Ananda Devi
Ananda Devi is a Mauritian writer. Her novel, Eve de ses décombres, won the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie in 2006, as well as several other prizes. It was adapted for the cinema by Sharvan Anenden and Harrikrisna Anenden. In 2007, Devi received the Certificat d'Honneur Maurice Cagnon du Conseil International d'Études Francophones.[1] She has since won other literary prizes, including the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature française of the Académie française. During 2010 she was bestowed with Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
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Véronique Tadjo
Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire. Having lived and worked in many countries within the African continent and diaspora, she feels herself to be pan-African, in a way that is reflected in the subject matter, imagery and allusions of her work.
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Born in Paris, Véronique Tadjo was the daughter of an Ivorian civil servant and a French painter and sculptor. Brought up in Abidjan, she travelled widely with her family.
Tadjo completed her BA degree at the University of Abidjan and her doctorate at the Sorbonne in African-American Literature and Civilization. In 1983, she went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., on a Fulbright research scholarship.
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Hassan Blasim
Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic.He is co-editor of the Arabic literary website http://www.iraqstory.com/
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Trifonia Melibea Obono
Trifonia Melibea Obono (Equatorial Guinea, 1982) is a journalist and political scientist, as well as a professor and researcher on women and gender in Africa. She has been a professor in the literature and social sciences faculty of the UNGE (National University of Equatorial Guinea) in Malabo since 2013 and is part of the team of the Afro-Hispanic Studies Center of the UNED. She is finishing her PhD in interdisciplinary studies in gender and equality at the University of Salamanca. She has contributed to numerous national and foreign publications, and is the author of two novels, Herencia de bindendee (Ediciones del Auge, 2016) and La bastarda (Flores Raras, 2016), the latter of which is forthcoming from The Feminist Press in 2018, transla
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Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe teaches African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University. He earned MFA and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College, Trinity College, and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc. He has served on the editorial board of Hartford Courant where his essays won national and state awards. He lives in West Hartford, CT, with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.
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Chris Vuklisevic
Chris Vuklisevic, qui écrit aussi sous le pseudonyme Ada Vivalda, est une écrivaine française.
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Originaire du sud de la France, elle a vécu à Paris puis en Irlande. Aujourd'hui en Bretagne, elle anime le podcast du Club Où on Discute d'Écriture Sans Filtre.
En 2021 est publié son premier roman, "Derniers jours d’un monde oublié", vainqueur du concours organisé pour les vingt ans de la collection Folio SF et lauréat du prix Elbakin.net.
En 2023 sort aux éditions Denoël (Lunes d'Encre) "Du thé pour les fantômes", un roman familial teinté de réalisme magique.
Son troisième roman, "Porcelaine sous les ruines", paraît en 2024 aux éditions Olympe ; elle publie cette romantasy sous le nom d'Ada Vivalda. -
Roberta Recchia
Laureata in Lingue e Letterature Europee e Americane, fino a dieci anni fa ha lavorato in un’azienda leader nel ramo delle spedizioni internazionali. Nel 2013 ha deciso di abbandonare il lavoro d’ufficio per dedicarsi all’insegnamento, per cui ha scoperto una profonda passione. Oggi è docente di lingua inglese in una scuola superiore romana.
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Vive con il suo adorato chihuahua, Claudio, in una piccola città sul litorale laziale.
Scrive da sempre, ma l’idea di pubblicare le sue storie era sempre rimasta un sogno nel cassetto. Nel 2023 ha deciso che era tempo di aprire quel cassetto. -
Bibiana Candia
Bibiana Candia es escritora. Ha publicado los poemarios La rueda del hámster y Las trapecistas no tenemos novio, el libro de relatos El pie de Kafka y el artefacto narrativo Fe de erratas. Colabora de manera regular en las revistas Jot Down y Letras Libres.
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Gaël Faye
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
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Yaa Gyasi
YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.
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YAA GYASI is available for select speaking engagements. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit prhspeakers.com. -
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.
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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.
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 -
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ludmilla Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Петрушевская) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
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Her works include the novels The Time Night (1992) and The Number One, both short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and Immortal Love, a collection of short stories and monologues. Since the late 1980s her plays, stories and novels have been published in more than 30 languages. In 2003 she was awarded the Pushkin Prize in Russian literature by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. She was awarded the Russian State Prize for arts (2004), the Stanislavsky Award (2005), and the Triumph Prize (2006). -
Clémentine Beauvais
I was born in Paris in 1989 and though I started to read children’s books pretty early, I somehow never stopped. As a result, I’ve become a writer, reader and student of children’s literature. I’ve now been living and studying in Cambridge (UK) for seven years and have become a doctor. Well, not the type that saves people’s lives. The type that scribbles ‘PhD’ after their name and rambles on about beauty, truth and the value of (all) literature. Worth striving for, I think! More about my academic work here.
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The other thing I do is write books – children’s books, surprisingly enough. In fact, it’s not ‘the other thing’. It’s the first thing I ever did, really – long before I heard that you could actually analyse books for a living, I wanted t -
Kateřina Tučková
Kateřina Tučková (nar. 1980) vystudovala dějiny umění a bohemistiku na FF MU v Brně, v současné době pracuje jako kurátorka. Debutovala novelou Montespaniáda (2006), v roce 2009 vydala román Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, za který obdržela cenu Magnesia Litera 2010 – Knižní klub Cena čtenářů a byla nominována na Cenu Josefa Škvoreckého, Magnesii Literu za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena. Je autorkou několika odborných publikací z oblasti českého výtvarného umění, na pomezí historie a krásné literatury se pohybuje beletrizovaný životopis Můj otec Kamil Lhoták (2008).
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Seray Şahiner
1984 yılında Bursa’da doğdu, İstanbul’da büyüdü. İlköğrenimini Oruçgazi İlköğretim Okulu’nda, ortaöğrenimini Pertevniyal Lisesi’nde tamamladı. 2007 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. 2011’de Marmara Üniversitesi Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü’nden, Sinema Anabilim Dalı’nda yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. 'Aylık Paldır Kültür Dergisi Hayvan’da ve Birgün Gazetesi’nde çalıştı. Uzun süre gitar ve resim dersi aldı, izcilik ve dağcılık yaptı. Dönemsel olarak, garsonluk, konfeksiyonda el işçiliği ve makinecilik yaptı. 2006 yılında Varlık Dergisi’nin düzenlediği Yaşar Nabi Nayır Gençlik Ödülleri’nde, "Gelin Başı" isimli öykü dosyası "Dikkate Değer" bulundu. 2007 yılında "Gelin Başı" isimli kitabı C
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Georges de Peyrebrune
Mathilde-Marie Georgina Élisabeth de Peyrebrune, better known as George de Peyrebrune was a French novelist.
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Lou Lubie
Originaire de l'île de la Réunion, Lou Lubie publie son premier roman à dix-huit ans, avant de s'orienter vers la bande dessinée. Ses cinq premiers livres voient le jour chez des éditeurs réunionnais.
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Passionnée par les possibilités créatives du numérique, elle fait ses études dans le domaine du jeu vidéo. En 2008, elle fonde le Forum Dessiné, un site communautaire de BD collective improvisée. Toujours actif aujourd'hui, le site a vu défiler 2.600 dessinateurs et près de 300.000 dessins.
Ses albums Goupil ou face – BD de vulgarisation sur la bipolarité – et La Fille dans l’écran – romance dessinée à quatre mains – lui valent une notoriété croissante. En 2021, elle revient avec L’homme de la situation, un thriller psychologique très actuel qui -
Zyta Rudzka
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j
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Andrea Bajani
Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
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Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
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Giorgio Manganelli
Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo 63. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and authors like T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Eric Ambler, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Robert Louis Stevenson, Byron's Manfred and others into Italian. He published an experimental work of fiction, Hilarotragoedia, in 1964, at the time he was a member of the avant-garde Gruppo 63.
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Charles Yu
CHARLES YU is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for Le Prix Médicis étranger. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. You can find him on Twitter @charles_yu.
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Gene Brewer
Gene R. Brewer was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana and educated at DePauw University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before becoming a novelist Dr. Brewer studied DNA replication and cell division at several major research institutions, including St. Jude Children's REsearch Hospital (Memphis) and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland). He is the author of the acclaimed K-PAX trilogy, a memoir (Creating K-PAX), a story for young adults ("Alejandro" in Twice Told), and the stage adaptation of his novel, K-PAX. He lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife and their dog Flower. Hobbies are flying, running, chess, astronomy/cosmology, music, theater, and of course, reading (favorite author: Kurt Vonnegut). Passions inclu
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Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
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Abdourahman A. Waberi
Abdourahman Waberi nació en la ciudad de Yibuti en la costa somalí francesa, actual República de Yibuti. Se fue a Francia en 1985 para estudiar literatura inglesa. Trabajó como consultor literario para Editions Le Serpent à plumes, París, y como crítico literario para Le Monde Diplomatique. Ha sido miembro del jurado internacional del Premio Lettre Ulysses para el Art of Reportage (Arte del Reportaje) en Berlín, Alemania (2003 y 2004).
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Orhan Pamuk
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer.
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Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red and Snow. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.
Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix -
Renate Rasp
Renate Rasp was the daughter of German actor Fritz Rasp. After attending a high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin, she began studying acting in 1954. She then studied painting for at the Berlin University of the Arts and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She worked as a commercial graphic artist and started writing in 1965.
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She gained attention in 1967 at the last meeting of the so-called Gruppe 47 with her irreverent and provocative poems; in 1968, she caused a stir again at the Frankfurt Book Fair by giving her reading topless. Her debut novel, Ein ungeratener Sohn—a "pitch-black parable" about "educational torture"—was generally well received by critics. However, her subsequent publications, which often dealt with sadistic and masoch -
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist whose powerful, psychologically rich works made her one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. Best known for her medieval sagas Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928 for her vivid portrayals of life in the Middle Ages, written with remarkable historical detail and emotional depth.
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Born in Denmark to Norwegian parents, Undset spent most of her life in Norway. After her father's early death, she had to forgo formal education and worked as a secretary while writing in her spare time. Her debut novel Fru Marta Oulie (1907) shocked readers with its opening confession of adultery and established her bold, realist style. -
Dina Nayeri
Dina Nayeri is a graduate of Princeton, Harvard Business School, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. She spends her time in New York and Iowa City.
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Patrick Chamoiseau
Patrick Chamoiseau is a French author from Martinique known for his work in the créolité movement.
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Chamoiseau was born on December 3, 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where he currently resides. After he studied law in Paris he returned to Martinique inspired by Édouard Glissant to take a close interest in Creole culture. Chamoiseau is the author of a historical work on the Antilles under the reign of Napoléon Bonaparte and several non-fiction books which include Éloge de la créolité (In Praise of Creoleness), co-authored with Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. Awarded the Prix Carbet (1990) for Antan d’enfance. His novel Texaco was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1992, and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It has been -
Lília Momplé
Nasceu em 1935, na Ilha de Moçambique. É licenciada em Serviço Social pelo ISSSL. Depois de viver algum tempo em Inglaterra e no Brasil, regressou definitivamente a Moçambique, em 1971. Tem representado o seu país em vários eventos internacionais e integrou o Conselho Executivo da UNESCO em Paris, de 2001 a 2005. É membro de honra da Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, onde já exerceu os cargos de Presidente e Secretária-Geral. A sua obra encontra-se traduzida em inglês, francês, alemão, italiano e sueco, e representada em várias antologias nacionais e estrangeiras.
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Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ludmilla Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Петрушевская) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.
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Her works include the novels The Time Night (1992) and The Number One, both short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and Immortal Love, a collection of short stories and monologues. Since the late 1980s her plays, stories and novels have been published in more than 30 languages. In 2003 she was awarded the Pushkin Prize in Russian literature by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. She was awarded the Russian State Prize for arts (2004), the Stanislavsky Award (2005), and the Triumph Prize (2006). -
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.
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Shenaz Patel
Shenaz Patel is a journalist and writer from the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. She has been a Reuter fellow, worked as editor in chief of a political newspaper, before setting up of the arts, culture and society section of one of Mauritius' biggest weekly where she still works as a columnist.
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Patel has published four novels, numerous short stories in French and Mauritian Creole, two plays, three graphic novels, and four children's books. She was an IWP (International Writers Program) Honorary Fellow in the U.S. in 2016, and was a fellow at the Hutchins Centre-W.E.B du Bois Institute at Harvard University in 2018.