Anna Maria Villalonga
Anna Maria Villalonga Fernández (Barcelona, 16 d'abril de 1959) és una escriptora catalana, crítica de literatura i cinema, traductora, investigadora i professora de literatura catalana a la Universitat de Barcelona. Dirigeix el festival Tiana Negra.
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Montserrat Roig
Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra (Barcelona, 13 de juny de 1946 - 10 de novembre de 1991) fou una escriptora en català de novel·les, contes, assaig, reportatges i articles periodístics. Va presentar i dirigir diversos programes de televisió, mitjà en el qual va excel·lir com a entrevistadora a escriptors de generacions precedents.
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Ramona, adéu! (1972)
El temps de les cireres (1977)
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No ficció
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L'agulla daurada (1985)
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Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author and translator. She was best known for the collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. In 1971, the fourth of these books, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. They also wrote novels separately.
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Sjöwall had a 13 year relationship with Wahlöö which lasted until his death in 1975. -
Manuel de Pedrolo
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (l'Aranyó, la Segarra, 1 d'abril de 1918 - Barcelona, 26 de juny de 1990) fou un escriptor català. Conreà tots els gèneres literaris: poesia, teatre —classificat dins del teatre de l'absurd—, narrativa i contes. La seva obra més coneguda és Mecanoscrit del segon origen.
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Natural de l'Aranyó, va estudiar batxillerat a Tàrrega fins a l'any 1935, en què anà a viure a Barcelona; la guerra civil espanyola estroncà, però, els seus estudis. L'any 1943 es casà i s'instal·là definitivament a Barcelona, concretament en un pis-despatx de Sant Gervasi-Galvany (carrer de Calvet, 9). Començà a escriure molt jove i la seva obra l'ha convertit no tan sols en l'escriptor més prolífic sinó també en una de les figures més importants d -
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
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She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War. -
Horace McCoy
Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.
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Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
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His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to -
Grant Allen
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a science writer and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.
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He was born near Kingston, Canada West (now incorporated into Ontario), the second son of Catharine Ann Grant and the Rev. Joseph Antisell Allen, a Protestant minister from Dublin, Ireland. His mother was a daughter of the fifth Baron of Longueuil. He was educated at home until, at age 13, he and his parents moved to the United States, then France and finally the United Kingdom. He was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and Merton College in Oxford, both in the United Kingdom. After graduation, Allen studied in France, taught at Brighton College in 1870–71 and in his mid-t -
Montserrat Roig
Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra (Barcelona, 13 de juny de 1946 - 10 de novembre de 1991) fou una escriptora en català de novel·les, contes, assaig, reportatges i articles periodístics. Va presentar i dirigir diversos programes de televisió, mitjà en el qual va excel·lir com a entrevistadora a escriptors de generacions precedents.
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Novel·la
Ramona, adéu! (1972)
El temps de les cireres (1977)
L'hora violeta (1980)
L'òpera quotidiana (1985)
La veu melodiosa (1987)
No ficció
Els catalans als camps nazis (1977)
L'agulla daurada (1985)
L'autèntica història de Catalunya (1990)
Digues que m'estimes encara que sigui mentida (1991)
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Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
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Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
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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.
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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. -
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
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Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. -
Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.
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In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens. -
Rosa Ribas
Aka Sara Moliner with Sabine Hofmann
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Rosa Ribas Moliné nació en 1963 en El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona. Estudió Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Barcelona, en la que se doctoró con una tesis sobre los viajeros alemanes a América en los siglos XVI y XVII, publicada en el año 2005.
Desde 1991 reside en Alemania, en Fráncfort del Meno.
Entre 1995 y 2005 fue lectora de español en el Instituto de Lenguas y Literaturas Románicas de la Universidad de Fráncfort, donde desarrolló una intensa actividad docente e investigadora en los campos de la lingüística aplicada y la didáctica de la lengua, fruto de la cual son numerosos artículos y el manual ¿Cómo corregir errores y no equivocarse en el intento?, escrito en colaboración con Alessandra d’A -
Carlos Zanón
Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966) poeta, novelista, guionista, articulista y crítico literario. Su dedicación a la novela negra ha hecho que se haya emparentado su obra con la de autores como Vázquez Montalbán o Jim Thompson.
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Alina Bronsky
Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.
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Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jonasson is author of the award winning and international bestselling Dark Iceland series.
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His debut Snowblind, first in the Dark Iceland series, went to number one in the Amazon Kindle charts shortly after publication. The book was also a no. 1 Amazon Kindle bestseller in Australia. Snowblind has been a paperback bestseller in France.
Nightblind won the Dead Good Reader Award 2016 for Most Captivating Crime in Translation.
Snowblind was called a "classically crafted whodunit" by THE NEW YORK TIMES, and it was selected by The Independent as one of the best crime novels of 2015 in the UK.
Rights to the Dark Iceland series have been sold to UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Morocco, Po -
Marc Pastor
Marc Pastor (Barcelona, 1977) és criminòleg i un explorador culturalment dispers. Va combatre els nazis a Montecristo i va traçar el perfil criminal de la Vampira de Barcelona a La mala dona (Ara Mini, 2017), distingida amb el premi de novel·la negra Crims de Tinta. Amb L’any de la plaga va alertar sobre una imminent invasió d’ultracossos i amb Bioko (Amsterdam, 2013) ens va descobrir una manera de viatjar en el temps. Amb Farishta (Amsterdam, 2017), segueix teixint una teranyina d'històries on predomina la ciència ficció, l'aventura i les referències pop. Ha publicat relats en diverses antologies, i, tot i que es poden llegir per separat, les seves ficcions es complementen i conformen un univers propi i únic. La seva obra ha estat traduïda
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Anders de la Motte
Anders de la Motte, a former police officer, made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has since then been one of Sweden’s most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling crime fiction series, among them the suspenseful Skåne Quartet. Published in 2022, The Mountain King is the first bestselling installment in his new Leo Asker series.
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Sylvia Lagarda-Mata
Sylvia Lagarda-Mata (Barcelona, 1964) és una escriptora en llengua catalana i castellana i creativa publicitària.
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Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi was born in Vitoria, Spain.
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She published in 2012 her first novel, The Immortal Collection, followed in 2014 by its second installment, The Sons of Adam, along with the historical novel Passage to Tahití.
In 2016 she released The Silence of the White City, the first volume of the Kraken Saga, a bestselling thriller series set in her hometown of Vitoria. The saga continued with The Rituals of Water (2017), The Lords of Time (2018), The Black Book of Hours (2022) and The Angel of the City (2023). In 2026, the sixth installment of the Kraken Saga will be published.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi won the 2020 Planeta Prize with Aquitania. She later republished The Immortal Collection 1. The Ancient Family (2024) and, in 2025 -
Joël Dicker
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.
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Lluís Llort
Lluís Llort Carceller (Barcelona, 1966) és un escriptor i periodista català.
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Com a escriptor, ha publicat diverses novel·les, entre les quals destaquen Tardor i La imperfecció de les bombolles (2009), així com guions televisius (Jet lag) i narrativa infantil i juvenil. Com a periodista, és redactor de l'Avui, especialitzat en temes de cultura i crítica literària.
Signa les seves novel·les amb el nom de ploma Llort, i la literatura infantil com a Lewis York.
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Eva Baltasar
Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including the 2008 Miquel de Palol, the 2010 Benet Ribas, and the 2015 Gabriel Ferrater. Permafrost was her first novel.
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Elisenda Solsona
Elisenda Solsona Margarit (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) és escriptora i professora de secundària. És llicenciada en Humanitats i Comunicació Audiovisual. Té el Màster en Escriptura Cinematogràfica de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Ha cursat diversos cursos a l'Escola d'Escriptura de l'Ateneu Barcelonès i a l'Obrador de la Sala Beckett.
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Núria Bendicho Giró
Núria Bendicho Giró (Barcelona, 1995) és una escriptora catalana. Es va llicenciar en filosofia. El 2020 es va presentar al Premi Anagrama amb un text que no va guanyar, però que el jurat va "recomanar-ne la publicació". El 2021 va publicar finalment Terres mortes, la seva primera novel·la, a Editorial Anagrama, que va ser nominada com a finalista al XXII Premi Llibreter de Literatura catalana i nominada també al Premi Òmnium a la millor novel·la de l'any. L'obra ha sigut descrita com un drama rural extrem, amb aires de Rodoreda, Faulkner, Víctor Català i /o Bernhard. El títol fa referència a Terra baixa, d'Àngel Guimerà.
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Carlos Zanón
Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966) poeta, novelista, guionista, articulista y crítico literario. Su dedicación a la novela negra ha hecho que se haya emparentado su obra con la de autores como Vázquez Montalbán o Jim Thompson.
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Lluís Llort
Lluís Llort Carceller (Barcelona, 1966) és un escriptor i periodista català.
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Com a escriptor, ha publicat diverses novel·les, entre les quals destaquen Tardor i La imperfecció de les bombolles (2009), així com guions televisius (Jet lag) i narrativa infantil i juvenil. Com a periodista, és redactor de l'Avui, especialitzat en temes de cultura i crítica literària.
Signa les seves novel·les amb el nom de ploma Llort, i la literatura infantil com a Lewis York.
Photo by GuillemMedina - Treball propi, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...