John Franklin Bardin
John Franklin Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 30, 1916. During his teens, he lost nearly all his immediate family to various ailments. As he approached thirty, he moved to New York City where during his adulthood he was an executive of an advertising agency, published ten novels and taught creative writing as well as advertising at the NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH.
In 1946, Bardin entered a period of intense creativity during which he wrote three crime novels that were relatively unsuccessful at first, one of them not even being published in America until the late 1960s, but which have since become well-regarded cult novels. His best-regarded works, The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-Tai
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Ledicia Costas
Ledicia Costas es una escritora gallega. Estudió en el instituto de Beade (Vigo) y publicó varios libros como Esmeraldina, a pequena defunta. Empezó a escribir con 12-13 años y tanto le gustó que siguió escribiendo.
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Su primera publicación fue la novela Unha estrela no vento en 1999.
En 2015 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil por Escarlatina, a cociñeira defunta, obra en la que hace gala la tradición gallega de la muerte, con gran sentido del humor.
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Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor and The Impostor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award. The Imposter was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in Cape Town.
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Jon Bilbao
nació en Ribadesella (Asturias) en 1972. Es ingeniero de minas y licenciado en Filología Inglesa. En 2005 participó en la recopilación Ficciones, publicada por la editorial Edaf en colaboración con la Asociación Colegial de Escritores, y el mismo año obtuvo el premio Asturias Joven de Narrativa por su libro 3 relatos. Dos años después resultó ganador del XXXVI Concurso de Cuentos Ignacio Aldecoa. Su primera novela, El hermano de las moscas (Salto de Página, 2008) fue finalista del Premio Celsius a la mejor novela fantástica en la Semana Negra de Gijón y obtuvo el premio Xatafi-Cyberdark al mejor libro de ficción fantástica de ese año. También en 2008, y en la misma editorial, publicó Como una historia de terror, conjunto de relatos que obtu
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as -
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
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Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded -
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
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Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), was published when he was 24. He followed it with Wonder Boys (1995) and two short-story collections. In 2000, he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001.
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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels commonly share recurring characters.
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When Ellis was 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller Less than Zero (1985), was published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel, American Psycho (1991), was his most successful. Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that y -
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today," while S. T. Joshi has said that "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
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Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
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She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.
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Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird sho -
Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish gentry-woman, born in Oxfordshire and later resettling in County Longford. She eventually took over the management of her father's estate in Ireland and dedicated herself to writing novels that encouraged the kind treatment of Irish tenants and the poor by their landlords.
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Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan was born "Helen Woods" in France on April 10, 1901 to wealthy expatriate British parents.
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Her initial six works were published under the name of Helen Ferguson, her first married name. These early novels gave little indication of the experimental and disturbing nature of her later work. I Am Lazarus (1945), a collection of short stories which explored the inner mindscape of the psychological explorer, heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing. The change in her writing style and physical appearance coincided with a mental breakdown. During this time, Helen also renamed herself Anna Kavan after a character in her own novel Let Me Alone.
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Jon Bilbao
nació en Ribadesella (Asturias) en 1972. Es ingeniero de minas y licenciado en Filología Inglesa. En 2005 participó en la recopilación Ficciones, publicada por la editorial Edaf en colaboración con la Asociación Colegial de Escritores, y el mismo año obtuvo el premio Asturias Joven de Narrativa por su libro 3 relatos. Dos años después resultó ganador del XXXVI Concurso de Cuentos Ignacio Aldecoa. Su primera novela, El hermano de las moscas (Salto de Página, 2008) fue finalista del Premio Celsius a la mejor novela fantástica en la Semana Negra de Gijón y obtuvo el premio Xatafi-Cyberdark al mejor libro de ficción fantástica de ese año. También en 2008, y en la misma editorial, publicó Como una historia de terror, conjunto de relatos que obtu
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Aki Shimazaki
Aki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French. Her second novel, Hamaguri, won the Prix Ringuet in 2000.
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
AKA: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.
Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.
In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við -
Fernando Navarro
Fernando Navarro nació en Granada en 1980. Es uno de los guionistas más activos y prolíficos del cine español. Ha colaborado con cineastas como Álex de la Iglesia, Isaki Lacuesta, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza o Jaume Balagueró. Ha sido dos veces nominado a los Premios Goya, en las categorías de Mejor Guion Original y Mejor Guion Adaptado. Entre su filmografía destacan Verónica (nominada a Mejor Guion Original en los Premios Goya 2018), Orígenes secretos (nominada a Mejor Guion Adaptado en los Premios Goya 2020), Bajocero (2021), Venus (2022) y la serie Romancero (2023). Es coguionista de Segundo premio (2024), película que se alzó con la Biznaga de Oro en el Festival de Málaga y que ha sido nominada al Goya a Mejor Película y candidata a los
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Ledicia Costas
Ledicia Costas es una escritora gallega. Estudió en el instituto de Beade (Vigo) y publicó varios libros como Esmeraldina, a pequena defunta. Empezó a escribir con 12-13 años y tanto le gustó que siguió escribiendo.
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Su primera publicación fue la novela Unha estrela no vento en 1999.
En 2015 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil por Escarlatina, a cociñeira defunta, obra en la que hace gala la tradición gallega de la muerte, con gran sentido del humor.
Unos meses después gana el Premio Lazarillo 2015 por su obra Verne y la vida secreta de las mujeres planta, publicada por la editorial Anaya, donde hace un homenaje al autor de los libros de aventuras. -
Pedro Feijóo
Pedro Feijoo (Vigo, 1975) es licenciado en Filología Gallega por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Los hijos del mar (Os fillos do mar), su primera novela, fue finalista del prestigioso Premio Xerais de Novela 2011 y un auténtico fenómeno literario en Galicia, con una gran acogida por parte de crítica y público.
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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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Dolores Redondo
Dolores Redondo Meira (born 1 February 1969) is a Spanish writer of noir novels, author of the Baztán Trilogy, and winner of the 2016 Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize.
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Dolores Redondo began studying for her law degree at the University of Deusto, though she did not complete it. She studied gastronomy in San Sebastián, worked in several restaurants, and had her own before devoting herself professionally to literature. She has lived in the comarca of Ribera Navarra [es] in Cintruénigo since 2006.
Redondo began writing literature with short stories and children's stories. In 2009 she published her first novel, Los privilegios del ángel, and in January 2013 she published El guardián invisible, the first volume of the Baztán Trilogy (Spanis -
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.
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Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major author -
María Oruña
María Oruña Reinoso es una abogada gallega que, durante su descanso por maternidad y tras llevar más de diez años ejerciendo, decidió escribir un libro para ayudar a quienes sufriesen acoso laboral.
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Así, en enero de 2013, autopublicó en BUBOK la novela La mano del arquero, de amplio contenido jurídico.Anteriormente, había realizado alguna pequeña colaboración en webs como www.galiciaencantada.com, en gallego, publicando relatos históricos como el de «A dama do vento».
En septiembre de 2015, publicó con la editorial Destino Puerto Escondido, un thriller de misterio ambientado en Cantabria que ha cosechado éxito de ventas y crítica, traduciéndose de inmediato a varios idiomas. -
Lola Llatas
Lola estudió Ingeniería de Caminos y aunque hubo quién pensó que la vida técnica acabaría con su creatividad, no ha hecho más que insuflarle experiencias mágicas dándole la oportunidad de trabajar y vivir en lugares maravillosos, grandes ciudades y extensos desiertos.
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Comenzó a escribir cuando nació su hijo pequeño. Decidió que si quería educar a sus niños en la búsqueda de la libertad y la pasión, debía ser ejemplo de ello y solo haría aquello que la apasionara. -
Lola Llatas
Lola estudió Ingeniería de Caminos y aunque hubo quién pensó que la vida técnica acabaría con su creatividad, no ha hecho más que insuflarle experiencias mágicas dándole la oportunidad de trabajar y vivir en lugares maravillosos, grandes ciudades y extensos desiertos.
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Comenzó a escribir cuando nació su hijo pequeño. Decidió que si quería educar a sus niños en la búsqueda de la libertad y la pasión, debía ser ejemplo de ello y solo haría aquello que la apasionara. -
Simon Raven
Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence. His obituary in The Guardian noted that, "he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess.
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Among the many things said about him, perhaps the most quoted was that he had "the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel". E W Swanton called Raven's cricket memoir Shadows on the Grass "the filthiest cricket book ever written". He has also been called "cynical" and "cold-blooded", his characters "guaranteed to behave badly under pressure; mo -
Francis King
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Francis Henry King, CBE, was a British novelist, poet and short story writer.
He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land. After completing his degree in 1949 he worked for the British Council; he was posted around Europe, and then in Kyoto. He resigned to write full time in 1964.
He was a past winner of the W. Somerset Maugham Prize for his novel The Dividing Stream (1951) and also won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize. A President Emeritus of International PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was appointed -
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.
In the following years Curt Siodmak wrote many novels, screenplays and short stories including the novel F.P.1 Antwortet