Edward Carey
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator who was born in North Walsham, Norfolk, England, during an April snowstorm. Like his father and his grandfather, both officers in the Royal Navy, he attended Pangbourne Nautical College, where the closest he came to following his family calling was playing Captain Andy in the school’s production of Showboat. Afterwards he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at Hull University.
He has written plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio. He has collaborated on a shadow puppet production of Macbeth in Ma
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Alex Landragin is a French-Armenian-Australian writer. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, he has also resided in Paris, Marseille, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Charlottesville. He has previously worked as a librarian, an indigenous community worker, and an author of Lonely Planet travel guides in Australia, Europe and Africa. Alex holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and occasionally performs early jazz piano under the moniker Tenderloin Stomp. Crossings is his debut novel.
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Benjamin Dreyer
Benjamin Dreyer is vice president, executive managing editor, and copy chief at Random House. A graduate of Northwestern University, he lives in New York City.
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James Hilton
James Hilton was an English novelist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his novels Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Random Harvest, as well as co-writing screenplays for the films Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award.
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Ferran Varela
Ferran Varela (Barcelona, 1988) es licenciado en Derecho y abogado en ejercicio. Se inició en el mundo de la literatura publicando varios relatos que le granjearonunos cuantos premios, varios accésits y le hicieron quedar finalista en distintos certámenes. Tras participar en un par de antologías (Dark Fantasies, El viento soñadoro Cuéntamelo otra vez) publica en 2018 La danza del Gohut, su primera novela corta. La obra tuvo una acogida fantástica y en ella se nos cuenta la historia de Leara Viera, una mujer de origen humilde que acaba como tutora Gerrin, hijo del Plenipotenciario y quien cree ser un gohut tras haber sido prisionero de una horda de esta especie. En primavera de 2019 ve la luz El arcano y el jilguero, la primera novela larga
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Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
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His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
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Marjorie Bowen
Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Long née Campbell), was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography. Her total output numbers over 150 volumes with the bulk of her work under the 'Bowen' pseudonym. She also wrote under the names Joseph Shearing, George R. Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye, and Margaret Campbell. As Joseph Shearing, she wrote several sinister gothic romances full of terror and mystery. Many of these stories were published as Berkley Medallion Books. Several of her books were adapted as films. Her books are much sought after by aficionados of gothic horror and received praise from critics.
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Chen Qiufan
Chen Qiufan was born in 1981, in Shantou, China. (In accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first. He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.)
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He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in 1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in Science Fiction World, Esquire, Chutzpah and other magazines. His first novel, The Abyss of Vision, came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006 with "A Record of the Cave of Ning Mountain," a work written in Classical Chinese. His story, "The Tomb," was translated into English and Italian and can be found in The Apex Book of World SF II and Alias 6.
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Karen Dierickx
Karen Dierickx volgde een masteropleiding in het vertalen Nederlands-Engels-Spaans, aangevuld met internationale politiek. Ze schreef al verschillende bekroonde historische jeugdromans. Judith is haar debuut voor volwassenen.
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David Uclés
DAVID UCLÉS (Úbeda, 1990), licenciado y máster en Traducción e Interpretación por francés, alemán e inglés, es, además, escritor, músico y dibujante. Ha publicado las novelas La península de las casas vacías (Siruela/Premio Cálamo Mejor Libro 2024), Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) y El llanto del león (Premio Complutense de Literatura). Fue galardonado con las becas Leonardo y Montserrat Roig. En sus obras predomina el realismo mágico.
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Ha trabajado en Alemania, Suiza y Francia, y ha escrito para Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, La Vanguardia, Revista L y Actúa. También ha participado en varios festivales literarios: Centroamérica Cuenta, Festival 42, FLEM, Book Friday y Literaktum, y clausuró la Biennal de Pensament de Barcelona.
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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 -
Lola Llatas
Lola estudió Ingeniería de Caminos y aunque hubo quién pensó que la vida técnica acabaría con su creatividad, no ha hecho más que insuflarle experiencias mágicas dándole la oportunidad de trabajar y vivir en lugares maravillosos, grandes ciudades y extensos desiertos.
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Comenzó a escribir cuando nació su hijo pequeño. Decidió que si quería educar a sus niños en la búsqueda de la libertad y la pasión, debía ser ejemplo de ello y solo haría aquello que la apasionara. -
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 -
Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was -
Yeong-Do Lee
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Lee Yeong-Do (Korean: 이영도; Hanja: 李英道; is a Korean novelist known for his work in the fantasy and science fiction genre. He is best known for his Dragon Raja series of fantasy novels which is also his debut work, serialised on an online forum from 1997 and published on its completion in 1998.
Korean name: 이영도
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Dolores Redondo
Dolores Redondo Meira (born 1 February 1969) is a Spanish writer of noir novels, author of the Baztán Trilogy, and winner of the 2016 Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize.
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Dolores Redondo began studying for her law degree at the University of Deusto, though she did not complete it. She studied gastronomy in San Sebastián, worked in several restaurants, and had her own before devoting herself professionally to literature. She has lived in the comarca of Ribera Navarra [es] in Cintruénigo since 2006.
Redondo began writing literature with short stories and children's stories. In 2009 she published her first novel, Los privilegios del ángel, and in January 2013 she published El guardián invisible, the first volume of the Baztán Trilogy (Spanis -
Meltem Gürle
Meltem Gürle, 1966 da Almanya'da doğdu. Çocukluğunu İzmir'de, öğrencilik yıllarını İstanbul'da geçirdi. Felsefe ve edebiyat eğitimi aldı. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yabancı Diller Yüksek Okulu'nda edebiyat ve eleştiri dersleri verdi. 2009-2016 arasında BirGün gazetesinde yazdığı edebiyat yazılarından oluşan Kırmızı Kazak (2016) adlı denemeleri, Oğuz Atay'ın Batı kanonuyla diyaloğunu incelediği Ölülerle Konuşmak (2016) adlı bir araştırması ve çocuklar için yazdığı Roko ile Konuşmalar (2018) adlı bir felsefe kitabı vardır.
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Joël Dicker
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.
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Fernando Navarro
Fernando Navarro nació en Granada en 1980. Es uno de los guionistas más activos y prolíficos del cine español. Ha colaborado con cineastas como Álex de la Iglesia, Isaki Lacuesta, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza o Jaume Balagueró. Ha sido dos veces nominado a los Premios Goya, en las categorías de Mejor Guion Original y Mejor Guion Adaptado. Entre su filmografía destacan Verónica (nominada a Mejor Guion Original en los Premios Goya 2018), Orígenes secretos (nominada a Mejor Guion Adaptado en los Premios Goya 2020), Bajocero (2021), Venus (2022) y la serie Romancero (2023). Es coguionista de Segundo premio (2024), película que se alzó con la Biznaga de Oro en el Festival de Málaga y que ha sido nominada al Goya a Mejor Película y candidata a los
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Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch's career started with a bang writing for Doctor Who, subsided in the middle and then, as is traditional, a third act resurgence with the bestselling Rivers of London series.
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Helen Garner
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.
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Her most recent books are The First Stone, True Stories, My Hard Heart, The Feel of Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In 2006 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Melbourne.
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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 -
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
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His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to -
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist.
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She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War. -
Carlton Mellick III
Carlton Mellick III (July 2, 1977, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American author currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He calls his style of writing "avant-punk," and is currently one of the leading authors in the recent 'Bizarro' movement in underground literature[citation needed] with Steve Aylett, Chris Genoa and D. Harlan Wilson.
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Mellick's work has been described as a combination of trashy schlock sci-fi/horror and postmodern literary art. His novels explore surreal versions of earth in contemporary society and imagined futures, commonly focusing on social absurdities and satire.
Carlton Mellick III started writing at the age of ten and completed twelve novels by the age of eighteen. Only one of these early novels, "Electric Jesus Corpse", ev -
Víctor Conde
Víctor Conde es el pseudónimo del escritor español Alfredo Moreno Santana, autor de obras de ciencia ficción, terror y fantasía.
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Es un escritor de literatura fantástica en la que aborda tanto la ciencia ficción como la fantasía o el terror. Así mismo, también ha apostado por la literatura juvenil y ha publicado multitud de relatos en revistas especializadas.
Ha sido galardonado con diversos premios, entre los que se encuentran el prestigioso Premio Minotauro o el premio Ignotus, ambos por su novela Crónicas del multiverso, y también el Premio Kelvin del festival Celsius 232 de Avilés por su novela Las Puertas del Infinito.
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Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) is a British-based writer and academic, known for her literary biographies. She is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
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Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York City. She married the pathologist Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters.
Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature; and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC Four S -
Mary Miller
Biloxi, Always Happy Hour, The Last Days of California, Big World
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Stories in Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, American Short Fiction, New Stories from the South, Oxford American, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review.
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Desirée de Fez
Desirée de Fez (Barcelona, 1977) es periodista y crítica de cine,y está especializada en fantástico y terror. Columnista de El Periódico de Catalunya, colabora habitualmente en la revista Fotogramas, en La Finestra Indiscreta de Catalunya Ràdio y en los programas de televisión Página Dos y Punts de Vista, ambos de TVE. También es miembro del equipo del Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya-Sitges y conduce el podcast Marea Nocturna (Radio Primavera Sound), programa de referencia sobre cine fantástico y de terror. Además, imparte clases en las escuelas FXAnimation: Barcelona3D& Film School y La Casa del Cine; en esta última, dirige un seminario sobre cine de terror hecho por mujeres. Es autora de la antología Películas clav
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Joanne Baker
Joanne Baker is a writer and editor based in London. She has edited and written comment, books, and arts and opinion articles at the international science journal Nature for the past decade and formerly was space and earth editor at Science magazine. She has also written three books on physics, astronomy, and quantum physics. She has a background in astronomy research, where she studied quasars, black holes, galaxy evolution, and cosmology.
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Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy writes from Siliguri, a small town in sub-Himalayan Bengal.
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Eylem Ata Güleç
Eylem Ata Güleç 1981 yılında Diyarbakır’da doğdu. Dicle Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’nde Kimya Öğretmenliği okudu. “Boşlukta Büyüyen” adlı ilk öykü kitabı 2016’da yayımlandı. Bu kitaptaki öykülerden bazıları “kitap-lık”, “Notos”, “Sözcükler” dergilerinde çıktı.
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Artem Mozgovoy
Artem Mozgovoy is a prize-winning writer and journalist from Siberia who migrated to Europe in 2011 when Russia began legalising its persecution of gay people. He writes poetry and fiction in English and Russian, and lives in Brussels, Belgium.
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Maeva Nieto
Soy una cuentista y creo en las hadas.
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Llevo en el mundo un cuarto de siglo y ha pasado casi un cuarto de siglo desde que comencé a contar historias. En el momento en el que aprendí a hablar empecé a hacerlo. En aquel entonces contar historias que me inventaba era lo que más adoraba hacer y 20 años después sigue siéndolo.
Durante unos años dejé olvidada la palabra escrita y me centré en el noveno arte, otra de mis grandes pasiones, el cómic. Pero a los 15 años la necesidad de poner por escrito mis pensamientos volvió. Gracias en gran parte a la profesora de lengua que me hizo ver que tenía mucha facilidad para hacerlo. Aunque nunca, hasta ahora, había pensado realmente en dedicarme a ello. Mi idea de futuro siempre fue la de ser científica. -
İrfan Yalçın
İrfan Yalçın (doğum 1934; Zonguldak), Türk yazar. İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nü bitirdi. Anadolu'nun çeşitli yerlerinde bir süre öğretmenlik yaptıktan sonra 1972'te Beyoğlu'nda bir kitabevi açtı. 1985'te Köyceğiz'e yerleşti.
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Şiir, hikâye, eleştiri alanlarında ürün verse de romanda yoğunlaştı. Milliyet Yayınları 1974 Roman Yarışması’nda Pansiyon Huzur’la ikincilik ödülüne değer görüldü. 1978’de Genelevde Yas, 1979’da Ölümün Ağzı, 1980’de Fareyi Öldürmek, 1983’te Büyük Soytarı, 1991’de Uzun Bir Yalnızlığın Tarihçesi, 1995’te Annem, Babam ve Ben adlı romanları yayınlandı. Ölümün Ağzı’yla 1980 TDK Roman Ödülü’nü, Yorgun Sevda ile 2009 Cevdet Kudret Edebiyat Ödülü’nü kazandı. 2008’de yayımlanan “İçim -
Ferran Sáez Mateu
Ferran Sáez Mateu es un escritor y profesor universitario español, especialista en Montaigne, sobre quién hizo la tesis doctoral y varios estudios y traducciones.
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Ferran Sáez Mateu és un escriptor i professor universitari, especialista en Montaigne, sobre qui va fer la tesi doctoral i diversos estudis i traduccions.