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  Renato Baretić

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  Miguel Delibes

  Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
  He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
  He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War

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  J.M. Coetzee

  J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere prose and profound moral and philosophical depth, explore themes of colonialism, identity, power, and human suffering. Born and raised in South Africa, he later became an Australian citizen and has lived in Adelaide since 2002.
  Coetzee’s breakthrough novel, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), established him as a major literary voice, while Life & Times of Michael K (1983) won him the first of his two Booker Prizes. His best-known work, Disgrace (1999), a stark and unsettling examination of post-apartheid South Africa, secured his second Booker Pri

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  Stefan Zweig

  Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
  Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher (Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s.
  
  The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt,

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  Damon Galgut

  Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Imposter was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town.

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  Mo Yan

  Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
  
  Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).
  
  He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.
  
  Chinese version: 莫言

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  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.
  
  Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out,

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  Paul Auster

  Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Le

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  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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  Theodor Kallifatides

  Theodor Kallifatides (Θοδωρής Καλλιφατίδης) is a Greek-born Swedish author.

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  Åsne Seierstad

  Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
  She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
  She is fluent in five languages and lives in Norway.

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  Jakuba Katalpa

  Jakuba Katalpa (vlastním jménem Tereza Jandová) je česká spisovatelka a výtvarnice. Vystudovala bohemistiku, mediální studia a psychologii.

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  Renato Baretić

  Renato Baretić was a Croatian journalist, writer, screenwriter and actor.

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  Michael Hjorth

  Michael Hjorth is one of the owners and founders of the succesful production company Tre vänner, creating films for both TV and screen. Apart from screen writing he has also acted as executive producer for several films.
  
  The Sebastian Bergman series, which Hjorth has co-written together with Hans Rosenfeldt, has been a huge success in several countries and was also made into a TV series, aired by Swedish Television.
  

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  Abdelfattah Kilito

  See also عبد الفتاح كيليطو
  
  Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines like Poétique and Studia Islamica. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).

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  Vincenzo Latronico

  Nasce a Roma e si laurea in Filosofia all'Università degli studi di Milano con Paolo Valore (con una tesi riguardo agli argomenti ontologici a sostegno dell'esistenza di Dio). Lavora come traduttore a opere di P. G. Wodehouse, Hanif Kureishi (con Ivan Cotroneo), Daniel Spoerri, A.R. Ammons, Max Beerbohm, Francis Scott Fitzgerald e Rudolf Carnap (con Renato Pettoello).
  
  Nel 2008 pubblica il romanzo d'esordio Ginnastica e Rivoluzione (Bompiani), cui segue La cospirazione delle colombe (Bompiani 2011).
  
  Sempre per Bompiani ha pubblicato, nel giugno 2009, un testo teatrale: Linee guida sulla ferocia, con Rosella Postorino e Chiara Valerio. In inglese ha pubblicato i libri Remedies to the absence of Reiner Ruthenbeck (Archive Books, 2011) (tradotto

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  Iraj Pezeshkzad

  Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My Uncle Napoleon") published in the early 1970s.
  
  Iraj Pezeshkzad was educated in Iran and France where he received his degree in Law. He served as a judge in the Iranian Judiciary for five years prior to joining the Iranian Foreign Service. He began writing in the early 1950s by translating the works of Voltaire and Molière into Persian and by writing short stories for magazines. His novels include "Haji Mam-ja'far in Paris", and "Mashalah Khan in the Court of Haroun al-Rashid". He has also written several plays and various articles on the Irania

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  Marco Balzano

  Marco Balzano vive a Milano, dove lavora come insegnante di Lettere nei licei. Dottore di ricerca in lettere, nel 2010 pubblica il suo primo romanzo.

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  Kamel Daoud

  Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
  
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  The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author

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  Alena Mornštajnová

  Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V roce 2013 vyšel její debutový román Slepá mapa, který byl nominován na Cenu Česká kniha 2014.

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  Đurđica Čilić Škeljo

  Đurđica Čilić rođena je 1975. u Livnu, u BiH, odrasla je u Vitezu, a od 1994. živi u Zagrebu. Radi na Katedri za poljski jezik i književnost Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, a od 2022. predaje i na univerzitetu u poljskim Katovicama.
  
  Objavila je niz stručnih radova o poljskoj književnosti 19. i 20. veka, književne recenzije i prevode savremene poljske poezije. Njena prva knjiga, kolekcija autofikcijskih crtica Fafarikul (2020), osvojila je čitalačku publiku i postala regionalni književni hit. Novi kraj (2022) njena je druga autofikcijska proza.

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• Petra Klabouchová

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  William Andrews

  Bill Andrews has a strong connection to Korea – his daughter who arrived from the Land of the Morning Calm as a cheerful, smart, four-month-old. Since then, Bill has been fascinated by Korea.
  
  For over 30 years, Bill was a copywriter and a marketing/brand executive with several Fortune 500 companies. For fifteen years, he ran his own advertising agency. At night and on weekends (and sometimes during the workday!) Bill wrote fiction. Bill’s first novel titled The Essential Truth won first place in the Mayhaven Contest for unpublished fiction. His second novel, The Dirty Truth, was published in winter 2015. As of Ye 2015, Daughters of the Dragon has sold over 50,000 copies and has a 4.8 out of 5.0 star rating from nearly 600 reviewers on Amazon

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  Tomáš Šebek

  MUDr. Tomáš Šebek je český chirurg, účastník misí Lékařů bez hranic.
  
  Vystudoval všeobecné lékařství na 1. lékařské fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Poté začal pracovat jako chirurg v Nemocnici Hořovice, v irském Dublinu a v současnosti v Nemocnici Na Františku v Praze.
  Na první misi s Lékaři bez hranic odjel v roce 2010 na zemětřesením zdevastované Haiti. Později se do této země vrátil. Dvakrát pracoval v traumacentru Lékařů bez hranic v afghánském Kundúzu. Lékařskou péči poskytoval také lidem v Agoku na pomezí Súdánu a Jižního Súdánu. Celkem absolvoval s organizací šest misí, naposledy působil ve válkou zmítaném Jemenu. Svou zkušenost z misí popsal v emailech a článcích, které později vyšly i knižně.

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• Tereza Ramba

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• Kristýna Trpková

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• Scarlett Wilková

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