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James Allen was a British philosophical writer and a pioneer of the self-help movement. He was born to a working-class family in Leicester, England and worked as a private secretary and stationer in several manufacturing firms before he turned to a life of writing. He initially worked as a journalist, before finding his true calling as a spiritual and social writer for the Herald of the Golden Age magazine. In 1902, he began publishing his own spiritual magazine, The Epoch. Allen was a fruitful writer; he wrote motivational books about self-growth, penning a total of nineteen works in his lifetime.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx Studied law and philosophy at University. Marx’s best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx’s political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history.

Sylvia Plath, born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts was the first child of Otto Plath, a professor of biology, and Aurelia Schober Plath a teacher. Plath’s early childhood was marked by academic success, and she published her first poem at the age of eight in the children’s section of the Boston Herald. In 1950, Plath began attending Smith College on a scholarship and those years were pivotal in shaping her as a writer. he was mainly known for writing in the style of confessional poetry and as a genre, it often focuses on extreme experiences of emotion and taboo subjects such as sexuality, mental illness, trauma, and death or suicide.

MOHAMMED AL-ZAQZOOQ is a researcher born in Khan Younis. He studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Aqsa. Mohammed is an active member in literary and cultural organizations shaping Gaza’s cultural landscape and the former general coordinator of the “Utopia for Knowledge” assembly. His poetry collection The Soothsayers of Khanun won the Khalili Poetry Award at the First Palestinian Cultural Forum for Creative Writers in 2018.

MAHMOUD ALSHAER is an editor, curator, and poet who, until October 2023, was deeply involved in cultural work in Gaza, leading initiatives such as Majalla 28 and Gallery 28 and coordinating the cultural program at Al Ghussein Cultural House in Gaza’s old city.

Deidre Isaac is a Malaysian author, born and raised in Sandakan, Sabah. She started her reading journey on Wattpad and her love for books has only bloomed since then. A hopeless romantic at heart, her favourite genre to read is romance with a promise of a happy ending. When she’s not spending her time reading, you can find her watching Formula 1 during race weekends. Clichés & Curses is the first book she ever finished writing and also her debut novel. You can connect with her on Instagram & Wattpad at @inabookdaze.

Avni Martin is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Founder and Director of an ICF Accredited coach training school, WASAMBE Pte Ltd which stands for I was, I am and I will be, and relates to our clients past, present and future. Avni is a recognized thought leader and speaker, with over twenty-two years of experience in leading change. Avni is also an Inner Child Integration Therapist, NLP Master Practitioner, a mentor and a trainer who develops world-class corporate coaches for leaders, teams and organisations internationally.

Avni served as a Global Director of ICF Coaching Education, and Director of Research for ICF Singapore for 6 years where she is led pioneering research for Organisational Development across Southeast Asia, working with 3 of the largest HR Associations in the region and leaders of 1300 organisations, to create awareness, excellence and advancement of the coaching profession.

Prior to her professional coaching career, Avni’s corporate career involved accelerating large-scale organizational change at NGA Human Resources, and managing leadership development programs at Vanto Group. Having developed the HAPPY™ Coaching System, Avni works with leaders, teams and organisations to rewrite their past perspectives, unlock their present potential and deliver their future possibilities.

Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military
general and strategist, and one of East Asia’s most important historical figures. He had a successful military career and went on to write The Art of War, a treatise on warfare and military tactics that encapsulates his strategies and expertise in the subject. The book has been translated into numerous languages and sold millions of copies all over the world and remains, till date, one of the most influential titles on the subject

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. As a child, he lived for a time in Basle. He spent a short period studying at a seminary in Germany but soon left to work as a bookseller in Switzerland. After a first volume of verse (1899), Hesse established his reputation with
a series of lyrical romantic novels—Peter Camenzind (1904), Unterm Rad (The Prodigy, 1906), Gertrud (1910) and the short story, Knulp (1915). His humanity, his searching philosophy developed further in such novels as Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927), Narziss and Goldmund (1930) and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943), while his poems and critical writings won him a leading place among contemporary thinkers. Hesse won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1946.

James Joyce, an influential figure in modernist literature, was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in a middle-class Catholic family, the eldest of ten children. During his time at university, he embraced the literary and cultural movements of the time, particularly the Irish Literary Revival. Joyce met Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid from Galway, who became a source of inspiration for Joyce’s works, particularly his semi-autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce’s breakthrough came with the publication of his seminal work, Ulysses, in 1922. James Joyce’s impact on literature and his role in shaping modernist fiction cannot be overstated.