Janina Degutytė
Lithuanian poet, romantic of late lyrics, author of poems for children.
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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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Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler) was a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill (Krabat).
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He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
He has sold roughly 50 million copies worldwide.
He was born in Liberec (German: Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia. His forefathers had lived in this area since the 15th century, working in the glass industry. His parents were teachers. After he graduated school in 1942, in the midst of World War II, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht Heer. Although he survived the military action on the Eastern Front, he was taken prisoner as a 21-year-old lieutenant in 1944. He spent the next five years in various POW camps in the -
Kęstutis Kasparavičius
Kestutis Kasparavicius is a widely recognized author and illustrator of over 50 children’s books published all around the world. Ever since 1984, Kestutis’ books were translated into 22 different languages such as Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Korean, and many more.
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Kestutis is famous for his short feel-good stories about various comic characters. Bears, pigs, rabbits, and turtles find themselves trapped in puzzling and though-provoking situations. -
Donald Bisset
Donald Harold G. Bisset (a.k.a. Donald Bissett)
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Jonas Biliūnas
Jonas Biliūnas (11 April 1879 – 8 December 1907) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant participant in the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Most of his works are short stories, and often have autobiographical inclusions dealing with his own personal life's experiences. Liūdna pasaka (A Sad Tale) is his longest work and is a psychological drama dealing with the Uprising of 1863. In this work the main character, a woman, is driven to ruin as a consequence of the uprising, and her story is told from a psychological vantage point. During the period between 1900 and 1905, Biliūnas wrote approximately fifteen poems, including several sonnets. These sonnets were influenced by his studies of Petrar -
Justinas Marcinkevičius
Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joined the Communist party in 1957. He worked for a number of years as vice-chairman of the board of the official Union of Lithuanian Writers. He died in Vilnius.
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Having grown up during the post-war period, Marcinkevičius evokes in his poetry a romanticized version of childhood spent in the Lithuanian countryside, of first love, of man's relationship with nature. In his poetry specific and solid peasant thinking is combined with a mind seeking to draw broad general conclusions, and the tradition of Lithuanian poetry singing the Earth's praises with -
Eloy Moreno
Eloy Moreno Olaria es un escritor español que se ha dado a conocer tras la publicación de su primera novela, titulada El bolígrafo de gel verde.
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Eloy Moreno lives in Castellón and works in the city’s town hall. He decided to start writing after reading a book that had won an important prize and setting himself the challenge of writing something much better. When his novel was finished, he decided not to send it to a publisher. Confident in the quality of the novel, he decided to win himself a place in bookshops on his own. His success became an Internet phenomenon.
La novela fue inicialmente editada y distribuida por el propio autor, quien decidió no presentarla a ninguna editorial. Inició lo que denominó TOUR 2010 y comenzó a recorrer ciudad -
Undinė Radzevičiūtė
Baigė meno istorijos, teorijos ir kritikos studijas Vilniaus Dailės Akademijoje.
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Doktorantūros studijos liko nebaigtos.
Dešimtį metų dirbo tarptautinių reklamos agentūrų – "Saatchi&Saatchi" (Vilnius), "Leo Burnett Vilnius" etc. – kūrybos direktore.
Autorės knygos penkis kartus (2003, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) pateko į kūrybingiausių metų knygų shortlist‘us, ir tris kartus (2011, 2013, 2017) - į geriausių metų knygų shortlist‘us.
2015 knyga ,,Žuvys ir drakonai'' įvertinta Europos sąjungos literatūros premija, Lietuvių PEN centro išrinkta tarp geriausių dešimtmečio knygų, kritikų ir skaitytojų išrinkta į 100-uką geriausių lietuviškų knygų išleistų per pastaruosius šimtą metų.
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Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas was born in 1976 in Panevezys, Lithuania. Kvietkauskas studied Lithuanian literature at Vilnius University and the Cultural History of Middle and Eastern Europe at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow and is currently working on postgraduate studies at Vilnius University (comparative studies of Lithuanian, Polish, Belarus and Yiddish literature). His first book of poetry “Rabi” was published in 1998. He is also a literary critic and an essayist and an editor of the Lithuanian literary monthly “Metai.” He is represented by an article in the Commentary on Lithuanian poetry.
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Olga Ravn
Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.
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V.E. Schwab
This author also writes under the name of Victoria Schwab.
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VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades universe, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts series, Gallant, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Fragile Threads of Power. When not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she can usually be found in Edinburgh, Scotland, tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters. -
Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
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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 -
Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė
Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė – žurnalistė, rašytoja, kūrybinio rašymo lektorė. Jos novelių rinkinys „Kūnai“ išrinktas 2020-ųjų Metų knyga suaugusiems, pateko į 15min.lt geriausių metų knygų rinkimų finalą ir Kūrybiškiausių knygų dvyliktuką. Tekstai versti į anglų, lenkų, slovėnų, hebrajų kalbas.
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Jurgita Jasponytė
Jurgita Jasponytė (gim. 1981) studijavo Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, įgijo lietuvių filologijos bakalauro ir literatūrologijos magistro laipsnį. Išleido du eilėraščių rinkinius: „Šaltupė“ (2014) ir „Vartai Auštrieji“ (2019). Abi knygos buvo pastebėtos ir įvertintos tiek skaitytojų, tiek kritikų – pelnė premijų, pateko į akcijos „Metų knygos rinkimai“ penketukus.
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Lavisa Spell
Lavisa Spell - lietuvių autorės, Auksės Šiugždinienės, slapyvardis. Tai užkoduota frazė „love is a spell" (meilė yra kerai), autorės gyvenimo moto, nes meilė yra tas paslaptingas ingredientas, kuris bet kurią veiklą ir darbą paverčia ypatingu. Lavisa Spell rašo laisvalaikio romanus, paskanintus aistros ir magijos prieskoniais, dvasingumo ir pagoniškosios tradicijos žiniomis.
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Sohn Won-Pyung
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* Sohn Won-Pyung (English)
* 손원평 (Korean)
* ソン・ウォンピョン (Japanese)
* ซนว็อนพย็อง (Thai)
* Сон Вон Пхён (Russia)
Sohn Won-pyung is a film director, screenwriter, and novelist living in South Korea. She earned a BA in social studies and philosophy at Sogang University and film directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. She has won several prizes, including the Film Review Award of the 6th Cine21, and the Science Fantasy Writers’ Award for her movie script I Believe in the Moment. She also wrote and directed a number of short films, including Oooh You Make Me Sick and A Two-way Monologue. She made her literary debut in 2017 with this, her first full-length novel, Almond, which won the Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction, followe -
Oliver Lovrenski
Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.
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Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas was born in 1976 in Panevezys, Lithuania. Kvietkauskas studied Lithuanian literature at Vilnius University and the Cultural History of Middle and Eastern Europe at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow and is currently working on postgraduate studies at Vilnius University (comparative studies of Lithuanian, Polish, Belarus and Yiddish literature). His first book of poetry “Rabi” was published in 1998. He is also a literary critic and an essayist and an editor of the Lithuanian literary monthly “Metai.” He is represented by an article in the Commentary on Lithuanian poetry.
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