Ia Genberg
Ia Gabriella Genberg (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish journalist and novelist.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she debuted as a writer in 2012 with the novel Söta fredag ("Sweet Friday"). Her fourth novel, Detaljerna ("The Details"), won the August Prize in 2022, the year of its publication. The English translation, by Kira Josefsson, was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
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Peräseinäjoella lapsuutensa elänyt Mantila tuli ylioppilaaksi 1983. Hän opiskeli Turun yliopistossa 1986–1991 ja valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi pääaineenaan valtio-oppi ja sivuaineena poliittinen historia. Hän suoritti M.Sc.-tutkinnon London School of Economicsissa 1993. Hän oli toimittaja Ilkassa 1985–1988 ja Turun Sanomissa 1988–1994, josta ajasta neljä viimeistä vuotta taloustoimittajana. Hän on työskennellyt valtioneuvoston viestintäjohtajana, sanomalehti Kalevan ja sitä ennen sanomalehti Pohjalaisen vastaavana päätoimittajana sekä ulkoministeriössä. Markku aloitti Ilkka-Pohjalaisen ensimmäisenä päätoimittaja vuoden 2020 alussa. Mantila on palvellut diplomaattina Suomen suurlähetystöissä Etelä-Koreassa ja Espanjassa. Markku Manti
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
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Sarah Chihaya
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Sven Lindqvist
Dr. Sven Lindqvist was a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction.
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Krzysztof Środa
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Paulo Scott
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Roger Robinson
Roger is a writer and educator who has taught and performed worldwide and is an experienced workshop leader and lecturer on poetry. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon. He received commissions from The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, The National Portrait Gallery, V&A, INIVA, MK Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East where he also was associate artist. He is an alumni of The Complete Works.
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His play “The Meal” received the prize for Original Playwright of E.T.E. and has been translated into English, German, French and Hungarian.
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Marcel Mauss
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Like many members of Année Sociologique Mauss was attracted to socialism, particularly that espoused by Jean Jaurès. He was particularly active in the events of the Dreyfus affair and towards the end of the century he helped edit such left-wing papers as le Populaire, l'Humanité a -
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Scribner published Dana Spiotta’s first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. The New York Times called it “the debut of a wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life, and an unerring ear for how people talk and try to cope today.” It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West.
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Her second novel, Eat the Document, was published in 2006 by Scribner. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Michiko Kakutani wrote in her review in The New York Times that Eat The Document was “stunning” and described it as “a book that possesses the staccat -
Kristīne Želve
Kristīne Želve beigusi Latvijas Kultūras akadēmiju kinorežijas specialitātē (1996). Režisējusi tādas filmas kā "Fedja" (2012), "Musica Serena" (2016), "Mērijas ceļojums" (2018), "Emīlija, Latvijas preses karaliene" (2021).
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2011. gadā izdota viņas debijas grāmata, stāstu krājums "Meitene, Kas Nogrieza Man Matus", kas ieguva Literatūras gada balvu kā gada labākā debija. Grāmatā attēlota 90. gadu Rīgas radošās jaunatnes un bohēmas vide. Grāmata 2014. gadā izdota arī igauņu tulkojumā.
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Roland Paulsen
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Marit Kapla
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Adania Shibli
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Clara Drummond
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Birgitta Trotzig
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Alison Moore
Born in Manchester in 1971, Alison Moore lives next but one to a sheep field in a village on the Leicestershire-Nottinghamshire border, with her husband Dan and son Arthur.
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She is a member of Nottingham Writers’ Studio and an honorary lecturer in the School of English at Nottingham University.
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Antalya’da doğdu. İstanbul’da yaşıyor ve mimarlık yapıyor. Yayımlanmış öykü kitapları: Rüya Arızaları (2006), Yalnızlığın 17 Türü (2008), Dünyayı Seyretmek İçin Bir Yer (2010) ve Ormanda Kaybolmak (2014) dışında Bir Çift Ayak (2016) adlı romanı ve Woolf’un İzinde (2017) adlı deneme kitabı var. Ayrıca daha önce Rüya Arızaları ve Yalnızlığın 17 Türü adıyla yayımlanan kitaplarını yeni öyküler de ekleyerek Gece Yolculuğu (2017) adlı kitapta bir araya getirdi.
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Meltem Gürle
Meltem Gürle, 1966 da Almanya'da doğdu. Çocukluğunu İzmir'de, öğrencilik yıllarını İstanbul'da geçirdi. Felsefe ve edebiyat eğitimi aldı. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yabancı Diller Yüksek Okulu'nda edebiyat ve eleştiri dersleri verdi. 2009-2016 arasında BirGün gazetesinde yazdığı edebiyat yazılarından oluşan Kırmızı Kazak (2016) adlı denemeleri, Oğuz Atay'ın Batı kanonuyla diyaloğunu incelediği Ölülerle Konuşmak (2016) adlı bir araştırması ve çocuklar için yazdığı Roko ile Konuşmalar (2018) adlı bir felsefe kitabı vardır.
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Francesca Manfredi
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La sua prima raccolta di racconti Un buon posto dove stare ha vinto il Premio Campiello nella sezione Opera Prima 2017. Nel 2019 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, L'impero della polvere, ed -
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York.
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He made a celebrated debut in 2003 with Ett öga rött/One Eye Red, which has sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling paperback of any category in 2004. For Ett öga rött/One Eye Red Jonas Hassen Khemiri received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut, Sweden’s most important award for a first book. In the fall of 2007 the film based on Ett öga rött/One Eye Red will open in Swedish cinemas.
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Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. She was assigned professor at Dramatiska Institutet from 1992.She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991.
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Katarina Wennstam
Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckeslagen som trädde i kraft 2018. Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från kvinnofrågorna.
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Efter två decennier som journalist, författare och debattör i feministiska och kriminalpolitiska frågor har Katarina idag en hög trovärdighet och en stor plattform på sociala medier. Hennes böcker har älskats av läsare och litteraturkritiker och hennes första bok, Flickan och skulden, betraktas idag som en kultbok. -
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Lena Andersson
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Amanda Svensson
Amanda Svensson är bosatt i Malmö. Hon är verksam som kulturjournalist och debuterade med den uppmärksammade Hey Dolly (2008).
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Amanda Svensson nominerades till Augustpriset 2011 för Välkommen till den här världen: med motiveringen:
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Karolina Ramqvist
Karolina Ramqvist är en svensk journalist och författare.
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Ramqvist har varit chefredaktör för tidskriften Arena och kritiker i Dagens Nyheter. Hon blev allmänt känd när hon publicerade ett privat brev från Ulf Lundell i antologin Fittstim. Hon har även medverkat i tidskriften Bang. Ramqvist är gift med journalisten Fredrik Virtanen.
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Annika Norlin
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Johanna Frid
Johanna Frid (1988) er født i Stockholm og bor i København. Hun debuterte i 2017, sammen med Gordana Spasic, med diktsamlingen Familieepos. Nora eller Brenn Oslo brenn er Frids romandebut. Forfatteren skriver nå på sin andre roman.
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Johanna Frid fikk Dagens Nyheters Kulturpris 2019 for romandebuten Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn: ”Johanna Frid gjør på en helt umiddelbar måte det som alle forfattere strever etter: Hun etablerer en helt egen stemme i teksten sin. Romanen hennes er egenrådig, intelligent og morsom – et helt selvsagt valg som vinner av DN:s kulturpris.” (Utdrag fra juryens begrunnelse.) -
Andrev Walden
Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.
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Agri Ismaïl
Agri Ismaïl is a Kurdish author based in Sweden who has worked as a corporate lawyer in London, Dubai, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Jakuta Alikavazovic
Jakuta Alikavazovic est née en 1979 à Paris. Lauréate de la Bourse « écrivain » de la Fondation Lagardère en 2007 et du prix Goncourt du premier roman en 2008, elle a publié aux éditions de l’Olivier Histoires contre nature (2006), Corps volatils (2007, Points 2010) et Le Londres-Louxor (2010, Points 2012).
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Felipe Alfau
Felipe Alfau was an American Spanish novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino.
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Emilio Fraia
EMILIO FRAIA nasceu em São Paulo, em 1982. É autor de Sebastopol (Alfaguara, 2018, terceiro lugar no Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional, finalista do Prêmio Jabuti e semifinalista do Prêmio Oceanos), de Campo em branco (Companhia das Letras, 2013, em parceria com o artista DW Ribatski) e de O verão do Chibo (Alfaguara, 2008, em parceria com Vanessa Barbara, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura). Foi um dos autores selecionados para a coletânea Os melhores jovens escritores brasileiros da revista britânica Granta. Teve sua ficção publicada nas revistas The New Yorker, One Grand e nas coletâneas Passageways, da Two Lines Press, e Cuentos en tránsito, da Alfaguara, na Argentina. Foi premiado com uma Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship, trad
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Amy Key
Amy Key is a poet and writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn't Forever, which was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman and The Times. Her poems have been widely published and anthologised, and her essays have appeared in At the Pond, Granta, the Poetry Review and elsewhere.
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Christophe Boltanski
Christophe Boltanski is a French journalist, writer and chronicler, laureate of the Prix Femina 2015 for his novel La Cache.
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Ed Lin
Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He's the author of several books: Waylaid, his literary debut, and his Robert Chow crime series, set in 1970s Manhattan Chinatown: This Is a Bust, Snakes Can't Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung.
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Helen Walsh
HELEN WALSH was born in Warrington in 1977 and moved to Barcelona at the age of sixteen. Working as a fixer in the red light district, she saved enough money to put herself through language school. Burnt out and broke, she returned to England a year later and now works with socially excluded teenagers in North Liverpool. Brass is her first novel.
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Neil Faulkner
Neil Faulkner FSA was a British archaeologist, historian, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and political activist. Educated at King’s College, Cambridge and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Faulkner was a school teacher before becoming an archaeologist.
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He was currently a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Editor of Military History Monthly, and Co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project (in Jordan) and the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (in Norfolk, England). On 22 May 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London -
Jenny Nordberg
Jenny Nordberg, Sweden and the United States, is an investigative reporter and author.
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A profiled foreign policy analyst and correspondent, her long-form investigations have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian. Her topics range from U.S. politics and policy, international human rights to finance, tech, corruption and conflict.
As a Bellingcat-trained visual investigations reporter, she has led many large-scale investigations in the field, most recently into the formerly occupied territories of Ukraine.
During her time as a correspondent in Afghanistan and Iran, she broke the story of “bacha posh” — on how girls live disguised as boys under gender apartheid.
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Bernard MacLaverty
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942 and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and, for two years in the mid eighties, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Aberdeen.
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After living for a time in Edinburgh and the Isle of Islay he now lives in Glasgow. He is a member of Aosdana in Ireland and is Visiting Writer/Professor at the University of Strathclyde.
Currently he is employed as a teacher of creative writing on a postgraduate course in prose fiction run by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Brando was one of only three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.
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Brando had a significant impact on film acting, and was the foremost example of the "method" acting style. While he became notorious for his "mumbling" diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century. Director Martin Scorsese -
Klaus Hagerup
Klaus Hagerup was a Norwegian stage director and dramatist. He made a name for himself as a writer of award-winning books for children and young people. Two of his books have been made into films. Five of his novels featured the unpredictable Markus Simonsen; the series has gained enormous popularity both within and outside Norway, where Mr. Hagerup resides.
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Ahmet Telli
Ahmet Telli (d.2 Aralık 1946, Eskipazar, Çankırı), Öğretmen, şair, yazar.
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2 Aralık 1946'da Çankırı’nın Eskipazar ilçesinde (Bu ilçe şu an Karabük'e bağlı) doğan Ahmet Telli, Hasanoğlan ve Kayseri Pazarören, Pınarbaşı öğretmen okullarında eğitim gördü. Öğretmen okulundan sonra dört yıl ilkokul öğretmenliği, daha sonra da Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü'nü bitirmesinin ardından, Kastamonu, İnebolu, Doğanyurt'ta, Kırıkkale'de ve Ankara Atatürk Lisesi'nde Türkçe, Edebiyat öğretmenliği yaptı. 1981'de Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü'nde öğretmenken, sıkıyönetimce tutuklanarak görevine son verildi. Aynı yıl, TCK'nın (o zamanlar) 141, 142 ve 146. maddelerinden yargılandı. 141 ve 146'dan beraat etti. Cigerhun'un şiirleri üstüne yazdığı bir yazısından ötürü 142. maddeden -
Violaine Huisman
Violaine Huisman was born in Paris in 1979 and has lived and worked in New York for twenty years, where she ran the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s literary series and also organized multidisciplinary arts festivals across the city. Originally published by Gallimard under the title Fugitive parce que reine, her debut novel The Book of Mother was awarded multiple literary prizes including the Prix Françoise Sagan and the Prix Marie Claire.
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Pınar Kür
Yazar. Bursa'da doğdu. Tam adı Havva Pınar Kür. Yazar İsmet Kür'ün kızıdır. İlk ve orta okulu Ankara'da , liseyi New York'ta okudu. Üniversiteye New York'ta başladı ve İstanbul'da Robert Kolej'in yüksek kısmında tamamladı. Fransa'da Sorbonne Üniversitesinde 'Yirminci Yüzyıl Tiyatrosunda Gerçekçilik ve Yanılsama: Pirandello, O'neill ve Etkileri' teziyle doktorasını verdi. Ankara'da Devlet Tiyatrolarında dramaturg olarak çalıştı (1971-1973). Bilgi Üniversitesinde ders verdi. Gazeteci Can Kolukısa ile bir süre evli kaldı.
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Hikâyeleri 1971'den itibaren dergilerde yayınlanmaya başladı. Müstehcenlik yüzünden tenkide uğradı. -
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel 'The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am'. The book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, the P2-listeners' Novel Prize and won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize (judged by The Literary Council of The Norwegian Authors´ Union). It was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013. Skomsvold has dramatized the novel and the play premieres at the National Theatre (Oslo) in 2014.
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In 2012 Skomsvold published her second novel, 'Monsterhuman'. It was shortlisted for the P2-listeners' Novel Prize and Natt & Dag's Best Book of 2012.
The poetry collection 'A Little Sad Mathematics' was published in 2013.
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John Wain
John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.
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Wain was born and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of a dentist, Arnold Wain, and his wife Annie, née Turner. He had an older sister and a younger brother, Noel. After attending Newcastle under Lyme High School, he entered St. John's College, Oxford, gaining a first in his BA in 1946 and MA in 1950. He was a Fereday Fellow of St. John's between 1946 and 1949. On 4 July 1947, Wain married Marianne Uffenheimer (b. 1923 or 1924), but they divorced in 1956. Wain then married Eirian Mary James ( -
James Hall
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Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash is the author of poems, short stories, non-fiction, films, and documentaries. In 2010 he received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi literary award in India. He is professor-in-charge, Department of Mass Communication, Media, and Journalism, Indira Gandhi Tribal University, Amarkantak. He lives in Ghaziabad, India.
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Karen Blixen
Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
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A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.
Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and -
Vladimir Makanin
Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories. He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the publishing house Sovietskiy Pisatel (The Soviet Writer). Makanin's writing style may be categorized as realist. His forte lies in depicting the psychological impact of everyday life experiences.
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Nikki Reimer
I write the absurdities of life.
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Nikki Reimer is a carbon-based life form and fifth-generation settler of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent who resides on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta (land belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprising the Siksika, Piikani and Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.) She is grateful to reside on these lands.
Reimer writes poetry, essays and criticism, yells on the internet, and makes digital art. Her published books are My Heart is a Rose Manhattan, DOWNVERSE and [sic]. Her crea -
Jan Erik Vold
Jan Erik Vold er kjent som essayist, oversetter, kulturdebattant og plateartist. Han har gjennom sine dikt og avisartikler satt i gang en rekke debatter om litteratur og politikk, og han sto blant annet bak "Poesiåret 2000". I september 2000 ble han utnevnt til æresdoktor ved Universitetet i Oslo. I 1960-årene studerte han språk og litteratur ved universitetene i Oslo, Uppsala og Santa Barbara, California. Han debuterte som lyriker i 1965, med samlingen mellom speil og speil, og har siden hatt en omfattende produksjon. Jan Erik Vold er født i 1939 og bor i dag i Stockholm.
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Mehmet Murat Somer
Mehmet Murat Somer was born in Ankara in 1959. After graduating from university, he worked for a short time as an engineer, and for an extended period as a banker. Since 1994, he has been a management consultant, conducting corporate seminars on management skills and personal development. When not working out in the hammam, he writes books in the Hop-Ciki-Yaya series, of which there are now 6.
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Pauli Tapio
Pauli Tapio (s. 1986) on Helsingissä asuva, Oulussa syntynyt kääntäjä, tohtoriopiskelija, kriitikko ja runouslehti Tuli&Savun entinen toimittaja. Hän on opiskellut kirjallisuutta ja venäjää.
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Tapio on kirjoittanut esseitä ja arvosteluja kirjallisuus-, sanoma- ja aikakauslehtiin. Tapio kääntää erityisesti venäläistä kirjallisuutta – niin proosaa kuin runouttakin.
(teksti Poesia-kustantamon sivustolta)
Pauli Tapio voitti Helsingin Sanomien kirjallisuuspalkinnon (2017) esikoisrunoteoksellaan Varpuset ja aika. -
Amalie Smith
Amalie Smith er en dansk forfatter og billedkunstner. Hun tog afgang fra Forfatterskolen i 2009 og er masterstuderende på Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi.
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Jenny Jägerfeld
Jenny Jägerfeld made her literary debut in 2006 with a hole in my head. Her second novel, Me on the Floor, Bleeding, was in 2010 rewarded with The August Prize for best youth novel in Sweden. It’s her first novel translated to English.
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Originally a child psychologist, she now runs her own psychologist practice in Stockholm. She also works for the Swedish national radio, in a radio show about psychological matters. -
Gamze Arslan
2016 Yaşar Nabi Nayır Öykü Ödülü'ne değer görülen Gamze Arslan, 1986'da Ankara'da doğdu. 2007'de Hacettepe Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü, 2012'de Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Tiyatro Bölümü Dramatik Yazarlık Anasanat Dalı'ndan mezun oldu. Yazıları Felsefe Yazın, Bibliotech, Sahne, Partisyon dergilerinde yayımlandı. İstanbul'da yaşayan Arslan, dramaturgluk ve senaryo yazarlığı yapıyor.
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Jan Lööf
Jan Lööf, född 1940 i Trollhättan, är konstnär och författare. Han är dessutom jazzmusiker och spelar tenorsaxofon och flöjt. Tidigt började han med att teckna gubbar, men fick sin formella utbildning som bildkonstnär på Konstfack i Stockholm.
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Mahi Binebine
Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages.
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Born in 1959 in Marrakech, Mahi Binebine moved in Paris in 1980 to continue his studies in mathematics, which he taught for eight years. He then devoted himself to writing and painting. He wrote several novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages. He emigrated to New York from 1994 to 1999. His paintings are part of the permanent collection at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He returned to Marrakech in 2002 where he currently lives and works. -
Ján Johanides
Slovenský prozaik a esejista.
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Narodil sa v rodine predavača a vzdelanie získaval v Dolnom Kubíne a v Bratislave, kde začal v roku 1954 študovať na filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského estetiku a dejiny umenia, no štúdium po troch rokoch nedokončil. Pracoval ako psychológ, referent vo Zväze slovenských spisovateľov, dramaturg a redaktor programového magazínu v dome kultúry a osvety v Bratislave a na mnohých ďalších miestach. Od roku 1972 sa venoval prevažne slobodnému povolaniu. Žil na viacerých miestach Slovenska – v Martine, v Trnovci nad Váhom, od roku 1972 žil v Šali, kde aj zomrel.
Svoje prvé literárne diela začal uverejňovať v časopise Mladá tvorba a Slovenské pohľady, neskôr prispieval do všetkých literárnych časopisov. Prvé knižn -
Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian (born 1949 in Paris) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.
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Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), and then the novels Bleu comme l'enfer (1982) and Zone érogène (1984) before gaining fame with his subsequent novels 37°2 le matin (1985) which was filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1986; English title Betty Blue), Maudit Manège (1986), Echine (1988), Crocodiles (short stories) (1989), Lent dehors (1991), Sotos (1993), and Assassins (1994). -
Göran Persson
Hans Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
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Since leaving office, Persson has been a consultant for the Stockholm-based PR firm JKL. He published a book in October 2007, Min väg, mina val (My path, my choices). -
Pia Juul
Pia Juul was a Danish poet, prose writer and translator. She received several prizes and was a member of the Danish Academy. She also taught at the Danish writing school Forfatterskolen in Copenhagen
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Hulki Aktunç
Askeri okullardaki orta ve lise yıllarından sonra İstanbul Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ne girdi. Yükseköğrenimi sürdürmedi.
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Yazı yaşamı, dönemin önemli dergilerinden Yeni Ufuklar’da başladı (1968). İlk kitabı Gidenler Dönmeyenler ile Türk Dil Kurumu Öykü Ödülü’nü (1977), Bir Çağ Yangını romanı ile Abdi İpekçi Ödülü’nü (1981), Bir Yer Göstericinin Hayatı ile Yunus Nadi Öykü Ödülü’nü (1990) kazandı. 1976 sonrasında şiire özel bir ağırlık verdi. İnsan Aşklarının Külüdür ile Halil Kocagöz Şiir Ödülü’nü (1994), Istıraplar Ansiklopedisi ile de Cemal Süreya Ödülü’nü aldı (1995). On yılı aşan bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Büyük Argo Sözlüğü (1990) gerek Türkiye’de, gerek yurtdışı Türkoloji çevrelerinde yoğun ilgi gördü. 1998 öyküye dönüş yılı oldu (Güz -
Ayhan Geçgin
Ayhan Geçgin 1970 İstanbul doğumlu. Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü’nü bitirdi. 2003’te yayımlanan ilk romanı Kenarda’yı, Gençlik Düşü (2006), Son Adım (2011), Uzun Yürüyüş (2015) ve 2020 Orhan Kemal Roman Armağanı’nı alan Bir Dava (2019) izledi. Behçet Çelik ve Barış Bıçakçı ile konuşmaları Kurbağalara İnanıyorum adıyla kitaplaştı (İletişim, 2016). Uzun Yürüyüş Fransızca ve İtalyancaya çevrildi. İstanbul’da yaşıyor.
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Gunstein Bakke
Gunstein Bakke (b.1968) was born in Setesdal, a valley in Aust-Agder county in southern Norway. He made his authorial debut in 2000 with the novel Kontoret. All his publications have been well received, but with Maud and Aud he has finally been recognized as one of the most original and interesting voices among Norwegian authors. Bakke's thought-provoking book combines poetic language, polyphonic narrative and astute analysis in a manner that stands out in contemporary Norwegian literature, and Maud and Aud has brought him much acclaim from literary critics as well as several nominations for Norwegian literary prizes. Bakke currently lives partly in Oslo, partly in Gotland.
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Maud and Aud. A Novel About Traffic
Bakke, Gunstein: Maud og Aud. Ein -
Silene Lehto
Silene Lehto on syntynyt Hattulassa vuonna 1979, kasvanut Valkealassa ja työskentelee nykyisin Helsingissä Kallion kirjastossa. Hän juhli hopeasijaa vuoden 2009 J. H. Erkon lyriikkakilpailussa 30 runon sarjalla, josta hioutui hänen esikoisteoksensa Hän lähti valaiden matkaan.
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Tatjana Gromača
Tatjana Gromača is a poet and fiction writer, and one of the greatest talents that has emerged in Croatian poetry in the last ten years. She is currently working as a journalist for Feral Tribune, a weekly magazine notorious for its political satire.
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Her travelogues, reportages, fiction, poetry, literary essays and other have been published in books and magazines. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, Slovenian and German. -
Pentti Saarikoski
Pentti Saarikoski was one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. His body of work comprises poetry, autobiographical novels and translations, among them such classics as Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Damodar Mauzo
Damodar Mauzo (born 1 August 1944) is a Goan short story writer, novelist, critic and script writer in Konkani. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for the novel Karmelin and the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar award for his novel Tsunami Simon in 2011.[1] His collection of Short stories Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International award in 2015.
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Jorge Galán
Su nombre real es George Alexander Portillo Galán. Nació en San Salvador en 1973.
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Arnav Bhardwaj
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Born in Mumbai and raised near Delhi, Arnav Bhardwaj was fascinated by historical legends and mysteries as a regular visitor to the various historical monuments in India. As an undergraduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, he is also passionate about the wide possibilities offered by science and technology. Growing up, he often noticed a strong rivalry between the sciences and the arts but felt that there was a lot of potential by combining the two. His love for detective mysteries, science fiction and historical legends is reflected in his debut novel - The Bird That Ruled Bombay.