Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
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Renato Cisneros
Nació en Lima en 1976. Es periodista y escritor. Son suyos los poemarios: Ritual de los prójimos (1998), Máquina fantasma (2001) y Nuevos poemas italianos (2007). Ha publicado además las novelas Nunca confíes en mí (Alfaguara, 2011), Raro (Alfaguara, 2012), que contó con ilustraciones de Alfonso Vargas; y muy recientemente La distancia que nos separa (Ed.Planeta), que se convirtió en el título más vendido de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima 2015 Entre 2007 y 2010 administró el conocido blog «Busco Novia». Por once años escribió crónicas para el diario El Comercio. Actualmente (setiembre 2015) firma columnas semanales en La República y colabora con programas en el Grupo RPP. Desde agosto de este año radica en Madrid.
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Rosa Ribas
Aka Sara Moliner with Sabine Hofmann
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Rosa Ribas Moliné nació en 1963 en El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona. Estudió Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Barcelona, en la que se doctoró con una tesis sobre los viajeros alemanes a América en los siglos XVI y XVII, publicada en el año 2005.
Desde 1991 reside en Alemania, en Fráncfort del Meno.
Entre 1995 y 2005 fue lectora de español en el Instituto de Lenguas y Literaturas Románicas de la Universidad de Fráncfort, donde desarrolló una intensa actividad docente e investigadora en los campos de la lingüística aplicada y la didáctica de la lengua, fruto de la cual son numerosos artículos y el manual ¿Cómo corregir errores y no equivocarse en el intento?, escrito en colaboración con Alessandra d’A -
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
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The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
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Salomé Esper
Salomé Esper was born in Jujuy in 1984. She is a writer and editor. She studied Social Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has a specialty in Editorial Design from Edinba (Mexico). She has published two books of poetry: sobre todo (Intravenosa, 2010) and paisaje (Tres tercios, 2014). She currently edits Sencacional de escrituras and is the editorial coordinator at 17, Institute of Critical Studies.
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Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
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She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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Brian L. Weiss
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.
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A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.
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Juan Sasturain
Realizó labores periodísticas en diversos diarios y revistas como Clarín, La Opinión, Humor y Super Humor. Además creó las revistas "Feriado Nacional" y "Fierro".
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Es autor de varias novelas policiales y publicó también varias novelas de aventuras. Guionizó también la historieta "Perramus", dibujada por Alberto Breccia, que obtuvo el Premio Amnesty Internacional para el área francófona en 1988. En 1990 recibió el Premio Internacional Semana Negra de Gijón por su relato "Con tinta sangre". -
Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino, regista e sceneggiatore, è nato a Napoli nel 1970. Nel 2001 realizza il suo primo lungometraggio, L’uomo in più, con Toni Servillo e Andrea Renzi. Il film, selezionato alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, viene candidato a tre David di Donatello, vince un Nastro d’Argento come miglior regista esordiente e due Grolle d’Oro. Nel 2004 porta a termine il suo secondo film Le conseguenze dell’amore. Unico italiano in concorso al Festival di Cannes, il film ottiene numerosi riconoscimenti tra cui cinque David di Donatello, quattro Nastri d’Argento e cinque Ciak d’Oro. Nel 2006 realizza il suo terzo film L’amico di famiglia, presentato in concorso al Festival di Cannes, partecipa a numerosi festival internazionali. Nel 2008 con Il d
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Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and the novel The Body Scout (Orbit), which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire.
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His short fiction appears in The Paris Review, Granta, Lightspeed, McSweeney’s, NOON, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The Guardian, and elsewhere.
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Tiffany Calligaris
Tiffany Calligaris nació en Buenos Aires en 1988. Desde chica se sintió cautivada por los clásicos de Disney y los cuentos de hadas. A los 24 años se recibió de abogada, mismo año en el que su primer libro Lesath Memorias de un Engaño fue publicado por Grupo Editorial Planeta.
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Lesath resultó un gran éxito de crítica y ventas. Más tarde, un viaje a Salem inspiró su pentalogía Witches Lazos de Magia, la cual la consolidó en Latinoamérica como “La Reina del Fantasy.”
Sus libros se encuentran publicados en varios países.
Con varios proyectos nuevos la pueden encontrar escribiendo cerca de alguna ventana con una taza de té o paseando con su perro Shiku.
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Melina Furman
Melina Furman was an Argentine investigative author, teacher and biologist.
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Pascal Bruckner
Pascal Bruckner est un romancier et essayiste français, d'origine suisse protestante, né à Paris le 15 décembre 1948. Après des études au Lycée Henri IV à Paris, à l'université de Paris I et de Paris VII, et à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études, Pascal Bruckner devient professeur invité à l'Université d'Etat de San Diego en Californie et à la New York University de 1986 à 1995. Maître de conférences à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris de 1990 à 1994, il collabore également au Monde et au Nouvel Observateur. Romancier prolifique, on lui doit Lunes de fiel - adapté à l'écran par Roman Polanski - Les Voleurs de beauté - prix Renaudot en 1997 - et plus récemment L'Amour du prochain (2005).
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Pascal Bruckner is a French writer, one of the "Ne -
Sofía Segovia
Sofía Segovia nació y vive en Monterrey. Es una de las autoras mexicanas más influyentes del siglo XXI, autora de tres novelas aclamadas por la crítica internacional: El murmullo de las abejas (2015), nominada al National Book Award 2019, nombrada por Audible una de las 20 mejores novelas históricas de ficción del mundo, traducida a 21 idiomas; Huracán (2016), reseñada por la Latin American Literature Today; y Peregrinos (2018), cuya edición al inglés, Tears of Amber, se convirtió en un bestseller instantáneo de Amazon, y la cual también ha sido traducida a 6 idiomas. Ha colaborado en compilaciones de no ficción y libros históricos. Además de su labor literaria, dedica su tiempo a la enseñanza de la escritura y la promoción de la lectura.
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Thea von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a prolific German author and screenwriter, best known today for writing the screenplay of the silent film epic Metropolis (1927). She published over forty books, including novels, children’s books, and collections of short stories, essays, poems, and novellas.
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For the German film industry, she wrote or collaborated on more than seventy screenplays in the silent and sound era. At one time, she was the highest-paid screenwriter in Germany.
She married three times: first to actor Rudolph Klein-Rogge, who played leading roles in many of her films, second to film director Fritz Lang, and third to Indian journalist and patriot Ayi Tendulkar. She had no children of her own.
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Daniel J. Martin
Daniel J. Martin, escritor por afición y psicólogo por vocación, estudió psicología primero y administración y dirección de empresas después, tratando de dar con aquellas herramientas que le permitiesen disfrutar de una vida plena y feliz, alejada de la “carrera de la rata” que sus padres se vieron obligados a soportar.
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Con el tiempo, se dio cuenta de que las habilidades que buscaba no se enseñan en la universidad, precisamente porque el sistema está diseñado para atraparnos en esta carrera cruel. Fue entonces cuando decidió combinar sus conocimientos en ambas disciplinas y desarrollar un enfoque holístico para fomentar el bienestar emocional y el éxito personal.
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Tamara Trottner
Tamara Trottner (Ciudad de México) es licenciada en Ciencias de la comunicación, con maestría en apreciación y creación literaria, y doctorado en Investigación y creación literarias: área novela, ambos en Casa Lamm.
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Publicó el libro de cuentos Un último pedazo de bruma (2001) y la novela Siempre las Jacarandas (2008). Participa en el programa de radio con Iñaki Manero, en donde comparte su entusiasmo por la literatura y sus cuestionamientos acerca de la vida. Le apasiona viajar por el mundo, por las páginas de un buen libro y por las historias que se convierten en sus letras. -
Belén López Peiró
Belén López Peiró (1992) estudió Periodismo y Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente coordina talleres de escritura de no ficción con perspectiva de género. Por qué volvías cada verano es su primera novela publicada. Una historia que narra, a partir de múltiples voces, el abuso que sufrió por parte de un familiar y que se convirtió en un fenómeno literario, social y político en su país.
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Louise Aronson
Louise Aronson is a writer, leading geriatrician, educator, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. Her writing appears in publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Discover Magazine, JAMA, Bellevue Literary Review and the New England Journal of Medicine and has earned her four Pushcart nominat
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Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré was born in Puerto Rico, where her father served as governor. She was best known for her novels and short stories. In 1992, Ferré was awarded the Liberatur Prix award at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the German translation of her novel Sweet Diamond Dust. She was a finalist for the National Book Award for her novel The House on the Lagoon in 1995.
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Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki (born in New Haven, Connecticut) is a Japanese American novelist. She is the daughter of anthropologist Floyd Lounsbury.
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Ozeki published her debut novel, My Year of Meats, in 1998. She followed up with All Over Creation in 2003. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was published on March 12, 2013.
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Eddy de Wind
Eliazar (Eddy) de Wind was een Nederlandse arts, psychiater en psychoanalyticus van Joodse afkomst. De Wind was een overlevende van de Holocaust uit het kamp Auschwitz.
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Eliazar (Eddy) de Wind was a Dutch-Jewish doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a Holocaust survivor from the Auschwitz camp.
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Amelia Thorpe
LGBT erotic romance writer from middle England. I like something a little bit different.
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Gustavo Malajovich
Argentino de clase 63, comenzó estudiando arquitectura y ejerciendo esa profesión, pero en el año 2002 su vida profesional dio un formidable vuelco: fue convocado por Damián Szifrón para colaborar en los guiones de Los Simuladores, éxito y a la vez hito absoluto de la ficción televisiva argentina, un ciclo multipremiado y exportado a varios países. Ya volcado definitivamente a la tarea de guionista, trabajó en programas como Todos contra Juan y en largometrajes como Encarnación (libro que firmó junto a Sergio Wolf para la directora Anahí Berneri, y film ganador del Premio Fipresci en San Sebastián 2007). Actualmente escribe para la televisión argentina y para la española, tarea que combina con su labor como docente en el Centro Cultural Roj
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Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands an Anglo-French lawyer and writer. He is Professor of Law at University College London and a practicing barrister at Matrix Chambers. He has been involved in many important cases, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo and the Yazadis. His books include Lawless World and Torture Team. He is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, Guardian, New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair, makes regular appearances on radio and television, and serves on the boards of English PEN and the Hay Festival.
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William Kotzwinkle
William Kotzwinkle is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Prix Litteraire des Bouquinistes des Quais de Paris, the PETA Award for Children's Books, and a Book Critics Circle award nominee. His work has been translated into dozens of languages.
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Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel is the author of five books including The Faraway World; Infinite Country, a New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick; The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian pare
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Natalia Litvinova
Natalia Litvinova nació en Gómel, Bielorrusia, el 10 de septiembre de 1986 y reside en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traduce a poetas rusos. Publicó los poemarios Esteparia, Balbuceo de la noche, Grieta y Cartas de la locura, y tradujo la antología Rumbo a Karachnay de Shajriza Bogatyreva.
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Luther Blissett
Luther Blissett is a "multiple name" adopted by many people all over the world since 1994, as part of a transnational activist project. This practice started in Italy when a vast network of cultural workers "borrowed" the name of a Jamaica born soccer player active in England and in Italy in the previous decade.
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Later on, the name was used as a collective pen name by a group of four Italian writers: Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca Di Meo, authors of the novel Q . Since January 2000, together with Riccardo Pedrini, they have been writing under another collective pen name Wu Ming (aka "Wu Ming Foundation"). -
John Duffy
John Duffy was a historian of medicine and public health. The author of 11 books and editor of two others, he taught the history of medicine and public health at Tulane, Louisiana State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Louisville, Rice University, and
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the University of Maryland. He served as president of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Washington Society for the History of Medicine, interim editor of American Historical Review and a member of the executive council of the Southern Historical Association. -
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
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Alma Delia Murillo
Autora de los libros «Cuentos de maldad (y uno que otro maldito)» (editorial Alfaguara, 2020), «El niño que fuimos” (editorial Alfaguara, 2018), «Las noches habitadas” (editorial Planeta, 2015); y del libro de cuentos «Damas de Caza” (editorial Plaza y Valdés, 2011). Coautora en “Tiembla” (editorial Almadía, 2018).
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Escribe una columna sabatina en este espacio titulada Posmodernos y Jodidos, una colaboración quincenal en la sección editorial del periódico Reforma, y otras colaboraciones sobre diversos tópicos culturales para revistas como Milenio, Confabulario de El Universal, SoHo, Univision Trends, El Malpensante (Colombia) y otros.
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Fernanda Trías
Fernanda Trías (Montevideo, 12 de octubre de 1976) es una escritora uruguaya. Es profesora de inglés y traductora certificada.
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Fernanda Trías is a Uruguayan writer. She was born in Montevideo in 1976. She is the author of three novels and two short story collections. In 2004 she won a Unesco scholarship to write in Camac, an artists’ residence in Marnay-sur-Seine. She lived for five years in the medieval village of Provins and a few months in London. She spent one year in Berlin and two years in Buenos Aires. Trías earned a Master’s degree in creative writing from New York University and was disciple of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. She integrated anthologies of new narrative in Colombia, the United States, Uruguay, Peru, Germany (Neu -
Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.
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Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e -
Wilson Harris
Born in Guyana in 1921 and based in England since 1959, Wilson Harris is one of the most original novelists and critics of the twentieth century. His writings, which include poems, numerous essays and twenty-four novels, provide a passionate and unique defense of the notion of cross-culturalism as well as a visionary exploration of the interdependence between history, landscape and humanity. In 2010 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature.
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Gabriel Rolón
Gabriel Rolón nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Cursó sus estudios en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Se graduó e hizo su especialización en psicoanálisis, disciplina que difunde tanto desde su actividad académica como desde su intensa participación en los medios.
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En 2008 condujo sus propios espacios: Noche de Diván, por Radio Mitre, y Terapia (única sesión), por América TV. Fue orador en el Congreso Mundial de Psicoanálisis organizado en 2012 en México D. F.; en 2013 dictó jornadas de formación psicoanalítica en la Universidad Pucrs, de Porto Alegre, Brasil, y es invitado de manera asidua por universidades locales y extranjeras a participar en actividades y brindar seminarios de clínica psicoanalítica.
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Monique Ilboudo
Titulaire d'un doctorat en droit privé obtenu à La Sorbonne, Monique Ilboudo a débuté sa carrière en créant et animant de 1992 à 1995 la chronique « Féminin Pluriel » dans le quotidien burkinabé « L'Observateur Paalga ». En parallèle, elle a mis en place un Observatoire sur les conditions de vie des femmes au Burkina Faso, intitulée « Qui-vive ». Elle a aussi enseigné à l'Université de Ouagadougou. Impliquée dans la vie politique de son pays, Monique Ilboudo a tout d'abord été membre du Conseil Supérieur de l'Information de 1995 à 2000 avant d'occuper le poste de Secrétaire d'Etat chargée de la promotion des Droits de l'Homme et enfin celui de Ministre de la Promotion des droits humains. Elle est l'auteur de nombreux essais qui ont contribu
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Mateo García Elizondo
Mateo García Elizondo (Ciudad de México, 1987) es licenciado en Letras Inglesas y Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Westminster en Londres, y cuenta con un posgrado en Periodismo por la London School of Journalism. Ha escrito artículos para medios como National Geographic Traveler Mexico y PijamaSurf. Es guionista del largometraje Desierto (2015, ganador del premio FIPRESCI en el Festival de Cine de Toronto), así como de los cortometrajes Domingo (2013, selección oficial en el Festival de Cine de Morelia) y Clickbait (2018, mejor corto gore en Feratum FilmFest, mención honorífica FICMA 2018).
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Su ficción ha aparecido en medios impresos como Epoka Magazine, Revista Alba y Huun. Arte/pensamiento desde México. Vol.1, y su trabajo como gu -
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Minos Efstathiadis
Minos Efstathiadis (Greek: Μίνως Ευσταθιάδης) studied Law in Athens and in Hannover. He gave up (probably not soon enough) being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing.
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His play “The Meal” received the prize for Original Playwright of E.T.E. and has been translated into English, German, French and Hungarian.
His novel “The second part of the night” has been published in German.
His novel “The Diver” has been published in French and was shortlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature, Violeta Negra Occitanie and Prix du Livre Européen. -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Branimir Šćepanović
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović started writing while still being a student in high school.
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His famous novel Usta puna zemlje (Mouth full of earth) had 32 editions in Serbia and 23 editions in France. Šćepanović's 1977 novel, Smrt gospodina Goluže (The Death of Mr. Goluzha) was adapted in 1997 by Alan Wade for the film he directed, and was released by Fine Line Features and New Line International.
Branimir Šćepanović won the October award from the city of Belgrade and two Golden Arenas for Best Screenplays: Before the Truth (1968) and The Battle of Sutjeska (1973). -
Giannis Makridakis
Giannis Makridakis (gr: Γιάννης Μακριδάκης) was born in Chios in 1971 and studied mathematics. He organizes research and educational programmes and edits publications for the Chios Studies Centre, which he founded in 1997. He edits the three-monthly magazine Pelinnaio and has published two books on the history of Chios. His first novel Anamisis Denekes, published by Hestia in 2008, is already in its fourth edition and translated into Turkish.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Leonardo Padura
Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written movie scripts, two books of short stories and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Fuentes was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind.
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Leonardo Padura nasceu em Havana, em 1955. Licenciado em Filologia, trabalhou como guionista, jornalista e crítico, tornando-se sobretudo conhecido pela série de romances policiais protagonizados pelo detetive Mario Conde, traduzidos para inúm -
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Aurora Venturini
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco
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Gabriel Rolón
Gabriel Rolón nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Cursó sus estudios en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Se graduó e hizo su especialización en psicoanálisis, disciplina que difunde tanto desde su actividad académica como desde su intensa participación en los medios.
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En 2008 condujo sus propios espacios: Noche de Diván, por Radio Mitre, y Terapia (única sesión), por América TV. Fue orador en el Congreso Mundial de Psicoanálisis organizado en 2012 en México D. F.; en 2013 dictó jornadas de formación psicoanalítica en la Universidad Pucrs, de Porto Alegre, Brasil, y es invitado de manera asidua por universidades locales y extranjeras a participar en actividades y brindar seminarios de clínica psicoanalítica.
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Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc
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Yōko Ogawa
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
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A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og -
Eduardo Sacheri
Eduardo Sacheri (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1967) es un escritor argentino. Licenciado en Historia, ejerce como profesor de secundaria y universitario. Comenzó a escribir cuentos a mediados de la década de 1990, relatos futboleros que encontraron una amplia audiencia gracias a la difusión que de ellos hizo Alejandro Apo en su programa “Todo con afecto”, que se emitía por Radio Continental.1 Reconocido hincha del Club Atlético Independiente, Sacheri expresa en los relatos su gran pasión por el fútbol de una manera atrapante, entretenida, y amable, demostrando un perfecto entendimiento de la cultura futbolera popular argentina.
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Además de varios libros de relatos, ha escrito dos novelas. La primera, La pregunta de sus ojos (2005), fue llevada al -
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
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Lazar Jovanović
Rođen u Kraljevu 1992. godine. Najstariji od troje dece. Rastao okružen knjigama. Kao mali je želeo da bude policajac, pisac i astronaut. Ostvario je dve od tri želje, ostalo je još samo da sedne u spejs-šatl. Danju inspektor, noću pisac (nada se sve bolji). Od poroka ima kafu i pomfrit iz Mek Donaldsa.
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Caryl Férey
Caryl Férey’s novel Utu won the Sang d’Encre, Michael Lebrun, and SNCF Crime Fiction Prizes. Zulu, his first novel to be published in English, was the winner of the Nouvel Obs Crime Fiction and Quais du Polar Readers Prizes. In 2008, it was awarded the French Grand Prix for Best Crime Novel. He lives in France.
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Norma Huidobro
Norma Huidobro es una escritora argentina. Sus estudios primarios y secundarios los realizó en el Instituto Cristo Rey, luego estudió Letras en la Facultad de Filosofía, desarrolló su carrera en escuelas secundarias y trabaja como correctora y redactora de una editorial. Su primera novela fue "¿Quién conoce a Greta Garbo?" en 1999.
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Paula Bombara
Paula Bombara nació en la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Provincia de Buenos Aires) el 3 de diciembre de 1972. A los 4 años se trasladó a Buenos Aires, donde vive desde entonces.
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Estudió Filosofía y se graduó como bioquímica en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Además de escribir y publicar obras de literatura infantil y juvenil escribe libros de divulgación científica para niños. Paralelamente a su labor como escritora de ficción y divulgación científica, Bombara también participa en foros y congresos como disertante.
Desde 2003 dirige la colección “¿Querés saber?”, publicada por Eudeba, que reúne una serie de libros de divulgación científica, dirigida a los lectores infantiles en la cual se desarrollan temas precisos de disciplinas científicas varia -
Norah Hoult
Norah ‘Ella’ Hoult was born in Dublin in 1898. Her mother, Margaret O’Shaughnessy, was a spirited Irish-Catholic girl who eloped with a Protestant English architect named Powis Hoult when she was 21. After Norah and her brother were orphaned they were sent to live with their father’s relations in England, where they went to school. Norah Hoult was a journalist for the Sheffield Daily Telegraph and then moved to London to work on a magazine, becoming a full-time writer after her first book, Poor Women (1928), was published. She lived in Dublin from 1931-7 (and was briefly married to a quantity surveyor) and then in New York; in 1939 she settled in London, living in Bayswater, not far from Violet Hunt upon whom Claire Temple in There Were No
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Patricia Cerda Pincheira
Patricia Cerda es una experta en la historia colonial chilena. En 1986, en plena Guerra Fría, llegó a Alemania para sacar un doctorado en historia en la Universidad de Berlín, y por más de dos décadas se especializó en interculturalidad y migración femenina. Durante aquel periodo se dedicó a la academia, pero luego dio un giro hacia la literatura. La oriunda de Concepción tiene una pluma única, y decidió utilizar ese talento para escribir sobre temas de ficción relacionados a sus vastos conocimientos sobre la historia colonial de Chile. El resultado es su primera novela, “Mestiza” (Ediciones B).
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Carla Guelfenbein
Carla Guelfenbein Dobry es una escritora chilena de origen ruso-judío.
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Guillermo Martínez
Guillermo Martínez is an Argentinian novelist and short story writer. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires.
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After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
His most successful novel has been The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. In the same year, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which has been translated into a number of languages. -
Farhad Pirbal
Farhad Pirbal (Sorani Kurdish: فەرھاد پیرباڵ; born 1961)[2] is a Kurdish writer, philosopher, singer, poet, painter and critic. He was born in the city of Erbil (Hawler) in Southern Kurdistan. He studied Kurdish language and literature in the University of Salahadin in Hewlêr. In 1986, he left Kurdistan to France.[3] He continued his studies in University of Sorbonne in the field of Kurdish literature. After going back to Southern Kurdistan, in 1994, he established the Sharafkhan Badlisi cultural center.
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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier; was an architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961.
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Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of an ancestor, Lecorbésier. -
Amara Lakhous
عمارة لخوص روائي جزائري مقيم في إيطاليا يكتب باللغتين العربية والايطالية. من أعماله «البق والقرصان»، التي ترجمت إلى الايطالية، و»كيف ترضع من الذئبة دون أن تعضك»، التي أعاد كتابتها بالايطالية وحولت إلى فيلم سينمائي. حاز على جائزة فلايانو الأدبية الدولية وجائزة المكتبيين الجزائريين
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Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Living Islam as a Minority.” His first novel, Le cimici e il pirata (Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italy’s prestigious Flaiano pri -
Pascha Sotolongo
Pascha Sotolongo is an award-winning magical realist writer whose short fiction has been published in outlets including Narrative, American Short Fiction, Ninth Letter, and Pleiades. Originally from Florida, she teaches English and creative writing on the Great Plains.
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Brigitte Giraud
Brigitte Giraud, née en 1960 à Sidi Bel Abbès en Algérie française, est une écrivaine française, auteure de romans et de nouvelles. Brigitte Giraud grandit à Rillieux-la-Pape avant de s’installer à Lyon3. Libraire, journaliste, elle écrit et commence à publier à la fin des années 1990. Le 3 novembre 2022, elle obtient le prix Goncourt 2022, avec son récit Vivre vite, qui revient sur l'accident de moto qui a emporté son mari, en 1999, à l’âge de 41 ans. Elle est la treizième femme à recevoir ce prix en cent vingt ans (depuis 1903).
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Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to be a journalist at the University of Minsk and worked a teacher, journalist and editor. In Minsk she has worked at the newspaper Sel'skaja Gazeta, Alexievich's criticism of the political regimes in the Soviet Union and thereafter Belarus has periodically forced her to live abroad, for example in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden.
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Svetlana Alexievich depicts life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals. In her books she uses interviews to create a collage of a wide range of voices. With her "documentary novels", Sve -
Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles grew up in New York, and attended college at the University of Virginia before traveling to Paris, where became a part of Gertrude Stein's literary and artistic circle. Following her advice, he took his first trip to Tangiers in 1931 with his friend, composer Aaron Copeland.
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In 1938 he married author and playwright Jane Auer (see: Jane Bowles). He moved to Tangiers permanently in 1947, with Auer following him there in 1948. There they became fixtures of the American and European expatriate scene, their visitors including Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. Bowles continued to live in Tangiers after the death of his wife in 1973.
Bowles died of heart failure in Tangier on November 18, 1999. His ashes were int -
Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and researcher working across criticism, education, and radio.
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She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London, and columnist for Tate Etc, the arts magazine published by the Tate network of galleries. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, POETRY, BOMB Magazine, Wasafiri, frieze, Art Review, and elsewhere.
In 2023, Mehri won an Eric Gregory Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with Bad Diaspora Poems. It was also shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. She is also a recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award. In 2024, she won a Sky Arts Award.
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Mario Bellatin
Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bellatin moved to Cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the International Film School Latinoamericana. On his return to Mexico in 1995, he became the director of the Department of Literature and Humanities at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana and became a member of the National System of Creators of Mexico from 1999 to 2005. He is currently the director of the School of Writers Dynamics in Mexico City.
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Angelos Terzakis
Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.
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He was born in Nafplion in 1907 and lived there until 1915, when he moved to Athens, where he finished school and studied law at the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in Greek literature in 1925 with the short story collection The Forgotten. He took part in the war of 1940 and documented this experience in some of his short stories and especially in his book April. In 1969 he was awarded the prize of Literary Excellence (Αριστείο Γραμμάτων) of the Athens Academy.
He died on 3 August 1979 in Athens.
His son, Dimitri Terzakis, is a noted composer.
Novels
Prisoners (Δεσμώτες, 1932)
The Decay of the Tough Ones (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933)
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Kazurou Inoue
Kazurou Inoue (井上和郎, Inoue Kazurō) is a Japanese mangaka.
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Born May 1, 1970, he received recognition for his manga Dream Security Mao (Dream Security マオ) at the 40th Rookie Comic Awards. After training under Kazuhiro Fujita, he published Heat Wave in Shōnen Sunday Super for a short while.
He is most known for Midori no Hibi (美鳥の日々, Midori Days) series which was adapted into a 13 episodes anime series by the studio Pierrot. -
Antonio Orejudo
Antonio Orejudo nació en Madrid en 1963. Doctor en filología hispánica, durante siete años fue profesor de literatura española en diferentes universidades de Estados Unidos y ha pasado un año como investigador invitado en la Universidad de Amsterdam. En la actualidad es profesor titular en la Universidad de Almería. Es autor de cuatro novelas: Fabulosas narraciones por historias (1996), Ventajas de viajar en tren (2000), Reconstrucción (2005) y Un momento de descanso (2011). Todas ellas, muy distintas entre sí, componen el corpus coherente de uno de los narradores más brillantes en lengua española.
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Autor de numerosos artículos de crítica publicados en Babelia, ABC Cultural, o Letras Libres entre otros medios de prensa. -
Bob Eckstein
Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, NY Times bestseller, New Yorker cartoonist, and world's only snowman expert. His fields of expertise are museums, bookstores, cartoons and humor.
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He is editor of the popular Substack newsletter, The Bob and host of The Cartoon Pad podcast. His cartoons, OpEds, and short stories appear regularly in the New York Times, New York Daily News, MAD magazine, Readers Digest, The Spectator, Prospect, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, among many others. He was a columnist for the Village Voice, New York Newsday, and TimeOut New York. He has been interviewed in over 200 TV, radio, podcasts and magazine spots, including Good Morning America and People magazine. He was selected Erma Bombec -
Alejandro Casona
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
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Edita Morris
Edita Morris started her literary career with short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar and other publications. In 1943 she published her first novel, My darling from the Lions. During the 1930s and until his death in 1943 in New York she shared much of her life with the Swedish painter Nils von Dardel.
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Tham Cheng-E
Tham Cheng-E writes about the special needs community and maintains a family blog on parenting and Down syndrome. He is the author of Surrogate Protocol, a finalist of the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize, and Band Eight, a novel longlisted for the 2017 Epigram Books Fiction Prize.
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Minos Efstathiadis
Minos Efstathiadis (Greek: Μίνως Ευσταθιάδης) studied Law in Athens and in Hannover. He gave up (probably not soon enough) being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing.
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His play “The Meal” received the prize for Original Playwright of E.T.E. and has been translated into English, German, French and Hungarian.
His novel “The second part of the night” has been published in German.
His novel “The Diver” has been published in French and was shortlisted for the Athens Prize for Literature, Violeta Negra Occitanie and Prix du Livre Européen. -
Beatriz Sarlo
Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
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María del Mar Ramón
María del Mar Ramón (Bogotá, 1992) es autora de la novela La Manada (Planeta, 2021) y del libro de ensayos Tirar y vivir sin culpa. El placer es feminista (Planeta, 2019). Es columnista de Vice y escribe en diversos medios latinoamericanos. Con el cuento "El deseo es una cicatriz" formó parte de la antología Cuerpos (Seix Barral, 2019). Actualmente trabaja en radio y en el desarrollo de contenidos audiovisuales. Desde 2012 reside en Buenos Aires.
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Derek Raymond
Aka Robin Cook.
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Pen name for Robert William Arthur Cook. Born into privilege, Raymond attended Eton before completing his National Service. Raymond moved to France in the 50's before eventually returning to London in the 60's. His first book, 'Crust on its Uppers,' released in 1962 under his real name, was well-received but brought few sales. Moving through Italy he abandoned writing before returning to London. In 1984 he released the first of the Factory Series, 'He Died With His Eyes Open' under the name Derek Raymond. Following 'The Devil's Home On Leave' and 'How The Dead Live' he released his major work 'I Was Dora Suarez' in 1990. His memoirs were released as 'The Hidden Files'. -
Lara Pawson
Lara Pawson lives in London. She is the author of three books.
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Spent Light (January 2024) is a hybrid text, a work of prose fiction, combining fiction, memoir and history. It has received superb reviews in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, The Idler, and the Daily Mail.
This Is the Place to Be (CB editions, 2016) is a fragmentary memoir. In 2017, it was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize, and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. It has been translated into French as Là où tout se passe (Les Éditions de l’Observatoire, 2018) and into Spanish as Este es el lugar (LOM Ediciones, 2021).
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Mario Amorós
Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Barcelona y periodista. Ha sido profesor invitado en la Universidad de Chile y formó parte del comité asesor de la Cátedra de Memoria Histórica del Siglo XX de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Escribe asiduamente en medios de comunicación de Chile y España.
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Héctor Abad Faciolince
Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince was born on 1 October 1958 in Medellín, Colombia Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novels Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos.
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Elizabeth Subercaseaux
Periodista y escritora. Ha trabajado como reportera, entrevistadora, articulista y columnista en Cosas, Apsi, Master, Caras, El Sábado, La Nación, Cuadrenos Cervantes (Madrid), Diario Al Día (Philadelphia), Ocean Drive y Vanidades Continental (Maimi). Fue profesora de la Escuela de Pedriodismo de la Universidad de Chile. Ha sido corresponsal de la BBC de Londres y las revistas Semana (Colombia) y Crisis (Argentina).
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Es autora de libros periodísticos, de humor y literatura.
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Manuel Mujica Lainez
Manuel Bernabé Mújica Láinez fue un escritor, biógrafo, crítico de arte y periodista argentino.
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En 1936, publicó Glosas castellanas, una serie de ensayos centrados en su mayor parte en el Quijote.
Tres años después, publicó Don Galaz de Buenos Aires. Le siguen las biografías de su antepasado Miguel Cané (padre), en 1942, más las de Hilario Ascasubi (Aniceto, el Gallo, 1943) y de Estanislao del Campo (Anastasio, el Pollo, 1947).
En 1949, publicó un libro de cuentos, Aquí vivieron, en torno a una quinta de San Isidro.
Su segundo libro de cuentos, Misteriosa Buenos Aires, se ambientó también en la capital de la Argentina y su historia desde la fundación, en la que mezcla personajes típicos ficticios con hechos y personajes reales.
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Mikita Brottman
Mikita Brottman (born 30 October 1966) is a British scholar, psychoanalyst, author and cultural critic known for her psychological readings of the dark and pathological elements of contemporary culture. She received a D.Phil in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, was a Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and was Chair of the program in Engaged Humanities with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute from 2008 to 2010. She currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brottman's articles and case studies have appeared in Film Quarterly, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History, and American Imago. She has written influentially on h
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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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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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Nick Paccino
Nick Paccino was born and raised in Athens, the capital of Greece, with Italian roots on his father’s side.
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After completing his postgraduate studies in England and spending a few years in New York City, he made the bold decision to write his first book, Guardian Angel. With the help of Anna Drossa, he translated it into Spanish and published it on Amazon, where it became a major success with the Hispanic audience, earning the title of Amazon Bestseller.
Soon after, Greece’s leading publishing house, Kastaniotis, offered him a deal, and the novel was published in Greece in June 2023.
Two years later, he released his second novel, a literary mystery romance titled The Secret of the Wind, his first book written in English and published in the Un -
Fernando Iwasaki
Fernando Iwasaki Cauti es un escritor, investigador, docente, filólogo e historiador peruano nacido en una familia de múltiples raíces (Perú, Japón, Ecuador e Italia). Actualmente reside en Sevilla, España.
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Lydiette Carrión
Lydiette Carrión es periodista independiente. Se licenció en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la unam y es egresada de la Escuela de Escritores de la Sogem, donde impartió clases de periodismo narrativo durante 5 años. A su vez, ha dado talleres sobre periodismo y género para periodistas en diversas ocasiones. Sus reportajes se pueden consultar en la sección de investigaciones especiales de El Universal y en Pie de Página. Ha publicado en Milenio Semanal, Milenio Diario, Día Siete, Replicante, Newsweek en Español y Cosecha Roja, por citar algunos medios.
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Es coautora de los libros: Manual urgente para la cobertura de violencia contra las mujeres (ONU 2021), Ya no somos las mismas y aquí sigue la -
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
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Berna González Harbour
Es periodista, subdirectora del diario El País y colaboradora de la Cadena SER.
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Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ha estado vinculada desde sus inicios a la cobertura de noticias de Internacional, ha sido corresponsal en Moscú, enviada especial en una veintena de países en conflicto y redactora jefa de esta sección. La información sobre el mundo, la política, los cambios sociales, el impulso de las mujeres, la transformación de un gran periódico en plena revolución digital y los libros son algunas de sus pasiones. -
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris. From 1957 to 1961 he was a film critic in Buenos Aires for the La Nación newspaper, and he then was editor in chief (1962-69) of the magazine Primera Plana. From 1969 to 1970 he worked as a reporter in Paris. In 1969 Martínez interviewed former Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón, who was exiled in Madrid. These interviews were the basis for two of his more celebrated novels, La Novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995). In 1970 he and many former writers of Primera Plana worked at the magazine Panorama, where Martínez was the director.
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Ricardo Raphael
Licenciado en Derecho por la UNAM. Maestro en ciencias políticas por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos de París, Francia (Sciences Po). Maestría en Administración Pública por la Escuela Nacional de Administración (ENA) de la República Francesa. Estudios Doctorales en Economía Política y Políticas Comparadas por la Escuela para Graduados de Claremont, California, EU.
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Fue Secretario General de Democracia Social, Partido Político Nacional y representante ante el Consejo General del IFE del partido México Posible. También fue Coordinador de la Comisión Ciudadana contra la Discriminación, fue defensor de la audiencia de canal 11 y subdirector de opinión del periódico El Universal.
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María Border
Soy escritora de Novela Romántica. Romance-Regencia y Romance Contemporáneo, Chick-Lit.
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*La pâtisserie de los corazones perdidos - PLAZA & JANES, agosto 2025
*Donde caben las ilusiones - PLAZA & JANES, abril 2024
*Cada herida del alma - PLAZA & JANES, julio 2023
*Temporada de romances - PLAZA & JANES, septiembre 2022
*Por el resto de mi vida - PLAZA & JANES, marzo 2022
*Amar se conjuga de a dos - PLAZA & JANES, mayo 2020
*Dame un año de tu vida - PLAZA & JANES, diciembre 2018
*La estrella prohibida - PLAZA & JANES, noviembre 2017
*Aunque me resista - PLAZA & JANES, junio 2016
*Siete motivos para no quererte - PLAZA & JANES, febrero de 2015
*Susurros de blues - Amazon, agosto 2014
*Como perro y gato Mía 2 - Amazon, diciembre 2013
*Despertando tus sentido