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Philip Gourevitch

Gourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter Jacqueline Gourevitch and philosophy professor Victor Gourevitch, a translator of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995. Gourevitch graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

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James Salter

James Salter (1925 - 2015) was a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Salter grew up in New York City and was a career officer and Air Force pilot until his mid-thirties, when the success of his first novel (The Hunters, 1957) led to a fulltime writing career. Salter’s potent, lyrical prose earned him acclaim from critics, readers, and fellow novelists. His novel A Sport and a Pastime (1967) was hailed by the New York Times as “nearly perfect as any American fiction.”

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Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann is a German author.

She holds a Masters degree in German and Philosophy and attended the Berliner Journalistenschule, a highly selective professional academy for journalists. During this training she did an internship with the German language newspaper Aufbau in New York.

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Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art.

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Claire Kilroy

Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels including Soldier Sailor, All Summer, Tenderwire, and The Devil I Know. She was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. She studied at Trinity College and lives in Dublin.

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Georgi Gospodinov

Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).

Profile in Bulgarian: Георги Господинов.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank.In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.

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Camille Jourdy

Since Camille Jourdy finished her education in Fine Arts, this French author divides her time between her works as illustrator of children´s books and her true passion: comic creation.

Her very first contribution to the graphic narrative world takes place in 2004, when her first comic is published; Une araignée, des tagliatelles et au lit, tu parles d´une vie. This work shows a firm experimental vocation, where Jourdy plays with the narrative possibilities of the media.

After some years devoted to producing children´s works, the author in parallel dedicates part of her time to the creation of her most ambitious work: Rosalie Blum. In 2007, the first volume of the trilogy is published in France. And it is finished by the launching of the third

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Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction.

Nettel is a prolific author and a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines, including Letras Libres, Hoja por hoja, L'atelier du roman, and L'inconvénient. In 2006 she was voted one of thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival.

She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and is now based in Barcelona, where she works as a translator and holds writing seminars and a workshop on Potential Literature (based on the French Oul

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Pilar Quintana

Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra, which won the IV Award Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, and Coleccionistas de polvos raros, which won the La Mar de Letras Award.

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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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Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.

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Ivan Goncharov

Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fict

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Selva Almada

Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her début The Wind that Lays Waste, she has published three novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction (Dead Girls) and a kind of film diary (written in the set of Lucrecia Martel’s most recent film Zama, based on Antonio di Benedetto’s novel). She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award (both in Spain). Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. Her most recent novel, No es un río (This is not a River) has ju

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Fernanda Melchor

Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.

I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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Türker Ayyıldız

1972’de Yozgat’ta doğdu. Marmara Üniversitesi’nde İktisat okudu. Öyküleri çeşitli edebiyat dergilerinde yayımlandı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor.

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Melisa Kesmez

MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.

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Stephanie Scott

STEPHANIE SCOTT is a Singaporean & British writer and one of the Guardian & Observer Ten Best Debut Novelists 2020. She won a BAJS Toshiba Studentship for her anthropological work on her novel, 'What’s Left of Me Is Yours' and has been made a member of the British Japanese Law Association for her research - the novel also featured in the Japanese Embassy's Season of Culture.

'What’s Left Of Me Is Yours' is a New York Times Editor’s Pick, a Brooklyn Book Festival Debut of the Year, a Daily Mail and Woman & Home Book of the Year, and was recently longlisted for the Jhalak Prize Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.

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Türker Ayyıldız

1972’de Yozgat’ta doğdu. Marmara Üniversitesi’nde İktisat okudu. Öyküleri çeşitli edebiyat dergilerinde yayımlandı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor.

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Stephanie Scott

STEPHANIE SCOTT is a Singaporean & British writer and one of the Guardian & Observer Ten Best Debut Novelists 2020. She won a BAJS Toshiba Studentship for her anthropological work on her novel, 'What’s Left of Me Is Yours' and has been made a member of the British Japanese Law Association for her research - the novel also featured in the Japanese Embassy's Season of Culture.

'What’s Left Of Me Is Yours' is a New York Times Editor’s Pick, a Brooklyn Book Festival Debut of the Year, a Daily Mail and Woman & Home Book of the Year, and was recently longlisted for the Jhalak Prize Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.

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Melida Tüzünoğlu

Melida Tüzünoğlu 1984 yılında İstanbul’da doğdu. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji ve Film Çalışmaları lisansının ardından Budapeşte Central European University’den Sosyoloji ve Sosyal Antropoloji yüksek lisans derecesini aldı. Görsel kültür ve kolektif hafıza üzerine yazdığı tez çalışması İngilizce olarak yayımlandı. 2008 yılında Hollanda’ya giderek Universiteit Maastricht Avrupa Çalışmaları bölümünde ikinci yüksek lisansını Tanzimat Edebiyatı ve Batılılaşma üzerine yazdığı tezle tamamladı. Öyküleri ve yazıları 2002 yılından bu yana dergilerde yayımlanmakta. İlk romanı Ambulansla Dünya Turu internet sitesi idefixtarafından yapılan oylamayla 2011’in en iyi ilk romanı seçilirken, 2012’de içinde çizimlerinin de yer aldığı öykü kitabı Annem

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Selçuk Demirel

18 Mayıs 1954’te Artvin’de doğdu. İlk çizimlerini Ankara’da lise öğrencisi iken yayımladı (1973). Daha sonra mimarlık öğrenimine devam ederken, Mimarlık dergisi başta olmak üzere dönemin önemli dergi ve gazetelerinde desenlerini yayınlamayı sürdürdü. 1978’de Paris’e gitti ve yerleşti. Çalışmalarını Paris’ten sürdüren Selçuk Demirel Cumhuriyet, Yeni Yüzyıl, Kitap-lık, P, Artimento (Türkiye); Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Le Nouvel Observateur (Fransa); The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, LegalAffairs (ABD); Far Estern Economic Rewiew (Hong Kong) vb. birçok önemli dergi ve gazetelerde desenlerini yayımladı. Çalışmaları kitap illüstrasyonlarından der

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