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Stefan Heym
Stefan Heym (1913-2001)

politician, journalist, poet

  • University of Chicago

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5 Tage im Juni
Architects
The King David report
The Crusaders
Collin
Ahasver
The wandering Jew
The architects
Auf Sand gebaut
Uncertain friend
Fünfzig Erzähler der DDR
Einmischung
Der Winter unsers Missvergnügens
Stefan Heym
Der König David Bericht
Atta Troll
Goldsborough
Filz
Stalin verlässt den Raum
Wege und Umwege
The queen against Defoe
Nachruf
The eyes of reason
Immer sind die Männer schuld
Der kleine König, der ein Kind kriegen musste und andere neue M"archen für kluge Kinder
Radek
Immer sind die Weiber weg und andere Weisheiten
Auskunft
Märchen für kluge Kinder
Hostages
Nachruf
Shadows and lights
Auf Sand gebaut / Filz
Weg und Umwege
Offene Worte in eigener Sache. Gespräche, Reden, Essays 1989 - 2001
Der Konig David Bericht
Lassalle
Schwarzenberg
Die Architekten
Cymbelinchen
Offen gesagt
Heines 'Atta Troll'
Der bittere Lorbeer. Roman
Immer sind die M anner schuld
Der bittere Lorbeer
Die richtige Einstellung und andere Erzählungen
Of smiling peace
Die Augen der Vernunft
Reden an den Feind
Lenz oder die Freiheit. Roman
Ahasver. Roman
Chronique du roi David
The cannibals
The Lenz papers
Gesammelte Erzählungen
Der Winter unseres Mißvergnügens. Aus den Aufzeichnungen des OV Diversant
Fünf Tage im Juni
Nazis in U.S.A
Der kleine König, der ein Kind kriegen musste und andere neue Ma rchen
Hostages
Die Schmähschrift, oder, die Königin gegen Defoe
Kreuzfahrer von heute, "The Crusaders"
Pargfrider
Die Schmähschrift, oder, Königin gegen Defoe
Kniga t͡sari͡a Davida
Rehenes, novela
Wandering Jew
Lenz oder die Freiheit
Die Sanfte Revolution
Erzählungen
A visit to Soviet science
Lenz, oder die Freiheit
Ich aber ging über die Grenze
Erich Hückniesel und das fortgesetze Rotkäppchen
Das Wachsmuth- Syndrom CD. Und der Überlebende
Die Schmähschrift oder Königin gegen Defoe. 2 CDs
Lenz Belgeleri
Vijf dagen in juni
Der Fall Gasenapp
Lasalle
Die Kannibalen und andere Erzählungen
Immer sind die Weiber weg und andere Weisheiten
Reden an den Feind
Die Papiere des Andreas Lenz
Reise ins Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten
Wie es mit Rotkäppchen weiterging. CD. Und andere Märchen für kluge Kinder
דוח המלך דוד
Bitterer Lorbeer
Auferstanden aus den Nischen
Relatare despre regele David
Keine Angst vor Russlands Bären, Neugierige Fragen und offene Antworten über die sowjetunion
Lenz, oder die Freiheit
Beiträge zu einer Biographie
Kanibali a iné poviedky
˜Derœ König-David-Bericht
Immer Sind Die Weiber Weg
Erzählungen
Meine Cousine, die Hexe und weitere Märchen für kluge Kinder
Auskunft 2
Aḥashṿerosh, ha-yehudi ha-noded
Glazami razuma
Agasfer
Rette sich wer kann. CD. Und andere Geschichten aus der Wendezeit
Ahasver
Der bittere Lorbeer
Mia Couto
Mia Couto (born 1955)

biologist, journalist, poet

  • Eduardo Mondlane University

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Woman of the ashes
Woman of the Ashes
Contemporary African Short Stories
Last Flight Of The Flamingo
Under the frangipani
The Tuner Of Silences
Every man is a race
Terra sonâmbula
A river called time
The Blind Fisherman
Sleepwalking land
Voices made night
E se Obama fosse africano?
Vinte e zinco
Pensageiro frequente
Jerusalém
Pensatempos
A confissao da leoa
Trilogía de Mozambique
Cronicando
Terre somnanbule
O país do queixa-andar
Confession of the lioness
Sebastiao Salgado
O outro pé da sereia
Vozes anoitecidas
Cada homem é uma raça
El último vuelo del flamenco
Estórias abensonhadas
O último voo do flamingo
Cronicando
Vozes anoitecidas
Confessions of the lioness
Contos do nascer da terra
La Véranda au frangipanier
Terra Sonambula (Uma Terra sem amos)
Mar me quer
A varanda do frangipani
Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo
Sleepwalking Land
O Ultimo Voo Do Flamingo
LAST FLIGHT OF THE FLAMINGO; TRANS. BY DAVID BROOKSHAW
O gato e o escuro
Idades cidades divindades
Venenos de Deus, remédios do diabo
O fio das missangas
Chronique des jours de cendre
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Terra sonâmbula
As areias do imperador
Raíz de orvalho e outros poemas
Raiz de Orvalho e outros poemas
L'accordeur de silences
Na berma de nenhuma estrada e outros contos
Idades cidades divindades
Mar me quer
Tradutor de chuvas
O menino no sapatinho
Terra Sonambula
O desanoitecer da palavra
A confissão da leoa
O país do queixa andar
Na berma de nenhuma estrada
Pensatempos
Cada homem é uma raça
Poisons de Dieu, remèdes du diable
A Varanda De Frangipani
Vagas e lumes
Antes de nascer o mundo
A chuva pasmada
Essas mulheres
El cartògraf d'absències
Poemas escolhidos
A chuva pasmada
Estórias abensonhadas
O beijo da palavrinha
Um rio chamado tempo, uma casa chamada terra
Essa história está diferente
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

poet, theologian, autobiographer

  • Princeton University, Union Theological Seminary

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Brendan
The sacred journey
The Son of Laughter
The wizard's tide
The Storm
Now and then
The book of Bebb
Telling the truth
Whistling in the dark
The alphabet of grace
Love feast
On the road with the archangel
A room called Remember
The Eyes of the Heart
The magnificent defeat
Wishful thinking
A long day's dying
Secrets in the Dark
Telling Secrets
Godric
Beyond Words
Lion country
Peculiar treasures
Open heart
Speak What We Feel
The final beast
The hungering dark
Listening to Your Life
The Longing for Home
The clown in the belfry
Treasure hunt
The entrance to Porlock
Godric de Finchale
The return of Ansel Gibbs
Remarkable Ordinary
Crazy, Holy Grace
The Faces of Jesus
A Crazy, Holy Grace Participant Guide
One Life, Four Seasons
The yellow leaves
The season's difference
Faith That Matters
Learning to Speak
Christmas Tide
A long day's dying
The magnificent defeat
Family Album Boxed Set
Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh (1915-2014)

journalist, politician, poet lawyer, diplomat, lawyer

  • St. Stephen's College, King's College London

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Train to Pakistan
Memories of Madness
Train to Pakistan
Japujī
Delhi
A history of the Sikhs
Truth, Love and a Little Malice
India
Notes on the great Indian circus
The Illustrated History of the Sikhs
The end of India
Why I supported the emergency
Not a Nice Man to Know
Gurus, Godmen & Good People
I shall not hear the nightingale
The company of women
Sights and sounds of the world
Mano Majra
The Sikhs
Khushwant Singh's big fat joke book
The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh
Paradise and other stories
Burial at sea
Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab
Ranjit Singh
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories
Malicious gossip
The vintage sardar
Land of the five rivers
Sex, scotch & scholarship
A History of the Sikhs: Volume 2
More malicious gossip
Khushwant Singh on women, love & lust
History of the Sikhs. v2
The collected novels
History of the Sikhs, vol 1
Train pour le Pakistan
How the Sikhs lost their kingdom
Homage to Guru Gobind Singh
Need for a new religion in India & other essays
We Indians
Around the world with Khushwant Singh
My bleeding Punjab
Gods and Godmen of India
Khushwant Singh's big book of malice
Women and Men in My Life
Khushwant Singh's Book of Unforgettable Women
City improbable
A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1
Death at my doorstep
The Sikhs today
Administrative problems, rural administration, and extension services
The voice of God
Administrative management, bureaucracy, and rural development and economics of development
Kalighat to Calcutta, 1690-1990
Pakistan express
Khushwant Singh's joke book
Khalsa Panth
Delhi
Black Jasmine ...
The mark of Vishnu and other stories
Nature watch
Khushwant Singh's India
Turbaned tornado
Khushwant Singh's joke book 7
Nāṃ wicca kī piā e
Good people, bad people
Kipling's India
Pakistan mail
The unending trail
Stories from India
Many faces of communalism
Umrao Jan Ada
Religion of the Sikhs
A Sangam City
Kali Chambeli
Songs of the gurus
Khushwantnama The Lessons Of My Life
Pākistān Aikspres
Delhi
Khushwant Singh's view of India
Shri Ram: a biography
Khushwant Singh on women, sex, love and lust
Two essays on Professor S. Chandrasekhar
Agnostic Khushwant
Shri Ram
Rule of law, local government, and economics of development
Khushwant Singh on war and peace in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
A bride for the sahib and other stories
Khushwant Singh's India without humbug
Khushwant Singh's view of India
Mending souls
Not wanted in Pakistan
Mauj mela
The sunset club
Khushwant Singh's editor's page
Joke Book
I believe
Khushwant Singh's joke book
The mark of Vishnu, and other stories
Administrative reforms, Chinese communes, and local government
Indira Gandhi returns
District administration, diffusion of technology, land reforms, and rural development
Chonvi Kahani
City Improbable
Sahibs Who Loved India
The voice of God, and other stories
The fall of the kingdom of the Punjab
I believe
Uncertain Liaisons
Celebrating the best of Urdu poetry
Our favourite Indian stories
Khushwant Singh's India without humbug
99
Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab
Train to Pakistan
Gurus, Godmen and good people
Indira Gandhi returns
Delhi
Ranjit Singh
Not a nice man to know
The Sikhs today
Portrait of a serial killer
A dream turns seventy five
I shall not hear the nightingale
Jannata
Khushwant Singh on war and peace in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
View of India
The Sikhs
The company of women
Not wanted in Pakistan
A history of the Sikhs
Sikhs unlimited
I shall not hear the nightingales
Khushwant Singh selects best Indian short stories
Homage to Guru Gobind Singh
Indira Gandhi
Black Jasmine
I shall not hear the nightingale
The good, the bad and the ridiculous
On India
I shall not hear the nightingale
The Courtesan of Lucknow
Sahibs who loved India
I shall not hear the nightingale
Uncertain liaisons
Khushwant Singh behtareen afsan
Ghadar, 1915, India's first armed revolution
Mahārājah Ranjīt Singh
History of the Sikhs, 1469-1839
Delhi: A Novel
On love and sex
Mano Majra
Sanseṭa Klaba
The mark of Vishnu
Gurus, godmen, and good people
Khushwant Singh
Many moods many faces
Kampanī āf vūmin
The fall of the kingdom of the Punjab
On religion
Collected stories
Khushwant singh bahtreen tahreer
Khushwant Singh on humour
The voice of God
Unanswered prayers
Me, the jokerman
Khushwant Singh's joke book II
Train to Pakistan
Khushawanta Siṅgha
A bride for the sahib and other stories
A history of the Sikhs
Khushwant Singh's joke book III
Khushuwant Singh's India without humbug
The Japji and the Rehras
The freethinker's prayer book
Branko Ćopić
Branko Ćopić (1915-1984)

poet, playwright

  • University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

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Mori Ōgai
Mori Ōgai (1862-1922)

linguist, poet, translator, physician, playwright, military personnel, literary critic

  • University of Tokyo

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Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
Wild Geese
The wild geese
Not a Song Like Any Other
The historical fiction of Mori Ōgai
Youth and other stories
The wild goose
Vita sexualis
Saiki Kōi and other stories
Ōgai jihitsu, Teishitsu Hakubutsukan zōsho kaidai
The historical literature of Mori Ogai
Mori Ōgai, Natsume Sōseki, Miki Rofū mihappyō shokan shū
Wild Geese (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)
Sanshō-Dayū, and other short stories
Mori Ōgai
The incident at Sakai and other stories
Shibue Chūsai
Utakata no ki
Mori Ogai shu
Vita sexualis, ou, L'apprentissage amoureux du professeur Kanai Shizuka
Mori Ōgai seiyoku zassetsu
Seinen
Mori Ōgai shū
Gojiingahara no katakiuchi
Umoregi
Kari
Die Tänzerin. Zwei Erzählungen
Vita sexualis
Sanshō dayū
Mori Ogai (Sakka no jiden)
The wild geese
Deutschlandtagebuch 1884-1888
Abe ichizoku
Chōsokabe Nobuchika
Abe ichizoku
Mori Ōgai no "Chiebukuro"
En Construccion/under Construction
Gan
Utakata no ki ; Maihime ; Fumizukai
Mori Ogai zenshu
Ōgai zenshū
Mori Ōgai shū I-II
Mori Ogai (Nihon genso bungaku shusei)
El ganso salvaje
Mori Ogai
Shan jiao dai fu
Ōgai inpu
Roshia tanpenshū
GAN
Chickens (Japanese "Characters")
Ita sekusuarisu
Mōri Ōgai
Ōgai rekishi bungakushū
Vita sexualis
Abe ichizoku. Mai 姬 / Mori ōgai cho
Rakontoj de Oogai
Jiki zairyō
Mori Ogai shu
Mokusei yokyō
Gendai Nihon bungaku zenshū
Vita Sexualis - El Aprendizaje de Shizu
Ōgai senshū
Le Jeune Homme
Sanshō-dayū
阿部一族
空車
Ōshio Heihachirō ; Sakai jiken
Ōgai josei ronshū
Not a Song Like Any Other
夏目漱石論
『新訳源氏物語』初版の序
Sanshō-dayū
老人
舞姫
Mōri Ōgai
Ōgai zenshū
Uta nikki
うづしほ
大塩平八郎
Sanshō-dayū
そめちがへ
アンドレアス・タアマイエルが遺書
猿
安井夫人
防火栓
Resignation の説
The Wild Geese (Library of Japanese literature)
なかじきり
魚玄機
Furansu tanpenshū
サフラン
堺事件
襟
Wang xiang
犬
病院横町の殺人犯
Gan
Vita sexualis, ou, L'apprentissage amoureux du professeur Kanai Shizuka
Jinshu tetsugaku kōgai
細木香以
文芸の主義
興津弥五右衛門の遺書
Le Jeune Homme
最後の一句
鼠坂
Sanshō-dayū ; Takasebune
Gendaigoyaku maihime
寒山拾得縁起
祭日
Sanshō Dayū ; Takase-bune
駆落
Kenteki
辻馬車
Abe ichizoku ...
Sanshō Dayū ; Takase-bune / by Mori Ōgai
椙原品
佐橋甚五郎
Kōkaron kōgai
Wu ji
尼
追儺
遺言三種
鴎外漁史とは誰ぞ
クサンチス
冬の王
死
伊沢蘭軒
Kindai shōsetsushū
Mori Ōgai shū
余興
Mori Ōgai shū
渋江抽斎
薔薇
寒山拾得
独身
十三時
Chirihiji
Eiseigaku taii
二人の友
カズイスチカ
センツアマニ
護持院原の敵討
田舎
家常茶飯　附・現代思想
山椒大夫
板ばさみ
歴史其儘と歴史離れ
津下四郎左衛門
牛鍋
Mori Ōgai zenshū
Ōshio Heihachirō sakai jiken
聖ニコラウスの夜
Kokura nikki
Mori Ōgai tsuma e no tegami
Come se
Das Ballettmädchen
Shibue Chūsai
うたかたの記
不可説
復讐
Mori Ōgai no "Chiebukuro"
百物語
Shinbi shinsetsu
最終の午後
ヰタ・セクスアリス
Mori Ōgai hon'yaku shugyokusen
じいさんばあさん
Gan
La bailarina
Mori Ōgai tokuhon
橋の下
L'oca selvatica
里芋の芽と不動の目
文づかい
Shū
Gyōte den
普請中
高瀬舟
夢
Ikutagawa
木精
フロルスと賊と
樺太脱獄記
Wild Geese
Mori Ōgai
Tōkyō hōganzu
笑
破落戸の昇天
Mori Ōgai
Takasebune, hoka
Doku-Ō tanpenshū
Ōgai, Doitsu seishun nikki
Nishi Amane den
心中
鶏
Wild Goose
The incident at Sakai and other stories
The wild geese
Mélanie Waldor
Mélanie Waldor (1796-1871)

poet, salonnière, playwright, composer

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La coupe de Corail
Charles Mandel
L'ecuyer Dauberon, ou, L'oratoire de Bonsecours
André le Vendéen
Jean-Baptiste Elissamburu
Jean-Baptiste Elissamburu (1828-1891)

military personnel, poet

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Piarres Adame