Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson född 1953 i Jönköping, är en svensk författare och professor i franska vid Lunds universitet.
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Colum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including "Apeirogon," published in Spring 2020. His other books include "TransAtlantic," "Let the Great World Spin," "This Side of Brightness,""Dancer" and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers.
His newest book, American Mother, written with Diane Foley, is due to be published in March 2024.
American Mother takes us deep into the story of Diane Foley; whose son Jim, a freelance journalist, was held captive by ISIS before being beheaded in the Syrian desert.
Diane’s voice is channeled into searing reality by Colum, who brings us on a journey of strength, resilience, and radical empathy.
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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 -
Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. Abdolah has lived in the Netherlands since 1988.
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He studied physics at the Arak College of Science and fled the country as a political refugee in 1988. Today he lives in Delft (The Netherlands), writing under a pseudonym made up of the names of two murdered friends. Het huis van de moskee (The House of the Mosque), catapulted Abdolah into the Dutch bestseller lists. -
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 -
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl -
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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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Massimo Bontempelli
Massimo Bontempelli was an Italian novelist, short story and theater writer, literary and art theorist and critic.
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Best known for coining the literary term Magical Realism and creating its theoretical framework. His efforts to implement this specific poetics in his writings begin after his initial experiments, first with traditional poetry (Carduccian classicism) , then humorist, ironic stories (influenced by Pirandello) and short escapades in surrealism and futurism.
Despite forming a literary model for Magic Realism with his own novels and short stories, Bontempelli's importance as a Magic Realist writer is mainly neglected and overthrown in contemporary theories on Magic Realism. Only few authors (mostly Italian authors but A. C. Hegerfe -
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. -
Paolo Nori
Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Andrea Bajani
Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
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Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
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Antonio Albanese
Antonio Albanese, divenuto noto grazie alla esilarante galleria di personaggi di "Mai dire gol" negli anni '90 si è poi rivelato negli anni successivi uno degli attori più interessanti del panorama comico italiano. E non solo comico, perché la sua carriera inizia come attore drammatico e le sue doti in questo campo non sono certo da trascurare.
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Nato ad Olginate (Lecco) il 10 ottobre 1964 da una famiglia di origine siciliana, Antonio Albanese si iscrive alla Civica Scuola d'Arte Drammatica di Milano, dove si diploma nel 1991.
Debutta come attore di cabaret al teatro Zelig di Milano, partecipa al "Maurizio Costanzo Show", al varietà condotto da Paolo Rossi "Su la testa...!" (1992), alla trasmissione "Mai dire gol" (1993): in quest'ultima, mette -
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Concita De Gregorio
Nata a Pisa nel 1963, da madre spagnola (di Barcellona) e padre toscano, è cresciuta a Livorno. In questa città studia al Liceo Classico Niccolini Guerrazzi; successivamente consegue la laurea all'Università di Pisa in Scienze Politiche. Frattanto inizia la professione nelle radio e TV locali toscane, entrando a Il Tirreno nel 1985, dove, per otto anni, lavora nelle redazioni di Piombino, Livorno, Lucca e Pistoia.
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Nel 1990 approda a la Repubblica, dove si è occupata di cronaca e politica interna.
Nel luglio 2008 è al centro di una curiosa polemica. La rivista Prima Comunicazione rende note le anticipazioni di una sua intervista in cui ammette di aver accettato la proposta del neo editore de l'Unità, Renato Soru, di diventare direttrice del qu -
Alessia Gazzola
Alessia Gazzola, nata a Messina nel 1982, è medico chirurgo specialista in medicina legale. Ha esordito nella narrativa con il romanzo L’allieva, che ha fatto conoscere e amare al pubblico italiano, e a quello dei principali Paesi europei dove è uscito, un nuovo e accattivante personaggio: Alice Allevi. Ama viaggiare, leggere e cucinare. Vive a Verona con il marito e le sue due piccole bambine.
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Federica Manzon
Federica Manzon is an Italian writer. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Di fama e di sventura in 2011.
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Nadia Terranova
Nadia Terranova (1978) è nata a Messina e vive a Roma. Tra i suoi libri, Bruno. Il bambino che imparò a volare (Orecchio Acerbo 2012, illustrazioni di Ofra Amit) che ha vinto il Premio Napoli e il Premio Laura Orvieto ed è stato tradotto in Spagna. Collabora con «IL Magazine» e «pagina99». Gli anni al contrario (Einaudi Stile Libero 2015) è il suo primo romanzo.
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Francesco Costa
Francesco Costa è giornalista e vicedirettore de "Il Post". È nato a Catania e vive a Milano. Collabora con Roma Radio, ha lavorato anche per l’Unità e Internazionale, e ha scritto per IL, il mensile del Sole 24 Ore, e poi il Foglio, l’Ultimo Uomo, Grazia, Studio, Donna Moderna e Undici. Ha una laurea in Scienze Politiche.
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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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Jan Grue
Author and academic.
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My work deals first of all with embodiment - with what it means to be a body in an endlessly complex world. I've worked in various genres, combining literary exploration and elements of science fiction and speculative fiction, publishing five short story collections, a novel, and several children's books.
My book of autobiographical non-fiction, I Live a Life Like Yours, was first published in Norwegian in 2018. “The book will, in all likelihood, linger as a mile stone signifying that a new maturity is reaching autobiographical literature in Norwegian non-fiction,” wrote Morgenbladet’s Ane Farsethås. Dagbladet’s reviewer called the book ”a literary masterpiece that I recommend in the strongest terms!”, giving the book fi -
Marina Pierri
Half from Bari and half from Salento (thus 100% Pugliese, as she likes to say), Marina Pierri is a fan of weird science and fantastic fiction, fairy tales and happy endings. She is deeply fond of semiotics and story structure, which she also teaches. Marina has published three essays including her debut Eroine, focused on her theory of The Heroine’s Journey, a podcast called Soglie, and her first novel Gotico salentino. A reader, a watcher and a gamer, she currently lives in Milan and is working on her second novel.
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Massimo Recalcati
He works in Milan as a psychoanalyst and is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, treasuring the Title AME. Founder of JONAS (Center for Psychoanalytic Research on New Symptoms). He teaches at the University of Bergamo and at the Freudian Institute in Milan.
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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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Paolo Zellini
Paolo Zellini (Trieste, 1946) è un matematico, saggista e accademico italiano.
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Nei suoi saggi si è dedicato ad una disamina dell'evoluzione del pensiero matematico attraverso il concetto di infinito e ad un approfondimento della nozione di numero in una prospettiva che abbraccia e mette in gioco tutta la storia del pensiero non solo occidentale. In queste ricerche ha dichiarato esser stato ispirato dall'opera di Elémire Zolla. -
Stefano Tevini
Dopo anni di attività nel collettivo letterario Anonima Scrittori, vera palestra di letteratura e teppismo on line, Marcello Nicolini e Valerio Villa di La Ponga Edizioni mi notano, e ci credono.
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Nasce Vampiro Tossico (2013), mio primo romanzo, tragedia che parla di dipendenza ed emarginazione.
Segue Testamento di una Maschera (2015), romanzo che parla di supereroi portando avanti una riflessione sulla natura del potere.
Il 2017 vede la pubblicazione di ben due miei libri.
Il primo, Storia di Cento Occhi, edito da Safarà Editore, fotografa l'inizio di una distopia, in cui un nuovo ibrido uomo-macchina viene progettato per il controllo più totale.
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Richard Lloyd Parry
Richard Lloyd Parry was born in north-west England, and has lived since 1995 in Tokyo, where he is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper of London. He has reported from twenty-eight countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. In 2005, he was named the UK's foreign correspondent of the year. He has also written for Granta, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.
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Jianwei Xun
Jianwei Xun emerged in late 2024 as a distributed philosophical entity born from the collaborative interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence systems. Initially introduced to the world as a Hong Kong-born philosopher based in Berlin, Xun's true nature as a hybrid intellectual construct was revealed in spring 2025, transforming what began as a meta-narrative experiment into a genuine philosophical event.
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Xun was created through an experimental collaboration between Italian philosopher Andrea Colamedici and advanced language models, as part of a research project on narrative construction and reality manipulation in the digital age. Rather than a simple pseudonym or fictional character, Xun represents a new form of distr -
Jake Adelstein
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017--and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France.
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𝗝’𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔̂𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦 (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019 -
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879–1933) was a Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
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Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. Every job he’s ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits per week.
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Amedeo Cavalleri
Amedeo Cavalleri è nato a Gavardo (BS) nel 1992. Ha lavorato per molti anni come cuoco sul Lago di Garda mentre studiava Scienze politiche all’Università degli Studi di Milano. Ha iniziato ad arrampicare tardi, all’età di ventitré anni, e nel 2016 ha aperto la pagina Instagram Brocchi Sui Blocchi con l’intento di raccontare, in chiave ironica, le avventure d’arrampicata del suo gruppo di amici. In breve tempo, Brocchi Sui Blocchi è diventata la community d’arrampicata più grande in Italia, basata sui principi dell’inclusività e della condivisione, mettendo l’esperienza, non la prestazione, al centro del racconto. Amedeo e i Brocchi Sui Blocchi hanno realizzato anche due podcast di grande successo, ‘Recensioni brocche’ e ‘Preferisco ghisarmi
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Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore the issue of time and climate change through language, mythology and memoir. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and he has directed documentary films. His novel LoveStar was chosen as “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers, it received the DV Literary Award, The Philip K. Dick special citation Award of 2013 and won the french Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire as best foreign Sci-Fi in France 2016. His children’s book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize
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Jennifer duBois
Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writer’s Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction. Jennifer earned a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Missouri Review, Salon, The Kenyon Review, Cosmopolitan, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, and has been a
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Enrico Camanni
Enrico Camanni è uno scrittore, giornalista e alpinista italiano.
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Valerio Evangelisti
Valerio Evangelisti è stato uno dei più importanti scrittori italiani di genere fantasy e horror. Si è laureato in scienze politiche, indirizzo storico-politico, e ha intrapreso una carriera accademica interrotta verso il 1990, alternata all'attività di funzionario del Ministero delle finanze. Dopo avere numerosi saggi, si è dedicato interamente alla narrativa. Nel 1994 è uscito il suo primo romanzo, Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, che ha vinto il Premio Urania. Sono seguiti seguiti altri numerosi romanzi, tradotti in più di dieci lingue.
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Evangelisti earned his degree in Political Science in 1976 with a historical-political thesis. He was born in Bologna.
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David Owen
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Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947 in Bignasco, Canton Ticino) is a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. From 1994 to 1998 she was Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation. From 1999 to 2007 she was chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and parallel from 1999 to 2003 chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. From 2008 to 2011 she was Swiss Ambassador to Argentina.
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From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of a commission (IICISyria) set up by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate human rights violations in Syria in the civil war there.