Voltaire

Voltaire is known for his philosophy of freedom at the time of Enlightenment and pluralistic thinking. Being a strong adversary of official Catholicism, he’d advocate for human rights and encourage people to open their minds to the wind of political, philosophical, and social changes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor (Mikhailovich – patronym) Dostoevsky, is a Russian writer, whose name is enlisted to the greatest and most talented people of letters of the 20th century. Working in and establishing the style of existentialism and psychological realism for Eastern Literature, his novels, and...

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is a famous American writer and philosopher, one of the main creators of the Objectivism movement in philosophy. The writer was born on January 20, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her name at birth was Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum. The author is widely known among American and...

Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri (1265 – 1321), who is mostly known as Dante, was the most celebrated Italian writer of the Late Middle Ages. Credited as the person who rediscovered the Italian language, Dante provided an encyclopedic overview of t beliefs, values, and morals of the medieval times...

Franz Kafka

Childhood and Early Years

The birth of the future popular author took place in Prague, in the Jewish ghetto. The boy was born on July 3rd, 1883, in Jews family. Franz's father named Herman Kafka earned his living by selling haberdashery. His family came from the Jewish community of...

Albert Camus

Albert Camus - French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize.

Albert Camus is French writer, dramatist, journalist, author of philosophical essays and Nobel Prize laureate. Camus was one of the most important authors and thinkers of the 20th century.

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