Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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(1987) vyštudovala žurnalistiku na Katolíckej univerzite v Ružomberku. Počas školy začala pracovať v denníku SME, kde pôsobila do roku 2014. Vtedy s časťou redakcie odišla na protest proti vstupu Penty do vydavateľstva. Odvtedy pôsobí v Denníku N a venuje sa najmä zdravotníctvu. V roku 2013 s Jánom Krempaským vyhrali slovenské kolo EU Health Prize for Journalists. V roku 2018 dostala čestné uznanie Novinárskej ceny za rozhovor. V roku 2021 získala Novinársku cenu za sériu rozhovorov o covide. V roku 2022 vyšla v knižnej edícii Denníka N kniha Ako byť šťastný?, na ktorej spolupracovala s Vitaliou Bellou.
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Björn Larsson
Björn Larsson född 1953 i Jönköping, är en svensk författare och professor i franska vid Lunds universitet.
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James Thompson
James Thompson was an American-Finnish crime writer based in Helsinki. He had a master's degree in English philology from The University of Helsinki, where he also studied Finnish, in which he was fluent. He studied six languages. He published four crime novels with the Finnish inspector Kari Vaara as the protagonist.
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Mária Szepes
Szepes was born Magdolna Scherbach into a Hungarian family of theater stars in Budapest. Her father, Sándor Papir, was a bon vivant and great star of Budapest's stages. Her mother was primadonna. Her parents and her brother were to her like "brothers and sisters in spirit", as well as she admitted only spiritual relationship: "Everything else is just experience, engagement, disengagement – karma."[clarification needed]
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From 1916 to 1933, she appeared as a film actress (mostly under the name Magda Papir). One year after marrying Béla Szepes in 2 January 1931, she accompanied him to Berlin, where they lived until Hungary's Anschluß towards war's end. In her book Magie der Liebe ("Magic of Love"), Szepes writes about the marriage, which lasted -
Dénes Krusovszky
Középiskolásként 1998 és 2000 között háromszor nyert arany oklevelet vers kategóriában a sárvári Diákírók és Diákköltők Országos Találkozójának versenyén. Egyetemi tanulmányait 2000-ben kezdte meg az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Karának magyar szakán, majd 2003-tól összehasonlító irodalomtudomány, 2004-től pedig esztétika szakon is a kar hallgatója volt.
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2004-ben készülő első kötete anyagával a Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma által meghirdett Édes anyanyelvünk című pályázaton megosztott harmadik díjat kapott vers kategóriában. Alapító tagja volt 2005 és 2009 között a Telep Csoportnak, továbbá korábban a Puskin Utca és az Ex Symposion irodalmi folyóiratok, illetve a József Attila Kör világirodalmi sorozatának sze -
Steinar Bragi
Steinar Bragi Guðmundsson (who publishes under his first two names only) has a BA in Literary Studies and Philosophy from the University of Iceland. His first published work was a volume of poetry, Svarthol (Black Hole), which came out in 1998. Since then he has written several books, both poetry and novels.
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Lydia Sandgren
Lydia Sandgren, född 8 januari 1987, är en svensk författare. Hon har uppmärksammats för att år 2020 ha vunnit Augustpriset.
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Lydia Sandgren (b. 1987) is the eldest of seven siblings brought up in the west of Sweden. She has studied music, philosophy, and is a practising psychologist today, living in Göteborg. Samlade verk (Collected Works) is her debut. -
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Joseph Fasano
Joseph Fasano is the author of the novels The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022) and The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the "20 Best Small Press Books of 2020." His books of poetry include The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024), The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), and Fugue for Other Hands (2013). His honors include the Cider Press Review Book Award, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and a nomination for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year."
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Dénes Krusovszky
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2004-ben készülő első kötete anyagával a Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma által meghirdett Édes anyanyelvünk című pályázaton megosztott harmadik díjat kapott vers kategóriában. Alapító tagja volt 2005 és 2009 között a Telep Csoportnak, továbbá korábban a Puskin Utca és az Ex Symposion irodalmi folyóiratok, illetve a József Attila Kör világirodalmi sorozatának sze -
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li is the author of seven books, including Where Reasons End, which received the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; the essay collection Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life; and the novels The Vagrants and Must I Go. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she teaches at Princeton University.
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Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors is a Danish author and writer. She is the first Danish author to be published in the American magazine The New Yorker. She was born in 1970 and studied literature and art history at the University of Aarhus. After publishing three novels, she wrote Karate Chop, her collection of short stories, in 2008 and Minna Needs Rehearsal Space in 2013. She has seen her short stories in various publications, including The Boston Review, Harpers and The New Yorker, and has contributed to anthologies in Denmark and Germany. Having international acclaim, she lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.
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Francesca Kay
Francesca Kay’s first novel, An Equal Stillness, won the Orange Award for New Writers in 2009. She lives in Oxford with her family.
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Johan B. Mjønes
Johan B. Mjønes er en norsk forfatter og skribent fra Orkanger.
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Mjønes debuterte i 2009 med romanen Terminalhastighet på Aschehoug forlag.
I august 2010 ga han ut sin andre roman Orkanger. Boken handler om mobbing, hevn og livslangt skjebnefellesskap. 27. februar 2013, på førtiårsdagen for okkupasjonen av Wounded Knee, ga Mjønes ut Fortellingen om sju bål.
I oktober 2013 debuterte Mjønes som ungdomsbokforfatter med romanen Død manns kiste. Mellom 2009 og 2014 foreleste Mjønes på Aschehougs forfatterskole sammen med Kari Fredrikke Brænne. -
Murat Isik
Murat Isik is een Nederlandse schrijver en jurist van Zaza-Turkse afkomst. Hij studeerde rechtsgeleerdheid aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en San Francisco State University.
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Murat Isik is a Dutch author and lawyer of Zaza-Turkish descent. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and at San Francisco State University. -
Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín grew up in Hafnarfjörður. She studied Literature and Spanish at the University of Iceland, then pursued Spanish at the Universities of Barcelona and Copenhagen. She has published poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
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Her first publication was the poetry book Í húsinu okkar er þoka (There is Fog in Our House) in 1987, and her first novel, Svartir brúðarkjólar (Black Wedding Dresses) came out in 1992.
Kristín has won many awards for her work, including the DV Cultural Prize for Literature for her 1998 novel Elskan mín ég dey (I Will Die, my Love).
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Hungarian journalist, documentary filmmaker and author, has been one of the most prominent and popular TV personalities in Hungary for more than 30 years. A number of his books of nonfiction and fiction have been number one national bestsellers. He is University Professor and Dean of the Communication and Art Faculty of the Budapest College of Communication and Business.
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Halldór Laxness
Born Halldór Guðjónsson, he adopted the surname Laxness in honour of Laxnes in Mosfellssveit where he grew up, his family having moved from Reyjavík in 1905. He published his first novel at the age of only 17, the beginning of a long literary career of more than 60 books, including novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. Confirmed a Catholic in 1923, he later moved away from religion and for a long time was sympathetic to Communist politics, which is evident in his novels World Light and Independent People. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Magnús Sigurðsson
Magnús Sigurðsson (b. 1984) is an Icelandic poet and translator. Sigurðsson’s first book of poems, Fiðrildi, mynta og spörfuglar Lesbíu (2008), received the Tómas Guðmundsson Poetry Prize. In 2013, Sigurðsson received the prestigious Jón úr Vör Poetry Prize. Sigurðsson’s translations include a collection of poems by the Norwegian Tor Ulven, Steingerð vængjapör (2012), Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos (2007), and a Spanish translation from the Icelandic, together with Laía Argüelles Folch, of Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir’s seminal book of poems, La cabeza de la mujer (2011). Sigurðsson’s third book of poems, Cold Moons, translated by Meg Matich, was published by Phoneme Media in 2017. Sigurðsson’s most recent collection of poems, Veröld hlý og góð,
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Jan Brokken
A well-known journalist, Jan Brokken made his debut as a writer in 1984 with the largely autobiographical novel De provincie (The Province), the story of a youth spent in the countryside, which was made into a successful film. He has published gripping travel books about, among others, Africa, Indonesia and Curaçao, and is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling novels De blinde passagiers (The Blind Passengers, 1996), De droevige kampioen (The Sad Champion, 1998) and Jungle Rudy (2006). His work, which has been translated into several languages, has been compared in the international press to that of Graham Greene and Bruce Chatwin.
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Ófeigur Sigurðsson
Ófeigur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic poet, novelist and translator. He was born in Reykjavík on November 2, 1975.
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Ófeigur studied philosophy at the University of Iceland and graduated in 2007, writing a thesis on the work of Georges Bataille. In 2001 he published his first book of poetry, Skál fyrir skammdeginu, with the avant-garde press Nykur. Ófeigur has to this date published seven books of poetry, four novels and several translations.
Ófeigur was the first Icelander to be awarded the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2011 for the novel Jon.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland. -
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva's first book, Sóley sólufegri, came out in 1998 in a very limited edition. In the same year the publishing house Bjartur published her short story collection Á meðan hann horfir á þig ertu María mey (While He Watches You, You are the Virgin Mary), to much acclaim. Since then Guðrún Eva has published five novels, a collection of philosophical stories for children published by The National Centre for Educational Materials and a book of poetry. She has also translated novels by foreign authors.
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Marjorie Celona
Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, won France's Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Héroïne and was nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Marjorie has published work in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, The Sunday Times, and elsewhere. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, Marjorie teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Oregon.
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Knud Rasmussen
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879–1933) was a Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
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Narine Abgaryan
Наринэ Абгарян
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.
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Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
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Kyrre Andreassen
Kyrre Andreassen er en norsk forfatter, utdannet cand.mag. ved Universitetet i Oslo med fagene idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og nordisk. Han debuterte i 1997 med novellesamlingen «Det er her du har venna dine».
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For sin andre bok, romanen «Barringer» (1999), ble han nominert til Brageprisen. Han har også skrevet to teaterstykker: enakteren «Dette stedet» (2002) og «Polar» (2003). I 2006 kom romanen «Svendsens Catering», som Andreassen ble tildelt Språklig samlings litteraturpris for, og i 2007 mottok han Sultprisen for sitt forfatterskap. -
Mark Forsyth
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. Every job he’s ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits per week.
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Karl Ove Knausgård
Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
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Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. -
Lars Mytting
Lars Mytting er en norsk journalist og forfatter. Mytting har arbeidet som forlagsredaktør og journalist i Dagningen, Aftenposten, Arbeiderbladet og Beat.
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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.
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Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born December 11, 1960 in Odda) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. He is the author of the Brage award-winning novel Bikubesong ('Song of the Beehive'), and other collections of short stories and poetry. His works have been translated into Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, Albanian, Croatian and Chinese.
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Grytten is a native of the industrial town Odda, which often features in his work.
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Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.
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Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages. He wrote nearly 30 books and is the only author to have received the Norwegian Literary Critics' Award three times.
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His awards include the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1969, the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1989, for Roman 1987 and the Brage Prize in 2006 for Armand V. Solstad is among Norway's top-ranked authors of his generation. His early books were considered somewhat controversial, due to their political emphasis (leaning towards the Marxist–Leninist side of the political spectrum). -
Erlend Loe
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In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor. -
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Gunnar Gunnarsson is one of Iceland's most esteemed writers. From a poor peasant background, Gunnar moved to Denmark in 1907 to get an education. He wrote mainly in Danish throughout his career, in order to reach a wider audience.
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In 1955, he was considered for the Nobel Prize, the year in which it was awarded to his fellow countryman, Halldór Laxness.
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Lars Saabye Christensen
Lars Saabye Christensen is a gifted storyteller, a narrator who is imaginative, but equally down to earth. His realism alternates between poetic image and ingenious incident, conveyed in supple metropolitan language and slang that never smacks of the artificial or forced. His heroes possess a good deal of self-irony. Indeed, critics have drawn parallels with the black humour of Woody Allen. But beneath the liveliness of his portrayal melancholy always lurks in the books.
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Since his début in 1976 Saabye Christensen has written ten collections of poetry, five collections of short stories and twelve novels. His great break through came with the novel Beatles in 1984. The book store sale of over 200,000 copies of the Norwegian edition has made th -
Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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Rúnar Helgi Vignisson
Rúnar Helgi studied English and Icelandic at the University of Iceland and got his BA in 1981. He studied French for a winter at the University of Grenoble, and German at the Goethe Institute in Freiburg the winter after. Rúnar Helgi stayed in Copenhagen for a year before getting his MA in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa in 1987. For the next two years, he continued studying there and also taught. He then moved to Chicago for a year, and then Perth in Australia. Since 1992 Rúnar Helgi has been a part-time teacher at the University of Iceland, as well as writing articles and working on the radio.
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His first novel, Ekkert slor (Nothing to Sneer At), came out in 1984. In 1990 his novel Nautnastuldur (Theft of Pleasure) was nominated -
Halldór Armand
Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (f. 1986) lauk meistaraprófi í lögum við Háskóla Íslands árið 2012 og hlaut nýræktarstyrk Miðstöðvar íslenskra bókmennta fyrir handritið að fyrstu skáldsögu sinni, Vince Vaughn í skýjunum (2013). Síðan þá hafa komið út Drón (2014), Aftur og aftur (2017), Bróðir (2020) og nú síðast Mikilvægt rusl (2024). Hann hefur einnig sent frá sér esseyjusafnið Við erum bara að reyna að hafa gaman (2022). Bækur hans hafa komið út á fjölda tungumála og pistlar hans um samfélagsleg málefni njóta mikilla vinsælda.
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Halldór Armand Ásgeirsson (b.1986) is one of the young, extraordinary voices on the Icelandic literary scene. He completed a master’s degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2012 and received the Greenshots Award for -
Sven Holm
Sven Holm (1940 – 2019) was a Danish author and playwright. His first short story collection, Den store fjende, was published in 1961. In 1974, Holm was awarded the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy.[1] He was awarded the Holberg Medal in 1991.[2] In 2001, Holm was made a member of the Danish Academy.[3] That same year, he was awarded the Danish Critics Prize for Literature.
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Johan Harstad
Johan Harstad is a Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award (Brageprisen), previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over 11 countries. In 2009, he was named the first ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was made into a TV series in 2009 starring The Wire’s Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo.
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Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore the issue of time and climate change through language, mythology and memoir. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and he has directed documentary films. His novel LoveStar was chosen as “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers, it received the DV Literary Award, The Philip K. Dick special citation Award of 2013 and won the french Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire as best foreign Sci-Fi in France 2016. His children’s book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize
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Margaret Craven
Margaret was the daughter of Arthur J. Craven, a lawyer, and Emily K. Craven. After she and her twin Wilson were born, her family, including an older brother, Leslie (born 1889), moved from Montana to Bellingham, Washington. After finishing high school in Bellingham, Margaret went to Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) where she majored in history and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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Upon graduating with distinction in 1924, she moved to San Jose, California, where she was secretary to the managing editor of the Mercury Herald. Soon she began writing the editorials. After the death of the editor, Margaret moved back to Palo Alto and began writing short stories for magazines like the Delineator. When her father died, her mother came to live -
Christine Estima
Christine Estima is the author of THE SYRIAN LADIES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (2023) and LETTERS TO KAFKA (2025). Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, Vice, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Observer, the New York Daily News, Chatelaine, the Walrus, Refinery 29, Bitch, Maisonneuve, and elsewhere.
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Her short story "Your Hands Are Blessed" was selected for the BEST CANADIAN STORIES 2023 anthology.
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Gábor Vida
A kolozsvári Babeș–Bolyai Tudományegyetem Bölcsészkarán jár egyetemre magyar–francia szakra. 1993-ban az Éber című egyetemi lap szerkesztője. 1994-ben szerez diplomát, azóta Marosvásárhelyen él. A Látó Szépirodalmi Folyóirat próza rovatának szerkesztője.
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1998-ban vitaindító tanulmányt közöl a Látó folyóiratban, biztatva írótársait a romániai magyar irodalom történetének megírására, a kérdés problémás voltának átgondolására.
Hagyományos prózát ír. Példaképeinek a klasszikus szerzőket tekinti (Jókai, Mikszáth, Krúdy, Móricz, Kemény Zsigmond, Hamvas Béla, Platón, Dosztojevszkij, Jack London), több interjúban is elhatárolódik a posztmodern irodalomtól. Ars poétikáját a következő idézet tükrözi:
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Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir
Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (1974) studied history in Reykjavík and Salamanca and journalism at Columbia University in New York and previously worked in Copenhagen before moving back to Reykjavík, where she lives with her husband, children, and stepchildren. Her bestselling debut, Island (2016), was nominated for the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize in 2017. When she isn’t writing, Sigríður works as a journalist and television news anchor at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Her highly anticipated third novel, The Fires, is a bestseller and viral hit in Iceland.
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Miklós Vámos
Miklós Vámos originally Tibor Vámos, (born 29 January 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer, novelist, screenwriter, translator and talkshow host, who has published 33 books.
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Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval (f. 1980) er bosatt i Oslo og har skrivekunstutdanning fra The University of Melbourne. Hun har gitt ut to musikkalbum under navnet Rockettothesky, og et under eget navn. Hun har publisert skjønnlitterære tekster og essays i tidsskrifter og antologiene Ferskvare og Pilot. Jenny Hval er redaksjonsmedlem i Vinduet. Hun ble i 2010 kåret til en av Norges mest nyskapende kunstnere. Perlebryggeriet er hennes første bok.
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Michal Tallo
Michal Tallo (1993) je spisovateľ, prekladateľ a publicista. Vydal básnické zbierky Antimita (2016, Drewo a srd), Δ (2018, Drewo a srd) a Kniha tmy (2022, Literárna bašta). V roku 2024 mu vyšla prozaická kniha Všetko je v poriadku, všade je láska (Literárna bašta), za ktorú získal Cenu Nadácie Tatra banky za umenie. Organizačne spolupracuje s niekoľkými filmovými a literárnymi festivalmi, pôsobí ako koordinátor súťaže Básne SK/CZ, vo vydavateľstve BRAK spoluvedie a rediguje básnickú edíciu Lentikular. Jeho tvorba bola preložená do mnohých jazykov a publikovaná v niekoľkých zahraničných antológiách; ukrajinský preklad zbierky Antimita vyšiel v roku 2018 vo vydavateľstve Krok. V roku 2020 bol nominovaný na medzinárodnú Cenu Václava Buriana. P
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Ján Hrustič
Ján Hrustič (1951) vyštudoval všeobecnú psychológiu so špecializáciou na poradenskú psychológiu na Filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Absolvoval viaceré sociálno-psychologické a psychoterapeutické tréningy vrátane deväťročného psychoterapeutického tréningu v Gestalt terapii organizovaného inštitútom Metanoia v Londýne. Posledných viac ako dvadsať rokov poskytoval rodinné a partnerské poradenstvo v centre poradensko-psychologických služieb, ktoré sa pretransformovalo na referát poradensko- psychologických služieb, kde pracoval až do dôchodku. Aktuálne sa ešte stále veľmi limitovane venuje rodinnému a partnerskému poradenstvu. Napísal knihu Od osamelosti k blízkemu vzťahu v partnerstve
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István Örkény
István Örkény was a Hungarian writer. A typical feature of his plays and novels is satiric view and creation of grotesque situations.
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Born in Budapest, the son of a pharmacist, Örkény studied chemical engineering after leaving school and then turned to pharmacy, graduating from Budapest University in 1934. He travelled to London in 1938 and lived in Paris from casual work in 1939. In 1940, he continued his studies at Budapest Technical University, where he graduated in chemical engineering. He was sent to the front on labour service in 1942 and taken prisoner of war in 1943. On his return to Hungary in 1946, he worked as a drama editor for a theatre company. In 1954, he began working as an outside editor for the Szépirodalmi (Literary) publi -
Iperborea
Emilia Lodigiani fonda Iperborea nel 1987 con il preciso obiettivo di far conoscere la letteratura dell'area nord-europea in Italia. Una produzione di altissima qualità, che spazia da classici e premi Nobel, inediti o riproposti in nuove traduzioni; a voci di punta della narrativa contemporanea. Oltre ai paesi scandinavi (Svezia, Danimarca, Norvegia e Finlandia), Iperborea pubblica la narrativa dell'area nederlandese, estone, islandese (incluse le antiche saghe medioevali) e dal 1998 una collana di saggi letterari per offrire al lettore spunti di approfondimento. Nel 2010 lancia una nuova collana di gialli, "Ombre", alla base della quale rimangono le scelte che caratterizzano da sempre l'editore: l'attenzione alla scrittura, ai temi etici,
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Lukáš Cabala
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Lukáš Cabala (1986) sa narodil v Trenčíne. V roku 2011 spolu s rodičmi založil internetový antikvariát Čierne na bielom a dodnes ho vedie.
Je čitateľom súčasnej a modernej svetovej prózy. Žije na severnej periférii mesta a vo voľnom čase sa venuje písaniu. V tvorbe ho priťahuje magický realizmus, vlnenie skutočnosti, ale i postupy realistického rozprávačského románu. Intímna novela Satori v Trenčíne je jeho prozaický debut. Knižka bola nominovaná na Anasoft litera, získala Cenu čitateľov Knižnej revue v kategórii Debut roka a Cenu knižných blogerov v Panta rhei awards.
V roku 2021 vyšla druhá kniha s názvom Jar v Jekaterinburgu a v roku 2023 novela Spomenieš si na Trenčín? S touto knihou bol nominov -
Ólafur Gunnarsson
Ólafur Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavík on July 18, 1948. He completed a commercial diploma from The Commercial College of Iceland in 1968. Ólafur worked for the merchant Ásbjörn Ólafsson hf. from 1965-1971 and was a driver with the Reykjavík medical emergency services from 1972-1978. Ólafur has worked as a writer since 1974.
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Poetry by Ólafur Gunnarsson had appeared in newspapers and magazines before his first novel, Milljón-prósent menn (Million-Percent Men), was published in 1978. He has published novels, short stories and children's books as well as a travel story about his road trip with author (and co-author of the book) Einar Kárason in the U.S.A. in 2006. His novel, Tröllakirkja (Troll's Cathedral, 1996) was nominated for the Icelandi -
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir
Nína Björk Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic diplomat, as well as a former tour guide and TV, newspaper and radio journalist. Born and bred in Iceland, Nína Björk has spent a quarter of her life abroad, studying and working in various countries in Europe.
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She is the author of a book for children and young adults on Icelandic heroines throughout history, Íslandsdætur, published by Salka in 2020. Her English translation of the book, Daughters of Iceland, came out 2 years later, also published by Salka.
Nína Björk co-wrote How to Live Icelandic, with her childhood friend Edda Magnus, published in 2021 by Quarto. The book has since been translated and published in 2022 Dutch, Czech, Hungarian and Slovak.
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Per Petterson
Petterson knew from the age of 18 that he wanted to be a writer, but didn't embark on this career for many years - his debut book, the short story collection Aske i munnen, sand i skoa, (Ashes in the Mouth, Sand in the Shoes) was published 17 years later, when Petterson was 35. Previously he had worked for years in a factory as an unskilled labourer, as his parents had done before him, and had also trained as a librarian, and worked as a bookseller.
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In 1990, the year following the publication of his first novel, Pettersen's family was struck by tragedy - his mother, father, brother and nephew were killed in a fire onboard a ferry.
His third novel Til Sibir (To Siberia) was nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize, and his fourth no -
Krisztina Tóth
Krisztina Tóth is one of the most highly acclaimed Hungarian poets. She is the winner of several awards, including the Graves Prize (1996), Déry Tibor Prize (1996), József Attila Prize (2000), and her poetry has been translated into many languages. She lives in Budapest.
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Aida Edemariam
Aida Edemariam, whose father is Ethiopian and mother Canadian, grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied English literature at Oxford and the University of Toronto, and has worked as a journalist in New York (at Harper’s Magazine), Toronto and London, where she is a senior feature writer and editor for the Guardian, writing on everything from politics to literature (essays on the academic novel, interviews with Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Edward Albee, Jorie Graham, Hilary Mantel etc) to reporting on the aircraft and North Sea oil industries. Her work has been chosen for Best American Essays, and nominated for a National Magazine Award and an Amnesty Media award. An early section of her first book was awarded a Royal Society of Literatu
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Kaita Murayama
Kaita Murayama was a Taisho era, Japanese author and painter. He was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan, he painted this self-portrait in 1918 before his untimely death in Tokyo, 1919.
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Karin Michaëlis
Karin Michaëlis (born 20 March 1872 in Randers as Katharina Bech-Brøndum; died 11 January 1950 in Copenhagen) was a Danish journalist and author.
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Inga H. Sætre
Inga Sætre (f. 1978) er utdannet animatør. Hun vant Kulturdepartementets priser for barne- og ungdomsbøker 2011, kategorien for beste tegneserie. Sætre fikk Brageprisen for "Fallteknikk" i 2011. Hun var nominert til Nordisk råds litteraturpris med samme bok i 2013. I 2016 mottok Inga Sætre Kulturdepartementets litteraturpris for for barne- og ungdomslitteratur med boken "Fyrvokterne".
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Guðmundur Andri Thorsson
Guðmundur Andri Thorsson was born in Reykjavík on December 31st 1957. He graduated from M.S. high school in 1978 and with a B.A. degree in Icelandic and comparative literature from The University of Iceland in 1983. He did his Cand.mag studies at the same school from 1983 - 1985.
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Guðmundur Andri worked as a journalist and literary critic at DV newspaper and Þjóðviljinn for some time and has for years hosted his own radio program, Andrarímur, at The Icelandic National Radio. He was editor of literary journal Tímarit Máls og menningar from 1986 - 1989 and again from 2009. He also worked as an editor for Mál og menning publishing house (later Edda) from 1987 - 2004. Guðmundur Andri plays the guitar and sings with his companions in the band Hini -
Alexander L. Kielland
Of the most famous realistic writer of the 19th century, Alexander Lange Kielland ranks as one of the "four greats" of Norwegian literature alongside Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and Jonas Lie.
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Born wealthy, he as a factory owner with a sincere affection for the less fortunate treated his workers well. He, a critic of society throughout his time as a writer, spoke for the weak. His best known plays were the satirical comedies Tre Par (1886) and Professoren (1888). He was also well known for his short stories.
Among his most famous works are the novels Gift (1883), Skipper Worse (1882) and Garman & Worse (1880). Gift (published in English as Poison ) is the first of a trilogy including Fortuna (1884) and St. Hans Fest (1887). -
Ondrej Štefánik
Zakladateľ reklamnej agentúry Respect APP, idea maker a copywriter ovenčený mnohými oceneniami za reklamu (okrem iného aj Copywriter roka), autor výroku o žemli vo videu PPE Fiction, Ondrej Štefánik, debutoval zbierkou poviedok Pštrosí muž.
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Schäffer Erzsébet
Ercsiben született, ott is töltötte gyermekkorának első éveit. Édesapja uradalmi számtartó, édesanyja temesvári polgárlány.
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Saját bevallása szerint fiatalon többféle dologba belekezdett: segédmunkáskodott, színházat csinált, bábozott, ugyanakkor már írni is elkezdett.
Az 1990-es évek elejétől a Nők Lapja munkatársa, azelőtt a Gyermekünk című lapnál dolgozott.
Lázár Ervint kedvenc meseírójának tartja.
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Ján Kalinčiak
Slovenský spisovateľ a básnik.
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Pochádzal zo sedliackej rodiny v Hornom Záturčí, kde jeho otec bol evanjelickým kňazom a matka zemankou. Študoval v Záturčí, Necpaloch, Gemeri, neskôr v Levoči a od roku 1839 v Bratislave. O niekoľko rokov neskôr študoval i v nemeckom Halle. Pôsobil ako vychovávateľ a od roku 1846 pôsobil (vďaka Štúrovej intervencii) ako učiteľ filozofie a rektor na gymnáziu v Modre. Od roku 1858 (do 1869) bol riaditeľom na gymnáziu v Sliezskom Tešíne, kde sa stretával s M. M. Hodžom. Po odchode do penzie sa presťahoval do Martina, a stal sa redaktorom mesačníka Orol. Pochovaný je na Národnom cintoríne v Martine.
Svojou tvorbou sa Kalinčiak radí do obdobia slovenskej romantickej literatúry. Najväčší vplyv na vývoj Kalinčiakove o -
Daniela Kapitáňová
Pseudonym Samko Tále (Cemetery Book - Kniha o cintoríne).
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Daniela Kapitáňová sa narodila 30. júla 1956 v Komárne. Vyštudovala divadelnú réžiu na DAMU v Prahe. V súčasnosti pracuje v Slovenskom rozhlase ako literárna redaktorka a prednáša kreatívne písanie na univerzite Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre. Pravidelne uverejňuje fejtóny v denníkoch SME a Pravda; venuje sa aj teórii detektívneho žánru. Žije a tvorí v Bratislave.
Daniela Kapitáňová sa vymyká z plejády súčasných autoriek próz, ak máme predovšetkým na mysli líniu autoriek tzv. ženských románov. Dôkazom toho je hneď mimoriadne úspešný debut Kniha o cintoríne (2000), ktorý zaujal originálnym svetom aj jazykom protagonistu, mentálne postihnutého Samka Táleho. Jazyk je znakom, ktorý hlavného -
Kristín Helga Gunnarsdóttir
Kristín Helga studied at the University of Barcelona, and later obtained a BA in Spanish and Media Studies from the University of Utah.
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She has worked as a travel and tour guide, been an air stewardess and a reporter on Icelandic news programmes. Since 1998 she has concentrated on writing and journalism.
Her first book, Elsku besta Binna mín (I Love you, Binna my Dearest), came out in 1997 and since then Kristín Helga has become one of Iceland's best loved children's authors.