Alina Bronsky
Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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Diogenes of Sinope
Diogenes of Sinope (Greek: Διογένης ὁ Σινωπεύς, Diogenēs ho Sinōpeus) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogenēs ho Kunikos), he was born in Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey), an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.
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Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure. His father minted coins for a living, and when Diogenes took to debasement of currency, he was banished from Sinope. After being exiled, he moved to Athens to debunk cultural conventions. Diogenes modelled himself on the example of Hercules. He believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. He used his simple lifestyl -
Sabine Kuegler
uncommon childhood: from age 7 to age 17 she lived with her parents and two siblings in the jungle of West Papua, with the remote tribe of the Fayu.[1]
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Her parents were the first whites to live with the newly discovered tribe of about 400 people, who still hunted with bow and arrow, ate snakes, insects and worms, and practiced inter-tribal warfare and revenge killings. The Kueglers were there to study the tribe's language and to evangelize, under assignment of the Wycliffe Bible Translators.[2] Her mother, trained as a nurse, performed midwife duties with the tribe. At age 17, Sabine Kuegler left and attended a Swiss boarding school. She has been married and divorced twice and has four children, two from each husband. Her parents have return -
Joan-Lluís Lluís
Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpinyà, 29 de juny de 1963) és un escriptor i periodista català, que redacta al diari electrònic VilaWeb i a la revista digital Esguard, així com manté una crònica titulada «A cremallengües» al setmanari Presència. Antigament havia treballat al diari El Punt i va tenir a L'Avenç la crònica «Traient la pols» sobre literatura catalana popular dels inicis del segle XX. També ha escrit textos de cançons, sobretot per al grup Blues de Picolat però també per al Casellas Sextet Folk, Sol i Serena i Joanjo Bosk.
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Algirdas Kaušpėdas
Algirdas Kaušpėdas – architektas, muzikantas, aktyvus visuomenės veikėjas. Jis yra suprojektavęs eilę visuomeninių pastatų ir individualių gyvenamųjų namų tiek Lietuvoje, tiek užsienyje. Buvęs roko grupės „Antis“ lyderis, dabar – „KAnDIs“ narys. Aktyviai dalyvavo Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdžio veikloje, drauge su kitais organizavo Roko maršą per Lietuvą.
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Rita Matulionytė
Rita Matulionytė – teisės mokslų daktarė, dirbanti Lietuvos, Vokietijos ir Japonijos universitetuose bei prestižinėse mokslo įstaigose, išleidusi eilę mokslinių darbų užsienio kalbomis, konsultuoja tarptautines organizacijas. Darbo ir žingeidumo vedama apkeliavo daugelį pasaulio šalių, kalba penkiomis kalbomis. Autorė kurį laiką gyveno Šveicarijoje, Vokietijoje, Belgijoje, JAV, Japonijoje. Ypač pamėgusi tolimąjį Iraną, ilgėliau apsistojo šioje svečioje šalyje, dalyvavo iraniečių šeimos gyvenime, mokėsi persų kalbos, tyrinėjo vietinę kultūrą ir teisę.
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Akvilina Cicėnaitė
Rašytoja, vertėja, literatūros premijomis apdovanota devynių knygų vaikams, paaugliams ir suaugusiesiems autorė. Gimė ir užaugo Vilniuje. Vilniaus universitete baigė lietuvių filologijos bakalauro ir literatūros teorijos magistro studijas. Velingtono Viktorijos universitete (Naujoji Zelandija) baigė religijų studijų doktorantūrą ir apsigynė daktaro laipsnį. Šiuo metu studijuoja VU ir LLTI literatūros doktorantūroje.
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Penkios knygos įtrauktos į Metų knygų rinkimų penketukus, „Niujorko respublika“ pateko į LLTI sudaromą kūrybiškiausių knygų dvyliktuką, pelnė IBBY premiją. „Anglų kalbos žodynas“ pelnė Jurgos Ivanauskaitės premiją, tapo 2022 m. Metų knyga prozos suaugusiesiems kategorijoje, 15min.lt Metų knygos rinkimuose išrinktas geriausia liet -
Meriel Schindler
Meriel Schindler is an employment lawyer, partner, and head of a team at the law firm Withers LLP, and is a trustee of the writing charity Arvon. She lives in London with her husband, Jeremy, and has three adult children.
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Richard Powers
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Ting-Kuo Wang
Ting-Kuo Wang 王定國
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Born in Lukang in 1955, Wang now lives in Taichung. He started writing at the age of seventeen, and from eighteen his short stories began winning prizes all over the island, including the China Times and Unitas awards. He has worked in fields as diverse as building design, surveying and advertising.
His early writings were love songs to nature and youth, but in his twenties he took a distinctly more politically conscious turn, mixing reportage and commentary with novels about the downtrodden in society. He stopped writing for many years while he built up his own company, until 2013, when he returned to widespread acclaim with a series of books including So Hot, So Cold and Who Blinked in the Dark. His newest novel My Enemy' -
Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
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Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.
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Isabel Bogdan
Isabel Bogdan studierte Anglistik und Japanologie in Heidelberg und Tokio. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg-Borgfelde. 2006 erhielt sie den Hamburger Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzung, 2011 den Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. 2013 war sie für einen Monat Artist in Residence an der Universität Nanjing.
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Sie hat verschiedene Lesereihen mitorganisiert, unter anderem Kaffee.Satz.Lesen mit Stevan Paul und Tirili/Tristesse mit Maximilian Buddenbohm. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Gründungsmitglied des PEN Berlin und im Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer (VdÜ). Sie ist Vorsitzende des Vereins zur Rettung des „anderthalb“.
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Daniel Glattauer
Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.
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Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).
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Ewald Arenz
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
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Lucy Fricke
Lucy Tanja Fricke was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and assistant director, known for In July (2000), Highway Society (2000) and Töchter (2021).
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Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.
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Kristine Bilkau
Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
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Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.
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Takis Würger
Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.
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Kotryna Zylė
Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life that will delight readers.
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Kotryna was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. While still a student, she began to dive into the visual communication of cultural heritage and became interested in Lithuanian mythology. In 2012, she began writing and illustrating children’s books and ever since her love of children’s literature, illustration, and mythology has been a source of inspiration for new books and projects.
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Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.
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Annika Büsing
Annika Büsing ist als Arbeiterkind im Ruhrgebiet geboren und aufgewachsen, mit einer ausgeprägten Vorliebe für Punkrock und Bücher. Nach dem Abitur schloss sie zunächst eine Ausbildung in einem Verlag ab, entschied sich dann aber, Germanistik und Theologie auf Lehramt zu studieren. Nach dem Studium zog es sie Richtung Norden, zunächst nach Island zum Jobben und Schreiben, dann nach Hamburg zum Referendariat. Inzwischen lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Söhnen wieder in Bochum, wo sie an einem Gymnasium unterrichtet. Die Liebe zu Punkrock und Büchern ist geblieben. "Nordstadt" ist ihr erster Roman.
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Robertas Petrauskas
Robertas Petrauskas was born in Lithuania in 1976. Although by profession Robertas is a historian, in Lithuania he is better known as sports journalist and basketball broadcaster. In 2000 he graduated program in History at Klaipėda University. His four years of studies (specialization - the 20th century) and interests in World War II for the years turned into a book „Trečiojo Reicho triumfas“ (Triumph of the Third Reich).
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Nana Ekvtimishvili
ნანა ექვთიმიშვილი სწავლობდა ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის ფილოსოფიის ფაკულტეტზე. დაამთავრა გერმანიის კონრად ვოლფის სახელობის პოტსდამ-ბაბელსბერგის კინოაკადემია. მისი მოთხრობები პირველად დაიბეჭდა ჟურნალ „არილში“ 1999 წელს.
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ნანა ექვთიმიშვილმა რამდენიმე მოკლემეტრაჟიან და სრულმეტრაჟიან ფილმებზე მუშაობის შემდეგ, 2012 წელს, რეჟისორ სიმონ გროსთან ერთად გადაიღო ფილმი „გრძელი ნათელი დღეები“, რომელმაც მსოფლოს სხვადასხვა წამყვან კინო ფესტივალებზე გაიმარჯვა; მათ შორის ბერლინის, ჰონკონგის, პარიზის, სარაევოს, ლოს-ანჯელესის და ტოკიოს კინოფესტივალებზე. ფესტივალებზე ფილმმა 30-მდე ჯილდო მოიპოვა.
2013-2014 წლებში ფილმი გამოვიდა სხვადასხვა ქვეყნების კინოთეატრებში: საფრანგეთში, გერმანიაში, დიდ ბრიტანეთში, აშშ-ში, ავსტრალიაში, ბენელ -
Karen Duve
Karen Duve, 1961 in Hamburg geboren, lebt in der Märkischen Schweiz. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Ihre Romane »Regenroman« (1999), »Dies ist kein Liebeslied« (2005), »Die entführte Prinzessin« (2005), »Taxi« (2008) und »Macht« (2016) waren Bestseller und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 2011 erschien ihr Selbstversuch »Anständig essen«, 2014 die Streitschrift »Warum die Sache schiefgeht«. Die Verfilmung ihres Romans »Taxi« kam im Sommer 2015 ins Kino.
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Narine Abgaryan
Наринэ Абгарян
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Carsten Henn
This author also appears as Carsten Sebastian Henn in some editions.
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Epeli Hauʻofa
Hauʻofa was born of Tongan missionary parents working in Papua New Guinea. At his death, he was a citizen of Fiji, living in Suva. He attended school in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji (Lelean Memorial School), and later attended the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales; McGill University, Montreal; and the Australian National University, Canberra, where he gained a Ph.D. in social anthropology. Hauʻofa published in 1981 with the title Mekeo: inequality and ambivalence in a village society. Hauʻofa taught briefly at the University of Papua New Guinea, and was a research fellow at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji. From 1978 to 1981 he was the Deputy Private Secretary to His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tup
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Ewald Arenz
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
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Hape Kerkeling
Hans-Peter Wilhelm “Hape” Kerkeling is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play narrator, audiobook and dubbing actor.
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He became a popular television and stage comedian in the mid-1980s. In 1985, at the age of 20, he was given his first regular television show, "Känguru". This was followed by other comedy formats such as "Total Normal" and "Darüber lacht die Welt" as well as hosting major television shows such as the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest and the Golden Camera awards.
He has written, directed and acted in several cinema and television films. His fictional characters such as Horst Schlämmer, Siegfried Schwäbli, Uschi Blum and Evje van Dampen also became known to -
Grigory Kanovich
Grigory Kanovich (also Grigorijus Kanovičius) was a Lithuanian Jewish writer and the winner of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts for 2014.
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Kanovich, who wrote in Russian and Lithuanian, was born in the town of Ionava near Kaunas or, according to another source, in Kaunas itself, into the family of an observant Jewish tailor. In 1953 he graduated from Vilnius University. His first writings were published in 1949. He wrote collections of poetry in Russian: Dobroye utro ("Good Morning," 1955) and Vesenniy grom ("Spring Thunder," 1960); of literary epigrams and parodies in Lithuanian ("With a Joyful Eye," 1964; Naked Ones on Olympus, 1981); 30 plays and film scenarios (some co-authored) on contemporary themes; and he translated -
Nora Bossong
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
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Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).
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Danutė Kalinauskaitė
Danutė Kalinauskaitė – šiuolaikinė lietuvių prozininkė.
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Gimė 1959 m. Kaune. Mokėsi Kauno 13-ojoje vidurinėje mokykloje, vėliau studijavo lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą Vilniaus universitete. 1987 m. pasirodė pirmoji jos knyga „Išėjusi šviesa“. Vėliau rašytoja kuriam laikui iš literatūrinio gyvenimo pasitraukė.
Po beveik šešiolikos metų pertraukos 2003 m. žurnalas „Metai“ išspausdino jos apsakymą „Namo“, kuris pelnė Danutei A. Vaičiulaičio premiją. 2008 m. įvairiuose literatūriniuose laikraščiuose pasirodančios jos novelės ir apsakymai buvo surinkti į vieną knygą „Niekada nežinai“. Knygą puikiai įvertino tiek skaitytojai, tiek kritikai. Už ją autorė buvo apdovanota Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos ir Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos instituto premij -
Jan-Philipp Sendker
Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, and, longing to travel the world, became the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel, and since then, he has written 3 further novels, including a sequel to "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats", "A Well-Tempered Heart". In 2013, he received The indies Choice Honor Award in the category Adult Fiction for "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. He lives in Potsdam with his family and is currently working on the third installment in his China-trilogy.
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Daniela Krien
Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.
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Algirdas Kumža
Teisininkas, Lietuvos Respublikos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos akto dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo signataras.
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Bernardas Gailius
Bernardas Gaillius gimė 1981 metais Vilniuje. Istorikas, rašytojas ir publicistas, istorinio trilerio "Kraujo kvapas" (2022) autorius.
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Greta grožinės literatūros užsiima ir akademiniais tyrimais. Yra parašęs studijas "Partizanai tada ir šiandien" (2006), "Nusikaltimai prie Smetonos" (2008), "Džeimsas Bondas. Mitas ir politika" (2017). Dėsto Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakultete.
Nuo 2003 m. bendradarbiauja su kultūros žurnalu „Naujasis Židinys-Aidai“, yra rašęs politikos ir kultūros komentarus Lietuvos radijuje, portaluose „Delfi“, „15min“, „Bernardinai.lt“, parengęs daugelį apžvalginių ir analitinių straipsnių, literatūros recenzijų, išleidęs esė rinktinę "Teisingas gyvenimas" (2019).
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Antanas Marcelionis
Master Version 1.1 is my first book. I’ve been writing for most of my life—not books, but code. I’m a software programmer. Together with Martynas Majeris, who translated Master Version 1.1 into English, we run a tiny company—essentially a two-and-a-half-man operation (sans Charlie)—but one that’s extremely successful in its field: amCharts. We estimate that our data visualization libraries are now used by at least half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of smaller businesses. Besides this main activity—which, even after nearly two decades, is still fun—I also enjoy long-distance bike travel and participate in competitive sailing events, both fully crewed and double-handed. When it comes to my reading habits, I prefer science fiction
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Vanda Juknaitė
Vanda Juknaitė – Lietuvos prozininkė, dramaturgė, eseistė.
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1972 m. VU baigė lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą. Mokytojavo, dėstė Klaipėdos konservatorijoje.
Nuo 1975 m. dėsto Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, bendradarbiauja spaudoje. Dirba socialinės pedagogikos srityje su benamiais, gatvės vaikais, neįgaliaisiais, įsteigė jiems vasaros stovyklą Inkūnuose (Anykščių raj.).
Nuo 1990 m. Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos narė.
Savo darbuose aprašo socialines problemas, kviečia diskutuoti apie svarbiausias humanistines vertybes – apie atsakomybę ne tik už save ar kitą žmogų, bet ir už visą pasaulį, apie žmogaus vertę, meilę, pareigą. Rašytojos kūriniai nėra saldūs – juose atsispindi kita, tamsesnioji visuomenės pusė: „nužemintųjų ir nuskriaustųjų“, sergan -
Mechtild Borrmann
Mechtild Borrmann (born 1960 in Cologne) is a German author of crime novels. She now lives in Bielefeld.
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Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into fourteen languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
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Anna Burns
Anna Burns (born 1962) is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.
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Awards:
Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize (No Bones)
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize (Milkman)
National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Nominee (Milkman)
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Nominee (Milkman)
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Rolf Dobelli
Rolf Dobelli is a Swiss author and businessman. He began his writing career as a novelist in 2002, but he is best known internationally for his bestselling non-fiction The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011, English 2013), for which The Times has called him "the self-help guru the Germans love".
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Juliette Fay
Juliette Fay is the bestselling author of eight novels, including THE HARVEY GIRLS, THE HALF OF IT, CATCH US WHEN WE FALL, CITY OF FLICKERING LIGHT and THE TUMBLING TURNER SISTERS, a USA Today bestseller and Costco Pennie’s Book Club Pick. Previous novels include THE SHORTEST WAY HOME, one of Library Journal’s Top 5 Best Books of 2012: Women’s Fiction; DEEP DOWN TRUE, short-listed for the 2011Women’s Fiction award by the American Library Association; and SHELTER ME, a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award “Must-Read Book” and an Indie Next pick.
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Povilas Šklėrius
Gimiau vienais metais Alytuje, man davė vardą ir pavardę. Užaugęs norėjau būti alergologas, pulmonologas, lenktynininkas, žvejys, sodininkas, detektyvas, krepšininkas arba roko muzikantas, tačiau taip jau susiklostė, kad įgijau visai kitą specialybę.
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Aurora Bertrana
Aurora Bertrana (Girona, 1892 – Berga, 1974) és una de les grans figures del feminisme català. Filla de l’escriptor Prudenci Bertrana, Aurora aprofita els estudis musicals per obrir-se camí lluny de la família i comença a guanyar-se la vida a Barcelona tocant de nit en un trio femení, abans de fundar a Ginebra la primera jazzband formada íntegrament per dones. Del seu pas per la colònia francesa de Tahití en surt el primer llibre que publica, Paradisos oceànics, aviat seguit per El Marroc sensual i fanàtic, llibre de viatge i estudi sobre la condició de la dona en un país musulmà. Poc abans d’esclatar la Guerra Civil, esdevé redactora en cap de Companya, la revista femenina del PSUC, i el 1938 s’exilia a Suïssa, d’on no tornarà fins al cap
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Anja Røyne
Anja Royne is a scientist and lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo. A physicist with a background in solar energy, Royne has also researched geological and geochemical processes and is now working on creating materials with biotechnology.
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Lukas Bärfuss
Lukas Bärfuss (1971, Thun) ist ein Schweizer Schriftsteller, Bühnenautor, Theaterregisseur und Dramaturg.
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Valdemaras Klumbys
Valdemaras Klumbys (gim. 1979) – humanitarinių mokslų daktaras, Lietuvos istorijos instituto istorikas, Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakulteto dėstytojas. Jis du dešimtmečius tyrinėja pasipriešinimo sovietmečiu, sovietų Lietuvos socialinę ir kultūrinę istoriją, parašė monografiją „Stovėję po medžiu? Lietuvių inteligentijos elgesio strategijos sovietmečiu“ (2021).
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Abiola Bello
Abiola Bello is a Nigerian-British, prize-winning children’s/YA author who was born and raised in London. She wrote her first novel at the age of eight and experienced her first taste of ‘being published’ after winning a school poetry competition at the age of 12.
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Abiola is an advocate for diversity in books for young people. She’s the author of the award-winning fantasy series EMILY KNIGHT (EMILY KNIGHT I AM, EMILY KNIGHT I AM…AWAKENED and EMILY KNIGHT I AM BECOMING). EMILY KNIGHT I AM…AWAKENED was nominated for the CILIP’s Carnegie Award, won London’s BIG Read 2019, and was a finalist for the People’s Book Prize Best Children’s Book.
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Andreas Izquierdo
ANDREAS IZQUIERDO, geboren 1968, Sohn einer spanischen Krankenschwester und eines deutschen Ingenieurs, ist Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor.
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Er veröffentlichte u. a. den Roman >König von Albanien< (2007), der mit dem Sir- Walter-Scott-Preis für den besten historischen Roman des Jahres ausgezeichnet wurde, sowie den Roman >Apocalypsia< (2010), der den Lovelybooks-Leserpreis in Silber für das beste Buch 2010 erhielt und zum Buch des Jahres bei Vorab-lesen.de gewählt wurde. Im DuMont Buchverlag erschien von ihm >Das Glücksbüro< (2013) und >Der Club der Traumtänzer<. Bei Suhrkamp/Insel >Romeo und Romy< (2016) sowie >Fräulein Hedy träumt vom Fliegen< (2018). Im Juli 2020 erscheint >Schatten der Welt< im DuMont Buchverlag.
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Mario Giordano
MARIO GIORDANO, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Munich. He is the author of 1,000 Feelings for Which There Are No Names; he has also written thrillers, books for children, and screenplays. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions is his first novel translated into English. He lives in Cologne.
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Maryam Madjidi
Maryam Madjidi is a French-Iranian writer. She was born in Tehran in 1980, and moved with her family to France at the age of six. Her parents were communists and had been forced into exile following the Iranian revolution. She studied literature at Sorbonne University and taught French in both Beijing and Istanbul.
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Her debut novel Marx et la poupée (2017) was published to widespread acclaim, receiving the Goncourt prize for first novel as well as the Ouest-France Etonnants Voyageurs novel prize. She is currently working on her second novel. -
Uwe Wittstock
Uwe Wittstock (b. 1955) is a literary critic and writer, he was editor of "Focus", he has worked as literary editor for the FAZ, as editor at S. Fischer and as deputy head of feature pages and cultural correspondent for the "Welt".
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James Kestrel
Formerly a bar owner, a criminal defense investigator, and an English teacher, James Kestrel is now an attorney practicing throughout the Pacific. His writing has won advance praise from Stephen King, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, Meg Gardiner, James Fallows, Pico Iyer, and numerous other authors. A sailor and world traveler, Kestrel has lived in Taiwan, New Orleans, and a West Texas ghost town. He lives in Volcano, Hawaii.
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Joan London
Joan London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
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She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller.
She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband Geoff.
Joan London was the youngest of four sisters.
A baby boomer, she and her husband, Geoff, did the mandatory trip across Asia and were very attracted to the "internal revolution" that involved dropping out of society and making a new utopia in the country.
"We were very idealistic about it and had several attempts at it. Once we were with a couple who broke up, so that all collapsed. Another time we bought some land with a group of people, but we all fell -
Isabel Bogdan
Isabel Bogdan studierte Anglistik und Japanologie in Heidelberg und Tokio. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg-Borgfelde. 2006 erhielt sie den Hamburger Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzung, 2011 den Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. 2013 war sie für einen Monat Artist in Residence an der Universität Nanjing.
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Sie hat verschiedene Lesereihen mitorganisiert, unter anderem Kaffee.Satz.Lesen mit Stevan Paul und Tirili/Tristesse mit Maximilian Buddenbohm. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Gründungsmitglied des PEN Berlin und im Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer (VdÜ). Sie ist Vorsitzende des Vereins zur Rettung des „anderthalb“.
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Nina George
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Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.
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Sven Stricker
Sven Stricker wurde 1970 in Tönning geboren. Er studierte Komparatistik, Anglistik und Neuere Geschichte und versuchte sich als Musiker und Nachwuchsjournalist. Heute ist er freier Autor und Hörspielregisseur und lebt in Potsdam.
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Lucy Fricke
Lucy Tanja Fricke was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and assistant director, known for In July (2000), Highway Society (2000) and Töchter (2021).
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
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Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.
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Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.
Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing -
Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore the issue of time and climate change through language, mythology and memoir. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and he has directed documentary films. His novel LoveStar was chosen as “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers, it received the DV Literary Award, The Philip K. Dick special citation Award of 2013 and won the french Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire as best foreign Sci-Fi in France 2016. His children’s book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize
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Samuel Shem
Samuel Shem (b. 1944) is the pen name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
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Of Jewish descent, Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group. In an address to Noble's retirement party at Balliol, he related that Noble's response to Bergman's attempt to become a writer was to ply him with copious sherry. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
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Kristin Valla
Kristin Valla is a Norwegian author. She has written three novels and a book of non-fiction on Dagny Juel.
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Valla grew up in Finneidfjord in Northern Norway. She currently lives in Oslo with her husband and two sons.
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Andry Chang
Greetings, Earthlings!
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I'm a shop owner by day and a pilgrim of fantasy realms by night.
As a shapeshifter in the online world, known by the nickname "Vadis", I visit one world and another, learning a thing or two.
The results? They're my debut novel, FireHeart, and a score of multimedia products: Games, cartoons, comics, and such under intellectual property brands like Everna Saga, Adilaga, etc.
And I always hunger to make more.
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Selim Özdogan
Selim Özdoğan (1971 in Köln-Mülheim geboren) ist ein türkischstämmiger deutscher Schriftsteller.
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Charlotte Lucas
Charlotte Lucas ist das Pseudonym von Wiebke Lorenz. Geboren und aufgewachsen in Düsseldorf, studierte sie in Trier Germanistik, Anglistik und Medienwissenschaft und lebt heute in Hamburg. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester schreibt sie unter dem Pseudonym Anne Hertz Bestseller mit Millionenauflage. Auch ihre Psychothriller „Allerliebste Schwester“, „Alles muss versteckt sein“ und „Bald ruhest du auch“ sind bei Kritik und Publikum höchst erfolgreich. Mit „Dein perfektes Jahr“ begibt sie sich auf die Suche nach den Antworten auf die großen und kleinen Fragen des Lebens.
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Eva Almstädt
Eva Almstädt is a German author of crime and mystery novels, best known for the Pia Korittki series.
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Wioletta Greg
Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Wioletta Greg (9 February 1974) is a Polish poet and writer, born in a small village Rzeniszów in Jurassic Highland in Poland. In 2006, she left her country and moved to the Isle of Wight. She lives in Essex.
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Wioletta spent ten years in Czestochowa where she organised cultural events, edited student journals, wrote articles about local literary developments. Between 1998 – 2012 she published six poetry volumes, as well as a novella Guguły, in which she's covering her childhood and the experience of growing up in Communist Poland. -
John Ironmonger
I'm the author of 'Not Forgetting the Whale', (also called 'The Whale at the End of the World',) 'The many Lives of Heloise Starchild,' The Coincidence Authority,' ('Coincidence' in the USA), and 'The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder.'
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I'm a Cornishman who was born in Kenya, schooled in Kent, studied in Nottingham and Liverpool, and worked in Nigeria, Slough, Manchester, Edinburgh, Warrington, Warwick and Glasgow. Now I live in Parkgate on the Wirral peninsula overlooking the RSPB marshes.
My lovely wife Sue and I are possibly the only non Indonesians ever to have seen a Javan rhino and her calf. True. You can read about it on my blog at http://notablebrain.blogspot.co.uk/20...
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Eve Harris
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Eve Harris was born to Israeli-Polish parents in Chiswick, West London, in 1973. She taught for 12 years at inner-city comprehensives and independent schools in London and also in Tel Aviv, after moving to Israel in 1999. She returned to London in 2002 to resume teaching at an all girls' Catholic convent school. 'The Marrying of Chani Kaufman' was inspired by her final year of teaching at an all girls' ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in North West London. Eve lives in London with her husband, Jules, and their daughter Rosie. -
David Wagner
David Wagner (* 17. April 1971 in Andernach) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Sein Werk umfasst Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte, Feuilletons, sowie Prosaformen, die sich nicht eindeutig einer Gattung zuordnen lassen und wurde mit mehreren Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnet.
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David Wagner wuchs im Rheinland auf und studierte Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte in Bonn, Paris und Berlin. Er hielt sich längere Zeit in Rom, Barcelona und Mexiko-Stadt auf und lebt derzeit (2013) als freier Schriftsteller in Berlin.
Bekannt wurde David Wagner durch seinen im Jahr 2000 erschienenen Debütroman Meine nachtblaue Hose, in dem er eine Kindheit im Rheinland der siebziger und achtziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts schildert. Es -
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Constantin Schreiber
Constantin Schreiber is a German journalist, news anchor, nonfiction author, and writer. Since January 2017, he has been working for ARD-aktuell and moderates editions of the Tagesschau, the Nachtmagazin and news in the Tagesthemen.
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Heinrich Breloer
Heinrich Breloer, German author and acclaimed film director who has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history.
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Florian Illies
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
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Author Florian Illies has worked as culture editor for major German newspapers and magazines, and is a co-founder of "Monopol" a magazine for art, literature and lifestyle. -
Karolis Klimas
Karolis Klimas (g. 1991 m. Vilniuje) – rašytojas, mokytojas.
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2009-2011 m. studijavo VU Teisės fakultete ir gyveno Tilto gatvėje, kuri padarė itin didelę įtaką autoriaus kūrybai. Būtent čia parašytas apsakymas „Kur pradingo Tomas Morisonas?“ sulaukė sėkmės: 2010 m. gruodžio 17 d. kūrinys apdovanotas „Literatūros ir meno“ redakcijos rengiamo apsakymo konkurso antrąja premija. Tais pačiais metais autorius tapo ir VU „Filologijos rudens“ laureatu. 2011 m. K. Klimas įstojo į VU lietuvių filologijos studijas, o 2012 m. Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos žurnale „Metai“ publikavo apysaką „Juliana“ (kūrinys nominuotas Antano Vaičiulaičio premijai).
Baigęs studijas autorius ilgą laiką dirbo reklamos ir komunikacijos srityse. 2019 m. VU studijuodamas mokyklo -
Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore is an Edgar Award and Hammett Prize nominated author of six novels.
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His third novel, THE POISON ARTIST, was a selection of the BBC Radio 2 Book Club. His novel THE NIGHT MARKET was optioned as a feature film by Amazon Studios and Mandeville Films, and his books have been translated into 12 languages.
Before graduating from law school in New Orleans, he lived in Taiwan for three years, guided whitewater raft trips on the Rio Grande, and worked as an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. He has also been an English teacher, a bar owner, a counselor at a wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and a textbook writer.
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Annika Büsing
Annika Büsing ist als Arbeiterkind im Ruhrgebiet geboren und aufgewachsen, mit einer ausgeprägten Vorliebe für Punkrock und Bücher. Nach dem Abitur schloss sie zunächst eine Ausbildung in einem Verlag ab, entschied sich dann aber, Germanistik und Theologie auf Lehramt zu studieren. Nach dem Studium zog es sie Richtung Norden, zunächst nach Island zum Jobben und Schreiben, dann nach Hamburg zum Referendariat. Inzwischen lebt sie mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Söhnen wieder in Bochum, wo sie an einem Gymnasium unterrichtet. Die Liebe zu Punkrock und Büchern ist geblieben. "Nordstadt" ist ihr erster Roman.
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Eliot Pattison
Edgar Award winning Eliot Pattison has been described as a "writer of faraway mysteries," a label which is particularly apt for someone whose travel and interests span a million miles of global trekking, visiting every continent but Antarctica.
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An international lawyer by training, Pattison first combined his deep concerns for the people of Tibet with his interest in fiction writing in The Skull Mantra, which launched the popular Inspector Shan series.
The series has been translated into over twenty languages around the world. Both The Skull Mantra and Water Touching Stone were selected by Amazon.com for its annual list of ten best new mysteries. Water Touching Stone was selected by Booksense as the number one mystery of all time for readers -
Véronique Olmi
Véronique Olmi is a French playwright and novelist. She won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist award for her 2001 novella Bord de Mer. It has since been translated into several European languages. Olmi has published a dozen plays and half a dozen novels.
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Francesca Melandri
Francesca Melandri was born in Rome in 1964. She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries.
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In 2010 she published her first novel, 'Eva dorme' ("Eva Sleeps"), set in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria, a sweeping story about family, forgiveness, conflict and the search for truth. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, has been translated in German, Dutch, French and English.
Melandri's second novel, 'Più alto del mare', was published in 2012 and it has also won several literary prizes. -
Jaunius Petraitis
Jaunius Petraitis studijavo politiką ir tarptautinius santykius Vilniuje ir Bolonijoje. Į lietuvių kalbą išvertė H. J. Morgenthau klasikinį veikalą "Politika tarp valstybių: kova dėl galios ir taikos" (2011), taip pat dirbo LR Užsienio reikalų ministro patarėju. Su partneriu įkūrė prekės ženklų pozicionavimo butiką Black Florence. Pirmąjį kūrybinį eksperimentą Jaunius atliko dar mokykloje: tikrais faktais paremta jo apysaka apie nepilnamečio šiukšlininko darbą Londone buvo išspausdinta Kauno jaunųjų prozininkų almanache (Tesco, 2005). Debiutiniame romane "Tu kažką turi" autorius autoironiškai tyrinėja gyvenimo prasmės, savirealizacijos ir santykių temas.
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Tibor Rode
Tibor Rode, 1974 geboren, arbeitet als Rechtsanwalt, Autor, Mediator und Lehrbeauftragter in Hamburg. Mit zwölf Jahren wurde er als jüngster Teilnehmer in das vom Bundesbildungsministerium initiierte Programm „Kreatives Schreiben" aufgenommen.
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Neben Studium und Beruf war Tibor Rode lange Jahre für verschiedene Medien als Journalist tätig. Tibor Rode lebt mit Familie und Hund in Schleswig-Holstein bei Hamburg.
2013 erschien sein erfolgreiches Roman-Debüt "Das Rad der Ewigkeit". Der Thriller "Das Los" ist sein zweites Buch. Das "Mona Lisa Virus" wurde am 2016 zur Leipziger Buchmesse vorgestellt.
Mit ihm gelang Tibor Rode ein internationaler Bestseller. Im August 2018 legte er dann mit "Das Morpheus Gen" nach. -
James Anderson
James Anderson was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. He received his undergraduate degree in American Studies from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and his Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Pine Manor College in Boston Massachusetts.
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Undergraduate thesis: Word-man/Poet: The Poetry and Poetics of Lew Welch
Masters thesis: The Never-Entered Kingdom: Beyond Linguistics in the Rendering of the Literary Child in Adult Fiction
His first publication in a national magazine, a poem entitled Running It Down, occurred at age nineteen, in Poetry Northwest. The poem was later anthologized. His poems, short fiction, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in Northwest Review, New Letters, The Bloomsbury -
Sherko Fatah
Sherko Fatah was born in Berlin in 1964 as the son of an Iraqi father and a German mother. He spent his early childhood in East Germany and also spent longer periods of time in Iraq. In 1975 his family moved to West Germany. Sherko Fatah studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, where he currently lives as a writer.
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Awards:
* 1999 Berlin Literary Colloquium Stipend
* 2001 Aspekte Literature Prize
* 2002 Special German Critic’s Award for the Most Notable Prose Debut
* 2003 Alfred Döblin Stipend
* 2007 Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile
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Vea Kaiser
Vea Kaiser wurde 1988 in St. Pölten geboren. Sie arbeitete als Übersetzerin, Fremdenführerin und Fotomodell. Seit 2007 studiert sie Klassische und Deutsche Philologie an der Universität Wien. Für ein Jahr studierte sie Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus in Hildesheim. Sie lebt in Wien und Zürich.
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Für ihre belletristischen Arbeiten erhielt sie u.a. das Start-Stipendium des österreichischen Kultusministeriums, das Hans-Weigel-Literaturstipendium sowie den Theodor-Körner-Preis 2011 (Preis der Stadt Wien für Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissenschaft in die Berge kam). Kaiser war Finalistin beim 17. Open Mike und nahm 2010 an der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin teil. Ihr Debütroman Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissen -
Aušra Kaziliūnaitė
Aušra KAZILIŪNAITĖ (poet; Lithuania) is an author of four books of poetry. Last year her selected poems, The Moon is a Pill (Parthian Books, 2018) was published in English. The book was listed among the five best works of Baltic literature recently translated into English by literature expert Jayde Will. Her texts have been translated into twelve other languages as well. Aušra Kaziliūnaitė has received numerous Lithuanian national awards including the Young Artist Prize from the Ministry of Culture (2016). She was invited to the International Writing Program 2018 (IWP) in the USA and participated courtsey of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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Ulla Lenze
Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, studied Music and Philosophy in Cologne and now lives in Berlin and Buckow (Märkische Schweiz). Her debut novel Schwester und Bruder (Sister and Brother) has won several awards, including the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut novel in 2003, the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Förderpreis and the Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann-Competition. The novel Archanu was published in 2008, followed in 2012 by Der kleine Rest des Todes (What Little Remains of Death) and in 2015 by Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City), in which Lenze finds connections among the metropolises of Berlin, Istanbul and Mumbai. With her novel "The Radio Operator", based on the life story of her great-uncle, she achieved an
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Angelina Zaleckaitė
Angelina Zaleckaitė ilgą laiką praleido Egipte: dirbo kelionių vadove, gide, nardymo meistre. Sykiu parengė daugiau kaip 40 kelionės vadovų, kurių didžioji dalis dirba Egipte iki šiol. Skatinama bičiulių, bendradarbių, turistų ir šeimos narių nusprendė perduoti patarimus būsimiems keliautojams, pasidalyti sukaupta patirtimi, atsakyti į dažniausiai užduodamus klausimus.
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Ursula Krechel
Krechel was born in Trier. From 1966 to 1972 she studied German studies, theatre, and art history at the University of Cologne. From 1969 to 1972, she worked as a drama advisor in Dortmund. After 1972, she lived in Frankfurt am Main for many years and now works in Berlin as a writer, focusing on Lyric poetry, but also writing prose, drama, and radio drama.
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Anna Maria Villalonga
Anna Maria Villalonga Fernández (Barcelona, 16 d'abril de 1959) és una escriptora catalana, crítica de literatura i cinema, traductora, investigadora i professora de literatura catalana a la Universitat de Barcelona. Dirigeix el festival Tiana Negra.
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Thad Ziolkowski
Thad Ziolkowski is the author of Our Son the Arson, a collection of poems, and a memoir, On a Wave, which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2003. In 2008, he was awarded a fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, Artforum, Travel & Leisure and Index. He directs the Writing Program at Pratt Institute. Wichita is his first novel.
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Ancius M. Murray
Ancius M. Murray is a collective pen name for an Irish-Lithuanian team (a physicist, a lawyer, a creative writer) who met by chance, and collaborated on this novel over the course of four years.
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