Anna Starobinets
Anna Starobinets (Russian: Анна Старобинец) is a young Russian journalist whose first book “An Awkward age” was nominated for the National Bestseller prestigious Russian prize as a manuscript – even before it was published.
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David Jasso
David Jasso nació en 1961 en Zaragoza, ciudad en la que reside. Está casado y tiene una hija de diecisiete años. Ha trabajado como periodista en prensa, radio y televisión; también ha impartido clases de Medios de Comunicación. En la actualidad es el Director del departamento audiovisual de una importante Vídeo productora.
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Es el presidente de NOCTE, la asociación española de escritores de terror. También imparte talleres literarios y de creatividad para niños, adolescentes y adultos.
Aficionado a la música y al cine, es, sobre todo, un lector compulsivo y un gran aficionado a la literatura de terror. Ha escrito numerosas reseñas literarias y relatos para varios medios especializados. En su juventud formó parte del colectivo “Abrotjos” y editó -
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Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Born as Diana Dalziel, Vreeland was the eldest daughter of American socialite mother Emily Key Hoffman and British father Frederick Young Dalziel. Hoffman was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. She also was a distant cousin of Pauline de Rothschild. Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra. -
Narine Abgaryan
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Նարինե Յուրիի Աբգարյան
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. -
Luis Chaves
Luis Chaves Campos (San José, 28 de agosto de 1969) es un poeta de Costa Rica, considerado una de las figuras más destacadas de la poesía costarricense contemporánea. Recibió el Premio Nacional Aquileo Echeverría en la categoría de poesía por su libro La máquina de hacer niebla (2012).
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Luego de estudiar Economía Agrícola en la Universidad de Costa Rica, Chaves empezó a escribir como free-lancer. Su primer libro de poemas, El anónimo, fue publicado por la Editorial Guayacán en 1996. En 1997, su segundo libro, Los animales que imaginamos, ganó el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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Yoav Blum
Yoav Blum is an author who masterfully blends high-concept speculative and science fiction with gripping mystery, thriller, and philosophical depth. His novels delve into the extraordinary – from the overwhelming experience of hearing the thoughts of everyone around you, to the mind-bending possibilities of time travel, the intricate mechanics of body switching, and the hidden art of orchestrating coincidences.
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But beneath the thrilling concepts lie profound questions about what it truly means to be human. Blum explores the complexities of identity, the struggle to define the self amidst external influences, the nature of consciousness and perception, and the delicate dance between fate and free will. His narratives often feature compelling -
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang is the English name for Chinese author 張愛玲, who was born to a prominent family in Shanghai (one of her great-grandfathers was Li Hongzhang) in 1920.
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She went to a prestigious girls' school in Shanghai, where she changed her name from Chang Ying to Chang Ai-ling to match her English name, Eileen. Afterwards, she attended the University of Hong Kong, but had to go back to Shanghai when Hong Kong fell to Japan during WWII. While in Shanghai, she was briefly married to Hu Lancheng, the notorious Japanese collaborator, but later got a divorce.
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A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) is internationally known for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize winner Possession, The Biographer’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, and her highly acclaimed collections of short stories include Sugar and Other Stories, The Matisse Stories, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, Elementals and her most recent book Little Black Book of Stories. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
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BYATT, Dame Antonia (Susan), (Dame Antonia Duffy), DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983; Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), 2003 , writer; born 24 Aug. 1936;
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Dmitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry Glukhovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Глуховский) is a professional Russian author and journalist. Glukhovsky started in 2002 by publishing his first novel, Metro 2033, on his own website to be viewed for free. The novel has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in many readers, and has since been made into a video game for the Xbox 360 console and PC. Glukhovsky is known in Russia for his novels Metro 2033 and "It's Getting Darker". He is also an author of a series of satirical "Stories of Motherland" criticizing today's Russia.
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As a journalist, Dmitry Glukhovsky has worked for EuroNews TV in France, Deutsche Welle, and RT. In 2008-2009 he worked as a radio host of a Mayak Radio Station. He writes columns for Harper’s Bazaar, l’Offi -
Kir Bulychev
Kir Bulychev was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko, a Soviet Russian science fiction writer, critic, translator and historian of Lithuanian ancestry. His magnum opus is a children's science fiction series Alisa Selezneva, although most of his books are adult-oriented. His books were adapted for film, TV, and animation over 20 times – more than any other Russian science fiction author – and Bulychev himself wrote scripts for early adaptations.
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He began to write SF in 1965. He has translated numerous American SF stories into Russian.
Winner of the ESFS Awards in 1984 as the "Best Short Story Writer".
Winner of the Aelita award in 1997.
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Russian - Кир Булычев
Russian real name (non-fiction books) - Игорь Можейко
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Eugene Vodolazkin
Alternate spellings: Evgenij Vodolazkin, Evgheni Vodolazkin, Jevgenij Vodolazkin
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Eugene Vodolazkin is a Russian scholar and author. He has worked at Russian Academy of Sciences and been awarded fellowships from the Toepfer Foundation and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has written for First Things. He lives with his family in St. Petersburg. -
Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.
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Fernando Navarro
Fernando Navarro nació en Granada en 1980. Es uno de los guionistas más activos y prolíficos del cine español. Ha colaborado con cineastas como Álex de la Iglesia, Isaki Lacuesta, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza o Jaume Balagueró. Ha sido dos veces nominado a los Premios Goya, en las categorías de Mejor Guion Original y Mejor Guion Adaptado. Entre su filmografía destacan Verónica (nominada a Mejor Guion Original en los Premios Goya 2018), Orígenes secretos (nominada a Mejor Guion Adaptado en los Premios Goya 2020), Bajocero (2021), Venus (2022) y la serie Romancero (2023). Es coguionista de Segundo premio (2024), película que se alzó con la Biznaga de Oro en el Festival de Málaga y que ha sido nominada al Goya a Mejor Película y candidata a los
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
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Alexei Ivanov
Alexei Ivanov (Russian: Алексей Иванов) is a Russian award-winning writer.
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Ivanov was born in Nizhny Novgorod into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm, where he grew up.
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Marina Stepnova
Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Stepnova’s translation from Romanian of the play “Nameless Star” by Mikhail Sebastien has been staged by numerous theaters throughout Russia. Her novel "The Surgeon" won the nomination for the National Bestseller Prize.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Alexander Volkov
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The first of these books, The Wizard of the Emerald City, is a loose translation of the first Oz book, with chapters added, altered, or omitted, some names changed (for example, Dorothy becomes "Ellie" and Oz is renamed "Magic Land"), and several characters given personal names instead of generic ones.
First published in 1939 in the Soviet Union, the book became quite popular; and in the 1960s Volkov also wrote his own sequels to the story. From 1963 to 1970, four more books in the series were published, with th -
Shun Umezawa
Shun Umezawa (うめざわしゅん, Umezawa Shun) is a Japanese manga author.
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Umezawa debuted in 1998 in the magazine 'Young Sunday'. He usually works for seinen manga magazines, aimed at a mature audience. His short stories have been collected in books, most notably Utopias (2006), 1 & 99 (2012), A Pantyhose Like World (2016).
He is best known as the author of the manga Darwin's Incident, which has been serialised since 2020. The series has received multiple accolades, including the Manga Taishō Grand Prize in 2022, the Manga Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival and the BDGest’Arts at the Asian section of the 50th Angoulême festival in France. -
Cecilia Eudave
Cecilia Eudave nació en Guadalajara, México el 11 de abril de 1968. Es una escritora, investigadora, Profesora y coordinadora de la Maestría en Estudios de Literatura Mexicana en la Universidad de Guadalajara. Pertenece también al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI).
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Estudió el doctorado en Lenguas romances en la Universidad de Montpellier. Ha participado en diferentes suplementos y revistas culturales de México y en el extranjero como en la formación de alumnos que han cursado la carrera de letras.
En 1990 obtuvo la Beca Nacional Salvador Novo en narrativa que otorga el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, El Colegio de México y el centro Mexicano de escritores. En 1997 fue becada por el Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Jalis -
Iván Ledesma
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Ivan Ledesma (Barcelona, 1977) és un escriptor i guionista català. Porta més de 20 anys dedicat al treball creatiu per a tot tipus de mitjans: productores, televisions, ràdios, agències d'esdeveniments i editorials.
Autor de llibres infantils, com la saga Diari de Dan, llibres de gènere per a adults, com 184 o la multipremiada novel·la Negorith, o novel·les gràfiques, com La Vampira de Barcelona.
Ha treballat com a guionista i realitzador per a productores com WOW, Global Events, Canonigo Films, Fausto Producciones, Animal Films, Utopic ...
Ha compost la BSO de diversos capítols de sèries de TV com el capítol final de Vent del Pla. I a més, ha fet al llarg dels anys una dotzena de discos de diferents estils musicals on ha compost música -
Isabel Del Rio Sanz (Alias: Isabel del Río)
Editor, reader, documentary and translator. Author, writing teacher and literary coach. Llibretera, mother & Witch.
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Las historias y mundos de fantasía me han acompañado toda la vida. Vivo entre libros y respiro palabras.
Soy autora de novela y relato, ensayo y poesía; especializada en géneros fantásticos.
Editora y co-creadora del proyecto colaborativo y sin animo de lucro Otros Mundos.
Trabajo como librera en Librería Gigamesh y doy clase de escritura en centros culturales, cívicos y bibliotecas.
Lectora, redactora, correctora, traductora y documentalista para editoriales y agencias.
Colabora en medios especializados como las revistas El Biblionauta, Librújula y Libros Prohibidos.
Bajo el nombre de Keylah Missen publico libros con Kepler, Ura -
Alexei Ivanov
Alexei Ivanov (Russian: Алексей Иванов) is a Russian award-winning writer.
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Ivanov was born in Nizhny Novgorod into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm, where he grew up.
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Pavel Sanaev
Павел Владимирович Санаев — российский писатель, актёр, сценарист, режиссёр, переводчик.
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Mikhail Elizarov
Mikhail Elizarov, born 1973 in Ukraine, studied philology and film direction in Kharkiv and worked as a cameraman in the '90s. He then moved to Hanover, Germany to study cinema. In 2001, his first novel Fingernails caught the attention of the media and was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize, and his fourth novel The Librarian was awarded the 2008 Russian Booker Prize. Mikhail Elizarov has also written short stories and essays, and contributes to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and magazines including GQ and Playboy. He currently lives in Germany.
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Linor Goralik
Linor Goralik (Russian: Линор Горалик) is an Israeli author, poet, artist, essayist and marketing specialist.
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Goralik lived in Moscow from 2000 to 2014. She worked there as a journalist and marketing analyst. At that period she translated works of Etgar Keret and Vytautas Pliura (with Stanislav Lvovsky). She also started working in cultural marketing, with Stanislav Lvovsky she organized several art exhibitions and projects, bringing contemporary Israeli culture to Moscow.
After the 2014 annexation of Crimea she returned to Israel, but continued to travel between the two countries until November 2021. She is a vocal opponent to Vladimir Putin's regime and to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In August 2023 Goralik was added to Russia's li -
Mikhail Zygar
Mikhail Zygar (Михаил Зыгарь) is a writer, journalist, filmmaker.
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He worked for Newsweek Russia and the business daily Kommersant, covering the conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Serbia, and Kosovo before becoming founding editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent news TV channel, Dozhd (TVRain), which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels and gave a platform to opposition voices. Zygar won the International Press Freedom Award in 2014.
He is the author of All the Kremlin’s Men, a #1 bestseller in Russia that has been translated into over twenty languages and was called one of “9 books that can help you understand Russia right now” by Time magazine, and The Empire Must Die, a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction B -
Enric Herce
Enric Herce (Barcelona, 1972) és bibliotecari, escriptor i filòleg. Ha publicat les novel·les de ciència-ficció Simulacions de vida, Estació Boira (premi Imperdible 2019), L’estrany miratge (premi Imperdible i premi Ictineu 2022) i Un bibliotecari de Mart. Benvolgut Jaume, fantasia història epistolar, i Capipota, bizarro, són, per ara, les seves darreres obres. També ha participat en els reculls Punts de fuga, Deu relats ecofuturistes, Contes per al (des)confinament i Tàndems Fantàstics.
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Powerpaola
Paola Andrea Gaviria Silguero, más conocida como Power Paola o Powerpaola, es una artista plástica, historietista e ilustradora colombo-ecuatoriana. Su trabajo es generalmente de corte autobiográfico y explora el dibujo, la narración, lo cotidiano y la interpretación de textos. Además de tratar temas relacionados con la sexualidad, el feminismo, las relaciones familiares y la búsqueda de la identidad personal. Es parte del colectivo de cómic internacional "Chicks on comics" y apela a darle visibilidad y difusión al trabajo de las mujeres en el mundo de las tiras cómicas y novelas gráficas.
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Rainis
Rainis (the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns) was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
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Alexey Pehov
Alexey Pehov is the award-winning author of "The Chronicles of Siala," a bestselling series in his native Russia. SHADOW PROWLER (first published in Russia in 2002 as STEALTH IN THE SHADOWS) was the first book in the series THE CHRONICLES OF SIAL, and became one of Russia’s biggest, most successful debuts. His novel UNDER THE SIGN OF THE MANTIKOR was named "Book of Year" and "Best Fantasy Novel" in 2004 by Russia's largest fantasy magazine, World of Fantasy.
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Miles Hyman
Miles Hyman attended Wesleyan University, where he studied literature as well as printmaking with David Schorr before moving to Paris to attend the École des Beaux-Arts. Hyman specializes in graphic novels and adaptations of classic literature. His work has been shown in galleries around the world and has appeared in publications such as Le Monde, Libération and The New Yorker.
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Nikolay Nosov
Nikolai(y) Nikolaevich Nosov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Носов,Николай Носов, Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Носов; 23 November [O.S. 10 November] 1908, Kiev – 26 July 1976, Moscow) was a Soviet children's literature writer, the author of a number of humorous short stories, a school novel, and the popular trilogy of fairy tale novels about the adventures of Neznaika and his friends.
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Sasha Filipenko
Sasha Filipenko, geboren 1984 in Minsk, ist ein belarussischer Schriftsteller, der auf Russisch schreibt. Nach einer abgebrochenen klassischen Musikausbildung studierte er Literatur in St. Petersburg und arbeitete als Journalist, Drehbuchautor, Gag-Schreiber für eine Satire-Show und Fernsehmoderator. ›Der ehemalige Sohn‹ über das Leben unter dem Lukaschenko-Regime ist im Frühjahr 2021 bei Diogenes erschienen. Sasha Filipenko ist leidenschaftlicher Fußballfan und lebt in St. Petersburg und in der Schweiz.
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Sacha Filipenko (en russe : Саша Филипенко ; né le 12 juillet 1984 à Minsk en Biélorussie) est un écrivain biélorusse, lauréat du Prix russe (Rouskaïa Premia). Il est l'auteur des romans Croix rouges, La Traque, Le Fils d'avant, Zamysl -
Verity Bargate
Verity Eileen Bargate (1940–1981) was an English novelist and theatre director. In 1969, she co-founded the cutting-edge Soho Theatre Company, later known as the Soho Theatre. She also wrote three novels, including Tit for Tat.
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Her first husband was Soho Theatre co-founder Fred Proud. Her second husband, till her death, was the playwright and screenwriter Barrie Keeffe. She died of cancer at the age of 41.
After her death, the Verity Bargate Award was set up in her memory to encourage and reward new writing in the theatre. -
Felix Yusupov
Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, was a Russian aristocrat, a prince and count, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin.
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Guzel Yakhina
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award.
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Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a doctor, while her father is an engineer. She spoke Tatar at home and learned Russian only after she started going to daycare.
She studied at the Department of Foreign Languages in the Tatar State University of Humanities and Education. In 1999, she moved to Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from the Moscow School of Film with a degree in screenwriting.
Yakhina worked in public relations and advertising. She began her writing career with publications in the journals Neva and Oktyabr. Sections of her debut novel Zuleikha appeared in the journal Siberian -
Carme Torras
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Carme Torras (www.iri.upc.edu/people/torras) is a robotics researcher and novelist. She studied mathematics at the University of Barcelona and computer science at the University of Massachusetts, and she currently heads the Perception and Manipulation group at the Robotics Institute (CSIC-UPC) in Barcelona. A member of Academia Europaea and of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, she writes scientific works on robotics and artificial intelligence in English and fiction in Catalan, and some of her novels and short stories have been translated into English, Spanish and Italian.
Her novels Pedres de toc and Miracles perversos won the Primera Columna award and the Ferran Canyameres award to the best thriller, respectively. Her mo -
Paula Bonet
Paula Bonet Herreros conocida como Paula Bonet (Villareal, 1980) es una pintora e ilustradora española. Ha colaborado en diferentes proyectos y libros como el poemario "Si uneixes tots els punts" (Si unes todos los puntos) de la actriz y poetisa catalana Estel Solé o la obra "T'estimo, ets perfecte, ja et canviaré" dirigida por Elisenda Roca.
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Edgar Cotes i Argelich
Edgar Cotes i Argelich (Balaguer, 1997). Traductor i escriptor de relat i microrelat, especialitzat en els gèneres fantàstics. Ha publicat un recull de microrelats "Els híbrids minvants" (2017, Edicions SECC), i els seus relats han aparegut en diversos volums col·lectius com ara "Bestiari" (2017, Edicions SECC), "Inèdits 12" (2017, Revista Inèdits), "Monstruari" (2018, Edicions SECC) i "El Biblionauta 4" (2018, El Biblionauta).
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Daniel Genís Mas
Nascut a Castelló d’Empúries (l’Alt Empordà) el 1977. És escriptor i professor de secundària. Llicenciat en Filologia Catalana i Hispànica, i doctor per la Universitat de Girona, ha publicat diversos treballs al voltant de la moral, la història i el pensament polític a la Catalunya medieval i moderna. Ha estat l’assessor editorial de la col·lecció «Ciència-Ficció» de Pagès Editors i de «L’Arcà» de Laertes Editorial. Divulgador dels gèneres no mimètics, també va ser el fundador del portal de literatura fantàstica en català El Biblionauta i l’editor del recull de narracions estranyes 'Freakcions'.
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Javi Fernández Mata
(Igualada, 1978) es un escritor con diferentes relatos publicados y premiados como “El puente eterno” (Ende interminable, Tinta Púrpura Ediciones). Es fundador y editor de la revista de cuentos y relatos ilustrados Narranación, y codirector y locutor del programa de radio del mismo nombre (emitido en Ràdio Igualada y Ràdio Vilanova del Camí y en formato pódcast). También organiza y participa en diferentes eventos culturales relacionados con la literatura y la ilustración.
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Lyudmila Petranovskaya
Associated Names:
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Людмила Петрановская (Russian)
Людмила Петрановська (Ukrainian)
Людмила Петрановска (Bulgarian)
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Viktor Remizov
Viktor Vladimirovich Remizov (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Ремизов) was born in Saratov in 1958, where he studied geological prospecting at college. After serving in the army Remizov studied languages at Moscow State University. He worked as a surveyor in the taiga, a school teacher of Russian literature and – for the longest time of his pro- fessional career – as a journalist. Viktor Remizov lives with his family near Moscow.
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Awards: 2021 Book of the Year WINNER
2021 Big Book 3. WINNER
2021 National Bestseller longlist
2014 Big Book shortlist
2014 Russian Booker Prize shortlist
2014 NOS Award shortlist
Foreign rights in general:
Bulgaria/ Aviana
Estonia/ Kunst
France/ Belfond
Germany/ dtv
Lebanon/ Arab Scientific Publishers
Macedonia/ Ars Lamina
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Pilar Pedraza
Escritora española. Su obra tiene dos vertientes principales: la narrativa de terror y el ensayo. Desconocida del gran público, es una escritora de culto, cuyo peculiar feminismo sadiano recuerda a la controvertida pensadora norteamericana Camille Paglia y a la novelista británica Angela Carter.
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Henrietta Dorothy Everett
Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923) wrote under the pen-names Theo Douglas and H.D. Everett, as well as Mrs. H.D. Everett.
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Leonid Solovyov
Born in Tripoli, Syria (now Lebanon) where his father taught at the Russian consulate, Leonid Solovyov began writing as a newspaper correspondent (in Uzbek) for the Pravda Vostoka, published in Tashkent.
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His first book was Lenin in Eastern Folk Art (Moscow, 1930), which he described as "a volume of Central Asian post-revolutionary folklore." His masterpiece is Tale of Hodja Nasreddin, which Alexei Tolstoy hailed as a work of unusual talent.
During the Second World War, Solovyov served as a war correspondent and produced several wartime stories and screenplays.
In 1946, Solovyov was accused of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism against the Soviet state. He was interned in several prison camps until 1954, when he was cleared of all charges -
Sjeng Scheijen
Sjeng Scheijen (1972) is a Dutch author, a scholar and a specialist in fin-de-siècle Russian art. His interests are manifold: He writes regularly on film, poetry, dance, classical music and politics. He curated several exhibitions on Russian Art, including 'Ilya Repin, Russia’s Secret' and 'Working for Diaghilev', both for the Groninger Museum; and Russian Landscape in the age of Tolstoy for the National Gallery, London.
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In 2008 and 2009 he worked as the Cultural Attaché on the Netherlands Embassy in Moscow.
Scheijen is a much sought after and inspirational lecturer and speaker, who has spoken all over the world for museum audiences and on universities.
Currently he is affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Disciplines at Leiden University,