James Rice
Author of 'Alice and the Fly', Hodder and Stoughton (2015). Also semi-functioning human being.
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Michelle Levy
Michelle Levy was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, where she memorized books before she was able to read, tricking her parents into thinking she was a genius. At eighteen she moved to Los Angeles, to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Michelle always secretly harbored a desire to write. She spent many insomnia-filled nights dreaming up stories that she never thought to write down. When she finally set out to get something on the page, the words flew out of her until she had her first completed manuscript, and she never looked back.
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John Banville
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W.B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
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Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017. He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinqu -
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. She and her parents spent -
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
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Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and Joh -
José Mauro de Vasconcelos
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Faculty, José abandoned the course of studies in his second year and returned to Rio de Janeiro.[citation needed] There he worked as a boxing instructor and even as a painter's model.
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José iniciated his literature with the novel Banana Brava. His greatest success was his novel Meu Pé de Laranja Lima, that tells about his own personal experiences and the shocks he suffered in his childhood with the abrupt changes of life.
José was part Indian and part Portuguese. He passed his childhood in Natal. When he was 9 years old, he learned to swim, and with -
Robyn Schneider
Robyn Schneider grew up in Southern California, where she spent her childhood reading fantasy novels and searching for secret passages. She’s a graduate of Columbia University, where she studied creative writing, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she earned a Masters of Bioethics. Robyn is the bestselling author of The Beginning of Everything, Extraordinary Means, Invisible Ghosts, and You Don’t Live Here. Her work is available across the world in over a dozen languages. Her newest novel, The Other Merlin, will be published in September 2021. She lives in Los Angeles with her TV producer husband, their tiny puppy, and far too many books. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @robynschneider
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Antonio Santa Ana
Antonio Santa Ana nació en 1963 en Buenos Aires, donde vive actualmente con sus dos hijos. Trabaja desde hace diez años con el Grupo Editorial Norma en Argentina, donde se ocupa de la edición y circulación de las colecciones infantiles y juveniles. Antes de vincularse a Norma trabajó durante diez años en la organización de la Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires y en la editorial Libros del Quirquincho. Miembro de la comisión directiva de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) y del comité editorial de la Revista latinoamericana de literatura infantil y juvenil que publica Fundalectura (seccional de IBBY), Santa Ana ha sido jurado de importantes concursos literarios y es parte activa de actividades varias en torno
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Will Storr
Will Storr is a long-form journalist, novelist and reportage photographer. His features have appeared in The Guardian Weekend, The Telegraph Magazine, The Times Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The Sunday Times Style and GQ, and he is a contributing editor at Esquire. He has reported from the refugee camps of Africa, the war-torn departments of rural Colombia and the remote Aboriginal communities of Australia, and has been named New Journalist of the Year, Feature Writer of the Year and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. His critically acclaimed first book, Will Storr versus The Supernatural is published by Random House in the UK. The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone is his first novel.
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José Hernández
José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón) (November 10, 1834 – October 21, 1886) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.
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Hernández, whose ancestry was a mix of Spanish, Irish, and French, was born on a farm near San Martín (Buenos Aires Province). His father was a butler or foreman of a series of cattle ranches. His career was to be an alternation between stints on the Federal side in the civil wars of Argentina and Uruguay and life as a newspaperman, a short stint as an employee of a commercial firm, and a period as stenographer to the legislature of the Confederation.
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Rodrigo Muñoz Avia
Rodrigo Muñoz Avia nació en Madrid en 1967. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense y se formó durante tres años en la Escuela de Letras de Madrid.
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Su última obra, publicada en 2021, es "La tienda de la felicidad", una novela epistolar que narra la vida de un personaje entrañable y disparatado que se relaciona con el mundo a través del correo electrónico. En palabras de Rosa Montero: "Humor, amor, un protagonista inolvidable y un poso de irremediable melancolía en esta reinvención de la novela epistolar que, bajo las risas, hace un agudo retrato de la fragilidad humana y del absurdo de la vida".
En 2019 publica "La casa de los pintores", un libro en el que narra la vida con sus padres, los pintores Lucio Muñoz y Amalia Avia, un testim -
Gabriel Rolón
Gabriel Rolón nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Cursó sus estudios en la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Se graduó e hizo su especialización en psicoanálisis, disciplina que difunde tanto desde su actividad académica como desde su intensa participación en los medios.
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En 2008 condujo sus propios espacios: Noche de Diván, por Radio Mitre, y Terapia (única sesión), por América TV. Fue orador en el Congreso Mundial de Psicoanálisis organizado en 2012 en México D. F.; en 2013 dictó jornadas de formación psicoanalítica en la Universidad Pucrs, de Porto Alegre, Brasil, y es invitado de manera asidua por universidades locales y extranjeras a participar en actividades y brindar seminarios de clínica psicoanalítica.
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Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta es una escritora y periodista mexicana. Es conocida por crear personajes femeninos sugerentes y ficciones que reflejan las realidades sociales y políticas de México. Actualmente está casada con el también escritor y analista político Héctor Aguilar Camín. Sus principales novelas son: Arráncame la vida y Mal de amores.
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Una vez en el Distrito Federal, Mastretta decide estudiar la carrera de periodismo en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, obteniendo ahí el título de Comunicaciones. Se puede situar la entrada de Mastretta a las letras cuando ésta comienza a escribir como colaboradora ocasional en periódicos y revistas de la talla de Excélsior, La Jornada, Proceso (revis -
Javier Ruescas
Javier Ruescas nació en Madrid en 1987 y es licenciado en Periodismo. Hasta el momento ha publicado la trilogía Cuentos de Bereth (Editorial Versátil), Tempus Fugit. Ladrones de Almas (Alfaguara), PLAY, SHOW y LIVE (Montena), Pulsaciones, coescrita con Francesc Miralles (SM) y Las Crónicas de Fortuna (Destino) y varios relatos en diferentes antologías. Tanto su novela PLAY como Pulsaciones han sido seleccionadas entre las mejores novelas juveniles de 2012 y 2013, respectivamente, según los expertos en Babelia (El País). Aparte de escribir, Javier es profesor de escritura creativa, administra activamente sus propias redes sociales y es fundador de la conocida revista digital de literatura juvenil www.Eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. Además, Rues
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Shaun David Hutchinson
Shaun is a major geek and all about nerdy shenanigans. He is the author of many queer books for young adults. Find out more information at shaundavidhutchinson.com. He currently lives in Seattle and watches way too much Doctor Who.
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 16 August 1954) is an award-winning American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.
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He was born at Old Picacho, New Mexico, the fourth of seven children, and was raised on a small farm near Mesilla, New Mexico. He graduated from Las Cruces High School in 1972. That fall, he entered St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado where he received a B.A. degree in Humanities and Philosophy in 1977. He studied Theology at the University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium from 1977 to 1981. He was a priest for a few years in El Paso, Texas before leaving the order.
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Traci Chee
Traci Chee is a New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award Finalist. An all-around word geek, she loves book arts and art books, poetry and paper crafts, though she also dabbles at bonsai gardening, egg painting, and hosting potluck game nights for family and friends. She studied literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and earned a master of arts degree from San Francisco State University. Traci grew up in a small town with more cows than people, and now feels most at home in the mountains, scaling switchbacks and happening upon hidden highland lakes. She lives in California with her fast-fast dog.
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Michelle Levy
Michelle Levy was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado, where she memorized books before she was able to read, tricking her parents into thinking she was a genius. At eighteen she moved to Los Angeles, to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. Michelle always secretly harbored a desire to write. She spent many insomnia-filled nights dreaming up stories that she never thought to write down. When she finally set out to get something on the page, the words flew out of her until she had her first completed manuscript, and she never looked back.
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Becky Albertalli
Becky Albertalli is the author of the acclaimed novels Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (film: Love, Simon), The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat. She is also the co-author of What If It's Us with Adam Silvera. A former clinical psychologist who specialized in working with children and teens, Becky lives with her family in Atlanta. You can visit her online at www.beckyalbertalli.com.
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Jen Beagin
Jen Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award in fiction. She is the author of Pretend I'm Dead and Vacuum in the Dark. A former cleaning lady, she lives in Hudson, New York.
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Claudia Ramírez Lomelí
Claudia Ramírez siempre ha sentido que no pertenece a este mundo, por eso vive refugiada entre las páginas de sus libros. Un día decidió que quería compartir las historias que tanto amaba con las demás personas y creó un canal de Youtube llamado Clau Reads Books, en el que habla de la magia de libros y del poder de las palabras.
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Nacida en Monterrey, Nuevo León, tiene una maestría en Ciencias de la Comunicación y actualmente goza de promover la lectura en distintas escuelas, instituciones y ferias del libro a nivel nacional e internacional. Pasa todo su tiempo libre leyendo, escribiendo y creando; siempre está soñando despierta. -
An Yu
An Yu (安於) was born and raised in Beijing, and spent parts of her life studying and working in London, New York, and Paris. She received her MFA from New York University and writes her fiction in English. She is the author of the novels Braised Pork (2020), Ghost Music (2022), and Sunbirth (2025). Her writing has also appeared in The Sunday Times Style, Freeman’s, Literary Hub, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
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Dolores Reyes
Dolores Reyes nació en 1978 en Buenos Aires, donde estudió literatura clásica. Es profesora, conocida por su activismo feminista y madre de siete hijos.
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Cometierra es su primera novela, que de inmediato se convirtió en un caso editorial y político en Argentina, para luego repuntar también en España. Está dedicado a la memoria de Melina Romero y Araceli Ramos, adolescentes víctimas de feminicidio, cuyos restos reposan en un cementerio cercano a la escuela de Pablo Podestá, en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires donde trabaja la autora.
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Dolores Reyes was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism, and a mother of seven children.
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Jay Sandoval
Jay Sandoval (incompletelyrics) nació el 6 de abril de 2001, en Mixco, Guatemala. Estudió Educación, obteniendo el título de maestro de Educación Intercultural. Aprendió a tocar violín a los ocho años y a los trece se inscribió en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música de Guatemala. Su pasión por la escritura comenzó a esa misma edad, fecha en que publicó sus primeros ensayos y reseñas en periódicos juveniles nacionales y revistas digitales. Por esa época se animó a compartir cuentos y relatos cortos en su página de Facebook para luego migrar a plataformas como Amino, Wattpad, Inkspired y AO3, en donde sus historias llamaron la atención del público.
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Su comunidad de lectores tiene como ideales la inclusión, autenticidad y autodescubrimiento, por