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  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
  
  Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shel

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  Stephen Chbosky

  Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
  
  He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
  
  For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_...
  

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  Annet Schaap

  Annet Schaap wilde altijd al tekenaar worden, of schrijver, of ontdekkingsreizigster.
  
  Ze studeerde aan twee kunstacademies en een schrijversschool.
  
  Sinds 1991 illustreerde ze bijna 200 kinderboeken en is in Nederland het meest bekend door haar tekeningen bij de succesvolle Hoe Overleef Ik-serie van Francine Oomen. Maar ze illustreerde ook veel boeken van andere geliefde schrijvers, zoals Janneke Schotveld, Manon Sikkel, Jacques Vriens, Annie M.G. Schmidt en Astrid Lindgren.
  
  Met haar Canadese man Tom en hun zoontje Jonas (2009) trok ze een paar jaar lang in een camper door Noord en Midden Amerika. Lees hier meer over hun avonturen: http://www.annetschaap.com/category/r...
  
  Nu woont ze weer gewoon in Utrecht en tekent en schrijft om en om.

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  Victor Dixen

  📖 Two-time winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Victor Dixen stands at the forefront of French fantasy and science-fiction. His acclaimed series include Animale, Phobos, Cogito, Extincta, and Vampyria. A nomadic writer, he has lived in Paris, Dublin, Singapore, New York, and now Washington, DC, drawing inspiration from the promises of the future as much as the ghosts of the past.
  Victor Dixen’s books have been translated into 10 languages.
  > more on Victor Dixen website
  
  📖 Victor Dixen, double lauréat du Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, est l'une des figures de proue de la littérature française de l'imaginaire (Animale, Cogito, Extincta, ainsi que les sagas Phobos et Vampyria). Écrivain nomade, il a vécu à Paris, à Dublin, à Singapour, à New Y

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  Marte Jongbloed

  Marte Jongbloed schrijft graag spannende verhalen waarin wonderlijke personages een rol spelen. Dat is geen toeval want ze is afgestudeerd aan de toneelacademie. Schrijven combineert ze met haar werk als dramadocent op een internationale school. Naast kinder- en jeugdboeken schrijft ze ook toneelteksten.
  Marte woont met haar drie kinderen, haar man, drie katten en een hond in Den Haag.
  

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  Rutger Bregman

  Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.
  
  
  In 2024, he co-founded The School for Moral Ambition, a non-profit organization inspired by his latest book Moral Ambition (2025) that wants to help as many people as possible to take the step towards a job with a positive impact.

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  Léonie Bischoff

  After a high school diploma in Visual Arts in Geneva , Léonie Bischoff left Switzerland to study in Brussels , at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc, where she obtained a degree in comics. She then moved to Paris where she published, in 2009, her first graphic story in the collection Phantasmes at Manolosanctis. With the same publisher, she participated the following year in the collective album 13m28, before publishing her first solo comic, Princess Suplex. Leonie Bischoff then returned to Brussels where she wrote and drew the graphic novel Hoodoo Darlin coming out in 2013 at Casterman. It is the first album that she signs with her full name, rather than her pseudonym "Léonie", used for her previous publications. She then worked with

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  Torben Kuhlmann

  Torben Kuhlmann (1982) is a German communications designer, illustrator and picture book author. He studied Illustration and Communication Design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences . In 2014 he published his first book, Lindbergh - The adventurous story of a flying mouse, the product of his graduation thesis at the college.

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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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  M.G. Leonard

  M. G. Leonard is a writer of books, poems and screenplays. She has a first-class honours degree in English literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London. She works as a freelance Digital Media Producer for clients such as the National Theatre, and Harry Potter West End, and previously worked as a Senior Digital Producer at the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare’s Globe. She spent her early career in the music industry running Setanta Records, an independent record label, and managing bands, most notably The Divine Comedy. After leaving the music industry, she trained as an actor, dabbling in directing and producing as well as performing, before deciding to write her stories down. Maya lives in Br

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  Matt Goodfellow

  Matt Goodfellow was a primary school teacher for more than ten years before becoming a full-time poet and author. Shu Lin’s Grandpa is his first book with Candlewick Press. He lives with his wife and children in Manchester, England.

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  Yorick Goldewijk

  Yorick Goldewijk schreef eerder o.a. Films die nergens draaien, waarvoor hij de Gouden Griffel won. De Engelse vertaling van dit boek werd uitgeroepen tot Times Children's Book of the Year.

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  Hannah Gold

  Hannah Gold worked in the film and magazine industries before taking time out to pursue her dream of writing. She lives in Lincolnshire with her tortoise, her cat and her husband. This is her middle grade debut.

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