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Emilio Fraia

EMILIO FRAIA nasceu em São Paulo, em 1982. É autor de Sebastopol (Alfaguara, 2018, terceiro lugar no Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional, finalista do Prêmio Jabuti e semifinalista do Prêmio Oceanos), de Campo em branco (Companhia das Letras, 2013, em parceria com o artista DW Ribatski) e de O verão do Chibo (Alfaguara, 2008, em parceria com Vanessa Barbara, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura). Foi um dos autores selecionados para a coletânea Os melhores jovens escritores brasileiros da revista britânica Granta. Teve sua ficção publicada nas revistas The New Yorker, One Grand e nas coletâneas Passageways, da Two Lines Press, e Cuentos en tránsito, da Alfaguara, na Argentina. Foi premiado com uma Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship, trad

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Karen Blixen

Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and

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Li Shangyin

Li Shangyin (Chinese: 李商隱, c. 813–858) was a Chinese poet and politician of the late Tang dynasty, known for his evocative and highly allusive poetry. His works, often rich in imagery and emotion, frequently explore themes of love, longing, and political disillusionment. He is particularly famous for his untitled poems (無題, wútí), which have inspired centuries of interpretation and debate. Despite his literary brilliance, Li’s political career was marked by struggles, as he never attained high office, possibly due to factional conflicts and his association with political opponents of the powerful eunuch class. His poetry, filled with subtle references to history, philosophy, and folklore, is regarded as some of the most enigmatic and refine

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.

Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.

She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'

She lives in Brighton, England.

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Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007; reissued by Graywolf, 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ M

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Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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Anne Boyer

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Helle Helle

Helle Helle (born 1965) published her first book in 1993. Since then, her work has garnered overwhelming critical and popular acclaim.

Recently awarded the Golden Laurel literary prize, Helle Helle is the recipient of countless literary accolades, among them the Danish Critics’ Prize, the Danish Academy’s Beatrice Prize, the P.O. Enquist Award and the prestigious Lifetime Award of the Danish Arts Council.

Her novels and short stories have been translated into 18 languages.

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Bob / novel / 2021
They / novel / 2018
If You Want / novel / 2014
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense / novel / 2011
Down to the Dogs / novel / 2008
Rødby-Puttgarden / novel / 2005
The Idea of an Uncomplicated Life with a Man / novel / 2002
Cars and Animals /

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Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli

Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli romandebuterade med "Naturen" 2009. 2016 kom boken "Kära Liv och Caroline" baserad på podcasten En varg söker sin pod som hon har tillsammans med Liv Strömquist. Caroline är utbildad på DI och har skrivit och regisserat serien Juicebaren.

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Ida Marie Hede

Ida Marie Hede (født 1980) er en dansk forfatter, uddannet fra Forfatterskolen i 2008.

Hun er Mag.art. i kunsthistorie fra Københavns Universitet og MA i Aural and Visual Culture fra Goldsmiths i London.

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Ia Genberg

Ia Gabriella Genberg (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish journalist and novelist.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she debuted as a writer in 2012 with the novel Söta fredag ("Sweet Friday"). Her fourth novel, Detaljerna ("The Details"), won the August Prize in 2022, the year of its publication. The English translation, by Kira Josefsson, was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.

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Yahya Hassan

Yahya Hassan was a Danish-Palestinian poet who has attracted attention and stirred debate about Islam's place in Denmark based on poetry he wrote which was critical of Islam.
His parents came to Denmark in the 80s as refugees from Palestine. He grew up with his parents and four sibling in Gellerupparken in Aarhus, an area which has been described as an immigrant ghetto. He grew up in a religious environment but has since abandoned religion.
At 13 he was transferred to an institution for children with problem behaviour due to difficulties adapting to school, and petty crime. He dropped out of school at thirteen.
He developed a keen interest in reading, litterature, and began writing poetry.

One professor of literature, Tue Nexo Andersen, descri

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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.

From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.

The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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Thomas Korsgaard

"Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.

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Marie Aubert

Marie Grønborg Aubert er født i 1979 og bosatt i Oslo. Kan jeg bli med deg hjem er hennes debutbok. For åpningsnovellen i denne samlingen vant Marie Aubert novellekonkurransen Litteratur på Blå arrangerte i samarbeid med Vinduet våren 2013.

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Emma Holten

Emma Holten (born 1991) is a Danish-Swedish feminist debater, online humans rights activist and editor of the Danish magazine Friktion. Holten graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a master's degree in literary science.

Holten became famous in Denmark in 2014 when she took a stand against revenge porn. In 2011 Holten had naked pictures stolen from her and distributed over the internet without her consent. The harassment led her to becoming an activist for the right to privacy on the internet and a prominent voice in the Danish feminist debate. Holten contacted Danish photographer Cecilie Bødker to have new naked pictures taken of her, but this time with her consent. The project titled "Consent" was published in the Danish online m

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Paul Willems

Paul Willems était un écrivain francophone Belge.

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Paul Willems was a french-speaking Belgian writer.

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Ida Marie Hede

Ida Marie Hede (født 1980) er en dansk forfatter, uddannet fra Forfatterskolen i 2008.

Hun er Mag.art. i kunsthistorie fra Københavns Universitet og MA i Aural and Visual Culture fra Goldsmiths i London.

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Amalie Smith

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