George Anania
Won the ESFS award in 1990 as "Best Author".
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l -
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet maker in Florence, was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war.
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Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell'Italia centrale in 1946. Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the -
Jack Ketchum
Dallas William Mayr, better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, which were adapted to film. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.
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A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk, Ketchum credited his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, and horror for getting him through his formative years. He began making up stories at a young age and explained that he spent much time in his room, or in the woods near his house, down by the brook: "[m]y interests [were] book -
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 -
Herta Müller
Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet Union after World War II.
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She read German studies and Romanian literature at Timişoara University. In 1976, Müller began working as a translator for an engineering company, but in 1979 was dismissed for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate, the Communist regime's secret police. Initially, she made a living by teaching kindergarten and giving private German lessons.
Her first book was published in Romania (in German) in 1982, and appeared only in a censored version, as with most publications of the time.
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Care Santos
Cada día tengo más dudas acerca de quién diablos es Care Santos. Si es la misma insulsa que todas las mañanas me mira desde el espejo del baño o es esa que, de vez en cuando, hace algo que merece la atención ajena. La atención de gente de fiar, quiero decir.
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Cronológicamente, ambas estamos muy puestas de acuerdo desde antiguo: más de cuarenta años ya de coincidir en todas partes: en las mismas calles, y cines y teatros y restaurantes, en aquella facultad de Derecho donde ambas nos aburrimos tanto, en la misma playa de Malgrat, en el mismo periódico barcelonés de los primeros tanteos con la palabra, en los mismos cuerpos amados, en las mismas amistades que compartimos.
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Felix Aderca
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Romulus Bărbulescu
Critic literar, dramaturg, eseist si scriitor de literatura stiintifico-fantastica.
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A publicat numeroase volume de proza, in special literatura pentru copii, multe dintre lucrarile sale avand o nota SF.
Primul volum al scriitorului, "Constelatia din ape", a aparut in 1963 si a fost scris in colaborare cu George Anania. Sub semnatura celor doi au continuat sa apara mai multe romane, dintre care amintim: Captiv in inima galaxiei, Statuia sarpelui, Ferma oamenilor de piatra, Lupta cu ingerul, etc.
Individual, Barbulescu a debutat cu volumul de nuvele "Simbammuenni" in 1966. Au urmat: Insulele de aur si argint, Catharsis, incotro curge linistea, Golful ucigasilor, Cat de mic poate fi infernul?, Salciile nu plang decat seara.
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Arkady Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady Strugatsky [Russian: Аркадий Стругацкий] and Boris Strugatsky [Russian: Борис Стругацкий] were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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Arkady Strugatsky was born 25 August 1925 in Batumi; the family later moved to Leningrad. In January 1942, Arkady and his father were evacuated from the Siege of Leningrad, but Arkady was the only survivor in his train car; his father died upon reaching Vologda. Arkady was drafted into the Soviet army in 1943. He trained first at the artillery school in Aktyubinsk and later at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1949 as an interpreter of English and Japanese. He worked as a teacher and interpreter -
Max Blecher
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for Paris to study medicine. Shortly thereafter, in 1928, he was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) and forced to abandon his studies. He sought treatment at various sanatoriums: Berck-sur-Mer in France, Leysin in Switzerland and Tekirghiol in Romania.
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
Gabriela Adameșteanu
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Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka lives and works in Singapore. He has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories, and bass lines. This is his first novel.
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Marian Coman
Marian Coman is a Romanian writer, comic book scriptwriter, and editor. He is the author of acclaimed novels and short story collections such as Haiganu. Fluviul Șoaptelor, Haiganu. Furia Oarbă, Testamentul de ciocolată, Omulețul din perete, and Ultima carte. His work has received multiple national and international awards, has been translated into several languages, and featured in numerous anthologies.
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He was editor-in-chief for various cultural and mainstream publications and wrote the scripts for some of the most enduring Romanian comic book series since 1989, including Harap Alb continuă and Tinerețe fără bătrânețe. He is a member of PEN Romania and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).
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Hiro Arikawa
Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya
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Florin Pitea
Florin Pîtea s-a născut pe 18 august 1971 la Câmpina, a fost lector la Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii Spiru Haret şi în 2011 a primit titlul de doctor în filologie engleză cu o lucrare despre subgenul (post)cyberpunk intitulată "Art Wasn’t Quite Crime". Şi-a făcut debutul literar în 1992, în revista Colecţia de Povestiri Ştiinţifico-Fantastice Anticipaţia, iar până în prezent a publicat două volume de proză scurtă ("Necropolis", 2001, respectiv "An/Organic", 2004), două romane ("Gangland", 2006, respectiv "Anul terminal", 2012), o monografie intitulată "O introducere în opera lui Liviu Radu" (2014) şi două volume fix-up ("Delirul încapsulat", 2015 şi "Motorul de căutare", 2020). Lucrările sale sunt prezente în antologii, almanahuri şi
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Brandy Engler
Dr. Brandy Engler is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in relationships and sexuality. After year of training and practice in New York City--including working with a crisis team on the streets of Brooklyn, and her own private practice in Times Square- she headed West in search of greener pastures. Los Angeles isn't quite green, it's a bit dustier than imagined, but Dr. Engler traded in her metro card for a car and is enjoying road trips across California, where she's discovered many pastures, lakes, and mountains and.... a husband.
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Adrian Rogoz
Scriitor, prozator, poet, traducător.
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Scriitorul-personaj care a reinventat SF-ul românesc modern pornind de la un simplu concurs literar, propus de revista „Ştiinţă şi Tehnică pentru tineret”, în anul 1955, a fost, probabil, creatorul cu cea mai debordantă vitalitate din fandomul nostru.
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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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Alexandru Lamba
Alexandru Lamba s-a născut în 1980, la Brașov. Este absolvent al facultății de Inginerie Electrică și Știința Calculatoarelor, în prezent activând în domeniul IT.
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În domeniul literar, a debutat în Gazeta SF cu o povestire în 2013.
În registru SF, a publicat două romane: „Sub steaua infraroșie” (ed. Tritonic, 2016) și „Arhitecții speranței” (ed. Tritonic, 2017), un volum de proză scurtă „Singurătatea singularității” (ed. Herg Benet, 2018) și volumul „Cărări pe gheață”, primul al seriei Young-Adult „Stele și gheață” (ed. Herg Benet, 2019). A scris scenariul pentru albumele de bandă desenată „Focurile lumii noi” (ed. Geek Network, 2018) și „Povești din lumi și timpuri” (ed Pavcon, 2022), ilustrat de Alexandra Gold.
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Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, most recently Darling Girls. Sally’s novels have been called “darkly charming” and praised by authors Emily Giffin and Liane Moriarty as “totally absorbing” and “fiction at its finest.”
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Sally's novels are available around the globe in English and have been translated into over 30 languages. She has sold over two million books worldwide.
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Yeonmi Park
Park Yeon-mi (Korean: 박연미) is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014. She came from an educated, politically connected family that turned to black market trading during North Korea's economic collapse in the 1990s. After her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling, her family faced starvation. They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia. She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.
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Bandi
Bandi (반디, Korean for "Firefly"; born 1950) is the pseudonym used by a North Korean writer.
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Bandi was born in 1950 in China to Korean parents who had moved there fleeing the Korean War. Bandi grew up in China before the family moved back to North Korea. In the 1970s, Bandi managed to publish some of his early writing in North Korean publications.
After the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 and the hardship that followed, Bandi lost several people close to him to famine and defections. These developments made Bandi disillusioned with the North Korean system and he started to write dissident literature. The opportunity to publish his dissident writing presented itself when Bandi's friend from Hamhung defected to China. Although the friend could no -
Tudor Ganea
Tudor Ganea este arhitect. A debutat în 2016 cu romanul Cazemata (Polirom; tradus în 2020 în limba franceză), pentru care a primit premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2016” în cadrul Galei Tinerilor Scriitori, premiul pentru debut al revistei Observator cultural și premiul „Nepotu’ lui Thoreau” (debut) și a fost nominalizat la Premiile Uniunii Scriitorilor (debut). În 2017 i-a apărut cel de-al doilea roman, Miere (Polirom), distins cu premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2017”. În 2018 a publicat romanul Porci (Polirom), nominalizat pe lista scurtă a Premiului Uniunii Europene pentru Literatură 2019, iar în 2019 romanul 8 (Polirom). Fragmente din romanele sale au fost traduse în maghiară, turcă, italiană, franceză, spaniolă și engleză.
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C.J. Tudor
C. J. Tudor was born in Salisbury and grew up in Nottingham, where she still lives with her partner and young daughter.
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She left school at sixteen and has had a variety of jobs over the years, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, shop assistant, ad agency copywriter and voiceover.
In the early nineties, she fell into a job as a television presenter for a show on Channel 4 called Moviewatch. Although a terrible presenter, she got to interview acting legends such as Sigourney Weaver, Michael Douglas, Emma Thompson and Robin Williams. She also annoyed Tim Robbins by asking a question about Susan Sarandon’s breasts and was extremely flattered when Robert Downey Junior showed her his chest.
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Jessie Inchauspé
I’m a French biochemist, author, and product developer. My passion is turning cutting-edge science into easy tips to empower people to feel amazing.
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I’m the founder of GlucoseGoddess and the author of Glucose Revolution, a #1 international bestseller translated into 40 languages.
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Romulus Bărbulescu
Critic literar, dramaturg, eseist si scriitor de literatura stiintifico-fantastica.
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A publicat numeroase volume de proza, in special literatura pentru copii, multe dintre lucrarile sale avand o nota SF.
Primul volum al scriitorului, "Constelatia din ape", a aparut in 1963 si a fost scris in colaborare cu George Anania. Sub semnatura celor doi au continuat sa apara mai multe romane, dintre care amintim: Captiv in inima galaxiei, Statuia sarpelui, Ferma oamenilor de piatra, Lupta cu ingerul, etc.
Individual, Barbulescu a debutat cu volumul de nuvele "Simbammuenni" in 1966. Au urmat: Insulele de aur si argint, Catharsis, incotro curge linistea, Golful ucigasilor, Cat de mic poate fi infernul?, Salciile nu plang decat seara.
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