Role: Author

William Dalrymple is the award-winning author of the British bestsellers In Xanadu and The City of Djinns. He divides his time between London, Edinburgh, and Delhi.

Despite attempts to earn a living at farming, fishing, truck driving, advertising, and dishwashing, William Papas has never been able to stop drawing and has always returned to an artistic vocation. His illustrations, cartoons, and reportage have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, and he has also worked on several books for adults and children. He now spends much of his time traveling with his wife, Tessa, looking for material for new paintings and projects.

American author whose stories celebrated optimism in the middle of trials and difficulties of the Depression-era. Several of Saroyan's works were drawn from his own experiences, although his approach to autobiographical facts can be called poetic. His advice to a young writer was: "Try to learn to breathe deeply; really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell." Saroyan worked tirelessly to perfect a prose style, that was full of zest of for life and was seemingly impressionistic. The style became known as 'Saroyanesque.' \

Vrej Nersessian was born in Tehran in 1948. He was educated in Calcutta at the Armenian College, from 1958 to 1965. He then went to Etchmiadzin, the Theological Seminary, where he stayed until 1968, and then continued his education at King's College, University of London, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity (Hon). His thesis for the Ph.D. at King's College was on the Tondrakian movement. Dr. V. Nersessian is the Curator in charge of manuscripts and printed books of the Christian Middle East, Oriental Collections, The British Library.