Though he was born in Canada, director Robert Carsen found his greatest success staging operas across Europe -- from Glyndebourne to Cologne.

With his complex novels on the human condition, American author Stewart O'Nan forces readers into the same moral dilemmas as his characters and asks them to find their own way out.

With an uncanny ability to transform herself when one path of her career starts to get old, bestselling German novelist Elke Heidenreich has won over hearts here and abroad for three decades.

J.K. Rowling’s life and literary career has been something of a Cinderella fairytale to rival her own creation: Harry Potter.

Performer Georg Kreisler has charmed audiences and critics on both sides of the Atlantic. And even as he enters his '80s, he still remains ageless.