Authors

Andrew Bovell was born at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and currently lives in Soth Australia. His SWGIE award-winning play SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1996) has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as LANTANA (2001). Both the play and screenplay…

Andrew Hannan comes from Plymouth, England. From 1977 to 1980, he studied music at the Oxford University and has lived since 1983 as a freelance composer, arranger, pianist, musical director and songwriter in Berlin. He worked in Berlin at the Neukölln Opera (“Bizet Lounge – Die Perlen Fischer”, “Cox +…

Andri Snær Magnason (1973) is an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavik, who has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and songs. He is the co-director of the documentary film Dreamland. His work has been published or performed in more than 20 countries. His novel, “LoveStar”, was chosen “Novel of…

Angela Betzien is a multi award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV; her work has toured widely across Australia and internationally. Belvoir Theatre’s production of Angela’s play The Dark Room won the 2011 Sydney Theatre Award for Best New Australian work and was also…

Annisette Koppel (born 1948) is a Danish singer and co-founder of the band Savage Rose which she started in 1968 with the brothers Thomas Koppel og Anders Koppel.

Anna Nygren (b. 1990) is a Swedish playwright and screenwriter. She is educated from the writing academy in Biskops-Arnö and has a master’s degree in literature. Through a number of years she worked with children – and youth’s plays in Norrkoping, but is now working in Goteborg as a writer…

Anna Simberg is a Finnish playwright and the director of Labbet working with new Swedish language drama in Finland. She is the chairman of a working group dealing with equality issues in Swedish-language theatres in Finland and a board member of the Finnish Dramatists’ Union.

Annette K. Olesen (born 1965) is a Danish theatre and film director trained at The National Film School of Denmark (1987 – 1991). She was nominated for The Golden Bear at the Berlin Film festival in 2002 and has since won several awards for her films.

Annina Enckell (born 1957) is a Finnish author and dramaturge trained at the Theatre School in Helsinki. Between 1985 and 1993 she worked at the literary department at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. She has written children’s plays, stage adaptations and has been the dramaturge behind several films. Furthermore she…

1917-93, His novels are marked by a surreal, darkly comic imagination. Burgess is acknowledged to have been one of the most imaginative and experimental English prose stylists. His best-known work is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1962), written in an imaginary teen slang and set in a classless, futuristic society, where an…

Anthony McCarten, is a commercially successful playwright, also writing poetry and fiction. He was born in New Plymouth. His first play was INVITATION TO A SECOND CLASS CARRIAGE (Depot Theatre, Wellington, 1984). His next, YELLOW CANARY MAZURKA, was selected for the 1986 New Zealand Playwrights’ Workshop and premièred the following…

Anthony Newley was born Sep 24, 1931 London, Hackney, England. As a British entertainer Anthony Newley began as a child star, passing for 10 or 11 even as the Artful Dodger in OLIVER TWIST (1948), when in fact he was already of driving and shaving age. As a young leading…

The twin brother of equally celebrated playwright, Peter Shaffer, Anthony Shaffer’s name, despite his other achievements, inevitably evokes his famously twisty, two-hander, SLEUTH (1970), triumphant on Broadway as well as in London, and in 1972 turned into a successful film, from his own screenplay.

French aviator and writer, real life hero who looked at adventure and danger with poet’s eyes – sometimes from the viewpoint of a child. Saint-Exupéry’s most famous work is THE LITTLE PRINCE (1943), which he also illustrated. It has become one of the classics of children’s literature of the 20th…

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.Chekhov…

Antonio Skármeta (b. 1940) is a Chilean writer. He is educated in literature and philosophy at Colombia University, New York, where after he settled down in Buenos Aires and then West Berlin. After the end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in 1989, he returned to Chile in order to fight for…

Aphra Behn stars in the canon of English literature as the first known English woman to earn her living by the pen. She is famous for her prose work OROONOKO (1688) and for her comic Restoration dramas such as THE ROVER (1681) and THE LUCKY CHANCE (1686). THE FORC’D MARRIAGE,…

Chilensk forfatter, journalist og dramaturg. I sine analyser af massekulturen tog han ikke kun litterære metoder i brug, men også politisk analyse og sociologi. Dorfman var kulturel rådgiver for Salvador Allende regeringen i Chile. Han flygtede efter militærkuppet i 1973 og gik i eksil i Frankrig. Efterfølgende flyttede han til…

Arild Brakstad was born in Bergen, Norway in 1972, where he also died on July 24, 2024. He had a bachelor’s degree in cultural studies and also studied theater and philosophy. As a playwright, he made big headlines when he created the world’s first Black metal musical “Svartediket”, which premiered…

Arne Skouen (1913 – 2003) was a Norwegian best known for his work as a film director and as a journalist. He was internationally famed for his 1957 film Ni Liv (Nine Lives). His first film was released in 1949, titled Gategutter (Street Boys). His 1959 film The Master and…

Arnfinn Hagen was born in Oslo in 1958. Since 1992-93, he has worked in Norsk Amatørteaterråd, later Norsk teaterråd and from 2019 Teateralliansen as a scriptconsultant/advisor at dramas.no. He translates into Norwegian from American, English, Swedish and Danish.

Russian-born French dramatist, one of the most prominent exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. Adamov was born into a wealthy Armenian family in Kislovodsk; at the age of four he moved with his family to Germany. Having completed his education in Paris, he settled there in 1924 and became…

Arthur Whitelaw began his career in show business fifty years ago. His first producing venture in the New York Theatre was the hit revival of BEST FOOT FORWARD which introduced Liza Minnelli and Christopher Walken to the stage. Whitelaw co-wrote the books for and directed SNOOPY and THE TAFFETAS. In…

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 – 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. In 1874 he joined R. H. Wyndham’s company at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh. After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving’s Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where…

Astrid Trotzig, Swedish author and playwright born 1970, had her debut in 1996 with the sensational autobiographical work ‘Blod är tjockare än vatten’. In 2001 she came out with the novel ‘Ibland undrar jag om jag minns rätt’, which together with ‘Främmande i detta land’ (2003) loosely form a trilogy.…

Athol Fugard (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi. He is an adjunct professor of playwriting,…