Jack London, America’s iconic novelist, short story writer and activist, is best known for his works “The Call of the Wild” published in 1903 and “White Fang” published in 1906. Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. It is not known for sure whether Jack London’s mother Flora Wellman and…
Honoré de Balzac was born in France on May 20, 1799. He produced great works in the novel genre. He was a pioneer of Realism in a period when Romanticism dominated in the 19th century and produced works in this direction. It is seen that he presents the events of the time in a great…
Oğuz Atay was born on October 12, 1934 in the İnebolu district of Kastamonu. His father was Cemil Atay, a high criminal judge and Republican People’s Party (CHP) 6th and 7th term Sinop and 8th term Kastamonu deputy. Atay, who attended primary and secondary school in Ankara, graduated from Ankara Maarif College, now known as…
Victor Hugo (1802-1885): One of the greatest writers of French literature. He is known for his poems, plays and novels. He is the representative of the Romanticism movement in France. In addition to his enormous successes in literature, he also played an active role in political life, for which he was sentenced to exile, and…
Ivan Turgenev was born on November 9, 1818 in Orel, Russia. His father was from a noble family, but they had become poor. The cavalry colonel father Turgenev married Varvara Petrovna Lutovina, an old woman who owned the Spasskoye estate. Ivan was born from this marriage. His mother, who was educated, fond of education and…