Jo Nesbø
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.
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* Harry Hole
* Doktor Proktor
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Gregory David Roberts (GDR) is an Australian artist, composer, songwriter, and author of Shantaram, its sequel, The Mountain Shadow, and The Spiritual Path.
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Following the breakdown of his marriage and the loss of custody of his daughter, he turned to heroin to numb the pain, and crime to feed his habit. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19 years in prison for armed robbery (with a plastic weapon), he escaped and spent eight years in Bombay as a fugitive. Here he established a free medical clinic for slum-dwellers and worked as a counterfeiter and smuggler for a branch of the South Bombay mafia.
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Hannah Pearl was born in East London. She is married with two children and now lives in Cambridge.
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Award-winning, best-selling and critically-acclaimed author. His novels have been published in twenty-five languages around the world. The movie rights to the Devil Aspect have been bought by Columbia Pictures. Biblical, his science-fiction novel, has been acquired by Imaginarium Studios/Sonar Entertainment, four Jan Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) for ARD, the German national broadcaster, and the Lennox series has been optioned for TV development.
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Kate went to London University where she studied English and from there she went into publishing, writing material for a series of books on the canals of Britain. Then into advertising where she met her future husband, Norman. She travelled widely, giving her an insight into how different cultures function which was to prove invaluable when writing The Russian Concubine.
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Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was an internationally known Swedish crime writer, children's author and playwright. He was best known for his literary character Kurt Wallander.
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Paul Frederic Bowles grew up in New York, and attended college at the University of Virginia before traveling to Paris, where became a part of Gertrude Stein's literary and artistic circle. Following her advice, he took his first trip to Tangiers in 1931 with his friend, composer Aaron Copeland.
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In 1938 he married author and playwright Jane Auer (see: Jane Bowles). He moved to Tangiers permanently in 1947, with Auer following him there in 1948. There they became fixtures of the American and European expatriate scene, their visitors including Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. Bowles continued to live in Tangiers after the death of his wife in 1973.
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Katayama wrote the book Socrates in Love (also known as Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World). The book was adapted into a manga (illustrated by Kazumi Kazui), a film, and a Japanese television drama. Socrates in Love was his first and, as of 2008, only book translated into English. -
Ian Shircore
Ian Shircore's mission is to rescue Clive James's poems from the "poetry ghetto" and bring them to people who would never normally read poetry (and would certainly not pick up a book about poetry).
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Leif G.W. Persson
Leif Gustav Willy Persson - better known as Leif GW Persson - is a Swedish criminologist and novelist. He was a professor in criminology at the Swedish National Police Board from 1992 to 2008.
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He is known for his crime fiction novels and for his regular appearances as an expert commentator on notable crime cases in television and newspapers. Between 1999 and 2009 he participated as an expert commentator on the television show Efterlyst (Swedish TV program, equivalent of America's Most Wanted) on TV3. Since 2010, he is the expert commentator of Veckans Brott - roughly translated into Weekly Crimes or Crimes of the Week - on SVT. -
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Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Charity, a bestselling novel, Fishboy, and House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home.
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Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and Virginia. As heard on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR: He grew up in the 1960s in a racially divided rural town in Virginia. His family was poor. He was born with deformed hips and spent years in and out of charity hospitals. When his father walked out, his mother withdrew further into a world of faith. In a new memoir "House of Prayer No. 2" he details growing up in the American South as a “The Special -
L.J. Sellers
I write the bestselling Detective Jackson mystery/thriller series—a four-time Readers Favorite award winner—as well as the Agent Dallas series, the Extractor thrillers, and provocative standalone thrillers. My 30 novels have been highly praised and have sold more than a million copies.
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I reside in Eugene, Oregon where my many of my novels are set, and I'm also an award-winning journalist who earned the Grand Neal. When not plotting murders, I enjoy standup comedy, cycling, social networking, and attending mystery conferences. I've also been known to jump out of airplanes. -
Lulu Wang
Chines authoress living in the Netherlands.
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When she was 18 she started to study the English language. In 1985, when she was 25 she moved to the Netherlands.
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Andrés Iniesta
Andrés Iniesta Luján (Fuentealbilla, Albacete, 11 de mayo de 1984) es un futbolista español que juega como centrocampista en el Emirates Club de la UAE Pro League de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
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Ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera en el F. C. Barcelona y en la selección española, equipos de los que fue capitán. Es el futbolista español más laureado de la historia con un total de 39 títulos oficiales y ampliamente considerado como uno de los mejores futbolistas del mundo de su generación y uno de los mejores centrocampistas de la historia del fútbol. -
Matt Cain
Matt Cain is a writer, broadcaster, and a leading commentator on LGBTQ+ issues. He was Channel 4’s first Culture Editor, Editor-In-Chief of Attitude magazine, has written for all the national newspapers and appeared on BBC Breakfast, Lorraine, Good Morning Britain, The Today Programme, Front Row and Woman's Hour.
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Matt is also an ambassador for Manchester Pride and a patron of LGBT+ History Month. In 2021 he received an honorary doctorate from Bolton University and in 2023 he addressed the Cambridge Union. In the New Year's Honours List 2025 Matt was awarded an MBE for services to LGBTQ+ culture.
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Nicholas Booth
Nicholas Booth is a British author and broadcaster. Starting out as a science writer for national newspapers, he later worked in television and mobile publishing. Now he writes about unusual characters and unlikely events from history. His biography of the double agent Eddie Chapman, Zigzag, was highly acclaimed and will be made into a film. The Thieves of Threadneedle Street published in the U.S. by Pegasus Books is out now as a paperback. It was a pick of the week by Publishing News and a highlight of the season by The New York Times. Born in Cheshire in 1964, Nick lives there with his wife and their kittens.
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Liam Brown
Brown’s debut novel, Real Monsters, was published in 2015 by Legend Press. Wild Life, which the Guardian called "a compelling, chilling investigation into the dark instincts of masculinity", followed in 2016, while his third novel, Broadcast, was published internationally in 2017. Described by the Daily Mail as "a short, sharp and shocking update of the Faustus myth", the book was also optioned by a major Hollywood Studio.
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Ivica Ivanišević
Ivica Ivanišević je pisac opće prakse koji iz pojedinačnih komedija gradi kolektivnu. Njegove autorske preokupacije uključuju jučer, danas i malo sutra. Kad je sit svega i gladan južnjačke utjehe, postaje javni bilježnik perfekta, prizora iz mračnog života, zavičajnih humoreski, filozofije grintanja i svih onih malih nostalgičnih nevolja koje moraju ući u zapisnik da bi se znalo da je život, zapravo, jedno veliko čudo.
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Rosamund Lupton
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Thank you for visiting this bio. My books are not easy to slot into a particular genre, and you can usually be found under 'contemporary fiction', 'literary fiction', 'political thriller' and 'psychological thriller.' If you try one I hope you enjoy it.
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Three Hours was chosen by the Times as their thriller of the year. The Sunday Times called Three Hours 'a brilliant literary thriller...reminiscent of both Greek tragedy and Shakespeare’
Ruth Jones, author and actress, said 'It's gob-smackingly, heart-stoppingly, breath-holdingly brilliant.. the tension will blow your mind....'
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Oto Oltvanji
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Odrastao u Subotici, živi u Beogradu. Objavio je romane „Crne cipele“ (2005), „Kičma noći“ (2010) „Iver“ (2015) i „Polje meduza“ (2023). Njegova kratka proza sakupljena je u zbirci „Priče misterije i magije“ (2017). Kriminalistički roman za decu „Kako sam postao detektiv" izašao je 2019. godine. Preveo je na srpski knjige Lušesa Šeparda, Dejvida Šoa, Džordža Pelekanosa, Džonatana Litema, Loren Grof, Lija Čajlda, Roberta Silverberga i Rosa Makdonalda.
Grew up in Subotica, lives in Belgrade. His published novels are “Black Shoes” (2005), “Backbone of the Night” (2010), “Splinter” (2015), and "The Field of Jellyfish" (2023). Collection "Stories of Mystery and Magic" collects his short fiction. He published a crime novel for children "How I Beca -
Đorđe Bajić
Đorđe Bajić (born in Belgrade, on July 21, 1975) is a Serbian film and literary critic and writer from Belgrade, with a master’s degree in art and media theory. He wrote for Popboks, Yellow Cab, Huper, City Magazine, NIN’s cultural section... Currently, he pens film reviews and articles about art and culture for Vreme. Together with Zoran Janković and Ivan Velisavljević, he is the author of the book A Critical Guide to Serbian Film 2000—2017 (2018) and The Best Serbian Films of the 21st Century (2019). His story Košuta (Doe) is included in the anthology BalkaNoir (2018), published in Greece, and the story Besnilo 2.0 (Rabies 2.0) is featured in an anthology dedicated to Borislav Pekić, Pre vremena čuda (Before the Time of Miracles, 2020, La
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Harry Bingham
Harry Bingham is best known for his Fiona Griffiths crime series, which has drawn rave reviews from critics, authors and readers alike.
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Nathalie Pagie
Nathalie Pagie is thrillerauteur en communicatieadviseur. Ze woont met haar man en twee kinderen in Breda. In 2013 debuteerde zij met De Toneelclub en een jaar later verscheen De Campus, waarvan inmiddels al meer dan 15.000 exemplaren zijn verkocht. Paradijsvogels is de eerste in een serie over journalistenduo Tara Linders en Diego Martinez.
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Candace Rose Rardon
Candace Rose Rardon is a writer and sketch artist originally from the state of Virginia, although she has called the UK, New Zealand, and India home. Five years ago, she fell in love...but with the world, not "the one." This journey has since taken her from a pearl farm in the South Pacific to a rickshaw run across India. Recently featured in the New York Times, her travel blog, The Great Affair, is all about seeking inspiration and opening yourself up to the possibilities that life offers.
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Kelly Simmons
My sixth novel NOT MY BOY debuted January 2021. Booklist compared it to Big Little Lies, and Julie Clark, the author of LAST FLIGHT said it was "impossible to put down." I hope you enjoy it -- and please check out my backlist, Amazon Exclusive standalones and NEW 2025 Crime Collection -- all featuring good women making bad decisions.
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Start with my best-selling book, ONE MORE DAY, maybe? Or my first two, a bit more literary in tone -- STANDING STILL and THE BIRD HOUSE, both with unilaterally glowing reviews. (If you like it dark, you might prefer THE FIFTH OF JULY.)
My books have been applauded by bestselling authors like Megan Abbott, Caroline Leavitt, and Sarah Pekkanen. They've been hailed as "great titles for book groups who love strong -
Nic Pizzolatto
Nic Pizzolatto is an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer. Pizzolatto was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was educated at the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University. The author of two books, he taught fiction and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago, and DePauw University before leaving academia in 2010.
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His first novel, Galveston, was published by Scribner's in June, 2010. It was translated and published in France by Editions Belfond, Hong Kong, Germany, and in Italy by Mondadori, as part of their Strade Blu line.
In 2012, he created an original television series called True Detective, which was sold to HBO and completed shooting in June 2013, with Pizzolatto as e -
Lisa Sandlin
Lisa Sandlin was born in the Gulf Coast oil town of Beaumont, Texas, and lived there before and after a transfer sent her family to Naples, Italy, for three years. She graduated from Rice University in Houston and then lived many years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Once she had earned an M.F.A. in Writing at Vermont College, Sandlin packed a small car and headed for Nebraska in January. She taught at Wayne State College 1997-2009, with semester leaves to teach at The University of Texas and Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, and at University of Nebraska Omaha 2009-2018. Her books are "The Famous Thing About Death" (Cinco Puntos Press, 1991); "Message to the Nurse of Dreams" (Cinco Puntos Press, 1997), winner of the Violet Crown Award fro
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Evelyn Anthony
Evelyn Anthony was the pen name of Evelyn Bridgett Patricia Stephens Ward-Thomas,
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Started her career as a writer of historical fiction, later switched to writing contemporary thrillers, often with an espionage theme.
She met Michael Ward-Thomas on a double date in The Dorchester and both were attracted to each other.] He worked for the Consolidated African Selection Trust. They switched partners and were married a few months later.
They bought Horham Hall in 1968 but found that it was costly and sold it in 1976 and moved to Naas, County Kildare where she had relatives. Increased income from her writing allowed her to buy Horham Hall back in 1982.
In 1994 she became High Sheriff of Essex, the firswt woman in over 700 years to hold this office.
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Natalie Koch
Born in Eindhoven, learned to walk and talk in Accra, went to school in Eindhoven, got an MA in Musicology in Utrecht, lived and worked in Vienna, London and Amsterdam.
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Currently working on the final part of 'De verborgen universiteit' and hatching new ideas, ranging from Victorian London to contemporary Holland. Stargazer, absinthe-lover and restless spirit. -
Mirinae Lee
Mirinae Lee was born and grew up in Seoul. Her debut novel, '8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster,' has been longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. '8 Lives' is inspired by Lee's great-aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea. Its translations continue to meet readers worldwide, including in the US, the UK, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Romania, South Korea, Spain, and Switzerland. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and children.
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Eric Dregni
Eric Dregni has written nine books including Midwest Marvels, The Scooter Bible, Ads that Put America on Wheels, and Grazie a Dio non Sono Bolognese. As a 2004 Fulbright Fellow to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Eric researched Scandinavian culture and roots for a forthcoming book. His time is divided between Italy, Norway, and Minneapolis where he is the curator for El Dorado Conquistador Museum and guitarist for the mock-rock trio Vinnie & the Stardüsters.
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Nathaniel Rich
Nathaniel Rich is an American novelist and essayist. He is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, which received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor's Tongue. He is a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to Harper's and the New York Review of Books. His next book, Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, will be published in late March. Rich lives in New Orleans.
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Pam Houston
Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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Alison Bruce
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World Press Photo
It all began in 1955 when a group of Dutch photographers organized an international contest (“World Press Photo”) to expose their work to a global audience.
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For six decades, the World Press Photo Foundation has been working from its home in Amsterdam as an independent, nonprofit organization. In that time, the world has changed continuously, and new developments in the media and technology have transformed journalism and storytelling. Our mission has expanded, and we draw on our experience to guide visual journalists, storytellers, and audiences around the world through this challenging and exciting landscape.
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Cecilia Ekbäck
Cecilia was born in the north of Sweden; her parents come from Lapland. During her teens, she worked as a journalist and after university specialised in marketing. Over twenty years her work took her to Russia, Germany, France, Portugal, the Middle East and the UK.
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In 2010, she finished a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She now lives in Calgary with her husband and twin daughters, 'returning home' to the landscape and the characters of her childhood in her writing. -
David Van Reybrouck
David Grégoire Van Reybrouck is a Belgian cultural historian, archaeologist and author. He writes historical fiction, literary non-fiction, novels, poetry, plays and academic texts. Moreover, he is the founder of the G1000 project in Belgium, a platform for democratic innovation and inclusive participatory politics.
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He was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. His father, a farmer's son, spent five years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a railway engineer immediately after independence.
He studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and obtained a Master's degree in World Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He also holds a doctorate from Leiden University.
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Nguyễn Xuân Khánh
Tiểu Sử:
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Nguyễn Xuân Khánh sinh năm 1933 tại làng Cổ Nhuế, Hà Nội. Ông đỗ tú tài Toán, học Đại học Y khoa Hà Nội cho đến hết năm 1952 thì ra vùng tự do tham gia bộ đội. Trong khoảng mười năm, ông ở một đơn vị pháo binh, rồi dạy văn hoá tại Trường Sĩ quan Lục quân trước khi chuyển về làm việc tại tạp chí Văn nghệ Quân đội. Từ 1966, ông là phóng viên báo Thiếu niên Tiền phong trước khi về hưu non vào năm 1973. Hiện ông sống ở Hà Nội.
Tác phẩm: Rừng sâu (tập truyện ngắn, Nxb. Văn học, H., 1962), Miền hoang tưởng (tiểu thuyết, Nxb. Đà Nẵng, 1990), Trư cuồng (tiểu thuyết, talawas, 2005), Hồ Quý Ly (tiểu thuyết, Nxb. Phụ nữ, Hà Nội, 2000, 2001, 2002, nối bản và tái bản 15 lần), Hai đứa trẻ và con chó Mèo xóm núi (Nxb Kim Đồng, Hà Nội, 2002), (Mưa -
Kim Un-Su
Un-su Kim was born in 1972 in Busan and is the author of several highly praised novels. He has won the Munhakdongne Novel Prize, Korea’s most prestigious literary prize, and was nominated for the 2016 Grand Prix de la Littéraire Policière. He lives in Jinhae-gu, South Korea.
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Dominik Dán
Dominik Dán je slovenský spisovateľ detektívnych románov. Píše pod pseudonymom, v skutočnosti nemá 56 rokov (aj keď tento údaj bol vytvorený celkom náhodne pri chybnom zadaní spisovateľovho dátumu narodenia pri vydávaní knihy) a v súčasnosti autorsky spolupracuje pri tvorbe nového slovenského seriálu Kriminálka Staré mesto.
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Peter Bárdy
Peter Bárdy (* 1. apríl 1977, Žilina) je slovenský novinár, komentátor a šéfredaktor spravodajského webu Aktuality.
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V 90. rokoch sa venoval spravodajstvu z regiónov, predovšetkým zo Žiliny a Žilinského kraja. Postupne začal publikovať články týkajúce sa kriminality a organizovaného zločinu. Neskôr začal komentovať spoločenské a politické dianie.
V pozícii šéfredaktora Aktuality.sk stál pri vytvorení investigatívneho tímu, ktorého členom bol aj zavraždený Ján Kuciak. Po vražde Kuciaka (21. február 2018 vo Veľkej Mači) Aktuality rozšírili svoj záber v oblasti investigatívnej žurnalistiky.
V októbri 2021 vydalo vydavateľstvo Ringier Axel Springer SK knižnú prvotinu Petra Bárdyho „Obyčajný Matovič. Homo vulgaris“. Knižný debut šéfredaktora Aktual -
Chris Lloyd
After graduating in Spanish and French, I lived in Catalonia, where I worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer and translator. I’ve also lived in Grenoble, researching the French Resistance movement.
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The result of my lifelong interest in World War 2 and resistance and collaboration in Occupied France, The Unwanted Dead (Orion) is my first novel set in Paris, featuring Detective Eddie Giral. I’m also the author of the Elisenda Domènech crime series (Canelo), featuring a police officer with the newly-devolved Catalan police force. -
Julian Rathbone
Julian Christopher Rathbone was born in 1935 in Blackheath, southeast London. His great-uncle was the actor and great Sherlock Holmes interpreter Basil Rathbone, although they never met.
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The prolific author Julian Rathbone was a writer of crime stories, mysteries and thrillers who also turned his hand to the historical novel, science fiction and even horror — and much of his writing had strong political and social dimensions.
He was difficult to pigeonhole because his scope was so broad. Arguably, his experiment with different genres and thus his refusal to be typecast cost him a wider audience than he enjoyed. Just as his subject matter changed markedly over the years, so too did his readers and his publishers.
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Goran Petrović
One of the most significant and most widely read contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University.
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He worked as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery.
Awards:
the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship;
the "Prosveta Award";
the "Meša Selimović Award";
the "Charter of Rača",
the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award";
the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001);
the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo;
the "Borislav Stanković Award".
Petrović's books have been reprinted several times. His novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
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Joann Fletcher
Dr. Joann Fletcher is Honorary Research Fellow at York University and consultant Egyptology at Harrogate Museums and Arts. She specializes in the history of mummification and has studied mummies on site in Egypt, Yemen and South America as well as in museum collections around the world. Recently she led groundbreaking work in Egypt's Valley of the Kings to re-examine three royal mummies, one of which may be that of Nefertiti - news that has attracted international coverage.
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She has made nuerous appearances on television as well as radio, and writes for both The Guardian newspaper and the BBC's History Online website. Her publications include Egypt's Sun King: Amenhotep III, The Egyptian Book of Living and Dying and The Oils and Perfumes of A -
Alex North
Alex North was born in Leeds, England, where he now lives with his wife and son. The Whisper Man was inspired by North's own little boy, who mentioned one day that he was playing with "the boy in the floor." Alex North is a British crime writer who has previously published under another name.
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David Smith
Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Eugene Trivizas
Eugene Trivizas (Greek: Ευγένιος Τριβιζάς ) has published many books on literature and he is one of Greece's leading writers for children . He has produced more than a hundred books of enduring popularity, all of them currently in print, that are enjoyed as much by grown ups as by children and he has received more than twenty national and international literary prizes and awards.
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Reviewers have described him as 'a miracle worker who brings to life a whole new world 'and as 'the author who with a distinctive combination of lyricism and surrealism, humour and poetic imagination has revitalised the whole of our children's literature. '
Much of E.Trivizas work has been transferred to the stage and serialised for television as well as the radio. H -
Pragya Agarwal
Dr Pragya Agarwal is an activist, behavioural and data scientist, speaker and a consultant. As a Senior Academic in US and UK universities, she has held the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship, following a PhD from the University of Nottingham. Her publications are on reading lists of leading academic courses across the world.
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Pragya is the author of SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias published with Bloomsbury Publishing, and ‘Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race’, a manual for parents, carers and educators of all backgrounds and ethnicities to talk to children about race and racism, published with Dialogue Books (Little, Brown/Hachette).
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Laird Koenig
Laird Koenig (born 24 September 1927 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author. His best-known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a novel published in 1974. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also wrote a play based on the novel.
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