Antonia Arslan
Antonia Arslan (Armenian: Անտոնիա Արսլան, born 1938) is an Italian writer and academic of Armenian origin.
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Julia Sienna
Julia Sienna nasce nel 1989, scrittrice, storica dell’Arte ed editor.
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La sua passione per il fantasy nasce molto presto, fin dalla più tenera età, quando scopre il genere grazie alla mitologia classica e alle opere di J.R.R Tolkien.
Tra i suoi scrittori preferiti ci sono Neil Gaiman, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Terry Brooks e Raymond Chandler.
Ama i supereroi americani, i corvi e tutto ciò che è pieno di “botte&mostri”.
Julia pubblica il suo romanzo di esordio nel 2013 “I Predatori Oscuri”, primo volume della saga epic fantasy “The Dark Hunt” al quale fanno seguito nel 2014 “Cacciatori di Ombre” e nel 2017 “Il Tempio degli Abissi” tutti editi da Gainsworth Publishing.
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.
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Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
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Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w -
Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.
The child of two scientists, Greer studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation, where his unrehearsed remarks, critiquing Brown's admissions policies, caused a semi-riot. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where -
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Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc
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Sebastiano Vassalli
Born in 1941, he was a well known Italian novelist.
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Sebastiano Vassalli nasce a Genova nel 1941 da madre toscana e padre lombardo, ma vive a Novara sin da bambino. Dopo il liceo si iscrive alla facoltà di lettere dell’Università di Milano, dove si laurea con Cesare Musatti con una tesi su “La psicanalisi e l’arte contemporanea”. Dal 1965 al 1979 si dedica all’insegnamento in parallelo ad un’intensa attività artistico letteraria.
Partecipa alle vicende della neoavanguardia con il “Gruppo ’63”, il cui intento è abbandonare il mondo critico-accademico per tentare nuove discipline (psicanalisi, strutturalismo, semiologia) e raccogliere l’eredità dell’avanguardia del primo Novecento.
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Fred Vargas
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Archeo-zoologist and historian by trade, she undertook a project on the epidemiology of the Black Death and bubonic plague, the result of which was a scientific work published in 2003 and still considered definitive in this research area: Les chemins de la peste : Le rat la puce et l'homme (Pest Roads).
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Ágota Kristóf
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
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Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio -
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
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Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, -
Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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Domenico Starnone
Domenico Starnone (Saviano, 1943) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e giornalista italiano.
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Ha collaborato e collabora a numerosi giornali (l'Unità, Il manifesto per cui è stato redattore delle pagine culturali) e riviste di satira (Cuore, Tango, Boxer), con temi generalmente improntati alla sua attività di insegnante di liceo.
Ha scritto con costanza su Linus, negli anni '70-'80.
Ha lavorato anche come sceneggiatore; film come La scuola di Daniele Luchetti, Denti di Gabriele Salvatores e Auguri professore di Riccardo Milani sono ispirati a suoi libri.
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Andrés Neuman
Hijo de músicos argentinos exiliados (de madre violinista, de origen ítalo-español, y padre oboísta, de origen judío alemán), tiene la ciudadanía argentina y española. La historia novelada de su familia, infancia argentina y ancestros europeos puede leerse en su libro Una vez Argentina. A los catorce años se trasladó a Granada, donde realizó sus estudios secundarios, obtuvo la licenciatura en Filología Hispánica por su Universidad, cursó el doctorado e impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana.
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Neuman debutó en la literatura como poeta y narrador breve. Su primera publicación fue un cuaderno de poemas titulado Simulacros, aparecido a principios de 1998 en una pequeña editorial de Granada. A finales de 1999 se publicó su primera novela, -
José Saramago
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Donato Carrisi
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Serbian: Donato Karizi
Russian: Донато Карризи
Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 and studied law and criminology. Since 1999 he has been working as a TV screenwriter. The Whisperer, Carrisi’s first novel, won him five international literary prizes, has been sold in nearly twenty territories and has been translated into languages as varied as French, Danish, Hebrew and Vietnamese. Carrisi lives in Rome. -
Giuseppe Catozzella
He was born in Milan and studied philosophy at the University of Milan. After graduating, he moved to Australia. After living in Sydney for an extended period, he returned to his native Milan. He has been nominated by the UN Goodwill Ambassador UNHCR.
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Catozzella has published across multiple literary genres, including plays, short stories and novels, and writes on the main Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso. His novel Don't Tell Me You're Afraid, dealing with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, was a very popular and critical success in Italy and in the world. The novel sold more than 500.000 copies in 40 countries. In Italy it won the Premio Strega Giovani 2014 and it was shortlisted for the Premio Strega 2014. It has -
Piergiorgio Pulixi
Piergiorgio Pulixi, scrittore e sceneggiatore, è uno dei più apprezzati autori noir italiani, fa parte del collettivo di scrittura Sabot creato da Massimo Carlotto di cui è allievo. Insieme allo stesso Carlotto e ai Sabot ha pubblicato Perdas de Fogu, (edizioni E/O 2008). È autore della saga poliziesca di Biagio Mazzeo iniziata col noir Una brutta storia (Edizioni E/O 2012), finalista al Premio Camaiore 2013 e chiusa col romanzo finale della quadrilogia, Prima di dirti addio (Edizioni E/O 2016). Nel 2014 per Rizzoli ha pubblicato il romanzo Padre Nostro. Ha vinto numerosi premi letterari e nel 2015 è stato premiato ai Corpi Freddi Awards come miglior autore italiano dell’anno. I suoi romanzi sono in corso di pubblicazione negli Stati Uniti,
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Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.
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Marco Balzano
Marco Balzano vive a Milano, dove lavora come insegnante di Lettere nei licei. Dottore di ricerca in lettere, nel 2010 pubblica il suo primo romanzo.
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Nadia Terranova
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.
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Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021.
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D.A. Mishani
D. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction.
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His first detective novel, "The missing file", was published in Hebrew in 2011. Translation rights for the novel, the first in a crime series featuring police inspector Avraham Avraham, were sold to more than 10 territories. The American edition of "The missing file" will be published by HarperCollins on April 2013.
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Giulia Caminito
Giulia Caminito è nata a Roma nel 1988 e si è laureata in Filosofia politica. Ha esordito con il romanzo La Grande A (Giunti 2016, Premio Bagutta opera prima, Premio Berto e Premio Brancati giovani), seguito nel 2019 da Un giorno verrà (Bompiani, Premio Fiesole Under 40).
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A.K. Blakemore
A.K. Blakemore is the author of two collections of poetry: Humbert Summer and Fondue. She has also translated the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo. Her poetry and prose writing have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in The London Review of Books, Poetry, The Poetry Review, and The White Review, among other publications. Her debut novel, The Manningtree Witches won the Desmond Elliot Prize 2021. She lives in London, England.
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