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Nicholas Monsarrat

Born on Rodney Street in Liverpool, Monsarrat was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He intended to practise law. The law failed to inspire him, however, and he turned instead to writing, moving to London and supporting himself as a freelance writer for newspapers while writing four novels and a play in the space of five years (1934–1939). He later commented in his autobiography that the 1931 Invergordon Naval Mutiny influenced his interest in politics and social and economic issues after college.

Though a pacifist, Monsarrat served in World War II, first as a member of an ambulance brigade and then as a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). His lifelong love of sailing made him a capable naval officer, and

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Arne Dahl

Arne Dahl is the pen name of Jan Arnald, an internationally known Swedish crime author and literary critic.

His writing can also be seen in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pseudonym he has written the A-gruppen (Intercrime) series, involving the A-team, a group highly trained in dealing with criminal cases in Sweden.

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Yannis Maris

Yannis Maris (Greek: Γιάννης Μαρής) also known as Yannis Maris-Tsirimokos, Giannis Haniotis, was a novelist and screenwriter.

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Γιάννης Μόσχος / Giannis Moschos

Ο Γιάννης Μόσχος (γεν. 1982) μεγάλωσε στη Γάβριανη του νομού Μαγνησίας. Σπούδασε Οικονομικές Επιστήμες στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Μένει στην Αθήνα. Γράφει στίχους και ιστορίες.
Το 2019 εκδόθηκε το πρώτο του μυθιστόρημα με τίτλο Τοκορόρο, το οποίο συμπεριλήφθηκε στη μικρή λίστα βραβείων του περιοδικού Αναγνώστης, στην κατηγορία «Πρωτοεμφανιζόμενοι πεζογράφοι».
Το 2021 εκδόθηκε από τις εκδόσεις Τόπος το δεύτερο μυθιστόρημά "Και οι τέσσερις ήταν απαίσιοι".
Το 2025 εκδόθηκε το μυθιστόρημα "Αμνοί και λέοντες"
Διάφορα διηγήματά του έχουν συμπεριληφθεί σε συλλογές.
Δημιουργός του podcast "Crime Fiction Explained" όπου συζητά με ειδικούς του είδους θεωρητικά θέματα αστυνομικής λογοτεχνίας.
Είναι μέλος της ΕΛΣΑΛ (Ελληνική Λέσχη Συγγραφέων Αστυνομικής Λογοτεχνίας)

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James Herriot

James Herriot is the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight, an English veterinary surgeon and writer. Wight is best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small, a title used in some editions and in film and television adaptations.

In 1939, at the age of 23, he qualified as a veterinary surgeon with Glasgow Veterinary College. In January 1940, he took a brief job at a veterinary practice in Sunderland, but moved in July to work in a rural practice based in the town of Thirsk, Yorkshire, close to the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. The original practice is now a museum, "The World of James Herriot

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Christobel Kent

Christobel Kent was born in London in 1962 and now lives in Cambridge with her husband and four children; in between she lived in Florence. She worked in publishing for several years, most recently as Publicity Director at Andre Deutsch. Her debut novel A Party in San Niccolo, was published in 2003.

Series:
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Kostis Gimosoulis

Greek: Κωστής Γκιμοσούλης

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Archer Mayor

Over the years, Archer Mayor has been photographer, teacher, historian, scholarly editor, feature writer, travel writer, lab technician, political advance man, medical illustrator, newspaper writer, history researcher, publications consultant, constable, and EMT/firefighter. He is also half Argentine, speaks two languages, and has lived in several countries on two continents.

All of which makes makes him restless, curious, unemployable, or all three. Whatever he is, it’s clearly not cured, since he’s currently a novelist, a death investigator for Vermont’s medical examiner, and a police officer.

Archer has been producing the Joe Gunther novels since 1988, some of which have made the “ten best” or “most notable” lists of the Los Angeles and th

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Leonardo Sciascia

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Duško Popov

Dušan "Duško" Popov (born in Titel, Austria-Hungary, now Serbia) was a double agent working for the British intelligence agency MI6 during World War II under the code name "Tricycle" and for the German intelligence agency Abwehr under the code name "Ivan".

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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Geoffrey Household

British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978) .

In 1922 Household received his B.A. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 1922 and 1935 worked in commerce ab

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and singer.

Cleese is probably best known for his various roles in the British comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus, his role as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers and his various roles in the British comedy The Frost Report. He also played the role of Archie Leach in the American / British comedy film A Fish Called Wanda.

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Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.

Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an

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Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher and set off on a world tour that didn't ever come to an end. He worked as a Physical Education instructor in Israel, a primary school teacher in Australia, a counselor for educationally handicapped adults in the US, and a university lecturer in Japan. But the greater part of his latter years has been spent in Southeast Asia. Colin has taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series; English By Accident, for Thai national television.

Ten years ago, Colin became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for

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Linda Leaming

Linda Leaming went to Bhutan for the first time in 1994. "A nice diversion," is how the travel agent described it. It was. And it still is. She found a home and a voice among the remote and mysterious Himalayan mountains. She also found romance with an intriguing Bhutanese painter. Her work has appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, Mandala, Guardian UK, A Woman’s Asia (Travelers’ Tales, 2005), and many other publications. Eric Weiner included her in his 2008 bestseller, The Geography of Bliss. Originally from Nashville, she has an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona, and she regularly speaks about Bhutan at colleges, churches, seminars, and book groups. She is married to the renowned Bhutanese thanka painter, Phurba Namgay. Find he

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Eugenia Fakinou

Greek: Ευγενία Φακίνου

Η Ευγενία Φακίνου είναι Ελληνίδα λογοτέχνης και γραφίστρια.

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Vittorio Zucconi

Vittorio Zucconi, nato a Bastiglia il 16 agosto 1944, è un giornalista e scrittore italiano.
Laureato in lettere e filosofia all'Università degli Studi di Milano, è il figlio del giornalista Guglielmo Zucconi (che fu direttore de Il Giorno). Ha la doppia cittadinanza, italiana e, più recentemente, americana.
È stato corrispondente da Bruxelles per La Stampa di Torino, da Parigi per la Repubblica, dalla Russia durante il periodo della Guerra Fredda e dal Giappone. Da diversi anni vive a Washington, dove ricopre l'incarico di corrispondente dagli Stati Uniti per la Repubblica. In passato ha lavorato per il Corriere della Sera e La Stampa.
È attualmente direttore del quotidiano on-line la Repubblica.it e di Radio Capital. Cura inoltre una rubrica

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Simon Tolkien

Simon Tolkien is the author of No Man’s Land , Orders from Berlin, The King of Diamonds, The Inheritance, and Final Witness. He studied modern history at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to become a London barrister specializing in criminal defense. Simon is the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien and is a director of the Tolkien Estate. In 2022 he was named as series consultant to the Amazon TV series The Rings of Power. He lives with his wife, vintage fashion author Tracy Tolkien, and their two children, Nicholas and Anna, in Southern California. Follow Simon at https://www.simontolkien.com/

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Christopher Fowler

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Christopher Fowler was an English writer known for his Bryant & May mystery series, featuring two Golden Age-style detectives navigating modern London. Over his career, he authored fifty novels and short story collections, along with screenplays, video games, graphic novels, and audio plays. His psychological thriller Little Boy Found was published under the pseudonym L.K. Fox.
Fowler's accolades include multiple British Fantasy Awards, the Last Laugh Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library, and the inaugural Green Carnation Award. He was inducted into the Detection Club in 2021. Beyond crime fiction, his works ranged from horror (Hell Train, Nyctophobia) to m

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Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.

Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.

He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories

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Jordi Sierra i Fabra

1947
—Born in Barcelona, July 26th.
1955
—Serious accident. First literary incursions.
1959
—First full-length novel, 500 pages. Firm intention to become a writer.
1964
—Graduates from high school. Attends technical school at night and works during the day for a construction company.
1968
—First professional attempts in the musical field. Founder of and collaborator in El Gran Musical radio programme (Cadena SER, Madrid). Additional collaborations with Radio Barcelona.
—Writes articles and collaborations for La Prensa in Barcelona and for Nuevo Diario in Madrid.
1969
—Correspondent for El Gran Musical in Barcelona.
1970
—Quits job and studies to work full-time as a music critic. Manages the weekly magazine Disco Express.
—Starts travelling all over the wo

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Leonardo Sciascia

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Elizabeth Bear

What Goodreads really needs is a "currently WRITING" option for its default bookshelves...

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Seishi Yokomizo

Seishi Yokomizo (横溝正史) was a novelist in Shōwa period Japan.
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

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Behcet Kaya

Behcet Kaya is the author of nine novels. His first literary fiction novel, Voice of Conscience, follows, to some extent, his own life experiences. His second novel, Murder on the Naval Base is a fast-paced who-done-it, his recently published third novel, Road to Siran, Erin’s Story is the eagerly awaited sequel to Voice of Conscience and the fourth Treacherous Estate is a crime thriller and the fifth Body in the Woods, Appellant Judge. Murder in Buckhead, Uncanny Alliance, Deception.

Born in northeastern Turkey, Behcet grew up in a very small village with long held traditions. His rebellious nature emerged at an early age and by time he was ten, he had read, in secret, all the Turkish translated stories of Mike Hammer. In addition, he read

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Tuna Kiremitçi

Tuna Kiremitçi (b. February 1973, Eskişehir) is a contemporary Turkish author.

His first poems were published in the magazine Varlık during his Galatasaray High School years. His book entitled "Ayabakanlar" (Moon Watchers) that won him the "Yaşar Nabi Nayır" Award for Poetry met his readers in 1994. In 1997 he shared the "Erguvan Balkan Poetry Award with the Bosnian poet Izzet Saraylic. This was followed by his second book of poems "Akademi" (Academy) in 1998.

Tuna Kiremitçi's first novel "Git Kendini Çok Sevdirmeden" (Leave Before I Fall in) that came out in 2002 excited great interest and was acknowledged as one of the most important literary events of that year. His second novel "Bu İşte Bir Yalnızlık Var" (Way of Loneliness) and "Bazı Şii

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Antonio Albanese

Antonio Albanese, divenuto noto grazie alla esilarante galleria di personaggi di "Mai dire gol" negli anni '90 si è poi rivelato negli anni successivi uno degli attori più interessanti del panorama comico italiano. E non solo comico, perché la sua carriera inizia come attore drammatico e le sue doti in questo campo non sono certo da trascurare.

Nato ad Olginate (Lecco) il 10 ottobre 1964 da una famiglia di origine siciliana, Antonio Albanese si iscrive alla Civica Scuola d'Arte Drammatica di Milano, dove si diploma nel 1991.

Debutta come attore di cabaret al teatro Zelig di Milano, partecipa al "Maurizio Costanzo Show", al varietà condotto da Paolo Rossi "Su la testa...!" (1992), alla trasmissione "Mai dire gol" (1993): in quest'ultima, mette

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Antonio Manzini

Antonio Manzini (Roma, 1964) è un attore, sceneggiatore, regista e scrittore italiano.

Antonio Manzini is an Italian actor, director, novelist and scriptwriter.

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Marco Malvaldi

Marco Malvaldi is an Italian chemist and novelist, best known for his crime novels.

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Michael F. Haspil

Michael F. Haspil is a geeky engineer and nerdy artist. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he had the opportunities to serve as an ICBM crew commander and as a launch director at Cape Canaveral. The art of storytelling called to him from a young age and he has plied his craft over many years and through diverse media. He has written original stories for as long as he can remember and has dabbled in many genres. However, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror have whispered directly to his soul.

When he isn’t writing, you can find him sharing stories with his role-playing group, cosplaying, computer gaming, or collecting and creating replica movie props. Lately, he devotes the bulk of his hobby time to assembling and painting miniatures for his t

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Valerio Varesi

Valerio Varesi, nato a Torino nel 1959, vive a Parma e lavora nella redazione de La Repubblica di Bologna. Romanziere eclettico, è il creatore del commissario Soneri, protagonista dei polizieschi che hanno ispirato le serie televisive "Nebbie e delitti" con Luca Barbareschi (distribuite anche negli Stati Uniti). I romanzi con protagonista Soneri sono tradotti in tutto il mondo, e nel 2011 Valerio Varesi è stato finalista al CWA International Dagger, il premio internazionale per la narrativa gialla. Parallelamente Varesi ha iniziato la propria personale ricognizione della recente Storia italiana con tre romanzi generosi e appassionanti: La sentenza, Il rivoluzionario e Lo stato di ebbrezza

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Marcello Simoni

Ex archeologo, laureato in Lettere, svolge attualmente il lavoro di bibliotecario. Ha pubblicato diversi saggi storici, soprattutto per la rivista specialistica Analecta Pomposiana. Molte delle sue ricerche riguardano l'abbazia di Pomposa, con speciale attenzione agli affreschi medievali che raffigurano scene del Vecchio e del Nuovo Testamento e dell'Apocalisse.

Sul fronte della narrativa ha partecipato all’antologia 365 racconti horror per un anno, a cura di Franco Forte. Altri suoi racconti sono usciti per la rivista letteraria Writers Magazine Italia[3].

Il suo primo romanzo, Il mercante di libri maledetti, è un thriller medievale che ruota intorno alla figura di Ignazio da Toledo, mercante di reliquie mozarabo, e a uno sfuggente manoscrit

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Peter Moore

Peter Moore (born 18 July 1962) is an Australian travel writer.

Moore, who was born in Sydney, claims to have visited 99 countries. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in London. He has published many books that re-tell tales of his travels.

He is a Vespa enthusiast and his 2005 book Vroom with a View and 2007 book Vroom by the Sea feature trips through Italy taken on vintage Italian motorscooters.

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Beppe Severgnini

Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini (born December 26, 1956) is an Italian journalist, writer and columnist.

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Marco Malvaldi

Marco Malvaldi is an Italian chemist and novelist, best known for his crime novels.

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Barbara Nadel

Barbara Nadel is an English crime-writer. Many of her books are set in Turkey. Born in the East End of London, Barbara Nadel trained as an actress before becoming a writer. Now writing full-time, she has previously worked as a public relations officer for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship's Good Companion Service and as a mental health advocate for the mentally disordered in a psychiatric hospital. She has also worked with sexually abused teenagers and taught psychology in schools and colleges, and is currently the patron of a charity that cares for those in emotional and mental distress. She has been a regular visitor to Turkey for more than twenty-five years.

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Viola Di Grado

Viola Di Grado was born in Catania in 1987. She lived in Kyoto, Leeds and London, where she earned her MA in East Asian philosophies. Her widely translated first novel- Settanta acrilco trenta lana (70% Acrylic 30% Wool) published when she was 23- was the winner of the prestigious 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and the Rapallo Opera Prima Award. It was also longlisted for the Strega Award and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and journals.

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Lori Gottlieb

LORI GOTTLIEB is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE, which has sold nearly two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series. In addition to her clinical practice, she is co-host of the popular “DEAR THERAPISTS" PODCAST, which features real sessions with real people and offers actionable advice, and writes The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year.

She is the creator of the Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Ma

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Michael Dibdin

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lived in Seattle. After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen.

Dibdin was married three times, most recently to the novelist K. K. Beck. His death in 2007 followed a short illness.

Series:
* Aurelio Zen

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novels to date have been set in India, told from the perspective of Parsis, and explore themes of family life, poverty, discrimination, and the corrupting influence of society.

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Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Alicia Giménez Bartlett was born in Almansa, Spain, in 1951 and has lived in Barcelona since 1975. After the enormous success of her first novels, she decided to leave her work as a teacher of Spanish literature, to dedicate herself full-time to writing. In 1997, she was awarded the Feminino Lumen prize for the best female writer in Spain. She subsequently launched her Petra Delicado series, quickly making her into one of Spain’s most popular and loved crime writers.

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Mariolina Venezia

Mariolina Venezia (Matera, 1961) è una scrittrice e sceneggiatrice italiana.
Vive a Roma, dopo aver vissuto a lungo in Francia.
È autrice del romanzo che nel 2007 ha vinto il premio Campiello: Mille anni che sto qui, edito da Einaudi, saga familiare ambientata a Grottole, piccolo comune della Basilicata, che narra le vicende umane di cinque generazioni dall'Unità d'Italia fino alla caduta del muro di Berlino.
Nel 2009 si è cimentata con il genere del giallo, pubblicando per Einaudi Come piante tra i sassi, ambientato a Matera, nuovamente in Basilicata. Segue il romanzo "Da Dove Viene il vento", pubblicato sempre per Einaudi, "Maltempo", che ha come protagonista Imma Tataranni, la stessa PM conosciuta in "Come piante tra i sassi".
Ha pubblicato

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Daniel Chavarría

Daniel Chavarria was an Uruguayan revolutionary and writer, who lived in Cuba since the 1960s.
Together with Justo E. Vasco received the award MININT in 1982 for Completo Camaguey, and in 1983 for Primero muerto.

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Francisco García Pavón

Doctor en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Madrid con una tesis sobre Leopoldo Alas Clarín como narrador. Mientras hacía las prácticas de la milicia universitaria en Oviedo, escribió su primera novela, Cerca de Oviedo, que quedó finalista del Premio Nadal en 1945, en la segunda edición del premio, tras la primera ganada por Carmen Laforet con "Nada", quién precisamente animó a García Pavón a presentarse al citado premio literario. Profesor en la Escuela de Arte Dramático de Madrid. Cultivó la novela, el ensayo y la crítica teatral, pero destaca en especial por sus relatos, en los que era un maestro que hay que situar al lado del otro gran modelo de este género en su época, Ignacio Aldecoa. Están narrados en un cuidado estilo de raig

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Dominique Lapierre

Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to America with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). He attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the "New Orleans Item". He developed interests in travelling, writing and cars and later traveled across the United States as a young man.

In the early 1950s Lapierre was conscripted into the French army. After one year in a tank regiment, he was transferred to SHAPE headquarters to serve as an interpreter. There he met a young American Army corporal, Larry Collins, a Yale graduate and draftee. They became instant friends. When Collins was discharged he was offered a job with Procter &

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Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses meta-fiction in his works, writing stories within stories.

Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled "A Novel about the History of Philosophy." This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print, with three million copies sold in Germany alone.

In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000

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Marie Curie

Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irène Joliot-Curie

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Veit Heinichen

Veit Heinichen, né en 1957, a été journaliste, éditeur puis cofondateur de la maison d'édition Berlin Verlag en 1994. Amoureux de la ville de Trieste depuis sa première visite en 1980, il y vit désormais comme journaliste et écrivain.

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Leo Bruce

Pseudonym for Rupert Croft-Cooke.

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Larry Kahn

Larry Kahn, the author of The Jinx and King of Paine, successfully negotiated the fast-paced world of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions for twenty years, first at a major New York law firm and then at an Atlanta Fortune 500 company. He penned The Jinx while on sabbatical in 1999 and is now devoted to writing fiction full time. Many of his more cynical legal clients and associates have accused him of writing fiction full time for many years. He resides in Atlanta with his family.

Larry developed a keen interest in social issues while attending Yale Law School, an idealistic spirit that continues to spice his novels. The vision of a colorblind America in his political thriller The Jinx led to endorsements by leaders of the AC

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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter.

He studied Philosophy at Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona and was also a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. For many years, he contributed columns and articles to the Madrid-based daily newspaper El País.

He died in Bangkok, Thailand, while returning to his home country from a speaking tour of Australia. His last book, La aznaridad, was published posthumously.

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Alesia Matson

My side hustle is counted cross stitch design. You can find out more about that here: http://metaphorpublications.com/wp/gc...

Besides my husband Michael, I'm companion to our dogs Anniel and MacDuff, and preferred minion for our cat Libby. We're all living and working in a 38' fifth wheel, and looking forward to a few years of traveling around the country to meet friends, family, and fans.

Current Projects:

* The first draft for Seven for a Secret is begun. I'd estimate Michael and I are about 10% into it.

* I'm reading and rehearsing the first chapters of Raven's Tears for our podcast reproductions of the Raven & Iris trilogy.

* The manuscript for the first Demon Gate novella is underway.

* Michael and I have been and continue to rev

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Gesualdo Bufalino

Gesualdo Bufalino (Comiso, Italy, November 15, 1920 - June 14, 1996), was an Italian writer. Born in Comiso (Sicily), he studied literature and was, for most of his life a high-school professor in his hometown. The time spent in an hospital for tuberculosis immediately after World War II provided the material for the novel Diceria dell'untore (The Plague Sower), that, begun in 1950, would be published only in 1981, when, at the age of 61, his friend and celebrated writer Leonardo Sciascia discovered his talents. In 1988, the novel Le menzogne della notte (Night's Lies) won the Strega Prize. In 1990 he won the Nino Martoglio International Book Award. In his native town the Biblioteca di Bufalino ("Bufalino's Library") is now named after him.

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.
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Martin Page

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French author: Martin Page
Botanist: Martin Page

MARTIN PAGE was one of the leading correspondents of the Daily Express when the Beaverbrook foreign service was among the most lavishly funded in Fleet Street. He was head of the Express bureaux in three world capitals — Paris, Moscow and Rome — and he reported wars from Algeria and Congo to Vietnam. Then his declining eyesight was diagnosed as untreatable and, faced with the prospect of the end of his travelling life, he started a new career as an author.

His novel, The Man Who Stole The Mona Lisa, was an instant success and hailed by The Times as one of the best two thrillers of its year. He also wrote The Good Doctors Guide, an assessment of the sk

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Jean-Bernard Pouy

Jean-Bernard Pouy, né le 2 janvier 1946 à Paris, est un écrivain libertaire français de roman noir et un directeur de collections littéraires.

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David Ritz Finkelstein

David Ritz Finkelstein was an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. David Finkelstein was the first, in 1958, who identified Schwarzschild's solution of the Einstein field equations as corresponding to a region in space from which nothing escapes. Most of Finkelstein's work is directed toward a quantum theory of space-time structure. He early on accepted the conclusion of John von Neumann that anomalies of quantum mechanical measurement are anomalies of the logic of quantum mechanical systems. Therefore, he formed quantum analogues of set theory, the standard language for classical space-time structures, and proposed that space-time is a quantum set of space-time quanta dubbed "chronons", a form of quantum co

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Marco Belpoliti

Marco Belpoliti (Reggio nell'Emilia, 1954) è uno scrittore e critico letterario italiano.

Marco Belpoliti si laurea presso la Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia dell'Università di Bologna nel 1978, discutendo una tesi in Semiotica con Umberto Eco. Insegna Sociologia della letteratura e Letteratura italiana presso l'Università di Bergamo.

Nel 1981 ha fondato, insieme ad altri, la rivista In forma di parole e la casa editrice Elitropia. Ha collaborato a Nuovi Argomenti durante gli anni ottanta. Dal 1981 collabora stabilmente alle pagine culturali del quotidiano il manifesto, e in particolare all'inserto Alias.

Fondatore e direttore editoriale con Stefano Chiodi del sito culturale Doppiozero

(Wikipedia) .

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Charles Glass

Charles Glass is an author, journalist and broadcaster, who specializes in the Middle East. He made headlines when taken hostage for 62 days in Lebanon by Shi’a militants in 1987, while writing a book during his time as ABC’s News chief Middle East correspondent. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, the London Review of Books and The Spectator. He is the author of Syria Burning, Tribes with Flags, Money for Old Rope, The Tribes Triumphant, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris and Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.

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Agnès Humbert

Agnès Humbert was an art historian, ethnographer and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She has become well known through the publication of a translation of the diary of her experiences during the War in France and in German prisons at the time of the Nazi occupation.

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Katharina Peters

Katharina Peters (Pseudonym für Manuela Kuck) ist in Wolfsburg geboren und hat viele Jahre in Berlin und Brandenburg gelebt. Nun hat sie ihren Lebensmittelpunkt nach Schleswig-Holstein verlegt, doch sie liebt die gesamte Ostseeküste und fühlt sich heimisch auf Rügen. Sie schreibt Krimis und Thriller, Romane, Kurzgeschichten. Wichtiger Motivator, Wegbereiter und Taktgeber: Agent Dirk Meynecke.

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Alessandra Arachi

Giornalista e scrittrice, scrive per il Corriere della Sera.

Pubblicazioni

2007 - E se incontrassi un uomo perbene?, Sonzogno editore, EAN 9788845414077
2006 - Lunatica. Storia di una mente bipolare, Rizzoli editore, EAN 9788817013826
1997 - Unico indizio: la normalità. L'Italia a sud dell'Italia, Feltrinelli editore, EAN 9788807814167
1995 - Leoncavallo Blues
1994 - Briciole, Feltrinelli editore, EAN 9788807812552

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Kathleen Gerard

Kathleen Gerard is a writer whose work has been awarded The Perillo Prize, The Eric Hoffer Prose Award and nominated for Best New American Voices and Short Story America, all national prizes in literature. Kathleen writes across genres. Her short prose and poetry have been widely published in magazines, journals and anthologies. Her essays have been broadcast on National Public Radio (NPR).

Kathleen’s woman-in-jeopardy novel In Transit won The New York Book Festival – “Best Romantic Fiction” (2011). Kathleen is a book reviewer for and a contributor to Shelf Awareness and maintains the blog, “Reading Between the Lines.”

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Loriano Macchiavelli

He is an Italian mystery writer and playwright.
He worked also a theatre impresario, actor and playwright.
As a writer, his most famous character is Sarti Antonio[1] (surname written first), a Bolognese police detective, characterized by a strong morality but mediocre investigative capabilities; in his tales he is often helped by the sharper mind of Rosas, a smart university student. Sarti's stories have been turned into a television series in 1991, followed by an Italian-German co-production of six films, broadcast in April and May 1994. He was also the protagonist of a comics series published in the Italian magazine Orient Express.
More recently, Macchiavelli has written a series of detective novels in collaboration with singer-songwriter Fr

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Li Yu

Li Yu (Chinese: 李漁; pinyin: Lǐ Yú, given name: 仙侣 Xiānlǚ; style name: 笠翁 Lìwēng) (1610—1680 AD), also known as Li Liweng was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher. Born in Rugao, in present day Jiangsu province, he lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties. Although he passed the first stage of the imperial examination, he did not succeed in passing the higher levels before the political turmoil of the new dynasty, but instead turned to writing for the market. Li was an actor, producer, and director as well as a playwright, who traveled with his own troupe. His biographers call him a "writer-entrepreneur" and the “most versatile and enterprising writer of his time”.

Li is the presumed author of Ròu pútuán (肉蒲團, The Carnal Prayer

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Antoinette Borg

Antoinette Borg (imwielda fl-1973) iggradwat bħala accountant u għal għoxrin sena kienet taħdem bħala business advisor waqt li toħlom li xi darba ssir kittieba. Fl-2015 ħalliet ix-xogħol biex tipprova twettaq il-ħolma tagħha, u fl-2016 ippubblikat l-ewwel rumanz tagħha, Fittixni , li eventwalment rebaħ il-Premju Terramaxka fil-kategorija Xogħlijiet Oriġinali: Kotba għall-Adolexxenti. Fl-2018 ippubblikat it-tieni rumanz tagħha, (Ri)ġenerazzjoni, li bħala manuskritt kien rebbieħ tal-Konkors ta' Kitba Letteratura għaż-Żgħażagħ 2016. Iktar tard fl-2018 Antoinette ngħatat il-premju għall-Aħjar Awtur Emerġenti mill-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb u ppubblikat it-tielet rumanz tagħha, Amina. Antoinette toqgħod il-Mellieħa ma’ żewġha Brian u ż-żew

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Karolina Waclawiak

Karolina Waclawiak is the author of the critically acclaimed novels How to Get Into the Twin Palms and THE INVADERS.

Her third novel, Life Events, will be published by FSG on May 19, 2020.

AWOL, a feature she co-wrote with Deb Shoval, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and has received praise from The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Marie Claire, and more.

Formerly an editor at the Believer, she is now the Executive Editor, Culture at BuzzFeed News.

Karolina received her BFA in Screenwriting from USC and her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, VQR, the Believer, Hazlitt, and other publications.

www.karolinawaclawiak.com

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Valerio Evangelisti

Valerio Evangelisti è stato uno dei più importanti scrittori italiani di genere fantasy e horror. Si è laureato in scienze politiche, indirizzo storico-politico, e ha intrapreso una carriera accademica interrotta verso il 1990, alternata all'attività di funzionario del Ministero delle finanze. Dopo avere numerosi saggi, si è dedicato interamente alla narrativa. Nel 1994 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, che ha vinto il Premio Urania. Sono seguiti seguiti altri numerosi romanzi, tradotti in più di dieci lingue.

Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
Until 1990 his career was mainly academic. He also worked for the Italian Ministero dell

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Mark Johnson

Is a Knight Professor os Liberal Arts and Sciencesin the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

Mark Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on May 24, 1949. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and English at the University of Kansas (1971) and his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago (1977). He taught in the Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois from 1977 until 1994, and then moved to the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon (1994-present). He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is co-author, with George Lakoff, of Metaphors We Live By (Chicago, 2003) and Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to West

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Alan Winfield

Alan F.T. Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Visiting Professor at the University of York.

He received his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Hull in 1984, then co-founded and led APD Communications Ltd until taking-up appointment at UWE, Bristol in 1992.

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Chiara Frugoni

Chiara Frugoni è stata una storica italiana, specialista del Medioevo e di storia della Chiesa.

Figlia del medievista Arsenio Frugoni, si è laureata nell'Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" nel 1964 con una tesi dal titolo "Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana", dove già si fa strada la ricerca di un metodo di lavoro che tenga in uguale conto testi e immagini, metodo che considererà sempre importante nella convinzione espressa che «l'immagine parla».

Ha sposato Salvatore Settis nel 1965: dal matrimonio sono nati tre figli. Nel 1991 è passata a nuove nozze con Donato Cioli.

Nel 1965 è stata ammessa al Diploma di perfezionamento alla Scuola Normale Superiore, e nel 1974 è approdata all'insegnamento un

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Michael Pearce

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He returned there later to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. He retired from his academic post to write full time.

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Magdalen Nabb

MAGDALEN NABB was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. In 1975 she abandoned pottery, sold her home and her car, and came to Florence with her son, knowing nobody and speaking no Italian. She has lived there ever since, and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

She has written fourteen crime novels featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri, all set in Florence, which she describes as 'a very secret city. Walk down any residential street and you have no idea what is going on behind those blank walls. It's a problem the Marshal comes up against all the time.'

Magdalen Nabb also writes the immensely successful Josie Smith books, set in her native Lancashire, which form the basis of the Granada children

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Elémire Zolla

Elémire Zolla was an Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion. He was a connoisseur of esoteric doctrines and a scholar of Eastern and Western mysticism.

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Dora Giannakopoulou

Greek: Nτόρα Γιαννακοπούλου

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W.R. Burnett

William Riley "W. R." Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel Little Caesar, the film adaptation of which is considered the first of the classic American gangster movies. Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio. He left his civil service job there to move to Chicago when he was 28, by which time he had written over 100 short stories and five novels, all unpublished.

Burnett kept busy, producing a novel or more a year and turning most into screenplays (some as many as three times). Thematically Burnett was similar to Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain but his contrasting of the corruption and corrosion of the city with the better life his characters yearned for, represented by the paradise of the

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Luis Alfredo Martínez

Escritor, pintor y político ecuatoriano, de marcada tendencia liberal y amigo del presidente Eloy Alfaro. Entre los cargos públicos que ocupó se cuentan Diputado al Congreso Nacional por la Provincia de Tungurahua, Gobernador de la misma provincia y Subsecretario del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública. En el ámbito literario, es considerado el iniciador del realismo en el país. En la pintura fue uno de los pocos pintores romanticistas y de los primeros costumbristas que enriquecieron las artes plásticas durante las primeras décadas republicanas.

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Esmahan Aykol

Esmahan Aykol began her writing career as a journalist. Today she is a fiction writer, best known for her "Kati Hirschel" mystery novels.
Aykol's fiction touches upon stereotypes of Turks and Europeans (eg. the character of Kati Hirschel is a reverse of the norm: a German immigrant in Turkey).
Aykol divides her time between Istanbul and Berlin.

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Maria Bellonci

Maria Villavecchia Bellonci was an Italian writer and translator especially known for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia. She and Guido Alberti set up the Premio Strega in 1947.

Maria Bellonci nasce a Roma nel 1902. Suo padre, Girolamo Vittorio Villavecchia, insegna chimica all’università ed è autore di un celebre trattato di merceologia. Da lui Maria dirà di aver appreso il rigore della ricerca scientifica. Frequenta l’Istituto del Sacro Cuore a Trinità dei Monti e il liceo Umberto I. Di questi anni, già intellettualmente vivaci, ricorderà «il senso di vita traboccante […] per il quale mi pareva d’essere chiusa in una mandorla d’immortalità».

Luisa Avellini, 'Bellonci, Maria', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (2012).

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Moheb Costandi

Moheb Costandi, trained as a neuroscientist, is a science writer based in London whose work has appeared in publications including Nature, Science, New Scientist, and Scientific American. He is the author of Neuroplasticity (MIT Press) and 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know.

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Maria Messina

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Maria Messina (Palermo, 14 marzo 1887 – Pistoia, 19 gennaio 1944) è stata una scrittrice italiana.

Nacque a Palermo, secondo alcune fonti a Alimena, in provincia di Palermo, da Gaetano, ispettore scolastico, e Gaetana Valenza Traina, discendente di una famiglia baronale di Prizzi. Cresciuta a Messina, trascorse un'infanzia isolata, con i genitori ed i fratelli. Durante l'adolescenza, viaggiò molto, per via dei continui spostamenti del padre, finché, nel 1911, la sua famiglia si stabilì a Napoli.

All'età di ventidue anni, iniziò una fitta corrispondenza con Giovanni Verga, e tra il 1909 e il 1921, pubblicò una serie di racconti. Grazie all'appoggio di Verga, i

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