Gabrijela Rukelj Krašković
Gabrijela Rukelj Kraskovic was born in 1980 in Zagreb, Croatia, where she lives and works. She is an artist, primarily a painter.
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Marija Andrijašević
Marija Andrijašević (b. 1984, Split) is a Croatian writer. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Ethnology and Social Anthropology (2015) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
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In 2007, she won the "Goran for Young Poets" award for her poetry collection davide, svašta su mi radili (david, they did things to me). Her debut novel, Zemlja bez sutona (The Land Without Twilight), was published in 2021. The novel won the "Tportal Literary Award" for the best novel in 2022 and the "Štefica Cvek" regional award as one of the nine best novels published in 2021 in the countries where BCSM languages are spoken.
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Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve is an English author and broadcaster. In recent years he's been travelling around little-known regions of the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.
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Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen nació el 4 de enero de 1959 en San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. Es licenciado en filología hispánica por la Universidad de Zaragoza y desde 1985 reside en Alemania. Fue miembro del Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte. Considerado ya como uno de los narradores más destacados de su generación, es autor de tres libros de relatos: No ser no duele (1997), Los peces de la amargura (2006) y El vigilante del fiordo (2011), y de cinco novelas: Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005) y Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), títulos que han sido distinguidos con el Premio Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1997, el Premio Euskadi 2001, el XI Premio Mario Vargas Llosa NH, el Dulc
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Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
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Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (1949) is a noted Croatian writer and publicist, whose books have been translated into many languages.
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In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora -
Semezdin Mehmedinović
Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.
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David Diop
David Diop a grandi au Sénégal. Il est actuellement maître de conférences à l’université de Pau.
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Agnes Ravatn
Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.
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Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
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Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for ch -
Jurica Pavičić
Jurica Pavičić, pisac, kolumnista, scenarista, filmski kritičar. Diplomirao je komparativnu književnost i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
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Godine 1992. nagrađen je nacionalnom nagradom za filmsku kritiku „Vladimir Vuković“. Od 1994. piše u različitim novinama nedeljnu kolumnu Vijesti iz Liliputa, u kojoj secira društvo, politiku i kulturu ratne i posleratne Hrvatske. Za tekstove iz te serije 1996. dobija Nagradu nacionalnog novinarskog društva „Marija Jurić Zagorka“, 2002. Nagradu za doprinos novinarstvu „Veselko Tenžera“, a 2007. Nagradu „Miljenko Smoje“ Slobodne Dalmacije. Kolumna danas izlazi u Jutarnjem listu.
Kao književnik debitovao je 1997. socijalnim trilerom Ovce od gipsa, u kojem problematizuje tematiku ratnog zločina u -
Drago Glamuzina
Rođen u Vrgorcu 1967. godine. Diplomirao komparativnu književnost i filozofiju na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Radio kao novinar u Vjesniku, zamjenik glavnog urednika u news magazinu Nacional te glavni urednik u izdavačkim kućama Profil (2003.-2011.) i VBZ (od 2011.). Poeziju, prozu i kritiku objavljivao u časopisima, novinama i na radiju. S Romanom Simićem priredio je antologiju hrvatske erotske kratke priče Libido.hr (2002.). 2001. godine objavio knjigu pjesama Mesari za koju je dobio nagradu Vladimir Nazor za knjigu godine, te Kvirinovu nagradu za najbolju knjigu pjesama u 2001. Zbirka pjesama Mesari prevedena je na njemački (Wieser Verlag, 2008), slovenski (Litera, 2001) i makedonski jezik (Makedonska riječ, 2004), a pojedini ciklus
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Josip Mlakić
Josip Mlakić suvremeni je bosanskohercegovački pisac. Rođen je 1964. u Bugojnu. Diplomirao je na Strojarskom fakultetu u Sarajevu. Živi u Gornjem Vakufu te se bavi književnošću i pisanjem scenarija. Objavio je romane: Kad magle stanu, 2002., Živi i mrtvi, 2002., Psi i klaunovi, 2006., Tragom zmijske košuljice, 2007., Čuvari mostova, 2007., Ljudi koji su sadili drveće, 2010., Planet Friedman, 2012., Svježe obojeno, 2014., Božji gnjev, 2014., Majstorović i Margarita, 2016., Bezdan, 2016., Crni gavran i bijele vrane, 2018., Skica u ledu, 2018., Evanđelje po Barabi, 2019., O zlatu, ljudima i psima, 2020., Na Vrbasu tekija, 2021., Druga Noina arka, 2022., Izgaranje, 2023., zbirke priča: Puževa kućica, 1997., Odraz u vodi, 2002., Obiteljska sli
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Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, né le 25 novembre 1981 à Toulouse, est un écrivain français.
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En 2006, il reçoit le Prix du jeune écrivain de langue française pour sa nouvelle Ne rien faire, écrite à partir de son expérience de quelques mois au sein d'une association de lutte contre le VIH en Afrique. Ce texte court, qui se déroule en Afrique le jour de la mort d'un nourrisson, est une fiction autour du silence, du non-dit et de l’apparente inaction.
Fin août 2008, son premier roman, Une éducation libertine, paraît dans la collection blanche des éditions Gallimard. Il est favorablement accueilli par la critique1 et reçoit le Prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire, fin septembre 2008.
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Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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Yamen Manai
Yamen Manai was born in 1980 in Tunis and currently lives in Paris. Both a writer and an engineer, Manai explores the intersections of past and present, and tradition and technology, in his prose.
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In The Ardent Swarm (originally published as L'Amas ardent), his first book to be translated into English, he celebrates Tunisia's rich oral culture, a tradition abounding in wry, often fatalistic humor. He has published three novels with the Tunisia-based Elyzad Editions--a deliberate choice to ensure that his books are accessible to Tunisian readers: La marche de l'incertitude (2010), awarded Tunisia's prestigious Prix Comar d'Or; La sérénade d'Ibrahim Santos (2011); and L'Amas ardent (2017), which earned both the Prix Comar d'Or and the Prix de -
Petra Dvořáková
Petra Dvořáková je spisovatelka a scenáristka. Vystudovala střední zdravotnickou školu a absolvovala obor filozofie na FF MU. Do povědomí veřejnosti vstoupila svým debutem, knihou rozhovorů o víře Proměněné sny, za kterou v roce 2007 získala cenu Magnesia Litera v kategorii publicistika. O dva roky později jí vyšla druhá kniha Já jsem hlad — příběh o zápasu s mentální anorexií, hledání, cestě a návratu k ženské duši. V roce 2013 vydala svou první knihu určenou dětem Julie mezi slovy, za kterou získala ocenění Zlatá stuha v kategorii beletrie pro mládež a Cenu učitelů za přínos k rozvoji dětského čtenářství; připravuje se její slovinské vydání. Novinka Flouk a Líla z roku 2015 je jejím dalším titulem pro dětské čtenáře. Pro Český rozhlas při
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Lorenzo Marone
Lorenzo Marone è uno scrittore italiano. Laureato in Giurisprudenza, ha esercitato per quasi dieci anni la professione di avvocato. Ha pubblicato La tentazione di essere felici (Longanesi, 2015), La tristezza ha il sonno leggero (Longanesi, 2016), Magari domani resto (Feltrinelli, 2017), Un ragazzo normale, uscito sempre (Feltrinelli, 2018). A novembre del 2018 è uscita per Feltrinelli la raccolta Cara Napoli, che racchiude gli articoli pubblicati dal 2015 su La Repubblica Napoli e che è giunto alla seconda ristampa. Nel 2019 ha pubblicato, ancora per Feltrinelli, Tutto sarà perfetto.
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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.
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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. -
Valérie Perrin
Valérie Perrin est une romancière française. Elle est aussi photographe de plateau et scénariste auprès de son compagnon Claude Lelouch.
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Son premier roman, "Les oubliés du dimanche" (2015), a reçu de nombreux prix, dont celui de Lire Élire 2016 et de Poulet-Malassis 2016. Après son succès en France, il sort en Italie en septembre 2016 et en Allemagne début 2017.
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Neige Sinno
Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year.
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Marija Andrijašević
Marija Andrijašević (b. 1984, Split) is a Croatian writer. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Ethnology and Social Anthropology (2015) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
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In 2007, she won the "Goran for Young Poets" award for her poetry collection davide, svašta su mi radili (david, they did things to me). Her debut novel, Zemlja bez sutona (The Land Without Twilight), was published in 2021. The novel won the "Tportal Literary Award" for the best novel in 2022 and the "Štefica Cvek" regional award as one of the nine best novels published in 2021 in the countries where BCSM languages are spoken.
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Oliver Lovrenski
Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.
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Drago Glamuzina
Rođen u Vrgorcu 1967. godine. Diplomirao komparativnu književnost i filozofiju na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Radio kao novinar u Vjesniku, zamjenik glavnog urednika u news magazinu Nacional te glavni urednik u izdavačkim kućama Profil (2003.-2011.) i VBZ (od 2011.). Poeziju, prozu i kritiku objavljivao u časopisima, novinama i na radiju. S Romanom Simićem priredio je antologiju hrvatske erotske kratke priče Libido.hr (2002.). 2001. godine objavio knjigu pjesama Mesari za koju je dobio nagradu Vladimir Nazor za knjigu godine, te Kvirinovu nagradu za najbolju knjigu pjesama u 2001. Zbirka pjesama Mesari prevedena je na njemački (Wieser Verlag, 2008), slovenski (Litera, 2001) i makedonski jezik (Makedonska riječ, 2004), a pojedini ciklus
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Đorđe Matić
See also Djordje Matić
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Đorđe Matić, pjesnik, pripovjedač, esejist i kritičar, rođen je 1970. u Zagrebu, gdje je i odrastao. Od 1991. živio je najprije u Italiji, a zatim u Nizozemskoj, gdje je u Amsterdamu studirao englesku i talijansku književnost. Objavio je pjesničke zbirke Lingua franca, Haarlem Nocturne (na nizozemskom jeziku) i Drugi zvuk, zatim knjige eseja o glazbi Tajni život pjesama – hrvatska popularna muzika devedesetih i Tajne veze; zbirke ogleda i eseja Historija i savremenici, Senke naših predaka: otrgnuto od zaborava, te Visages du silence – Lica tišine (na francuskom). U rujnu 2021. godine objavio je roman Niotkuda s ljubavlju (Naklada Ljevak). Član je Hrvatskog društva pisaca. Živi u Poreču. -
Irena Vrkljan
Hrvatska pjesnikinja, prozaistica, radiodramatičarka, esejistica, prevoditeljica, poznata i kao "hrvatska Virginia Woolf". Djeluje na hrvatskoj književnoj sceni već više od pedeset godina.
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Studirala je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu (arheologiju, etnologiju i germanistiku) i na Filmskoj akademiji u Berlinu. Od 1960. do 1971. radila je na televiziji kao urednica emisije Portreti i susreti. Okušala se u različitim književnim žanrovima objavivši više od dvadeset knjiga: pjesničkih zbirki, romana, autobiografske proze i eseja. Piše i scenarije za televizijske i radijske drame. Knjige su joj prevedene na više stranih jezika. Dobitnica je književnih nagrada “Ksaver Šandor Gjalski” za knjigu Svila, škare, “Ivan Goran Kovačić” za roman Marina il