA with Honours in Englsih from rajshahi college (1929). He then took an MA in Bangla (1932) from Calcutta University, standing first class first. He carried on research on a ramtanu lahiri Research Fellowship (l933-36). He joined Ripon College (1936-46) and then Calcutta University (1950) as professor of Bangla. He was Rabindra P

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  Valentin Rasputin

  See also: Валентин Распутин
  Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; born March 15, 1937 in village of Ust-Uda in Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin covers complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.

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  Alexandre Dumas

  This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
  
  Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
  Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France a

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  Victor Hugo

  After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
  
  This poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, and perhaps the most influential, important exponent of the Romantic movement in France, campaigned for human rights. People in France regard him as one of greatest poets of that country and know him better abroad.
  
  

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  Alexander Pushkin

  Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
  
  See also:
  Russian: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин
  French: Alexandre Pouchkine
  Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin
  Spanish:Aleksandr Pushkin
  
  People consider this author the greatest poet and the founder of modern literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated ever with greatly influential later literature.
  
  Pushkin published his first poem at the age of 15 years in 1814, and the literary establishment widely recognized him before the time of his graduation from the

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  Nikolai Leskov

  also:
  Николай Лесков
  Nikolaj S. Leskow
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Lesskow
  Nikolaj Semënovič Leskov
  Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov
  Nikolai Ljeskow
  Н. С. Лѣсков-Стебницкий
  Микола Лєсков
  
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Лесков; 16 February 1831 — 5 March 1895) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) (which was later made into an o

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  Tove Jansson

  Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.
  
  Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.
  
  Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.
  
  Jansson's Moomin books have been translated in

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  Ruskin Bond

  Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India. In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to

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  Sergei Dovlatov

  Sergei Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and soc

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  Valentin Rasputin

  See also: Валентин Распутин
  Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; born March 15, 1937 in village of Ust-Uda in Irkutsk Oblast, Russian Federation) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life. Rasputin covers complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival.

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  Nikolai Gogol

  People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
  
  Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
  
  Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,

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• Alexander Fadeyev

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  Ivan Turgenev

  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
  
  These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
  
  Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli

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  Arkady Strugatsky

  The brothers Arkady Strugatsky [Russian: Аркадий Стругацкий] and Boris Strugatsky [Russian: Борис Стругацкий] were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
  
  Arkady Strugatsky was born 25 August 1925 in Batumi; the family later moved to Leningrad. In January 1942, Arkady and his father were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad, but Arkady was the only survivor in his train car; his father died upon reaching Vologda. Arkady was drafted into the Soviet army in 1943. He trained first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter

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• Sister Jesme

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  Maxim Gorky

  Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.
  
  This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Mohammad Nazim Uddin

  MOHAMMAD NAZIM UDDIN (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ নাজিম উদ্দিন) is a writer and Translator of more than 26 novels..His original works are NEMESIS, CONTRACT, NEXUS, CONFESSION,JAAL, 1952: nichok kono number noy, KARACHI, RABINDRANATH EKHANE KOKHONO KHETE ASENNI and KEU KEU KATHA RAKHE. These six Thriller novels are highly acclaimed by the readers.

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  Denis Fonvizin

  Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин, Денис Фонвизин) was one of the leading writers of Russian Enlightment during the rule of Ekaterina II. He is best known for his biting satiric plays "Бригадир" ("The Brigadier-General") and "Недоросль" ("The Minor").

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  Ivan Bunin

  
  Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: Иван Алексеевич Бунин) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language.
  
  Best known for his short novels The Village (1910) and Dry Valley (1912), his autobiographical novel The Life of Arseniev (1933, 1939), the book of short stories Dark Avenues (1946) and his 1917–1918 diary ( Cursed Days, 1926), Bunin was a revered figure among anti-communist White emigres, European critics, and many of his fellow writers, who viewed him

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  Boris Vasilyev

  Born into a family of Russian nobility. His father Lev Alexandrovich Vasilyev (1892—1968) came from a dynasty of military officers; he served in the Imperial Russian Army and took part in the First World War in the rank of Poruchik before joining the Red Army. Vasilyev's mother Elena Nikolaevna Alexeeva (1892—1978) belonged to a noble Alexeev family tree that traces its history back to the 15th century; her father was among the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky.
  
  In 1941 Boris Vasilyev volunteered for the front line and joined a destruction battalion. He fought as part of the 3rd Guards Airborne Division up until 1943 when he was wounded in action and demobilized. After his World War II service, Vasiliev enrolled at the Malinovsky Tank Ac

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  Alexander Griboyedov

  Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов
  Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the verse comedy Woe from Wit or The Woes of Wit. He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where he and all the embassy staff were massacred by an angry mob following the rampant anti-Russian sentiment that existed through the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 and Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828, and had forcefully ratified for Persia's ceding of its northern territories comprising Transcaucasia and parts of the North Caucasus.

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• Lajo Jose

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  Akhil P. Dharmajan

  ആലപ്പുഴ എസ്.ഡി.വി. സ്കൂൾ, പാതിരപ്പള്ളി ഗവണ്മെന്‍റ് എൽ.പി. സ്കൂൾ, ഗവണ്മെന്‍റ് യൂ.പി. സ്കൂൾ, മേരി ഇമ്മാക്കുലേറ്റ് എച്ച്.എസ്. പൂങ്കാവ്, ഹോളിഫാമിലി എച്ച്.എസ്. എസ്. തുടങ്ങിയ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ പന്ത്രണ്ടാം തരം വരെയുള്ള വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം. മെക്കാനിക്കൽ ഐ.ടി.ഐ, മെക്കാനിക്കൽ എഞ്ചിനീയറിംഗ് ഡിപ്ലോമ, ബി.എ.ലിറ്ററേച്ചർ, ഡിപ്ലോമ ഇൻ ഫിലിം മേക്കിംഗ് (ചെന്നൈ) എന്നിവ തുടർവിദ്യാഭ്യാസങ്ങൾ. 2018
  എന്ന മലയാളം ചലച്ചിത്രത്തിന്റെ തിരക്കഥയിലൂടെ സിനിമ ലോകത്തേക്ക് കടന്നെത്തി. എഴുത്തിന്റെ തുടക്ക കാലത്ത് ഓജോ ബോർഡ് എന്ന നോവൽ ഫേസ്ബുക്കിലൂടെ അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങളായി പോസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്ത് ജനശ്രദ്ധപിടിച്ചു പറ്റി. ഫേസ്ബുക്കിൽ നിന്നും പുസ്തകരൂപത്തിൽ പുറത്തിറക്കുന്ന ആദ്യത്തെ മലയാളനോവൽ എന്ന ബഹുമതി ഈ പുസ്തകത്തിന് ലഭിച്ചു. ചെറുകഥകൾ, നോവലുകൾ, സിനിമ, യാത്ര എന്നിവ ഇഷ്ട വിഷയങ്ങൾ. തമിഴ്, മലയാളം ഭാഷകളിൽ ഹൃസ്വചിത്രങ്ങള

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• Lucy Kalappura

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  Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

  Maria Iordanidou
  Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
  
  Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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  Bimal Mukherjee

  Bimal Mukherjee (Bengali: বিমল মুখার্জী / বিমল মুখোপাধ্যায়) (1903–1996) was the first Indian globe trotter who travelled the entire world on a bicycle from the year 1926 to 1937. He wrote the book Du Chakay Duniya (দু'চাকায় দুনিয়া) about his experiences.
  
  The world voyage started on bicycle from Town Hall, Calcutta on December 12, 1926 and halted at Chandannagar for the first night.
  
  He and his three friends had crossed the Bohemian Alps in bicycles wearing flannel shirts and no woolen clothing in the month of December. They had kept warm by cycling vigorously and alternated keeping one hand in their pockets to prevent frostbite. When asked how they did the amazing feat. He had replied, "We are carrying the sun rays from India!".

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