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Kotryna Zylė

Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life that will delight readers.

Kotryna was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. While still a student, she began to dive into the visual communication of cultural heritage and became interested in Lithuanian mythology. In 2012, she began writing and illustrating children’s books and ever since her love of children’s literature, illustration, and mythology has been a source of inspiration for new books and projects.

She co-organises literature events and festivals, leads creative workshops and writes litera

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Kairi Look

Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.

Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.

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Anna Brzezińska

Urodzona w 1971 roku. Mediewistka. Obok Andrzeja Sapkowskiego jest najpopularniejszym polskim twórcą fantasy. Współwłaścicielka Agencji Wydawniczej RUNA.

Zadebiutowała opowiadaniem „A kochał ją, że strach”, które przyniosło jej Nagrodę Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla i stało się zarzewiem gorącej dyskusji o stanie polskiej współczesnej prozy fantastycznej. Opublikowała sześć książek: „Zbójecki gościniec”, „Żmijowa harfa” (za nią także otrzymała Nagrodę Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla), „Opowieści z Wilżyńskiej Doliny”, „Letni deszcz. Kielich”, „Wody głębokie jak niebo” i „Plewy na wietrze” oraz szereg opowiadań.

Zbiór fabularnie powiązanych opowiadań „Wody głębokie jak niebo” zasługuje na szczególną uwagę: opowiadanie tytułowe

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Mihkel Raud

Mihkel Raud (sündinud 18. jaanuaril 1969 Tallinnas) on eesti laulja, kitarrist, telesaatejuht ja kirjanik. Peamiselt muusikuks peetav Raud on mänginud kitarri ansamblites Golem, Metallist, Ba-Bach ja Mr. Lawrence. Praegu mängib ta kitarri (juba 26ndat aastat) ansamblis Singer Vinger ning Lenna, millega Raud liitus 2011. aasta oktoobris.

Lapsena mängis ta filmides “Keskpäev“ (1981) ja “Nukitsamees“ (1980). Ta oli üks kohtunikest saates “Eesti otsib superstaari“. Neljapäeva õhtuti intervjueeris ta nädala põnevamaid persoone TV3 jutusaates “Kolmeraudne“.

24. oktoobril 2008 ilmus tema autobiograafia „Musta pori näkku“. Teost on saatnud ülisuur müügiedu – seda on trükitud ühtekokku kuus tiraazhi (35 500 eksemplari). 2010 märtsis ilmus põnevusrom

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Rachel Herz

Rachel Sarah Herz is both a psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, and recognized expert on the psychology of smell. (Wikipedia)

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Narine Abgaryan

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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award.

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Joseph Fasano

Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the "20 Best Small Press Books of 2020." His books of poetry include The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year."

Fasano is an educator focusing on innovative learning strategies. He is the author of The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024), a coll

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Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (born Vivienne Isabel Swire) was a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.

Westwood had 11 exclusively-owned shops in UK; four in London, and one in Bicester Village, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester and Nottingham. She also has showrooms in Milan, Paris and Los Angeles.

In 1992, Westwood was awarded an OBE, which she collected from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. At the ceremony, Westwood was knicker-less, which was later captured by a photographer in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace. Westwood later said "I wished to show off my outfit by twirling the skirt. It did not occur to me that, as the photographers wer

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Ilmar Tomusk

Ilmar Tomusk on sündinud 28. juunil 1964. aastal Tallinnas. Aastatel 1971–1982 õppis Tallinna 32. Keskkoolis ning 1989. aastal lõpetas Tallinna Pedagoogilise Instituudi eesti keele ja kirjanduse õpetajana. 2002. aastal kaitses Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Humanitaar- ja Sotsiaalteaduste Instituudis doktorikraadi haldusjuhtimises. Ilmar Tomusk töötab alates 1995. aastast Keeleinspektsiooni peadirektorina.
Ilmar Tomusk on mitme populaarse lasteraamatu autor.

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Grigory Kanovich

Grigory Kanovich (also Grigorijus Kanovičius) was a Lithuanian Jewish writer and the winner of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts for 2014.

Kanovich, who wrote in Russian and Lithuanian, was born in the town of Ionava near Kaunas or, according to another source, in Kaunas itself, into the family of an observant Jewish tailor. In 1953 he graduated from Vilnius University. His first writings were published in 1949. He wrote collections of poetry in Russian: Dobroye utro ("Good Morning," 1955) and Vesenniy grom ("Spring Thunder," 1960); of literary epigrams and parodies in Lithuanian ("With a Joyful Eye," 1964; Naked Ones on Olympus, 1981); 30 plays and film scenarios (some co-authored) on contemporary themes; and he translated

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Virginija Kulvinskaitė

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Karen Young

Karen began her career as a psychologist in private practice. She has worked extensively with children teens and families, and in educational and organisation settings. She has lectured and has a Masters in Gestalt Therapy. It is through her work with children, teens and families, that she learned the power of solid information when it is placed in the solid, loving hands of parents or any important person in the life of a child.

Karen created Hey Sigmund, an internationally popular online resource, as a way to provide contemporary, research-driven information on the art of being human, and being with humans. The website has a particular emphasis on strengthening the mental wellness of children and adolescents. It attracts millions of reade

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Piret Raud

PIRET RAUD was born in 1971 in Tallinn, Estonia. She has studied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since graduating in 1995 she has been living and working in Tallinn as a graphic artist, book illustrator and author. She has illustrated over 50 books, written 21 books for children and 3 novels and 2 short story collection for adults. Her books have been translated into French, English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese and Occitan (Gascon, Languedocien and Limousin dialects).

Piret Raud has received the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award on multiple occasions, most recently for her prose in 2023.

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Mantas Adomėnas

Mantas Adomėnas (gim. 1972) – Vilniaus universiteto klasikinės filologijos studijų absolventas, Kembridžo universiteto filosofijos mokslų daktaras, politikas. Intelektualus šnipų romanas „Moneta & labirintas“ – pirma grožinė autoriaus knyga ir pirma dilogijos dalis.

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Danutė Kalinauskaitė

Danutė Kalinauskaitė – šiuolaikinė lietuvių prozininkė.

Gimė 1959 m. Kaune. Mokėsi Kauno 13-ojoje vidurinėje mokykloje, vėliau studijavo lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą Vilniaus universitete. 1987 m. pasirodė pirmoji jos knyga „Išėjusi šviesa“. Vėliau rašytoja kuriam laikui iš literatūrinio gyvenimo pasitraukė.

Po beveik šešiolikos metų pertraukos 2003 m. žurnalas „Metai“ išspausdino jos apsakymą „Namo“, kuris pelnė Danutei A. Vaičiulaičio premiją. 2008 m. įvairiuose literatūriniuose laikraščiuose pasirodančios jos novelės ir apsakymai buvo surinkti į vieną knygą „Niekada nežinai“. Knygą puikiai įvertino tiek skaitytojai, tiek kritikai. Už ją autorė buvo apdovanota Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos ir Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos instituto premij

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A.H. Tammsaare

A.H. Tammsaare, born Anton Hansen, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus; 1926 – 1933) is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel".

Tammsaare was born in 1878 into a farming family. He attended secondary school in Tartu from 1898 to 1903 and from 1903 to 1905 he worked as an editor at the Tallinn newspaper, Teataja. In Tallinn he was able to witness the Russian Revolution of 1905.

In 1907 he enrolled as a law student at Tartu University, but in 1911 he was unable to sit his finals, as he became very ill with tuberculosis. He was moved to Sochi on the Black Sea and then to the Caucasus Mountains, where his condition improved. On his return to Estonia, he lived for six y

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Colin Duriez

Colin Duriez is an English writer and scholar best known for his work on the Inklings, the literary circle that included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams. Born in Derbyshire in 1947, he moved to Leicester in 1983 to work as a commissioning editor for the publisher IVP. Over the years he has combined editorial work with teaching, and in 2002 he established his own business, InWriting, in Keswick, Cumbria, providing writing and editorial services as well as book acquisition for publishers.
Winner of the Clyde S. Kilby Award in 1994 for his research on the Inklings, Duriez has been praised as one of the most valuable contemporary scholars on Lewis. His numerous books explore the lives, friendships, and imag

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Bernardas Gailius

Bernardas Gaillius gimė 1981 metais Vilniuje. Istorikas, rašytojas ir publicistas, istorinio trilerio "Kraujo kvapas" (2022) autorius.

Greta grožinės literatūros užsiima ir akademiniais tyrimais. Yra parašęs studijas "Partizanai tada ir šiandien" (2006), "Nusikaltimai prie Smetonos" (2008), "Džeimsas Bondas. Mitas ir politika" (2017). Dėsto Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakultete.

Nuo 2003 m. bendradarbiauja su kultūros žurnalu „Naujasis Židinys-Aidai“, yra rašęs politikos ir kultūros komentarus Lietuvos radijuje, portaluose „Delfi“, „15min“, „Bernardinai.lt“, parengęs daugelį apžvalginių ir analitinių straipsnių, literatūros recenzijų, išleidęs esė rinktinę "Teisingas gyvenimas" (2019).

Gyvena Vilniuje, kuriuo nenustoja žavėtis.

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Alvydas Šlepikas

Alvydas Šlepikas - poetas, režisierius, aktorius. Gimė 1966 m. sausio 27 d. Videniškiuose (Molėtų r.). 1988 - 1994 m. mokėsi Lietuvos muzikos akademijoje, kur baigė aktoriaus ir režisieriaus specialybes. Po studijų dirbo Vilniaus Mažajame teatre, Lietuso nacionaliniame dramos teatre, savaitraštyje „Literatūra ir menas“.

1998 metais A. Šlepikui buvo skirta Zigmo Gėlės premija už eilėraščių rinkinį Taika tavo kraujui.

A. Šlepiko kūryba spausdinta „Poezijos pavasario“, „Druskininkų rudens“ ir kt. almanachuose. Jo žodžiais sukurta nemažai dainų.

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Jonas Jonasson

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.

The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.

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Justinas Žilinskas

Justinas Žilinskas (g. 1974 m. sausio 3 d. Vilniuje) – rašytojas (Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos narys), vaikų, magiškos ir mokslinės fantastikos, nuotykinės literatūros autorius, publicistas, teisininkas

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Norbertas Černiauskas

Norbertas Černiauskas – istorikas, Vilniaus universiteto dėstytojas.

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Jurga Tumasonytė

Prozininkė, literatūros kritikė.

Gimė 1988 m. birželio 22 d. Kaune.

Mokėsi Kauno „Aušros“ gimnazijoje. 2011 m. Vilniaus universitete įgijo lietuvių filologijos bakalauro laipsnį, o 2015 – literatūrologijos studijų programos filologijos magistro laipsnį. 2011 m. laimėjo Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos organizuojamą „Pirmosios knygos“ konkursą ir išleido novelių rinkinį „Dirbtinė muselė“. 2012 m. už šią knygą gavo Kazimiero Barėno literatūrinę premiją. Autorė aktyviai reiškiasi literatūriniame lauke – rašo knygų apžvalgas, rengia interviu su rašytojais ir menininkais, yra prisidėjusi prie įvairių renginių organizavimo (iš jų žymiausi – „Vilniaus literatūrinis festivalis“, audiovizualinės poezijos festivalis „Tarp“). 2010-2013 m. dalyvavo slemo turny

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Undinė Radzevičiūtė

Baigė meno istorijos, teorijos ir kritikos studijas Vilniaus Dailės Akademijoje.
Doktorantūros studijos liko nebaigtos.
Dešimtį metų dirbo tarptautinių reklamos agentūrų – "Saatchi&Saatchi" (Vilnius), "Leo Burnett Vilnius" etc. – kūrybos direktore.
Autorės knygos penkis kartus (2003, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) pateko į kūrybingiausių metų knygų shortlist‘us, ir tris kartus (2011, 2013, 2017) - į geriausių metų knygų shortlist‘us.
2015 knyga ,,Žuvys ir drakonai'' įvertinta Europos sąjungos literatūros premija, Lietuvių PEN centro išrinkta tarp geriausių dešimtmečio knygų, kritikų ir skaitytojų išrinkta į 100-uką geriausių lietuviškų knygų išleistų per pastaruosius šimtą metų.
Knyga ,,Žuvys ir drakonai'' išversta ar šiuo metu verčiama į vokiečių, ang

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Constanze von Kitzing

Constanze von Kitzing is a German illustrator of children's books.

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Valdemaras Klumbys

Valdemaras Klumbys (gim. 1979) – humanitarinių mokslų daktaras, Lietuvos istorijos instituto istorikas, Vilniaus universiteto Istorijos fakulteto dėstytojas. Jis du dešimtmečius tyrinėja pasipriešinimo sovietmečiu, sovietų Lietuvos socialinę ir kultūrinę istoriją, parašė monografiją „Stovėję po medžiu? Lietuvių inteligentijos elgesio strategijos sovietmečiu“ (2021).

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Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.

Series:
* Harry Hole
* Doktor Proktor

For exclusive content about Jo Nesbø and his books, register for the official fan newsletter: https://jonesbo.com/newsletter/

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Tõnu Õnnepalu

An Estonian author and poet who also writes as Emil Tode and Anton Nigov.

Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. He began his writing career as a poet in 1985 and has published three collections of his works. In 1993 he garnered international attention when his novel Piiririik (English translation: "Border State") was published under his pen name 'Emil Tode'. The book was translated into 14 languages and became the most translated Estonian book of the 1990s. That year, he received the annual literary award given by the Baltic Assembly.
Õnnepalu's work often explores topics such as homosexuality, isolation and betrayal.

In 1992, his poem "Inquiétude du Fini" was performed as a choral piece

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Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.

Awards:
Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing (1958)

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Mati Unt

Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director.

Unt's first novel, written at the age of 18 after having finished high school, was Hüvasti, kollane kass (Goodbye, Yellow Cat). This made him famous all over Estonia. He studied literature and journalism at Tartu University in Tartu, Estonia.

After this precocious beginning‚ Unt arranged a wide call in the artistic and intellectual circles of Estonia as a writer of the fiction, plays, and criticism. His books The Moon Like the Outgoing Sun, The Debt (1964), On the Existence of life in space, and The Black Motorcyclist rocketed Unt to the top of the novelist world in Estonia. In addition, he served a purpose in bringing avantgarde theatre to post-Soviet Union Estonia. Unt was well

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David Walliams

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

David Walliams is an actor and writer best known for his work with Matt Lucas in the multi-award-winning sketch show Little Britain. His debut children's novel, The Boy in the Dress, was published in 2008 to unanimous critical acclaim and he has since developed a reputation as a natural successor to Roald Dahl.

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Erlend Loe

Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.

In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor.

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Eno Raud

He was an Estonian children's book author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and devoted himself to writing. His works include "Three funny friends", "The story with the flying saucer", "Fire in a darkened city", "Nii või naa" (This or that way) and others.

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James Krüss

James Krüss was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. In 1968 he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature".

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Eno Raud

He was an Estonian children's book author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and devoted himself to writing. His works include "Three funny friends", "The story with the flying saucer", "Fire in a darkened city", "Nii või naa" (This or that way) and others.

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Kiyoko Murata

En 1975, elle reçoit le prix du festival des arts de Kyushu pour « La voix de l’eau » ce qui l’encouragea fortement dans sa carrière littéraire. Son ouvrage « Le Chaudron » l’a ensuite rendue célèbre grâce à l’adaptation qu’en fit KUROSAWA Akira pour son film « Rhapsodie en août » sorti en 1991.

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Jaan Kross

Jaan Kross (1920 – 2007) was an Estonian writer. He has been tipped for the Nobel Prize for Literature on several occasions for his novels, but did in fact start his literary career as a poet and translator of poetry. On his return from the labour camps and internal exile in Russia, where he spent the years 1946-1954 as a political prisoner, Kross renewed Estonian poetry, giving it new directions.

Kross began writing prose in the latter half of the 1960s, first with a film scenario "A Livonian Chronicle" (Liivimaa kroonika) which dealt with the life of the author Balthasar Russow (1536-1600) and which also became the subject of his first masterpiece "Between Three Plagues" (Kolme katku vahel, 1970), a suit of four novels. From that time onw

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Kristiina Ehin

Kristiina Ehin on eesti luuletaja ja proosakirjanik.
Ta on õppinud Tartu Ülikoolis eesti filoloogiat ja spetsialiseerunud rahvaluulele. Aastal 2004 omandas ta Tartu Ülikoolis magistrikraadi eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule alal. Magistritöö teemaks oli "Eesti vanema ja uuema rahvalaulu tõlgendusvõimalusi naisuurimuslikust aspektist". Ta on töötanud Vodja koolis õpetajana.
Kristiina Ehin on kuulunud kirjandusrühmitusse Erakkond.
Ta on ka laulnud ansamblis Sinimaniseele.
Ta esines Eesti esindajana Londoni 2012. aasta olümpiamängude satelliitüritusel Poetry Parnassus, mis toimus 26. juunist 1. juulini 2012.

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James Hibbard

James Hamilton Hibbard is a Northern California-based writer and former professional cyclist who studied philosophy at the PhD-level.

His philosophical memoir, THE ART OF CYCLING: Philosophy, Meaning, and a Life on Two Wheels (Quercus/ Hachette Australia), explores questions of embodiment and meaning in our increasingly detached and virtual society, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times 2022 British Sports Book of the Year, Cycling.

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Simon Boas

Simon Boas was born in 1977 and spent his childhood in London and Winchester. He got the bug for Overseas Aid after delivering his first aid convoy to Bosnia (at 16) in 1993, and went on to spend his career working for development charities and the UN. He worked in Africa for many years, and lived in Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, Nepal, India, and the Palestinian Territories, including three years running a UN office in the Gaza Strip. He spent his last eight years living in Jersey, running the Island’s Overseas Aid agency, accompanied by his beloved wife Aurelie and his scruffy French sheepdog, Pippin.

At 46 he was diagnosed with advanced throat cancer and had a year of living dyingly, during which he found himself as happy as he’d ever been. He

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A.H. Tammsaare

A.H. Tammsaare, born Anton Hansen, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus; 1926 – 1933) is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel".

Tammsaare was born in 1878 into a farming family. He attended secondary school in Tartu from 1898 to 1903 and from 1903 to 1905 he worked as an editor at the Tallinn newspaper, Teataja. In Tallinn he was able to witness the Russian Revolution of 1905.

In 1907 he enrolled as a law student at Tartu University, but in 1911 he was unable to sit his finals, as he became very ill with tuberculosis. He was moved to Sochi on the Black Sea and then to the Caucasus Mountains, where his condition improved. On his return to Estonia, he lived for six y

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Shuang Xuetao

Shuang Xuetao (Chinese: 双雪涛; born September 8, 1983, in Shenyang), is a contemporary Chinese novelist. He graduated from the Jilin University School of Law.

In 2010, Shuang happened to see that the newly established China Times International Chinese-language Film and Fiction Award was seeking submissions. An employee of the Liaoning branch of the China Development Bank at the time, he wrote his first novel, Gargoyle in just 20 days, winning the award. In 2012, Shuang was shortlisted for the 14th Taipei Literature Awards, winning a cash-prize of 200,000 NTD, becoming the first mainland Chinese author to win the prize. That same year, Shuang quit his job to devote himself to writing full-time. In 2015, he left Shenyang to attend further studie

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Tõnu Õnnepalu

An Estonian author and poet who also writes as Emil Tode and Anton Nigov.

Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. He began his writing career as a poet in 1985 and has published three collections of his works. In 1993 he garnered international attention when his novel Piiririik (English translation: "Border State") was published under his pen name 'Emil Tode'. The book was translated into 14 languages and became the most translated Estonian book of the 1990s. That year, he received the annual literary award given by the Baltic Assembly.
Õnnepalu's work often explores topics such as homosexuality, isolation and betrayal.

In 1992, his poem "Inquiétude du Fini" was performed as a choral piece

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Clifford D. Simak

"He was honored by fans with three Hugo awards and by colleagues with one Nebula award and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in 1977." (Wikipedia)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford...

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Sass Henno

Sass Henno (born September 13, 1982 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian writer.

He attended Miina Härma Secondary Grammar School in Tartu between 1989-2001. 2001-2003 he studied computer graphics and advertising in Tartu Art College, then film and video directing in the Tallinn University between 2003-2005. Since 2007 he has been attending a master's level screenwriting course in Baltic Film and Media School.

He won the first prize in Estonian Novel Competition 2005 with his work "Mina olin siin. Esimene arest." A feature length film based on the novel was released in 2008 (I Was Here).

Henno worked in Estonian Television as an assistant and director. Since 2005 he has been a member of Estonian Writers' Union

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Aidi Vallik

Aidi Vallik (1971) is a well-known Estonian writer and poet.

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Jaanus Vaiksoo

Jaanus Vaiksoo on sündinud 5. jaanuaril 1967 Paides.

Aastatel 1974-85 õppis Tallinna 32. Keskkoolis, 1985-91 Tallinna Pedagoogilises Instituudis ning täiendas end Greifswaldi, Viini ja Tampere ülikoolis. 1994. aasta kevadel kaitses magistritööd teemal „August Gailiti romaani „Toomas Nipernaadi” lugemismudelid”. Aastatel 1991-2000 oli J. Vaiksoo Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikooli eesti kirjanduse õppetooli õppejõud ja tegeles eesti kirjanduse ajaloo uurimisega. Ta on õpetanud Tallinna Reaalkoolis ja Rocca al Mare Koolis eesti keelt ja kirjandust ning Vanalinna Gümnaasiumis keskaja kirjandust. Aastast 2008 töötab Jaanus Vaiksoo eesti kirjanduse lektorina Tallinna Ülikoolis.

Alates 2000. aastast, mil ilmus Jaanus Vaiksoo esimene lasteraamat „Neli homm

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Epp Petrone

Epp Petrone (sünninimi 1974–1995 Epp Saluveer; 1995–2003 Epp Väljaots) on eesti ajakirjanik, blogija, kirjanik, kirjastaja ja kristallipoodnik.

Ta õppis Tartu Ülikoolis ajakirjandust (lõpetas aastal 2000), on töötanud Tartu Raadios ning ajakirjades Favoriit, Eesti Naine, Stiil, Stiina, Tervis ja Anne. Olnud TV3-s saadete "Õhtul õhus", "Kahvel", "Robinsonid" ja "A4" toimetaja.

Alates 2005. aastast on ta kirjutanud blogides, aastast 2018 alustanud taskuhäälinguid lastele, "Hommikujutt" ja "Unejutt".

Asutas aastal 2007 kirjastuse Petrone Print.
Aastal 2016 asutas ta kivipoe Indiast.ee, oli selle omanik kuni 2018.

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Silvi Väljal

Silvi Väljal was an Estonian book illustrator and graphic artist.

In addition to school textbooks (for example, the 2004 Mulgi language reading " Mulgi keelen ja meelen " ), Silvi Väljal illustrated and designed Estonian children's literature classics such as Heljo Mänd , Silvia Rannamaa , Jüri Parijõgi , Elar Kuus , Venda Sõelsepp , Marta Sillaots , Iko Maran , Aino and Find Tigane ; Ellen Niit , Heino Väli , Olivia Saar . Jaak Kõdari has gained fame with illustrations by Silvi Välja in this century"Crime Stories", real fairy tales of Mulgimaa , which reached Estonian children in 2006 .

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Justina Kapeckaitė

Rašytoja Justina Kapeckaitė, nors pagal išsilavinimą yra medikė, kuria nuo paauglystės. Nuo seno domisi istorija, mitologija. Į kūrinius mėgsta įtraukti savo pačios patirtis, tad stengiasi jų turėti kuo daugiau ir kuo įvairesnių.
Autorė slapyvardžiu Monokuro Yun anglų kalba yra išleidusi romaną „The Sign“ („Ženklas“). „Tyroji Aušra“– pirmoji rašytojos knyga lietuvių kalba.

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Jana Maasik

Jana Maasik tuli kirjandusse 2012. aastal, kui tema debüütromaan võitis romaanivõistluse. Tänaseks on ta mitme romaani, laste- ja noorteraamatu autor. Ta on võitnud mitmeid auhindu, sealhulgas oli ta 2019. aastal Tartu lastekirjanduse auhinna laureaat. Viimastel aastatel on ta rohkem kirjutanud keskmisele koolieale. Teda inspireerivad tema karakterid. Sageli on neil hea huumorimeel, keerulistesse olukordadesse sattudes toetuvad nad sõpradele ning oma nutikusele.

Jana Maasik is the author of several books for children and young adults. She became a writer in 2012 when her debut novel won a competition. Maasik has received several awards since then, including the 2019 Tartu Children’s Literature Award. Lately, she has focused on writing fantas

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Roberta Balestrucci Fancellu

Classe 1983 è nata a Macomer, dove vive e lavora, anche se spesso ha la testa tra le nuvole… Appassionata da sempre di letteratura per l’infanzia è narratrice e scrittrice per professione, fa parte del progetto “Omero. Gli scrittori raccontano i libri” dove si occupa del progetto letteratura e legalità, letteratura e sport e segue il progetto “Anche Antigone portava i jeans”,

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Wioletta Greg

Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Wioletta Greg (9 February 1974) is a Polish poet and writer, born in a small village Rzeniszów in Jurassic Highland in Poland. In 2006, she left her country and moved to the Isle of Wight. She lives in Essex.

Wioletta spent ten years in Czestochowa where she organised cultural events, edited student journals, wrote articles about local literary developments. Between 1998 – 2012 she published six poetry volumes, as well as a novella Guguły, in which she's covering her childhood and the experience of growing up in Communist Poland.

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Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA.

He was born Ernest Evan Thompson in South Shields, County Durham (now part of South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear), England of Scottish parents and his family emigrated to Canada in 1866. As a youth, he retreated to the woods to draw and study animals as a way of avoiding his abusive f

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Aino Pervik

Sündinud Rakveres velskri tütrena. Koolitee algas 1939 Järvakandis, jätkus Tallinna Õpetajate Seminaris, Tallinna Õpetajate Instituudis ja Tallinna 8. Keskkoolis. 1950-1955 õppis Tartu Riiklik Ülikooli ajaloo-keeleteaduskonnas, mille lõpetas soome-ugri keelte alal. Töötanud Eesti Riiklikus Kirjastuses laste- ja noorsookirjanduse toimetajana 1955-1960 ning Eesti Televisioonis laste- ja noortesaadete toimetajana 1960-1967, seejärel kutseline kirjanik ja tõlkija. Kirjutanud 30 lasteraamatut, proosat ja luulet täiskasvanutele, tõlkinud ungari keelest, tegutsenud publitsistina ja lastekirjanduse kriitikuna. Alates 1974 Kirjanike Liidu liige. Oli abielus lastekirjanik Eno Rauaga.

Kirjutanud kunstmuinasjutte, noorsooraamatuid, reisikirju, lühilugus

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Silvia Rannamaa

Silvia Rannamaa (3 March 1918 - 19 April 2007) is an Estonian writer, the author of internationally known children's stories "Kadri" (1959) and "Stepmother" (1963).

She was born in Tallinn, of Finnish and Estonian parents. She obtained her secondary education at Tallinn Girls' Commercial High School. Between 1943 - 1944, she studied at the University of Tartu, Faculty of Philosophy. Silvia's husband was an Estonian writer Harald Suislepp.

"Kadri" and "Stepmother" have been translated into Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Czech, Armenian and Georgian languages. Silvia Rannamaa published also lyric fairytales "Nösperi Nönni bit" (1977) and a collection of short stories, "Small-footed trail" (1985). In addition, she also wrote plays, novels

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Lydia Koidula

Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, known by her pen name Lydia Koidula, was an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet means 'Lydia of the Dawn' in Estonian. It was given to her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson.

Lydia Jannsen was born in Vändra, Pärnu County, Governorate of Livonia (now in central Estonia). The family moved to the nearby county town of Pärnu in 1850 where, in 1857, her father started the first local Estonian language newspaper and where Lydia attended the German grammar school. The Jannsens moved to the university town of Tartu, the most progressive town in Estonia, in 1864. Nationalism, including publication in indigenous languages, was a very touchy subject in the Russian Empire but the rule of Czar Alexander II (1855 - 1881) was rel

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Kristiina Kass

Kristiina Kass-Nokelainen on eesti lastekirjanik, illustraator ja tõlkija. Ta elab Soomes ja on kirjutanud ka soome keeles.
Aastal 1988 lõpetas ta Tallinna Kunstigümnaasiumi kunstiklassi ja 1999 Helsingi ülikooli. Samal aastal avaldas ajaleht Hyvinkään Sanomat (hiljem Aamuposti) ta esimesed lastelood. Koostöö ajalehega kestis 9 aastat iganädalaste lastelugude ja noorteföljetonide näol.
Enamiku oma raamatutest on Kristiina Kass illustreerinud ise. Viimase, "Nõianeiu Nöbinina", illustreeris Heiki Ernits. 2011. aastal esilinastus ETV-s "Nõianeiu Nöbinina" järgi tehtud teleseriaal.
Kristiina Kass on tõlkinud soome keelest populaarsete Soome lastekirjanike, Sinikka ja Tiina Nopola, kirjutatud raamatusarja "Risto Räppar".

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Mati Unt

Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director.

Unt's first novel, written at the age of 18 after having finished high school, was Hüvasti, kollane kass (Goodbye, Yellow Cat). This made him famous all over Estonia. He studied literature and journalism at Tartu University in Tartu, Estonia.

After this precocious beginning‚ Unt arranged a wide call in the artistic and intellectual circles of Estonia as a writer of the fiction, plays, and criticism. His books The Moon Like the Outgoing Sun, The Debt (1964), On the Existence of life in space, and The Black Motorcyclist rocketed Unt to the top of the novelist world in Estonia. In addition, he served a purpose in bringing avantgarde theatre to post-Soviet Union Estonia. Unt was well

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Piret Raud

PIRET RAUD was born in 1971 in Tallinn, Estonia. She has studied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since graduating in 1995 she has been living and working in Tallinn as a graphic artist, book illustrator and author. She has illustrated over 50 books, written 21 books for children and 3 novels and 2 short story collection for adults. Her books have been translated into French, English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese and Occitan (Gascon, Languedocien and Limousin dialects).

Piret Raud has received the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award on multiple occasions, most recently for her prose in 2023.

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Zdeněk Miler

Zdeněk Miler (1921-2011) was a Czech animator and illustrator best known for his Mole (Krtek or Krteček in original) character and its adventures.

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Jim Ashilevi

Jim Ashilevi is an Estonian novelist, playwright and poet.

He first gained recognition with his debut play Nagu poisid vihma käes (Like Boys in the Rain) which was praised for its original juxtaposition of poetic imagery and violence — a haunting interrogation of the essence of masculinity. At just twenty years of age, the play won him some of Estonia's highest playwriting awards and positioned him on the literary map as a key voice of his generation.

He went on to publish long and short-form prose and poetry. To date, his body of work includes two coming-of-age novels, Ma olen elus olemise tunne (I Am the Feeling of Being Alive) and Kehade mets (Forest of Flesh), as well as two non-fiction books on theatre.

Ashilevi is also a game

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Loone Ots

Loone Ots on eesti folklorist, kirjanik ja kirjandusteadlane.

Loone Otsa peamised uurimisvaldkonnad ongi olnud folkloristika, historiograafia, muinaspõhja müüt ja selle seosed eesti folklooriga.

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Justin Petrone

A native New Yorker, writer and journalist Justin Petrone has been living in Northern Europe for more than 20 years. With a dozen books to his name and hundreds of articles, he specializes in travel memoirs and experimental dream fiction. His work has appeared in Standart and Edasi.

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Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė (1923-2007) was a Lithuanian poet, novelist, playwright and actress. Pūkelevičiūtė is often credited as one of the strongest and most unique voices in Lithuanian literature, both from an émigrée perspective and within the Lithuanian framework.

After studying journalism at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Pūkelevičiūtė left for Germany in 1944 and subsequently settled in Canada in 1948, where she assembled an amateur theatre group in Montreal and published her first poetry collection Metūgės. Metūgės was met with scandal within the Lithuanian literary community, as it was the first time a woman writing feminist, erotic, sexual poetry was published in Lithuanian.

Pūkelevičiūtė returned to Lithuania in 1998 and lived

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Vahur Afanasjev

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Vahur Afanasjev (1979) has become a bestselling fiction author in Estonia with his award winning novel "Serafima and Bogdan" (published in Estonian and Russian).
Afanasjev has published 4 novels, 6 poetry books, 2 short story collections, and travel book.

Awards

Elise Rosalie Aun Literary Prize 2018.

Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award for Prose 2018 (Kirjanduse sihtkapitali proosaauhind), for the novel Serafima and Bogdan

Viru Literature Prize (Virumaa kirjandusauhind) 2018, for the novel Serafima and Bogdan

First Prize, Estonian Novel Competition 2017, issued by Estonian Writers’ Union, for the novel Serafima and Bogdan

Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award for Poetry 2016 (Kirjanduse sihtkapitali luuleauhind), for the

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Samuil Marshak

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (Russian: Самуил Маршак; 3 November 1887 – 4 June 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature."

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Connie Ann Kirk

Connie Ann Kirk is an American author. Her books cover a range of subjects including concise literary biographies for students, bio-critical literary studies, and references. She has also written a fiction picture book for children. Her articles, both in print and online, address topics in literature, poetry, popular culture, history, education, art, television, science, sports, and film.

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Kätlin Kaldmaa

Kätlin Kaldmaa (sündinud 1970) on kirjanik, tõlkija, kirjanduskriitik ja ajakirjanik.

Ta on töötanud Eesti Päevalehes muuhulgas kirjanduslisa Arkaadia toimetaja ja kirjastajana. 2009–2011 oli ta raamatuajakirja "Lugu" peatoimetaja. Eesti PEN klubi taasasutamisel aastal 2010 valiti ta selle juhatuse liikmeks ning oli mitu aastat Eesti PENi president.

2012. aastal ilmus Kätlin Kaldmaalt luulekogu "Armastuse tähestik". Sellega moodustavad mõttelise triloogia 2013. aastal ilmunud romaan "Islandil ei ole liblikaid" ja lasteraamat "Lugu Keegi Eikellegitütre isast".

Kätlin Kaldmaa on tõlkinud inglise keelest Jeanette Wintersoni, Carol Clewlow', Diana Issidoridese, Michael Ondaatje, Patricia Scanlani, Gabriel Zaidi, Leona Blairi, Fiona Walkeri, Colum

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David Hill

David Hill (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, especially well known for his young adult fiction. His young fiction books See Ya, Simon (1992) and Right Where It Hurts (2001) have been shortlisted for numerous awards. He is also a prolific journalist, writing many articles for The New Zealand Herald.

He cites Maurice Gee as his favourite author, and Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy as his favourite children's authors.

Hill attended Victoria University in Wellington, graduating MA Hons in 1964. Hill currently lives in New Plymouth.

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Meelis Friedenthal

The Estonian writer Meelis Friedenthal (b.1973) has written a doctoral thesis at Tartu University on a 13th century philosophical-theological treatise about seeing and vision. Friedenthal is currently Associate Professor in Tartu University and his research topic is the intellectual history of the Early Modern Period.

In 2013 his novel Willow King was one of the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL).

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Juhan Smuul

Juhan Smuul was born on the 18th February in 1922 on the island of Muhu as his father’s 19th child. He was supposed to be the heir of the farm and a farmer, but instead he became a sea writer, publicist and a active member of society. He died on the 13th of April in 1971 in Tallinn.

Juhan Smuul studied at the period from 1930 to 1936 in the Piiri elementary school, afterwards he studied for a short period of time in Järvamaa Jäneda agricultural school. He quit his studies when he got a cold and ended up with a glands infection to a clinic in Tartu. That ended his official education period.

In 1941 he was mobilized to the Soviet army. He was not sent to the front, because of his health. He was demobilized in the begginning of 1944. He became a

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Lasse Lønnebotn

Lasse Lønnebotn is a political scientist and journalist. He has worked for such outlets as VG and Dagbladet Magasinet. He is a passionate sports fan. He wrote the book En halv meter lavere, et hode høyere (Half a Meter Shorter, a Head Taller), published by Vigmostad og Bjørke in 2018, about the soccer player Martin Bakkejord Skolbekken who was severely injured in an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos.

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Živilė Kropaitė-Basiulė

Živilė Kropaitė-Basiulė - žurnalistė, radijo ir televizijos laidų vedėja.

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Mohammad al Murr

Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Al Murr Al Falasi (born 1955 in Dubai) is a short-story writer from the United Arab Emirates.

He has published over 15 volumes of short stories and has had two collections translated into English: Dubai Tales and The Wink of the Mona Lisa.

Al Murr graduated from Syracuse University in the United States, and has been a member of a number of UAE academic institutions and councils. He is the head of the Dubai Cultural Council, recently reorganized as the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.

In 2011 Al Murr was appointed to the Federal National Council's 15th Chapter as a representative of the Emirate of Dubai, and elected uncontested as Speaker. He served as the speaker from 2011 to 2015.

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Saulius Tomas Kondrotas

Born in 1953, Saulius Tomas Kondrotas emigrated to the West in 1986. During the years of 2001-2004, he worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe. Since 2004 he has been living in Los Angeles, California (USA). He published three collections of stories, and the novels: “A Glance of the Serpent“ (1981), “And the Faces of Those Glancing through the Window Will Darken“ (1985).

His works have been translated into 20 different languages around the world. Kondrotas’s masterfully composed stories are marked by elements of time and fantasy, as well as intertextuality. He often combines several literary genres, while examining universal questions. Kondrotas is considered the most important representative of magical realism in Lithuanian literature.

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Giedra Radvilavičiūtė

Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (g. 1960 m. Panevėžyje) – Lietuvos prozininkė, eseistė.

1983 m. baigė lituanistiką Vilniaus universitete ir mokytojavo provincijoje. 1986 m. persikėlė į Vilnių, ilgą laiką dirbo redakcijose. 1994–1997 m. su šeima gyveno Čikagoje, ten būdama, kartu su vyru kalbininku Giedriu Subačiumi išleido Čikagos Newberry bibliotekos lituanistinių ir prūsistinių knygų iki 1882 m. katalogą.
Debiutavo kaip apsakymų rašytoja 1986 m., tačiau tikrasis žingsnis į lietuvių literatūrą prasidėjo 1999 m., kai kultūrinėje spaudoje pradėjo skelbti esė. 2002 m. penkios esė paskelbtos kolektyviniame esė rinkinyje „Siužetą siūlau nušauti“. 2004 m. išėjo atskira esė rinktinė „Suplanuotos akimirkos“.

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Aivaras Veiknys

Aivaras Veiknys (b. 9 of January 1983 in Elektrėnai). Studied Real Estate Management in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. His first book R aktai (Keys) was published in 2007.

Worked as a journalist in Lithuanian daily "Respublika", has been in Afghanistan and prepared reportage from there.

Aivaras was awarded twise in Lithuanian Poetry Festival "Poetry Spring" in 2008 and 2010 as young emergent poet. Cultural Press willingly is publishing his poetry from 2008, literature critics are very positive about his poetry.

Aivaras is a coorganizer of a Festival "Literatūrinės Vilniaus slinktys" (Literary slide of Vilnius) and he is a compiler or three Anthologies of this Festival (2011-2013).

His second book "Paukštuko liudijimai" was published in

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René Depestre

René Depestre (born 29 August 1926 Jacmel, Haiti) is a Haitian poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry.

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Antanas Šileika

Antanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika) is a Canadian novelist and critic of Lithuanian-born parents.

After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he moved to Paris for two years and there married his wife, Snaige Sileika (née Valiunas), an art student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. While in Paris, he studied French, taught English in Versailles, and worked as part of the editorial collective of the expatriate literary journal, Paris Voices, run from the upstairs room of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.

Upon his return to Canada in 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant, where he remained until 1988.

After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antan

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