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  Stéphane Bourguignon

  Scénariste de formation, Stéphane Bourguignon a œuvré une dizaine d’années dans le milieu de l’humour à titre d’auteur et a publié, chez Québec Amérique, des romans qui continuent de connaître un grand succès: L’Avaleur de sable, Le Principe du geyser, Un peu de fatigue et Sonde ton cœur, Laurie Rivers. Il est également l’auteur de la télésérie la Vie la vie, récompensée à deux reprises par l’Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision, et de Tout sur moi, une comédie inspirée de personnages et de faits véridiques.

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  Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot

  Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot is a French writer and journalist.

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  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. Sartre was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology). His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."
  Sartre held an open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre

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  Philippe Claudel

  Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director.
  His most famous work to date is the novel " Les Âmes Grises " - " Grey Souls ", which won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. In addition to his writing, Philippe Claudel is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy.

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  Maurice Druon

  Maurice Druon was born in Paris. He is the nephew of the writer Joseph Kessel, with whom he wrote the Chant des Partisans, which, with music composed by Anna Marly, was used as an anthem by the French Resistance during the Second World War.
  
  In 1948 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Les grandes familles. On December 8, 1966, he was elected to the 30th seat of the Académie française, succeeding Georges Duhamel.
  
  While his scholarly writing earned him a seat at the Académie, he is best known for a series of seven historical novels published in the 1950s under the title Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings).
  
  He was Minister of Cultural Affairs in 1973 and 1974 in Pierre Messmer's cabinet, and a deputy of Paris from 1978 to 1981.
  
  Source: Wi

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  Marc Levy

  Marc Levy was born in France. When he turned eighteen, he joined the Red Cross, where he spent the next six years. In 1983, he created a computer graphics company based in France and the United States. Six years later, he co-founded an interior design and planning company with two friends; the company soon became one of the leading architecture firms in France.
  
  At thirty-seven, Marc Levy wrote a story for the man that his son would grow up to be. In early 1999, his sister, a screenwriter (now a film director), encouraged him to send the manuscript to a French publisher, who immediately decided to publish If Only It Were True. Before it was published, Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, Just like Heaven

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  Olivier Adam

  Romancier de renom, Olivier Adam connaît un succès populaire et critique indéniable qui le place parmi les écrivains les plus connus de sa génération. Ancien étudiant en gestion des entreprises culturelles, il participe à la création du festival littéraire 'Les Correspondances de Manosque' et travaille comme directeur de collection aux éditions du Rouergue. C'est son premier roman paru en 2000, 'Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas' qui lui permet d'accéder à la notoriété. Lauréat du prix Goncourt de la nouvelle en 2004 pour 'Passer l'hiver', l'auteur poursuit néanmoins dans la veine romanesque avec 'Falaises' ou 'À l'abri de rien'. Des histoires plein la tête, Olivier Adam sort coup sur coup 'Des vents contraires' (2009) et 'Le coeur régulier' (

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  Mari Jungstedt

  Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist and popular crime fiction author.
  
  Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television, and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll.
  
  Her first three novels are set on the island of Gotland and feature Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas and the journalist Johan Berg. Two of her novels were filmed for Swedish TV, and her work has been translated into English by Tiina Nunnally.
  
  Mari Jungstedt lives in Stockholm. Her husband comes from Visby, Gotland, and they spend their summers on Gotland.
  
  Series:
  * Anders Knutas
  * Málagasviten

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  A.J. Cronin

  Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century. His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the long-running BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook.
  -Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Cronin
  
  

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  Daniel Glattauer

  Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.
  
  Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).
  
  Mit seinen beiden Romanen „Gut g

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  Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot

  Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot is a French writer and journalist.

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  Stéphane Bourguignon

  Scénariste de formation, Stéphane Bourguignon a œuvré une dizaine d’années dans le milieu de l’humour à titre d’auteur et a publié, chez Québec Amérique, des romans qui continuent de connaître un grand succès: L’Avaleur de sable, Le Principe du geyser, Un peu de fatigue et Sonde ton cœur, Laurie Rivers. Il est également l’auteur de la télésérie la Vie la vie, récompensée à deux reprises par l’Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision, et de Tout sur moi, une comédie inspirée de personnages et de faits véridiques.

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  Fanny Britt

  Fanny Britt is a Quebec playwright, author and translator. She has written a dozen plays (among them Honey Pie, Hôtel Pacifique and Bienveillance) and translated more than fifteen. She has also written and translated several other works of literature. Jane, the Fox and Me is her first graphic novel.
  

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  Kamel Daoud

  Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
  
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  The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author

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  Olivier Norek

  Olivier Norek, né en 1975 à Toulouse, est un écrivain et scénariste français, lieutenant à la Police Judiciaire du 93.

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  Marie Vareille

  Marie Vareille est romancière et blogueuse à Paris. Diplômée de l’ESCP-Europe et de l'Université de Cornell aux États-Unis, elle travaille actuellement en tant que Community Manager pour une start-up française.
  
  Depuis toujours, ses deux grandes passions sont les livres et les voyages. Elle a notamment parcouru l’Asie, l’Amérique Centrale et l’Amérique du Sud en sac à dos. Fan de chick-lit et de comédies romantiques, elle partage ses coups de coeurs littéraires sur son blog http://sissidebeauregard.com.
  
  Son premier roman, Ma vie, mon ex et autres calamités, sortira en juin 2014 chez City Éditions.

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  Virginie Grimaldi

  (Du site officiel de l'auteur) :
  
  Je suis née le en 1977 près de Bordeaux, où je vis toujours.
  
  J’ai commencé à dévorer les livres dès que j’ai su lire. La Bibliothèque rose, la Bibliothèque verte, puis de nombreux romans qui me faisaient vivre mille et une vies.
  
  J’avais huit ans quand j’ai écrit mon premier roman sur un cahier de brouillon vert au dos duquel figuraient des tables de multiplication. Il parlait d’amour, de mer et d’un soleil qui mettait trente pages à se coucher.
  
  En sixième, je répondais « Écrire des livres » à la question « Que voulez-vous faire plus tard ? » sur les fiches que l’on remplissait en début d’année. Pas à chaque fois, parce qu’il m’est aussi arrivé de vouloir être styliste. Ça n’a pas duré longtemps : tout le monde v

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  Valérie Perrin

  Valérie Perrin est une romancière française. Elle est aussi photographe de plateau et scénariste auprès de son compagnon Claude Lelouch.
  Son premier roman, "Les oubliés du dimanche" (2015), a reçu de nombreux prix, dont celui de Lire Élire 2016 et de Poulet-Malassis 2016. Après son succès en France, il sort en Italie en septembre 2016 et en Allemagne début 2017.
  En 2018, elle a reçu le prix Maison de la Presse pour son deuxième roman "Changer l'eau des fleurs" (Albin Michel, 2018).

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  Olivier Bourdeaut

  Olivier Bourdeaut est né au bord de l’Océan Atlantique en 1980. L’Education Nationale, refusant de comprendre ce qu’il voulait apprendre, lui rendit très vite sa liberté. Dès lors, grâce à l’absence lumineuse de télévision chez lui, il put lire beaucoup et rêvasser énormément.
  Durant dix ans il travailla dans l’immobilier allant de fiascos en échecs avec un enthousiasme constant. Puis, pendant deux ans, il devint responsable d’une agence d’experts en plomb, responsable d’une assistante plus diplômée que lui et responsable de chasseurs de termites, mais les insectes achevèrent de ronger sa responsabilité. Il fut aussi ouvreur de robinets dans un hôpital, factotum dans une maison d’édition de livres scolaires – un comble – et cueilleur de fleu

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  Frauke Scheunemann

  Frauke Scheunemann, geboren 1969 in Düsseldorf, ist promovierte Juristin. Sie absolvierte ein Volontariat beim NDR und arbeitete anschließend als Journalistin und Pressesprecherin. Seit 2002 ist sie freie Autorin. Ihre Romane um den Kater Winston waren monatelang auf den Bestsellerlisten. Frauke Scheunemann ist verheiratet und lebt mit ihrem Mann, ihren vier Kindern und dem kleinen Hund Elmo in Hamburg.

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  Bronisław Malinowski

  Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (IPA: [ˌmaliˈnɔfski]; April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, with which he also gave a major contribution to the study of Melanesia, and the study of reciprocity.

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  Raymond Queneau

  Novelist, poet, and critic Raymond Queneau, was born in Le Havre in 1903, and went to Paris when he was 17. For some time he joined André Breton's Surrealist group, but after only a brief stint he dissociated himself. Now, seeing Queneau's work in retrospect, it seems inevitable. The Surrealists tried to achieve a sort of pure expression from the unconscious, without mediation of the author's self-aware "persona." Queneau's texts, on the contrary, are quite deliberate products of the author's conscious mind, of his memory, and his intentionality.
  
  Although Queneau's novels give an impression of enormous spontaneity, they were in fact painstakingly conceived in every small detail. He even once remarked that he simply could not leave to hazard

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  Margriet Ruurs

  Margriet Ruurs is the author of more than 40 children's books, many of them award winners.
  Margriet lives on Salt Spring Island where she runs BETWEEN THE COVERS, a booklovers' B & B (see: http://www.betweenthecoversbandb.com/)
  She writes regular book reviews of YA and picturebooks here: http://margrietruurs.blogspot.ca/
  
  Margriet visits schools around the world to conduct dynamic author presentations, slideshows of the writing process and poetry writing workshops for students and teachers. She also speaks at many literary conferences each year.
  Margriet has a Master of Education degree from Simon Fraser University.
  
  She also conducts school talks via Skype.
  
  For more details visit her website and blog: www.margrietruurs.com
  Join her Facebook Fan pa

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  Katherine Pancol

  Katherine Pancol moved from Casablanca to France when she was five. She studied literature and initially became a French and Latin teacher, before turning to journalism. While working for Paris-Match and Cosmopolitan, she is noticed by an intuitive publisher who encourages her to begin writing. Following the success of her first novel Moi D'abord (Me First) in 1979, Pancol moves to New York City where she spends the next decade pursuing creative writing and screenwriting classes at Columbia University while producing three more novels La Barbare in 1981, Scarlett, si possible and Les hommes cruels ne courent pas les rues.
  Influenced by the American way of life, her style becomes even more enjoyable, action packed and fast paced.
  Pancol's insi

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  Albert Ellis

  Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He also founded and was the President of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute for decades.
  He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of USA and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history (Carl Rogers ranked first in the survey; Sigmund Freud was ranked third).

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  Louis Pergaud

  Louis Pergaud was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to his featuring animals of the Franche-Comté in lead roles. His most notable work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (1912) (English: The War of the Buttons). It has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high school curriculum.
  
  A schoolteacher by profession, Pergaud came into conflict with Roman Catholic authorities over the implementation of the Third French Republic's separation of Church and State enacted in 1905. In 1907 Pergaud chose to move to Paris to pursue his literary career. Pergaud's prose works are often considered to reflect the influences of Realist, Decadent and Symbolist movements. He was kille

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  Rodrigo Hasbún

  Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian novelist living and working in Houston, Texas. In 2007, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine for Bogotá39, and in 2010 he was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He is the author of three novels, two volumes of personal essays, and three collections of short stories, two of which have been made into films. His work has appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Affections received an English PEN Award and has been published in twelve languages.
  
  Rodrigo Hasbún nació en Cochabamba, Bolivia, en 1981. Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Cinco, Los días más felices y Cuatro, un

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  Kay Dick

  Dick was born Kathleen Elsie Dick at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, England, UK, but was but raised in Switzerland by her mother, Kate Frances Dick, being educated in Geneva, as well as at the Lycée Français in London. In early life, Kay Dick worked at Foyle's bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road and, at 26, became the first woman director in English publishing at P.S. King & Son. She later became a journalist, working at the New Statesman. For many years, she edited the literary magazine The Windmill, under the nom de plume Edward Lane.
  
  Dick wrote five novels between 1949 and 1962, including the famous An Affair of Love (1953) and Solitaire (1958). She also wrote literary biography, researching the lives of Colette and Carlyle. In 1

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  Marine Carteron

  Marine Carteron est née en 1972. Elle a suivi des études d’histoire de l’Art et d’archéologie. Actuellement domiciliée en Rhône-Alpes, elle enseigne tout en profitant de sa petite famille et en noircissant du papier pour les Éditions du Rouergue.

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  Nora Ikstena

  Nora Ikstena is a prose writer and essayist. Ikstena is one of the most visible and influential prose writers in Latvia, known for elaborat style and detailed approach to language. After obtaining a degree in Philology from the University of Latvia in 1992, she went on to study English literature at Columbia University. In her prose, Nora Ikstena often reflects on life, love, death and faith. Soviet Milk (2015, shortlisted for the Annual Literature Award for best prose), Besa (2012), Celebration of Life (1998), The Virgin's Lesson (2001) are some of her most widely appreciated novels.
  
  The novel Amour Fou has been staged for theatre, and published in Russian (2010); other works have been translated into Lithuanian, Estonian, Georgian, Swedish

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  Vea Kaiser

  Vea Kaiser wurde 1988 in St. Pölten geboren. Sie arbeitete als Übersetzerin, Fremdenführerin und Fotomodell. Seit 2007 studiert sie Klassische und Deutsche Philologie an der Universität Wien. Für ein Jahr studierte sie Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus in Hildesheim. Sie lebt in Wien und Zürich.
  Für ihre belletristischen Arbeiten erhielt sie u.a. das Start-Stipendium des österreichischen Kultusministeriums, das Hans-Weigel-Literaturstipendium sowie den Theodor-Körner-Preis 2011 (Preis der Stadt Wien für Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissenschaft in die Berge kam). Kaiser war Finalistin beim 17. Open Mike und nahm 2010 an der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin teil. Ihr Debütroman Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissen

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  Pitigrilli

  Pitigrilli was the pseudonym for Dino Segre (9 May 1893 - 8 May 1975), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaïne (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the "forbidden books" list by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death.
  
  He founded the literary magazine Grandi Firme, which was published in Turin from 1924 to 1938, when it was banned under the newly enacted anti-Semitic Race Laws of the Fascist government. Although baptized as a Catholic, Segre was classified as Jewish at that time. He had worked

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  Ju Honisch

  Ju Honisch started writing at the age of twelve much to her parents' chagrin who thought she should apply her time to more useful endeavours. Decades later, useful endeavours still do not seem to be entirely her forte. She has lived in Germany and Ireland and currently lives in Frankfurt with her husband, too many books and too many musical instruments. She has an MA in literary studies and history which explains her love for stories with an historical background.
  For her first novel "Das Obsidianherz" (English version "Obsidian Secrets") she received the German fantasy award (Deutscher Phantastik Preis) in 2009. The last book in the same series was awarded the SERAPH, the award for speculative literature given out by the Phantastische Akade

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  Jean d'Ormesson

  Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d’Ormesson est un écrivain, chroniqueur, éditorialiste et philosophe français. Ancien élève de l’École normale supérieure. Agrégé de philosophie. Directeur général du Figaro de 1974 à 1977. Secrétaire général, puis Président du Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines à l’UNESCO. Élu à l‘Académie française, le 18 octobre 1973, au fauteuil de Jules Romains (12e fauteuil).
  
  Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d’Ormesson is a French writer, journalist, columnist and philosopher. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure. Degree in philosophy. CEO of Figaro from 1974 to 1977. Secretary-General, then President of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Scienc

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  Aksel Bakunts

  Axel (Aksel) Bakunts (Armenian: Ակսել Բակունց, real name - Alexander Stepani Tevosyan, June 13 , 1889, Goris - July 8, 1937) was an Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and public activist.He was born in a family of peasants. In 1923 he finished the Agricultural university of Kharkov and became the senior agronomist of Zangezur region.
  
  His most famous works are "Alpiakan manushak" (dedicated to the Arpenik Charents, the first wife of Yeghishe Charents), "Lar-Markar", "Namak rusats tagavorin" ("A letter to the Russian czar"), "Kyores" (1935) etc. Bakunts also was a film-writer ("Zangezur", etc.).
  
  In 1937 he became a victim of Stalinism and was executed by firing squad after a 25-minute trial.
  
  A house museum of Bakunts is opened in Gor

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  Antón Riveiro Coello

  Antón Riveiro Coello (Xinzo de Limia, 1964). Cursó estudios de Derecho en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y actualmente trabaja como funcionario de la Administración Autonómica. Es uno de los narradores de más prestigio de la narrativa gallega contemporánea y, entre su obra, traducida a varios idiomas, destacan los títulos Valquiria (Ed. Novo Século, 1996), Premio Camilo José Cela de Narrativa; Parque Central e outros relatos (Espiral Maior, 1996); A historia de Chico Antela (Espiral Maior, 1997), Accésit en el Premio Manuel García Barros de Novela; A quinta de Saler (Galaxia, 1999, 3ª ed.), Finalista en los Premios de Narrativa Torrente Ballester y Xerais de novela; Animalia (Galaxia, 1999, 2ª ed.), Premio Café Dublín de Narrativa

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