Ana Johns
Ana Johns is an award winning, #1 international bestselling American novelist. Her first historical fiction, THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO, published with critical acclaim in over 26 languages, has been a No.1 bestseller around the world, a BBC RADIO2 Book Club pick, Salt Lake County Library Reader's Choice winner, a Reading Agency World Book Night 2023 selection, and a PopShift IP List finalist.
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Romy Wiegers
Romy Wiegers (1994) woont samen met haar vriend en hond in het gezellige Brabant. Ze werkt als docent Communicatie aan een hogeschool en vult haar vrije dagen graag met sporten, wandelen en – natuurlijk – lezen. Ze is fan van Goodreads, doet mee aan meerdere boekenclubs en zegt iets te vaak: “Ik ben nu toch aan een mooi boek begonnen…” Schuilplaats is haar eerste boek. Vanuit haar liefde voor verhalen vertellen, hoopt ze dat jij als lezer er net zo van geniet als zij van het schrijven ervan.
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Emma Wagner
Geboren bin ich 1982 in Niedersachsen. Nach dem Abitur verschlug es mich dann jedoch zum Studium nach Heidelberg. Diese herrliche Stadt wurde ihrem Ruf in meinem Falle mehr als gerecht, denn „ich habʼ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren“.
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Inzwischen bin ich glücklich verheiratet und lebe mit meinem großartigen Mann und meinen wundervollen Kindern bei Heidelberg.
Bücher jeglicher Art habe ich verschlungen, seit ich das ABC beherrsche – sei es nachts heimlich unter der Bettdecke oder tagsüber in jeder freien Minute. Es lag also eigentlich nahe, mich auch selbst einmal im Schreiben zu versuchen. Da allerdings in meinem Leben immer ein Ereignis das nächste gejagt hat, bin ich über ein paar Seiten nie hinausgekommen.
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Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History at Australian National University and the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including most recently East Asia Beyond the History Wars, with Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Y. Tsu, and Borderline Japan, and a recipient of the 2013 Fukuoka Prize.
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Jeff Talarigo
Jeff Talarigo is the author of three novels and numerous short stories. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he has received many honors, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award for his first novel “The Pearl Diver”, one of eleven novels on the 2009 Notable Books List by the American Library Association for his second novel “The Ginseng Hunter”, NPR’s 2008 “Under the Radar”, a 2005 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, been featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2006-07. His work has been published in five languages. He lived in Japan for fifteen years and twice lived in the Gaza Strip, the setting for his third novel “In the Ceme
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Alexandra Curry
Alexandra Curry is a Canadian of Austrian and British parentage who has spent happy years living and travelling in Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States. A graduate of Wellesley College, she now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The Courtesan is her first novel.
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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 -
Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist and former painter known for her evocative, lyrical prose and her autoethnographic approach to historical fiction. Drawing deeply from her family's experiences and Japanese American history, Otsuka has crafted a powerful trilogy of novels that explore identity, memory, displacement, and the emotional legacies of war and immigration.
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Born in Palo Alto, California in 1962, Otsuka was raised in a household deeply shaped by the trauma of Japanese internment during World War II. Her father, an aerospace engineer, and her mother, a lab technician, were both of Japanese descent. Her mother, a nisei (second-generation Japanese American), was incarcerated along with Otsuka’s uncle and grandmother in the To -
Jane Jesmond
Jane Jesmond writes psychological suspense, thrillers and mysteries
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Her debut novel, On The Edge, the first in a series featuring dynamic, daredevil protagonist Jen Shaw was a Sunday Times Crime Fiction best book. The second in the series, Cut Adrift, was The Times Thriller Book of the Month and The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month. Her latest novel, Her, a standalone psychological thriller was published in May 2023 and A Quiet Contagion, a disquieting contemporary mystery, will be published in November 2023.
Although she loves writing (and reading) thrillers and mysteries, her real life is very quiet and unexciting. Dead bodies and danger are not a feature! She lives by the sea in the northwest tip of France with a husband and a cat and -
Tracy Chevalier
Born:
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19 October 1962 in Washington, DC. Youngest of 3 children. Father was a photographer for The Washington Post.
Childhood:
Nerdy. Spent a lot of time lying on my bed reading. Favorite authors back then: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeleine L’Engle, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Lloyd Alexander. Book I would have taken to a desert island: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Education:
BA in English, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1984. No one was surprised that I went there; I was made for such a progressive, liberal place.
MA in creative writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 1994. There’s a lot of debate about whether or not you can be taught to write. Why doesn’t anyone ask that of professional singers, painters, d -
Victoria Hislop
Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford, and worked in publishing, PR and as a journalist before becoming a novelist. She is married with two children.
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Her first novel, The Island, held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide. Victoria was the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition.
Her second novel, The Return, was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller, and her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A short story collection, One Cretan Evening, was published in September and both a third novel, The Thread is published in English in October and in Greek in N -
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History at Australian National University and the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including most recently East Asia Beyond the History Wars, with Morris Low, Leonid Petrov and Timothy Y. Tsu, and Borderline Japan, and a recipient of the 2013 Fukuoka Prize.
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Sally Page
After studying history at university, Sally moved to London to work in advertising. In her spare time she studied floristry at night school and eventually opened her own flower shop. Sally came to appreciate that flower shops offer a unique window into people’s stories and she began to photograph and write about this floral life in a series of non-fiction books. Later, she continued her interest in writing when she founded her fountain pen company, Plooms.co.uk.
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In her debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, Sally combines her love of history and writing with her abiding interest in the stories people have to tell. Sally now lives in Dorset. Her eldest daughter, Alex, is studying to be a doctor and her younger daughter is the author, Libby Page. -
Emma Wagner
Geboren bin ich 1982 in Niedersachsen. Nach dem Abitur verschlug es mich dann jedoch zum Studium nach Heidelberg. Diese herrliche Stadt wurde ihrem Ruf in meinem Falle mehr als gerecht, denn „ich habʼ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren“.
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Inzwischen bin ich glücklich verheiratet und lebe mit meinem großartigen Mann und meinen wundervollen Kindern bei Heidelberg.
Bücher jeglicher Art habe ich verschlungen, seit ich das ABC beherrsche – sei es nachts heimlich unter der Bettdecke oder tagsüber in jeder freien Minute. Es lag also eigentlich nahe, mich auch selbst einmal im Schreiben zu versuchen. Da allerdings in meinem Leben immer ein Ereignis das nächste gejagt hat, bin ich über ein paar Seiten nie hinausgekommen.
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Jurica Pavičić
Jurica Pavičić, pisac, kolumnista, scenarista, filmski kritičar. Diplomirao je komparativnu književnost i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
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Godine 1992. nagrađen je nacionalnom nagradom za filmsku kritiku „Vladimir Vuković“. Od 1994. piše u različitim novinama nedeljnu kolumnu Vijesti iz Liliputa, u kojoj secira društvo, politiku i kulturu ratne i posleratne Hrvatske. Za tekstove iz te serije 1996. dobija Nagradu nacionalnog novinarskog društva „Marija Jurić Zagorka“, 2002. Nagradu za doprinos novinarstvu „Veselko Tenžera“, a 2007. Nagradu „Miljenko Smoje“ Slobodne Dalmacije. Kolumna danas izlazi u Jutarnjem listu.
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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. -
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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Shelley Read
High Plains Book Award Winner, Reading the West Book Award Winner, & Amazon Editors' Pick Best Debut, Shelley Read's international bestselling debut novel, Go as a River, is translated into thirty-four languages and has been optioned for film by Mazur Kaplan. Shelley is a fifth-generation Coloradan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of Colorado's Western Slope. She was a Senior Lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and honors. She holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing and is a regular contributor to Crested Butte Magazine and Gunnison Valley Jo
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Eve Chase
Eve Chase is an internationally bestselling British novelist who writes rich, layered and suspenseful novels. Including R&J pick, no.1 kindle bestseller The Midnight Hour, The Birdcage, The Glass House (The Daughters of Foxcote Manor, US) Sunday Times top ten and Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde (The Wildling Sisters, US) longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, and Black Rabbit Hall, winner of Paris' Saint-Maur en Poche prize for Best Foreign Fiction.
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Lavisa Spell
Lavisa Spell - lietuvių autorės, Auksės Šiugždinienės, slapyvardis. Tai užkoduota frazė „love is a spell" (meilė yra kerai), autorės gyvenimo moto, nes meilė yra tas paslaptingas ingredientas, kuris bet kurią veiklą ir darbą paverčia ypatingu. Lavisa Spell rašo laisvalaikio romanus, paskanintus aistros ir magijos prieskoniais, dvasingumo ir pagoniškosios tradicijos žiniomis.
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Stacey Halls
Stacey Halls grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. She has always been fascinated by the Pendle witches. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. She was media editor at The Bookseller and books editor at Stylist.co.uk, and has also written for Psychologies, the Independent and Fabulous magazine, where she now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor. The Familiars is her first novel.
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A.D. Wilk
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Ich bin Andrea. Dafür steht das A. Das D steht für Dorothea. Diesen Namen tragen meine Mama und ich als Zweitnamen. Er stammt von meiner Oma. Wilk ist nur ein geborgter Nachname, den ich aber nicht wieder hergeben möchte. Und irgendwann wird er wohl auch einmal mir gehören. Ich bin 1983 geboren, seit 13 Jahren glücklich quasi fast verheiratet und ich habe einen Sohn. Ich schreibe schon mein ganzes Leben. Naja, zumindest seitdem ich es kann.
Gerade habe ich mein erstes Buch beendet und mir damit einen sehr großen Traum erfüllt. Ein Jahrzehnt lang habe ich immer nur davon geredet, dass ich irgendwann einmal ein Buch schreiben will. Und 2017 hat es mich dann gepackt. Besser gesagt, war es Step -
Rin Usami
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Forugh Karimi
Forugh Karimi (1971, Kabul) kwam als 25-jarige op de vlucht voor de oorlog in Afghanistan in Nederland terecht. Ze vervolgde hier haar studie geneeskunde en heeft inmiddels een eigen praktijk als psychiater en psychotherapeut. Ze is daarnaast hoofdredacteur van De Psychiater (het tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie) en maakt deel uit van de Raad voor de Nederlandse Taal en Letteren.
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In 2022 debuteerde Karimi met De moeders van Mahipar – bekroond met de Hebban Debuutprijs – waarna in 2023 de novelle Nargis verscheen. Met In mijn ogen draag ik wolken laat ze opnieuw zien een unieke bijdrage te leveren aan het Nederlandse literaire landschap. -
Romy Wiegers
Romy Wiegers (1994) woont samen met haar vriend en hond in het gezellige Brabant. Ze werkt als docent Communicatie aan een hogeschool en vult haar vrije dagen graag met sporten, wandelen en – natuurlijk – lezen. Ze is fan van Goodreads, doet mee aan meerdere boekenclubs en zegt iets te vaak: “Ik ben nu toch aan een mooi boek begonnen…” Schuilplaats is haar eerste boek. Vanuit haar liefde voor verhalen vertellen, hoopt ze dat jij als lezer er net zo van geniet als zij van het schrijven ervan.
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Michael White
Michael White was a British writer who was based in Perth, Australia. He studied at King's College London (1977–1982) and was a chemistry lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford (1984–1991).
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He was a science editor of British GQ, a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of Colour Me Pop. Colour Me Pop featured on the "Europe in the Year Zero" EP in 1982 with Yazoo and Sudeten Creche and he was then a member of the group The Thompson Twins (1982). He moved to Australia in 2002 and was made an Honorary Research Fellow at Curtin University in 2005.
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Jelena Bačić Alimpić
Jelena Bačić Alimpić je rođena 1969. godine u Novom Sadu.
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Školovala se u Novom Sadu, Karlovačkoj gimnaziji u Sremskim Karlovcima i na Filozofskom fakultetu, na katedri za jugoslovenske književnosti i srpskohrvatski jezik. Radila je kao novinar i autor dokumentarnih TV emisija za JRT mrežu i TV Novi Sad, u periodu od 1987. do 1993. godine. Devet godina je bila novinar i urednik u sistemu Color press group. Od 2002. godine radi kao urednik i novinar na Televiziji Pink. Dobitnica je mnogih nagrada za televizijsko stvaralaštvo.
Živi u Novom Sadu, udata je i majka dvoje dece, Marka i Dunje.
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Diana Nyad
For her maverick open-water performance of the 1970s, Diana Nyad was known as the world’s greatest long-distance swimmer. For the next thirty years, Nyad was a prominent sports broadcaster and journalist, filing compelling stories for National Public Radio, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and others. She is a national fitness icon, has written three other books, is a talented linguist, and is one of today’s most powerful and engaging public speakers.
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Inner Growth Press
Hi, I’m Claudia Aria — the heart and the mind behind Inner Growth Press.
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I write and publish self-help books for those navigating deep emotions, invisible wounds, and the quiet desire to grow. As an empath, I know what it’s like to feel everything — and still wonder if you’re doing enough. That’s why my books offer both soul and structure: the emotional support and the mindset shift.
At Inner Growth Press, healing isn’t just an idea — it’s a daily practice. A blend of inner child work, shadow integration, gentle nervous system awareness, and grounded manifestation. I’m here to turn “self-help” into self-connection.
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Elizabeth Kay
Elizabeth Kay started her career as an assistant at Penguin Random House. She is now a senior commissioning editor there and is simultaneously pursuing her passion for writing.
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Anna Jacobs
Ondernemers en zussen Anna Jacobs (1990) en Frederieke Jacobs (1988) zijn de oprichters van How About Mom, de eerste eerlijke moeder-app, ontwikkeld met een team van medisch experts. Eerder lanceerden zij het medische platform SmartHealth.nl. Met dit boek, de How About Mom app en hun online community geven ze je support, betrouwbare informatie en dagelijkse inspiratie als (aanstaande) moeder. Hun motto is dan ook: ‘Jij zorgt voor de baby, wij zijn er voor jou’.
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Antonio Schiena
Nato nel 1990 a San Marco in Lamis, in provincia di Foggia, vive a Roma da anni. Ha pubblicato diversi romanzi con Watson Edizioni, tra cui Non contate su di me con il quale, nel 2018, ha vinto il premio Leggo QuINDI Sono. Attualmente lavora come social media manager in ambito sportivo e editoriale. Molto attivo sui social con lo pseudonimo di @antipatiagratuita.
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Clare Harvey
I was born in Devon but grew up in Mauritius and Surrey. As the trailing spouse of a serving soldier I spent a large part of married life shuttling between postings. I've worked variously as a freelance journalist, radio reporter, English teacher and PR consultant in Northern Ireland, Germany, Nepal and England. I'm now settled with my family in Nottingham.
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I wrote my debut, The Gunner Girl, whilst my husband was on operations with the British Army in Afghanistan. The Gunner Girl won both the Exeter Novel Prize and the Joan Hessayon Award for new fiction. Since then I've written The English Agent, The Night Raid, and The Escape.
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Janko Matko
Janko Matko (20. 5. 1898 - 3. 8. 1979) pripovjedač, najznačajniji predstavnik tzv. pučke književnosti. Rođen je u Brleniću kraj Krašića. Polazio je franjevačku gimnaziju u Vukovaru. Zbog slomljene noge i neprilika I. svjetskog rata prekinuo je školovanje, izučio urarski, optičarski i draguljarski obrt u Vukovaru, potom živio u Rijeci, a od 1923. u Zagrebu. Tu počinje obnašati različite dužnosti u kulturnom društvu "Hrvatski radiša" te vodi vlastitu urarsku radionicu. Godine 1932. postao je predsjednik pjevačkog društva "Zvonimir". Prvu pripovjest Doći ću kući, majko, za Božić objavio je još 1917. u vukovarskim "Sriemskim novinama", a 1938. prvi (Žrtva) od dvadesetak romana (tri su izašla posmrtno) kojima je tematikom iz nacionalne povijesti
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