Herta Müller
Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet Union after World War II.
She read German studies and Romanian literature at Timişoara University. In 1976, Müller began working as a translator for an engineering company, but in 1979 was dismissed for her refusal to cooperate with the Securitate, the Communist regime's secret police. Initially, she made a living by teaching kindergarten and giving private German lessons.
Her first book was published in Romania (in German) in 1982, and appeared only in a censored version, as with most publications of the time.
In 1987, Müller left for Germany
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Constance Debré
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For the remaining ten years of his life, he was confined to his bed and practically immobilized by the disease. Despite his illness, he wrote and published his first piece in 1930, a short story called "Herrant" in Tudor Arghezi's literary magazine Bilete de papagal. He contributed -
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Jenny Erpenbeck
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philip Roth
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Marguerite Duras
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Paul Kenyon
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Isak Dinesen
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Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), born Karen Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
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Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez
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Martha Minow
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Robert Merle
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Mircea Cărtărescu
Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
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Bessora
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Sylvia Beach
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Ariel Dorfman
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Dževad Karahasan
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U rodnom je gradu završio osnovno i gimnazijsko školovanje. Diplomirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu, studij komparativne književnosti i teatrologije, a u Zagrebu, na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu, branio je doktorski rad. Dugi niz godina učestvovao je u uređivanju sarajevske revije kao urednik za kulturna pitanja Odjek, te dramaturg u Zeničkom narodnom pozorištu.[2]
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Weiwei Ai
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António Lobo Antunes
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By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola, from 1970 to 1973. It was there, in a military hospital, that he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium.
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Xavier de Maistre
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Afsaneh Najmabadi
Afsāneh Najmābādi (Persian: افسانه نجم آبادی) (born 1946) is an Iranian-American historian and gender theorist. She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. At present she chairs the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is further Associate Editor of Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, in six volumes.
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Afsaneh Najmabadi moved as student from University of Tehran to Radcliffe College in 1966. She obtained her BA in physics in 1968 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and her MA in physics in 1970 from Harvard University. Following this, she pursued social studies, combining academic interests with engagement in social activism, first in the Un -
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, better known as J.M.G. Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940) is a Franco-Mauriciano novelist. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation) and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.
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Silvio D'Arzo
Silvio D’Arzo (pseudonym of Ezio Comparoni) was born in Reggio nell'Emilia in 1920. He wrote of the loneliness of the human being, the unpredictability of destiny, the search for a consolation that gives meaning to existence. Despite his untimely death, his production is wide and heterogeneous, including essays on English and American literature (Stevenson and Conrad in particular), and several poems. However, today he is mostly remembered as a fiction writer. His best-known short novella is The House of the Others, described by Eugenio Montale as "a perfect story".
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Ghayath Almadhoun
Ghayath Almadhoun (غياث المدهون) is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus in 1979 and moved to Sweden in 2008. He writes poetry and has been translated into nearly 30 languages. Currently, he lives between Berlin and Stockholm.
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Almadhoun has published five collections of poetry in Arabic, the latest being "Adrenaline" in 2017 and "I Brought You a Severed Hand" in 2024, both published in Arabic by Almutawassit in Milan.
In Sweden, he has been translated and published in two collections: Asylansökan, Ersatz, 2010, which was awarded the Klas de Vylders stipendiefond for immigrant writers. He has also written Till Damaskus, Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014, together with the Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg. which was included in the literary critic list f -
Cristian Englert
As far as software engineers go, Cristian Englert is a very lucky one, being paid to play with robotic rovers for the future interplanetary missions of the European Space Agency, somewhere in a little town in The Netherlands. Published novelist in his native country, Romania, he's still gathering material for his first volume of short stories in English.
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Denyse Waissbluth
Denyse Waissbluth is a writer who is passionate about culture, learning, and travelling. She is a former journalist and graduate of Simon Fraser University's Writer's Studio.
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In addition to creative writing, Denyse works in communications in the tourism industry, inspiring travelers from around the world to fall in love with Canada. She is currently studying towards her tea sommelier certification through the Tea And Herbal Association of Canada.
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Pitigrilli
Pitigrilli was the pseudonym for Dino Segre (9 May 1893 - 8 May 1975), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaïne (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the "forbidden books" list by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death.
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He founded the literary magazine Grandi Firme, which was published in Turin from 1924 to 1938, when it was banned under the newly enacted anti-Semitic Race Laws of the Fascist government. Although baptized as a Catholic, Segre was classified as Jewish at that time. He had worked -
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Mircea M. Țara
Mircea M. Țara s-a născut pe 10 ianuarie 1987 la Baia Mare. La finele liceului descoperă pasiunea pentru literatura de dincolo de propunerile din programa pentru bacalaureat. Însă imaginația și-a cultivat-o încă din copilărie, inventând povești pentru micii roboți din lego sau soldăței din plastic, pe covorul persan din sufragerie.
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A absolvit facultatea de Litere secția Română-Engleză din cadrul Universității de Nord, iar după ce traduce cartea Drumul înfometat semnată de cunoscutul romancier nigerian Ben Okri, în 2011 finalizează un master în marketing online obținut în cadrul ASE București.
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Marc Bressant
Marc Bressant, nom de plume de Patrick Imhaus est un diplomate et écrivain français. Il écrit aussi sous le pseudonyme de Mangin.
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Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Olinda Beja
Com apenas dois anos deixou as ilhas maravilhosas e passou a viver do outro lado do mar, em terras frias da Beira Alta, Portugal. Licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Português/Francês) pela Universidade do Porto, Olinda Beja é docente do Ensino Secundário desde 1976. Ensina também Língua e Cultura Portuguesa na Suíça, é assessora cultural da Embaixada de São Tomé e Príncipe e dinamizadora cultural.
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Foi vencedora em 2013 do prémio literário Francisco José Tenreiro prémio este atribuído à obra A Sombra do Ocá.
Em 2015 o livro da sua autoria Um Grão de Café entrou para o Plano Nacional de Leitura de Portugal.