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MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there.

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface.

Veteran Toronto Star editor Haroon Siddiqui, brown and Muslim, has spent a life on the media front lines, covering conflicts both global and local. Siddiqui’s journey took him from a divided India to a welcoming Canada—until the cataclysm of 9/11 hardened attitudes to Muslims around the world. His personal story weaves through growing Islamophobia in both India and North America. Siddiqui's experiences in the corridors of power in newsrooms and warzones are threaded with insights about historic changes in the last seventy years in India and Canada.

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment.

Banksy, most secretive artist of our time: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco de Goya, Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Beuys, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy.

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Helmut Zenker (1949-2003) seit 1973 freier Schriftsteller, seit 1989 auch Regisseur. Romane, Theater, Kinderbücher, Lyrik, Drehbücher, Comedy, Essays, Comics, Lieder. Seine Bücher (über 50 Romane) sind in 23 Sprachen erschienen. Mitbegründer der Literaturzeitschrift "Wespennest' 1969. Zahlreiche Literaturpreise. TV- und Filmpreise (für "Kottan ermittelt" und "Tohuwabohu") u.a.: Goldene Kamera, Adolf Grimme-Preis, Preis der Berliner Filmfestspiele, UNESCO Preis, Romy, New York Video Award, ungarisches TV-Festival am Plattensee.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist extraordinaire: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and pop art icon: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

A poignant, often comical account of coming-of-age in the time after the Cold War and before Putin, One Ukrainian Summer evokes a unique moment in one country's history, and is a love letter to its people and culture.