Ana Paula Maia
Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguaçu, 1977) is a Brazilian writer, scriptwriter and musician.
During her adolescence she player at a punk rock band and studied piano. As a scriptwriter she took part in the script of the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and along with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, she wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros assembled in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves firm. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.
She is the author of the trilogy A saga dos brutos, started by the short novel Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos y O trabalho sujo dos outros —published in one volume— and concluded by the novel Carvão animal.
Influenced by Dostoievski, by Qu
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Dorothy Tse Hiu-hung (謝曉虹) is the author of four short story collections in Chinese, including So Black (《好黑》, 2005) and A Dictionary of Two Cities (《雙城辭典》, 2013). Translations of her short fiction have appeared in The Guardian, Paper Republic, The Margins (AAWW) and Anomaly. Her English-language collection Snow and Shadow (2014, trans. Nicky Harman), was longlisted for the University of Rochester’s 2015 Best Translated Book Award, and collects short stories from her earlier Chinese books as well as previously unpublished works.
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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.
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Socorro Acioli
A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genres, for both adult and child readers. She has participated in a workshop run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; has done research at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany; and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.
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Rebecca Cuthbert
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Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer living in Western New York. She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge.
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Cronwell Jara
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En 1991 integró el prestigioso jurado del Premio Casa de las Américas en novela. En 1994 participó en el Simposium Literatura Peruana Hoy (Alemania), donde presentó la ponencia “Visión de la violencia en dos novelas peruanas”. Sus cuentos han sido traducidos al inglés, italiano, francés, alemán y sueco, e integran antologías en eso idiomas.
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Giovanna Rivero
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Carlos Busqued
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Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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Publicou cinco romances: Feliz ano velho (1982, Prêmio Jabuti), Blecaute (1986), Uabrari (1990), Bala na agulha (1992) e Não és tu, Brasil (1996). Publicou também o livro de crônicas As Fêmeas (1994). Foi traduzido para o inglês, espanhol, francês, italiano, alemão e tcheco. Como dramaturgo, escreveu: 525 linhas (1989); O predador entra na sala (1997); Da boca pra fora; e aí, comeu? (1999, Prêmo Shell); Mais-que-imperfeito (2000); Closet Show (2001); e No retrovisor (2002). -
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Compass, which garnered Énard the renowned Prix Goncourt in 2015, traces the intimate connection between Western humanities and art history, and Islamic philosophy and culture. In one sentence that's over 500 pages long, Zone tells of the recent European past as a cascade of consequences of wars and conflicts.
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Ariana Harwicz
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Ariana Harwicz nació en Buenos Aires en 1977. Estudió guión cinematográfico en el ENERC (Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica), dramaturgia en el EAD (Escuela de Arte Dramático) y completó sus estudios con una licenciatura en Artes del espectáculo en la Universidad Paris VIII y un máster en Literatura comparada en La Sorbona. Matate, amor, es su primera novela.
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Compared to Nathalie Sarraute, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterized by its violence, eroticism, irony and direct criticism to the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships. Born in Buenos A -
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Mo Yan
Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
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Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.
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Al Columbia
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Augusto Higa Oshiro
Augusto Higa Oshiro (b. 1946, Lima) studied Peruvian and Latin American literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. His publications include the story collections Que te coma el tigre (1977), La casa de Albaceleste (1987), and Okinawa existe (2013); the memoir Japón no da dos oportunidades (1994); and the novels Final del Porvenir (1992), La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu (2008), Gaijin (2014), and Saber matar, saber morir (2014). He is the recipient of the Asociación Peruano Japonesa’s Premio José Watanabe Varas for prose (2012) and the Cámara Peruana del Libro’s Premio de Novela Breve (2014), and has been recognized for his contributions to culture by Peru’s Ministry of Culture.
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Seishi Yokomizo
Seishi Yokomizo (横溝 正史) was a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.
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Yokomizo was born in the city of Kobe, Hyōgo (兵庫県 神戸市). He read detective stories as a boy and in 1921, while employed by the Daiichi Bank, published his first story in the popular magazine "Shin Seinen" (新青年[New Youth]). He graduated from Osaka Pharmaceutical College (currently part of Osaka University) with a degree in pharmacy, and initially intended to take over his family's drug store even though sceptical of the contemporary ahistorical attitude towards drugs. However, drawn by his interest in literature, and the encouragement of Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩), he went to Tokyo instead, where he was hired by the Hakubunkan publishing company in 1926. After serving as editor in chief -
Edyr Augusto
Edyr Augusto é um escritor e jornalista paraense, vencedor do prêmio Caméléon. Nascido em Belém, em 1954, inicia sua carreira como dramaturgo no final dos anos 1970. Escritor e diretor de teatro, Edyr trabalhou como radialista, redator publicitário, autor de jingles além de produzir poesia e crônicas. Filho do escritor e radialista Edyr de Paiva Proença, sua estreia como romancista se dá em 1998, com a publicação de Os éguas. Quadro desolador da metrópole amazonense, o "thriller regionalista" mergulha no ritmo frenético da decadência e da violência urbana.
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Muito apegado à sua região do Pará, Edyr Augusto ancora lá todas as suas narrativas. Em 2001 lança Moscow, seu segundo romance, seguido de Casa de caba, em 2004. Seu mais recente romance é -
Diego Gerard Morrison
Diego Gerard Morrison is a writer, editor and translator, whose recent work explores themes of magical realism and appropriation set within the context of the Mexican drug war. He is the cofounder and fiction editor of diSONARE, an editorial project based in Mexico City. His fiction, non-fiction and other writings appear or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, The River Rail, Terremoto, Boiler House Press, The Poetry Project and Shifter, among others. He lives and works in Mexico City.
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Ariano Suassuna
Ariano Suassuna (born João Pessoa, 1927) is a Brazilian playwright and author. He is in the "Movemento Amorial". He founded the Student Theater at Federal University of Pernambuco. Four of his plays have been filmed and he is considered one of Brazil's greatest living playwrights. He is also an important regional writer doing various novels set in the Northeast of Brazil. He received an honorary doctorate at a ceremony performed at a circus. He is the author of, among other works, the "Auto da Compadecida" and "A Pedra do Reino". He is a staunch defender of the culture of the Northeast, and his works deal with the popular culture of the Northeast.
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Andrés Neuman
Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados (de madre violinista, de origen ítalo-español, y padre oboísta, de origen judío alemán), tiene la ciudadanía argentina y española. La historia novelada de su familia, infancia argentina y ancestros europeos puede leerse en su libro Una vez Argentina. A los catorce años se trasladó a Granada, donde realizó sus estudios secundarios, obtuvo la licenciatura en Filología Hispánica por su Universidad, cursó el doctorado e impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana.
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Neuman debutó en la literatura como poeta y narrador breve. Su primera publicación fue un cuaderno de poemas titulado Simulacros, aparecido a principios de 1998 en una pequeña editorial de Granada. A finales de 1999 se publicó su primera novela, -
Matheus Souza
MATHEUS SOUZA nasceu em Brasília em 1988 e hoje mora no Rio de Janeiro. Roteirista e diretor, trabalhou com Cinema, Teatro e TV. Aos 20 anos, seu longa-metragem Apenas o Fim (2008) recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Filme do júri popular no Festival do Rio e na Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo. Também escreveu e dirigiu o longa Ana e Vitória (2018) e foi roteirista de Confissões de Adolescente (2013), entre outros filmes.
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Marvel Moreno
Marvel Luz Moreno Abello was a Colombian writer. She was chosen by Cromos magazine as "one of the hundred most influential women in the history of Colombia."
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Paulo Lins
Paulo Lins é um escritor brasileiro que ganhou fama com a publicação, em 1997, do livro "Cidade de Deus", sobre a vida nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro, escrito enquanto assistente de um estudo sociológico.
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Morador da favela carioca Cidade de Deus, começou como poeta nos anos 1980 como integrante do grupo Cooperativa de Poetas, por onde publicou seu primeiro livro de poesia, "Sobre o Sol" (UFRJ, 1986). Graduado no curso de Letras, foi contemplado - em 1995 - com a Bolsa Vitae de Literatura.
Em 2002, o diretor Fernando Meirelles produziu o filme "Cidade de Deus", com base no livro, que recebeu quatro indicações ao Oscar 2004 (melhor diretor, melhor fotografia, melhor montagem e melhor roteiro adaptado) e foi indicado para o Globo de Ouro de melho -
Mateo García Elizondo
Mateo García Elizondo (Ciudad de México, 1987) es licenciado en Letras Inglesas y Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Westminster en Londres, y cuenta con un posgrado en Periodismo por la London School of Journalism. Ha escrito artículos para medios como National Geographic Traveler Mexico y PijamaSurf. Es guionista del largometraje Desierto (2015, ganador del premio FIPRESCI en el Festival de Cine de Toronto), así como de los cortometrajes Domingo (2013, selección oficial en el Festival de Cine de Morelia) y Clickbait (2018, mejor corto gore en Feratum FilmFest, mención honorífica FICMA 2018).
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Su ficción ha aparecido en medios impresos como Epoka Magazine, Revista Alba y Huun. Arte/pensamiento desde México. Vol.1, y su trabajo como gu -
Solange Rodríguez Pappe
Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) es una escritora interesada en el género de lo extraño y lo fantástico. Con Balas perdidas ganó en Ecuador el Premio nacional de relatos Joaquín Gallegos Lara al mejor libro del año 2010. Catedrática universitaria desde hace varias décadas y coordinadora de talleres de escritura creativa, ha realizado investigaciones sobre el fin del mundo en Latinoamérica para su tesis de maestría en Estudios de la Cultura.
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Como narradora ha publicado los libros Tinta sangre (2000), Dracofilia (2005), El lugar de las apariciones (2007), Balas perdidas (2010), Caja de magia (2015), Episodio aberrante (2016), La bondad de los extraños (2016) y Levitaciones (2017). Sus relatos han sido traducidos al inglés, al -
Marcial Gala
Marcial Gala was born in Havana in 1965. He is a novelist, poet and architect, and is a member of UNEAC, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Award for short stories in 1999. LA CATEDRAL DE LOS NEGROS received the Alejo Carpentier Award for novels in 2012 and the Critics' Award for the best books published in Cuba in 2012. Gala has also won the Premio Ñ 2018 with INTENSOS COMPROMISOS CON LA NADA. He currently lives between Buenos Aires and Cienfuegos.
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Hwang Yeo Jung
Hwang Yeo Jung was born in Seoul in 1974. Her debut novel, The Specters of Algeria, won the 2017 Munhak Dongne Novel Prize. Hwang’s next novel, Please Call My Name, was published in 2020.
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Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award– winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, it was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize. -
Daniel Saldaña París
DANIEL SALDAÑA PARÍS (Ciudad de México, 1984) escribe narrativa y poesía. Es autor del libro de poemas La máquina autobiográfica (Bonobos Editores, 2012) y de la novela En medio de extrañas víctimas (Sexto Piso, 2013). Ha sido becario del FONCA en los programas Jóvenes Creadores (2006-2007) y Residencias Artísticas (2012), así como de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2007-2009). En 2012 antologó y prologó Doce en punto. Poesía chilena reciente y Un nuevo modo. Antología de narrativa mexicana actual, ambos publicados por la UNAM. En 2014 fue escritor en residencia en Ledig House-OMI International Arts Center (Nueva York).
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Fue elegido por el Hay Festival, el British Council y Conaculta como uno de los 20 escritores menores de 40 años pa -
Georgi Vladimov
Georgi Vladimov, who has died aged 72, was one of the promising young writers seen as representing new hope for Russian literature in the de-Stalinisation thaw of the 1950s and early 1960s. By the end of the 1970s, however, they had become disillusioned, and many, including Vladimov, had emigrated from the Soviet Union.
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Vladimov's particular distinction was as a dissident of immense moral courage, and as the author of Faithful Ruslan, one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period. His life was one of constant vicissitudes, but his authority and fortitude remained firm to the end.
Born Georgi Volosevich in Kharkov, Ukraine, of a Jewish mother and a father of mixed Polish and Belarusian origin, Vladimov studied at the Suvorov Mil -
Helen Maryles Shankman
Originally, when I moved to New York to attend art school, I thought I wanted to be an illustrator, to tell stories with paint. A few years later, I discovered that what I really wanted to do was paint with words.
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Helen Maryles Shankman lived in Chicago before moving to New York City to attend art school. She is the author of In the Land of Armadillos, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, published by Scrbner, following the inhabitants of a small town in 1942 Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make. The paperback reprint, titled They Were Like Family to Me, is now available at bookstores everywhere.
Her stories have appeared in numerous fine publications, including The Kenyon Re -
Daniel Hahn
British writer, editor and translator; author of a number of works of non-fiction, including biographies, history, and reading guides and for children and teenagers.
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His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is also the translator of Pelé's autobiography, and of work by novelists José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares and others.
A former chair of the Translators Association and national programme director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, he is currently chair of the Society of Authors and on the board of trustees of a number of organisations working with literature, literacy and free expr -
Aline Valek
Aline Valek é escritora e ilustradora. Mineira-brasiliense, vive em São Paulo, mas é do Cerrado. Formada em Comunicação Social, escreve para a internet há mais de uma década e publica de forma independente desde a adolescência. Além de newsletter, zines e livros, também conta histórias em seu podcast Bobagens Imperdíveis. É autora dos independentes Hipersonia Crônica (2013), Pequenas Tiranias (2015), Bobagens Imperdíveis para ler numa manhã de sábado (2018) e Bobagens Imperdíveis para atravessar o isolamento (2020). É autora do romance As águas-vivas não sabem de si, publicado pela Rocco em 2016.
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Luis Sagasti
Luis Sagasti, a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1963. He graduated in History at the Universidad Nacional del Sur where he now teaches. From 1995 to 2003 he was Curator in charge of Education and Cultural Outreach at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca, authoring numerous art catalogues for exhibitions. Including Fireflies (known in Spanish as Bellas Artes, 2011), he has published four novels: El Canon de Leipzig (Leipzig's Canon, 1999), Los mares de la Luna (Seas of the Moon, 2006), and Maelstrom (2015). He also has a book of essays Perdidos en el espacio (Lost in Space, 2011). His new novel, Una ofrenda musical (A Musical Offering) came out in early 2017.
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Claudia Hernández
Claudia Hernández González es una escritora salvadoreña. Nació en San Salvador, en 1975. Licenciada en comunicaciones por la Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, realizó también estudios de derecho. A partir de finales de la década de 1990 ha publicado relatos sueltos en el suplemento TresMil del diario CoLatino y en la revista Hablemos de El Diario de Hoy en El Salvador. En 1998 ganó el primer honorífico del premio Juan Rulfo de Radio Francia Internacional, por su cuento “Un demonio de segunda mano”. Hernández ha publicado seis colecciones de cuentos, entre ellas Otras ciudades (2001), Mediodía de frontera (2002), Olvida Uno (2005), De fronteras (2007) La canción del mar (2007) y Causas Naturales (2013). En 2004 obtuvo el prestigioso pr
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Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks é um escritor e crítico literário brasileiro, filho de pais argentinos. Em 2012, foi eleito pela revista Granta um dos vinte melhores jovens escritores brasileiros. [Ganhou o Prêmio Jabuti de 2016 na categoria romance com o livro A Resistência.
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Joca Reiners Terron
Joca Reiners Terron nasceu em Cuiabá, em 1968, e vive em São Paulo. Poeta, prosador, tradutor e designer gráfico, foi editor da Ciência do Acidente, selo que resgatou nomes importantes da literatura brasileira do final do século XX, como José Agrippino de Paula, Manoel Carlos Karam e Valêncio Xavier, e pela qual publicou o romance Não há nada lá (depois relançado pela Companhia das Letras) e o livro de poemas Animal anônimo. É autor também dos volumes de contos Hotel Hell, Curva de rio sujo e Sonho interrompido por guilhotina. Dele, a Companhia das Letras publicou Do fundo do poço se vê a lua, vencedor do prêmio Machado de Assis na categoria melhor romance. É criador e curador da coleção “Otra Língua” (Editora Rocco) que divulga autores iné
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Zahia Rahmani
Zahia Rahmani, an author and art historian at the National Institute for Art History in France, was born in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence. Her father was an accused Harki, who was imprisoned as a traitor by the Algerians after the war. He escaped prison and fled with his family to France in 1967. Rahmani now lives in Paris and Oise, France.
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Tatiana Ryckman
Tatiana Ryckman is the author of two chapbooks of prose, Twenty-Something and VHS and Why it's Hard to Live. She is Assistant Editor at sunnyoutside press and leads Creative Writing workshops through The University of Texas at Austin.
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Rodrigo Fuentes
Considered to be one of the most prominent names among the new generation of Guatemalan writers, Rodrigo Fuentes (1984) won the Carátula Central American Short Story Prize (2014) as well as the Juegos Florales of Quetzaltenango Short Story Prize (2008). He is the co-founder and editor of the magazine Suelta and of the digital publishing house and literary journal Traviesa. Trout, Belly Up was shortlisted for the 2018 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez, the most prestigious prize awarded to short-story writers in Latin America. It has been published in Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia, as well as in France. Rodrigo currently lectures at the College of the Holy Cross in the United States, and lives between Providen
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Karen King-Aribisala
Karen Ann King-Aribisala (born Guyana) is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer. Her collection of stories, Our Wife and Other Stories won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Africa, and her novel The Hangman's Game won 2008 Best Book Africa.
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She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Lagos. She won grants from the Ford Foundation, British Council, Goethe Institute, and the James Michener Foundation.
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James F. Mordechai
James Mordechai writes New Weird books and enjoys the placid seas of anonymity. There is no biography other than his books.
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Although not quite known in this world, James Mordechai's work has been extensively read, studied and acclaimed in other realities. Here is just a tiny excerpt of the numerous reviews he received for his major contributions to human (and non-) literature:
REVIEWS
"Mordechai's imagination is vast. One of the great storytellers of our time." - Miskatonic Times
"Chock-full of riveting action." - Daily Arkham (midnight edition)
"Mordechai takes the New Weird to new phantasmagorical levels." - The Sunday Pentagram
"Great, brilliant, simply unputdownable!" - James T. from Barnard Castle
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MacDonald Harris
Pseudonym of Donald Heiney
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Donald Heiney was born in South Pasadena in 1921. Seastruck from the time he read Stevenson at the age of twelve, he went to sea in earnest as a merchant marine cadet in 1942, sat for his Third Mate's license in 1943, and spent the rest of the war as a naval officer on a fleet oiler. After the war he earned a B.A. at Redlands and a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Southern California. In 1964 he lived with his wife and son in Salt Lake City where he taught writing and comparative literature.
Taking the pseudonym MacDonald Harris for his fiction, his first story appeared in Esquire in 1947. Since then he has published stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and The Satur -
Cristhiano Aguiar
Cristhiano Motta Aguiar (Campina Grande, 1981) é escritor, crítico literário e professor. É mestre em Teoria da Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, doutor em Letras pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e atuou como pesquisador visitante na Universidade de Berkeley, nos Estados Unidos. Tem livros de contos publicados[2] e participou da revista Granta - Melhores Jovens Escritores Brasileiros e trabalhou no Festival Recifense de Literatura. Tem textos publicados na Inglaterra, Estados Unidos e Argentina. Editou revistas artesanais e é, atualmente, editor do site Vacatussa.
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Linda M. Heywood
Linda M. Heywood is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University.
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Olinda Beja
Com apenas dois anos deixou as ilhas maravilhosas e passou a viver do outro lado do mar, em terras frias da Beira Alta, Portugal. Licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Português/Francês) pela Universidade do Porto, Olinda Beja é docente do Ensino Secundário desde 1976. Ensina também Língua e Cultura Portuguesa na Suíça, é assessora cultural da Embaixada de São Tomé e Príncipe e dinamizadora cultural.
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Foi vencedora em 2013 do prémio literário Francisco José Tenreiro prémio este atribuído à obra A Sombra do Ocá.
Em 2015 o livro da sua autoria Um Grão de Café entrou para o Plano Nacional de Leitura de Portugal. -
Nerea Pallares
Nació en Lugo en 1989. Es escritora, periodista y tiene un máster en Estudios Comparados de Literatura, Arte y Pensamiento por la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. Ha publicado el libro de relatos Sidecar (Ed. Oblicuas, 2015). Fue becada por la Fundación Antonio Gala para Jóvenes Creadores de Córdoba, ha ganado certámenes internacionales como el II Premio de Cuento las Dalias y el XLV Certamen Literario Ciudad de Martos. Sus textos han sido publicados en revistas especializadas como Dorna, La gran belleza o Granta en español.
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En la actualidad, vive en Madrid y está al frente de Meteórica, su proyecto personal. -
Ricardo Romero
Ricardo Romero was born in the province of Entre Ríos, in northern Argentina, in 1976. He studied Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has been living in Buenos Aires since 2002. Between 2003 and 2006 he directed the literary journal Oliverio and between 2006 and 2010 he was one of the members of the ‘El Quinteto de la Muerte’ (The Lethal Quintet) with which he published two books: 5 and La fiesta de la narrativa (Fiction’s Party). He has also published a book of short stories, Tantas noches como sean necesarias (As Many Nights as may be Necessary, 2006) and the novels Ninguna parte (Nowhere, 2003), El síndrome de Rasputín (Rasputin’s Syndrome, 2008), Los bailarines del fin del mundo (The Dancers of the End of the World, 20
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Murilo Rubião
Murilo Rubião was a Brazilian writer. His entire work consists of short stories, all of them dealing with fantastic themes, which is uncommon among Brazilian writers. He was very obsessive about his work, revising it at every new edition, always changing a few details, like characters names and so on.
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João do Rio
João do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto.
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Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.
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Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot wi -
C.D. Rose
C. D. ROSE is a writer of short fiction and novels. He has published three books, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else, and The Blind Accordionist. A new collection of stories is coming soon.
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His major influences are Calvino, Borges, Georges Perec and Danilo Kis. He is at home anywhere there are dusty second-hand bookshops, quiet libraries, and dark bars.
He is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Residence at the University of Manchester, UK.