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  Peter Schrijvers

  Dr. Peter Schrijvers (1963- ) is a Belgian academic and writer of history books. He earned a masters degree in Modern History from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) an a PhD in US Diplomatic and Military History from the Ohio State University.
  Today (2014) he is a Senior Lecturer American and international history at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales in Sydney.
  
  Peter Schrijvers mainly writes academic books in English.
  
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  Peter Schrijvers doceerde Amerikaanse geschiedenis in Australië, de VS en Zwitserland. Hij publiceerde zes non-fictieboeken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog, onder andere bij Cambridge en Yale, en was te zien op National Geographic. Momenteel is hij curator van

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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  Helen Fielding

  Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possibly to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of four novels: Cause Celeb, Bridget Jones’ s Diary, Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason and Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, and co-wrote the screenplays for the movie of Bridget Jones’s Diary and the sequel based on The Edge of Reason. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.

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  George Orwell

  Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.
  
  Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican fact

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  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
  
  His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia

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  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967 in East Berlin) is a German director and writer.
  
  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

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  Nicci French

  Note: (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.)
  
  Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes.
  
  In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues.
  
  In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down.
  
  In 1989 she became acting literary editor at the New Sta

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  Jojo Moyes

  Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.
  
  Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
  
  Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
  
  She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.

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  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.
  
  • 2007 - Publieksprijs Gouden Uil voor De helaasheid der dingen
  • 2007 - Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer voor De helaasheid der dingen
  • 2008 - De Inktaap voor De helaasheid der dingen, literaire jongerenprijs Vlaanderen, Nederland e

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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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  Jo Claes

  Jo Claes is een Vlaamse schrijver.
  Hij woont en werkt in Leuven. Hij schreef een aantal novelles en (misdaad)romans en publiceerde bestsellers over mythologie, hagiografie en iconografie. Zijn schrijversloopbaan begon met De Stenen Toren dat werd bekroond met de Debuutprijs. In 2008 verscheen zijn eerste misdaadroman over de Leuvense inspecteur Thomas Berg, De zaak Torfs. Met dit boek kreeg hij de smaak van het spannende genre te pakken, want daarna volgden De blinde vlek, Dood in december, Het oog van de naald, Tot de dood ons scheidt,Getekend vonnis. Zijn daaropvolgende Thomas Berg-roman De mythe van Methusalem, heeft de Hercule Poirot-publieksprijs 2014 en De Gouden Strop 2015 gewonnen.
  
  Jo Claes in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
  
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  Nino Haratischwili

  Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.
  
  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.
  
  Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg.

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  Lucinda Riley

  AKA: Lucinda Edmonds
  Lucinda Riley was born in Northern Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold thirty million copies worldwide. She is a No.1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller.
  
  Lucinda’s The Seven Sisters series, which tells the story of adopted sisters and is inspired by the mythology of the famous star cluster, has become a global phenomenon. The series is a No.1 bestseller across the world with total sales of over fifteen million copies.
  
  Lucinda and her family divided their time between the U.K. and a farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, where she wrote her books.
  

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  Sacha Bronwasser

  Sacha Bronwasser is a Dutch art historian, journalist and novelist.

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  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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  Joël Dicker

  Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair won three French literary prizes, including the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt. Dicker lives in Geneva.

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  Murat Isik

  Murat Isik is een Nederlandse schrijver en jurist van Zaza-Turkse afkomst. Hij studeerde rechtsgeleerdheid aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en San Francisco State University.
  
  Murat Isik is a Dutch author and lawyer of Zaza-Turkish descent. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and at San Francisco State University.

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  Lex Paleaux

  Lex Paleaux is schrijver, columnist en scenarist. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand onder meer de veelgeprezen romans Winterwater en Als de dood zucht, houd ik mijn adem in. Van Winterwater werd een succesvol theaterstuk gemaakt en het werd vertaald in het Fries.

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