Peace on Earth is a 1985 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The novel describes, in a satirical tone, the ultimate implications of the arms race. It is a continuation of the adventures of Ijon Tichy.
The Index Translationum is UNESCO's database of book translations. Books have been translated for thousands of years, with no central record of the fact. The League of Nations established a record of translations in 1932. In 1946, the United Nations superseded the League and UNESCO was assigned the Index. In 1979, the records were computerised.
Zsolt Harsányi, also known as Zsolt von Harsanyi or Zsolt de Harsanyi, was a prolific and renowned Hungarian author, dramatist, translator, and writer.
Christopher Frey is a German writer. He grew up in a political and international environment as his father worked for the US embassy. He received a music education at the school of music of the Regensburger Domspatzen. His early interest in the fine arts was also triggered by his family background of four generations of historians. His grandfather, a lawyer and undersecretary, published beside of many works about music theory and undiscovered works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina also the translation of the poetry of Michelangelo which his great-grandfather Carl Frey (1857–1917) once had started.
Gustav Heinse, born Josef K. Klein (1896–1971), was a poet and translator who was mostly active in Bulgaria, where he lived and worked from 1924 until his death.
Herbert Zangs was a German artist.
Mary Edith Scott was a New Zealand novelist, teacher and librarian. She was a prolific writer who specialised in romantic comedies set in rural New Zealand, and her books were widely read both in New Zealand and overseas. From 1953 to 1978 she wrote at a rate of at least one book per year. She published over thirty novels, five detective novels written jointly with Joyce West, an autobiography, and three collections of plays.
Arthur Burgess Murphy, often known as Brian Murphy, was an Irish scholar of Russian literature and Professor Emeritus of the University of Ulster.
Clementine Helm Beyrich was a widely read author of books for children and young adults who published her works during the period of the German Empire.
Carl Seelig was a German-Swiss writer and patron. He was best known as a friend, promoter and guardian of Robert Walser and the first biographer of Albert Einstein.
Hellmut Ritter was a leading German Orientalist specializing in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, and an authority on Sufi ritual and mystical beliefs.
Philipp Winterberg is a German author. His books have been reviewed and recommended by Kirkus Reviews, Die Tageszeitung, Foreword Reviews, Börsenblatt, Österreichisches Schulportal and many more.
Maria Carlsson-Augstein is a former German female literary translator. She was fluent in English and has translated numerous English literary works in German language.
Bettina Abarbanell is a German literary translator, best known for her English-to-German translations of novels by authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Denis Johnson, Rachel Kushner, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Lacey, and Jonathan Franzen. In 2014, Abarbanell received the Translator Award from the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation and in 2015 a Barthold Heinrich Brockes scholarship from the German Translation Fund.
Ulrike Nolte is a German science fiction author and translator.
The Zeitschriftendatenbank or ZDB is the central bibliographical database for title and ownership records of ongoing collections in Germany and Austria, for example from trade journals, magazines and newspapers. The ZDB holds records of almost all German scientific libraries and many other public libraries and is freely available on the Internet. The journal database is managed by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB) in cooperation with the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the German National Library, which is responsible for the technical system support and further development.
Zhang Yajin is a Chinese architect and urban planner. She is one of the four partners of ISA Internationales Stadtbauatelier and its general director at the Beijing headquarters. She also works as a correspondent for the Chinese magazine Community Design.
Gertrude Unruh, better known as Trude Unruh, was a German politician.
