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  Jean Giono

  Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English.
  
  Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II.
  
  He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died.
  
  Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding
  collected work by a French writer), the Légion d’Honneur, and he was
  a member of the Académie Goncourt.
  

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  Lalla Romano

  (Demonte, Cuneo, 1906 - Milano, 2001)
  Dopo aver frequentato le elementari a Demonte, si trasferisce a Cuneo con la famiglia nel 1916, dove compie gli studi superiori. Conseguita la maturità nel ‘24, s’iscrive alla facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Torino: tra i suoi professori, spiccano le figure di Ferdinando Neri e Lionello Venturi. Su indicazione di quest’ultimo, comincia a frequentare la scuola di pittura di Felice Casorati. Laureatasi nel 1928, continua a dedicarsi alla pittura ed alla poesia: ha, intanto, conosciuto scrittori e intellettuali del calibro di Cesare Pavese, Mario Soldati, Franco Antonicelli, Arnaldo Momigliano. Nel ‘32 sposa, a Cuneo, Innocenzo Monti, e nel ‘33 nasce il suo unico figlio, Pietro. Nel ‘35 ra

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  Walter Bonatti

  He was an Italian mountain climber, explorer and journalist. He was noted for his many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958 and in 1965 the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent. Immediately after his extraordinary solo climb on the Matterhorn Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at the age of 35 and after only 17 years of climbing activity. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca. He died on the 13 Sep

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Lea Ypi

  Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. A native of Albania, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. She lives and works in Lo

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  Robert Kolker

  I'm the author of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday, 2020) and Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Harper, 2013).

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  Sandrone Dazieri

  È nato a Cremona nel 1964. Diplomatosi alla scuola alberghiera di San Pellegrino terme, ha svolto numerosi mestieri – dal cuoco al facchino al rappresentante – prima di cominciare l’attività di giornalista freelance per varie testate, tra cui il quotidiano il manifesto.
  
  Militante per anni del movimento dei centri sociali, con i quali ha collezionato botte e denunce sino al 1994, è stato tra gli autori di "Antologia Cyberpunk" (Shake edizioni), e nel 1996 ha pubblicato "Italia Overground" (Castelvecchi), saggio sull’Italia delle controculture. Nel 1999 ha esordito nella fiction con "Attenti al Gorilla" (Piccola Biblioteca Oscar), dove ha fatto la sua prima comparsa l’alter ego dello scrittore, ex leoncavallino che soffre di sdoppiamento della

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  Giorgio Parisi

  Giorgio Parisi (Roma, 1948) è un fisico e accademico italiano, premio Nobel per la fisica nel 2021 per i suoi studi sui sistemi complessi.
  Attivo in fisica teorica, soprattutto nel campo della fisica statistica e in teoria dei campi, con Carlo Rubbia e Michele Parrinello è uno dei tre fisici italiani membri della National Academy of Sciences degli Stati Uniti d'America.
  E' uno dei principali promotori della campagna "Salviamo la ricerca italiana", volta a far aumentare i fondi a disposizione della ricerca scientifica in Italia.

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  Jacqueline Roy

  Jacqueline Roy was born and raised in London. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was English. She lectured in English at Manchester Metropolitan University for many years, teaching Postcolonial Literatures and Creative Writing. She writes fiction for both adults and children.

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  Akira Yoshimura

  Prize winning Japanese writer. Akira Yoshimura was the president of the Japanese writers union and a PEN member. He published over 20 novels, of which in particular On Parole and Shipwrecks are internationally known and have been translated into several languages. In 1984 he received the Yomiuri Prize for his novel Hagoku (破獄,engl. prison break) based on the true story of Yoshie Shiratori.

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  Laura Vázquez

  Laura Vanesa Vazquez Hutnik es investigadora, crítica y docente. Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) e investigadora del CONICET. Es Profesora de “Historia de los Medios de Comunicación Nacional y Latinoamericana”, en la Universidad Nacional de Moreno. En la Carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la UBA coordina el Área de Narrativas Dibujadas. Realizó su Postdoctorado en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (UBA). Se desempeña como docente en la Maestría de Crítica y Difusión de las Artes, en el UNA. Ha sido invitada como expositora en congresos nacionales e internacionales. Publicó los libros: El oficio de las viñetas. La industria de la historieta argentina (Paidós, 2010) y Fuera de Cuadro. Ideas sobre hi

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  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
  A founder and, until his death, an editor of t

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  Elsa Dorlin

  Elsa Dorlin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and the author of The Matrix of Race and Sex, Genre, and Sexualities.

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  Carla Lonzi

  Carla Lonzi (Florence, March 6, 1931 – Milan, August 2, 1982) was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.
  
  In the early 1970s, Lonzi adopted a feminist stance in relation to art. She had grown to view art as being yet another part of a system of institutions and labour which enable unequal power relations and the overall oppression of women. Lonzi became disillusioned and went as far as dismissing art criticism as a "phoney profession". She subsequently abandoned her career as an art critic and fully embraced the feminist cause.
  
  Despite her eventual negative outlook on the field of art and art criticism, Lonzi has said

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  Jean-Christophe Rufin

  Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010.
  
  Rufin was born in Bourges, Cher in 1952. An only child, he was raised by his grandparents, because his father had left the family and his mother worked in Paris. His grandfather, a doctor and member of the French Resistance during World War II, had been imprisoned for two years at Buchenwald.
  
  In 1977, after medical school, Rufin went to Tunisia as a volunteer doctor. He led his first humanitarian mission in Eritrea,where he met Azeb, who became his second wife.
  
  A graduate of the Institut d'études politi

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  Francesco Trento

  Despite being an atheist, and basically an anticlerical, Francesco Trento has been writing documentaries with both Guido Chiesa and Giulietto Chiesa (italian for: church), a combo for which he is frequently envied. Now all he needs is to work with Julio Iglesias, and his soul would be definitely saved.
  
  In 2004, he wrote and produced with Volfango De Biasi the documentary “Matti per il Calcio” (“Crazy for Football”).
  
  In 2005, he published, with Aureliano Amadei, “Venti Sigarette a Nassirya” (“Twenty Cigarettes in Nassiriya”).
  He also wrote the screenplay for the theatrical adaptation, "20 cigarettes", awarded in the italian section of the Venice film festival 2010.
  
  In 2007, with Franco Fracassi, he wrote and directed "Zero. An investigation o

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  Francesca Albanese

  See also Francesca P. Albanese

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  Emmanuel Carrère

  Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
  
  Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
  
  (Wikipedia)

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  Mark Arax

  In the world of journalism, Mark Arax stands out as a rarity. On one hand, he is a skilled investigative reporter who unearths secrets from the depths of shadow governments. On the other hand, he is a gifted writer whose feature stories and books are distinguished by the “poetry of his prose.”
  
  His Los Angeles Times stories revealing state sanctioned murder and cover-up in California prisons were praised by The Nation magazine as “one of great journalistic achievements of the decade.” Fellow writers at PEN and Sigma Delta Chi have singled out the lyrical quality of his writing in award-winning stories on life and death in California’s heartland. In a review of his most recent book, “West of the West,” the Washington Post called Mark a “great

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  Pino Cacucci

  Pino Cacucci (Alessandria, 1955) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e traduttore italiano.
  
  Cresciuto a Chiavari, si è trasferito a Bologna nel 1975 per frequentare il DAMS. All'inizio degli anni ottanta è vissuto per lunghi periodi sia a Parigi che a Barcellona. In seguito viaggia molto in America latina e soprattutto in Messico dove ha abitato per lunghi periodi.
  
  Ha pubblicato finora numerosi libri di narrativa e saggistica. Pone in risalto personaggi storici non vincitori, sommersi e nascosti dalla Storia ufficiale. Come posto in evidenza dallo stesso Autore nell´Opera "In ogni caso nessun rimorso”, la Storia viene scritta sempre dai vincitori ed i suoi protagonisti perdono, come conseguenza delle loro azioni tutto: battaglie, lavoro, amici, id

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  Manon Garcia

  Manon Garcia is a French philosopher born in 1985. Specialist in feminist philosophy.
  
  Manon Garcia est une philosophe française née en 1985. Spécialiste en philosophie féministe.

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  Bianca Pitzorno

  Bianca Pitzorno (Sassari, 1942) è una scrittrice, autrice televisiva e traduttrice italiana. Celebre soprattutto come autrice di romanzi per ragazzi, dal 2000 è anche ambasciatrice UNICEF.
  
  Born in 1942, she's an Italian writer and screenwriter specialized in children literature.
  
  She graduated in Classic Literature, with a thesis on Prehistoric Archeology. For seven years she worked as a responsible for cultural children’s television programmes for the Italian public television (RAI). She also worked as an archeologist, theatre writer, screenwriter, lyricist and teacher.
  
  From 1970 to 2011 she published many assays and novels, for both kids and adults, translated in many countries all over Europe, America and Asia. She translated Tolkien, Sylvia

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  Benoîte Groult

  see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3...

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  Amadou Hampâté Bâ

  Amadou Hampâté Bâ was born to an aristocratic Fula family in Bandiagara, the largest city in Dogon territory and the capital of the precolonial Masina Empire. After his father's death, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, Tidjani Amadou Ali Thiam of the Toucouleur ethnic group. He first attended the Qur'anic school run by Tierno Bokar, a dignitary of the Tijaniyyah brotherhood, then transferred to a French school at Bandiagara, then to one at Djenné. In 1915, he ran away from school and rejoined his mother at Kati, where he resumed his studies.
  
  In 1921, he turned down entry into the école normale in Gorée. As a punishment, the governor appointed him to Ouagadougou with the role he later described as that of "an essentially precario

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  Jean Rolin

  Jean Rolin is a French writer and journalist known for his distinctive narrative style and profound exploration of sociopolitical issues. Born on June 14, 1949, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Rolin has had a career marked by an interplay between journalism and literature. His works often blend fiction and reportage, creating a unique hybrid that reflects his sharp observational skills and deep engagement with the world.
  
  Rolin studied literature at the University of Paris but found himself drawn to the tumultuous political landscape of the 1960s. He became actively involved in leftist movements, an experience that later influenced his writing, particularly in his nuanced depictions of political and social dynamics.
  
  His career as a journalist

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  Aldous Huxley

  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
  Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was e

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  Tama Janowitz

  Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.
  
  Born in San Francisco, California to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East Coast of the United States to attend Barnard College and the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down.
  
  She socialized with Andy Warhol and became well-known in New York's literary and social circles. Her 1986 collection of short stories, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York

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  Elsa Morante

  Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
  She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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  Israel J. Singer

  Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. His granddaughter is the novelist, Brett Singer.
  
  Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story Pearls, Singer became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward. His short story Liuk appeared in 1924, illuminating the ideological confusion of the Bolshevik Revolution. He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. He died of a he

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  Elif Batuman

  Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught.
  
  Batuman is currently the writer-in-residence at Koç University. While in graduate school, she studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, titled, "The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel," is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. In February 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with R

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  Michael Frank

  Michael Frank’s essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, The TLS, and Tablet, among other publications. His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

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  Anna Momigliano

  Anna Momigliano è caporedattrice di Studio, collabora con The Daily Beast e tiene la rubrica Il Brucaliffo su "La Lettura" del Corriere della Sera. Ha scritto Karma Kosher (Marsilio 2009) e Il Macellaio di Damasco (VandA 2013)

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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).
  
  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

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  Gally

  Gally, née le 23 mai 1980 à Nice, est une illustratrice française et auteure de bande dessinée. Elle s'est fait connaître grâce à ses blogs BD Le blog d'une grosse (fermé le 1er mars 2009) et Le Blog de Gally. Elle a par ailleurs été la marraine de l'édition 2007 du Festival des blogs BD.
  
  Après avoir fréquenté une école de commerce, l'IPAG de Nice, Gally s'expatrie à Amsterdam pour achever ses études par un mémoire sur le marketing Internet de la bande dessinée. Puis elle rejoint Paris pour travailler aux Éditions de la Martinière, puis au rayon « BD » de Virgin Megastore. Sachant qu'elle est susceptible d'être transférée au rayon « guides touristiques », elle retourne dans sa Provence natale.
  
  Gally a vécu à Brest où elle a partagé la vie du

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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  Yasmina Reza

  Yasmina Reza began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987 she wrote Conversations after a Burial, which won the Molière Award for Best Author. Following this, she translated Kafka's Metamorphosis for Roman Polanski and was nominated for a Molière Award for Best Translation. Her second play, Winter Crossing, won the 1990 Molière for Best Fringe Production, and her next play The Unexpected Man, enjoyed successful productions in England, France, Scandinavia, Germany and New York. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated into 20 languages. The London production received the 1996-

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  Alba de Céspedes

  Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
  
  Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service
  
  Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war

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  Albertine Sarrazin

  Albertine Sarrazin (17 September 1937 — 10 July 1967) was a French author. She was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale.
  
  Born in Algiers, Algeria, she was quickly abandoned and put in the care of the social services, being then christened Albertine Damien in honour of the saint of the day she was found on. She was then adopted by a family that moved her to Aix-en-Provence. Within that dysfunctional family, she was abused by a family member and constantly quarreling with them, which led to an intense distaste for authority that stayed with her the rest of her life.
  
  Although she was intelligent and did well in her studies, Albertine's family sent her to a reformatory school in Marseille. She escaped to Paris where she sati

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  Elsa Morante

  Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
  She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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  Sibilla Aleramo

  Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.
  
  Her first book described her decision to leave her husband and son and move to Rome, which she did in 1901. She became active in political and artistic circles. During this time she writes extensively on feminism and homosexual understanding.

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  Paolo Nori

  Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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  Andrea Bajani

  Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
  Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
  Nel 2011 vince il Premio Bagutta con il romanzo Ogni promessa.

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  Concita De Gregorio

  Nata a Pisa nel 1963, da madre spagnola (di Barcellona) e padre toscano, è cresciuta a Livorno. In questa città studia al Liceo Classico Niccolini Guerrazzi; successivamente consegue la laurea all'Università di Pisa in Scienze Politiche. Frattanto inizia la professione nelle radio e TV locali toscane, entrando a Il Tirreno nel 1985, dove, per otto anni, lavora nelle redazioni di Piombino, Livorno, Lucca e Pistoia.
  Nel 1990 approda a la Repubblica, dove si è occupata di cronaca e politica interna.
  Nel luglio 2008 è al centro di una curiosa polemica. La rivista Prima Comunicazione rende note le anticipazioni di una sua intervista in cui ammette di aver accettato la proposta del neo editore de l'Unità, Renato Soru, di diventare direttrice del qu

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  Donatella Di Pietrantonio

  Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.
  
  (from http://www.calisipress.com/authors/vi...)

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  Nadia Terranova

  Nadia Terranova (1978) è nata a Messina e vive a Roma. Tra i suoi libri, Bruno. Il bambino che imparò a volare (Orecchio Acerbo 2012, illustrazioni di Ofra Amit) che ha vinto il Premio Napoli e il Premio Laura Orvieto ed è stato tradotto in Spagna. Collabora con «IL Magazine» e «pagina99». Gli anni al contrario (Einaudi Stile Libero 2015) è il suo primo romanzo.

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  Manon Garcia

  Manon Garcia is a French philosopher born in 1985. Specialist in feminist philosophy.
  
  Manon Garcia est une philosophe française née en 1985. Spécialiste en philosophie féministe.

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  Francesca Albanese

  See also Francesca P. Albanese

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  Marina Pierri

  Half from Bari and half from Salento (thus 100% Pugliese, as she likes to say), Marina Pierri is a fan of weird science and fantastic fiction, fairy tales and happy endings. She is deeply fond of semiotics and story structure, which she also teaches. Marina has published three essays including her debut Eroine, focused on her theory of The Heroine’s Journey, a podcast called Soglie, and her first novel Gotico salentino. A reader, a watcher and a gamer, she currently lives in Milan and is working on her second novel.

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  Eva Hoffman

  Eva Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Cracow, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, during the Cold War, the thirteen years old Eva, her nine years old sister "Alinka" and her parents immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where her name has been changed to Eva. Upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied English literature at Rice University, Texas in 1966, the Yale School of Music (1967-68), and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1974.
  
  Eva Hoffmann has been a professor of literature and creative writing at various institutions, such as Columbia University, the University of Minne

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  Stig Dagerman

  Stig Dagerman was one of the most prominent Swedish authors during the 1940s. In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a book about postwar Germany, five plays, hundreds of poems and satirical verses, several essays of note and a large amount of journalism. Then, with apparent suddenness, he fell silent. In the fall of 1954, Sweden was stunned to learn that Stig Dagerman, the epitome of his generation of writers, had been found dead in his car: he had closed the doors of the garage and run the engine.
  
  Dagerman's works deal with universal problems of morality and conscience, of sexuality and social philosophy, of love, compassion and justice. He plunges into the painf

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  Salvatore La Porta

  Salvatore La Porta (1977) è uno scrittore ed editore italiano.

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  Chandra Livia Candiani

  Chandra Livia Candiani, all'anagrafe Livia Candiani, è una poetessa (1952), in parte russa e in parte italiana, nata e cresciuta a Milano, traduttrice di testi buddhisti e maestra di meditazione.
  
  Chandra Livia Candiani (Milano, 1952) is an Italian poet and translator.

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  Marco Missiroli

  Vive a Rimini fino alla maturità scientifica, trasferendosi successivamente a Bologna per iscriversi al corso in Scienze della comunicazione dell'Alma Mater Studiorum. Nel 2002, segue i corsi della Scuola Holden a Cesena esperienza conclusa non in modo positivo. Si laurea nel 2005 con la tesi L'oggetto culturale nell'industria italiana. Il caso del Signor M. ovvero i criteri di pubblicazione di un libro.
  Il suo romanzo d'esordio, Senza coda (Fanucci, 2005), ha ricevuto nel 2006 il Premio Campiello Opera prima; si tratta di un'opera che racconta "di un'infanzia che si misura angosciosamente con il mondo adulto, con le sue sopraffazioni e violenze, varcando la linea d'ombra che conduce ad una pensosa maturità".
  Il 22 marzo 2007 pubblica con Gua

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  A.B. Yehoshua

  Abraham B. Yehoshua (אברהם ב. יהושע) is one of Israel's preeminent writers. His novels include A Journey to the End of the Millenium, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2007. He lives in Haifa.

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  Grazia Deledda

  Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
  

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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.
  
  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

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  Jianwei Xun

  Jianwei Xun emerged in late 2024 as a distributed philosophical entity born from the collaborative interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence systems. Initially introduced to the world as a Hong Kong-born philosopher based in Berlin, Xun's true nature as a hybrid intellectual construct was revealed in spring 2025, transforming what began as a meta-narrative experiment into a genuine philosophical event.
  
  Xun was created through an experimental collaboration between Italian philosopher Andrea Colamedici and advanced language models, as part of a research project on narrative construction and reality manipulation in the digital age. Rather than a simple pseudonym or fictional character, Xun represents a new form of distr

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  Vera Gheno

  Vera Gheno è una sociolinguista. Nasce in Ungheria nel 1975. Si laurea e si addottora in Linguistica presso l'Università di Firenze, specializzandosi sulla comunicazione mediata dal computer. Insegna all'Università di Firenze (Laboratorio di italiano scritto), all'Università per Stranieri di Siena (Applicazioni informatiche per le scienze umane) e al Middlebury College, sede di Firenze (Sociolinguistica). Collabora con l'Accademia della Crusca dal 2000. Al momento è membro della redazione di consulenza linguistica e gestisce il profilo Twitter dell'ente. Ha pubblicato un libro, "Guida pratica all'italiano scritto (senza diventare grammarnazi)" con Franco Cesati Editore.

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  Alessandro Piperno

  Alessandro Piperno (Roma, 25 marzo 1972) è uno scrittore italiano.
  Nato da padre ebreo e madre cattolica si è laureato in letteratura francese presso l'Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, dove ha insegnato a contratto la medesima materia ed è divenuto ricercatore dal 1º ottobre 2008. Nel 2000 ha pubblicato il controverso saggio critico "Proust antiebreo" sulla figura di Marcel Proust.
  Nel 2005 è giunto alla notorietà con la pubblicazione del suo primo romanzo Con le peggiori intenzioni. Sulla scia di una critica molto favorevole del giornalista Antonio D'Orrico del Corriere della Sera (che lo definisce "un nuovo Proust"), ottiene un grande successo di pubblico (quasi 200.000 copie vendute in pochi mesi) e vince il premio Campiello ope

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  Fabrizia Ramondino

  Fabrizia Ramondino (1936–2008) was an Italian author who has many works "which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment" according to Adalgisa Giorgio, who has conducted research of Ramondino's life and works.

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  Pauline A. Chen

  Pauline A. Chen earned her B.A. in classics from Harvard, her J.D. from Yale Law School, and her Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton. She has taught Chinese language, literature, and film at the University of Minnesota and Oberlin College. She is also the author of a novel for young readers, Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas, and lives in Ohio with her two children.

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  Julie Otsuka

  Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist and former painter known for her evocative, lyrical prose and her autoethnographic approach to historical fiction. Drawing deeply from her family's experiences and Japanese American history, Otsuka has crafted a powerful trilogy of novels that explore identity, memory, displacement, and the emotional legacies of war and immigration.
  Born in Palo Alto, California in 1962, Otsuka was raised in a household deeply shaped by the trauma of Japanese internment during World War II. Her father, an aerospace engineer, and her mother, a lab technician, were both of Japanese descent. Her mother, a nisei (second-generation Japanese American), was incarcerated along with Otsuka’s uncle and grandmother in the To

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  Nina Berberova

  Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.
  
  Born in 1901 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, Nina Berberova was brought up in St Petersburg.[1] She left Russia in 1922 with poet Vladislav Khodasevich (who died in 1939). The couple lived in several European cities before settling in Paris in 1925. There Berberova began publishing short stories for the Russian emigre publications Poslednie Novosti ("The Latest News") and Russkaia Mysl’ ("Russian Thought"). The stories collected in Oblegchenie Uchasti ("The Easing of Fate") and Biiankurskie Prazdniki ("Billancourt Fiestas") were written during

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  Eduard von Keyserling

  Eduard Graf von Keyserling (May 15, 1855 – September 28, 1918) was a Baltic German fiction writer and dramatist and an exponent of literary Impressionism.
  
  Keyserling was born at Schloss Tels-Paddern, Courland Governorate, within the Russian Empire, now Kalvene parish, Liepaja District in Latvia. He belonged to an ancient family of Baltic German nobility and was a cousin of the philosopher Hermann Keyserling. He died in Munich, Bavaria.
  
  Keyserling's early novels Fräulein Rosas Herz. Eine Kleinstadtliebe (1887) and Die dritte Stiege (1892) were influenced by Naturalism. His essays on general and cultural questions, like his theater plays, are forgotten. His narrative, novellas and novels, after 1902, place Keyserling at the forefront of German

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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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  D.W. Winnicott

  Donald Woods Winnicott was an English pediatrician, psychiatrist, sociologist and psychoanalyst.

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  Valerio Varesi

  Valerio Varesi, nato a Torino nel 1959, vive a Parma e lavora nella redazione de La Repubblica di Bologna. Romanziere eclettico, è il creatore del commissario Soneri, protagonista dei polizieschi che hanno ispirato le serie televisive "Nebbie e delitti" con Luca Barbareschi (distribuite anche negli Stati Uniti). I romanzi con protagonista Soneri sono tradotti in tutto il mondo, e nel 2011 Valerio Varesi è stato finalista al CWA International Dagger, il premio internazionale per la narrativa gialla. Parallelamente Varesi ha iniziato la propria personale ricognizione della recente Storia italiana con tre romanzi generosi e appassionanti: La sentenza, Il rivoluzionario e Lo stato di ebbrezza

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  Régis Messac

  Régis Messac (1893–1945) was a French essayist, poet, translator and Résistance fighter. Died in early 1945, prisoner of Nazi Germany.
  
  Formidable précurseur, Régis Messac, né en 1893, fils d’instituteur, qui deviendra enseignant, il est le premier Français à s’être intéressé de près au « roman de détection » — appellation d’époque du polar — , en le portant sur les bancs de l’université avec une thèse qui fait date, « Le »Detective novel« et l’influence de la pensée scientifique », rédigée à son retour d’un long séjour en Amérique du Nord. Auteur prolifique sur une courte période, habile à manier l’anticipation et la chronique sociale, il s’était très tôt rebellé contre un système (on lui doit un pamphlet À bas le latin !) qui le marginalise

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  Léonora Miano

  Née à Douala au Cameroun, Léonora Miano vit en France depuis 1991 où elle a fait des études en lettres.
  Elle a gagné plusieurs prix littéraires :
  
  - Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
  - Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
  - Prix René-Fallet 2006
  - Prix Bernard-Palissy 2006
  
  
  Born in Douala (Cameroon), Leonora Miano lives in France since 1991 where she studied literature.
  She has won several literary awards:
  
  - Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
  - Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
  - Prix René-Fallet 2006
  - Prix Bernard-Palissy 2006

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  Fausta Cialente

  Fausta Terni Cialente was an Italian novelist, journalist and political activist. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize.
  
  Cialente's first novel Natalia, completed in 1927, treated the lesbian relationship of an unhappily married woman. It was published in Rome in 1930 and won the Dieci Savi Prize. When the initial print run of 3000 copies had been sold, her publisher wanted to print more copies but the censors in the Fascist regime asked for two sections of the book to be revised. Cialente refused and the book was not reprinted but in 1932 a French translation was published in France. In 1930 her short story "Marianna" was published in the literary magazine L'Italia Letteraria which was edited by Giambattista Angioletti. From 1940 she wrote

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  Anna Maria Ortese

  Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier's family often short on money. Like many poor girls of her generation, Ortese left school at age thirteen, initially with the idea of studying (and then, teaching) music in mind; until the discovery of literary romanticism, particularly the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Katherine Mansfield, and her need for creative self-expression made her turn to writing.
  
  She eventually studied with Massimo Bontempelli, proponent of the "magical realism" she herself would soon make her own as well, and in 1937 published her first collection of short stories, entitled "Angelici Dolori." Her work garnered her

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  Marti Olsen Laney

  Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D., is a researcher, educator, author, and psychotherapist. One of America’s foremost authorities on introversion, she speaks and leads workshops on the topic in the United States and Canada.

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  Carolina Bandinelli

  Carolina Bandinelli is Associate Professor in Media and Creative Industries. She joined the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies in 2019 and directs the MA in Global Media and Communication. In 2017, she completed a PhD in Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. Her research is concerned with emerging forms of subjectivity and sociality in the digital culture industries, which she investigates combining ethnographic methods with the analysis of discourses.

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  Lukas Bärfuss

  Lukas Bärfuss (1971, Thun) ist ein Schweizer Schriftsteller, Bühnenautor, Theaterregisseur und Dramaturg.

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  Giulia Blasi

  Giulia Blasi è nata a Pordenone e risiede a Roma, sua città d'elezione. Autrice di saggi, romanzi e racconti, nel 2019 ha tenuto il suo primo TEDx Talk, dedicato alla leadership femminista. È l'ideatrice della campagna #quellavoltache, pensata per denunciare le molestie sessuali, lanciata nel 2017 pochi giorni prima di #metoo.

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  Rebecca Kauffman

  Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She received her B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music in Violin Performance, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU. She currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
  

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  Francesco D'Adamo

  Francesco D'Adamo is well-known for his adult books in the tradition of Italian noir fiction. He began writing fiction for young adults to much foreign acclaim in 1999. "Iqbal" is his third novel for young adults and his first to be published in the U.S. D'Adamo lives in Milan, Italy.

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  Alberto Moravia

  Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
  Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".

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  Giada Biaggi

  Giada Biaggi is an Italian author, stand-up comedian and screenwriter. "The Bikini of Sylvia Plath" (2022) is her critically acclaimed debut novel.
  
  "Our age of digitized relationships had done with the sexual act what Kazimir Malevič had accomplished with the Black Square; it had obscured it, hanging it in the corner of a room in a very cold place in Russia; thus condemning scopic pleasure and the desire for possession toward the object of desire to an iconoclastic obsession."

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  Giusi Palomba

  Giusi Palomba è originaria della provincia di Napoli e vive a Glasgow, in Scozia. Traduce narrativa e saggistica, scrive per diverse riviste e si occupa di organizzazione comunitaria.

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  Renata Viganò

  Renata Viganò (1900–1976) was an Italian writer best known for her neo-realist novel L'Agnese va a morire, published in 1949. Viganò was an active participant in the Italian Resistance movement during World War II and featured fictionalized accounts of her experiences as a partisan in her written work.
  
  

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  Amitav Ghosh

  Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
  Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.

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  Paolo Di Paolo

  Paolo Di Paolo è nato nel 1983 a Roma; scrittore, giornalista, critico, si è imposto sulla scena letteraria italiana giovanissimo. Laureato in Lettere, ha ottenuto un dottorato di ricerca in Studi di storia letteraria e linguistica italiana all’Università degli Studi di Roma III. Per Feltrinelli ha pubblicato i romanzi: Raccontami la notte in cui sono nato (2014); Dove eravate tutti (2010, Premio Mondello e Super Premio Vittorini); Mandami tanta vita (2014, Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa, Premio Fiesole Narrativa e finalista Premio Strega), Una storia quasi solo d’amore (2016), Lontano dagli occhi (2019) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci, tradotti in diverse lingue europee. Molti libri sono nati da dialoghi: con Indro Montanelli a cui ha dedicato Tutt

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  Peter Flamm

  Peter Flamm, bürgerlich Erich Mosse, 1891 in Berlin geboren, begann schon während seines Medizinstudiums, in den Zeitungen seines Onkels Rudolf Mosse Feuilletons und kleinere Erzählungen zu veröffentlichen. 1926 sorgte sein psychologischer Debütroman »Ich?« bei S. Fischer für Furore. In den folgenden Jahren verfasste er neben seiner medizinischen Praxis drei weitere Romane, bis er als Jude 1933 mit seiner Frau Marianne aus Deutschland nach Paris und 1934 nach New York emigrieren musste. Dort ließ er sich als Psychiater nieder; sein berühmtester Patient war der Literaturnobelpreisträger William Faulkner, Berühmtheiten wie Albert Einstein und Charlie Chaplin gingen in seinem Haus ein und aus. 1963 starb er in New York.

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  Wisława Szymborska

  Wisława Szymborska (Polish pronunciation: [vʲisˈwava ʂɨmˈbɔrska], born July 2, 1923 in Kórnik, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist, and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niektórzy lubią poezję] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.
  
  Szymborska frequently employs literary devices such as irony, paradox, contradiction, and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Szymborska's compact poems often conjure large existential puzzles, touching on issues of ethical import, and reflecting on the condition of people both as individuals and as

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  Sibilla Aleramo

  Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.
  
  Her first book described her decision to leave her husband and son and move to Rome, which she did in 1901. She became active in political and artistic circles. During this time she writes extensively on feminism and homosexual understanding.

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  Laura Pugno

  Per diversi anni ha lavorato nelle redazioni di case editrici, riviste e siti web, soprattutto di cinema. È stata lettrice di sceneggiature, e consulente per la Rai.Ha tradotto più di una decina tra saggi e romanzi dall’inglese e dal francese e insegnato traduzione all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
  Collabora con le pagine culturali del «Manifesto» e con la Cronaca di Roma di «Repubblica».
  Nel 2001 ha raccolto le sue poesie, con alcune prose di Giulio Mozzi, in Tennis, Nuova Magenta Editrice. Il suo primo libro di racconti, Sleepwalking, è uscito nel 2002 per Sironi editore. Nel 2005 è stata finalista al premio di poesia Antonio Delfini e ha vinto il premio Scrivere Cinema all'Autumn Film Festival.
  Ad aprile 2007 pubblica il poemetto Il col

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  Marisha Pessl

  Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013.
  
  Marisha's Facebook:
  
  facebook.com/MarishaPesslOfficial
  
  

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  Marie Charrel

  Marie Charrel est journaliste au Monde.

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  Hélène Bessette

  Hélène Bessette est née « obscurément » à Levallois, faubourg de Paris, le 31 août 1918. Lorsqu’un journaliste lui demande pourquoi « obscurément », elle répond : « Parce que ce terme me plaît, et que les détails ne regardent personne ». Elle peut être considérée comme l’une des pionnières du Nouveau roman.
  
  C’est après un voyage en Nouvelle-Calédonie où elle est partie trois ans avec son mari pasteur qu’elle se met à écrire. Elle n’a que trente-cinq ans quand Raymond Queneau la rencontre le jeudi 4 décembre 1952 dans les bureaux du 5, rue Sébastien Bottin, et lui fait signer un contrat qui l’engage chez Gallimard pour dix livres à venir. « Enfin du nouveau ! », s’exclame-t-il, soucieux de faire connaître celle qu’il considère comme un écriva

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  Dominique Manotti

  Dominique Manotti is a professor of 19th-century economic history in Paris. She is the author of several novels, including Rough Trade (French: Sombre Sentier), Dead Horsemeat (French: A nos chevaux!) and Lorraine Connection (2008 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger award).
  
  
  Née à Paris en 1942, et j'y suis restée pendant tout ce temps.
  
  1) Historienne de formation et de métier (des années d'enseignement de l'histoire économique comtemporaine en fac). L'Histoire comme méthode de pensée et de travail : Lectures, rencontres, réflexions. Puis choix d'un sujet d'étude, formulation d'hypothèses. Puis recherches, accumulation de faits, d'indices, de traces, critique des hypothèses de départ, imagination de ce qu'ont été la vie et la mort des hommes su

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  Patrizia Cavalli

  Patrizia Cavalli (Todi, 17 aprile 1947 – Roma, 21 giugno 2022) è stata una poetessa e scrittrice italiana. Si è distinta fin dagli anni Settanta per una poesia molto legata all’ esperienza personale, a partire dal primo volume di versi Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo (1974), dedicato a Elsa Morante. Infatti è proprio la scrittrice romana, che Patrizia ha occasione di conoscere durante gli studi di filosofia, a scoprire in lei la vocazione per la poesia.
  
  Seguono altre raccolte di successo: Il cielo (1981), Poesie 1974-1992 (1992), L’io singolare proprio mio (1992), Sempre aperto teatro (1999) con cui vince il Premio Letterario Viareggio-Repaci, e Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (2006), vincitore del Premio Dessì. L’ultima raccolta è Datu

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  Alice Miller

  Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.
  Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.

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  Vitaliano Brancati

  Nato da Rosario, avvocato con interessi letterari, e da Antonietta Ciàvola, Vitaliano Brancati compie i propri studi a Catania e si laurea in lettere nel ‘29, con una tesi su Federico De Roberto. Per alcuni anni, si dedica all’insegnamento e pubblica opere (il poema drammatico “Fedor”, 1928; l’atto unico “Everest”, 1931; il dramma patriottico “Piave”, 1932) di irrilevante valore artistico e manifesti intenti di propaganda nazionalfascista. Si trasferisce intanto a Roma, ove - grazie pure ai contatti con Moravia ed Alvaro - si allontana dalle posizioni politiche favorevoli al regime, al punto da ripudiare i suoi lavori precedenti. Il nuovo corso artistico si apre con “Gli anni perduti” (1938), intriso di umori gogoliani e cechoviani: ma è co

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  Wu Ming 1

  Real name: Roberto Bui. Member of the Wu Ming collective.

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  Isabella Santacroce

  Isabella Santacroce, prima di diventare scrittrice, ha frequentato il Dams a Bologna e partecipato ad alcune mostre d’arte a Londra, Parigi, Tokyo e New York. Ha suonato per molti anni l’organo liturgico a Vienna tenendo diversi concerti. Ha esordito giovanissima, appena quindicenne, nella poesia, con alcuni scritti censurati in Italia. L’esordio letterario è a metà degli anni Novanta, con la pubblicazione di Fluo, primo libro della “Trilogia dello spavento”, cui seguirono Destroy e Luminal. Destroy in particolar modo è diventato un caso letterario in Italia e il nome della Santacroce è stato accostato al gruppo dei Giovani Cannibali. Assieme ad alcuni di essi, come Scarpa, Nove, Ammaniti, Brizzi, Ottoneri, Ragagnin, e con Tommaso Labranca

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  Nicolas Bourriaud

  
  Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a curator and art critic, who curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over the world.
  
  He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jérôme Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art (1992–2000), and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from 1987 to 1995. Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2007-2010 at Tate Britain, London, and in 2009 he curated the fourth Tate Triennial there, entitled Altermodern. He was the Director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, an art school in Paris, France, from 2011 to 2015. In 2015, he was appointed director of the future Co

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  Jeanne Kalogridis

  Jeanne was born in Florida , and has been interested in books ever since. Her interest in language led her to earn an M.A. in Linguistics. She taught English as a Second Language for eight years at The American University of Washington, D.C., before retiring to write full time.
  
  She now lives in California with an overly adored Labrador retriever. Her outside interests include yoga and reading everything ever published.
  
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  Kazuo Kamimura

  Name (in native language) : 上村一夫

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  Iperborea

  Emilia Lodigiani fonda Iperborea nel 1987 con il preciso obiettivo di far conoscere la letteratura dell'area nord-europea in Italia. Una produzione di altissima qualità, che spazia da classici e premi Nobel, inediti o riproposti in nuove traduzioni; a voci di punta della narrativa contemporanea. Oltre ai paesi scandinavi (Svezia, Danimarca, Norvegia e Finlandia), Iperborea pubblica la narrativa dell'area nederlandese, estone, islandese (incluse le antiche saghe medioevali) e dal 1998 una collana di saggi letterari per offrire al lettore spunti di approfondimento. Nel 2010 lancia una nuova collana di gialli, "Ombre", alla base della quale rimangono le scelte che caratterizzano da sempre l'editore: l'attenzione alla scrittura, ai temi etici,

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