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Vladan Matijević

Vladan Matijević je srpski književnik. Osamnaest godina je radio u fabrici bazne hemije, a od 2005. zaposlen je u galeriji Nadežda Petrović u Čačku. Počeo je pišući poeziju. Pesme su mu štampane u časopisima još početkom osamdesetih godina. Zbirku pesama "Ne remeteći rasulo" objavljuje 1991. objavljuje zbirku. Ubrzo počinje da piše i prozu. Dobitnik je Andrićeve nagrade za najbolju knjigu priča "Prilično mrtvi" 2000. godine i NIN-ove nagrade za roman "Pisac izdaleka" (2003).

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Svetislav Basara

Svetislav Basara (Serbian cyrillic: Светислав Басара) is a Serbian writer and columnist.
He is the author of more than forty literary works, including novels, story collections, and essays. For his novel Fuss about Cyclists (Fama o biciklistima) David Albahari said: "After the appearance of The Fuss about Cyclists, one can safely say, the Serbian prose has never been the same, just like Basara has never been the same author, just like I have never been the same reader again."

Basara received the NIN Prize, a prestigious Serbian literary award for the best novel, twice. In 2006 for 'Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti' (The Rise and the Fall of Parkinson's Disease). and in 2020 for the novel Kontraendorfin (Counter-endorphin).

He was the ambassad

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictionalized Philip Roth narrates some of his others, such as the alternate history The Plot Against A

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Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

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Florian Illies

Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.

Author Florian Illies has worked as culture editor for major German newspapers and magazines, and is a co-founder of "Monopol" a magazine for art, literature and lifestyle.

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Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.

Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin

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Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born into a colonial family. both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.

In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she fear

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John Fante

Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder and Denver, Colorado, and briefly attended the University of Colorado.

In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.

He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat generation writer Jack Kerouac. He

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Bruce Chatwin

Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982).

In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia, which she had painted. "I've always wanted to go there," Bruce told her. "So have I," she replied, "go there for me." Two years later in November 1974, Chatwin flew out to Lima in Peru, and reached Patagonia a month later. When he arrived, he left the newspaper with a telegram: "Have gone to Patagonia." He spent six months in the area, a trip which resulted in the book In Patagonia (1977). This work established his reputation as

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Péter Nádas

Hungarian novelist, essayist, and dramatist, a major central European literary figure. Nádas made his international breakthrough with the monumental novel A Book of Memories (1986), a psychological novel following the tradition of Proust, Thomas Mann, and magic realism.

Péter Nádas was born in Budapest, as the son of a high-ranking party functionary. Nádas's grandfather, Moritz Grünfeld, changed his name into Hungarian, which was considered a scandal in the family. Nádas's youth was shadowed by the loss of his parents. Nádas's mother died of cancer when he was young and his father committed suicide. At the age of 16 his uncle gave him a camera, and after dropping out of school Nádas turned to photojournalism. During the late 1960s and early

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Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.

Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.

Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing

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Ondjaki

Ndalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda, the capital of the country, and has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts.

Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, and wrote his graduation paper about Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. His literary debut came in 2002 with the novella O Assobiador (The Whistler), which was followed up with the childhood memoir Bom dia camaradas (Good Morning, Comrades) in 2003. To date (2010) he has published four novels, three collections of short stories, two collections of poetry and three children's books. His books have been translated to French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Chinese an

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Robert Perišić

Robert Perišić (born. 1969) is a prominent Croatian poet, writer and journalist. He took his BA in Croatian language and literature at Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. His criticism and essays were published in Feral Tribune and Playboy magazines. Perišić lives in Zagreb and works as a freelance writer.

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Milena Marković

Milena Marković rođena je 1974. godine u Zemunu. Diplomirala je dramaturgiju na Fakultetu dramskih umetnosti. Njene drame: "Šine", "Paviljoni", "Brod za lutke", "Beli beli svet", "Šuma blista", "Nahod Simeon" i druge, izvođene su u Srbiji i inostranstvu. Dobitnica je specijalne nagrade u Beču za najbolje drame sa ex-Yu prostora, specijalne nagrade Sterijinog pozorja, nagrade "Borislav Mihajlović-Mihiz", kao i nagrade “Miloš Crnjanski” za knjigu “Tri drame”. Po njenom scenariju Oleg Novković snimio je film "Sutra ujutru" i dokumentarni film "Rudarska opera". Objavila je i tri zbirke poezije: "Pas koji je pojo sunce" (2001), "Istina ima teranje" (2003) i "Crna kašika" (2006). "Ptičje oko na tarabi", "Pre nego što sve počne da se vrti"...

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Alice Zeniter

Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre.

Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man.

Her latest novel, L'Art de Perdre, won multiple prizes and awards.

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Dejan Tiago-Stanković

Dejan Tiago Stanković, author and literary translator.

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1965. In 1989 graduates from architecture in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and moves to London. Since 1996 lives in Lisbon. Translates between his native Serbo-Croatian and Portuguese and writes in both those languages.

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Želimir Periš

Rođen 1975.

Piše .

Objavio je:
Mučenice, Algoritam, 2013. (prijevod na slovenski i bugarski, adaptirano u dvije kazališne predstave)

Mima i kvadratura duga, Algoritam/24 sata, 2014. (finale tportala za roman godine)

Mima i vaše kćeri, 24 sata, 2015.

x, Algoritam, 2016.

Mladenka kostonoga, oceanmore, 2020. (nagrade: tportal za najbolji hrvatski roman godine, Kočićevo pero)

Straška postavlja teška pitanja, Fierce Women, 2020.

Straška izvrće neistine, Fierce Women, 2021.

Gracija od čempresa, oceanmore, 2023.

Stalno je dostupan na zelimir.peris@gmail.com

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Kairi Look

Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.

Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.

https://www.instagram.com/kairilook/

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Inga Gaile

Dzejniece un rakstniece. Dzimusi 1976. gadā Rīgā. Beigusi Rīgas Centra humanitāro ģimnāziju (1993), studējusi literatūras teoriju, vēsturi un kritiku, kā arī teātra, kino un TV dramaturģiju Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā.
Saņēmusi Klāva Elsberga prēmiju (1999), Annas Dagdas fonda balva (2004), Ojāra Vācieša prēmiju (2004, 2012), Dzejas dienu balvu (2007) un žurnāla "Latvju Teksti" balvu (2012). 2012. gadā saņēmusi Prozas lasījumu galveno balvu par stāstu "Piena ceļi". Kā arī Literatūras gada balvu par dzejoļu krājumu "Vai otrā grupa mani dzird?". Prozā debitējusi ar romānu "Stikli", kuram 2019. gadā sekoja "Skaistās". Ir sarakstījusi arī detektīvromānu "Neredzamie" un izdevniecībā Mansards izdots stāstu krājums "Piena ceļi".
Latvijas literatūr

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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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Rumena Bužarovska

see: Румена Бужаровска

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Teffi

Teffi (Russian author page: Тэффи) was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Лoхви́цкая); after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya (Бучи́нская). Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the Satiricon magazine.

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Maja Solar

Maja Solar (1980, Zagreb) je doktorirala filozofiju. Bavi se društvenom i političkom teorijom, piše poeziju i prozu. Članica je teorijsko-političkog kolektiva „Gerusija“, deo je uredništva časopisa za teorijske prakse „Stvar” i medijskog portala „Slobodni Filozofski‟. Objavila je tri zbirke poezije (Makulalalalatura 2008. (Brankova nagrada), Jellemzõ, hogy nem természetes (Naravno da nije prirodno) 2015. i Bez začina 2017), kao i poetsko-prozni eksperiment A htela sam (2022).
Autorka je više od četrdeset naučnih radova iz društvene teorije. Oblasti interesovanja: marksizam, teorija socijalne reprodukcije, teorije rada, teorije vlasništva, teorije luksuza, istorija socijalizma itd. Interesuju je marksističke struje feminizama, prije svega lg

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