Jente Posthuma
Jente Posthuma is schrijver en freelance journalist. Ze schreef onder andere voor De Groene Amsterdammer, nrc.next, de Volkskrant en Mister Motley. Haar korte verhalen verschenen in de Revisor, Das Magazin, Torpedo Magazine en nrc.next. In 2012 won ze de A.L. Snijdersprijs voor het beste zeer korte verhaal. Met A.L. Snijders, Tommy Wieringa, Carel Helder en Elsje de Wijn speelde ze drie literaire theatervoorstellingen in De Kleine Komedie in Amsterdam. Haar debuut 'Mensen zonder uitstraling' verschijnt in augustus 2016 bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact. Ze woont en werkt in Amsterdam.
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Anja Sicking
Anja Sicking studeerde klarinet aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium. Zij werkte daarna een tijdlang als musicus en speelde in symfonieorkesten, muziektheaterproducties en kamermuziekensembles. Op den duur ging zij zich ook toeleggen op het schrijven van verhalen. Een bekroning in het kader van de S.N.S.-literatuurprijs was daarbij een aanmoediging. Na verloop van tijd bleek dat het musiceren en het schrijven moeilijk met elkaar te combineren waren en koos zij ten slotte voor de literatuur.
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Haar debuut, Het Keuriskwartet, werd bekroond met de Marten Toonder/Geertjan Lubberhuizenprijs. Het werd ook genomineerd voor de Debutantenprijs en de AKO Literatuurprijs. Haar tweede roman, De stomme zonde, is vertaald in het Duits, Engels en Turks. De roma -
Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader's Choice Award, and the novel Dora: A Headcase, Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice. Her nonfiction book based on her TED Talk, The Misfit's Manifesto, is forthcoming from TED Books.
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967 in East Berlin) is a German director and writer.
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Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props and wardrobe supervisor.
From 1988 to 1990 Erpenbeck studied theatre at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1990 she changed her studies to Music Theater Director (studying with, among others, Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller and Peter Konwitschny) at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory. Aft -
Stefan Hertmans
Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel
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Hanna Bervoets
Hanna Bervoets (1984, Amsterdam) is one of the most acclaimed Dutch authors of her generation. After earning her Bachelors degree in Cultural Studies and a Masters in Journalism & Research she published nine novels, several screenplays, plays and a short story collection. She also writes essays and reviews on media, tech, popular culture and (queer) representation.
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Bervoets received numerous nominations and awards for her work. In 2017, she was granted the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of works. Her novels are being translated in many languages and were adapted for film and television. Excerpts and short stories were published on international platforms such as Five Dials and The Guardian.
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Thomas Heerma van Voss
Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is een Nederlands schrijver. Hij is de zoon van het schrijvende echtpaar Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve en de broer van schrijver Daan Heerma van Voss.
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Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is a Dutch writer. He is the son of a married couple, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve and a brother to author Daan Heerma van Voss -
Lieke Marsman
Lieke Marsman (1990) debuteerde als dichter in Tirade. Voor de bundel Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud werd Marsman bekroond met de Lucy B en C.W van der Hoogtprijs, de Liegend Konijn Debuutprijs 2011 en de Buddingh'-prijs 2011. De eerste letter is haar tweede bundel.
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In 2017 verscheen haar debuutroman Het tegenovergestelde van een mens bij Atlas Contact. De verzamelbundel Man met hoed bevat bundels 1 & 2, aslook nieuw werk en een selectie vertalingen.
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In de Volkskrant schreef Arjan Peters over haar debuut: 'Ze kan het, geen misverstand daarover.'
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Maartje Wortel
Maartje Wortel (1982) volgde de opleiding Beeld & Taal aan de Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2007 won ze de Write Now!-wedstrijd voor literair talent. Ze publiceerde verhalen in Passionate, De Brakke Hond en De Gids en schreef columns voor NRC Handelsblad. De verhalenbundel Dit is jouw huis is haar debuut. Ze won er de Anton Wachterprijs 2010 mee, en kreeg de Nieuw Proza Prijs Venlo 2010 voor het verhaal 'Kranten', dat in de bundel is opgenomen. Haar roman Half mens werd voor verscheidene prijzen genomineerd. In januari 2014 verscheen haar derde boek IJstijd.
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Christien Brinkgreve
Christine Dorothea Antoinette (Christien) Brinkgreve is sociologe en schrijfster. Zij is gehuwd met Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en moeder van twee schrijvende zonen Daan en Thomas.
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Maurits de Bruijn
Maurits de Bruijn (1984) schreef eerder de romans 'Broer' en 'De achterkant van de zon'. Van zijn hand verscheen tevens het non-fictieboek 'Ook mijn Holocaust' en de bundel 'Op de sofa. Essays over therapie en het leven'. Daarnaast is hij redacteur van kunsttijdschrift Mister Motley.
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Bregje Hofstede
Bregje Hofstede (Ede, 1988) woont en werkt in Brussel, studeerde kunstgeschiedenis en Frans in Utrecht, Parijs en Berlijn, en sloot haar studie af met een onderzoeksmaster in 2012. De Hollands Maandblad aanmoedigingsbeurs werd haar in 2012/2013 toegekend voor haar korte verhalen en essays. Ze doceerde kunstgeschiedenis aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen en werkt als redactrice.
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Roxane van Iperen
Roxane van Iperen (1976) is auteur en jurist. In 2016 verscheen haar debuutroman Schuim der aarde, waarmee ze de Hebban Debuutprijs won. In 2018 volgde 't Hooge Nest, waarvan tot op heden meer dan 275.000 exemplaren zijn verkocht. Het werd bekroond met de Opzij Literatuurprijs 2019 en stond op de shortlist van de NS Publieksprijs 2020. Elf landen verwierven de vertaalrechten, waaronder het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland, waar het boek ook de bestsellerlijsten haalde. De filmrechten zijn verkocht aan Man Up, het productiebedrijf van Carice van Houten en Halina Reijn. Van Iperen heeft een vaste column over macht in Vrij Nederland en schrijft voor diverse media.
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Maria Kager
Maria Kager (Amsterdam, 1978) is schrijver en literatuurwetenschapper. Ze groeide op in Haarlem, promoveerde in de literatuurwetenschappen aan Rutgers University in de VS, en woont in Amsterdam. Haar werk verscheen in onder meer Tirade, De Gids, Hard//Hoofd, en De Groene Amsterdammer.
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Manik Sarkar
Manik Sarkar (Groningen, 1973) is literair vertaler en schrijver. Zijn debuutroman Ossenkop verscheen in 2024. Hij publiceerde verhalen in o.a. Papieren Helden en Wobby. Manik vertaalde onder meer werk van Philippe Claudel, James Baldwin en Hisham Matar en is sinds een aantal jaar docent op de Vertalersvakschool.
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Jonas Kooyman
Jonas Kooyman (1989) studeerde journalistiek aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en literatuur aan The New School in New York. Als journalist schreef hij voor NRC over de luxe-industrie, het stadsleven en de tijdsgeest, maar hij zegde zijn baan op om fulltime verslag te doen van de nieuwe stedelijke elite. Hij muntte de term havermelkelite en begon een Instagrampagina en een nieuwsbrief om deze yuppen en zichzelf een spiegel voor te houden. Inmiddels heeft hij meer dan 173.000 volgers en 18.000 abonnees.
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Falun Ellie Koos
Falun Ellie Koos (1992) is schrijver en filmmaker. Hun debuutroman Rouwdouwers (2024) haalde de shortlist van de Libris Literatuur Prijs. Koos won in 2022 de Joost Zwagerman essayprijs en ontving in 2023 een C.C.S. Cronestipendium voor beloftevolle auteurs van de gemeente Utrecht. Hun kortfilm De vloer is lava (2020) werd genomineerd voor Rialto for Short.
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Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.
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Although Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.
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Radim Malinic
Radim Malinic is a creative director and designer living and working in South West London. He runs Brand Nu, a multidisciplinary award winning studio.
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Before finding his calling in the creative industry, Czech born Malinic was an ice hockey player, a bassist in death metal bands, an indie DJ, music journalist and student of Economics and Business management. At the break of the new millennium, Malinic moved to the UK to explore the expansive music scene, only to find even a greater interest in art and graphic design. Since then his eclectic interests have seen him working with some of the biggest brands, companies and bands in the world. Clients include Harry Potter, London Film Museum, SyCo, Sprite, WWF and USAID amongst many others.
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Hanna Jameson
Hanna Jameson's fourth novel, part murder mystery and part post-apocalyptic thriller - THE LAST - is out early 2019, with Viking UK and Simon & Schuster - Atria Books US. The Last is the story of an American academic searching for the truth about a girl who has been murdered in his Swiss hotel in the aftermath of a nuclear war that has destroyed most of the Western world.
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Jameson had written the first draft of her debut, award-nominated novel - SOMETHING YOU ARE - at just seventeen. Something You Are and two further novels in the series - GIRL SEVEN and ROAD KILL - are available now in the UK, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.
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George Ritzer
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Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is best known as a poet and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar, 2008), English (2004, Penguin India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997) and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize 2013.
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Heidi Sopinka
Heidi Sopinka has worked as a bush cook in the Yukon, a travel writer in Southeast Asia, a helicopter pilot, a magazine editor, and is co-designer at Horses Atelier. She has written for The Paris Review, The Believer, Brick, and Lenny Letter. She is widely published as a journalist in Canada, where she won a national magazine award and was The Globe and Mail's environment columnist. The Dictionary of Animal Languages, her début novel, was chosen by AnOther magazine as “one of the six novels set to conquer 2018,” was a semi-finalist for The Morning News Tournament of Books Best Novels from 2018, was long-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and has been translated into Polish and Dutch.
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Autumn de Wilde
Autumn de Wilde is an American photographer noted for her portraiture and commercial work photography of indie musicians.
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De Wilde was born in Woodstock, New York. Her father, Jerry de Wilde, was an art and commercial photographer noted for his photos of Jimi Hendrix, the Monterey Pop Festival and other icons of the 1960s. Autumn de Wilde had no formal education in photography, but learned photography from her father.
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Shailja Patel
CNN calls Shailja Patel “the people-centered face of globalization”. An internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright, activist, and public intellectual, her performances have received standing ovations on four continents. Trained as a political economist, accountant and yoga teacher, she uses text, voice, body, and critical thinking to delve for truth and dissect power. Patel has been African Guest Writer at Sweden’s Nordic Africa Institute and poet-in-residence at the Tallberg Forum, Sweden’s alternative to Davos. She has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR and Al-Jazeera, and her political essays appear in Le Monde Diplomatique and The New Inquiry, among others. Her work has been translated into 16 languages, and appears in No Ser
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Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher (1967) is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects
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Michiko Kakutani
Michiko Kakutani is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic and the former chief book critic of The New York Times.
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Bertram Koeleman
Bertram Koeleman (1979) is inkoper bij boekhandel H. de Vries in Haarlem. Hij studeerde Engelse taal- en letterkunde en debuteerde in 2013 met de roman De huisvriend. Begin 2016 verscheen zijn verhalenbundel Engels voor leugens.
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Sunisa Manning
Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and other places. She's been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writer’s Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel.
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Emma Restall Orr
[from Wikipedia] -- Emma Restall Orr is a British neo-druid, animist, priest, poet and author. She worked for the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids in the early 1990s, becoming an Ovate tutor. In 1993 she became joint chief of the British Druid Order (BDO) staying until 2002. Together with the Order founder Philip Shallcrass, she developed the BDO into one of the largest and most influential of its time. Feeling the system of Orders too limiting, in 2002 she created The Druid Network, which was officially launched at Imbolc 2003.
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Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Berend van der Kolk
Dr. Berend van der Kolk is universitair hoofddocent aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Hiervoor doceerde hij aan de IE Business School in Madrid, de London School of Economics en de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Hij publiceert in internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en bijdragen van hem verschenen bij Follow The Money en The Guardian.
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Sam Mills was born in 1975. After graduating from Lincoln College, Oxford University, she worked briefly as a chess journalist and publicist before becoming a full-time writer. She has contributed short stories to literary magazines such as Tomazi and 3am and written articles for the Guardian, The Weeklings and The Independent.
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Tehila Hakimi
Tehila Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award– winning fiction writer and poet. She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
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Hakimi’s short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. Hunting in America received critical acclaim when published in Hebrew, it was mentioned as Haaretz Best Book of 2023 and was longlisted for the 2023 Sapir prize. -
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Paul Dalla Rosa
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Ephameron
Ephameron is de nom de pinceau van huisillustrator Eva Cardon, Doctor in de Kunsten en zowel in binnen- als buitenland een graag geziene grafische gast. Ze is curator van het festival Grafixx, de jaarlijkse viering van beeldverhaal en illustratie.
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Haar werk doet verslag van een gevoelige kant van de wereld, documenteert de intieme en onopvallende drama’s die samen een leven vormen. Ephameron publiceert illustraties in o.a. The New York Times, De Standaard, De Tijd, L’Echo en Knack Weekend. Ze neemt deel aan en cureert tentoonstellingen over de hele wereld.
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Stefanie Green
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Annelies Verbeke
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Judith Mackrell
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Anwen Crawford
Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer. She is the music critic for The Monthly magazine, and her essays have appeared in publications including Frieze, Overland and Loops: Writing Music.
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Jennifer Dawson
Jennifer Dawson was born and brought up in Kennington and Camberwell, South London with her three sisters and one brother. She was educated at Mary Datchelor School in Camberwell.
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Jennifer read History at St Anne's College, Oxford. During her time at Oxford University she suffered a breakdown and spent several months in the Warneford Hospital, Oxford.
After graduating in 1954, Jennifer worked variously as a teacher in a convent in Laval, France, as a subeditor and indexer for the Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press on two encyclopaedias and the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, as a welfare worker in London's East End and as a social worker in a psychiatric hospital in Worcester. In 1959 she was awarded the Dawes Hicks Sch -
Roelof ten Napel
Roelof ten Napel (Joure, 1993) is dichter, schrijver en essayist. Hij werd genomineerd voor verscheidene prijzen en was laureaat van het C.C.S. Crone-Stipendium. NRC Handelsblad noemde hem "Een van de grootste jonge schrijvers van het moment."
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Emmanuelle Pagano
Emmanuelle Pagano, alias Emmanuelle Salasc, née le 15 septembre 1969, dans l'Aveyron, est une écrivaine française.
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Emmanuelle Pagano was born in Aveyron in September 1969. She lives today in Ardèche, with three children, born in April 1991, September 1995 and May 2003. She graduated in Fine Arts, and has done university researches in the field of esthetics in the cinema as well as the multimedia. -
Gabe Habash
Gabe Habash is the author of Stephen Florida. He is a graduate of New York University's MFA program and is the Fiction Reviews Editor for Publishers Weekly.
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Emily Wells
Emily Wells’ debut memoir, A Matter of Appearance, binds the author’s account of autoimmune disease to 19th-century French hysteria and discursive histories of ballet and illness. It has received praise from The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and others. Emily has an MFA in fiction from UC Riverside and teaches writing at UC Irvine. Formerly, she has been an editor at fashion and art magazines and a newspaper reporter. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Natália Antoňáková
Natália Antoňáková (*1995) se narodila na Slovensku, ale většinu života prožila v Čechách. Vystudovala scenáristiku a dramaturgii na FAMU, kde nyní v rámci svého doktorátu vedeného spisovatelem a dokumentaristou Martinem Ryšavým vyvíjí alternativní metodu výuky psaní filmových obrazů založenou na volném imaginativním procesu a skupinové diskuzi. Natália se během svých bakalářských studií rozhodla i pro režii - její první krátkometrážní film Za hlasem (2020) měl světovou premiéru na portugalském festivalu FEST New Directors New Films. V tomtéž roce začala vyvíjet svůj první celovečerní projekt Něco s námi je, jehož scénář byl o rok později oceněn Filmovou nadací v kategorii Hvězda zítřka a podpořen tehdejším Státním fondem kinematografie ve
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Kira Wuck
Winner of the Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs 2013 for Finse meisjes.
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Kira Wuck was born in 1978 and is the daughter of a Finnish mother and an Indonesian father. She grew up in Amsterdam.
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Selima Hill
Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945 in Hampstead) is a British poet.
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Selima Hill grew up in rural England and Wales. She read Moral Sciences at New Hall, Cambridge University (1965-7). She regularly collaborates with artists and has worked on multimedia projects with the Royal Ballet, Welsh National Opera and BBC Bristol. She is a tutor at the Poetry School in London, and has taught creative writing in hospitals and prisons.
Selima Hill won first prize in the 1988 Arvon Foundation/Observer International Poetry Competition for her long poem The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness, and her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry A -
Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
(Caracas, 1981)
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Escritor venezolano.
Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Una larga fila de hombres (Monte Ávila, 2005), Los Invencibles (Random House Mondadori, 2007), Las rayas (Punto Cero, 2011), Emuntorios (El Malpensante, 2018) y Los terneros (Páginas de Espuma, 2018). Por sus cuentos ha recibido diversos reconocimientos dentro y fuera de Venezuela. En 2007 fue seleccionado por el Hay Festival para formar parte de la primera edición de Bogotá 39. En 2013 fue escritor invitado del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa.
En 2016 publicó su primera novela, The Night, en la editorial Alfaguara, de España, con una excelente recepción que le ha valido elogiosas críticas, diversas traducciones y varias distinciones: Premio «Rive -
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Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak (1902–2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body.
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Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in mathematics before beginning to write novels. He invested early royalties earned by his first books in the movie Menschen am Sonntag (1929), a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday based on their own lives. The movie was co-directed by Curt Siodmak's older brother Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder.
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Kim Joo-Young
Kim Joo-Young was born in 1939, and graduated from the Sorabol Art College majoring in creative writing, and made his literary début with Resting Stage, which won the 1971 New Writer’s Award. A leading and popular exponent of “documentary” fiction, set in meticulously researched historical periods, Kim has also served as the director of the Paradise Culture Foundation in Seoul since 2005.
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François Smith
Francois Smith doseer Afrikaanse letterkunde en kreatiewe skryfkuns aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat. Sy debuutroman, Kamphoer (2014), is met die ATKV-Prosaprys en die Sala vir Beste Debuutwerk bekroon. Voordat hy in 2015 die akademie betree het, het hy sy brood en botter as uitgewersredakteur verdien en het skrywers soos Elsa Joubert, P.G. du Plessis en Eben Venter begelei. Van sy verhale het in die bloemlesings Bloots, Kosblik, Skarlakenkoors en Op die spoor van verskyn; sy vertaling David Kramer: ’n Biografie is ook met ’n Sala-letterkundeprys bekroon. Hy het ’n Ph.D. in die letterkunde van die Universiteit van Kaapstad, was kortstondig ’n onderwyser en lank ’n kunsjoernalis. In ’n vorige lewe was hy ’n siviele ingenieur; in die vol
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