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Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian.

Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. The Namesake was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and was made into a major motion picture.

Unaccustomed Earth (2008) won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, while her second novel, The Lowland (2013) was a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.

On January 22, 2015, Lahir

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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson

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Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš was born in Subotica, Danube Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the son of Eduard Kiš (Kis Ede), a Hungarian Jewish railway inspector, and Milica Kiš (born Dragićević) from Cetinje, Montenegro. During the Second World War, he lost his father and several other family members, who died in various Nazi camps. His mother took him and his older sister Danica to Hungary for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, the family moved to Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, where Kiš graduated from high school in 1954.

Kiš studied literature at the University of Belgrade, and graduated in 1958 as the first student to complete a course in comparative literature. He was a prominent member of the Vidici magazine, where he worked until 1960

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Meša Selimović

Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Bosniak inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.

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Angela Nanetti

Angela Nanetti is an Italian writer.

She was awarded the Baltvilks International Prize in Children’s Literature and Book Art, for the book My Grandfather was a Cherry Tree in 2019.

The book was made into an animated short film by directors Olga Poliektova and Tatiana Poliektova in 2015.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.

Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss,

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Branislav Nušić

Born Alkibijad Nuša (Aromanian: Alchiviadi al Nuşa) in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia to a well-off family, Nušić enjoyed the benefits of a privileged upbringing for only a brief time. His father Đorđe Nuša was a well known grain merchant of Cincar (Aromanian Vlach) origin who lost his wealth shortly after his son's birth and was forced to move the family to Smederevo where young Alkibijad attended elementary school and first two grades of boarding school. During his teens, Nuša moved back to Belgrade where he graduated from boarding school. Upon turning 18 years of age, he legally changed his name to Branislav Nušić. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. During his studies, he also spent a year in Graz, Aust

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J.K. Rowling

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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she

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Ferenc Molnár

Ferenc Molnár (Americanized name: Franz Molnar) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. During the World War II he emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews.

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Miroslav Antić

Miroslav "Mika" Antić was a Serbian poet, movie director, journalist and painter. Antić was born in Mokrin, Kikinda municipality, Vojvodina, Serbia (then Yugoslavia). He had six children. His oldest son, Igor Antic, is a visual artist.

He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries. As film-maker, he was considered as a part of the "Black Wave" of the Yugoslav film. His films, in particular "Breakfast with the devil" in whom Antic criticized the double morality of the communists at the Tito’s time, were forbidden and destroyed. They were rediscovered and restored in the end of the 90s. Mika also acted in several movies, and was a painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in World War II an

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Dušan Kovačević

Dušan Kovačević is serbian playwright and director best known for his theater plays and movie scripts. He graduated from a grammar school in Novi Sad, and received a Bachelor's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade in 1973.
Kovačević's prolific work is well known and popular in Serbia. His comedies have been translated into 17 languages, but his work didn't become available in English until the mid-1990s.
A declared royalist, Dušan Kovačević is a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karađorđević. He is also a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Igor Kolarov

Objavio je knjige za decu:
- HIONIJINE PRIČE (pesme i priče, 2000)
- MILICA U VRTU (pesme i priče, 2001)
- AGI I EMA (roman, 2002; 2003; 2006; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“)
- DVANAESTO MORE (roman, 2004; 2007; nagrada „Dositejevo Pero“)
- PRIČE O SKORO SVEMU (priče, 2005; nagrada Bijeljinskog Sajma knjiga “Čika Jova Zmaj“, nagrada „Neven“)
- KUĆA HILJADU MASKI (roman, 2006; novo, izmenjeno, dopunjeno i dvojezično izdanje na srpskom i norveškom jeziku: 2011; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“, nagrada „Sima Cucić“, nagrada „Mali Princ“ za najbolju dečju knjigu u regionu)
- BURENCE (priče, 2007)
- FIONA I DRUGE MISTERIJE (priče, 2007)
- SMS PRIČE (priče, 2008; novo i izmenjeno izdanje 2012)
- DŽEPNE PRIČE (interaktivne priče, 2010)
- KAJINA NAJBOLJA ŽIR

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Jovan Sterija Popović

Jovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School (The University of Belgrade was established in 1808 from the Belgrade Higher School). He made fun of snobbery, vanity, fad and false patriotism and was a writer whose work exceeded the limits of literary epoch he wrote in.
Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals of his time and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature.

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Milan Tripković

Milan Tripković je rođen 1977. u Beogradu. Završio je, 2002. godine, studije na Katedri za srpsku i komparativnu književnost Filozofskog fakulteta u Novom Sadu. Jedan je od osnivača nezavisne novosadske knjižare Bulevar Books, najglasnije prodavnice knjiga u tom gradu, u kojoj se neprekidno susreću čitaoci, muzičari, strastvene stripadžije, pisci, mladi pesnici i brojni sugrađani ili gradski gosti željni novih literarnih otkrića i nezaboravne umetničke avanture.

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Jasminka Petrović

Rođena je 1960. godine u Beogradu. Studirala je španski jezik i književnost na Beogradskom univerzitetu. Bavila se marketingom i novinarstvom. Bila je urednik dečje emisije na radiju. Pisala je za mnoge dečje časopise. Učestvovala je u različitim programima koji podstiču dečju maštu i stvaralaštvo. Uređivala je časopis National Geographic Junior. Za svoje knjige dobila je nekoliko nagrada. Udata je i ima dvoje dece.

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C.J. Daugherty

International bestselling author CJ Daugherty is a former newspaper reporter and crime writer. Her Night School series has been translated into 24 languages, and has been a bestseller in multiple countries. She also writes The Echo Killing crime series under the name Christi Daugherty.

Find out more on her website: www.ChristiDaugherty.com on www.facebook.com/CJAuthor and on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CJ_Daugherty

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Dejan Tiago-Stanković

Dejan Tiago Stanković, author and literary translator.

Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1965. In 1989 graduates from architecture in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and moves to London. Since 1996 lives in Lisbon. Translates between his native Serbo-Croatian and Portuguese and writes in both those languages.

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but wo

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Stevo Grabovac

Stevo Grabovac je rođen u Slavonskom Brodu, a odrastao je i završio srednju školu u bosanskom Brodu. Studirao je na Tehnološkom fakultetu u Banjaluci. Objavio je zbirku pjesama „Stanica nepostojećih vozova“ 2007. godine. Njegov prvi roman „Mulat albino komarac“ stigao je u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu za 2019. godinu. Dobitnik je NIN-ove nagrade za svoj drugi roman "Poslije zabave" (2023).
Živi i radi u Banjaluci.

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Ivana Nešić

Ivana Nešić je književnica, istoričarka umetnosti i prevoditeljka. Rođena je 1981. u Ćupriji, živi u Beogradu. Dobitnica je nagrada „Politikinog zabavnika“, „Neven“, „Trg od knjige“ i „Rade Obrenović“.

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Filip Grujić

Filip Grujić (1995) je diplomirani dramaturg.

Autor romana:
"I onda opet, iz početka" (Booka, 2023)
“Podstanar” (LOM, 2020)
“Bludni dani kuratog Džonija” (Samizdat, 2017)

Dobitnik je Sterijine nagrade za dramu “ne pre 4:30 niti posle 5:00”, a za tu dramu je dobio i nagradu Slobodan Selenić i podržana je u Maison Antoan Vitez fondaciji za prevod na francuski jezik. Predstava "Pred svitanje", rađena po drami "ne pre 4:30 niti posle 5:00" je imala svoju premijeru u Atelje-u 212 u Beogradu.
Dobitnik je Mihizove nagrade za dramsko stvaralaštvo 2020. godine.
Autor je drame “Vilica Ebena Bajersa”, po čijem tekstu je rađena predstava "Velika depresija" u Srpskom narodnom pozorištu.
Autor je drame “Tamo gde pevaju”, koja je imala premijeru u Skoplju.
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Miodrag Majić

Miodrag Majić (Beograd, 1969) sudija je Apelacionog suda u Beogradu. Doktorirao je krivično pravo specijalizujući se za međunarodno-krivičnopravnu oblast. Samostalno i u koautorstvu, objavio je deset monografija i više od trideset članaka iz oblasti krivičnog i međunarodnog krivičnog prava, i učestvovao je u izradi najznačajnijih zakona u ovim oblastima. Predsednik je Upravnog odbora i jedan od osnivača Centra za pravosudna istraživanja (CEPRIS). Već desetak godina redovno objavljuje tekstove na svom blogu (www.misamajic.com), u kojima otvoreno govori o korupciji, nepotizmu i političkim pritiscima u pravosuđu. Roman Deca zlanjegov je prvi roman. Živi sa suprugom, dva sina i šnaucerom u Beogradu.

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Dejan Aleksić

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