Ágota Kristóf
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio
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Germán Castro Caycedo nació en Zipaquirá, una ciudad cercana a Bogotá, en 1940.
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Actualmente es el escritor colombiano de literatura no-ficción más leído en su país. Sus libros alcanzan tirajes que hoy sobrepasan un millón de libros acogidos por el público colombiano. La sólida credibilidad con que goza el autor sumada a la calidad literaria de su trabajo son parte del resultado.
Sus historias cortadas de la realidad son tejidas con base en investigaciones minuciosas y vivencias propias en los lugares donde acontecen los hechos.
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Gerald Durrell
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Gerald was a boy and he spent his time studying its wildlife. He relates these experiences in the trilogy beginning with My Family And Other Animals, and continuing with Birds, Beasts, And Relatives and The Garden Of The Gods. In his books he writes with wry humour and great perception about both the humans and the animals he meets.
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Alex Banayan
ALEX BANAYAN is the youngest bestselling business author in American history. The Third Door chronicles Banayan's seven-year quest to uncover the definitive mindset of exponential growth and success. The book is a #1 international bestseller, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has been acclaimed by The New York Post as "a joy to read."
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Mari Ahokoivu
Mari Ahokoivu is a Finnish Illustrator and a comic artist. Ahokoivu draws comics for adults and for kids and has been published in Finland as well as abroad.
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Ali Teoman
Asıl adı Ali Tataroğlu'dur. İstanbul'da doğdu. Orta öğrenimini İstanbul Alman Lisesi’nde, yükseköğrenimini ise İTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, MSÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi ve Sorbonne Üniversitesi Plastik Sanatlar Fakültesi’nde tamamladı. Bir süre iş ve öğrenim nedeniyle yurtdışında bulunduktan sonra 1993'de İstanbul’a döndü ve yazmaya daha fazla zaman ayırmak için mimarlığı bırakarak çeşitli üniversitelerde İngilizce okutmanı olarak çalıştı. Bir süre sokak müzisyenliği yaptı.
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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
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Pirkko Saisio
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Pirkko Saisio (s. 16. huhtikuuta 1949 Helsinki) on suomalainen kirjailija, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja. Hän on kirjoittanut myös salanimillä Jukka Larsson ja Eva Wein. Saisiolla on laaja kirjallinen tuotanto, joka romaanien ja näytelmien ohella käsittää monenlaisia tekstejä elokuvakäsikirjoituksista aina balettilibretoihin asti. Saisio on kirjoittanut näytelmiä niin teatteriin kuin televisioonkin, ja lisäksi hän ohjaa ja näyttelee itsekin. Saisio suoritti Suomen Teatterikoulun näyttelijän tutkinnon 1975 ja toimi Teatterikorkeakoulun dramaturgian professorina 1997–2002. -
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Jean-Louis Fournier
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Vigdis Hjorth
Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.
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In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.
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Helmi Kekkonen
Helmi Kekkonen (s. 1982) on valmistunut filosofian maisteriksi pääaineenaan yleinen kirjallisuustiede. Hän on opiskellut kirjoittamista Turun yliopiston luovan kirjoittamisen opinto-ohjelmassa ja Kriittisessä korkeakoulussa. Hänen esikoisteoksensa Kotiin julkaistiin 2009.
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Anni Kytömäki
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Melisa Kesmez
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Tommi Kinnunen
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Pajtim Statovci
Pajtim Statovci is a Kosovo-born Finnish author.
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FM Pajtim Statovci (s. 1990) on Suomen kansainvälisesti menestyneimpiä kirjailijoita. Kriitikoiden ja lukijoiden rakastamat romaanit, Kissani Jugoslavia ja Tiranan sydän, ovat saaneet englanninkielisessä maailmassa haltioituneen vastaanoton. Hänen teostensa käännösoikeuksia on myyty yli 15 kielialueelle. Statovci palkittiin esikoisromaanistaan Kissani Jugoslavia Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnolla, ja Tiranan sydän voitti Toisinkoinen-kirjallisuuspalkinnon. Statovci asuu Helsingissä ja valmistelee Helsingin yliopistossa väitöskirjaa kirjallisuuden eläinrepresentaatioista.
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Aylin Balboa
1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.
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Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu
6 Haziran 1993 Marmaris doğumlu Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu, üniversite eğitimini Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nde tamamladı. Bununla birlikte NOTOS Oyun Yazarlığı Eğitimi, MARFOD Fotoğrafçılık Eğitimi ve Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Kısa Film Yönetmenliği Eğitimi aldı. Sanat ve Tasarım Plastik Sanatlar Bölümü'nde yüksek lisans yaptı.
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Birçok dergide yazarlık ve editörlük yaptı. 2017 yılında Kaplumbağaların Ölümü isimli ilk öykü kitabıyla okuyucuyla buluştu. İkinci kitabı Homologlar Evi, Eylül 2019'da Dedalus Yayınlarından çıktı. Üçüncü kitabı Ateşten Atlamak, Haziran 2021'de Can Yayınları etiketiyle raflardaki yerini aldı. 2024'te ise ilk romanı Babam, Ev ve Yumurta Kabukları, yine Can Yayınları etiketiyle çıktı. -
Anna Soudakova
Anna Soudakova is a teacher of Finnish, French and Russian languages who lives in Vantaa, Finland.
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Inger Christensen
Inger Christensen was born in Vejle, Denmark, in 1935. Initially she studied medicine, but then trained as a teacher and worked at the College of Art in Holbæk from 1963–64. Although she has also written a novel, stories, essays, radio plays, a drama and an opera libretto, Christensen is primarily known for her linguistically skilled and powerful poetry.
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Christensen first became known to a wider audience with the volumes "Lys" (1962; Light) and "Græs" (1963; Grass), which are much influenced by the modernistic imagery of the 60s, and in which she is concerned with the location of the lyric "I" in relation to natural and culturally created reality. The flat, regular landscape of Denmark, its plants and animals, the beach, the sea, the snow-f -
Marcelo Figueras
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Ken Grimwood
Ken Grimwood (1944–2003) worked in broadcast journalism for a number of years before retiring in 1988 to write full-time. He wrote five novels, including the award-winning Replay, Breakthrough, and The Voice Outside.
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Rubén Amón
Trabaja de columnista y reportero en el diario El País. También participa en diferentes medios radiofónicos y audiovisuales, entre ellos, Onda Cero, Antena3 y La Sexta. Fue corresponsal del diario El Mundo tanto en Roma como en París y ha publicado varios libros de diferentes temáticas. Incluidos una investigación sobre Los secretos del Prado (Temas de Hoy, 1997), la biografía de Plácido Domingo (Un coloso en el teatro del mundo, editorial Planeta, 2012), un ensayo sobre el Atlético de Madrid (Una pasión, una gran minoría, La Esfera de los Libros, 2014) y un bestiario en le editorial Léeme (El tigre mordió a Cristo, 2015). Es hijo del historiador y periodista Santiago Amón y ha colaborado con diferentes medios generalistas españoles —Cambio
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Horacio Castellanos Moya
HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published eleven novels, five short story collections, two essay books, and a diary. His novels have been translated into twelve languages; five of them (Senselessness, The She-De
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Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).
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Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves. -
Tezer Özlü
Türk yazar. Özellikle Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri ve Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk olmak üzere az sayıda kitabıyla tanınır. Yazar Demir Özlü ile yazar ve çevirmen Sezer Duru'nun kardeşidir.
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Simav'da doğdu. Çocukluğu anne babasının görev yaptığı Simav, Ödemiş ve Gerede'de geçti. İstanbul'a on yaşındayken geldi. Avusturya Kız Lisesi'ne gitti; ancak mezun olmadı. 1961'de yurt dışına çıktı. 1962 - 1963 yıllarında otostopla Avrupa'yı gezdi. Paris'te tanıştığı tiyatrocu ve yazar Güner Sümer'le 1964 yılında evlendi. Birlikte Ankara'ya yerleştiler. Sümer'in AST'ta çalıştığı bu dönemde Özlü Almanca çevirmenlik yaptı. AST'ta 1963-64 sezonunda Sümer'in yönettiği Brendan Behan'ın Gizli Ordu oyununda oynadı. Sümer'den ayrılarak İstanbul'a yerleşti. Geçirdiği raha -
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P -
Cecile Pin
Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City. She moved to London at eighteen to study philosophy at University College London and received an MA at King’s College London. She writes for Bad Form Review, was long-listed for their Young Writers’ Prize, and is a 2021 London Writers Award winner. Wandering Souls is her first novel.
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Sheila Jeffreys
Sheila Jeffreys writes and teaches in the areas of sexual politics, international gender politics, and lesbian and gay politics. She has written six books on the history and politics of sexuality. Originally from the UK, Sheila moved to Melbourne in 1991 to take up a position at the University of Melbourne. She has been actively involved in feminist and lesbian feminist politics, particularly around the issue of sexual violence, since 1973. She is involved with the international non-government organization, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, in international organising.
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Daniela Arbex
Daniela Arbex trabalha há 22 anos como repórter especial do jornal Tribuna de Minas. Suas investigações resultaram em mais de 20 prêmios nacionais e internacionais, entre eles três Essos, o IPYS de melhor investigação da América Latina e o Knight Internacional. Estreou na literatura com Holocausto brasileiro e em seguida lançou Cova 312, com os quais ganhou dois prêmios Jabuti. Recentemente, virou documentarista e seu filme Holocausto brasileiro ganhou as telas da HBO em 40 países. Daniela mora em Minas Gerais.
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Juhani Karila
Juhani Karila on Pelkosenniemeltä kotoisin oleva kirjailija. Hän on valmistunut tiedotusopin maisteriksi Tampereen yliopistosta. Karila on työskennellyt toimittajana muun muassa Helsingin Sanomien kulttuuritoimituksessa. Vuonna 2010 Karila voitti J. H. Erkon kirjoituskilpailun, ja hänen esikoisteoksensa Gorilla oli ehdolla Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon saajaksi. Hänen romaaninsa Pienen hauen pyydystys voitti sekä Kalevi Jäntin palkinnon että Jarkko Laine -palkinnon.
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Oruç Aruoba
Yazar ve felsefecidir. 1948 yılında Karamürsel'de doğdu. TED Ankara Koleji'ni bitirdikten sonra Hacettepe Üniversitesi Psikoloji Yüksek Lisansı'nı aldı. Aynı üniversitede Felsefe Bilim Uzmanı oldu. Felsefe doktorasını tamamladı ve öğretim üyeliği yaptı (1972-1983). Tübingen Üniversitesi (Almanya) felsefe semineri üyeliği (1976-1977) ve Victoria Üniversitesi (Wellington) (Yeni Zelanda) konuk öğretim üyeliğinde bulundu (1981). Çeşitli basın organlarında yayın yönetmenliği, yayın kurulu üyeliği ve yayın danışmanlığı yaptı. Birçok dergide yazı ve çevirileri yayınlandı. Serbest yazar olarak çalışmaktadır.
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Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki was born into the Potocki family, an aristocratic family, that owned vast estates in Poland. He was educated in Geneva and Lausanne, served twice in the Polish Army as a captain of engineers, and spent some time on a galley as a novice Knight of Malta. He was probably a Freemason and had a strong interest in the occult.
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Potocki's colorful life took him across Europe, Asia and North Africa, where he embroiled himself in political intrigues, flirted with secret societies, contributed to the birth of ethnology — he was one of the first to study the precursors of the Slavic peoples from a linguistic and historical standpoint.
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Mutt-Lon
Mutt-Lon is the literary pseudonym of author Nsegbe Daniel Alain. His first novel, Ceux qui sortent dans la nuit (Those Who Come Out at Night, 2013), brought him critical acclaim when it received the prestigious Ahmadou Kourouma Prize in 2014. Les 700 aveugles de Bafia (2020), published in English as The Blunder, is his third novel and the first to be translated into English. He lives in Douala—Cameroon’s most international and cosmopolitan city—and speaks English fluently.
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Jean-Louis Fournier
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Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé (née Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé) was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to parents of French Huguenot and northern German descent. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with an astounding array of luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.
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Andreas-Salomé was a prolific author, writing several plays, essays and more than a dozen novels. It was Andreas-Salome who began calling Rilke "Rainer" instead of "René." Her Hymn to Life so deeply impressed Nietzsche that he was moved to set it to music. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts (a career she maintained until a year before her death) and also one of the first women to write on female sexuality. Her book, Lebensrückblic -
Karina Sainz Borgo
Venezuelan journalist and writer based in Madrid, Spain. Her first novel It would be night in Caracas was translated into 26 languages
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Melisa Kesmez
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yaptı. İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Keriman isimli bir kedisi var.
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Latife Tekin
Latife Tekin is one of the most influential Turkish female authors. She was born in 1957 in Kayseri, Turkey. She continued her education in Istanbul. In 1983, her famous novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death) was published. The magic realism in the book was drawn from the Anatolian folklore and traditions. Latife Tekin's childhood in Kayseri, a multicultural city at a central point in Anatolia, influenced both her first book and the others in this aspect.
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Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm Genazino was a German journalist and author.
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In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy "Abschaffel". In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature. -
Andrea Viscusi
Sono un autore di speculative fiction (fantascienza, weird, distopia, slipstream) since 2008.
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Ho un centinaio di racconti pubblicati in antologie e riviste. Finalista a premi nazionali come Trofeo RiLL, Premio Robot, Premio Italia, Premio Vegetti (ma mai vinto niente). Una manciata di racconti tradotti e pubblicati all'estero.
Con il mio nome sulla copertina ci sono due raccolte personali, una novella, tre romanzi e un libro illustrato.
I miei racconti e romanzi sono usciti con Zona 42, Moscabianca, Sperling&Kupfer, Urania Mondadori, Future Fiction, Delos, and many more.
Come Story Doctor mi occupo di scrittura, editoria e narratologia su youtube. Divulgo fantascienza e affini sul mio profilo tiktok e nel podcast Reading Wildlife. Ho fondato la -
Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
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He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
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Paolo Zellini
Paolo Zellini (Trieste, 1946) è un matematico, saggista e accademico italiano.
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Nei suoi saggi si è dedicato ad una disamina dell'evoluzione del pensiero matematico attraverso il concetto di infinito e ad un approfondimento della nozione di numero in una prospettiva che abbraccia e mette in gioco tutta la storia del pensiero non solo occidentale. In queste ricerche ha dichiarato esser stato ispirato dall'opera di Elémire Zolla. -
Jasmin Lee Cori
Jasmin Lee Cori, MS, LPC, is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in working with adults who experienced childhood abuse and neglect. She has worked in human service agencies and private practice, and taught psychology in colleges and professional schools. She is the author of numerous articles and five books, including Healing From Trauma.
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Chris Abani
Christopher Abani (or Chris Abani) is a Nigerian author.
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He was a political prisoner in Nigeria at various times during 1985 and 1991. At times he was held in solitary confinement and he was held on death row for some time after being sentenced to death for treason.
He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the 2001 Prince Claus Awards, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Selections of his poetry appear in the online journal Blackbird. -
Pino Cacucci
Pino Cacucci (Alessandria, 1955) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e traduttore italiano.
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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 -
Martin D. Davis
Martin David Davis (born 1928) is Professor Emeritus at New York University's Computer Science Department.
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Selçuk Baran
Selçuk Baran (Ankara, 7 Mart 1933 – 4 Kasım 1999) Ankara Kız Lisesi’ni ve Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’ni üstün derecelerle bitirdi. Aynı fakültenin Banka ve Ticaret Hukuku Enstitüsü’nde kurs müdürlüğü yaptı (1958-68). 1995’ten sonra bu enstitünün yayın müdürüydü. 1987-93 yıllarında TRT İstanbul Radyosu’nda radyo oyunları yazdı. “Türkân Hanım” adlı oyunu Devlet Tiyatrosu’nda sahnelendi. İlk öyküsü (Çocuğun Biri) 1968’de Yeditepe dergisinde çıktı. Yalnızlık ve umutsuzlukla örülü öykülerinde düşsel, şiirli bir hava yarattı. Behçet Necatigil “Keskin, belirgin çizgilerden kaçınarak, dikkat isteyen, belirsiz yaşantı parçalarını birleştiriyor; çağrışım ve yorumlara açılma gücü için okuyucudan katkılar bekleyen bir ‘iç hayat’ görünümleri çi
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Carlos María Domínguez
Carlos María Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 and has lived in Montevideo, Uruguay since 1989.
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He is the author of Mares Baldíos, a collection of short stories, as well as five novels, including La Mujer Hablada, which won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, Tres Muescas en mi Carabina, which won the Juan Carlos Onetti Prize, and The Paper House, which won the Premio de la Fundación Lolita Rubial, Vienna's Jury of Young Readers Prize, and has been translated into 18 languages.
Domínguez's nonfiction work includes Delitos de Amores Crueles, Escritos en el Agua, and El Norte Profundo, as well biographies about Juan Carlos Onetti, Roberto de las Carreras, and Tola Invernizzi. His journalistic articles have been collected in two books: El Com -
Roger van de Velde
Roger van de Velde was een Vlaamse schrijver. (Nederlandstalige Wikipedia).
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Roger van de Velde in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren | Roger van de Velde bij "Schrijversgewijs"
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Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialism are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).
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Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh-greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice. Loach also holds the record for most films in the main competition at Cannes, with fifteen films. -
Lacy M. Johnson
Lacy M. Johnson is the author of The Reckonings and the memoir The Other Side, which was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime, and the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She lives in Houston and teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University.
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Janna Levin
Janna Levin, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy with a concentration in Philosophy from Barnard College of Columbia University, and a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her scientific research mainly centers around the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes.
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Dr. Levin's first book, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space," is a widely popular science book following her personal recollections, as well as scientific studies, in letter format. Her second book, "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines" (Knopf, 2006), won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for writers that "honors an exceptionally talented fictio -
Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the University of Bologna, where he attended courses with Umberto Eco and Gianni Celati.
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In 1980 he made his debut with the collection of generational-themed stories Other Libertines, which achieved good success with critics and the public. The explicit content also earned him the attention of the judicial authorities, followed by a trial at the end of which the author and publisher were exonerated.
After his military experience he published other novels, including Pao Pao and Rimini. He curated the three anthological volumes of the Under 25 series to give voice to a new generation of writers. His latest novel was Separate Rooms, a mournful -
Elena Favilli
Elena Favilli is the Founder and CEO of Timbuktu Labs, along with Francesca Cavallo. They work at the intersections of publishing, design, and technology.
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Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen
Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen is a Norwegian author and philosopher who is professor at the University of Bergen. He has published several books translated into 24 languages. He is also engaged as project manager in the think tank Civita. In 2008 he was awarded the Meltzer Prize for outstanding research, and in 2010 he was awarded the prisoners' Testament.
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Giacomo Leopardi
Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
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Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similarly pessimistic view of life. The latter praised Leopardi's philosophical thoughts on The World as Will -
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art.
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Füruzan
Füruzan Yerdelen was an award-winning self-taught Turkish writer, who is highly regarded for her sensitive characterisations of the poor and her depictions of Turkish immigrants abroad.
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Füruzan İlk kitabı Parasız Yatılı’yla 1972 Sait Faik Hikâye Armağanı ’nı kazandı. İlk kitaplarında kötü yola düşmüş kadın ve kızların, çöken burjuva ailelerinin, yoksulluk ve yalnızlıkla boğuşan kadın ve çocukların, yeni ortamlarda bunalan ve yurt özlemi çeken göçmenlerin dramlarına sevecenlikle yaklaştı; kişileri derinlemesine inceledi, anlatımını ayrıntılarla besledi. 12 Mart dönemini anlattığı ilk romanı Kırk Yedi’liler ile 1975 TDK Roman Ödülü’nü kazandı. 1975’te bir sanatçılar programıyla (D.A.A.D.) çağrıldığı Batı Berlin ’de bir yıl kalarak işçiler ve s -
Ferit Edgü
1936’da İstanbul’da doğdu. İstanbul Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi Resim Bölümü’nde başladığı öğrenimini Paris’te sürdürdü. 1976-1990 yılları arasında, kurucusu olduğu Ada Yayınları’nda, çağdaş Türk ve dünya yazarlarının, şairlerinin yapıtlarını yayınladı. Edebiyatın çeşitli alanlarında onlarca ürün verdi. "Bir Gemide" adlı kitabıyla 1979 Sait Faik Armağanı, "Ders Notları" ile 1979 Türk Dil Kurumu Ödülü, "Eylülün Gölgesinde Bir Yazdı" ile 1988 Sedat Simavi Edebiyat Ödülü’nü aldı. Abidin Dino, Yüksel Arslan, Bedri Rahmi, Eren Eyüboğlu, Füreya, Aliye Berger, Ergin İnan gibi sanatçılar üzerine yayınlanmış kitapları vardır.
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Norah Lange
Norah Lange fue una narradora y poetisa argentina de vanguardia, vinculada primero al Grupo Martín Fierro, especialmente con Jorge Luis Borges y luego al Grupo Proa de Leopoldo Marechal. Destacada por haber roto en Argentina el canon de que las mujeres no debían escribir prosa.
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Hija del noruego Gunnar Lange y la irlandesa Berta Erfjord fue la cuarta de seis hijos. Llamativa por su condición de pelirroja, se destacaba por su audacia para irrumpir en ámbitos hasta entonces reservados a los varones.
Se le supone un amor juvenil con Jorge Luis Borges, quien prologó su primer libro La calle de la tarde (1925) y de Leopoldo Marechal que la inmortalizó en Adán Buenosayres como Solveig Amundsen.
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Sezen Ünlüönen
1987’de doğdu. İlk kitabı Kıymetli Şeylerin Tanzimi 2017’de İletişim’den yayımlandı.
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Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye was born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne. She started writing when she was twelve or thirteen years old and was only eighteen when her first work was published. In 2001 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Femina literary prize for her novel Rosie Carpe, and in 2009, she won the Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women.
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William Maxwell
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William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American novelist, and fiction editor at the New Yorker. He studied at the University of Illinois and Harvard University. Maxwell wrote six highly acclaimed novels, a number of short stories and essays, children's stories, and a memoir, Ancestors (1972). His award-winning fiction, which is increasingly seen as some of the most important of the 20th Century, has recurring themes of childhood, family, loss and lives changed quietly and irreparably. Much of his work is autobiographical, particularly concerning the loss of his mother when he was 10 years old growing up in the rural Midwest of America and the house where he liv -
Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin is the author of twelve books, including the forthcoming (May 2021) The Shortest History of China and the novel The Empress Lover, published in April 2014 as well as the travel companion Beijing, published in July 2014. Other major publications include the Quarterly Essay: Found in Translation (late 2013), five novels and a novella, a collection of essays (Confessions of an S&M Virgin) and a China memoir (Monkey and the Dragon). Her first novel was the internationally bestselling comic erotic Eat Me. The Empress Lover follows A Most Immoral Woman, which is set in China and Japan in 1904 and based on a true story. She is also a translator from Chinese and a playwright. She was the winner of the 2014 New South Wales Writers Fello
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Jon Arretxe
Cursó estudios de Educación Física y de Filología Vasca, campo en el que se doctoró, además de formarse en piano y canto en conservatorios de Bilbao y Vitoria.
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Arretxe ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera en lengua vasca, siendo traducido de manera habitual al castellano. Inició su carrera literaria a principios de los años noventa, actividad que combina con conferencias y actividades musicales.
Además, Arretxe es un apasionado viajero, afición que ha plasmado en varios libros. También ha realizado incursiones dentro del territorio de la novela negra, de entre las que habría que destacar títulos como Sueños de Tánger. -
Philip Gourevitch
Gourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter Jacqueline Gourevitch and philosophy professor Victor Gourevitch, a translator of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995. Gourevitch graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.
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Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu -
Lucia Berlin
Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
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Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.
Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also -
Takeshi Kitano
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Jacky Fleming
Jacky Fleming went to a suffragette school in London. She emerged awesomely uneducated because of the teachers' inexplicable preference for Latin as a first language. A year at Chelsea School of Art and a degree in fine art at Leeds University greatly improved her table-football technique. Other qualifications include A— for posture and a silver medal in Latin-American dancing. A brief stint in the art department of a London periodical was followed by eleven years teaching art as a foreign language. Jacky lives in Yorkshire and hates cooking. (from Be a Bloody Train Driver)
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Jacky Fleming was born in London in 1955. In her art studies at Leeds University, she began to deal with feminism. Her first comic strips appeared in 1978 and since then -
Selçuk Altun
Selçuk Altun (born 1950) is a Turkish writer, publisher and retired banking executive.
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Born in Artvin, Turkey in 1950, he graduated from the Management Department of Boğaziçi University. He began work in the finance sector in 1974 and was chairman of Yapi Kredi Bank and executive board director of the YKY (Yapı Kredi Publications), where he amassed a personal library of 9,000 volumes and published works by Louise Glück and John Ashbery, before he retired in 2004 to pursue his full timewriting career.
“My goal was to write a book by the age of 50,” he says. “Before that, I knew I needed to read, so I read some 4,000 books before I sat down to write. That, more than anything, gave me the confidence I needed.” His first novel Yalnızlık Gittiğin -
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano is a French-language author and playwright and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He is a winner of the 1972 Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, and the 1978 Prix Goncourt for his novel "Rue des boutiques obscures".
Modiano's parents met in occupied Paris during World War II and began a clandestine relationship. Modiano's childhood took place in a unique atmosphere: with an absent father -- of which he heard troubled stories of dealings with the Vichy regime -- and a Flemish-actress mother who frequently toured. His younger brother's sudden death also greatly influenced his writings.
While he was at Henri-IV lycee, he took geometry lessons from writer Raymond Queneau, who was a friend of Modiano's mother. He -
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing.
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David Damrosch
A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to W
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Cinzia Arruzza
Cinzia Arruzza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and subsequently studied at the universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), and Bonn (Germany), where she was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship. Her research interests include ancient metaphysics and political thought, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, feminist theory and Marxism. She is currently working on two projects: 1) a monograph on tyranny and the tyrant in Plato's Republic; 2) a research project on gender, capitalism, social reproduction, and Marx's critique of political economy.
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Nanni Balestrini
Nanni Balestrini was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.
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Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers publishing 1961 in the anthology I Novissimi. During the 1960s, the group was growing and becoming the Gruppo 63, Balestrini was the editor of their publications. From 1962 to 1972, he was working for Feltrinelli, cooperating with the Marsilio publishers and editing some issues of the Cooperativa Scrittori.
Balestrini's political activities are also noteworthy: in 1968, he was co-founder of the group Potere operaio, in 1976 an important supporter of the Autonomia. In -
Jeanette Winterson
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
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One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and al -
Minna Canth
Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. Her play The Pastor's Family is her best known. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view.
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Minna Canth is the first woman to receive her own flag day in Finland, starting on 19 March 2007. It is also the day -
Lorenzo Vargas
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(Roma, 1991-Incrociamo le dita) è un autore di narrativa principalmente fantastica, game designer, editor, cantante da karaoke e cuoco che se non è bravo almeno si impegna.
Nel 2013 arriva finalista a quel disastro ferroviario che fu Masterpiece (Rai 3), grazie al quale esordisce con Bompiani.
Nel 2016 arriva finalista al Premio Raduga.
Nel 2021, tanto per non marcire in quarantena, produce insieme a Valerio Massimo D’Ascanio UNIT – Un gioco di investigazione e accidentale massacro, un GdR carta e penna che gli vale la perplessità, ma soprattutto compassione, di molti dei suoi colleghi.
Nel 2023 esce La Resa con Zona42.
Ha scritto su riviste letterarie come La Nuova Verdə, la buonanima di Crapula, l’Inquieto, Carie, Minima&Moralia, Micorrize, Si -
Yıldız Ecevit
Nâdîde Yıldız Ecevit was a Turkish literary theorist, literary historian and writer.
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Yıldız Ecevit completed her secondary education at Çamlıca Girls' High School in Istanbul. She graduated from the German language and literature department of Istanbul University Faculty of Literature. She received her master's and doctorate degrees at Hacettepe University and then at Ankara University for her comparative studies between Turkish and German literatures. Between 1986 and 2000, she taught at Ankara University. In 1996, she became a professor. She taught German literature, avant-garde literature and the 20th century world novel at Ankara University and Bilkent University.
She worked on the postmodern Turkish novel and especially on the works of O -
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is an American writer. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter and teaches writing and literature at UC San Diego.
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Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Madeleine is Sleeping was published by Harcourt in 2004 and was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories, including excerpts from her new novel, have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Triquarterly, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in Best American Short Stories. Her novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, was published in September 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009.
In 2010, Bynum was named one of the New Yorker -
Antoni Casas Ros
Born in French Catalonia in 1972. "Le théorème d'Almodovar" was his first novel published by Gallimard in January 2008, by Seix Barral (Spain) in March and then by Guanda Italy. His next book, "Mort au romantisme", a collection of short stories was published by Gallimard in 2009.
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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.
He wrote a short story o -
Sergio del Molino
Sergio del Molino (Madrid, 1979) es autor de La hora violeta, novela por la que recibió el Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa 2013 y el Premio Tigre Juan 2013, entre otros, y que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas. Desde su debut literario, en 2009, ha publicado la colección de relatos Malas influencias (2009), el ensayo literario Soldados en el jardín de la paz (2009), una antología de sus textos periodísticos más personales, El restaurante favorito de Nina Hagen (2011), la que fue su primera novela No habrá más enemigo (2012) y Lo que a nadie le importa (2014), que anticipa en clave narrativa algunos temas que aparecen en La España vacía, su primer gran ensayo.
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Lê Thi Diem Thúy
Lê Thi Diem Thúy left Vietnam on a boat with her father in 1978 and grew up in San Diego, California. In 1990, she moved to Massachusetts and enrolled in Hampshire College. After graduating in 1993, Thúy traveled to Paris to research French colonial picture postcards made in the early 1900's.
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Today, she is an author and performance artist based in Northampton. She recently finished a one-year Radcliffe fellowship and has been on the road performing her one-woman show "Red Fiery Summer."
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Max Porter
Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. It has been sold in twenty-nine territories. Complicité and Wayward’s production of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy opened in Dublin in March 2018. Max lives in Bath with his family.
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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 -
Pınar Eğilmez
Pınar Eğilmez, 1975’te Mersin’de doğdu. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’nde, İngilizce Mütercim Tercümanlık eğitimi aldı. Takip eden yıllarda, aralıklarla yurtiçinde ve Kuzey Afrika'da bulunan yazar, halen Basra Körfezi’nde yaşıyor. 2017 yılında kendi imkânlarıyla bastırdığı Uçan Tabut adlı romanının ses getirmesi ve kendi okur kitlesini yaratmasını takiben Tanık adlı ikinci romanı ile Doğan Kitap ailesine katıldı. Evli ve Ada'nın annesi.
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie (ou Estienne de La Boetie was a French judge, writer and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France". He is best remembered as the great and close friend of the eminent essayist Michel de Montaigne "in one of history's most notable friendships", as well as an earlier influence for anarchist thought.
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Étienne de La Boétie (or Estienne de La Boetie est un écrivain humaniste et un poète français. La Boétie est célèbre pour son Discours de la servitude volontaire. À partir de 1558, il fut l’ami intime de Montaigne, qui lui rendit un hommage posthume dans ses Essais. -
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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Imre Kertész
Born in Budapest in 1929, during World War II Imre Kertész was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1944 and later at Buchenwald. After the war and repatriation, Kertész soon ended his brief career as a journalist and turned to translation, specializing in German language works. He later emigrated to Berlin. Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history".
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Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu
6 Haziran 1993 Marmaris doğumlu Fatma Nur Kaptanoğlu, üniversite eğitimini Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü'nde tamamladı. Bununla birlikte NOTOS Oyun Yazarlığı Eğitimi, MARFOD Fotoğrafçılık Eğitimi ve Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Kısa Film Yönetmenliği Eğitimi aldı. Sanat ve Tasarım Plastik Sanatlar Bölümü'nde yüksek lisans yaptı.
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Birçok dergide yazarlık ve editörlük yaptı. 2017 yılında Kaplumbağaların Ölümü isimli ilk öykü kitabıyla okuyucuyla buluştu. İkinci kitabı Homologlar Evi, Eylül 2019'da Dedalus Yayınlarından çıktı. Üçüncü kitabı Ateşten Atlamak, Haziran 2021'de Can Yayınları etiketiyle raflardaki yerini aldı. 2024'te ise ilk romanı Babam, Ev ve Yumurta Kabukları, yine Can Yayınları etiketiyle çıktı. -
Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy (born 1947 in Finnea, County Westmeath, Ireland) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore Award (1995). In 2011, he was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award for his poetry collection, A Fool's Errand.
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Healy was a member of Aosdána and of its governing body, the Toscaireacht, and lived in County Sligo, Ireland. -
Ahmet Şerif İzgören
1965 yılında İzmir'de doğdu. 1983 yılında Kuleli Askeri Lisesi'ni, 1987'de Hacettepe Üniversitesi İngiliz Dilbilimi Bölümü'nü bitirdi. Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri'nde üsteğmen rütbesine kadar görev yaptı.
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1991 yılında ordudan istifa etti. Aynı yıl Ankara Üniversitesi TÖMER Bursa Şubesi'ni kurdu ve bu şubenin müdürü olarak dört yıl görev yaptı. Bu dönemde, Bursa'nın ilk kültür merkezini açtı. Türkiye'nin tek çeviri dergisini çıkarttı. On altı tiyatro, müzik, resim kulübünün fahri başkanlığını yaptı.
1995 yılında özel sektöre transfer oldu; iki ayrı firmada genel müdürlük yaptı. 1996 yılında AIESEC Yüksek Danışmanlar Konseyi Üyesi olarak hizmette bulundu. İngiltere (Sunley Management Center) ve Türkiye'de zaman yönetimi, finans, liderlik, beden dil -
Bruce M. Hood
I was born in Toronto, Canada, and my middle name is MacFarlane. This a legacy of my Scottish heritage on my father's side. My mother is Australian and has the very unusual first name of Loyale. I used to believe for many years that she had two sisters called Hope and Faith, but that was just my fertile imagination. Why Toronto I hear you ask. My father was a journalist and plied his art on various continents. By the time I had finally settled in Dundee, Scotland, at 8 years of age, I had already lived in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. If you are wondering, I support Scotland during the Rugby World Cup. I have an older brother who was also born in Toronto, but he doesn't have a mid-Atlantic accent like I do. He is sensible. He is a law
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Yūko Tsushima
Yūko Tsushima 津島 佑子 is the pen name of Satoko Tsushima, a contemporary Japanese fiction writer, essayist and critic. She is the daughter of famed novelist Osamu Dazai, who died when she was one year old. She is considered "one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation" (The New York Times).
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She has won many major literary prizes, including the Kawabata for "The Silent Traders," one of the stories in The Shooting Gallery, and the Tanizaki for Mountain of Fire. Her early fiction, from which The Shooting Gallery is drawn, was largely based on her experience as a single mother.
Her multilayered narrative techniques have increasingly taken inspiration from the Ainu oral epics (yukar) and the tales of premodern Japan.
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Mauro Biglino
Mauro Biglino is an Italian essayist and translator.
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Student of the history of religions, specialized in the translation from ancient Hebrew, he has translated the Masoretic text for the publisher Edizioni San Paolo.
For Biglino, through direct analysis of the Hebrew texts of the Bible, knowledge and understanding of religious thought is today more accessible. Biglino translates literally what he reads in the Old Testament, deliberately ignoring those aspects of the faith, reserved for the personal sensitivity. Biglino therefore proposes an examination of the Old Testament through the literal translation of the Hebrew text, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. In particular, he emphasizes the technological knowledge of those who, according to -
Frédéric Beigbeder
Beigbeder was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels ( Barbara Cartland et al.); his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Upon graduation at the at the age of 24, began work as an advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher, and dilettante.
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In 1994, Beigbeder founded the "Prix de Flore", which takes its name from the famous and plush Café de Flore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who h -
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.
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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