Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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Lee was hired as a staff nurse at the London Hospital in Whitechapel in the early 1950s. With the Sisters of St John the Divine, an Anglican community of nuns, she worked to aid the poor. She was then a ward sister at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in Bloomsbury, and later at the Marie Curie Hospital in Hampstead.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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After Partition, when Ahmed arrived at the Walton refugee camp with millions of other migrants, he used to make announcements on a megaphone around the clock. Later, he got a job in Radio Azad Kashmir, which was established on a truck that used to drive around in various parts of Kashmir. He then got lectureship at Dayal Singh College, Lahore for two years. Whereafter, he went to Rome to join Radio Rome as an -
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Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy. -
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In 1954 he graduated from the Yerevan University and started writing for several youth newpapers. As a newspaper correspondent he travelled all over his native Armenia and throughout the entire Soviet Union—from 'Yakutia in Eastern Siberia to Karelia in the northwest of the country.
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Guruji wrote around 135 books and about 73 books have been published and almost all these books can be considered literature for children. His most well-known work in Marathi literature include Śhyamchi Aai which has been translated in almost all the Indian languages as well as in Japanese and English. The others include 'Bhāratiya Saṃskṛti' (Marathi: भारतीय संस्कृति; Indian Culture) and Patri- the collection of various songs and poems.
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Maxie Wander
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Albert Memmi
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Born in Tunisia under French protectorate, from a Tunisian Jewish mother, Marguerite Sarfati, and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, François Memmi, he speaks French and Tunisian-Judeo-Arabic. He claims to be of Berber ancestry. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
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Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.
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Building on his engineering degree from the Government College of Engineering, Pune, he has studied extensively the philosophical and sociological ramifications of modern science. Complementing his scientific education is his keen spiritual sensitivity honed by systematic and sympathetic study of the bhakti tradition for over two decades.
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Etty spent her childhood years in Middelburg, Hilversum (1914–16), Tiel (1916–18), Winschoten (1918–24) and Deventer, from July 1924 on, where she entered the fifth form of the Graaf van Burenschool. The family lived at number 51 on the A. J. Duymaer van Twiststraat (at present time number 2). Later (in 1933) they moved to the Geert Grootestraat 9, but by then Etty was no longer living at home. After primary school, Etty attended the gymnasium (grammar school) in Deventer, where her father was deput -
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A. Helwa
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With over 15 years of experience writing and speaking on Islam and spiritual development, A. Helwa draws from her personal experiences and traditional sources to help her readers access 'Divine love in everyday life.'
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Priya Hein
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Yael van der Wouden
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Elizabeth McGregor
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Maurice Magre
Maurice Magre (March 2nd 1877 with Toulouse - December 11th 1941 in Nice) was a poet, a writer and a playwright French. He was a burning defender of Occitanie, and largely contributed to make known the martyr of Cathares of XIIIe century. With regard to his historical novels on the catharism, Maurice Magre fits especially in the line of the historian Napoleon Peyrat, in the direction where the author often prefers the legends and the romantic epopee with historical truth.
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He composed his first poems at the 14 years age. Its first collections of worms were published in 1895. From 1898, it makes publish in Paris successively four collections of poetries.
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Teal Swan
Teal Swan is a personal transformation revolutionary. She was born with a range of extrasensory abilities and is a survivor of severe childhood abuse. Today she uses her gifts as well as her own harrowing life experience to inspire millions of people towards authenticity, freedom, and joy and teaching people how to transform their emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual pain.
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The result when people are restored to wholeness is that the world will be restored to wholeness. Teal Swan's teachings invite people to step fully into their authenticity, knowing that this will bring about the positive change that we want to see in the world. -
Edmond Rostand
People know light, entertaining works, particularly Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), of French playwright Edmond Rostand.
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Neo-romanticism associates poet and dramatist Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand. His romantic plays provided an alternative to the popular naturalistic theatre during the late 19th century. People adapted "Les Romanesques" as the highly successful musical comedy "The Fantasticks."
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Soha Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan is an Indian film actor who has appeared in movies such as Rang De Basanti, Tum Mile, Khoya Khoya Chand and Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster Returns. She studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, and earned a masters’ degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the youngest daughter of actor Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the ninth nawab of Pataudi. Both her father and paternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, were former captains of the Indian cricket team. Her older brother is Saif Ali Khan and she’s married to actor Kunal Khemu.
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Judith Schalansky
Judith Schalansky studied Art History at the FU Berlin and Communication Design at the Fachhochschule Potsdam. After finishing her studies in 2007 she taught Typographic Basics at the Fachhochschule Potsdam until 2009.
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Mihaela Noroc
Mihaela Noroc is a Romanian photographer who has been travelling the world for more than a decade, using her camera to capture the unique beauty and diversity of women around the globe.
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Katie Hickman
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Giuseppe Catozzella
He was born in Milan and studied philosophy at the University of Milan. After graduating, he moved to Australia. After living in Sydney for an extended period, he returned to his native Milan. He has been nominated by the UN Goodwill Ambassador UNHCR.
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Catozzella has published across multiple literary genres, including plays, short stories and novels, and writes on the main Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso. His novel Don't Tell Me You're Afraid, dealing with the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, was a very popular and critical success in Italy and in the world. The novel sold more than 500.000 copies in 40 countries. In Italy it won the Premio Strega Giovani 2014 and it was shortlisted for the Premio Strega 2014. It has -
Harry Baker
I have loved words from a young age and been a full-time poet since I graduated from Bristol with a maths degree in 2015. Most commonly this takes the form on standing on stages and sharing my words with others, but I am always looking to collaborate with new people and find new places to take it.
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I become the youngest ever Poetry World Slam Champion in 2012, and my first collection of poems The Sunshine Kid was published with Burning Eye in December 2014 - I am currently working on my second collection, as well as regularly giving workshops and performances and having fun touring around the UK as part of Harry And Chris. -
Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught.
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Batuman is currently the writer-in-residence at Koç University. While in graduate school, she studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, titled, "The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel," is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. In February 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with R -
Ruthvika Rao
Ruthvika Rao is from Hyderabad, India. She is the author of The Fertile Earth, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Chautauqua prize, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize.
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Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley (born 1981) is an Indian-born Australian businessman who, at age 5, was separated from his biological mother. He was adopted by an Australian couple, and 25 years later reunited with his biological mother. His story generated significant international media attention, especially in Australia and India.
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Christy Lefteri
Christy Lefteri was born in London in 1980 to Greek Cypriot parents who moved to London in 1974. She completed a degree in English and a Masters in creative writing at Brunel University. She taught English to foreign students and then became a secondary school teacher before leaving to pursue a PhD and to write. She is also studying to become a psychotherapist.
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Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer and artist. She lives in Barbados and London.
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Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale, is an Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic.
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Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Trust. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was translated into more than twenty languages, and was one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 books of the year and Literary Hub’s twenty best novels of the decade. Trust, one of The New York Times’s 100 best Books of the Century, was translated into more than thirty languages, received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker
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Erika Krouse
Erika Krouse is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her upcoming short story collection, Save Me, Stranger, will be published by Flatiron Books in January 2025. Save Me, Stranger has been hailed as “a dozen little masterpieces,” by Adam Johnson, “remarkable” by Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich said, “Read these stories with a buddy, because someone will have to scrape you off the floor.” In a starred review, Kirkus calls the collection "a smart set of globetrotting, emotionally gripping stories," and Publishers Weekly says, "[Krouse] makes the thrill of new beginnings palpable."
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Rowena Akinyemi
Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. She was worked in English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Love or money? Was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms Library, and she has now written several other stories for the series, including Remeber Miranda and The Witches of Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective stories.
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Leta Hong Fincher
Praise for Leftover Women, 10th anniversary edition:
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Named one of the best China books of 2023 by China Books Review.
“Leta Hong Fincher's book was not only an instant classic, it was downright clairvoyant: Seeing what others miss, she foresaw a seismic shift in the public mood, which has intensified in the past decade. The revised edition is urgent reading; it holds essential insights into China's economic and political future.”
―Evan Osnos, winner of the National Book Award, author of Age of Ambition
“An eye-opening, groundbreaking book that cast light on critical yet overlooked changes in China - and which seems more timely than ever ten years on.”
―Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory
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Muhammad Ali
American prizefighter Muhammad Ali, originally Cassius Marcellus Clay, Junior, won the world heavyweight title in 1964, but as a result of his refusal to allow the Army to induct him during the Vietnam War, people stripped him of his title and from 1967 from competing banned him to 1970; he later regained the title two more times in 1974 and 1978.
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This former professional boxer, philanthropist, and social activist lived.
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Kirstin Innes
Kirstin Innes is an award-winning journalist and arts worker who lives in the west of Scotland. Fishnet, her debut novel, was published in April 2015 by Freight, and won The Guardian Not The Booker Prize. Her short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and recorded for BBC Radio 4, and she's had short plays performed at Tron Theatre and The Arches in Glasgow. Her journalism has been published in The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The Herald, and she was assistant editor of The List magazine between 2006-2010. Kirstin won the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007 and 2011.
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Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is her international debut and an NYT Editors Pick. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern etc. She lives in Durban by the sea.
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Michaela Haas
Michaela Haas, PhD, is a reporter, resilience researcher, and consultant. She is the author of Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science of Cultivating Resilience (Atria/Enliven, 2015), the first mainstream book about posttraumatic growth from a survivor's perspective, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West (www.dakinipower.com, Shambhala, 2013), Crazy America (Goldmann, 2017), co-author of Coco Schumann: The Ghetto-Swinger, and more. An experienced speaker and consultant (www.michaelahaas.com), she skilfully weaves together storytelling, scientific research and spiritual wisdom. With a PhD in Asian Studies, she has taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of
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Khalida Brohi
Khalida Brohi, 29, is a serial entrepreneur, activist and speaker from Pakistan. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Sughar Foundation USA, a non-profit dedicated to providing tribal and rural women in Pakistan with opportunities to evaluate their abilities and nurture their leadership skills in an environment of growth and development.
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Khalida is also co-founder of The Chai Spot with her husband, David Barron, a social-enterprise based in Arizona, that builds bridges between Pakistan and USA by promoting Pakistan's rich culture and flavors at the same time providing economic opportunities for woman and educational opportunities for youth in Pakistan.
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Aabhas K. Maldahiyar
Born and bought up in Hazaribagh, a small district from land of mines: Jharkhand. He studied Architecture in Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Cuttack amid 2006-11. Currently he is associated with IDEAS-Nagpur as a Research Scholar and he also keeps experimenting designs through varied professional projects. Apart from Architecture, author is also keen to study politics, all art forms and is often engrossed with paintings, poetry during spare times. “Restart” is his first published Novel and he is engaged penning third work of fiction
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Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD is founder and Co-Director of Methodology at Strozzi Institute. He has spent over four decades researching, developing and teaching Somatics to business leaders, executive managers, teams from Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, technology start-ups, non-profits, the U.S. government and military.
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He was named one of the Top 50 Executive Coaches in The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching, and in Profiles in Coaching. He is the co-founder of the Mideast Aikido Project (MAP), which brings together Palestinians and Israelis through the practice of Aikido.
Richard is the author of eight books, including The Leadership Dojo, In Search of the Warrior Spirit, The Anatomy of Change, Holding the Center and The Art of Somatic C -
Cressida Connolly
Cressida Connolly is a reviewer and journalist, who has written for Vogue, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Guardian and numerous other publications. Connolly is the author of three books: The Happiest Days, which won the MacMillan/PEN Award, The Rare and the Beautiful and My Former Heart.
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Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli (born Mary Mackay) was a best-selling British novelist of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, whose controversial works of the time often label her as an early advocate of the New Age movement.
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In the 1890’s Marie Corelli’s novels were eagerly devoured by millions in England, America and the colonies. Her readers ranged from Queen Victoria and Gladstone, to the poorest of shop girls. In all she wrote thirty books, the majority of which were phenomenal best sellers. Despite the fact that her novels were either ignored or belittled by the critics, at the height of her success she was the best selling and most highly paid author in England.
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Mathangi Subramanian
Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D., is a writer, educator, and activist. She previously served as Senior Policy Adviser to former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an Assistant Vice President at Sesame Workshop, and a public school teacher in Texas and New York. She has received numerous honors, including a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship and a Jacob Javits Fellowship.
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Emily Critchley
Author of The Undoing of Violet Claybourne, One Puzzling Afternoon, Notes on My Family, The Bear Who Sailed the Ocean on an Iceberg and The Tiny Gestures of Small flowers.
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Phil Hall
BIOGRAPHY
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Phil was born in Great Dunmow, Essex, a town famous for the Dunmow Flitch. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford before taking an economics degree at the University of East Anglia.
It was at university when he started writing when he contributed a review of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark to the university magazine.
Rather than a career in writing Phil pursued an interest in marketing and latterly pricing, before returning to writing during the recent lockdown.
Dream House was his first full-length novel, Game, Set and Death was his second and the start of what has become a crime series set in the Surrey Hills. Murder O'clock takes the story of Inspector Bee on a new adventure.
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Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah English IPA: fətɪ̈mɑ d͡ʒinnəɦ, (Urdu: فاطمہ جناح) was a dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman, and one of the leading Founding mothers of modern-state of Pakistan, and was also the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
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Educated and obtaining the dental degree from the University of Calcutta, accompanied Muhammad Ali Jinnah, taking active participation in the politics, and was an influential political figure in the movement for independence from the British Indian Empire. After the declaration of the Pakistan Resolution in 1940, Fatima Jinnah was one of the influential and founding members of the Pakistan Movement, calling for independence of independent Muslims states into one national identity. Duri -
Amrita Pritam
Amrita Pritam (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, امرتا پریتم ) was considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. She was the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.
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She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah - "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet in which she expressed her anguish over massacres during the partition of India in 1947. A -
David Damrosch
A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to W
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Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio,and Lettre International, among other places. She was the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and a Runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Both her fiction and nonfiction examine the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and consider the intersections of photography and violence. She was a writer on the social-activist documentary film, Girl Ris
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Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto studied at Columbia University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Her work has appeared in The Daily Beast,
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New Statesman, and other publications. She was a featured panelist at the 2010
Daily Beast Women in the World Summit, and has been featured on NPRs Morning Edition, CNN, and in the pages of Marie Claire. She currently lives in Karachi.
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روزبه معین (Rouzbeh Moein)
Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran.
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He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels.
His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which was published in May 2017
His first book launch sold out over 1100 copies, and at his second book launch he broke the record of the longest queue for such an event and his fans waited for more then 7 hours to buy a copy.
In the next twenty days, his first published book sold around 1000 copies per day.
He published one of his dramas in 2015 (When Rain Plays Piano).
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Lada Vukić
Rođena je u Zadru 1962. godine. Radi u Financijskoj agenciji Zadar na poslovima računovodstva. Završila je Gimnaziju "Juraj Baraković" i srednju Glazbenu školu "Blagoje Bersa". Za svoje kratke priče osvojila je više nagrada, između ostalih Ulaznica 2011., Pričigin 2012., PitchWise 2012. Ušla je i u uži izbor Večernjakove književne nagrade 2013. Priče su joj objavljenje u više časopisa i na portalima Kritična masa, Književnost uživo te u zbornicima Gradske knjižnice Samobor, Sušičke kronike i Pod krovom stare knjižnice. Povremeno piše i bajke za djecu, od kojih joj je jedna dramatizirana i čitana na Hrvatskom radiju u emisiji "Priče za laku noć".
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Robert O'Neill
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Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi) (Urdu: احمد علی ) was a Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar. His writings include Twilight in Delhi (1940), his first novel.
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Born in Delhi, British India, Ahmed Ali was educated at Aligarh and Lucknow universities, graduating with first-class and first in the order of merit in both B.A. (Honours), 1930 and M.A. English, 1931. He taught at leading Indian universities including Lucknow and Allahabad from 1932–46 and joined the Bengal Senior Educational Service as professor and head of the English Department at Presidency College, Calcutta (1944–47). Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during 1942–45. During the Partition of India, he w -
Mahbod Seraji
ROOFTOPS OF TEHRAN is a richly rendered first novel about courage, sacrifice, and the bonds of friendship and love. In clear, vivid details, Mahbod Seraji opens the door to the fascinating world of Iran and provides a revealing glimpse into the life and customs of a country on the verge of a revolution.
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"...charmingly romantic. Seraji captures the thoughts and emotions of a young boy and creates a moving portrait of the history and customs of the Persians and life in Iran."
--Publishers Weekly, March 2009
"Seraji’s wonderful coming-of-age story is at times funny and sweet as well as thought-provoking and heart-wrenching."
--Booklist April 2009
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William C. Chittick
is a philosopher, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the school of Ibn 'Arabi, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic cosmology.
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Mark Mathabane
Mark Mathabane (born Johannes Mathabane) is an author, lecturer, and former collegiate tennis player.
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Dr. Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational autobiography "Kaffir Boy." Telling the true story of his coming of age under apartheid in South Africa, the book won a prestigious Christopher Award, rose to No. 3 on The New York Times best-sellers list and to No. 1 on the Washington Post best-sellers list, and was translated into several languages. -
Eliza Kennedy
ELIZA KENNEDY attended the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation she served as a law clerk for a federal judge, then practiced litigation for several years at a prestigious Manhattan law firm. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
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Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, and anthropologist. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Granta Best Young British Novelist, and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her work has been published in Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and lives in London, where she is on the board of ROLI, a music technology startup founded by her husband.
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Giovanni De Feo
Giovanni De Feo è nato a Roma nel 1973. Laureato in Storia del Cinema, nel 2003 ha vinto il Premio Solinas per la miglior sceneggiatura originale e da un suo soggetto è stato tratto il film "L’Uomo Fiammifero", finalista al David di Donatello 2010.
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Ha pubblicato con E/O e, nel 2010, con Salani il romanzo fantastico "Il Mangianomi". Ha insegnato all’Università di Reading e a Oxford, alla Berlitz School. Attualmente insegna Letteratura italiana alla Deledda International School di Genova. -
CCRU
The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU, or Ccru) was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick University, England and gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in 2003.
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Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24, 1951) was an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He attended the Corpus Christi School, public schools, and later attended Bronx Community College, Lehman College, and Manhattan Community College before matriculating into and studying writing at the City College of New York (B.A., 1975; M.A. in Creative Writing, 1976). He then practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. His second novel, The Mambo Kings Pla -
Fiona Hill
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Veronica D. Niculescu
Veronica D. Niculescu (n. 1968, Pitești) a publicat volumele de proză scurtă Adeb (Editura Limes, 2004, Premiul pentru Debut al USR Sibiu), Orchestra portocalie (Editura Cartea Românească, 2008) şi Roşu, roşu, catifea (Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2012, nominalizări la Premiile Radio România Cultural și la Premiul Național de Proză Ziarul de Iași; dramatizare în cadrul Festivalului Internațional de Teatru de la Sibiu). De asemenea, microromanul Simfonia animalieră (Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2014, Premiul „Cercul Literar de la Sibiu” acordat de USR Sibiu, nominalizare la Premiul Național de Proză Ziarul de Iași). A scris două volume în colaborare cu Emil Brumaru: Basmul Prinţesei Repede-Repede (Editura Polirom, 2009) și Cad castane din castani
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Ari Kelman
Ari Kelman is McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, where he teaches a wide range of courses, including on the Civil War and Reconstruction, the politics of memory, environmental history, Native American history, World War II, and America in the 1960s. He is the author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (Harvard University Press, 2013), recipient of the Avery O. Craven Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award, all in 2014, and A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (University of California Press, 2003), which won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize in 2004.
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Allison Morgan
Allison lives in sunny Arizona with her family. She loves anything smothered with cheese, Bailey's in her coffee, the messed up morning hair of her kids, and cheering on the Arizona Cardinals. Follow her on Instagram - allisonmorganbooks
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Ammar Bašić
Ammar Bašić rođen je 6. aprila 1989. godine u Derventi. Nakon završene osnovne škole u Sarajevu, upisuje Gazi Husrev-begovu medresu, koju 2008. godine okončava kao učenik generacije. U medresi se istakao kao urednik školskog lista Zemzem, pobjednik takmičenja iz arapskog jezika i predsjednik razreda kroz četiri godine. Kao učenik trećeg razreda medrese, u aprilu 2007. godine, položio je hifz pred komisijom Rijaseta IZ u BiH i stekao zvanje hafizu-l-Kur’an. Muhaffiz mu je bio hafiz Mensur Malkić.
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Nakon medrese, upisuje Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu, koji završava 2012. godine kao najbolji student generacije, čime stiče zvanje profesora islamske teologije. U martu 2020. godine na Fakultetu islamskih nauka u Sarajevu odbranio je magistars -
David Bret
David Bret is a French-born British author of showbiz biographies. He chiefly writes on the private life of film stars and singers.
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