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John Duffy

John Duffy was a historian of medicine and public health. The author of 11 books and editor of two others, he taught the history of medicine and public health at Tulane, Louisiana State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Louisville, Rice University, and
the University of Maryland. He served as president of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Washington Society for the History of Medicine, interim editor of American Historical Review and a member of the executive council of the Southern Historical Association.

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Miha Mazzini

* 32 books published in 12 languages
* Short stories selected for many anthologies including Pushcart Prize 2011
* Screenwriter of 2 award-winning feature films (Golden Palm for the best film of the XXII Mostra de Valencia, European CIRCOM Award for the Best TV Film of 1992)
* Writer and director of 5 short films (Best director award at the Highgate Film Festival in London, best short film of 2011 at the Slovenian film festival)
* MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
* PhD in Anthropology of Everyday Life, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia

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Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin.

Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her second, Walk the Blue Fields, was Richard Ford’s book of the year. Her works have won several awards including The Hugh Leonard Bursary, The Macaulay Fellowship, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, The Martin Healy Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Tom Gallon Award and The William Trevor Prize, judged by William Trevor. Twice was Keegan the recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was also a Wingate

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Nina Bouraoui

Nina Bouraoui (born on 31 July 1967) is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Zürich and Abu Dhabi. She now lives in Paris.

Her novels are mostly written in the first person and, with the exception of Avant les hommes (Before the Men), have been said by the author to be works of "auto-fiction". This is even the case for Le Bal des Murènes (The ball of moray eels), which, like Avant les hommes, has a male narrator. Since writing her first novel in 1991, Bouraoui has affirmed the influence of Marguerite Duras in her work, although the life narratives and works many other artists are also to be found in her novels (and songs).

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s second novel, Montecore, was published to unanimous raving reviews in 2006. In strong international competition it was awarded

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Agneta Pleijel

Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.

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Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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Sigge Eklund

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Ingvild H. Rishøi

Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the wonder of everyday life and for vulnerable characters at the fringes of society, not seldom children.

Her literary career began in 2007 with the release of the short story collection, Do Not Erase, which introduced her as a promising new voice in Norwegian literature. Her second collection of short stories, The Tale of Mrs Berg, published in 2011, was shortlisted for the prestigious Brage Prize.

In 2014, Rishøi received widespread acclaim and popular recognition for the short story collection Winter Stories. The book won the Critics’ Prize for b

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Lena Andersson

Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard . In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

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Alex Schulman

Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.

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Karolina Ramqvist

Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.

Ramqvist har varit chefredaktör för tidskriften Arena och kritiker i Dagens Nyheter. Hon blev allmänt känd när hon publicerade ett privat brev från Ulf Lundell i antologin Fittstim. Hon har även medverkat i tidskriften Bang. Ramqvist är gift med journalisten Fredrik Virtanen.

Karolina Ramqvist är sondotter till The Svedberg.

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Annika Norlin

Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.

Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide.

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Elin Persson

Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.

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Johanna Frid

Johanna Frid (1988) er født i Stockholm og bor i København. Hun debuterte i 2017, sammen med Gordana Spasic, med diktsamlingen Familieepos. Nora eller Brenn Oslo brenn er Frids romandebut. Forfatteren skriver nå på sin andre roman.

Johanna Frid fikk Dagens Nyheters Kulturpris 2019 for romandebuten Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn: ”Johanna Frid gjør på en helt umiddelbar måte det som alle forfattere strever etter: Hun etablerer en helt egen stemme i teksten sin. Romanen hennes er egenrådig, intelligent og morsom – et helt selvsagt valg som vinner av DN:s kulturpris.” (Utdrag fra juryens begrunnelse.)

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Andrev Walden

Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.

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Agri Ismaïl

Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.

His debut novel Hyper will was published in January 2024.

His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Guernica, Asymptote, and The Lifted Brow amongst other places.

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Elin Persson

Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.

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Zou Jingzhi

Zou Jingzhi (Chinese name: 邹静之) is highly regarded in China as a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe. As a screenwriter, the films he wrote for Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar Wai have been well received at film festivals across the world. His plays and operas have been performed in China as well as internationally, and his poems and essays have been very influential, going into multiple reprints.

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Katrine Marçal

Previously known as Katrine Kielos.

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Ingvild H. Rishøi

Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the wonder of everyday life and for vulnerable characters at the fringes of society, not seldom children.

Her literary career began in 2007 with the release of the short story collection, Do Not Erase, which introduced her as a promising new voice in Norwegian literature. Her second collection of short stories, The Tale of Mrs Berg, published in 2011, was shortlisted for the prestigious Brage Prize.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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Merethe Lindstrøm

Merethe Lindstrøm er født i 1963 i Bergen og er oppvokst i Hammerfest, Stord og Høland. Nå bor hun i Oslo.
Forfatteren debuterte med novellesamlingen "Sexorcisten og andre fortellinger" i 1983, og siden har hun skrevet flere novellesamlinger, romaner og en barnebok.
Karakteristisk for forfatterskapet er hennes fokus på moderne menneskers søken etter andre og etter mening. Hun har fått mye oppmerksomhet for novellesamlingen "Svømme under vann" (1994) og romanene "Steinsamlere" (1996) og "Stedfortrederen" (1997). For novellesamlingen "Gjestene" (2007) var hun innstilt til Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2008 og nominert til Kritikerprisen for beste voksenbok 2007. Hun er tildelt Dobloug-prisen 2008 og Amalie Skram-prisen 2012 for sitt samlede forfa

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Kristian Gidlund

Kristian Gidlund was a Swedish writer, journalist and musician.

In 2011 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After being diagnosed he started a blog, I kroppen min/Inside my body, which has since had at least eight million visitors.

He went through several chemotherapy sessions, but the cancer continued to advance. In June 2013 his book I kroppen min - resan mot livets slut och alltings början / Inside my body - the journey towards life's end and the beginning of everything was released, featuring large excerpts from his blog. Both the blog and the book received wide attention in the media.

In September 2013, a few days before what would have been his thirtieth birthday, he finally succumbed to the disease and passed away.

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Agneta Pleijel

Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.

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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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Annika Norlin

Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.

Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide.

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Johanna Frid

Johanna Frid (1988) er født i Stockholm og bor i København. Hun debuterte i 2017, sammen med Gordana Spasic, med diktsamlingen Familieepos. Nora eller Brenn Oslo brenn er Frids romandebut. Forfatteren skriver nå på sin andre roman.

Johanna Frid fikk Dagens Nyheters Kulturpris 2019 for romandebuten Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn: ”Johanna Frid gjør på en helt umiddelbar måte det som alle forfattere strever etter: Hun etablerer en helt egen stemme i teksten sin. Romanen hennes er egenrådig, intelligent og morsom – et helt selvsagt valg som vinner av DN:s kulturpris.” (Utdrag fra juryens begrunnelse.)

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Oskar Kroon

Oskar Kroon (1980) är före detta journalist som skolade om sig till bagare. Nu bakar han på deltid för att hinna med sin familj och att skriva.

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Åsa Lind

Swedish young-adult fiction writer.

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Qaisar Mahmood

Qaisar Mahmood is a Pakistani-Swedish author.

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Jaroslava Blažková

Narodila sa 15. 11. 1933 vo Valašskom Meziříčí v Českej republike. Dnes žije v Kanade. Roky detstva prežívala v Prahe, Přelouči a v ďalších mestách, v ktorých pracoval jej otec. Zmaturovala na gymnáziu v Bratislave r. 1952. Ponajprv nastúpila do Československého rozhlasu, v rokoch 1954-59 pracovala v denníku Smena ako redaktorka kultúrnej rubriky. V 60. rokoch až po odchod do emigrácie r. 1968 sa venovala literárnej a publicistickej tvorbe. V Kanade spolupracovala s vydavateľstvom 68 Publishers'Corp. V Toronte ako lektorka slovenských rukopisov až do roku 1988, keď sa s manželom D. Pokorným presťahovali do univerzitného mestečka Guelph v provincii Ontario.Do literatúry vstúpila v skupine mladých autorov sústredených okolo časopisu Mladá tvo

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Simon Gärdenfors

Simon Gärdenfors is a Swedish cartoonist, rapper, television presenter, and radio host.

His comics are drawn in a round icon-like cartoony style, although their content is often realistic or autobiographical.

Alongside his childhood friend Calle Thörn, he is also a member of the underground hip-hop duo "Las Palmas" that received a lot of airtime on Swedish radio in the fall of 2004, primarily with the song "Spökskrivare" ("Ghostwriter"), claiming that it actually was Simon who had written all famous hip-hop songs. He is also part of an additional hip-hop project, Far och Son (Father and Son), featuring Frej Larsson of Slagsmålsklubben.

His graphic novel The 120 Days of Simon (Simons 120 dagar) was published in English translation by Top Shelf

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Faysa Idle

Faysa Idle, född 1998 i Helsingborg, är en svensk poet och författare. I september 2023 utkom hon med sin debutbok Ett ord för blod.

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Gerd Brantenberg

Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer. She is also the cousin of radio and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen.

Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad. She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo. She has an English hovedfag (main subject, comparable to a Master), from the University of Oslo, where she also studied history and political science.
Since 1982 she has been a writer full-time.

She worked from 1972-1983 in the Women's House in Oslo. She was a board member of the Norway's first association for homosexual people Forbundet av 1948, the precursor to the Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation. She has established women's shelters and has w

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Ingrid Carlberg

Ingrid Margareta Carlberg, (1961) is a Swedish author and journalist. She is also an Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Uppsala University.

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Ingvar Carlsson

Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996.

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Jenny Jägerfeld

Jenny Jägerfeld made her literary debut in 2006 with a hole in my head. Her second novel, Me on the Floor, Bleeding, was in 2010 rewarded with The August Prize for best youth novel in Sweden. It’s her first novel translated to English.

Originally a child psychologist, she now runs her own psychologist practice in Stockholm. She also works for the Swedish national radio, in a radio show about psychological matters.

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Sara Martinsson

Sara Martinsson är frilansjournalist och tyngdlyftningstränare. Hon skriver om musik, kultur och träning i bland annat DN och Arbetet.

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Daniel Sjölin

Daniel Sjölin, född 31 oktober 1977 i Bålsta, Håbo, är en svensk författare och programledare.

Daniel Sjölin är författare och var under sju år programledare för litteraturprogrammet Babel SVT. För det senare tilldelades han 2008 Örjan Lindbergerpriset för att ha gjort "den goda litteraturen tillgänglig för en bred publik". Han har även varit litteraturkritiker för bl.a. Svenska Dagbladet och BLM, samt redaktör för tidskriften Lyrikvännen. Sjölin nominerades till Augustpriset 2007 för Världens sista roman.

2012 blev Daniel Sjölin hedersdoktor vid humanistiska fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet.

Sjölin skriver tillsammans med Jerker Virdborg under författarpseudonymen Michael Mortimer. Hittills har tre delar kommit ut, Jungfrustenen, Fossildr

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Alva Dahl

Alva Dahl, född 1985, är litterär översättare från engelska och norska, samt doktorand i nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet. Hennes forskning handlar om interpunktionens roll i skönlitterär prosa. Som översättare har hon hyllats för sina tolkningar av bland andra David Foster Wallace och Zadie Smith.
Dahl är även verksam som kulturskribent och redaktör – och var dessutom med och grundade Novellix 2011. Nu har hon skrivit novellen Allt har sin tid för förlaget.

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Elin Grelsson

Elin Grelsson is a Swedish freelance journalist and lecturer of gender studies. She writes for Aftonbladet, Göteborgs-Posten and ETC, and also maintains a blog.

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