Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin.
Her first collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her second, Walk the Blue Fields, was Richard Ford’s book of the year. Her works have won several awards including The Hugh Leonard Bursary, The Macaulay Fellowship, The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, The Martin Healy Prize, The Olive Cook Award, The Kilkenny Prize, The Tom Gallon Award and The William Trevor Prize, judged by William Trevor. Twice was Keegan the recipient of the Francis MacManus Award. She was also a Wingate
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Lowry died in a rented cottage in the village of Ripe, Sussex, where he was living with wife Margerie after having returned to England in the summer of 1955, ill and impoverished. The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure, and the causes of death given as inhalation of stomach c -
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Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883, and spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, before moving to Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, The Pioneers (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize. After her return to Australia, the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal were published.
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Wayne Curtis
New Orleans-based writer Wayne Curtis is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, Imbibe, and The Daily Beast, and a former contributing editor to The Atlantic magazine. He's also written for American Scholar, Yankee, Smithsonian, Saveur, the New York Times, Architect, Wall Street Journal, Sunset, enRoute, and American Archeology. His newest book is The Last Great Walk, an account of a remarkable 4,000-mile journey taken in 1909, and why it’s relevant today. His previous book was a cultural history of a loathsome intoxicant: And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in 10 Cocktails.
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Anne de Marcken
Anne de Marcken is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. Winner of the The Novel Prize, her novel, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, was simultaneously published by New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Giramondo (AU) in March of 2024, and has since received The Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize and been translated into six languages. She is also author of the lyric novella, The Accident: An Account (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), and her writing has been featured in Best New American Voices, Ploughshares, Narrative, Entropy, Litt, The Los Angeles Review, on NPR’s Selected Shorts and elsewhere. She is an Artist Trust Fellow (2017) and recipient of the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction, the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Prize,
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Francesco Petrarca
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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Michelle Zauner
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Luis Jaramillo
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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Antony Sher
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Wyl Menmuir
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Marita Conlon-McKenna
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Marita was always fascinated by the Famine period in Irish history and read everything available on the subject. When she heard a radio report of an unmarked children's grave from the Famine period being found under a hawthorn tree, she decided to write her first book, Under the Hawthorn Tree.
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Refaat Alareer
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Helen Mort
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Djuna Barnes
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Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes's death, -
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
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Elizabeth Smart
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He holds a Masters of Arts in History and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching from his Alma Mater, the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway).
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He was co-founder and first editor of the English language paper Reykjavik Grapevine in 2003, which is still going strong. As correspondent for Associated Press and The Guardian, he covered such events as the return of Bobby Fischer, the economic crisis and the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. His previous novels include King of the North (2007) and The Last Lover (2013), both of which received excellent reviews.
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Duygu Asena began writing in 1972 with her first column published in the newspaper "Hürriyet". Between 1976-1978, she was employed as a copywriter in an advertising agency. In 1978, she became editor-in-chief of a publishing house, and in this position she was responsible for the creation of several women’s magazines such as "Kadınca", "Onyedi", "Ev Kadını", "Bella", "Kim" and "Negatif".
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Camille Bordas
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Karin Boye
Karin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.
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She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.
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Akhil Sharma
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Huma Qureshi
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Dorothy Porter
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Norah Hoult
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Annie Finch
Annie Finch is the author of six books of poetry, including Spells: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells, Calendars and Eve (both finalists for the National Poetry Series), and the verse play Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (Sarasvati Award, 2012). Her poems have appeared onstage at Carnegie Hall and in The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Her other works include poetry translation, poetics, poetry anthologies, and a poetry textbook. She is also the editor of Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Annie Finch holds a Ph.D from Stanford, served for a decade as Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and has lectured on poetry at Berkeley
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Anna Funder
Anna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and a radio and television producer. Her book Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Sydney with her husband and family.
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Ang Swee Chai
Dr. Ang Swee Chai was born in Penang, Malaysia. She grew up and studied in Singapore. In 1973 she obtained her medical degree and in 1976 her master’s in occupational medicine at the University of Singapore. She was silver medallist for her undergrad, and gold medallist for her master’s. She joined her husband in exile in London in 1977, and became a refugee herself. She obtained her FRCS (Eng), and completed her orthopaedic surgical training in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Northeast England. She is the first female orthopaedic consultant appointed to the St Bartholomew and the Royal London Hospitals.
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego.
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Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Madeleine is Sleeping was published by Harcourt in 2004 and was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories, including excerpts from her new novel, have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Triquarterly, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in Best American Short Stories. Her novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, was published in September 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.
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Anne Chambers
Anne Chambers is an Irish biographer, novelist and screenplay writer who lives and works in Dublin. She is best known for her biography of the 16th-century Irish Pirate Queen, Gráinne (Grace) O'Malley.
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Suzanne Scanlon
Suzanne Scanlon is the author of two works of fiction, the critically acclaimed Promising Young Women (Dorothy 2012) and the experimental novel Her 37th Year, An Index (Noemi 2015). Her first work of nonfiction, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen, is forthcoming from Vintage and John Murray in the UK. Scanlon has taught at conferences and colleges nationwide; and has been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ox-Bow Artists Residency, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is the recipient of an MFA from Northwestern University and teaches creative writing at Northwestern and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Granta, Fence, Harper’s Bazaar, the Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Re
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O.E. Rølvaag
Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in the family's cottage in a small fishing village on the island of Dønna, in the far southern district of Nordland county, Norway. Dønna, one of the largest islands on the northern coast of Norway, is situated about five miles from the Arctic Circle. He was born with the name Ole Edvart Pedersen, one of seven children of Peder Benjamin Jakobsen and Ellerine Pedersdatter Vaag. The settlement where he was born had no official name, but was referred to as Rølvaag, the name of a narrow bay on the northwestern point of the island where the fishermen kept their boats. At 14 years of age Rølvaag joined his father and brothers in the Lofoten fishing grounds. Rølvaag lived there until he was 20 years of age, and the impr
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Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi.
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He completed most of his secondary education at Mayo College, a boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan. After a short stay at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Vikram came to the United States as an undergraduate student.
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Sheila Armstrong
Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the north-west of Ireland. She is the author of two books: How To Gut A Fish, a collection of short stories, and Falling Animals, a novel.
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Emma Dabiri
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian author, academic, and broadcaster. Her debut book, Don't Touch My Hair, was first published in 2019.
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Dabiri is a frequent contributor to print and online media, including The Guardian, Irish Times, Dublin Inquirer, Vice, and in academic journals. She is known for her outspokenness on issues of race and racism.
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Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney (born January 28, 1961 Boston) is an American non-fiction writer.
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She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, andgraduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). She worked briefly for Lillian Hellman.
She has attended Yaddo.
She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, National Geographic Traveler, O Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China was a New York Times Notable Book in 1990, and Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, was a New York Times Notable book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994, British writer Jan Morris listed her 2007 Down the Nile -
Frances Macken
Frances Macken has a Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford University. You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here is her debut work of fiction.
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Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon (1950), The Seven Samurai (1954), and Ran (1985), set in feudal Japan of director Akira Kurosawa, greatly influenced American and European filmmaking.
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This producer, screenwriter, and editor, regarded of the most important and influential in the history of cinema, directed thirty in a career, spanning 57 years.
Following a brief stint as a painter, Kurosawa entered the industry in 1936. After years of working as an assistant and scriptwriter, he made his debut in 1943 during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata, also known as Judo Saga. After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshirō Mifune in a starring role, cemented the reputation of t -
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is an award-winning journalist who has worked in radio, television, and newspapers in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. His first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001. He is also the recipient of the George Orwell Prize for political journalism. He writes a regular column for The Times (UK). He lives in north London with his wife and three daughters.
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Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Pages anthology.
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
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He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s second novel, Montecore, was published to unanimous raving reviews in 2006. In strong international competition it was awarded -
Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.
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Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish. -
Niels Fredrik Dahl
Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.
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Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.
Dahl er en av Norges mest markante forfatterne og har utgitt noveller, dikt, gjendiktning og skuespill. Hans første roman "Journalisten" utkom i 1997. For romanen "På vei til en venn" (2002) ble han tildelt Brageprisen. Han ble også nominert til Kritikerprisen og P2-lytternes pris. Både denne og romanen "I fjor sommer" (2003) er oversatt til en rekke språk -
Ingvild H. Rishøi
Ingvild H. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo and hers is a wildly willful voice in fiction. She has consistently wowed readers with her pared down yet powerful storytelling, with an acute eye for the wonder of everyday life and for vulnerable characters at the fringes of society, not seldom children.
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Her literary career began in 2007 with the release of the short story collection, Do Not Erase, which introduced her as a promising new voice in Norwegian literature. Her second collection of short stories, The Tale of Mrs Berg, published in 2011, was shortlisted for the prestigious Brage Prize.
In 2014, Rishøi received widespread acclaim and popular recognition for the short story collection Winter Stories. The book won the Critics’ Prize for b -
Lena Andersson
Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard . In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
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Amanda Svensson
Amanda Svensson är bosatt i Malmö. Hon är verksam som kulturjournalist och debuterade med den uppmärksammade Hey Dolly (2008).
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Amanda Svensson nominerades till Augustpriset 2011 för Välkommen till den här världen: med motiveringen:
”En oliksidig triangel är inte perfekt, konstaterar författaren till den här romanen, om kärlek, vänskap och en ödesdiger svartsjuka. I 'Välkommen till den här världen:' svingar sig Amanda Svensson suveränt mellan olika språknivåer och skildrar färgsprakande, lekfullt och hektiskt tre unga människor på jakt efter mening i Köpenhamns elektrifierade natt. En nattklubbstragedi, en hela-havet-stormarlek på liv och död. Det är intensivt, det är innovativt och det är alldeles alldeles underbart.” -
Alex Schulman
Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
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Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.
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Ramqvist har varit chefredaktör för tidskriften Arena och kritiker i Dagens Nyheter. Hon blev allmänt känd när hon publicerade ett privat brev från Ulf Lundell i antologin Fittstim. Hon har även medverkat i tidskriften Bang. Ramqvist är gift med journalisten Fredrik Virtanen.
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Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli
Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli romandebuterade med "Naturen" 2009. 2016 kom boken "Kära Liv och Caroline" baserad på podcasten En varg söker sin pod som hon har tillsammans med Liv Strömquist. Caroline är utbildad på DI och har skrivit och regisserat serien Juicebaren.
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Therese Bohman
Therese Bohman is an editor of the magazine Axess and a columnist for Expressen and Tidningen Vi, writing about literature, art, culture, and fashion. She lives in Sweden.
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Lina Wolff
Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.
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Annika Norlin
Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
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Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide. -
Elin Persson
Elin Persson (född 1992) är socialantropolog och har gått skrivarlinjen på Jakobsbergs folkhögskola. När hon inte skriver jobbar hon med socialt arbete. Hennes debutroman "De afghanska sönerna" är en brännande text som inte vill släppa taget. Den är också en hyllning till alla som jobbar på HVB-hem.
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Johanna Frid
Johanna Frid (1988) er født i Stockholm og bor i København. Hun debuterte i 2017, sammen med Gordana Spasic, med diktsamlingen Familieepos. Nora eller Brenn Oslo brenn er Frids romandebut. Forfatteren skriver nå på sin andre roman.
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Johanna Frid fikk Dagens Nyheters Kulturpris 2019 for romandebuten Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn: ”Johanna Frid gjør på en helt umiddelbar måte det som alle forfattere strever etter: Hun etablerer en helt egen stemme i teksten sin. Romanen hennes er egenrådig, intelligent og morsom – et helt selvsagt valg som vinner av DN:s kulturpris.” (Utdrag fra juryens begrunnelse.) -
Malin Haawind
Malin Haawind romandebuterade 2021 med boken De kom från öar som tar sin början strax efter krigsslutet 1945. De kom från öar handlar om vuxenblivande och familj, om systerskap, arbete och längtan. Det är första delen i en romantrilogi som formar berättelsen om en familj i folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Andra delen i serien, Och havet gav igen kommer i september 2022, och tredje delen, In mot stenig strand, hösten 2023.
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Malin Haawind har tidigare skrivit fyra fackböcker om gräl, föräldraskap, mat och smuts. Hon är även verksam som redaktör och skrivarkursledare. -
Andrev Walden
Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.
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Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.
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Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
– Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
Framåt hösten tog hon tåget hem med alldeles för mycket bagage – bland annat en hel prinsesstårta – och kunde dessutom tala flytande svenska -
Agri Ismaïl
Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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His debut novel Hyper will was published in January 2024.
His work has been published in The White Review, The Rumpus, Guernica, Asymptote, and The Lifted Brow amongst other places. -
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Dolors Udina
Dolors Udina i Abelló (Barcelona, 28 de setembre de 1953) és una traductora literària i professora de traducció. Les seves traduccions són sobretot de l'anglès al català, tot i que també ha traduït del francès, portuguès i castellà.
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Will Harris
Will Harris is a writer of mixed Anglo-Indonesian heritage, born and based in London. He has worked in schools, led workshops at the Southbank Centre and teaches for The Poetry School. He is an Assistant Editor at The Rialto and a fellow of The Complete Works III. Published in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation, he was featured in ES Magazine as part of the “new guard” of London poets. His poem ‘SAY’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018, and he won a Poetry Fellowship from the Arts Foundation in 2019. His debut pamphlet of poems, All this is implied, published by HappenStance in 2017, was joint winner of the London Review Bookshop Pamphlet of the Year and shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald M
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Mary Jones
MARY JONES is the author of the National Bestselling short story collection THE GOODBYE PROCESS, which was longlisted for The Story Prize and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and named a Best Book of 2024 by Library Journal. Her writing has been published widely in such places as Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Subtropics, Book of the Month’s Volume 0, Alaska Quarterly Review, EPOCH, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. Her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.
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Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in 1949 in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.
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Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer Fiona Capp, and their son. As of 2019, he also writes the non-fiction book review column for the Sydney Morning Herald. -
Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.
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When the Irish Times compiled a list of favourite Irish poems in 2000, ten of his poems were in the top fifty, and Kavanagh was rated the second favourite poet behind WB Yeats. The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is presented each year for an unpublished collection of poems. The annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend takes place on the last weekend in September in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, Ireland. The Patrick Kavanagh Centre, an interpretative centr -
Hamish Bowles
Hamish Bowles is European editor at large for Vogue and editor in chief of Vogue Living. He was curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2001 Costume Institute exhibition, “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years.” He lives in New York, London, and Paris.
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Miranda Carter
Biographer/historian/thriller writer. Also goes under M.J. Carter.
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John E. Smelcer
John E. Smelcer is the poetry editor of Rosebud magazine and the author of more than forty books. He is an Alaskan Native of the Ahtna tribe, and is now the last tribal member who reads and writes in Ahtna.
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His forthcoming novel, LONE WOLVES is being partially funded via an Indiegogo campaign. Check out this video and the unusual gifts offered. Among them, you can choose an autographed, numbered, limited-edition print of an award-winning poem by the author, with original artwork; you can have your name used for a character in the author's next book. http://igg.me/at/Leapfrog-Press/x/399...
Smelcer's first novel, The Trap, was an American Library Association BBYA Top Ten Pick, a VOYA Top Shelf Selection, and a New York Public Library Notable B -
Ian Frazier
Ian Frazier (b.1951) is an American writer and humorist. He is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Eimear Ryan
Eimear Ryan is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (2021) and a sports memoir, The Grass Ceiling (2023), both published by Sandycove.
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Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is a co-founder of the literary journal Banshee and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press.
She is a sports columnist with the Irish Examiner and has written about women in sport for Literary Hub, The 42, Image, Stranger’s Guide, Winter Papers and elsewhere. She lives in Cork city. -
Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis is a trained marine biologist with an MSc with distinction in Marine and Fisheries Science.
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Alexander MacLeod
Alexander MacLeod is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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The son of noted Canadian novelist and short story writer Alistair MacLeod, he was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father taught at the University of Windsor. He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint Mary's University. -
Michael J. Arlen
Michael J. Arlen is an Anglo-Armenian writer and former television critic of the The New Yorker. The son of the prominent Anglo-Armenian writer, Michael Arlen. He is the author of Exiles and the critically acclaimed Passage to Ararat, both of which are autobiographical narratives of Arlen's Armenian ancestry. He is also the author of Living Room War, a book on the Vietnam War's portrayal and the social culture of America in the media in the USA.
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Paul Lafargue
French revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.
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Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
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John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father. He is a graduate of New York University, and is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
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For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."
In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.
In 2005, Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Dou -
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was an Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and devout Catholic; she is best known for her philosophy and the Montessori method of education of children from birth to adolescence. Her educational method is in use today in a number of public as well as private schools throughout the world.
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Andrew Wheatcroft
Andrew Wheatcroftis Professor of International Publishing and Communication and Director of the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. He is the author ofInfidels,The Habsburgs, andThe Ottomans, and has been researching the material for The Enemy at the Gatefor more than twenty years.
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Brendan Behan
Early association with the Irish republican army and experiences in prison influenced works, including The Quare Fellow , the play of 1954, and the autobiographical Borstal Boy in 1958 of Brendan Francis Behan, writer.
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Brendan Francis Behan composed poetry, short stories, and novels in English. He also volunteered.
A mother in the inner city of Dublin bore Brendan Francis Behan into an educated class family. Christine English, his grandmother, owned a number of properties in the area and the house on Russell street near Mountjoy square. Peadar Kearney, his uncle and author of song and the national anthem, also lived in the area. Stephen Behan, his father, acted in the war of independence, painted houses, and read classic literature t -
June Caldwell
Prizewinner, Moth Short Story Prize 2024 & 2014
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*Room Little Darker* (short stories) was published by New Island Books in Ireland, 2017, and Head of Zeus, UK, 2018. My debut novel *Little Town Moone* is forthcoming from John Murray. Non-fiction/journalism includes *In Love With a Mad Dog*, Gill and MacMillan, 2006, and a new Foreword to Nuala O'Faolain's *Are You Somebody?* New Island Books, 2018. In 2019, I wrote the introduction to an anthology of short stories: *Still Worlds Turning*, published by No Alibis Press and in 2020, I curated an exhibition on Nuala's memoir for the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLi). I have written short stories and essays for: BBC Radio 4; ARC (Royal College of Art); The Long Gaze Back; The Stinging Fly; The I