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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.

Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.

He was a proponent of epic theate

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Anne Garréta

Anne F. Garréta (born 1962) is a French novelist and a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo. A graduate of France’s prestigious École normale supérieure and lecturer at the University of Rennes II since 1995, Anne F. Garréta was co-opted into the Oulipo in April 2000. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. Her first novel, Sphinx (Grasset, 1986), hailed by critics, tells a love story between two people without giving any indication of grammatical gender for the narrator or the narrator’s love interest, A***. Her second novel, Ciels liquides (Grasset, 1990), tells the fate of a character losing the use of language. In La Décomposition (Grasset, 1999), a serial killer methodi

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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.

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.

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Tiffany McDaniel

TIFFANY McDANIEL is the international bestselling author of Betty, The Summer that Melted Everything, and On the Savage Side. She is the winner of over a dozen literary prizes, including the Guardian's Not the Booker, Friends of American Writers Chicago, the Society of Midland Authors, and the FNAC. Her debut Middle Grade fantasy series, A Sky Full of Dragons, is forthcoming, August 27, 2024. Tiffany was awarded the prestigious title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in July 2021.

She lives with cats and a dog surrounded by the trees and wildlife that she loves. When not writing, she may be found in the garden.

Follow Tiffany on Instagram @authortiffanymcdaniel

To learn more visit tiffanymcdaniel.com or thewandkeepers.com

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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE was an English novelist, published (in the original hardback editions) as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.

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Suad Amiry

Suad Amiry (Arabic: سعاد العامري) is a Palestinian writer and architect has been living in Ramallah since 1981.
Born in Damascus, Amiry grew up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, Michigan, US, and in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Amiry is author of the well-known book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law which has been translated into 17 languages and was awarded the prestigious 2004 Viareggio Prize.
She is the founder and Director of the Riwaq: Centre for Architectural Conservation. Amiry is the vice-president of the Board of Trustees of Birzeit University.
Her book Menopausal Palestine: Women at the Edge was published in India by Women Unlimited (2010) Her latest book Nothing to Lose But yo

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Alfred Döblin

Bruno Alfred Döblin (August 10, 1878 – June 26, 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays; a true crime story; a travel account; two book-length philosophical treatises; scores of essays on politics, religion, art, and society; and numerous letters — his complete works, republished by Deutscher Taschenbuch

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Vasily Grossman

Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive a traditional Jewish education. A Russian nanny turned his name Yossya into Russian Vasya (a diminutive of Vasily), which was accepted by the whole family. His father had social-democratic convictions and joined the Mensheviks. Young Vasily Grossman idealistically supported the Russian Revolution of 1917.

When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, Grossman's mother was trapped in Berdychiv by the invading German army, and eventually murdered together with 20,000 to 30,000 other Jews who did not evacuate Berdychiv. Grossman was exempt from military service, but volunteered for the front, where he spent more than 1,000 days. He became a war reporter for

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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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Valeria Biuso

Classe '93, cresciuta a Catania tra riff distorti e sinestesie.
Da adolescente impara il francese per capire Rimbaud, oggi non è sicura che volesse essere capito.
Scrive e legge storie strane fatte di carne, abissi e altre paranoie.

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Barbara O'Brien

Barbara O'Brien is a pseudonym for a woman who experienced a six-month psychotic break during the 1950s and wrote about it in Operators and Things.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation TS Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993, in recognition of her services to literature. She has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, in 1969 for The Public Image and in 1981 for Loitering with Intent. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN f

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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.

She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul

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Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

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

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Andrea Bajani

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

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Han Kang

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소설가 한강

Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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Marco Balzano

Marco Balzano vive a Milano, dove lavora come insegnante di Lettere nei licei. Dottore di ricerca in lettere, nel 2010 pubblica il suo primo romanzo.

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Nadia Terranova

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

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Laura Imai Messina

Laura Imai Messina was born in Rome and graduated in Literature from La Sapienza University. She moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-three to perfect the language and has been permanently living in Japan ever since. She obtained a first level doctorate in Comparative Cultures at the International Christian University with a thesis on the Japanese writer Ogawa Yōko and at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies a PhD with a comparative thesis on the subject of materiality in Japanese and European literature.

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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Jessica Hamilton

Jessica^^Hamilton

Pseudonym for Ken Greenhall

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Roberta Recchia

Laureata in Lingue e Letterature Europee e Americane, fino a dieci anni fa ha lavorato in un’azienda leader nel ramo delle spedizioni internazionali. Nel 2013 ha deciso di abbandonare il lavoro d’ufficio per dedicarsi all’insegnamento, per cui ha scoperto una profonda passione. Oggi è docente di lingua inglese in una scuola superiore romana.
Vive con il suo adorato chihuahua, Claudio, in una piccola città sul litorale laziale.
Scrive da sempre, ma l’idea di pubblicare le sue storie era sempre rimasta un sogno nel cassetto. Nel 2023 ha deciso che era tempo di aprire quel cassetto.

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Salvatore La Porta

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

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Michael Frank

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

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Leonardo Caffo

Leonardo Caffo (Catania, 1988) è un filosofo, scrittore, curatore editoriale e opinionista italiano. E' professore di Estetica della Moda, dei Media e del Design alla NABA di Milano, insegna inoltre Ecologia dell'Arte alla IULM sempre a Milano. In precedenza ha insegnato Filosofia Teoretica al Politecnico di Torino.
Scrive sull'inserto culturale «la Lettura » del «Corriere della Sera».
Tra i suoi ultimi libri: Il cane e il filosofo (Mondadori 2020) e Quattro capanne. O della semplicità (nottetempo 2020). Per Einaudi ha pubblicato La vita di ogni giorno (2016), Fragile umanità (2017), Vegan (2018) e Velocità di fuga (2022).

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Marjorie Wallace

Marjorie Shiona Wallace CBE, FRCPsych(Countess Skarbeck) (born 10 January 1945 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist and is the chief executive of SANE, a mental health charity in the UK established in 1986.

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Pierre Boileau

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French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac.

In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for Le Repos de Bacchus . It is given to the author of the best example of detective fiction in the world each year.

He met Narcejac in 1948 at the awards dinner when Narcejac received the same award for one of his novels.

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Han Kang

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소설가 한강

Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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Marie Redonnet

Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works.

Redonnet's novels have been compared to those of Annie Ernaux, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Samuel Beckett. She has since acknowledged the crucial influence which Beckett's work has had upon her literary work. And yet she is also notably different from the great master of modern literature.

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Załmen Gradowski

Załmen Gradowski (1910 - 1944) – polski więzień obozu Auschwitz-Birkenau pochodzenia żydowskiego, jeden z organizatorów buntu Sonderkommando w Krematorium IV z 1944 roku. Autor odnalezionych i wydanych po wojnie relacji.

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Alicia Erian

Alicia Erian is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film director.

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Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.

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Bernardo Zannoni

Bernardo Zannoni (1995) è nato e vive a Sarzana. I miei stupidi intenti (Sellerio 2021) è il suo primo romanzo.

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Giusi Palomba

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

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Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.

He is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.

The child of two scientists, Greer studied writing with Robert Coover and Edmund White at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation, where his unrehearsed remarks, critiquing Brown's admissions policies, caused a semi-riot. After years in New York working as a chauffeur, theater tech, television extra and unsuccessful writer, he moved to Missoula, Montana, where

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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Kafū Nagai

Kafū Nagai (永井荷風 Nagai Kafū, December 3, 1879 - April 30, 1959) is the pen name of Japanese author, playwright, essayist, and diarist Nagai Sōkichi (永井壮吉). His works are noted for their depictions of life in early 20th-century Tokyo, especially among geisha, prostitutes, cabaret dancers, and other denizens of the city's lively entertainment districts.

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Variation of names of the same author:

永井荷风

 Kafū Nagai

永井荷風

 永井荷風

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Fuani Marino

Fuani Marino è nata a Napoli nel 1980. Dopo gli studi in psicologia, è diventata giornalista collaborando a lungo con il «Corriere del Mezzogiorno ». Nel 2017 ha pubblicato il romanzo Il panorama alle spalle (Scatole Parlanti). Suoi articoli e racconti sono usciti su «Rivista Studio», «il Tascabile» e altre riviste. Per Einaudi ha pubblicato Svegliami a mezzanotte (2019).

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Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

She has been awar

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Lorenzo Licalzi

Scrittore e psicologo italiano.
Nel 2003 il suo primo romanzo, Io no, è diventato un film omonimo, diretto da Simona Izzo e Ricky Tognazzi.

Nel 2005 è stato finalista del Premio Bancarella, vinto poi da Gianrico Carofiglio e nel 2009 ha vinto il premio Selezione Bancarella con il libro 7 Uomini d'oro.

Risiede a Pieve Ligure.

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Katherine Angel

Katherine Angel is the author of Unmastered, Most Difficult to Tell and Daddy Issues. She directs the MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

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Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing stories in the New Yorker one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book, One Way or Another (1986), which received a special citation for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a First Book of Fiction. He has since focused on writing novels, including Leap Year (1990) and The City of Your Final Destination (2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

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Laura Pugno

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

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Tine Mortier

I was born in Belgium but spent a couple of years in Spain and Ecuador. I basically fell in love with the southern style of living (and with a southern husband...).
Now I'm a Zoopermom of three zooperkids, a writer, book reviewer and drama teacher.
Curious? Have a look at my sites and blogs: http://www.bloggen.be/tinemortier
http://www.tinemortier.be
http://www.eenhoorn.be for more information.

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Cathleen Schine

Cathleen Schine is the author of The New Yorkers, The Love Letter, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review.

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Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.

Strouse was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books from 1967 to 1969. She was a book critic at Newsweek magazine from 1979 to 1983, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has contributed reviews and essays on literary and other topics to the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vogue. In 2003 Strouse was appointed the Sue Ann a

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Vitaliano Brancati

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

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Jeremias Gotthelf

He was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. In 1804 the home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Here young Bitzius grew up, receiving his early education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as helping his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern. He was a founding member of the Student Society Zofingia, the second-oldest fraternity in Switzerland (founded in 1819).

In 1820 he was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. On his father's death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern (1829). Early in 1831 he went as assistant to the ag

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Susan Taubes

Susan Taubes (1928 – 6 November 1969), born Judit Zsuzanna Feldmann, was a Hungarian-American writer and intellectual. Taubes was born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family. In 1939, Susan Feldmann emigrated to the United States with her father (but without her mother, Marion Batory). She studied at Harvard, wrote her PhD thesis on The Absent God. A Study of Simone Weil, supervised by Paul Tillich, and published on philosophy and religion. She compiled "African Myths and Tales," published in New York in 1963 under her maiden name, and published her first novel, Divorcing, in 1969. Taubes committed suicide shortly after publication by drowning herself off Long Island in East Hampton. Her body was identified by Susan Sontag.

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Francesco Boer

Sono nato nel 1980. Ho studiato da ragioniere, ma poi mi sono perso per strada, inseguendo i simboli come un bimbo che corre dietro alle farfalle.

Abito a Selz, in provincia di Gorizia. Crescere e vivere vicino al confine mi ha dato la possibilità di comprendere che la realtà non è risolvibile in una visione univoca. Il mondo è fatto di contrasti e sfumature, non c’è una verità unica ma tante voci diverse. Voci che possono cercare di sopraffarsi l’una contro l’altra, oppure accordarsi in un coro armonioso. Forse è anche per questo che sono affascinato dal mondo dei simboli, un argomento che studio da anni in tutte le sue sfaccettature. L’espressione simbolica è infatti una costante dell’essere umano. Nei simboli si può trovare un tratto comu

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Paolo Milone

Paolo Milone, psichiatra, è nato a Genova nel 1954. Ha lavorato in un Centro Salute Mentale e poi in un reparto ospedaliero di Psichiatria d'urgenza. Per Einaudi ha pubblicato L'arte di legare le persone (2021), il suo primo libro.

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Margaux Fragoso

Margaux Fragoso is the author of Tiger, Tiger. She has recently completed a PhD in English and creative writing at Binghamton University. Her short stories and poems have appeared in The Literary Review and Barrow Street, among other literary journals.

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She passed away of ovarian cancer at age 38.

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Eleonora C. Caruso

Eleonora C. Caruso è nata nel 1986 e si è annoiata finché non è andato in onda Sailor Moon. Nel 2001 ha cominciato a scrivere in rete fanfiction sui suoi anime preferiti, conquistando in breve tempo migliaia di lettori. Ha fatto l’operaia, la commessa, l’impiegata, la centralinista di call centre. Vive a Milano con il suo compagno e la sua collezione di manga.

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Helga Schneider

Nasce nel 1937 in Slesia (territorio tedesco che dopo la seconda guerra mondiale sarà assegnato alla Polonia). Nel 1941 Helga e suo fratello Peter, rispettivamente di 4 anni e 19 mesi, con il padre già al fronte, vengono abbandonati a Berlino dalla madre, che arruolatasi come ausiliaria nelle SS diverrà guardiana al campo femminile di Ravensbruck e successivamente di Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Helga e Peter vengono accolti nella lussuosa villa della sorella del padre, zia Margarete (dopo la guerra morirà per suicidio), in attesa che la nonna paterna arrivi dalla Polonia per occuparsi dei nipoti. La donna accudisce i bambini per circa un anno nell'appartamento situato a Berlin-Niederschönhausen (Pankow), dove i piccoli avevano vissuto in precedenza

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Randy Taguchi

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Massimo Bontempelli

Massimo Bontempelli was an Italian novelist, short story and theater writer, literary and art theorist and critic.

Best known for coining the literary term Magical Realism and creating its theoretical framework. His efforts to implement this specific poetics in his writings begin after his initial experiments, first with traditional poetry (Carduccian classicism) , then humorist, ironic stories (influenced by Pirandello) and short escapades in surrealism and futurism.
Despite forming a literary model for Magic Realism with his own novels and short stories, Bontempelli's importance as a Magic Realist writer is mainly neglected and overthrown in contemporary theories on Magic Realism. Only few authors (mostly Italian authors but A. C. Hegerfe

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Giuseppe Pontiggia

Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.

He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting from 1961.

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Paul Dalla Rosa

Paul Dalla Rosa is a writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Meanjin and NY Tyrant.

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Andrea Donaera

Andrea Donaera (Maglie, 1989) vive a Bologna. È laureato in Scienze della Comunicazione presso l’Università del Salento, dove è segretario del Centro di ricerca “PENS: Poesia Contemporanea e Nuove Scritture”.Dal 2016 dirige la collana di poesia Billie della casa editrice ‘Round Midnight. È il direttore artistico del festival letterario “Poié” di Gallipoli, e del Festival della poesia dialettale “Oju lampante”. Dal 2017 collabora con il magazine di approfondimento culturale “Midnight”, curando la rubrica Urban dedicata alla giovane poesia italiana. Ha pubblicato alcune raccolte di poesia.
Io sono la bestia è il suo primo romanzo.

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Fabio Bacà

Fabio Bacà è nato nel 1972 a San Benedetto del Tronto, e vive ad Alba Adriatica.

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Dorothy M. Johnson

Dorothy Marie Johnson (December 19, 1905–November 11, 1984) was an American author best known for her Western fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

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Cristina Campo

Cristina Campo was the pen name of Vittoria Maria Angelica Marcella Cristina Guerrini, an Italian writer and translator. During World War II, she began translating into Italian literary works by authors such as Katherine Mansfield, Eduard Mörike and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. She began translating works by Simone Weil into Italian.

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Fëdor Dostoevskij

Italian variant orthographical author page for Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Vedi anche Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Antonio Fusco

Antonio Fusco è nato nel 1964 a Napoli. Laureato in Giurisprudenza e Scienze delle pubbliche amministrazioni, è funzionario nella Polizia di Stato e criminologo forense. Ha lavorato a Roma e a Napoli. Dal 2000 vive in Toscana, dove si occupa di indagini di polizia giudiziaria.

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Jackie Polzin

Jackie Polzin lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband, two children and a small dog.

Brood is her first novel.

Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Idaho Review, and the StarTribune Magazine.

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Marco Malvestio

Marco Malvestio è nato nel 1991, ed è ricercatore in letterature comparate all’Università di Padova. Ha lavorato in Canada e negli Stati Uniti.

Ha pubblicato il saggio The Conflict Revisited. The Second World War and Post-Postmodern Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021) e Raccontare la fine del mondo. Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo, 2021). Ha co-curato i volumi Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion (EUP) e Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (LUP).

Come romanziere, nel 2021 ha pubblicato Annette (Wojtek Edizioni). Nella primavera del 2024 ha pubblicato La scrittrice nel buio (Voland).

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Alessandra Arachi

Giornalista e scrittrice, scrive per il Corriere della Sera.

Pubblicazioni

2007 - E se incontrassi un uomo perbene?, Sonzogno editore, EAN 9788845414077
2006 - Lunatica. Storia di una mente bipolare, Rizzoli editore, EAN 9788817013826
1997 - Unico indizio: la normalità. L'Italia a sud dell'Italia, Feltrinelli editore, EAN 9788807814167
1995 - Leoncavallo Blues
1994 - Briciole, Feltrinelli editore, EAN 9788807812552

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Edoardo Albinati

Da oltre vent’anni lavora come insegnante nel penitenziario di Rebibbia, esperienza narrata nel diario Maggio selvaggio. Suoi reportage dall’Afghanistan e dal Ciad sono usciti sul “Corriere della Sera”, “la Repubblica”, “The Washington Post”. Ha scritto film per il cinema di Matteo Garrone e Marco Bellocchio. Tra gli ultimi libri pubblicati, ricordiamo Tuttalpiù muoio con Filippo Timi e Vita e morte di un ingegnere.

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Ariel Andrés Almada

ARIEL ANDRÉS ALMADA es consultor y emprendedor social. Estudió Ciencias Empresariales en la Universidad de Palermo y realizó el PEMA (Posgrado de Especialización en Marketing Avanzado) en el ISEAN. Ha trabajado durante más de una década en consultoría de negocios asesorando a empresas en situaciones críticas, tanto en el ámbito de la banca como en el de los seguros, la tecnología o el consumo masivo. Ha brindado conferencias por todo el mundo, y publicado artículos en las principales revistas de negocios. Es autor de Marketing de crisis (2009), A través de la tormenta (2010) y La gran ventaja (2011), conformando así la llamada «trilogía de la crisis».

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Martina Faedda

Martina Faedda è nata a Genova nel 1998 ed è stata adottata da Torino nel 2019. Si è laureata in Contemporary Humanities alla Scuola Holden e ha preso un master in Writing & Visual Storytelling allo IAAD. La vita profonda è il suo primo romanzo.

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William Woollard

William Woollard is a historian and retired British television producer and presenter. He trained to be a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force. He worked with an oil company in Borneo and Oman. He has worked as a social scientist on corporate social responsibility with several American and European organisations. He has written about his Buddhist beliefs. Woollard has produced, written and presented many television documentaries and series, particularly on science and technology.

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Oscar Farinetti

Natale Farinetti, conosciuto come Oscar , è un imprenditore e dirigente d'azienda italiano, figlio del partigiano, imprenditore e politico Paolo Farinetti, fondatore della catena Eataly ed ex proprietario della catena di grande distribuzione UniEuro, uno dei fondatori del noto supermercato Lidl.

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Antonio Schiena

Nato nel 1990 a San Marco in Lamis, in provincia di Foggia, vive a Roma da anni. Ha pubblicato diversi romanzi con Watson Edizioni, tra cui Non contate su di me con il quale, nel 2018, ha vinto il premio Leggo QuINDI Sono. Attualmente lavora come social media manager in ambito sportivo e editoriale. Molto attivo sui social con lo pseudonimo di @antipatiagratuita.

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Eishes Chayil

Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for a descendant of some of the main founders and leaders of Chassidut in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Poland. She was raised in a world of Chassidic schools, synagogues, and summer camps. She works as a journalist for two international orthodox papers located in Brooklyn, New York.

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Roberto Cotroneo

Sono nato ad Alessandria il 10 maggio 1961, dopo gli studi di filosofia e pianoforte ho iniziato giovanissimo la carriera giornalistica. Prima sull’Europeo e poi dal 1987, chiamato da Giovanni Valentini alla redazione del settimanale L’Espresso, giornale dove ho lavorato per 16 anni. Dal 1993 al 2001, sotto la direzione di Claudio Rinaldi, sono il responsabile delle pagine culturali e per più di un decennio uno dei critici letterari del settimanale. Sono stato editorialista di Panorama e dell’Unità. Tra il 1988 e 1989, con lo pseudonimo di Mamurio Lancillotto ho scritto stroncature letterarie per l’inserto culturale del Sole 24 Ore. Ho condotto per alcuni anni la Mezzanotte di Radio Due, e nel 2010 il programma sul cinema indipendente de La

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MacDonald Harris

Pseudonym of Donald Heiney

Donald Heiney was born in South Pasadena in 1921. Seastruck from the time he read Stevenson at the age of twelve, he went to sea in earnest as a merchant marine cadet in 1942, sat for his Third Mate's license in 1943, and spent the rest of the war as a naval officer on a fleet oiler. After the war he earned a B.A. at Redlands and a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Southern California. In 1964 he lived with his wife and son in Salt Lake City where he taught writing and comparative literature.

Taking the pseudonym MacDonald Harris for his fiction, his first story appeared in Esquire in 1947. Since then he has published stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and The Satur

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Roberto Casati

Roberto Casati è un filosofo italiano. Direttore di Ricerca al Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) all'Institut Nicod, École normale supérieure di Parigi, è autore di saggi specialistici e di divulgazione, e ha insegnato in diverse università europee e statunitensi.

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Milena Agus

Milena Agus was born in Genoa to Sardinian parents, and now lives in Cagliari, a recurrent setting for the action in her novels. She used to teach Italian and History at a secondary school, and is now at the Liceo Artistico of Cagliari "Foiso Fois". “The House in Via Manno" (originally published in Italy as “Mal di pietre"), her second novel, won three Italian literary awards, and has been a bestseller in Italy, France, and Germany. In December 2008, Milena Agus was awarded the prestigous Zerilli-Marimò Prize in New York. A film adaptation of the novel is to be directed by Nicole Garcia. Her work has been translated into 18 languages.

Nata a Genova da genitori sardi, vive e lavora a Cagliari, dove insegnava italiano e storia all'Istituto Tec

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Salvatore Satta

Salvatore Satta, scrittore e giurista, nasce a Nuoro il 9 agosto 1902, ultimo figlio di Satta Salvatore, notaio di Nuoro, e di Galfrè Valentina.
Consegue il diploma di licenza liceale presso il Liceo "Azuni" di Sassari nel 1920 e si laurea in Giurisprudenza col massimo dei voti e la lode nell'Ateneo della stessa città nel 1924, discutendo la tesi sul Sistema revocativo fallimentare.
Una malattia lo costringe ad interrompere il tirocinio di avvocato presso il noto giurista milanese Marco Tullio Zanzucchi e a ricoverarsi per circa due anni nel sanatorio di Merano, dove scrive La veranda, un romanzo sulla propria e altrui sofferenza.
Nel 1932 consegue la libera docenza all'Università di Camerino dove riceve l'incarico per l'insegnamento di Diritt

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Inès Cagnati

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