Christa Winsloe
Christa Winsloe was a German-Hungarian novelist, playwright and sculptor, best known for her play "Gestern und heute", the first sensitive play on female homosexuality in the Weimar Republic yet without a radical critique of the social discrimination of lesbian women.
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Dorothy Strachey
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
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Jeanette Winterson
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
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One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
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Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill was born in Montreal and attended McGill University.
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She published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006. The novel won the Canada Reads competition (2007) and was awarded the Hugh Maclennan Award (2007). It was nominated for eight other awards included the Orange Prize, the Governor General's Award and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize. It was an international bestseller.
Her books The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (2014) and Daydreams of Angels (2015) were both shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
Her third novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel will be published in February 2017.
Her credits also include a screenplay, a book of poetry, and contributions to The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, The Globe and Mai -
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.
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The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chos -
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes, commonly regarded as the father of Arthurian romance and a key figure in Western literature, composed in French in the latter part of the twelfth century. Virtually nothing is known of his life. Possibly a native of Troyes, he enjoyed patronage there from the Countess Marie of Champagne before dedicating his last romance to Count Philip of Flanders, perhaps about 1182. His poetry is marked by a learning and a taste for dialectic acquired in Latin schools; but at the same time it reveals a warm human sympathy which breathes life into characters and situations. Whilst much of his matter is inherited from the world of Celtic myth and the events notionally unfold in the timeless reign of King Arthur, the society and customs
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Mary Oliver
Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild.
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
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Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
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Han Suyin
Han Suyin (Pinyin: Hán Sùyīn) is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú). She was a Chinese-born Eurasian author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician. She wrote in English and French. She died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2012.
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Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize in 2019. Her writing also spans short fiction, reviews, essays, drama and writing for BBC radio. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, London, and Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was made an MBE in 2009. As a literary activist for inclusion Bernardine has founded a number of successful initiatives, including Spread the Word writer development agency (1995-ongoing); the Complete Works mentoring scheme for poets of colour (2007-2017) and the Brunel International African P
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Jane Rule
Jane Vance Rule was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. American by birth and Canadian by choice, Rule's pioneering work as a writer and activist reached across borders.
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Rule was born on March 28, 1931, in Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in the Midwest and California. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Mills College in 1952. In 1954 she joined the faculty of the Concord Academy, a private school in Massachusetts. There Rule met Helen Sonthoff, a fellow faculty member who became her life partner. They settled in Vancouver in 1956. Eventually they both held positions at the University of British Columbia until 1976 when they moved to Galiano Island. Sonthoff died in 2000, at 83. Rule died at the age of 7 -
Sylvia Brownrigg
Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of six books of fiction, including the novels Pages for You and The Delivery Room. Her most recent novel, Pages for Her, was published in July 2017 by Counterpoint in the US and Picador in the UK.
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Sylvia's work has been included on the NY Times Notable list and the LA Times Best Books of the Year. Her reviews have appeared in the NY Times, The Guardian, and the TLS, and she has taught at the American University in Paris. Her novel for children, Kepler’s Dream (published under the name Juliet Bell), has been turned into an independent feature film.
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Fiona Shaw
Not to be confused with Fiona Shaw, the Irish-born stage & screen actress.
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Fiona was born in London in 1964. Her place of birth is now a hospital broom cupboard and her first home was on a street later obliterated beneath a superstore off the Cromwell Rd. However, she passed most of her childhood as the eldest of three girls in a lovely and spacious family home near the Thames.
Fiona studied various literatures at the Universities of York and Sussex, finishing with a PhD on poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Since then, Fiona has written a memoir and four novels and done the habitual round of the novelist’s other jobs to help balance out her stubborn desire to write.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. She has sold roughly 165 million copies worldwide. Today, she is most remembered for writing the Pippi Longstocking books, as well as the Karlsson-on-the-Roof book series.
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Awards:
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Berta Dávila
A escritora Berta Dávila (Santiago 1987), que moi nova sorprendeu gañando o Premio
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Biblos-Pazos de Galicia para menores de 21 anos e culminando da man de Agustín
Fernández Paz a súa notable primeira novela Bailarei sobre a túa tumba (2008), é hoxe unha recoñecida poeta e narradora con poemarios como Corpo baleiro (2007) e Raíz da fenda (2013, premios Johán Carballeira, da Crítica española e da AELG) e obras narrativas como libro de relatos A arte do fracaso (2010), traducido para o castelán e o xaponés, ou a novela O derradeiro libro de Emma Olsen, premio de narrativa breve Repsol en 2013, co que obtivo tamén o premio Ánxel Casal ao mellor libro de ficción 2013. Tamén foi nomeada pola AGE autora do ano en 2014. -
Dorothy Strachey
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Rosario Villajos
Rosario Villajos (Córdoba,1978) dedicó su infancia a dibujar, leer y ver películas. Ha vivido en ocho ciudades diferentes de tres países distintos. Regresó a España en 2017, desde entonces no ha dejado de escribir y dibujar. Ha publicado una sola novela gráfica, FACE (Fanfare - Ponent Mon) y tres obras narrativas, Ramona (Mrs. Danvers, 2019), La muela (Aristas Martínez, 2021) y La educación Física (Seix Barral, 2023), por la que obtuvo el Premio Biblioteca Breve.
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Colabora en algunos medios de forma eventual y por encargo reseñando libros, discos o escribiendo sobre cualquier tema de su interés.
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Antía Yáñez
Antía Yáñez Rodríguez, nada en Burela en 1991, é unha escritora galega.
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Enxeñeira de camiños. Reside en Cecebre (Cambre), onde xestiona unha academia e fai obradoiros literarios para rapaces.
En 2018 gañou o premio Illa Nova con Senlleiras. É a historia de dúas mulleres, Alana (moza pobre) e Alda (influencer), en tempos diferentes, comezos do século XX e comezos do século XXI, pero cun mesmo problema, o maltrato dos seus homes. Na obra hai diferentes narradores e intégranse textos xornalísticos, das redes sociais, etc. -
Claire Morgan
Pseudonym used by Patricia Highsmith for The Price of Salt, also published under the title Carol.
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Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is a NY Times bestselling author. His work has been translated into over 40 languages. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. His short stories have been published by The New Yorker.
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Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, after receiving his MA from the Royal College of Art in London, he has lived and worked in New York City.
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Beatriz Serrano
Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, SModa o Vogue. Actualmente, trabaja en El País. Además, junto al escritor Guillermo Alonso, codirige el pódcast Arsénico Caviar, que fue galardonado con el premio Ondas en la categoría de mejor conversacional.
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Jade Song
Jade Song is a writer and artist who enjoys looking at paintings and telling her friends she loves them. Song's second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, will be published on March 17, 2026; their debut short story collection, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is forthcoming in 2027.
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Lauded as "visionary and disturbing," Song's debut novel Chlorine was awarded the ALA Alex Award and the Writer's Center First Novel Prize, selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and has been translated into four languages. Song has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Black List, which selected her adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab. She is based in Brooklyn, where they pole dance and live with too many books. The -
Alana S. Portero
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mujeres trans.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
Portero ha escrito diversos libros de poemas: La habitación de