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  Nanni Balestrini

  Nanni Balestrini was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.
  Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers publishing 1961 in the anthology I Novissimi. During the 1960s, the group was growing and becoming the Gruppo 63, Balestrini was the editor of their publications. From 1962 to 1972, he was working for Feltrinelli, cooperating with the Marsilio publishers and editing some issues of the Cooperativa Scrittori.
  Balestrini's political activities are also noteworthy: in 1968, he was co-founder of the group Potere operaio, in 1976 an important supporter of the Autonomia. In

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  Georges Perec

  Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
  
  Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
  
  Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.
  
  In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi

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  Alba de Céspedes

  Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
  
  Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
  
  Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war

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  Antonio Franchini

  Antonio Franchini è nato a Napoli nel 1958. Ha esordito nel 1991 con Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi. Del 1996 è Quando scriviamo da giovani, ri­pubblicato da Avagliano nel 2003. Con Marsilio ha pubblicato Quando vi ucciderete, maestro? (1996), Acqua, sudore, ghiaccio (1998), L’abusivo (2001), Cronaca della fine (2003), Signore delle lacrime (2010), Memorie di un venditore di libri (2011). Per Mondadori è uscito Gladiatori (2005), per Gallucci il libro per bambini La principessa, la scimmia e l’elefante (2009). Nel 2020 per NNEditore ha pubblicato Il vecchio lottatore. Vive a Milano e lavora nell’editoria.

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  Goliarda Sapienza

  Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.
  
  

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  Inès Cagnati

  Inès Cagnati was born in Monclar, France, in the Aquitaine region of Lot-et-Garonne, and died in Orsay. The child of Italian immigrants, she became a French citizen but never considered herself French. With a bachelor’s degree in modern literature and a certificate for secondary-school instruction, she worked as a professor of literature at the Lycée Carnot in Paris. Cagnati was the author of four prize-winning books: Le Jour de congé (Free Day, 1973); Génie la folle (1976); Mosé, ou Le Lézard qui pleurait (1979); and Les Pipistrelles (1989).

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  Dario Voltolini

  È autore di numerose raccolte di racconti, romanzi, volumi illustrati, radiogrammi, testi di canzoni e libretti per il teatro. È stato docente e direttore della “Scuola Holden – Storytelling and Performing Arts”, curatore della collana di libri “Holden Maps” per Rizzoli, della collana di narrativa italiana Pennisole per Hopefulmonster editore, collaboratore dell’“Indice dei libri del mese”, di “Pulp” e della “Stampa” (“Tuttolibri” e “TorinoSette”), cofondatore dei blog letterari “Nazione Indiana” e “Il Primo Amore”.

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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.
  Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
  Nel 2011 vince il Premio Bagutta con il romanzo Ogni promessa.

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  Chiara Valerio

  Chiara Valerio è una scrittrice, traduttrice, editor, direttrice artistica e conduttrice radiofonica italiana.
  
  Ha conseguito un dottorato in Matematica all'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. È redattrice della rivista Nuovi Argomenti e ha collaborato al blog letterario Nazione Indiana. Ha scritto per il teatro e per la radio, ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore e l'Unità e con la trasmissione culturale “Pane quotidiano”, Rai 3. Per l'editrice Nottetempo ha diretto la collana "narrativa.it", dedicata ai nuovi scrittori della narrativa italiana. Con Nanni Moretti, Valia Santella e Gaia Manzini ha scritto il soggetto del film di Nanni Moretti Mia madre, con Gianni Amelio e Alberto Taraglio ha scritto il soggetto del film di Gianni Amel

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  Donatella Di Pietrantonio

  Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.
  
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  Zerocalcare

  Zerocalcare sul finire del 2011 ha quasi 28 anni e per un sacco di tempo ha fatto soprattutto fumettacci sulle fanzine fotocopiate e locandine per concerti punk hardcore. Oltre ad un numero sterminato di autoproduzioni nel circuito dei centri sociali, ha collaborato anche con il quotidiano "Liberazione" (pagina delle illustrazioni, ormai chiusa), il settimanale "Carta" (chiuso), i mensili "XL" di Repubblica (spazio Italian underground, chiuso) e "Canemucco" (chiuso) e la divisione online della DC comics, Zuda.com (chiusa). Tra le collaborazioni che non è riuscito a far chiudere c’è il settimanale "Internazionale", l’annuale antologia del fumetto indipendente "Sherwood Comix", la "Smemoranda" e frescafresca pure la rivista "Mamma!".
  
  Alla fine

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  Carla Lonzi

  Carla Lonzi (Florence, March 6, 1931 – Milan, August 2, 1982) was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.
  
  In the early 1970s, Lonzi adopted a feminist stance in relation to art. She had grown to view art as being yet another part of a system of institutions and labour which enable unequal power relations and the overall oppression of women. Lonzi became disillusioned and went as far as dismissing art criticism as a "phoney profession". She subsequently abandoned her career as an art critic and fully embraced the feminist cause.
  
  Despite her eventual negative outlook on the field of art and art criticism, Lonzi has said

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  Sayaka Murata

  Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
  She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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  Neige Sinno

  Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year.

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  Chetna Maroo

  Chetna Maroo lives in London, UK. Her stories have been published in the Paris Review, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review and she was the recipient of the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction. Western Lane is her first novel.

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  Francesca Albanese

  See also Francesca P. Albanese

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  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.
  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.

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  Uketsu

  Associated Names:
  * Uketsu
  * 雨穴
  * อุเก็ตสึ (Thai Profile)
  

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  Marina Pierri

  Half from Bari and half from Salento (thus 100% Pugliese, as she likes to say), Marina Pierri is a fan of weird science and fantastic fiction, fairy tales and happy endings. She is deeply fond of semiotics and story structure, which she also teaches. Marina has published three essays including her debut Eroine, focused on her theory of The Heroine’s Journey, a podcast called Soglie, and her first novel Gotico salentino. A reader, a watcher and a gamer, she currently lives in Milan and is working on her second novel.

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