Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
Profile in Bulgarian: Георги Господинов.
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Nació en Lima en 1976. Es periodista y escritor. Son suyos los poemarios: Ritual de los prójimos (1998), Máquina fantasma (2001) y Nuevos poemas italianos (2007). Ha publicado además las novelas Nunca confíes en mí (Alfaguara, 2011), Raro (Alfaguara, 2012), que contó con ilustraciones de Alfonso Vargas; y muy recientemente La distancia que nos separa (Ed.Planeta), que se convirtió en el título más vendido de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima 2015 Entre 2007 y 2010 administró el conocido blog «Busco Novia». Por once años escribió crónicas para el diario El Comercio. Actualmente (setiembre 2015) firma columnas semanales en La República y colabora con programas en el Grupo RPP. Desde agosto de este año radica en Madrid.
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He has toured all over world giving presentations and has written over 10 books sharing his research and views regarding the current state of society and global events.
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Jorge Volpi
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Es autor de las novelas A pesar del oscuro silencio (Joaquín Mortiz, 1992; Planeta, 2000), Días de ira, en el volumen Tres bosquejos del mal (Siglo XXI, 1994; Muchnik Editores, 2000), La paz de los sepulcros (Aldus, 1995; Seix Barral, 2007), El temperamento melancólico (Nueva Imagen, 1996; Seix Barral, 2004) Sanar tu piel amarga (Nueva Imagen, 1997; Algaida, 2004) y El juego del Apocalipsis (DeBolsillo, 2000) y de los ensayos La imaginación y el poder. Una historia intelectual de 1968 (Editorial Era, 1998) y La guerra y las palabras. Una historia del alzamiento zapatista (Editorial Er -
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In 2004, Kapka moved to Scotland and published Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008). It is a story of the last Communist childhood and a journey across post-communist Bulgaria. It was short-listed for the Dolman Travel Book Award.
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Publicó sus primeras novelas, La guerra por el norte (Ajec. 2010) y Dueños del destino (Ajec. 2011) en el territorio de la fantasía épica con una gran acogida por parte de público y crítica.
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Ran Bosilek
Latin transliteration of Bulgarian writer and translator Ран Босилек
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Псевдоним на българския писател и преводач Генчо Негенцов. Баща му Станчо е занаятчия и опълченец от Освободителната война – починал, когато Генчо е седем годишен. Ран Босилек има двама братя и две сестри. Всички получават висше образование. Единият му брат е д-р Христо Негенцов (1881-1953), професор по педагогика. Другият му брат е Никола Негенцов (1888-1943) - физик, метеоролог, създател на метеорологията във военно-въздушните сили (ВВС).
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Blaga Dimitrova
BG: Блага Димитрова
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Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova (2 January 1922 – 2 May 2003) was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.
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Dianne Hales
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Hermann Broch
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In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer. This marriage dured until 1923.
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Uzbek Soviet writer and playwright, Hero of Uzbekistan, People's Writer of Uzbekistan, Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan, Knight of the Order "For Outstanding Service "And the Order of Friendship. He published his works under the literary name Said Ahmad.
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Slavic linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic; full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society since 1949 and of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1945. After studying under Leonid Bulakhovsky at Kharkiv University (candidate 1939) he lectured there in Slavic linguistics (1939–43). Having emigrated to Germany, he taught at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (1946–9) and obtained a doctorate there (1949). He was also vice-president of the MUR literary association (1945–9) and edited a monthly journal Arka. After settling in the United States he served as lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian at Harvard University (1952–4), associate professor (1954–8) and professor of Slavic philology at Col
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Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional approach to narration and plot. While his early works may draw on the modernist tradition of William Faulkner and Malcolm Lowry, Markson says his later novels are "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes" and "nonlinear, discontinuous, collage-like, an assemblage."
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Joumana Haddad
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She’s been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women in March 2014 by CEO magazine Middle East (position 62), for her cultural and social activism.
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Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1938. He began his career as an aeronautical engineer, and started photographing gypsies in his spare time in 1962, before turning full-time to photography in the late 1960s. In 1968 Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his photographs under the initials P.P. (Prague photographer). In 1969, he was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for the photographs. Koudelka left Czechoslovakia seeking political asylum in 1970, and shortly thereafter he joined Magnum Photos.
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In 1975 his first book, Gypsies, was published by Aperture, and subsequent titles include Exiles (1988), Chaos (1999), Invasion 68: Prague (2008), and Wall (2013) and, most recen -
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Lawrence Crouch was an American poet, music journalist & jazz critic, biographer, novelist, educator and cultural commentator. He was also both a civil rights activist and a musician as a young man.
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Stanley Crouch attended Thomas Jefferson High School, graduating in 1963. He continued his education at area junior colleges and became active in the civil rights movement, working with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He gained a reputation as a talented young poet, and in 1968 became poet-in-residence at Pitzer College (Claremont, California); he then taught theatre and literature at Pomona College (Claremont, California). In 1969, a recording of him reading several of hi -
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale, is an Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic.
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Darko Tuševljaković
Rođen u Zenici, 1978. godine. Objavio je pet romana (Senka naše želje, 2010; Jaz, 2016; Jegermajster, 2019; Uzvišenost, 2021; Karota, 2025) i tri zbirke priča (Ljudske vibracije, 2013; Naknadne istine, 2018; Hangar za snove, 2022). Dela su mu se našla u užim izborima za relevantne književne nagrade u Srbiji i regionu. Dobitnik je nagrade "Lazar Komarčić", Evropske nagrade za književnost (2017) i Andrićeve nagrade (2023). Roman Jaz je preveden na engleski, italijanski, bugarski, albanski, rumunski, slovenački, španski, grčki i makedonski jezik.
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Born in 1978, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives in Serbia. He has published five novels and three story collections. His works have been shortlisted for several prestigious Serbian literary a -
Camper English
Camper English is a cocktails and spirits writer and speaker who has covered the craft cocktail renaissance for over 15 years, contributing to more than 50 publications around the world including Popular Science, Saveur, Details, Whisky Advocate, and Drinks International.
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With a focus on the nerdy side of mixology, he has studied everything from the history of carbonation to the science of clear ice cubes. He has been awarded International Cognac Writer of the Year by the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac and Best Cocktail Writer at the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.
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Marvin Harris
American anthropologist Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism. In his work he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system. Labeling demographic and production factors as infrastructure, Harris posited these factors as key in determining a society's social structure and culture.
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Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen).
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Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.
From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.
Stark was born and grew up in Stureby, Stockholm Municipality, which place features in several of his books. Stark's interest in writing started early; during his time at secondary school he was introduced to writing by his classmate Peter Curman, and in 1964 he wrote his first poetry Ett hål till livet. Following this, Stark's interest i -
Amara Lakhous
عمارة لخوص روائي جزائري مقيم في إيطاليا يكتب باللغتين العربية والايطالية. من أعماله «البق والقرصان»، التي ترجمت إلى الايطالية، و»كيف ترضع من الذئبة دون أن تعضك»، التي أعاد كتابتها بالايطالية وحولت إلى فيلم سينمائي. حاز على جائزة فلايانو الأدبية الدولية وجائزة المكتبيين الجزائريين
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Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently completed a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Living Islam as a Minority.” His first novel, Le cimici e il pirata (Bedbugs and the Pirate), was published in 1999. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, winner of Italy’s prestigious Flaiano pri -
Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis is an ICREA professor at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005). His recent work is notable for importing, not without controversy, quantitative methods from the social sciences into domains that have traditionally belonged to the humanities. To date, his books have been translated into fifteen languages.
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Moretti has recently edited a five-volume encyclopedia of the novel, entitled Il Romanzo (2004), featuring articles by a wide range of e -
Stanislav Stratiev
Latin transliteration of Bulgarian author Станислав Стратиев.
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Stanislav Stratiev was born in Sofia in 1941. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University.
Stratiev's career as a playwright took off in 1974 with the runaway success of his first play, The Roman Bath, which was performed at the Sofia Satirical Theatre for more than 10 consecutive seasons to packed halls. (The play was staged again in 2006 and enjoys renewed success at the Satirical Theatre.) That was followed by The Suede Jacket, The Bus, and many others.
Stratiev's plays have been performed in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, the Slov -
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Agustín Gómez Arcos
Agustín Gómez Arcos (Agustin Gomez-Arcos in France) was a Spanish writer, anarchist and dramatist born in Almería, Andalusia. He studied law but quit university for theater. However, some of his work was banned in Franco's Spain. Because of censorship Gómez Arcos emigrated to London in 1966, then to Paris in 1968, where he settled and wrote primarily in French, often with themes condemning the fascist Spanish state. He died in Paris of cancer.
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Gómez Arcos won the Hermès Prize for his 1975 novel The Carnivorous Lamb, the Livre Inter prize, the Roland Dorgelès Prize and the Thyde Monnier Prize for his 1977 novel Ana No, and he was twice a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. -
Miroslav Penkov
Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to America in 2001 and eventually completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of the story collection, East of the West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), and the novel, Stork Mountain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). His stories have won the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in A Public Space, Granta, One Story, The Best American Short Stories 2008, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. His work has been translated in over twenty languages. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas.
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László F. Földényi
László F. Földényi is professor and chair in the theory of art at the University of Theatre, Film, and Television, Budapest, and a member of the German Academy. He has written numerous award-winning books and lives in Budapest.
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Isabel Waidner
Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist.
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Their books include We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff (2019), Gaudy Bauble (2017) and Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (ed., 2018), published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
Waidner's critical and creative texts have appeared in journals including AQNB, Cambridge Literary Review, The Happy Hypocrite, Tank Magazine and Tripwire.
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Mariana Travacio
Mariana Travacio, (Rosario, 1967), creció en São Paulo y actualmente reside en Buenos Aires. Es Licenciada en psicología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Se desempeñó como docente en la Cátedra de Psicología Forense de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es Magister en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero y traductora de francés y portugués. Sus cuentos han recibido numerosos premios nacionales e internacionales y han sido publicados en revistas y antologías de Brasil, Cuba, España, Estados Unidos, Argentina y Uruguay. Ha publicado Cotidiano (Baltasara Editora, 2015; Editora Moinhos, 2019), Como si existiese el perdón (Metalúcida editora, 2016; Las afueras, 2020; Tusquets editores, 20
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Donald Antrim
Donald Antrim is an American novelist. His first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, was published in 1993. In 1999 The New Yorker named him as among the twenty best writers under the age of forty.
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Antrim is a frequent contributor of fiction to The New Yorker and has written a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Verificationist and The Hundred Brothers, which was a finalist for the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction. He is also the author of The Afterlife, a 2006 memoir about his mother, Louanne Self. He has received grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Li -
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 -
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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Anne Broeksma
Anne Broeksma (1987) is a Dutch poet, prose writer and journalist. In 2014 she made her literary debut with poetry collection “Regen kosmos kamerplant”, for which she received the C.C.S. Crone Stipend. “Vesper” followed in 2021, and was nominated for the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize. Broeksma wrote many short stories as part of the Shortreads Collective and is coordinator of De Eenzame Uitvaart, an initiative that provides funeral ceremonies with a poem for those who passed away without relatives, and the Silent Poetry Lab in Utrecht, an open space where one can write poetry in silence. She also works as a freelance fundraiser for museums and nature organizations.
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Her nonfiction debut “Een verhaal met schubben”, a -
Kenneth Cook
Born 1929, died 1987. Kenneth Cook was a prolific Australian journalist, film director, screenwriter, TV personality and novelist. He is best known for his novel Wake in Fright, which became a modern classic and is still in print, and for his Killer Koala trilogy.
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Władysław Szpilman
Polish pianist, composer and memoirist.
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Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist , which is based on his autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust. In November 1998 Władysław Szpilman was honoured by the president of Poland with a Kommandor Order with a Star of Polonia Restituta. -
Charles Phillips
There is more than one author by this name on Goodreads
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Charles Phillips (b. 1962) is an established writer of popular history, a contributor to Cassell's Dictionary of Modern Britain as well as to the Chronicle of Britain and several illustrated stories.
He has a keen interest in the mythology and history of the great Maya and Aztec civilizations and was a key writer on Time Life's Myth and Mankind series.
Phillips is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds an MA from the University of Westminster.
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Paola Caridi
Journalist, born in Rome in 1961, Paola Caridi is a founding member of the News Agency “Lettera22″ and is currently working for national and local Italian newspaper. PhD in History of International Relations, she is specialised on Middle East and Northern Africa region. Correspondent in Cairo (2001-2003), she is based since 2003 in Jerusalem. She published in 2007 “Arabi Invisibili” (Feltrinelli publishing house), Capalbio Price 2008. In 2009, she published Hamas (Feltrinelli publishing house).
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The English version of Hamas. From Resistance to Government? has been published by PASSIA in East Jerusalem in February 2010. Seven Stories Press published in March, 2012, the American version of the book, updated and with an added chapter on the lat -
Laura Freixas
Laura Freixas Revuelta (Barcelona, 1958) es una escritora española, autora de novelas y ensayos, así como crítica literaria y articulista en diversos medios. Fundadora en 1987 de la colección literaria El espejo de tinta que dirige hasta 1994. Destaca también por su labor investigadora y promotora de la literatura escrita por mujeres, en cuyo contexto funda en el 2009, y dirige desde entonces "Clásicas y Modernas", asociación para la igualdad de género.
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Héctor Aguilar Camín
Periodista, novelista e historiador mexicano.
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Ha destacado en sus tres vertientes de periodista, escritor e historiador. En la primera, recibió el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural; ha sido colaborador de diversos medios, como La Jornada (diario del que fue subdirector), Milenio, Unomasuno, La Cultura en México. Fue director de la revista Nexos entre 1983 y 1995, cargo que retomó a fines de 2008. Condujo el programa televisivo Zona Abierta y participa en Tercer Grado, ambos transmitidos por Televisa. Es fundador de Ediciones Cal y Arena (1988), la cual dirigió.
Aguilar Camín publicó su primer libro de ficción en 1983: la recopilación de cuentos La decadencia del dragón y dos años después, después de mantener en secreto otros borradores, -
Fugen Neziroglu
Dr. Neziroglu is a board certified behavior and cognitive psychologist, specializing in Anxiety and Obsessive-
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Compulsive related disorders, and is a pioneer in the research and treatment of Body Dysmporhic Disorder. She received her Ph.D. in clinical, school-community psychology from Hofstra University and completed her post-graduate work in behavior and cognitive therapy at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is Board Certified in Cognitive and Behavior Therapy from the American Board of Behavioral Psychology (ABBP) and in Clinical Psychology fr5om the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). She is a Board Member and a Fellow of ABBP's Academy. She is also a member of many national and interna -
Masashi Matsuie
Masashi Matsuie (Tokio, 1958) estudió en la Universidad de Waseda, en Tokio, y trabajó como editor de ficción en el grupo editorial Shinchôsha, donde fue responsable de publicar autores como Haruki Murakami y lanzó Shincho Crest Books, un sello especializado en literatura de otros idiomas. Dirigió también varias de las revistas del mismo grupo como Kangaeru hito y Geijutsu shincho, antes de dejar la compañía en 2010. Su primera novela, La casa de verano (Kazan no fumoto de, 2012; Libros del Asteroide, 2024) recibió el Premio Yomiuri de Literatura, pese a que es un galardón que suele recaer en autores con una larga trayectoria literaria. Además ha publicado las obras Shizumu Furanshisu (2013), Yûga-na no ka dô ka, wakaranai (2014), Hikari no
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Emilian Stanev
Emilian Stanev Емилиян Станев was the pseudonym Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (Никола Стоянов Станев), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Also spelled as Emiliian Stanev or Emiliyan Stanev.
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Stanev was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907 and spent his childhood in Tarnovo and Elena, where he long lived with his family. From an early age, his father would take him to his hunting outings in the open, which influenced Stanev's later work, where nature is often described. In 1928, he finished the Elena high school as a private student and moved to Sofia, where he studied painting under Tseno Todorov. In the 1930s, he enrolled in Finances and Credit in Free University of Political and Economic Sciences, (today University of National end World Economy in -
Dimitar Dimov
Dimitar Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon, best known for his best-selling novel "Tobacco" ("Tютюн").
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Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Héctor Abad Faciolince
Héctor Joaquín Abad Faciolince was born on 1 October 1958 in Medellín, Colombia Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented "post-boom" writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novels Angosta, and more recently, El Olvido que Seremos.
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Richard Cobb
Richard Cobb was a British historian. He became Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, after an initially unconventional academic career in which he spent a dozen years working as an independent scholar in French archives. His work was recognised in France by the award of membership of the Legion d'Honneur. He is known for his work on the background to the French Revolution, and for his autobiographical writings.
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Renate Rasp
Renate Rasp was the daughter of German actor Fritz Rasp. After attending a high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin, she began studying acting in 1954. She then studied painting for at the Berlin University of the Arts and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She worked as a commercial graphic artist and started writing in 1965.
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She gained attention in 1967 at the last meeting of the so-called Gruppe 47 with her irreverent and provocative poems; in 1968, she caused a stir again at the Frankfurt Book Fair by giving her reading topless. Her debut novel, Ein ungeratener Sohn—a "pitch-black parable" about "educational torture"—was generally well received by critics. However, her subsequent publications, which often dealt with sadistic and masoch -
María Fasce
María Fasce (Argentina, 1969) is a writer and the literary director of Alfaguara in Madrid. She has translated Marcel Proust and Patrick Modiano, and has worked as a journalist, literary and cinema critic. Her work has been translated into French, English, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese and German.
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She has published several novels and story collections, including La verdad según Virginia (Virginia’s Truth) and La felicidad de las mujeres (The Happiness of Women, Primer Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes 1999). The Woman of Isla Negra was written as part of the Writers in Residence program in Amsterdam.
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Eric Dregni
Eric Dregni has written nine books including Midwest Marvels, The Scooter Bible, Ads that Put America on Wheels, and Grazie a Dio non Sono Bolognese. As a 2004 Fulbright Fellow to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Eric researched Scandinavian culture and roots for a forthcoming book. His time is divided between Italy, Norway, and Minneapolis where he is the curator for El Dorado Conquistador Museum and guitarist for the mock-rock trio Vinnie & the Stardüsters.
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Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer.
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Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.
Rowley's first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council's "Banjo" Award for non-fiction in 1994. Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best-known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been -
Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez was born in Haymana in central Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Polatlı. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Istanbul and worked for a time as a lawyer. He wrote for various newspapers and magazines on literature, culture and politics.
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He is member of Turkish PEN and English PEN. He lectures in Literature and Novel at the METU.
He has spent several years in the UK, and now lives in Cambridge and Istanbul.
His first novel, North, published in 2009.
His second novel, Sins and Innocents, published in 2011 and received the Sedat Simavi Literature Award that is the most prominent literature award in Turkey. It has been translated into English, Italian and Serbian.
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Georges Rodenbach
Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, and was an intimate of Edmond de Goncourt. He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism. He produced some Parisian and purely imitative work; but a major part of his production is the outcome of a passionate idealism of the quiet Flemish towns in which he had passed his childhood and early youth. In his best k
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Miljenko Jergović
Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You -
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut.
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Javier Marías
Javier Marías was a Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist. His work has been translated into 42 languages. Born in Madrid, his father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco. Parts of his childhood were spent in the United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College. His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid.
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Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He wrote his first novel, "Los dominios del lobo" (The D -
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large. His books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, and, most recently, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate.
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Joseph O'Neill
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There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.
Joseph O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964 and grew up in Mozambique, South Africa, Iran, Turkey, and Holland. His previous works include the novels This is the Life and The Breezes, and the non-fiction book Blood-Dark Track, a family history centered on the mysterious imprisonment of both his grandfathers during World War II, which was an NYT Notable Book. He writes regularly for The Atlantic. He lives with his family in New York City." -
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm grew up in Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau the son of an accountant. After completing primary and secondary school he spent three years as an apprentice accountant and then 5 as an accountant. He then chose to go back to school at the University of Zurich taking courses in a variety of fields including English studies, Business informatics, Psychology, and Psychopathology. During this time he also worked as an intern at a psychiatric clinic. After living for a time in New York, Paris, and Scandinavia he settled down in 1990 as a writer and freelance journalist in Zurich. He wrote articles for, among others, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Tages-Anzeiger, Die Weltwoche, and the satirical newspaper Nebelspalter. Since 1997 he ha
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Munir Hachemi
Munir Hachemi (born 1989) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid to an Algerian father and studied Spanish at university.
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He also obtained a master's degree in Latin American studies. His fiction appeared initially in fanzines under the aegis of the Escritores Bárbaros collective. His first novel Cosas vivas appeared in 2018.
In 2021, he was named by Granta magazine as one of the most promising young Spanish-language writers in the world.
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Goran Petrović
One of the most significant and most widely read contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University.
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He worked as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery.
Awards:
the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship;
the "Prosveta Award";
the "Meša Selimović Award";
the "Charter of Rača",
the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award";
the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001);
the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo;
the "Borislav Stanković Award".
Petrović's books have been reprinted several times. His novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns (also known as Robin) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language. He also wrote in English and a "light" Scots, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.
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He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
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Ryan Collett
Ryan Collett is a writer, knitter, and animator. He grew up in Oregon and now lives in London where he works as an editor. He also runs a popular YouTube channel devoted to knitting. The Disassembly of Doreen Durand is his first novel.
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Danielle Krysa
Danielle Krysa has a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria, and a post-grad in design from Sherian College. She began her career as a painter, but her love for graphic design quickly changed her interest from painting to mixed media - specifically collages filled with narratives, negative space, and pop cultural references. (Danielle Krysa is also is the writer behind the contemporary art site, The Jealous Curator, and the author of Creative Block, Collage and Your Inner Critic Is A Big Jerk.) Danielle lives and works in British Columbia, Canada.
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Danielle has been making work for years, but she’s been focused on her current body of work since late 2015. Using found images, bright blooms/swashes of paint, and long funny titles, -
Haim G. Ginott
Haim G. Ginott was a teacher, child psychologist and psychotherapist, who worked with children and parents. He pioneered techniques for conversing with children that are still taught today. His book, Between Parent and Child,. stayed on the best seller list for over a year and is still popular today.
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Viktor Paskov
Viktor Marinov Paskov (Bulgarian: Виктор Маринов Пасков; 10 September 1949 – 16 April 2009) was a Bulgarian writer, musician, musicologist and screenwriter.
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Paskov was born in the capital Sofia and finished high school in the city. He graduated from what is today the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, East Germany in 1976 and was part of several jazz bands. Viktor Paskov was in Germany as a composer, opera singer and critician until 1980, when he became literature and music editor with the Sofia Press publishing house, a position he held until 1987. In 1987, Paskov joined the Boyana Film Studio as an editor and screenwriter.
The years from 1990 to 1992 Paskov spent in Paris, France. He also worked as director of the Bu -
Xulia Alonso Díaz
Xulia Alonso Díaz, nace en A Rúa, Ourense, en el año 1961. Estudia Bachillerato y COU en el colegio diocesano Pablo VI de A Rúa y comienza estudios de Psicología en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela en el año 1979. En Enero de 1981 accede a la plantilla de la Xunta de Galicia como auxiliar administrativa donde trabajará hasta septiembre de 2008, momento en que los motivos de salud la partan del mundo laboral.
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La irrupción del virus del sida en los años 80 y su adicción a la heroína, superada en 1985, serán claves para el desarrollo de su trayectoria vital, marcada por el diagnóstico como portadora del virus en Febrero de 1986. Futuro Imperfecto (Editorial Galaxia) se publica en noviembre de 2010 como un testamento vital para su hija L -
Laird Koenig
Laird Koenig (born 24 September 1927 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author. His best-known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a novel published in 1974. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also wrote a play based on the novel.
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Zou Jingzhi
Zou Jingzhi (Chinese name: 邹静之) is highly regarded in China as a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe. As a screenwriter, the films he wrote for Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar Wai have been well received at film festivals across the world. His plays and operas have been performed in China as well as internationally, and his poems and essays have been very influential, going into multiple reprints.
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Markiyan Kamysh
See also Маркіян Камиш
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Markiyan Kamysh (1988) is representing the Chernobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has been illegally investigating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He has made a lot of expeditions behind the barbed wire and illegally lived in the Zone. -
Andrew Hodges
Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician, author and an activist in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
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Since the early 1970s, Hodges has worked on twistor theory which is the approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by Roger Penrose.
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Miquel Martín i Serra
Miquel Martín i Serra (Begur, 1969) és escriptor i llicenciat en filosofia. Ha publicat, entre altres obres, La drecera (Periscopi, 2020), Premi M. Àngels Anglada de narrativa, Premi El Setè Cel i finalista del Premi Òmnium a la millor novel·la de l’any; Quan els pobles no tenien nom (Sidillà, 2021); Llegendes de mar de la Costa Brava (Sidillà, 2012); i L’estratègia de la gallina (Columna, 2001), finalista del Premi Ramon Llull. És autor de diversos articles i assajos sobre Joan Vinyoli, entre els quals destaquen: Vinyoli trasbalsa la bellesa com el vi (Vibop, 2021), «Joan Vinyoli, el gall salvatge» (Premi Recvll de retrat literari 2019, publicat a El Punt Avui), «Les influències filosòfiques en la poesia de Vinyoli», dins el volum Joan Vin
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Michel Bussi
Michel Bussi est un auteur et politologue français, professeur de géographie à l'université de Rouen. Il est spécialiste de géographie électorale.
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Michel Bussi is one of France's most celebrated crime authors. The winner of more than 15 major literary awards, he is a professor of geography at the University of Rouen and a political commentator. After the Crash, his first book to appear in English, will be translated into over twenty languages.