David Grossman
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Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel Radio. Grossman has written seven novels, a play, a number of short stories and novellas, and a number of books for children and youth. He has also published several books of non-fiction, including interviews with Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. Among Grossman`s many literary awards: the Valumbrosa Prize (Italy), the Eliette von Karajan Prize (Austria), the Nelly Sachs Prize (1991), the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zig-Zag Kid (Italy, 1996), the Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy), the Juliet Club Prize, the Marsh Award for Children
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the "bystanders" to larger historical events. He is the author of ten books of fiction, including Henry and Clara, Two Moons, Dewey Defeats Truman, Aurora 7, Bandbox, Fellow Travelers (recently adapted into a miniseries by the same name), Watergate, Finale, Landfall, and most recently Up With the Sun. He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One's Own), letters (Yours Ever) and the John F. Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine's Garage), as well as two volumes of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact).
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Frank Serafini
Dr. Frank Serafini is an author, illustrator, photographer, educator, musician, and a Professor of Literacy Education and Children’s Literature at Arizona State University.
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Born in 1942, she's an Italian writer and screenwriter specialized in children literature.
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Kenan was a member of the Lehi underground. He considered it an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist organisation and claims that it didn't fight the Arabs.
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He studied law at the University of Haifa, and graduated cum laude from its law school. He is a member of the Israeli Bar. He also studied history and international relations at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and was awarded an M.Phil. degree in international relations, and then a PhD for his dissertation on the Israeli Mossad.
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Georg von Wallwitz
geboren 1968 in München, studierte Mathematik und Philosophie in England und Deutschland. Als selbständiger Fondsmanager und Mitinhaber einer Vermögensverwaltung lebt er in München. Bei Berenberg erschienen »Odysseus und die Wiesel. Eine fröhliche Einführung in die Finanzmärkte« (2011) und »Mr. Smith und das Paradies. Die Erfindung des Wohlstands« (2013).
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
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Margaret Mazzantini
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Meir Shalev
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He was born in Chicago, lived in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Washington State, and upstate New York. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Strand Critics award, the Barry Award, and the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Award for best novel. His first novel, THE MOSCOW CLUB, was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the 10 best spy novels of all time.
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Erri De Luca
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Amos Oz
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Oz's work has been published in 42 languages in 43 countries, and has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook.
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Saul Bellow
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People widely regard one most important Saul Bellow of the 20th century. Known for his rich prose, intellectual depth, and incisive character studies, Bellow explored themes of identity and the complexities of modern life with a distinct voice that fused philosophical insight and streetwise humor. Herzog , The Adventures of Augie March , and Mister Sammler’s Planet , his major works, earned critical acclaim and a lasting legacy.
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Bonnie McCurry
Bonnie McCurry was a teacher in public and private schools for forty years.
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Maya Arad
מאיה ערד נולדה בראשון לציון בכ"ח בטבת תשל"א, 25 בינואר 1971 להוריה טובה ויוסף ערד. גדלה והתחנכה בקיבוץ נחל עוז ובראשון לציון. לאחר לימודי יסוד ותיכון בראשון לציון התגייסה לצה"ל ושירתה במדור הסברה של חיל החינוך, בו פגשה את רויאל נץ. מאיה למדה בלשנות ולימודים קלאסיים לתואר ראשון באוניברסיטת תל אביב ובלשנות לדוקטורט באוניברסיטת לונדון. לימדה באוניברסיטאות שונות, ביניהן הארוורד, ז'נבה וסנקט-פטרבורג. ספרה "מקום אחר ועיר זרה" זיכה אותה בפרס משרד החינוך ליצירת ביכורים, נבחר לחמישיית המועמדים הסופית לפרס ספיר לשנת 2005 והועלה כמחזה בתיאטרון הקאמרי (בבימוי אלדד זיו ומוסיקה מאת אלון אולארצ'יק). כיום מאיה מלמדת באוניברסיטת סטנפורד. נשואה לרויאל נץ ואם לשתי בנות.
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Yaakov Shabtai
Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was born in Tel Aviv. After his military service, he moved to a kibbutz and started to write. Ten years later, he returned to Tel Aviv with his family and devoted himself to his literary career. He wrote two novels, a book of short stories, a children`s book, two collections of plays and a collection of poems and ballads.
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Shabtai holds a unique place in Hebrew literature. His novel, Past Continuous, is considered one of the high points of modern Hebrew fiction. It received the Kenneth B. Smilen Award for Literature and is included in "The 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" (2001). In 2007, Past Continuous topped the list of the most important as well as "best loved" books since the creation of the Stat -
Haim Sabato
Haim Sabato is an Israeli rabbi and author.
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Haim Sabato was born to a family of Aleppan-Syrian descent in Cairo. In the 1950s, his family immigrated to Israel and lived in a "ma'abara" (transit camp) in Kiryat HaYovel, Jerusalem. He studied at a Talmud Torah in Bayit Vegan, in the vicinity, and after it attended the "Netiv Meir" yeshiva-high school, also in Bayit Vegan. Rabbi Aryeh Bina, Rosh Yeshiva of "Netiv Meir", was one of his key influences.
After graduation, he joined the "Hesder" program at Yeshivat Hakotel, in the old city of Jerusalem, which combines yeshiva studies with military service. His experiences during the Yom Kippur war, at the age of 21, led him to write Adjusting Sights.
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Tuvia Tenenbom
Tuvia Tenenbom (Hebrew: טוביה טננבום) is a theater director, playwright, author, journalist, essayist and the founding artistic director of the Jewish Theater of New York, the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City. Tenenbom was called the "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French Le Monde and a "New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv. Tenenbom is also an academic, having university degrees in mathematics, computer science, dramatic writing and literature. (wiki)
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Sayed Kashua
Czech name version: Sajjid Kašua.
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Slovak name version: Said Kašua
Sayed Kashua (Arabic: سيد قشوع, Hebrew: סייד קשוע; b. 1975) is an Israeli-Arab author and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humoristic columns in Hebrew.
هو كاتب وصحفي فلسطيني إسرائيلي يعيش في القدس ويكتب بالعبرية. ولد سيد قشوع في مدينة الطيرة، مدينة عربية وسط إسرائيل، لأب يعمل موظفا في البنك ولأم تعمل معلمة. هو الثاني من بين أربعة أبناء. حين كان في ال15 من عمره تم قبوله لمدرسة العلوم والفنون في القدس، وهي مدرسة مرموقة، تعمل باللغة العبرية ومعظم تلاميذها من اليهود. بعد انهائه تعليمه الثانوي تعلم في الجامعة العبرية في القدس موضوع الفلسفة والعلوم الاجتماعية. بعد انهائه تعليمه عمل مراسلا للصحيفة العبرية المقدسية "كول هاعير" ("כל העיר") وبعد ذلك تحول أيضا إل -
Apuleius
People best know The Golden Ass , work of Roman philosopher and satirist Lucius Apuleius.
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Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis “Africanus”; Berber: Afulay) wrote Latin-language prose.
This Berber of Numidia lived under the empire. From Madaurus (now M'Daourouch, Algeria), he studied Platonism in Athens and traveled to Italy, Asia Minor and Egypt. Several cults or mysteries initiated him.
In the most famous incident in his life, people then accused him of using magic to gain the attentions and fortune of a wealthy widow. Apuleius declaimed and then distributed a witty tour de force in his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near ancient Tripoli, Libya.
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Yehonatan Geffen
Geffen was born in moshav Nahalal. He is the father of Aviv Geffen, Shira Geffen and Natasha Geffen, as well as nephew of Moshe Dayan. He has two grandsons. In 1965, he served as a paratrooper under Matan Vilnaì, and became an officer. In 1967, his mother overdosed on her medication and died. Geffen considers it to have been suicide. After his discharge from the IDF in 1969 and moving to Tel Aviv, he took up poetry. In 1972, while Geffen was studying in London, his sister Nurit committed suicide, causing him to return to Tel Aviv. During this period he began writing a column for the weekend supplement of Ma'ariv, and he joined the entertainment troupe "Lul" with Uri Zohar, Arik Einstein, and Shalom Hanoch. The latter introduced Geffen to hi
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Susanna Mattiangeli
Susanna Mattiangeli scrive racconti e si occupa da sempre di progetti per l’infanzia. Ha pubblicato con varie case editrici italiane e nel 2018 è stata finalista al Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi con I numeri felici (Vànvere Edizioni) e ha vinto il Premio Andersen 2018 come Miglior Scrittrice.
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Per Il Castoro ha pubblicato gli albi illustrati Come funziona la maestra, Avete visto Anna? e Uno come Antonio.
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Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman is an Israeli Canadian journalist and author.
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Friedman was born in Canada and grew up in Toronto. In 1995, he made aliyah to Israel and now he lives in Jerusalem.
Between 2006 and the end of 2011, Friedman was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press (AP) news agency. During his journalistic career, he also worked as a reporter in Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Moscow and Washington, D.C.
Following the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Friedman wrote an essay criticizing what he views as the international media's bias against Israel and undue focus on the country, stating that news organizations treat it as "most important story on earth." He cited the fact that when he was a correspondent at the Associated Pres -
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Paolo Alessandrini
Paolo Alessandrini, nato a Verona nel 1971, si è laureato in Ingegneria Informatica presso l’Università di Padova discutendo una tesi sperimentale su un algoritmo euristico, che ha vinto nel 1999 il premio nazionale Camerini-Carraresi. Con l’Università di Padova ha collaborato a progetti di ricerca di matematica computazionale, e nel 2010 è stato correlatore di una tesi di laurea specialistica in Ingegneria Gestionale.
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È docente di ruolo di matematica presso il Liceo Scientifico e Istituto Tecnico “Max Planck” di Villorba (TV).
Ha tenuto numerosi corsi e interventi di formazione, anche per enti accreditati MIUR, tra cui Unione Matematica Italiana, Tokalon, Redooc, Ambito 9 della Regione Lombardia, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Istituto C -
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 - Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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Helga Schneider
Nasce nel 1937 in Slesia (territorio tedesco che dopo la seconda guerra mondiale sarà assegnato alla Polonia). Nel 1941 Helga e suo fratello Peter, rispettivamente di 4 anni e 19 mesi, con il padre già al fronte, vengono abbandonati a Berlino dalla madre, che arruolatasi come ausiliaria nelle SS diverrà guardiana al campo femminile di Ravensbruck e successivamente di Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Helga e Peter vengono accolti nella lussuosa villa della sorella del padre, zia Margarete (dopo la guerra morirà per suicidio), in attesa che la nonna paterna arrivi dalla Polonia per occuparsi dei nipoti. La donna accudisce i bambini per circa un anno nell'appartamento situato a Berlin-Niederschönhausen (Pankow), dove i piccoli avevano vissuto in precedenza -
Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award– winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, it was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize. -
Amir Gutfreund
Hebrew name: אמיר גוטפרוינד
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Award winning author Amir Gutfreund was born in Haifa, Israel in 1963. He earned a MA in applied-mathematics at the Israeli Technological Institute (ITI) and served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force for 20 years, retiring with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
His first novel, Our Holocaust, is based on his memories as a son of Holocaust survivors, and has been translated from Hebrew into many languages including English. "The World a Moment Later" was published in 2005 and has also been translated. Gutfreund won the 2002 Buchman prize from the Yad Vashem Institute as well as the Sami Rohr Choice Award from the Jewish Book Council in 2007. He was also awarded the prestigious Sapir Prize (the Israeli equivalent of the M -
Eshkol Nevo
Eshkol Nevo (Hebrew: אשכול נבו) studied copywriting at the Tirza Granot School and psychology at Tel Aviv University. Today, Nevo owns and co-manages the largest private creative writing school in Israel and is considered the “godfather” of many upcoming young Israeli writers. He has published novels, short stories and nonfiction. His novels have all been top bestsellers.
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Nevo, whose novels are very successful abroad, has received the Book Publishers Association's Gold and Platinum Prizes (2005; 2008; 2011), the FFI-Raymond Wallier Prize (Paris, 2008), the ADEI-WIZO Prize (Italy, 2011) and the Steimatsky Prize for Neuland (2012). Homesick was a finalist for the prestigious Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (UK, 2009), and World Cup Wishes w -
Steve Sem-Sandberg
Steve Sem-Sandberg is a Swedish journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and translator. He is the author of The Emperor of Lies . Sem-Sandberg divides his time between Vienna and Stockholm.
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Kanishk Tharoor
Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories, a collection of short fiction. His journalism and criticism have appeared in international and Indian publications. His short fiction was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the U.S. He writes the “Cosmopolis” column for The Hindu Business Line’s BLINK magazine. He is currently at work on a radio series to be aired on BBC Radio in the spring of 2016, and on a novel. He studied at Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with BAs in History and Literature; at Columbia, where he was a FLAS fellow in Persian and South Asian studies; and at New York University, where he had a fellowship in the Creative Writing Programme. He lives in New York City.
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Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim (Yiddish: מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים, Hebrew: מנדלי מוכר ספרים, also known as Moykher, Sfarim; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (Yiddish: שלום יעקב אַבראַמאָװיטש, Russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович – Solomon Moiseyevich Abramovich) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
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Gunnar Helgason
GUNNAR HELGASON (b.1965) is a popular actor and well known for all kinds of entertaining material for children which has enjoyed great popularity for some years. Amongst other things he has directed a popular children’s program on Icelandic State TV. He received the IBBY Spring Winds award 2013 for his contribution to children’s culture in Iceland. All the books in Great Football Adventure series are written with advice from Reykjavik Child Services as well as the Icelandic Football Association. Stories about the footballer Jon Jonsson have been mainstays on Icelandic bestseller lists for the past years.
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Anita Shapira
Anita Shapira (Hebrew: אניטה שפירא, born 1940) is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, Emerita Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and former head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University. She received the Israel Prize for History in 2008.
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אניטה שפירא (נולדה ב-1940) היא פרופסור אמריטה להיסטוריה של עם ישראל באוניברסיטת תל אביב, עמדה בראש המכון לחקר הציונות וישראל שם וכלת פרס ישראל לשנת תשס"ח 2008 בחקר ההיסטוריה של עם ישראל. -
Orly Castel-Bloom
Orly Castel-Bloom (Hebrew: אורלי קסטל-בלום) is an Israeli author.
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Orly Castel-Bloom was born in north Tel Aviv in 1960, to a family of Egyptian Jews. Until the age of three, she had French nannies and spoke only French. She studied film at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Ramat Gan.
Castel-Bloom lives in Tel Aviv and has two children.
Castel-Bloom's first collection of short stories, Not Far from the Center of Town, was published in 1987 by Am Oved. She is the author of 11 books, including collections of short fiction and novels. Her 1992 novel Dolly City, has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, and in 1999 she was named one of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Dolly City has been performed -
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk (Hebrew: יורם קניוק) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.
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Asher Kravitz
Asher Kravitz is an Israeli author, Pyhsics and Mathematics professor. He was born and raised in Jerusalem.
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Yochi Brandes
Yochi Brandes was born in Israel in 1959 to a family of Hassidic rabbis. With degrees in both Biblical Studies and Judaic Studies, she has been a prominent and sought-after lecturer on the Bible and on Jewish cultural topics for many years.
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One of Israel's bestselling writers, she is the author of seven historical novels and two non-fiction books, all centered on Jewish ideas, history, and culture. She has been awarded the Book Publishers Association's Platinum Book Prize for all her novels, including The Secret Book of Kings.
The Secret Book of Kings is her first novel to appear in English translation.
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Janice Weizman
**I'm pleased to announce that The Wayward Moon has bee reissued with Toby Press. Click here to see the new edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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Janice Weizman is a Canadian-born writer living in Israel. Her first novel, The Wayward Moon, was the Recipient of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal and the winner of the 2013 Midwest Book Award.
Her second novel, Our Little Histories, came out in August 2023 with Toby Press.
A selection of Janice's other writing, including essays, articles, translations and book reviews can be found on her website at www.janiceweizman.com
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Yael Hedaya
Yael Hedaya was born in Jerusalem in 1964, and now lives in Messilat Zion. She holds a BA in philosophy and liberal arts from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and received an MA in English literature and creative writing from New York University. Hedaya has worked as a journalist and columnist for the mass circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth and the Tel Aviv weekly, Ha'Ir. She was also one of the head writers of the acclaimed TV series In Treatment adapted by HBO. At present, she teaches creative writing at the Hebrew University and screenwriting at Sapir College. Hedaya was awarded the Peime Minister's Prize in 2001, and her novel, Accidents, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 2006.
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David Gilbert
David Gilbert is the author of the story collection Remote Feed and the novel The Normals. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, and Bomb. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.
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Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India.
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His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was short -
Edna Mazya
Edna Mazya was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. She was one of Israel's most lauded and popular playwrights. In 1997 she received the Margalit Prize for her play Family Story. Her performed plays include Wien by the Sea (Haifa, 1995), The Uncle from Capetown (Haifa, 1995), Games in the Backyard (Haifa, 1993), The Rebels (Cameri, 1999) and Herod (Or Am, 2000)
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Mariana Oliver
Mariana Oliver was born in Mexico City in 1986. She received a master’s degree in comparative literature from the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) and is currently working towards a doctoral degree in modern literature at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. Oliver was granted a fellowship for essay writing at the Foundation for Mexican Literature and was awarded the José Vasconcelos National Young Essay Award for Migratory Birds.
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Vlada Arsić
Vlada Arsić, novinar, istraživač, autor romana "Lopatanje đavola" i dugogodišnji saradnik brojnih listova i časopisa, rođen je u Beogradu, 1963. godine. Novinarsku karijeru započeo je 1985. godine u Voždovačkim novinama, i do sada zabeležio na stotine reportaža o ljudima i sudbinama. Pisao je za NON, magazin Bre, Ilustrovanu politiku i Nacionalnu reviju, uređivao u Horizontu, reviji Sat i dnevnim novinama Press.
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Živi u Beogradu. -
Avigdor Dagan
Avigdor Dagan (אביגדור דגן, born Viktor Fischl) was an Israeli writer, playwright, literary translator and diplomat.
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Also writes as אביגדור דגן
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Michael O'Shea
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Michael O’Shea is Professor of Neuroscience and co-Director of the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex in the UK. Before taking up his present position he was Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago in the USA. He held Research Fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of more than 100 scholarly articles on cellular, molecular and computational neuroscience and biologically inspired robotics. He is a keen amateur astronomer and an armchair philosopher. -
Gita Mehta
Gita Mehta (born in 1943) is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi in a well-known Odia family. She is the daughter of Biju Patnaik, an Indian independence activist and a Chief Minister in post-independence Odisha, then known as Orissa. Her younger brother Naveen Patnaik has been the Chief Minister of Odisha since 2000. She completed her education in India and at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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She has produced and/or directed 14 television documentaries for UK, European and US networks. During the years 1970-1971 she was a television war correspondent for the US television network NBC. Her film compilation of the Bangladesh revolution, Dateline Bangladesh, was shown in cinema theatres both in India and abroad.
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