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Persoonlijke verhalen van Özcan Akyol, beter bekend als Eus. 'Mijn moeder, de kleine reus' is het liefdevolle verhaal van Eus en zijn familie. Alles laat hij langskomen: van alledaags ongemak met een overijverige moeder tot kleine en rake beschrijvingen van het menselijk tekort. De realiteit beschrijft hij met scherpte en humor. Zijn veelzijdige geest is nooit klaar met vragen stellen en prikkelt de lezer telkens om na te denken. Özcan Akyol is een van de belangrijkste stemmen van Nederland, en zijn unieke kijk op de wereld laat de lezer achter met een glimlach en hernieuwde levenslust.

Er ist der literarische Magier des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Nobelpreisträger und gefeiertes Genie, Großbürger und Familienvater, mit seiner Frau Katia in jahrzehntelanger Ehe verbunden und zugleich so unglücklich, wie man nur sein kann. Er liebt und darf nicht lieben, die Vorstellungen seiner Zeit stehen ihm im Weg. Was für ein Antrieb zu großer Literatur – und was für ein leidvolles Leben.

In this new collection, recorded live, on-location from Massachusetts to California, David Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, a lifelong friend, in essays that are "among the best of his career" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 'Very little makes me laugh. I...

I 1953 udkom De fordømtes legion, en krigsknaldroman om skyttegravslivet i et strafferegiment, baseret på forfatterens egne oplevelser som frivillig soldat i tysk tjeneste under Anden Verdenskrig. Gennem de næste ti år blev Sven Hazel et af Danmarks mest berømte forfatternavne. Hans romaner...

Der er så meget lærdom og erfaring at hente hos de generationer, som vi står på skuldrene af. I GAMMELKLOG fortæller 15 danskere over 70 om de valg, der har været med til at forme deres liv. Hvad har betydet noget for dem? Hvordan har de håndteret udfordringer? Hvad ville de have gjort...

Here for the first time is this controversial writer's real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child – talented but tormented; the eventual separation from his family; violence, crime, borstal and finally prison in England. How he turned his life around to become, not only New Zealand's bestselling novelist, but also a spokesperson for a large number of underprivileged New Zealanders, a controversial columnist and the initiator of the brilliantly successful Books in Homes schemes is both moving and compelling listening.

Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist. Dennoch interessant aufgrund der Persönlichkeit Manns und seinem Austausch mit prominenten Literatur-Größen wie Hermann Hesse, Peter Suhrkamp, Franz Werfel u. a. und seiner privaten Situation unmittelbar vor der Übernahme Deutschlands bzw. der Machtergreifung durch die Nazis.

يضم هذا الكتاب ستاً وعشرين دراسة شائقة لشخصيات لعب معظمها دوراً هاماً في حياة المؤلف على مدى أكثر من سبعين عاماً. وقد التزم حسين أحمد أمين في حديثه عنها بأمرين: الأول: أن يكون الحديث قاصراً في معظمه على ما خبره بنفسه منها وعاينه، دون ما سمعه عنها أو قرأه.

للقراءة دور رئيسي في صنع شخصيات عظيمة، وكتاب (القراءة صنعة العظماء) يؤكد لنا ذلك من خلال سرده لقصة 39 شخصية عظيمة استطاعت أن تكون لها بصمة مؤثرة. ويبين الكتاب دور القراءة الرئيسي في صنع هذه الشخصيات، ويؤكد أن العظماء تجد عندهم دوماً نهماً شديداً للقراءة يسيطر على أغلب أوقاتهم وتصنعهم مبدعين ومؤثرين.

عرّف بيتر شتاينس، المولع بالأدب، في صيف 2013 أنه مصاب بمرض التَّصَلُّب الجانِبِيّ الضُّمورِيّ وأن حياته ستنتهي قريبًا. بعد ستة أشهر بدأ كتابة مقالة أسبوعية في صحيفة "إن آر سي هاندلسبلاد" ربط فيها مسار مرضه بالكتب التي قرأها أو أعاد قراءتها. أصبح كافكا وديكنز وريفى وشكسبير وشيمبورسكا وخمسون كاتبًا آخر رفقاء رحلته. في مغزى القراءة، يصف شتاينس تدهور حالته الجسديَّة ورحلته مع المؤسسات الطبية ببساطة ومرح.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Honoré de Balzac worked himself to death at fifty-one, producing ninety-plus novels documenting nineteenth-century French society. He earned enormous sums yet died deeply in debt. He observed human psychology with unprecedented accuracy yet was blind...

Writer's block is not a discipline problem. It's a nervous system event, and you can finally hear how to solve it. You have a message that keeps you up at night. But every time you sit down to write, your throat tightens, your mind goes blank, and that cruel little voice whispers, "Maybe I just don't have what it takes."

Megan Marshall's innovative books, including The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of After Lives, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it. In each of...

Questo libro nasce dal desiderio dell'autore di condividere, con sincerità e senza filtri, il percorso che lo ha portato a diventare la persona che è oggi. Non è il racconto di imprese straordinarie, ma di scelte, cadute, cambiamenti e piccoli momenti che hanno segnato il suo cammino. Pagina dopo pagina, il lettore troverà riflessioni, domande e frammenti di vita in cui potersi riconoscere.

Et si Deborah Levy nous ouvrait les portes de sa bibliothèque personnelle ? Si elle nous emmenait à la découverte des artistes qui l'inspirent et la secouent ?

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age. By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels...

At festive gatherings celebrating summer's peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and calendars, another, richer kind of time might exist. As she suffered from grief and burnout, Tamás sought a deeper connection to the movement of the seasons through an immersion in old folkways. She set out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions.

Il 4 gennaio 1960, la Facel Vega guidata dal celebre editore Michel Gallimard sfreccia lungo una strada della Borgogna e va a schiantarsi contro un platano. Sul sedile del passeggero, Albert Camus, che solo tre anni prima era stato insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, muore sul colpo.

"Remembering Roots highlights the indomitability of the human spirit; and reminds us that, like our ancestors, as long as we continue to breathe, there's hope."—LEVAR BURTON, award-winning actor, director, author, and original cast member of Roots Discover how the book and TV miniseries Roots...

Joanne "Jo" Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling book series of all time. The creator of Harry Potter was once a single mother writing in cafés and living on welfare, who experienced a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to becoming one of the richest and most influential women on the planet. And following her controversial stances in the cultural and political war over transgender rights, Rowling found herself a pariah in circles that had previously adored her.