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Angela Nanetti

Angela Nanetti is an Italian writer.

She was awarded the Baltvilks International Prize in Children’s Literature and Book Art, for the book My Grandfather was a Cherry Tree in 2019.

The book was made into an animated short film by directors Olga Poliektova and Tatiana Poliektova in 2015.

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Zoulfa Katouh

All Zoulfa wanted was to lay in her bed and eat sliced mango all day long with no single thought in her mind, but now she has two jobs, scientist and author. She has girlbossed so close to the sun, that she's burning. She lost the original plot.

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Hazel Prior

Hazel Prior is the author of ELLIE AND THE HARP MAKER and Richard & Judy Book Club number one bestseller AWAY WITH THE PENGUINS (UK title)/HOW THE PENGUINS SAVED VERONICA (US title). Her third book, CALL OF THE PENGUINS, is a continuation of Veronica's adventures. LIFE AND OTTER MIRACLES came out last year and the third in the penguin trilogy, GONE WITH THE PENGUINS is out now. As well as writing, Hazel is a freelance harpist. She lives on Exmoor, in England, with her husband and a huge, ginger cat.

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Dolly Alderton

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and journalist. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. From 2017 to 2020, she co-hosted the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes.

Her first book Everything I Know About Love became a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication and won a National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. Her first novel Ghosts was published in October 2020 and was also a top five Sunday Times Bestseller.

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Radmila Petrović

Born in 1996 in Užice. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, where she also earned a master's degree, Radmila Petrovic is a commercial author and, at present, she is one of the most sought-after poets in Serbia.

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Đorđe Lebović

Rođen je u Somboru 1928. godine. Kao petnaestogodišnjak, zbog svog jevrejskog porekla, biva interniran u zloglasne nemačke koncentracione logore Aušvic, Mauthauzen i Saksenhauzen. Gorka iskustva stečena u ratu ostaviće kasnije dubok trag u njegovom delu. Nakon rata, 1947. godine započinje studije na Tehničkom fakultetu u Beogradu, odakle 1948. prelazi na Odsek za filozofiju Filološkog fakulteta gde diplomira 1951. godine. Već tokom studija radi kao novinar na Radio Beogradu i u humorističkom listu „Jež“, a nakon studija postavljen je na funkciju kustosa u Muzeju pozorišne umetnosti u Beogradu koju obavlja tokom 1954—1955. godine, ostavljajući pritom najobimniji rukopis, pisan rukom, „Prva inventarska knjiga Muzeja pozorišne umetnosti u Beog

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Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin is a widely acclaimed Franco-American writer, critic, and translator. Her books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables, and forthcoming fiction and non-fiction by Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, and Colombe Schneck. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.

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Jessica Au

Jessica Au is an Australian editor and bookseller, and author of the novels Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow.

Au won the inaugural Novel prize in 2020, the 2023 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.

She is based in Melbourne and has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine.

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Dejan Stojiljković

Dejan Stojiljković was born and raised in Nis, Serbia, a small town that is best known as the birthplace of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.

Perhaps using that historical backdrop as an inspiration in his own works, Stojiljković is one of the most popular and widely-read authors in Serbia. His The Omen of Angels was hugely successful in 2013, a riveting biographical novel about Constantine. That was just the latest in a long line of releases which won prestigious literary awards and critical accolades all over Europe.

One of those earlier novels, Constantine’s Crossing, was originally released in Serbia in 2009, and has now been translated to English for the first time. Published by Blooming Twig Books, it was nominated for two intern

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Hiro Arikawa

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya

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Gradimir Stojković

He was born on March 3rd 1947. in Mramorak, Serbia. He's since lived in Vrsac, Pancevo and, finally, Belgrade, where he still resides. He majored in journalism at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences. He'd worked in the Laza Kostic Library (aka. Belgrade City Library) until his recent retirement. In Serbia, he's most famous for his book series about the boy Hajduk, a whacky guy from Danube, his life, loves and bad telephone reception (those who know will know). His poems and stories have been translated to English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian and Macedonian language.

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Dragan Velikić

Драган Великић српски је књижевник, двоструки добитник Нинове награде.

Одрастао је у Пули. Дипломирао је светску књижевност на београдском Филолошком факултету. Од 1994. до 1999. године био је уредник издавачке делатности Радија Б92 „Самиздат Б92“. Писао је колумне за Нин, Време, Данас и Репортер. Двоструки је добитник Нинове награде за роман године.Члан је Српског књижевног друштва. Пише романе, прича, есеје, публикује књиге изабраних интервјуа. Преведен је на петнаест европских језика.

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Igor Kolarov

Objavio je knjige za decu:
- HIONIJINE PRIČE (pesme i priče, 2000)
- MILICA U VRTU (pesme i priče, 2001)
- AGI I EMA (roman, 2002; 2003; 2006; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“)
- DVANAESTO MORE (roman, 2004; 2007; nagrada „Dositejevo Pero“)
- PRIČE O SKORO SVEMU (priče, 2005; nagrada Bijeljinskog Sajma knjiga “Čika Jova Zmaj“, nagrada „Neven“)
- KUĆA HILJADU MASKI (roman, 2006; novo, izmenjeno, dopunjeno i dvojezično izdanje na srpskom i norveškom jeziku: 2011; nagrada „Politikin Zabavnik“, nagrada „Sima Cucić“, nagrada „Mali Princ“ za najbolju dečju knjigu u regionu)
- BURENCE (priče, 2007)
- FIONA I DRUGE MISTERIJE (priče, 2007)
- SMS PRIČE (priče, 2008; novo i izmenjeno izdanje 2012)
- DŽEPNE PRIČE (interaktivne priče, 2010)
- KAJINA NAJBOLJA ŽIR

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Jostein Gaarder

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses meta-fiction in his works, writing stories within stories.

Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled "A Novel about the History of Philosophy." This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print, with three million copies sold in Germany alone.

In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000

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Miroslav Antić

Miroslav "Mika" Antić was a Serbian poet, movie director, journalist and painter. Antić was born in Mokrin, Kikinda municipality, Vojvodina, Serbia (then Yugoslavia). He had six children. His oldest son, Igor Antic, is a visual artist.

He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts and documentaries. As film-maker, he was considered as a part of the "Black Wave" of the Yugoslav film. His films, in particular "Breakfast with the devil" in whom Antic criticized the double morality of the communists at the Tito’s time, were forbidden and destroyed. They were rediscovered and restored in the end of the 90s. Mika also acted in several movies, and was a painter. His best known poem is "Srem", in which he mourns for dead in World War II an

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Ferenc Molnár

Ferenc Molnár (Americanized name: Franz Molnar) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. During the World War II he emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews.

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George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten.

Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Other sales followed.

In 1970 Martin received a

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Albertine Sarrazin

Albertine Sarrazin (17 September 1937 — 10 July 1967) was a French author. She was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale.

Born in Algiers, Algeria, she was quickly abandoned and put in the care of the social services, being then christened Albertine Damien in honour of the saint of the day she was found on. She was then adopted by a family that moved her to Aix-en-Provence. Within that dysfunctional family, she was abused by a family member and constantly quarreling with them, which led to an intense distaste for authority that stayed with her the rest of her life.

Although she was intelligent and did well in her studies, Albertine's family sent her to a reformatory school in Marseille. She escaped to Paris where she sati

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René Guillot

René Paul Guillot (1900-1969) was an author who lived, worked and traveled in French Africa and wrote primarily for children. His works have been translated to many languages and have been included in school required reading in many countries.

After studying science, René Guillot moved to Senegal to work as a teacher, spending over 20 years in Africa. Most of the material for his many books comes from this time.

In 1964, he received the "Hans Christian Andersen Award" for the novel, Fodai and the Leopard-Men. Three of his books have been adapted to film, while a live-action version of Little Dog Lost featuring a Welsh Corgi, was made for the "Disneyland" show and was broadcast in 1963.

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David Gemmell

David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explores themes in honour, loyalty and redemption. With over one million copies sold, his work continues to sell worldwide.

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Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

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Khaled Hosseini

Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1970 Hosseini and his family moved to Iran where his father worked for the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tehran. In 1973 Hosseini's family returned to Kabul, and Hosseini's youngest brother was born in July of that year.
In 1976, when Hosseini was 11 years old, Hosseini's father obtained a job in Paris, France, and moved the family there. They were unable to return to Afghanistan because of the Saur Revolution in which the PDPA communist party seized power through a bloody coup in April 1978. Instead, a year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in 1980 they sought political asylum in the United States and made their residence in San Jose, California.
Hosseini graduated from Independence Hi

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Branislav Nušić

Born Alkibijad Nuša (Aromanian: Alchiviadi al Nuşa) in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia to a well-off family, Nušić enjoyed the benefits of a privileged upbringing for only a brief time. His father Đorđe Nuša was a well known grain merchant of Cincar (Aromanian Vlach) origin who lost his wealth shortly after his son's birth and was forced to move the family to Smederevo where young Alkibijad attended elementary school and first two grades of boarding school. During his teens, Nuša moved back to Belgrade where he graduated from boarding school. Upon turning 18 years of age, he legally changed his name to Branislav Nušić. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. During his studies, he also spent a year in Graz, Aust

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Nina Lykke

Nina Lykke (f. 1965) debuterte i 2010 med den kritikerroste novellesamlingen Orgien, og andre fortellinger. Romanen Oppløsningstendenser (2013) fikk strålende anmeldelser og ble kortlistet til P2-lytternes romanpris. I 2016 fikk Lykke sitt store gjennombrudd med romanen Nei og atter nei (2016), som vant Ungdommens kritikerpris og ble en salgssuksess i Sverige og Tyskland så vel som i Norge. Full spredning. En legeroman er Nina Lykkes fjerde bok og for den vant hun Brageprisen 2019.

Not to be confused with Danish-Swedish gender studies scholar Nina Lykke.

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Oto Oltvanji

Odrastao u Subotici, živi u Beogradu. Objavio je romane „Crne cipele“ (2005), „Kičma noći“ (2010) „Iver“ (2015) i „Polje meduza“ (2023). Njegova kratka proza sakupljena je u zbirci „Priče misterije i magije“ (2017). Kriminalistički roman za decu „Kako sam postao detektiv" izašao je 2019. godine. Preveo je na srpski knjige Lušesa Šeparda, Dejvida Šoa, Džordža Pelekanosa, Džonatana Litema, Loren Grof, Lija Čajlda, Roberta Silverberga i Rosa Makdonalda.

Grew up in Subotica, lives in Belgrade. His published novels are “Black Shoes” (2005), “Backbone of the Night” (2010), “Splinter” (2015), and "The Field of Jellyfish" (2023). Collection "Stories of Mystery and Magic" collects his short fiction. He published a crime novel for children "How I Beca

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Dejan Aleksić

Poet, play writer, novelist and author of children's literature books.

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Lisa Sheehan

Lisa Sheehan knew from an early age she would have a career in art and drawing. After earning a BA in illustration, she fell into the world of graphic design and become an art director. Raising her two young daughters rekindled Sheehan’s love of illustration, and she pursued an MA in children's book illustration from Cambridge School of Art. Lisa Sheehan lives in Bedfordshire, England, with her husband, two daughters, and a Maine coon cat named Chester.

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Branko Ćopić

Branko Ćopić (Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић; January 1, 1915 – March 26, 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He was born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.

Upon the uprising in the Bosanska Krajina in 1941, he joined the Partizans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II. That period of his life influenced much of his literary work as can be seen by the themes he later writes about. Athe the end of the war he returned to Belgrade where he was, until 1949, the director of a children's magazine called "Pioniri". From 1951 until his death he was a professional wri

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