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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Ivica Đikić
Ivica Đikić (Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1977), Croatian writer, journalist, columnist and translator.
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Rođen u Hercegovini, živi u Zagrebu. Karijeru je započeo u Slobodnoj Dalmaciji, a zatim je prešao u Feral Tribune. U Feral Tribuneu je bio novinar i urednik, a karijeru je nastavio u riječkom Novom listu gdje je jedno vrijeme bio glavni urednik. Nakon Novog lista, postao je glavni urednik tjednika Novosti, gdje i danas povremeno piše kao politički komentator. -
Simon Rich
Simon Rich (born 1984) is an American humorist whose first book, Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations, was published by Random House in April 2007.
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Rich is an alumnus of The Dalton School and a former president of The Harvard Lampoon, and the son of The New York Times editorialist Frank Rich. He received a two book contract from Random House prior to his graduation from Harvard University in 2007.
His first book, Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations, has been described as a collection of "giddy what-if scenarios". Excerpts of the book were printed in The New Yorker's "Shouts and Murmurs" column. His second book, Free Range Chickens, was published in 2008. His first novel, Elliot Allagash was released in May of 2010, followed by What in -
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. -
Bart Van Loo
Schrijver en conferencier Bart Van Loo (1973) heeft zich de voorbije jaren ontwikkeld tot een zeldzaam dubbeltalent. Met zijn virtuoze minicolleges in De Wereld Draait Door raakte hij bekend bij het grote publiek, maar in de eerste plaats is Van Loo natuurlijk schrijver. Van zijn hand verschenen de alom geprezen Frankrijktrilogie en de bestsellers Chanson en Napoleon. In zijn nieuwste boek De Bourgondiërs is Bart Van Loo op het toppunt van zijn kunnen.
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Johannes V. Jensen
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style."
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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (almindeligt kendt som Johannes V. Jensen) (20. januar 1873 i Farsø - 25. november 1950 på Østerbro, København) var en dansk forfatter der modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1944.
Han var opvokset i Farsø i Himmerland i et dyrlægehjem med antireligiøse forældre. Han blev lægestuderende på Københavns universitet og arbejdede som journalist ved siden af for at finansiere sine studier. Efter 3 års studier valgte han at skifte karriere og gav sig selv til litteraturen. På det tidspunkt havde han allerede udgivet 12 rom -
Rein Raud
Rein Raud was born in 1961 as the son of Eno Raud and Aino Pervik, both authors of popular books for children as well as novels and poetry. He graduated from St.Petersburg University (Japanese Studies, 1985) and defended his doctorate in the University of Helsinki (Literary Theory, 1994). In addition to novels, stories, poetry collections and essays, he is the author of numeorous academic publications in the areas of cultural theory and especially classical Japanese literature and philosophy, as well as a number of translations, mainly from Japanese into Estonian.
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Stig Sæterbakken
Stig Sæterbakken was a Norwegian author. He published his first book at the age of 18, a collection of poems called Floating Umbrellas, while still attending Lillehammer Senior High School. In 1991, Sæterbakken released his first novel, Incubus, followed by The New Testament in 1993. Aestethic Bliss (1994) collected five years of work as an essayist.
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Sæterbakken returned to prose in 1997 with the novel Siamese, which marks a significant departure in his style. The following year saw the release of Self-Control. And in 1999, he published Sauermugg. The three books, the S-trilogy—as they are often called—were published in a collected edition in 2000.
In February 2001, Sæterbakken's second collection of essays, The Evil Eye was released. As with -
Dimitri Verhulst
Na zijn debuut in 1999 schreef Dimitri Verhulst 13 boeken, romans, verhalen, novellen, poëzie en toneel. Zijn werk verschijnt in meer dan 20 talen over de hele wereld en hij wordt gezien als een van de grote schrijvers uit de Lage Landen. De klassieker De helaasheid der dingen werd bekroond met de Gouden Uil Publieksprijs, met Godverdomse dagen op een bol won hij de Libris Literatuurprijs. Zijn laatste, De laatkomer, verkocht binnen een half jaar meer dan 75 000 exemplaren, wordt verfilmd en over de hele wereld vertaald.
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• 2007 - Publieksprijs Gouden Uil voor De helaasheid der dingen
• 2007 - Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer voor De helaasheid der dingen
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Tommy Wieringa
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.
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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). -
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.
As a journalist he has mainly worked for Bergens Tidende, the local newspaper of Bergen, Norway. He is also writing for the Oslo-based national newspaper Dagbladet. -
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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Agnes Ravatn
Elev ved Skrivekunstakademiet i årskullet 2004-2005.
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Anjet Daanje
Anjet Daanje (1965) is schrijfster van romans en verhalen, en voorheen ook filmscenario's. Haar negende roman "Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris" stond wekenlang in bestsellerlijsten, en won de Libris Literatuurprijs én de Boekenbonliteratuurprijs (voorheen AKO-literatuuprijs), en is daarmee de enige roman die ooit beide grote prijzen kreeg toegekend. Haar achtste roman "De herinnerde soldaat" won de F. Bordewijkprijs 2020. Voor haar gehele oeuvre won ze de Constantijn Huygensprijs 2023.
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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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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. -
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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Helga Flatland
Helga Flatland har bachelorgrad i Nordisk språk og litteratur fra Universitetet i Oslo og har tatt treårig utdanning på tekstforfatterlinjen på Westerdals School of Communication. Hun debuterte med romanen "Bli hvis du kan. Reis hvis du må" (2010), som fikk overstrømmende kritikker. For denne ble hun tildelt Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris, Ungdommens kritikerpris, Aschehougs debutantstipend, og hun ble nominert til P2-lytternes romanpris. Hun befestet sin posisjon med "Alle vil hjem. Ingen vil tilbake" (2011). "Det finnes ingen helhet" (2013) avslutter trilogien.
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Helga Flatland regnes blant de fremste av unge norske fremadstormende forfattere. Hun har fått et stort publikum for måten hun beskriver menneskelige prosesser som sorg, tilknytning og -
Sacha Bronwasser
Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.
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Kjersti Anfinnsen
Kjersti Anfinnsen, født i 1975, bor i Oslo. Hun har gått på Forfatterstudiet i Tromsø og på Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland. I 2012 debuterte hun med romanen Det var grønt. Romanen De siste kjærtegn utkom i 2019. Anfinnsen mottok Subjektprisen, Havmannprisen og Bokhandelens forfatterstipend for boka. I 2021 utkom romanen Øyeblikk for evigheten.
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Ivana Gibová
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.
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Julia Kerninon
Julia Kerninon est née en 1987 à Nantes, où elle vit. Elle est docteure en lettres, spécialiste de littérature américaine. Elle s’est fait remarquer dès son premier roman, Buvard (2014), qui a reçu notamment le prix Françoise-Sagan.
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Trois livres vont suivre aux Éditions du Rouergue, dans lesquels elle affirme son talent et déroule son principal thème de prédilection, la complexité du sentiment amoureux. -
Lara Taveirne
Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder een lek dak, verstoken van luxe en lawaai, maar dicht bij de natuur. Zo nu en dan schrijft ze ook een roman, zoals De kinderen van Calais (winnaar Debuutprijs 2015) en Wolf (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs 2025).
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Thomas Korsgaard
"Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.
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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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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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Safae el Khannoussi
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
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Luuk Imhann
Luuk Imhann (1986) debuteerde in 2016 met de roman Paradijs, over een expeditieteam dat waanzinnig wordt in de jungle van Maleisië. Hij schreef en regisseerde de podcasthit Na het einde van de wereld, met nu al meer dan 50 000 luisteraars, die te beluisteren is via Spotify, Apple, JUKE en Deezer.
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Eric Idle
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python.
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Knut Høibraaten
Knut Høibraaten er tidligere fotballagent, nå kulepennselger og sauebonde i Samnanger.
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Født i Bergen, der hans oppvekst førte til et stort bankende hjerte for fotballklubben Brann og en altoppslukende interesse for sporten fotball. -
Marianne Fredriksson
Marianne Fredriksson was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist on various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.
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Fredriksson published fifteen novels, most of which have been translated into English, German, Dutch and other languages. Most of her earlier books are based on biblical stories. A central theme in her writings is friendship because, as she maintained, "friendship will be more important than love" in the future. -
Erika Fatland
Erika Fatland is a Norwegian anthropologist and writer who has written multiple critically-acclaimed books, including Sovietistan and The Border. Fatland was born in Haugesund, Norway, in 1983, and studied at the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen.
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Fatland is best known for her travel writing and has written several books: Her first travel book Sovietistan, published in 2015, was an account of her travels through five post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been translated into 12 languages. This was followed by The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latv -
Bernardo Fernández
Bernardo Fernández, mejor conocido como Bef, nació en la Ciudad de México en 1972. Ha colaborado como dibujante y escritor en periódicos underground y comerciales, tales como: Día Siete, Nexos, SUB, Hemofilia, Molotov y Complot, de la cual fue director de arte de 1997 a 1999, lo que le valió un Premio Nacional de Periodismo en el área de diseño editorial. Ha publicado libros infantiles: Error de programación, Cuento de hadas para conejos y Groar; cuentos de ciencia ficción: ¡¡Bzzzzzzt!! Ciudad interfase y El llanto de los niños muertos; así como dos novelas: Tiempo de alacranes y Gel Azul; y una compilación de sus cómics titulada Monorama. Sus libros han obtenido los premios: Otra Vuelta de Tuerca en 2005; el Memorial Silverio Cañada de la
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Oscar van den Boogaard
Oscar van den Boogaard (1964) groeide op in Suriname en Nederland. Hij studeerde rechten en Franse taal- en letterkunde in Montpellier, Amsterdam en Brussel. Na korte tijd op een advocatenkantoor gewerkt te hebben koos hij voor het fulltime schrijverschap. Hij maakte zijn debuut met de roman Dentz die in 1990 verscheen bij Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep: op dat moment was hij de enige levende schrijver van die uitgeverij.
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Daarop volgden Fremdkörper (roman, 1991), Bruno's optimisme (proloog op het Oceanisch verlangen, roman, 1993), De heerlijkheid van Julia (roman, 1995, nominaties voor de Libris Literatuurprijs en De Gouden Uil), Liefdesdood (roman, 1999), Sensaties (dagboek, 2000), Een bed vol schuim (roman, 2002) en Inspiration Point (dagb -
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 -
Rune Christiansen
Rune Christiansen (f. 1963) ble en sentral og innflytelsesrik litterat allerede med debuten Hvor toget forlater havet i 1986. Han har utgitt tolv diktsamlinger samtidig som han har utviklet et stadig mer markant og bemerkelsesverdig prosaforfatterskap, med romaner som Krysantemum (2009), Ensomheten i Lydia Ernemans liv (2014), Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen (2017) og Saken med den tapte tidens innfall (2021).
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Christiansen er blitt tildelt en rekke priser, bl.a. Dobloug-prisen, Brageprisen og Gyldendalprisen. Han har gjendiktet poeter som Frank Kuppner, Alain Bosquet og Edmond Jabés, og er redaktør for Forlaget Oktobers gjendiktningsserie for samtidspoesi.
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Maarten Boudry
Maarten Boudry (1984) is schrijver, wetenschapsfilosoof en was van 2019 tot 2023 houder van de leerstoel Etienne Vermeersch aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij schreef onder meer de bestseller Waarom de wereld niet naar de knoppen gaat (2019), waarover Marcel Hulspas schreef: ‘Strijdlustig. 340 pagina’s lang belijdt Boudry zijn onverwoestbare geloof in de vooruitgang’ (de Volkskrant, ****). Andere boeken zijn Illusies voor gevorderden (2015) en Waarom ons klimaat niet naar de knoppen gaat (als we het hoofd koel houden) (2021).
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Siel Verhanneman
Siel Verhanneman (°1989) is schrijver en dichter. In januari 2022 publiceerde ze haar derde dichtbundel 'Wat nu met het licht dat binnenvalt' bij de Arbeiderspers. Met haar instinctieve poëziedebuut 'Als ik stil ben heb ik een bos in mijn hoofd' (2016) maakte ze angst, verdriet en rouw wijd bespreekbaar. In 2019 verscheen haar debuutroman 'Of iedereen gaat dood' bij uitgeverij Angèle. De roman kreeg 3 sterren in Focus Knack en 4 bollen in NRC. In 2020 werd Siel Verhanneman opgenomen in 'Nu' als één van de tien meest interessante jonge dichters van het moment. Werk van haar verscheen in Deus Ex Machina, 'De afstand', 'Een wonderprachtig dier' en 'Watou 2020', een bloemlezing samengesteld door Peter Verhelst.
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Ma Jian
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao,China on the 18th of August 1953. In 1986, Ma moved to Hong Kong after a clampdown by the Chinese government in which most of his works were banned.
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He moved again in 1997 to Germany, but only stayed for two years; moving to England in 1999 where he now lives with his partner and translator Flora Drew.
Ma came to the attention of the English-speaking world with his story collection Stick Out Your Tongue Stories, translated into English in 2006.
His Beijing Coma tells the story of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 from the point of view of the fictional Dai Wei, a participant in the events left in a coma by the violent end of the protests. His most recent novel China Dream will be published in the US in May 2019. -
Iulian Bocai
Iulian Bocai (n. 1986) este scriitor, redactor și traducător (din engleză, franceză și germană). Absolvent al secției de Literatură universală și comparată a Facultății de Litere, Universitatea din București, a urmat mai apoi un masterat în teoria literaturii și literatură comparată, la aceeași facultate. Pregătește o teză de doctorat în istorie intelectuală, despre introducerea curriculumului literar în universitățile occidentale în secolul al XIX-lea. Este cîștigătorul Concursului de Debut al Editurii Polirom din 2018, cu romanul Ciudata și înduioșătoarea viață a lui Priță Barsacu, care i-a adus în 2019 și Premiul pentru Debut al revistei Observator cultural, precum și Premiul Festivalului Primului Roman de la Chambéry, Franța. Constantin
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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). -
Mária Modrovich
Mária Modrovich pochádza z Bratislavy, kde absolvovala Filozofickú fakultu Univerzity Komenského v kombinácii marketingová komunikácia - neslovanská filológia. V ostatných rokoch žije najmä v New Yorku a občas aj v Bratislave, píše po slovensky aj po anglicky. Ja známa z denníku Sme, pre ktorý pravidelne píše Listy z New Yorku. Získala prémiu v literárnej súťaži Poviedka 2010.
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Aliocha Coll
Aliocha Coll, seudónimo de Javier Coll Mata (Madrid, España, 6 de mayo de 1948 - París, Francia, 15 de noviembre de 1990), fue un escritor español.
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Hijo del pintor Xavier Coll Compte, nació en Madrid pero se educó en Barcelona de donde procedía su familia, la cual tuvo una influencia decisiva en sus inquietudes artísticas. Debe su seudónimo a Aliosha, personaje central de Los hermanos Karamazov de Fiódor Dostoyevski, libro que su madre leía durante el embarazo.
Si bien decidió iniciar estudios de Medicina en Barcelona, abandonó la carrera al tercer año y se trasladó a París, donde contrajo matrimonio con la pintora francesa de origen chino Lysiane Luong. En París terminó la carrera de Medicina, ejerciéndola solo los fines de semana a fin de -
J.M. Tyree
J.M. Tyree is the Nonfiction Editor of New England Review. He was a Keasbey Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. He currently teaches as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at VCUarts (Virginia Commonwealth University).
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Nils-Øivind Haagensen
Nils-Øivind Haagensen is a Norwegian author and journalist who lives in Oslo.
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He studied literature at the University of Bergen, Norway, and has also studied political science and religion. -
Renata Salecl
Renata Salecl, a philosopher and sociologist, is professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London and senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her books include The Tyranny of Choice and On Anxiety.
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Elin Viktoria Unstad
Jeg elsker å fortelle. Skape historier. Puste liv i karakterer. Som barn fløy jeg rundt i et skogholt som lå rett over veien for der jeg bodde og fortalte historier til fuglene og ekornene. Det var de øyeblikkene jeg følte meg mest levende.
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Nå fanger jeg historiene ved å skrive dem inn i datamaskinen. Og når jeg får teksten til å fungere, føler jeg meg like levende som da jeg fløy rundt i skogen som barn. Og jeg håper de som leser bøkene mine får litt av den følelsen også! -
Rebekka de Wit
Rebekka de Wit (1985) werkt als theatermaker. Haar afstudeervoorstelling 'Hoe dit het verhaal werd' werd bekroond op het Theater Aan Zee in Oostende. Met de voorstelling 'Stel je voor, ik zoek een staat' won ze de SABAM schrijfprijs. De voorstelling 'Heimat' werd in België geselecteerd voor Circuit x. In 2010 won ze de voorronde van Write Now in Antwerpen. Ze publiceerde vervolgens in o.a. 'DW en B' en 'Das Magazin' en trad op in de 33e editie van Geletterde Mensen van Behoud de Begeerte. In april 2019 verscheen Afhankelijkheidsverklaring.
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