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Natsuo Kirino

NATSUO KIRINO (桐野夏生), born in 1951 in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) was an active and spirited child brought up between her two brothers, one being six years older and the other five years younger than her. Kirino's father, being an architect, took the family to many cities, and Kirino spent her youth in Sendai, Sapporo, and finally settled in Tokyo when she was fourteen, which is where she has been residing since. Kirino showed glimpses of her talent as a writer in her early stages—she was a child with great deal of curiosity, and also a child who could completely immerse herself in her own unique world of imagination.

After completing her law degree, Kirino worked in various fields before becoming a fictional writer; including scheduling

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Hao Jingfang

Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hăo Jǐngfāng), is a Chinese science fiction writer.
Hao Jingfang was born in 1984, graduated in physics and gained her PhD in economics at Tsinghua University in 2013. She has been working since with the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), where she acts as Deputy Director of Research Department I.
She won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Folding Beijing, translated by Ken Liu, at the 2016 Hugo Awards.
Hao Jingfang was awarded the First Prize in the New Concept Writing Competition (2002). Her fiction has appeared in various publications, including Mengya, Science Fiction World and ZUI Found. She has published two full-length novels, Wandering Maearth and Return to Charon; a book of cultural e

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Naomi Salman

Naomi Salman is a writer, editor, translator, and graphic and layout designer. She has published fiction in both French and English, and been nominated for a Prix du Jeune Écrivain and an Eisner Award. She lives and works in Paris.

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Dorothy Tse

Dorothy Tse Hiu-hung (謝曉虹) is the author of four short story collections in Chinese, including So Black (《好黑》, 2005) and A Dictionary of Two Cities (《雙城辭典》, 2013). Translations of her short fiction have appeared in The Guardian, Paper Republic, The Margins (AAWW) and Anomaly. Her English-language collection Snow and Shadow (2014, trans. Nicky Harman), was longlisted for the University of Rochester’s 2015 Best Translated Book Award, and collects short stories from her earlier Chinese books as well as previously unpublished works.

A recipient of the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award, Tse also attended The University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2011. She is a co-founder

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Ben Okri

Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.

He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge in 1991, a post he held until 1993. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literatu

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Katri Ylinen

Katri Ylinen (s. 1990) on suomalainen tietokirjailija, podcastaaja, yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttaja sekä viestintä– ja tapahtuma-alan yrittäjä.

Keväällä 2024 Ylinen on kertonut kirjoittavansa loppuvuodesta 2024 ilmestyvää tietokirjaa 1990-luvun saatananpalvontapaniikista.

Ylinen on tunnettu Ylen podcasteista Darravapaana ja Ehkä kaikki on hyvin, sekä esikoistietokirjastaan Aamu ilman darraa (2022). Ylinen on myös toiminut puheenjohtajana järjestössä Federation of Young European Greens, suomeksi Euroopan vihreät nuoret. Ylisellä on taustallaan kestävän kehityksen korkeakoulututkinto ja hän on valmistunut ympäristösuunnittelijaksi.

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Vehka Kurjenmiekka

Vehka Kurjenmiekka on helsinkiläinen kirjailija ja roolipelisuunnittelija. Hän on opiskellut Kriittisen korkeakoulun kirjoittajakoulussa. Vapaa-ajallaan hän perehtyy myös kaikkiin kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinnon voittajiin yhdessä Rasmus Tillanderin kanssa, ja kaksikko kanavoi oppimansa "Nobel tai ei mitään!" -podcastiin.

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Naomi Salman

Naomi Salman is a writer, editor, translator, and graphic and layout designer. She has published fiction in both French and English, and been nominated for a Prix du Jeune Écrivain and an Eisner Award. She lives and works in Paris.

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Lorenzo Biagiarelli

Lorenzo Biagiarelli nasce a Cremona il 24 novembre 1990, ma cresce a Senigallia, che dice di amare più della sua città natale, in cui fa ritorno dopo qualche anno. Prima di dedicarsi alla cucina, per anni si cimenta in un’altra delle sue grandi passioni: la musica. Suona diversi strumenti e canta, attività che gli permette di guadagnarsi da vivere durante il periodo dell’università. In quegli anni studia alla facoltà di storia ma, appena prima di laurearsi con una tesi sul protestantesimo italiano del XVI secolo, scopre pentole e fornelli e interrompe gli studi per mettersi in cucina a sperimentare, travolto dall’amore per questa disciplina.

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Andrea Viscusi

Sono un autore di speculative fiction (fantascienza, weird, distopia, slipstream) since 2008.

Ho un centinaio di racconti pubblicati in antologie e riviste. Finalista a premi nazionali come Trofeo RiLL, Premio Robot, Premio Italia, Premio Vegetti (ma mai vinto niente). Una manciata di racconti tradotti e pubblicati all'estero.

Con il mio nome sulla copertina ci sono due raccolte personali, una novella, tre romanzi e un libro illustrato.

I miei racconti e romanzi sono usciti con Zona 42, Moscabianca, Sperling&Kupfer, Urania Mondadori, Future Fiction, Delos, and many more.

Come Story Doctor mi occupo di scrittura, editoria e narratologia su youtube. Divulgo fantascienza e affini sul mio profilo tiktok e nel podcast Reading Wildlife. Ho fondato la

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Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer, trans author, a voracious reader, a kpop fan, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR and in eir short comics and writing published by The New Yorker, The Nib, NPR, Time Magazine, The Washington Post and in many print anthologies. GENDER QUEER won a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2020. It was also the number one most challenged book in the United States in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Maia's second book is BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING written with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier (Dutton, 2024). Eir next book is OPTING OUT, a middle grade graphic novel with Lucky Srikumar (Scholastic Graphix, 2026).

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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Fumiko Hayashi

Fumiko Hayashi (林芙美子), December 31, 1903 or 1904 (Japanese sources disagree on the birth year) - June 28, 1951) was a Japanese novelist and poet.

When Hayashi was seven, her mother ran away with a manager of her common-law husband's store, and afterwards the three worked in Kyūshū as itinerant merchants. After graduating from high school in 1922, Hayashi moved to Tokyo with a lover and lived with several men until settling into marriage with the painter Rokubin Tezuka (手塚緑敏?) in 1926.

Many of her works revolve around themes of free spirited women and troubled relationships. One of her best-known works is Hōrōki (translated into English as "Vagabond's Song" or "Vagabond's Diary") (放浪記, 1927), which was adapted into the anime Wandering Days.

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Pajtim Statovci

Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.

FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.

Tiranan sydän (englanniksi Crossing) oli ehdolla arvostetun National Book Awards -palkinnon saajaksi. Bolla sai Finla

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Hiroko Oyamada

Hiroko Oyamada (小山田浩子) is a Japanese author. She won the Shincho Prize for New Writers for The Factory, which was drawn from her experiences working as a temp for an automaker’s subsidiary. Her following novel, The Hole, won the Akutagawa Prize.

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Bae Myung-hoon

Bae Myung-hoon (배명훈) is an acclaimed South Korean writer of science fiction known for his inventive world-building and biting political humor. His debut story collection, Tower (타워, 2009; English edition: Honford Star, 2021), is the first Korean science fiction book by a single author to be translated into English. Bae has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, an essay collection, and a sci-fi children’s book.

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Carlo Fruttero

The editorial team of Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, particularly notable for their (controversial) curation of the Urania series of fantascienza (science-fiction) compilations from 1964 to 1985.

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Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor. He published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams (1988), to positive reviews. However, it was Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992), a million-copy best seller, that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. His books have been published in more than thirty countries.

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Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka lives and works in Singapore. He has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories, and bass lines. This is his first novel.

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Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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Radclyffe Hall

Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. In adulthood, Hall often went by the name John, rather than Marguerite.

In the drawing rooms of Edwardian society, Marguerite made a small name as a poet and librettist. In 1907, she met a middle-aged fashionable singer, Mrs. Mabel Batten, known as 'Ladye", who introduced her to influential people. Batten and Radclyffe Hall entered into a long-term relationship. But before Batten died in 1916, Radclyffe Hall, known in private as 'John', had taken up with the second love of her life, Una, Lady Troubridge, who gave up her own creative aspirations (she

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Kev Lambert

Kev (formerly Kevin) Lambert est né en 1992 et a grandi à Chicoutimi. Son premier roman Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, d’abord paru au Québec en 2017, puis en France en 2021, a fait du bruit en plus d’être finaliste du Prix Médicis, en sélection du Prix des libraires et de remporter le Prix découverte du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Son second roman, Querelle de Roberval, a fortement marqué la rentrée littéraire 2018. Il a été finaliste en 2019 du prix Wepler, du Prix littéraire des collégiens, du Prix des libraires et du Prix littéraire du Monde, avant de remporter le prix Sade, le prix Ringuet, le Prix du CALQ – Œuvre de la relève, et le Prix du roman décerné par le Salon du livre du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Il a également fait partie de la pre

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi

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Blake Crouch

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.

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John Keene

John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions); the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press), an art-text collaboration with artist Christopher Stackhouse; the short fiction collection Counternarratives, published in 2015 by New Directions; and the poetry collection Punks: New & Selected Poems, published in 2021 by The Song Cave. His translation of Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer (Nightboat Books) appeared in 2014. His stories, poems, essays, and translations have appeared in a wide array of periodicals and anthologies, including most recently Vice, TriQuarterly, The Offing, and Boundary. An artist as well, he has exhibited his work in New York and Berlin, and teaches at Rutgers University-New

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T. Fleischmann

T Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay. A nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and contributing editor at Essay Daily, they have published critical and creative work in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and others, as well as in the anthologies Bending Genre, How We Speak to One Another, Little Boxes, and Feminisms in Motion.

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Robert L. Forward

Robert Lull Forward, commonly known as Robert L. Forward, (August 15, 1932 - September 21, 2002) was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His fiction is noted for its scientific credibility, and uses many ideas developed during his work as an aerospace engineer.

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Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.

Although Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.

Die Wand (The Wall) can be seen as her

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Anna Kavan

Anna Kavan was born "Helen Woods" in France on April 10, 1901 to wealthy expatriate British parents.

Her initial six works were published under the name of Helen Ferguson, her first married name. These early novels gave little indication of the experimental and disturbing nature of her later work. I Am Lazarus (1945), a collection of short stories which explored the inner mindscape of the psychological explorer, heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing. The change in her writing style and physical appearance coincided with a mental breakdown. During this time, Helen also renamed herself Anna Kavan after a character in her own novel Let Me Alone.

Around 1926 Anna became addicted to heroin. Her addiction has been described as an a

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Martha Wells

Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the British Science Fiction Association Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Lit

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Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine, and she recently completed a term as President of PEN America. Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in Apri

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Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.

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Lisa Tuttle

(Wife of Colin Murray) aka Maria Palmer (house pseudonym).

Lisa Tuttle taught a science fiction course at the City Lit College, part of London University, and has tutored on the Arvon courses. She was residential tutor at the Clarion West SF writing workshop in Seattle, USA. She has published six novels and two short story collections. Many of her books have been translated into French and German editions.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne

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Henry Hoke

Henry Hoke is an editor at The Offing and the author of five books, most recently the novel Open Throat (MCDxFSG / Picador), and the memoir Sticker (Bloomsbury).

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Amir D. Aczel

Amir Aczel was an Israeli-born American author of popular science and mathematics books. He was a lecturer in mathematics and history of mathematics.

He studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Getting graduating with a BA in mathematics in 1975, received a Master of Science in 1976 and several years later accomplished his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Oregon. He died in Nîmes, France in 2015.

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Mel Y. Chen

Mel Y. Chen is an academic whose scholarship intersects many fields, including queer theory, gender studies, animal studies, critical race theory, Asian American studies, disability studies, science studies, and critical linguistics.

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Henrik Stangerup

Danish writer and journalist

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Bae Myung-hoon

Bae Myung-hoon (배명훈) is an acclaimed South Korean writer of science fiction known for his inventive world-building and biting political humor. His debut story collection, Tower (타워, 2009; English edition: Honford Star, 2021), is the first Korean science fiction book by a single author to be translated into English. Bae has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, an essay collection, and a sci-fi children’s book.

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Veronica De Simone

Classe 1994, nata nella città più nebbiosa d'Italia, fin da piccola ha sempre desiderato cavalcare un drago. Con tempo si è resa conto che, se avesse voluto realizzare il suo sogno, avrebbe dovuto crearlo, il drago. Così, non appena terminate le superiori, si è iscritta alla facoltà di scienze biologiche, dove passa circa il 75% delle sue giornate. Nel tempo libero ama fare passeggiate, girare per musei, viaggiare e, quando la vita diventa troppo grigia anche per lei, accoccolarsi sotto le coperte in compagnia di un buon libro.

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Davide Del Popolo Riolo

Davide Del Popolo Riolo, classe 1968, ha trascorso l’infanzia ad Asti. Svolge la professione di avvocato a Cuneo. Appassionato sin da bambino di fantascienza e storia, ha esordito come scrittore nel 2014 con il romanzo «De Bello Alieno» (Delos), con cui ha vinto il Premio Odissea e il Premio Vegetti. Da allora ha pubblicato altri due romanzi: «Non ci sono dei oltre il tempo», vincitore del Premio Kipple dell’omonima casa editrice, e «Ubermensh» (Delos), già finalista al Premio Urania, oltre a numerosi racconti, grazie ai quali ha vinto il Trofeo Cassiopea e il Premio Viviani. Con il romanzo «Il pugno dell’Uomo» ha vinto il Premio Urania 2019.

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Roberta Strippoli

Roberta Strippoli teaches Japanese literature at the University of Napoli "L'Orientale." She has published a collection of medieval Japanese tales in Italian translation titled La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone. Racconti dal medioevo giapponese (Venezia: Marsilio, 2001) and Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess (Leiden: Brill, 2018) a monograph that explores the reception of a character from the fourteenth-century military narrative Heike monogatari over six centuries across literary, visual, performance genres and cultural heritage.

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Hồ Xuân Hương

Hồ Xuân Hương (胡春香; 1772–1822) was a Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê Dynasty. She grew up in an era of political and social turmoil – the time of the Tây Sơn rebellion and a three-decade civil war that led to Nguyễn Ánh seizing power as Emperor Gia Long and starting the Nguyen Dynasty. She wrote poetry using Chữ Nôm (Southern Script), which adapts Chinese characters for writing demotic Vietnamese. She is considered to be one of Vietnam's greatest classical poet. Xuân Diệu, a prominent modern poet, dubbed her "The Queen of Nôm poetry".

(from Wikipedia)

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Reetta Vuokko-Syrjänen

I am an SF author from Tampere, Finland. I have received the national Atorox award for best SF short story in 2020, 2021 and 2024. My first novel was published in June 2022.

Olen spekulatiivisen fiktion kirjoittaja Tampereelta. Olen voittanut parhaalle suomenkieliselle tieteis- tai fantasianovellille myönnettävän Atorox-palkinnon vuosina 2020, 2021 ja 2024. Esikoisromaanini Syntykeho, eli miten juosta pakoon ilman jalkoja ilmestyi kesäkuussa 2022 Osuuskumma-kustannukselta.

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Kim Bo-young

Kim Bo-young (Korean: 김보영; born 1975) is a South Korean science fiction writer based in Gangwon Province, South Korea. In addition to her novels and short story collections, she has worked as a script advisor for Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer in 2013.[1] She is the first Korean science fiction author to be published by HarperCollins.

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Innocent Chizaram Ilo

Innocent Chizaram Ilo is an Igbo author. They live in Lagos.

They won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African Region), and the 2021 Nommo Short Story prize.

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Tomoko Nakamichi

After serving many years as a professor at Bunka Fashion College, Ms. Nakamichi currently delivers lectures and holds courses on design making, both in Japan and overseas.

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Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. We use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative in visual culture by revealing the understory, the subtext, the forgotten, the overlooked, the understated and the downright unfair. Our work has been passed around the world by our tireless supporters, who use us as a model for doing their own crazy kind of activism.

In the last few years, the Guerrilla Girls have appeared at over 100 universities and museums around the world. We created a large scale installation for the Venice Biennale, brai

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Lola Robles

Lola Robles (Madrid, 17 de septiembre de 1963) es una escritora española, especialista en obras de ciencia ficción. También ha destacado por su activismo social. Se define como feminista, pacifista y queer.

Estudió Filología Hispánica, pero se dedicó profesionalmente a otras actividades (entre 1987 y 2002 trabajó como agente judicial y posteriormente en el Registro Civil, hasta que sus problemas de vista motivaron su jubilación).
Asistió durante un lustro a los talleres literarios de Clara Obligado. Trabajó en la Biblioteca de Mujeres de Madrid de 1986 a 2002, coordinando sus actividades culturales, conferencias y talleres, y llevando su gestión administrativa y económica, y en 1994 fue una de las fundadoras de la Red de Bibliotecas y Centros

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Francesca Tacchi

Francesca Tacchi is a neurodiverse, queer writer of dark and humorous fantasy. Xe’s based in Bologna, Italy, where xe shares an apartment with xir spouse, a chonky shiba pup and three dozen plants. Francesca’s a huge history nerd, and strives to share xir country’s history and folklore through xir works. Xe can be found on Twitter at @jackdaw_writes, where xe posts historical threads amidst the shitposting. Other than being a part of Neon Hemlock’s 2022 Novella Series, xe is also a contributor to the young adult anthology TRANSMOGRIFY! (HarperTeen 2023).

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Aeron Clement

Aeron Clement (1936-1989) was a Welsh[1] science fiction author. He is most known for having written The Cold Moons, a Watership Down-style story about badgers.

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Claes Andersson

Claes Andersson was a Finland-Swedish author, psychiatrist, musician, politician and former member of the Finnish parliament representing the Left Alliance.

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Dario Tonani

Dario Tonani is an Italian Science Fiction writer.

"This guy's fantascienza novels about a tough, hallucinatory future Milan are actually pretty good. I'm pleased to see there's a new one out."
Bruce Sterling

Awards:
Tolkien (1989), Lovecraft (1994, 1999), Robot (2013), Cassiopea (2013), Italia (1989, 1992, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 two prizes), ESFS - European "Best author" (2017).

Novels and anthologies (in Italian): "Il trentunesimo giorno" (Oscar Fantastica, Mondadori, 2023), "Mya di Mondo9" (Urania Speciale, Mondadori, 2022), "Naila di Mondo9" (Oscar Fantastica, Mondadori, 2018; Urania Jumbo, Mondadori, 2021), "Cronache di Mondo9"(Mondadori, Millemondi, 2015), "Mondo9" (Delos Books, 2012), "Toxic@" (Urania, Mondadori, 2011),

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Briar Ripley Page

haphazardly constructed sex changeling

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Marco Malvestio

Marco Malvestio è nato nel 1991, ed è ricercatore in letterature comparate all’Università di Padova. Ha lavorato in Canada e negli Stati Uniti.

Ha pubblicato il saggio The Conflict Revisited. The Second World War and Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) e Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021). Ha co-curato i volumi Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion (EUP) e Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (LUP).

Come romanziere, nel 2021 ha pubblicato Annette (Wojtek Edizioni). Nella primavera del 2024 ha pubblicato La scrittrice nel buio (Voland).

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Bienvenido N. Santos

Bienvenido N. Santos was born in Tondo, Manila, on March 22, 1911. When Santos started school, the Philippines was already a colony of the United States and instruction was in English. In his early attempts at creative writing, Santos developed an ear for three kinds of communication: Pampango in the songs his mother sang at home; English in the poems and stories his teacher read at school; and Tagalog in the street life of the Tondo slums.

Santos left for America in September 1941 as a pensionado (scholar) of the Philippine Commonwealth government. Thirty years old and an established short story writer in English at home, he enrolled at the University of Illinois in the master's program in English. When war broke out in December, he found h

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Benjamin Kunkel

Benjamin Kunkel is an American novelist. Kunkel grew up in Eagle, Colorado, and was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; Kunkel studied at Deep Springs College in California, graduated with a BA from Harvard University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University.

He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal n+1. His novel, Indecision, was published in 2005

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Mia Myllymäki

Mia Myllymäki is a Finnish author who writes speculative fiction.

Mia Myllymäki on kokkolalainen kirjailija ja insinööri, joka kirjoittaa spekulatiivista fiktiota. Häneltä on julkaistu neljä romaania ja useita novelleja.

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Titania Blesh

Hey, I’m Tita.
I’m a sci-fi and fantasy author, 2022 winner of the Cassiopea Prize for Best Italian Sci-Fi Novel.
I love astronomy (duh!) and volcanoes. My life goal is to climb all the volcanoes on Earth and Olympus Mons on Mars.
I’m traditionally published in Italy. Also, on Proxima Centauri b, but you’ll know for sure only in 4.25 light-years.

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M. Maponi

Imaginative writer - in the sense he writes to imagine a way out of his responsibilities. M specializes in genre fiction in all formats: scifi, fantasy, new weird, horror and magical realism are his current best pics in a growing list of favorites.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/m_maponi

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Ismet Prcic

Ismet Prcic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977 and immigrated to America in 1996. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was the recipient of a 2010 NEA Award for fiction. He is also a 2011 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellow. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife.

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Alexandra Salmela

Alexandra (Saša) Salmela on syntynyt vuonna 1980 Bratislavassa, silloisessa Tšekkoslovakiassa.

Pienestä pitäen hän on kirjoittanut lukuisia laadultaan hyvin eritasoisia runoja, satuja, kertomuksia ja draamoja, osallistunut moneen kirjoituskilpailuun, saanut muutaman tunnustuksen ja voittanutkin kerran. Vuoden 1999 jälkeen hän ei ole onneksi enää kirjoittanut yhtään runoa.

Hän on valmistunut teatteridramaturgiksi Bratislavan Teatterikorkeakoulusta ja suomen kielen ja kirjallisuuden maisteriksi Prahan Kaarlen yliopistosta. Nykyään hän asuskelee kaupungin ja erämaan välimaastossa ja pohtii, mitä tekisi elämälleen.

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Giulia Reverberi

Giulia Reverberi nasce nelle nebbiose colline parmensi il 17 giugno 1993.

Conosciuta online come Giulia Bifrost, si occupa di libri, scrittura e cultura nerd. Sul suo canale Youtube, offre ore di approfondimenti, riflessioni e tanto, ma proprio tanto, sarcasmo. Su Instagram posta meme e foto di bassotti.

Scrive storie che ci ricordano che, alla fine, moriremo tutti. Tanto vale riderci su. Nel novembre del 2022 pubblica in self-publishing su Amazon Zombie Friendly: ci si vede all’inferno e a maggio del 2025 il suo racconto Furto con Squarto viene selezionato per l’antologia Acheron Notte Horror 90.

La sua idea di happy ending è sopravvivere fino al prossimo libro.

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Essi Kummu

Essi Kummu (s. 1977) on suomalainen taiteilija. Kummu on valmistunut vuonna 2003 Oulun yliopistosta filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan kirjallisuus. Hän on muun muassa opettanut käsikirjoittamista Limingan taidekoulussa.

Kummun esikoisromaani Mania ilmestyi vuonna 2006. Toisessa romaanissaan Karhun kuolema (2010) hän ammentaa aineksia suomalais-ugrilaisesta tarustosta. Hän pitää itseään ruumiillisena kirjoittajana, jonka kirjaimet tulevat esiin kävelemällä, juoksemalla ja tanssimalla.

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Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

When Panty was first published in Bengali, it created a furore—a reaction that is par for the course for Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay.

Her controversial first novel Shankini made for an explosive debut. Since then she has published nine novels and over fifty short stories. Also a newspaper columnist and a film critic, Sangeeta lives and writes in Kolkata.

সঙ্গীতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়-এর জন্ম ২৩ নভেম্বর ১৯৭৪, দুর্গাপুরে। ১৯৮৬ সাল থেকে কলকাতায় বসবাস। প্রথমে বাগবাজার মালটিপারপাস্‌ গার্লস স্কুল, পরে গোখেল কলেজে পড়েছেন। তেরো-চোদ্দো বছর বয়স থেকেই কবিতা লেখার শুরু। প্রথম কবিতা ছাপা হয় ‘দেশ’ পত্রিকায় ২০০১-এ। তারপর নিয়মিত দেশ সহ বিভিন্ন পত্র-পত্রিকায় লেখালেখি। প্রথম উপন্যাস শঙ্খিনী। ‘দেশ’-এ ধারাবাহিকভাবে প্রকাশিত। পেশা: সাংবাদিকতা। একটি টিভি চ্যানেলের স

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Mian Mian

Mian is a young Chinese writer. She writes on China's once-taboo topics and she is a promoter of Shanghai's local music. Her publications have earned her the reputation as China's literary wild child.

Her first novel, Candy, has been translated into English. Her other novels include Every good child deserves to eat candy. Her novel We Are Panic was made into a movie, Shanghai Panic, in which she also acted one of the lead roles.

In late 2009, she sued Google over the company scanning her books for its online library. She demanded ¥61,000 and a public apology. Google removed the book from its library.

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Emily A. Weedon

Emily is author of Autokrator, a dystopian spec fiction novel and Hemo Sapiens, Sept 30, Canada, Oct 28, USA, a wicked, urban and sophisticated twist on the vampire myth. Forthcoming Emily will have a short story in an anthology about monsters with Dundurn Press and is Co-Editing "Whatever" a short story collection of works by Canadian GenX authors, along with Ali Bryan.

Emily was raised in a hippy community in Coe Hill Ontario on organic farm. She worked as a professional in the film industry for over 30 years, including as an Art Director on Murdoch Mysteries, Baroness Von Sketch, and as various roles on The Bride of Chucky. Emily hosts Drunk Fiction, a monthly fiction reading series in Toronto, and reviews for The Seaboard Review. She is

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