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José Ovejero

Nacido en Madrid en 1958. Licenciado en Geografía e Historia. Ha vivido varios años en Alemania y Bruselas y vive en la actualidad en Madrid.

Ha publicado novelas, libros de cuentos, poesía, teatro y libros de viajes. Ha recibido los premios Ciudad de Irún de poesía, Grandes Viajeros de libros de viajes y Primavera de novela.

Sus artículos y relatos han aparecido en diferentes periódicos y revistas, tanto en España como en el extranjero.

Ha dado conferencias en universidades e instituciones culturales en España, Italia, Estados Unidos, Bélgica, Francia, Argentina, Ecuador, México y otros países.

Es miembro de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (Alces XXI)

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Karen Duve

Karen Duve, 1961 in Hamburg geboren, lebt in der Märkischen Schweiz. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Ihre Romane »Regenroman« (1999), »Dies ist kein Liebeslied« (2005), »Die entführte Prinzessin« (2005), »Taxi« (2008) und »Macht« (2016) waren Bestseller und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 2011 erschien ihr Selbstversuch »Anständig essen«, 2014 die Streitschrift »Warum die Sache schiefgeht«. Die Verfilmung ihres Romans »Taxi« kam im Sommer 2015 ins Kino.

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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Alix Garin

Alix Garin was born in 1997 in Belgium. Her future career as a graphic novelist emerged very early on, and she plunged straight into comics art studies after high school. In 2017, she won the Young Talent prize at the Quai des Bulles festival in Saint Malo. In 2018, fresh out of her studies, she moved to Brussels and was hired by the Cartoonbase agency. At the same time, she began writing Ne M'oublie pas (Forget Me Not), a highly personal story published by Le Lombard in 2021 (published in English by Europe Comics, 2021).

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Tamsin Calidas

Tamsin Calidas is a writer and photographer living in the wilds of the Scottish Hebrides.

She graduated from Oxford University in 1992 with a BA Hons and worked in various roles in advertising, publishing and the BBC before giving it all up in 2004 to move from Notting Hill to a tiny, remote island in Scotland to run a derelict croft with sheep and horses.

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Gaël Faye

French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum

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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.

From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.

The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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Anya Niewierra

Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.

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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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Christiane Ritter

Christiane Ritter, born Christiane Knoll, (born July 13, 1897 in Karlsbad, † December 29, 2000 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and author.

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Nicolas Mathieu

Nicolas Mathieu is a French author and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2018.

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Karine Tuil

Après des études de droit et un diplôme de l'Université Paris II, Karine Tuil est l'auteur de neuf romans, d'une pièce de théâtre et de plusieurs scénarios.
En septembre 2000 parait son premier roman Pour le Pire aux éditions Plon qui inaugure une collection "jeunes auteurs". Il relate la lente décomposition d'un couple. il est plébiscité par les libraires mais c'est son second roman, Interdit, (Plon 2001) - récit burlesque de la crise identitaire d'un vieux juif - qui connaît un succès critique et public. Sélectionné pour plusieurs prix dont le prix Goncourt, Interdit obtient le prix Wizo. Il est traduit en plusieurs langues. Le sens de l'ironie et de la tragi-comédie, l'humour juif se retrouvent encore dans 'Du sexe féminin' en 2002 - une

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Goliarda Sapienza

Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.

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Riad Sattouf

Riad Sattouf est l’auteur de nombreuses bandes dessinées, parmi lesquelles Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal (Fauve d’or 2010) ou La vie secrète des jeunes. Les beaux gosses, César du meilleur premier film ; Jacky au royaume des filles)

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Polish female prose writer for "a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life".

For her novel Flights, Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. For Flights and The Books of Jacob, she won the Nike Awards, Poland's top literary prize, among other accolades; she won the Nike audience award five times.

Her works have been translated into almost 40 languages, making her one of the most translated contemporary Polish writers. The

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David Foenkinos

David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.

His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.

Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kep

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Flora Groult

Flora Groult (23 mai 1924 dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris1 – 3 juin 2001) est une écrivaine et journaliste française.

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Marian Engel

Canadian novelist, short-story and children's fiction writer, Marian Engel was a passionate activist for the national and international writer’s cause.

She was the first chair of the Writer’s Union of Canada (1973–74) and helped found the Public Lending Right Commission. From 1975-1977, she served on the City of Toronto Book Award Committee (an award she won in 1981 for Lunatic Villas) and the Canadian Book and Periodical Development Council.
In 1982 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

She married Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio producer Howard Engel in 1962 and, upon their return to Toronto from England in 1964, began to raise a family--twins William Lucas Passmore and Charlotte Helen Arabella--and to pursue a writi

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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.

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Sue Kaufman

Kaufman was born in Long Island, New York. She received her degree from Vassar College in 1947. In 1953 she married a doctor named Jeremiah Abraham Barondess with whom she had a son. At Vasser she did some editorial work and went on to writing. Her works appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her first novel came out in 1959. In 1967 she wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife, which would be filmed as Diary of a Mad Housewife. She died in Manhattan in 1977, at the age of 50, after a long illness.[1] The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is named in her honor.

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Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser (born December 11, 1947) is an American-born, British-based novelist. He is the elder brother of the late author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser.

Born in New England, Palliser is an American citizen, but has lived in the United Kingdom since the age of three. He attended Oxford University in 1967 to read English Language and Literature, and took a First in June 1970. He was awarded the B. Litt. in 1975 for a dissertation on Modernist fiction.

From 1974 until 1990, Palliser was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He was the first Deputy Editor of The Literary Review when it was founded in 1979. He taught creative writing during the Spring semester of 1986 at Rutgers Uni

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Gudrun Pausewang

Gudrun Pausewang (1928 - 2020) was a German writer of children's and teen fiction, also noted in science fiction for young-adult novels like The Last Children of Schewenborn.

Pausewang was born in Eastern Bohemia of German ancestry and after World War II her family settled in the former West Germany. She later became a teacher and taught in Germany's foreign school services in South America. She has written 86 novels with many of them involving the Third World and environmental concerns.

She has won several awards, including the German Federal Cross of Merit, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for The Cloud in 1988.

She was the older sister of Freya Pausewang.

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Ephameron

Ephameron is de nom de pinceau van huisillustrator Eva Cardon, Doctor in de Kunsten en zowel in binnen- als buitenland een graag geziene grafische gast. Ze is curator van het festival Grafixx, de jaarlijkse viering van beeldverhaal en illustratie.

Haar werk doet verslag van een gevoelige kant van de wereld, documenteert de intieme en onopvallende drama’s die samen een leven vormen. Ephameron publiceert illustraties in o.a. The New York Times, De Standaard, De Tijd, L’Echo en Knack Weekend. Ze neemt deel aan en cureert tentoonstellingen over de hele wereld.

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Flora Groult

Flora Groult (23 mai 1924 dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris1 – 3 juin 2001) est une écrivaine et journaliste française.

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Tabitha Lasley

Tabitha Lasley was a journalist for ten years. She has lived in London, Johannesburg, and Aberdeen. SEA STATE is her first book.

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