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Jonas Jonasson

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.

The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.

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Andy Puddicombe

Andy Puddicombe, born September 23, 1972, is the founder of Headspace; an award-winning[1] digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions for its users. A former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts. According to The Times, he is also considered the "international poster boy for the modern mindfulness movement".[2] As both author and public speaker,[3] Puddicombe is known for his simple, accessible and secular approach, which has led to over 1 million users of the Headspace platform. The New York Times claims "Puddicombe is doing for meditation what Jamie Oliver has done for food". (source: Wikipedia)

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Jane Cooper

Jane Cooper grew up in North Warwickshire and learned to knit when she was very young. In 2010, Jane met the late Sue Blacker of the Natural Fibre Company, who wanted to get British Wool into the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, so Woolsack (woolsack.org.uk) was born, which they ran together. In 2013 Jane and her husband Paul moved to Orkney and got their first Boreray sheep and in 2017, Jane discovered that she was the custodian of the last remnants of the 'Lost Flock' of Boreray sheep. To secure the long-term future of the Orkney Boreray, Jane established flocks with more (younger!) Orkney crofters and farmers, to develop products and markets and make them a profitable enterprise for everyone involved. In September 2021 Orkney Boreray m

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Rupert Isaacson

Rupert Isaacson was born in London to a South African mother and a Zimbabwean father. Isaacson's first book, The Healing Land (Grove Press), was a 2004 New York Times Notable Book. He has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia, and North America for the British press and now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Kristin, and their son, Rowan.

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Charles Graeber

Charles Graeber is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar Award nominated "THE GOOD NURSE" and the British Medical Association book of the year shortlisted "THE BREAKTHROUGH" (both published by Twelve).

He is also a contributor to numerous publications including Wired, The New Yorker, GQ, New York Magazine, Outside Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times. His writing has been honored with the Overseas Press Club award for the year's Outstanding International Journalism, a New York Press Club Prize, several National Magazine Award-nominations, and inclusion in anthologies including The Best American Crime Writing, The Best American Science Writing, The Best American Business Writing, The

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Chris Bajema

Chris Bajema is schrijver en prijswinnend podcastmaker. Als eerste in Nederland zette hij een onafhankelijke verhalende podcast op poten: Man met de microfoon. Eerder schreef hij veel hoorspelen en het boek Hoe maak ik een podcast? Hij wordt alom geprezen om zijn vermogen verhalen te vinden waar anderen overheen kijken. Dit is zijn eerste ‘cosy crime’ – een misdaadboek waarin wel een moord wordt gepleegd, maar het toch gezellig blijft, en waar altijd wel ergens een kat rondloopt.

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Michelle van Tongerloo

Michelle van Tongerloo werkt als huisarts in Rotterdam-Zuid en als straatarts in de Pauluskerk. Voor De Correspondent, LINDA en Medisch Contact schrijft ze over de zorg, overheid en samenleving.

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Christopher Castellani

Christopher Castellani is the author of five books, most recently the novel Leading Men, for which he received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Leading Men was published by Viking Penguin, and is currently being adapted for film by Peter Spears (Oscar-winning producer of Nomadland) and Searchlight Pictures.

The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, a collection of essays on point of view in fiction, was published in 2016 by Graywolf Press, and is taught in many creative writing workshops.

His first novel, A Kiss from Maddalena (Algonquin, 2003) won the Massachusetts Book Award; its follow-up, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin, 2005), was a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book;

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Les Claypool

Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is a musician, best known as the bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's funky, creative playing style on the electric bass mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like strumming, a Larry Graham-like slap technique, and Geddy Lee influences. He is a multi-instrumentalist, novelist, music producer, actor, and film director.

Claypool has also self produced and engineered his solo releases from his own studio "Rancho Relaxo." Les got the studio's name from a joke in an episode of The Simpsons. 2006 saw the release of a full-length feature film Electric Apricot written and directed by Claypool as well as a debut novel South of the Pumphouse.

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Judith Visser

Judith Visser schreef al meer dan tien boeken en is de laatste jaren vooral bekend door haar autobiografische romans Zondagskind en Zondagsleven. Zondagskind werd bekroond met de Hebban Literatuurprijs. Zondagskracht is het langverwachte derde en laatste deel in het drieluik over Jasmijn Vink. Judith woont met haar man en drie wolfhonden in Rockanje aan Zee.

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Isa Hoes

Isa Kamerling-Hoes is een Nederlands toneel-, film-, televisie- en stemactrice en (scenario)schrijfster.

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Rea Nolan Martin

Rea Nolan Martin is the author of four novels: THE SUBLIME TRANSFORMATION OF VERA WRIGHT (2009), MYSTIC TEA (2014), THE ANESTHESIA GAME (2015), SUNNYSIDE UP (2022), and a collection of inspirational essays, WALKING ON WATER (2016). She is the author of numerous short stories and poetry published in national literary magazines and anthologies, and a founding editor of INKWELL literary magazine. MYSTIC TEA was the recipient of the prestigious IPPY gold medallion in 2014 and US BEST BOOK award for Visionary Fiction, as well as the 2014 PINNACLE gold medallion in Literary Fiction. THE ANESTHESIA GAME is the recipient of a five star insignia from both Readers' Favorite and Clarion/Foreword, as well as the 2016 IPPY gold medallion in the category

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Jeroen Windmeijer

Jeroen Windmeijer (1969) is antropoloog (Ph.D.) en oud-docent Godsdienst en Maatschappijleer. In 2015 debuteerde hij succesvol met De bekentenissen van Petrus, een historisch-religieuze thriller - inmiddels heruitgegeven onder de titel Het Petrusmysterie.

Hij voltooide drie trilogieën (HarperCollins Holland): de Leidse trilogie (Het Petrusmysterie, Het Pauluslabyrint en Het Pilgrim Fathers Complot), de Zuid-Amerika trilogie (De Offers/ Bolivia, De Genesissleutel/ Peru en De Stenen Goden/ Paaseiland) en de Sterke Vrouwen trilogie in samenwerking met Jacob Slavenburg (Het Isisgeheim, Het Evacomplex en De Magdalenacodex).

In april 2023 verscheen, in samenwerking met Tjarko Evenboer Openbaring, het eerste deel van de Ryevaar-trilogie (Xander Ui

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Saskia Noort

Saskia Noort is a Dutch crime-writer and freelance journalist.

She has written articles for the Dutch editions of Marie Claire and Playboy as well as publishing three novels, The Dinner Club being published in English in 2007 by Bitter Lemon Press, translated by Paul Vincent.

Her third book, "New Neighbours", was released in May 2006 in the Netherlands and was a huge bestseller. The rights have been sold to England.

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Judith Visser

Judith Visser schreef al meer dan tien boeken en is de laatste jaren vooral bekend door haar autobiografische romans Zondagskind en Zondagsleven. Zondagskind werd bekroond met de Hebban Literatuurprijs. Zondagskracht is het langverwachte derde en laatste deel in het drieluik over Jasmijn Vink. Judith woont met haar man en drie wolfhonden in Rockanje aan Zee.

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Jonas Jonasson

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.

The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.

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Gerwin van der Werf

Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)

Van der Werf won de eerste editie van de Turing Nationale Gedichtenwedstrijd in 2010 voor het gedicht Misbruik.

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Mathijs Deen

Mathijs Deen (1962) is een Nederlandse schrijver, radiomaker (VPRO-radioprogramma OVT) en voorlezer van audioboeken.

Voor Over Oude Wegen ontving Deen in 2018 de Halewijnprijs. Het Lichtschip (La Nave Faro) is door de havenautoriteiten van Livorno bekroond vanwege zijn verdienste als verspreider van kennis over de zeevaart.

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Anya Niewierra

Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.

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Lex Paleaux

Lex Paleaux is schrijver, columnist en scenarist. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand onder meer de veelgeprezen romans Winterwater en Als de dood zucht, houd ik mijn adem in. Van Winterwater werd een succesvol theaterstuk gemaakt en het werd vertaald in het Fries.

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Lieke Hester

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Chris Bajema

Chris Bajema is schrijver en prijswinnend podcastmaker. Als eerste in Nederland zette hij een onafhankelijke verhalende podcast op poten: Man met de microfoon. Eerder schreef hij veel hoorspelen en het boek Hoe maak ik een podcast? Hij wordt alom geprezen om zijn vermogen verhalen te vinden waar anderen overheen kijken. Dit is zijn eerste ‘cosy crime’ – een misdaadboek waarin wel een moord wordt gepleegd, maar het toch gezellig blijft, en waar altijd wel ergens een kat rondloopt.

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Eva Hermans-Kroot

Eva Hermans-Kroot was a Dutch blogger and writer who shared her experiences with her terminal lung cancer via social media and television. She gained fame by sharing her experiences on Instagram and her participation in the television and radio programs.

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Filip Müller

Filip Müller (born 1922, Sered, Czechoslovakia) was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp. He witnessed the exterminations and gassings of millions of Jews and lived to write one of the key documents of the Holocaust. Published in 1979, Müller's Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers was his first-hand account of the events behind the walls in the Auschwitz camps.

He was brought up into a country with increasing Nazi propaganda, where it was not long until tens of thousands of Jews were deported out of Czechoslovakia into the Auschwitz camps in Poland. In April 1942, Filip Müller, who was only twenty years old, came with one of the earliest transports to Auschwi

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Barry Cryer

Cryer was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Educated at Leeds Grammar School, he studied English literature at the University of Leeds.

After appearing in University revue, Cryer was offered a week's work at the Leeds City Varieties theatre, home of The Good Old Days, which became the longest-running television entertainment show in the world. Cryer left university after learning his first-year results and travelled to London. After impressing impresario Vivian Van Damm, Cryer began as the bottom billing act at the Windmill Theatre in London, a theatre which showed comedy acts in between nude tableau shows.

However, Cryer suffered severely from eczema and, after several periods in hospital, was released from his contract by Va

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Mark White

Mark White is an acclaimed comedy writer who has penned jokes and scripts for famous comedians, films, TV shows, and more.

He regularly attends stand-up comedy events where he gets up on stage to test new material and fine-tune his jokes.

When he's not working on the next big thing, he can usually be found playing a few holes at his local golf course.

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Nína Björk Jónsdóttir

Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat, as well as a former tour guide and TV, newspaper and radio journalist. Born and bred in Iceland, Nína Björk has spent a quarter of her life abroad, studying and working in various countries in Europe.

She is the author of a book for children and young adults on Icelandic heroines throughout history, Íslandsdætur, published by Salka in 2020. Her English translation of the book, Daughters of Iceland, came out 2 years later, also published by Salka.

Nína Björk co-wrote How to Live Icelandic, with her childhood friend Edda Magnus, published in 2021 by Quarto. The book has since been translated and published in 2022 Dutch, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.

Nína has also written plays for her theatre comp

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Maria Genova

Journaliste en schrijfster.

Ze is opgegroeid in Plovdiv en heeft daar haar gymnasiumdiploma gehaald.

Op haar negentiende verhuisde ze naar Nederland. Genova studeerde journalistiek aan de Academie voor Journalistiek in Tilburg.

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Sandi Ward

Sandi Ward is a native New Englander who now lives on the Jersey Shore with her husband, kids, dog and a big black cat named Winnie. She received her MA in Creative Writing from NYU, and is a copywriter at an advertising agency. Her novels include THE ASTONISHING THING, SOMETHING WORTH SAVING, and WHAT HOLDS US TOGETHER (Kensington Books).

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Sabin Willett

Peter Sabin Willett, known as Sabin Willett, (born March 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and novelist, a partner with the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen, previously called Bingham Dana. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. His is perhaps best known as a defense lawyer for U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, including Adil Abdulhakim.

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Tim Anderson

In addition to Sweet Tooth, Tim Anderson is the author of Tune in Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries, which Publishers Weekly called “laugh-out-loud funny,” Shelf Awareness called “so much fun,” and Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times completely ignored. He is an editor and lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Jimmy; his cat, Stella; and his yoga balance ball, Sheila. Tim also writes young adult historical fiction under the name T. Neill Anderson and blogs at seetimblog.blogspot.com. His favorite Little Debbie snack cake is the Fudge Round.

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Flora Groult

Flora Groult (23 mai 1924 dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris1 – 3 juin 2001) est une écrivaine et journaliste française.

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Sylvia Witteman

Sylvia Witteman is a Dutch culinary journalist and columnist for the national daily newspaper De Volkskrant.

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Teresa Roberts

Teresa Roberts is Professor of Ministry and Christian Formation and Program Director of Children’s Ministry at Ozark Christian College and Lincoln Seminary. She is an expert in children’s spiritual formation training with more than 30 years of ministry experience.

Dr. Roberts holds a Master of Arts in Family and Youth Ministry, a Master of Divinity, and a Doctor of Ministry. She serves in children’s ministry at College Heights Christian Church where her husband serves as the Operations Ministry Lead.

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Michael John Sullivan

Michael John Sullivan Michael John Sullivan graduated with a communications degree and a promising future in the field of journalism after working for the official school paper the previous two years. Six months later, he found himself washing his hair in a toilet at the same university as he prepared for a job interview.

Sullivan was homeless at the age of 23 after first watching his mother -- his protector in a dysfunctional family -- die from cancer. A year later his father asked him to leave. Riding a New York City subway train at night, his only companion was a green plastic bag of belongings. During these bleak days he began writing his most reflective and emotional childhood and adult memories now featured in two of his novels.

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Kevin A. Kuhn

Kevin Kuhn lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with his wife Melinda and three children. He is a University Lecturer who enjoys sipping cheap bourbon, avoiding yard work, and living vicariously through his children's sports. While Kevin has no musical skill whatsoever, he appreciates a broad spectrum of artists from Pink Floyd to Prince and Radiohead to the Rolling Stones. His golf game is horrific with flashes of mediocrity. Kevin is proud to be a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).
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John Hatcher

A specialist in the economic, social and demographic history of England from the middle ages to the eighteenth century, John Hatcher is Professor of Economic and Social History at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

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Dieuwertje Blok

Dieuwer Sarah "Dieuwertje" Blok was a Dutch actress, writer and radio and television presenter best known for presenting Het Sinterklaasjournaal from 2001 to 2024.

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Judith Richards

Before becoming a writer, Judith Richards was an actress, an animal trainer, and a carny hauling pig-iron, managing big rides on America's midways. Thelonious Rising, her sixth novel, reflects her lifelong love of music and fascination with the city of New Orleans. A Midwesterner gone South, Judith's marriage to author C. Terry Cline, Jr. first piqued her interest in writing. Since then, two of her six novels won the Alabama Library Association award for fiction, and Too Blue to Fly was nominated for the Lillian Smith Award. Her novel, Summer Lightning, has been in print since 1978, and has been read in 17 languages.

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Hendrik Groen

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