str = 'title={WiMAX Power Amplifier Design based on Si-LDMOS},author={Nader, Charles and De Carvalho, Nuno Borges},journal={University of Galve, Sweden},year={2006}'
for item in str.split('},'):
try:
if 'author' in item:
print(item.split('{', 1)[1])
except Exception as e:
print(e)
Use regular expressions: