Jonas Jonasson
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a small town by Lake Lugano in Switzerland, only a few meters from the Italian border.
The manuscript became a novel. The novel became a phenomenon in Sweden, and now it is about to reach the rest of the world.
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Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini, whose birth name in Hungary was Erik Weisz (which was changed to Ehrich Weiss when he immigrated to the United States), was a Jewish Hungarian American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever) and stunt performer, as well as a skeptic and investigator of spiritualists, film producer and actor. Harry Houdini forever changed the world of magic and escapes.
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Peter Lewis Atkinson
I was born in the southeast of the United Kingdom. After leaving school, I pursued a career in electronics. I was fortunate, having gone to a local business on a day release program from school, I was then taken on as an apprentice. After my apprenticeship was complete, I left and started my own business, which I still do today. As for writing, I had never considered writing a novel until I had this strange science fiction dream. This dream stayed with me. I decided to put pen to paper and had a draft of my first novel completed in just a few months. My interests include, among other things, reading and science fiction movies.
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Hoàng Hải Vân
Nhà báo Hoàng Hải Vân từng làm ở báo Thanh Niên tại Sài Gòn ông chịu trách nhiệm tổ chức nội dung, tài chính và viết bài cho tờ báo đó.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
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During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American -
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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.
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Katarina Wennstam
Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminaljournalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättigheter och lika villkor har Wennstam varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckeslagen som trädde i kraft 2018. Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från kvinnofrågorna.
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Efter två decennier som journalist, författare och debattör i feministiska och kriminalpolitiska frågor har Katarina idag en hög trovärdighet och en stor plattform på sociala medier. Hennes böcker har älskats av läsare och litteraturkritiker och hennes första bok, Flickan och skulden, betraktas idag som en kultbok. -
Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008. Its release was followed by a collection of short stories in the book titled Between the Assassinations. His second novel, Last Man in the Tower, was published in 2011. His newest novel, Selection Day, was published in 2016.
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Herman Koch
Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.
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Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
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He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea -
Denise Rudberg
Denise Rudberg, född 1971, är bosatt i Stockholm. Hon har studerat film och dramaturgi i New York och har bland annat skrivit två löst sammanhållna romantrilogier.
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Senast gjorde hon succé med Jenny S, Matilde och Åse som alla har blivit stora försäljningsframgångar. Denise Rudberg har även skrivit en svit ungdomsböcker, Tillsammans, som fick pris som 2008 års mest sålda ungdomsbok. Sommaren 2010 påbörjar hon en ny ungdomsbokstrilogi, Baristas, och hösten 2010 debuterar hon i en ny genre - elegant crime - med Ett litet snedsprång, den första i en serie, där alla böcker redan är sålda till SF för att bli film.
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Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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Alex Schulman
Carl Magnus Alexander Schulman (born 17 February 1976 in Hemmesdynge) is a Swedish author, journalist, blogger and television and radio personality.
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Kristiina Ehin
Kristiina Ehin on eesti luuletaja ja proosakirjanik.
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Ta on õppinud Tartu Ülikoolis eesti filoloogiat ja spetsialiseerunud rahvaluulele. Aastal 2004 omandas ta Tartu Ülikoolis magistrikraadi eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule alal. Magistritöö teemaks oli "Eesti vanema ja uuema rahvalaulu tõlgendusvõimalusi naisuurimuslikust aspektist". Ta on töötanud Vodja koolis õpetajana.
Kristiina Ehin on kuulunud kirjandusrühmitusse Erakkond.
Ta on ka laulnud ansamblis Sinimaniseele.
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Kristina Ohlsson
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Gerwin van der Werf
Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)
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Anders de la Motte
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Myrthe van der Meer
Myrthe van der Meer (pseudoniem, 1983) werkte als redacteur toen ze na een burn-out vijf maanden lang op een paaz opgenomen werd. Over deze ervaring schreef ze haar debuut PAAZ. Het boek werd meer dan 50.000 keer verkocht en het werd genomineerd voor de Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuur Prijs. Myrthe won de Psyche Mediaprijs en de Viva400-Award. In 2013 verscheen haar tweede boek, de roman Kalf.
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Kris Van Steenberge
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Samuel Bjørk
Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien.
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Bjørk’s first installment in the Mia and Munch Series, I’m Traveling Alone, is an international success story that has gained critical acclaim and captivated readers all over the world, including hitting #1 on German newspaper Der Spiegel‘s bestseller list.
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Hendrik Groen
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Merlin Franco
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Lauren Ho
Lauren Ho is a reformed legal counsel who now writes for pleasure. Hailing from sunny Malaysia, she is currently based in Singapore.
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She is the author of bestselling romcoms LAST TANG STANDING (2020) and more recently, LUCIE YI IS NOT A ROMANTIC (2022). BITE ME, ROYCE TASLIM is her first YA novel.
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Ruth Kvarnström-Jones
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.
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Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
– Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
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Margaret Millar
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Often labelled an Appalachian writer, or a historical novelist, Denise Giardina describes herself as a theological writer, exploring fundamental issues of faith and belief through literary characters.
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Born and raised in the West Virginia coalfields, Giardina is an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, a community activist and a former candidate for the WV state governorship.
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Craig Davidson
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was raised in Calgary and St. Catharines.
His first short story collection, Rust and Bone, was published in September 2005 by Penguin Books Canada, and was a finalist for the 2006 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. Stories in Rust and Bone have also been adapted into a play by Australian playwright Caleb Lewis and a film by French director Jacques Audiard.
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Julia Butterfly Hill
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Shan Sa
Shan Sa is a French author born in Beijing in 1972. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside of France. It won the Goncourt des Lycéens Prize in 2001 and earned critical acclaim worldwide. Her second novel to appear in English translation is "The Empress" (2006).
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Shan Sa was born on October 26, 1972 in Beijing to a scholarly family . Her real name is Yan Ni Ni, then she adopted the pseudonym Shan Sa, taken from a poem of Bai Juyi. -
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor.
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From 1994 until 2008 she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly. She has written feature stories for GQ, where she is a correspondent. Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting. She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Reader's Digest and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal.
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Ben Gazur
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Merlin Franco
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Johannes de Villiers
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Andrus Kivirähk
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Kathleen E. Digan
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops. Her life-long dream was to someday write her own book and publish it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel. Unfortunately, she became very ill with cancer and so she asked her niece, Annie Barrows, the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half, to help her finish the book. Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, a few months before her first novel was published.
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Diney Costeloe
Encouraged by my publisher father, I have been writing all my life. When I was five, he took my first effort to his office and brought it back in a cardboard cover with the label, 'Tom's Party'written by Diney, published by Daddy.
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I've never looked back and always have some writing on the go.
To date I have written 10 romantic novels under the name of Diney Delancey (I liked the shape of the name and it sounded like a romantic novelist) and four novels as Diney Costeloe.
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Goran Vojnović
Goran Vojnović (rojen leta 1980 v Ljubljani) je filmski in televizijski režiser in scenarist. režiral je tri kratke filme (Fužine zakon, Sezona 90/91, Moj sin, seksualni manijak), z Markom Šantićem pa napisal scenarij za film Sretan put Nedine, ki je osvojil nagrado Srce Sarajeva in bil nominiran za nagrado evropske filmske akademije.
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Kot filmski publicist sodeluje s številnimi filmskimi revijami in časopisom Dnevnik, kolumne pa objavlja na literarnem spletnem portalu beletrina.si in v študentski reviji Element. Leta 1998 je v samozaložbi izdal pesniško zbirko Lep je ta svet. Čefurji raus! je njegov prozni prvenec. -
Helene Thornton
Helene Thornton is the stage name of Elaine Smith, a former Bluebell girl and author of 17 novels, but she is perhaps best known as the mother of Welsh TV presenter Paula Yates.
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Fynn is the pen name of Sydney "Sid" George Hopkins. Sid was a student and later staff member at Finchden Manor, now a defunct reform school, in Tenterden Kent. Sid Hopkins spent the last years of his life living in Taunton, Somerset, England.
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Hendrik Groen
Hendrik Groen, pseudonym of Peter de Smet, is a Dutch writer. He is the author of the book Pogingen iets van het leven te maken: Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 83¼ jaar (The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old) published in 2014. That book was awarded in 2016 with the Audience Award for the Dutch Book. The sequel Zolang er leven is: het tweede geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 85 jaar (On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen) appeared in 2016.
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For years it was unknown who was hiding behind the pseudonym. This led to speculation about who it could be. Names from Sylvia Witteman to Arnon Grunberg were mentioned. Both De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad revealed almost simultaneously in 2016 that Peter de Smet -
Gaby Hauptmann
Gaby Hauptmann is a German writer.
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Gaby Hauptmann has written, since the mid-1990s, a series of bestsellers on the gender battle. Today, her books have been translated and appear in over 40 countries. In Germany alone, their circulation is about 6 million. -
Namrata Patel
Namrata Patel is an Indian American writer who resides in Boston. Her writing examines diaspora and dual-cultural identity among Indian Americans and explores this dynamic while also touching on the families we’re born with and those we choose. Namrata has lived in India, New Jersey, Spokane, London, and New York City and has been writing most of her adult life. For more information visit www.nampatel.com.
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James Krüss
James Krüss was a German writer of children's and picture books, illustrator, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, translator, and collector of children's poems and folk songs. In 1968 he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature".
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Robert Kroese
Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan - home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write h
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Walter J. Ciszek
Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. was a Polish-American Jesuit priest who conducted clandestine missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
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Fifteen of these years were spent in confinement and hard labor in the Gulag, plus five preceding them in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison. He was released and returned to the United States in 1963, after which he wrote two books, including the memoir With God in Russia , and served as a spiritual director.
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Lauren Ho
Lauren Ho is a reformed legal counsel who now writes for pleasure. Hailing from sunny Malaysia, she is currently based in Singapore.
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She is the author of bestselling romcoms LAST TANG STANDING (2020) and more recently, LUCIE YI IS NOT A ROMANTIC (2022). BITE ME, ROYCE TASLIM is her first YA novel.
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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to wr
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Bob Van Laerhoven
Flemish author of more than 40 books. You'll find them on my website in three languages: Dutch-French-English. Currently published in The Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Argentine, Germany, Sweden, Ethiopia. Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for the best crime novel of the year 2007 with "De Wraak van Baudelaire" (Baudelaire's Revenge). Baudelaire's Revenge is published in the US by Pegasus Books in hardcover in 2014. The paperback edition was published in 2015.
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"Baudelaire's Revenge" won the USA BEST BOOK AWARD 2014 in the category: Fiction:mystery/suspense.
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Benjamin Gilmour
Benjamin Gilmour was born in Germany in 1975, but has lived most of his life in Australia. He is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. His first book, Warrior Poets – Guns, Movie-making and the Wild West of Pakistan, was published in 2008, based on his experiences directing the feature film Son of a Lion. His best-seller Paramedico is published in numerous countries. His latest book is The Gap (Penguin Random House).
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Cassie Brown
Cassie Eileen Brown (1919–1986) was a Newfoundland and Labrador journalist, author, publisher and editor. Brown is most distinguished for her books Death on the Ice which was featured in Reader's Digest and the Wreck of the Florizel.
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Bart Debbaut
Na marketingstudies belandde hij eerder toevallig in het bankwezen, waar hij een mooie carrière na 17 jaar inruilde voor iets totaal anders: hij werd - samen met zijn vrouw - eigenaar en zaakvoerder van herenkledingzaak 'De Gouden Schaar' in Tienen (2011). In 2003 publiceerde hij samen met Louis Verbruggen en Jan Ceuleers het managementboek ‘Hoe word ik een winnaar en hoe blijf ik het’. in 2008 debuteerde hij op de fictiemarkt met een eerste thriller (Scherven). Er volgden nog 4 titels met dezelfde speurders in de hoofdrol. De Facebookmoorden (2010) is daarvan de bekendste titel. In 2013 schreef Debbaut een mooie novelle 'Als ik wakker word, ga ik dood'. In 2014 verraste de auteur ons met een satirische roman 'En toen schiep God Kevin'.
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Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
I love to meet with book clubs, especially via Zoom. Please email me: mirandabeverlywhittemore@gmail.com and we can work something out!
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I write novels, and most of those novels have to do with secrets. My fifth book, FIERCE LITTLE THING, will be out from Flatiron Books on July 27, 2021.
Set in the backwoods of Maine, FIERCE LITTLE THING has been described as "The Girls" meets "The Interestings." It's about a woman who is blackmailed into returning to Maine and the cult of her youth when someone threatens to reveal the terrible deed she committed with her childhood friends.
My other novels include JUNE and New York Times bestseller BITTERSWEET.
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Carolinda Witt
Carolinda Witt is an award-winning author who lives in Sydney, Australia. She is the author of the bestselling "The Eye of Revelation 1939 & 1946 Editions Combined" and "The Illustrated Five Tibetan Rites," which she began teaching and practicing in 2000. Carolinda has since taught the Rites to over 70,000 people worldwide through her books, online training course, DVD, and workshops - and attributes them to her youthful appearance and energetic outlook.
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Her prize-winning non-fiction book, "Double Agent Celery" is about her grandfather, Walter Dicketts, aka Double Agent Celery, who married six times (two were mistresses). -
Peter Allison
Peter Allison is an Australian writer whose books have focused on his time as an African safari guide, as well as his time in South America. He grew up in Sydney. At the age of 16 won a scholarship to study in Japan. At 19 he travelled to Africa and became a guide for the Classic Safari Company.
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Tom Anderson
Tom was born in Watford, London on the 15th May 1980. He lived with his parents in London until he saw the error of his ways only a couple of years later whereupon his family moved back to his father’s homeland of South Wales. It was inevitable that he would be drawn to the sea since his grandfather had been a top lifesaver and his father a successful competitive surfer ‘back in the day’.
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Tom began surfing at the age of 11 and moved to the seaside town of Porthcawl at the age of 13. He saved up for his first custom surfboard at the age of 14 after doing a milk round for 27 weeks (=270 pounds!) working from midnight until five AM every Friday night, under the watchful eye of long-time Porthcawl Point local Gez McKay (who has since joined the -
Bruce Robinson
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Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I (1986), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as 'a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor' in Camden Town. He is married to Sophie Windham, children's author and illustrator, and has contributed to some of her books. A book of interviews with Robinson, edited by Alistair Owen, is published as Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson -
David Roberts
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David Roberts was born in Liverpool. He always loved drawing from an early age and couldn’t wait to escape high school and go to art college. There he developed a keen interest in pottery and fashion and went on to study a degree in fashion design at Manchester Metropolitan University. After university he worked as a milliner and began to get work as a fashion illustrator but always felt his true calling was in children’s book illustration.
He signed up with Christine Isteed at Artist Partners in 1995 and has never looked back since. So after working as a shelf stacker, egg fryer, hair washer, film extra and coffee-maker David finally realised his dream of -
Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".
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Kim
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Kim AKA Joaquim Aubert Puigarnau (Barcelona, 10 de noviembre de 1941) es un dibujante de historietas español. -
Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny, (born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
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His best known work is "The Discovery of Slowness" (1987; originally published in 1983 as "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit"), a fictionalized meditation on the life and lessons of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. A pre-publication portion of the novel titled "Kopenhagen 1801" (which would become the fifth chapter) had earned Nadolny the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1980. -
Douglas E. Nash
Doug Nash is a West Point Class of 1980 graduate and a retired U.S. Army Colonel with 32 years of active duty service in places like Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, Cuba, and Uzbekistan. He served in a variety of Army units, such as armored cavalry, armor, and special operations forces, including Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations. He is currently employed by the U.S. Navy working for Marine Corps University's History Division in Quantico, Virgnia. His works include "Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket January to February 1944" and "Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: with the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich (which was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
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Vũ Phi Yên
Tiến sĩ Vũ Phi Yên –
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Giảng viên, Huấn luyện và Tư vấn
“Tôi tin tưởng mãnh liệt vào khả năng phát triển của mỗi con người, chỉ cần họ được hỗ trợ thích đáng và được trao tay những bí quyết xây dựng bản thân hiệu quả nhất của tâm lý học ứng dụng hiện đại.”
Học, nghiên cứu và thực hành không ngừng nghỉ trong suốt 14 năm trong Y khoa, chuyên ngành Di truyền học, TS.BS Vũ Phi Yên không thỏa mãn với cách tiếp cận con người chỉ thiên về thể chất, mà tự bổ sung cách tiếp cận về tinh thần qua những học hỏi và nghiên cứu Tâm lý học.
Đối với Yên, con người đầy phức tạp, có khả năng tự tạo ra cho mình hoặc gây cho nhau những vấn đề ghê gớm nhất. Đồng thời, hoàn toàn logic, con người cũng hoàn toàn đủ khả năng tháo gỡ những vấn đề đó, và có tiềm năng phá -
Carlos Basso Prieto
Es periodista. Ha trabajado en diversos medios, y ha sido premiado por su tarea. También se ha dedicado a la docencia universitaria. Antes de la novela Los pasos perdidos de Shakespeare publicó varias obras de investigación periodística: Los enigmas del caso Matute Johns (2001), De Sarajevo a Nueva York. Breve historia del terrorismo (2001) y El último secreto de Colonia. Dignidad, la desaparición de Boris Weisfeiler (2002). Se confiesa admirador incondicional de Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, William Shakespeare (fuera quien fuese) y Umberto Eco. De nacionalidad italiana y chilena, reside en Concepción, donde trabaja como asesor de comunicación.
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Rita Cameron
Rita Cameron is the author of two novels, The House Party and Ophelia's Muse. She grew up in Philadelphia and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and currently lives in San Jose, California, with her husband and two children. She enjoys hiking, reading, visiting wineries, and throwing overly-ambitious theme parties.
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David G. Wells
David Wells is a writer on mathematics and puzzles.
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Jim Unger
James Frederick Unger was a British-born Canadian cartoonist, best known for his syndicated comic strip Herman which ran for 18 years in 600 newspapers in 25 countries.
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Brent Archer
Brent Archer was born in Spokane Valley, Washington, where he lived most of his adolescent life. At eighteen, headed for the coast to attend the University of Washington for Electrical Engineering. Quickly, it became apparent science wasn't his forte, and he switched his major to International Studies with a minor in history. After graduation, he got several accounting jobs as he pursued an acting career in musical theater and dance. Once thirty hit, however, he decided to focus on numbers, getting a certificate in accounting, and became the Financial Controller of a non-profit arts and music organization.
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Though writing most of his life, he never thought to submit his work for publication. In 2012, he visited his cousin Delilah Devlin in Ar -
Tone Seliškar
Tone Seliškar se je rodil 1.aprila 1900 v Ljubljani, kot zadnji, sedmi otrok očetu Antonu in materi Mariji. Oče Anton je bil po poklicu strojevodja, tako da se je Tonetu Seliškarju v otroštvu dobro godilo. Šolanje je pričel na osnovni šoli na Vrtači, dokončal pa ga je na učiteljištvu v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 1919 tudi maturiral. Prvo učiteljsko mesto je dobil leta 1919 v Dramljah pri Celju. Leta 1920 je šel poučevat na Prežin nad Štorami, leta 1921 pa v Trbovlje. V Trbovljah je sodeloval pri delavskih socialističnih društvih, režiral in pisal (pesniška zbirka Trbovlje, 1923). Nekaj časa je učiteljeval tudi v Reki pri Laškem in v Cerkljah pri Krškem. Leta 1925 pa je dobil mesto učitelja na meščanski šoli v Ljubljani na Prulah. Leta 1942 je
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Christopher Hals Gylseth
Christopher Hals Gylseth (f. 1965) er idéhistoriker og sakprosaforfatter.Han har utgitt en rekke bøker, flere av dem med tema fra andre verdenskrig. Gylseth bor i Ringerike kommune.
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Oliver Uschmann
Oliver Uschmann wuchs in Wesel am Niederrhein auf. In Bochum studierte er Literatur und in Berlin das Leben. Mit seiner Frau Sylvia Witt veröffentlicht er Jugendromane, Erwachsenenromane sowie lustige und ernste Sachbücher. Auf der Videospielkonsole stellt sich Oliver Uschmann regelmäßig den schwersten Gegnern. Zu seinen Hobbies außerhalb des Hauses gehören das Barfußlaufen und das Guerilla-Gärtnern. Außerdem begrüßt er jedes natürliche Gewässer, indem er vollständig seinen Schädel hineinsteckt. Uschmann lebt mit seiner Frau sowie zwei Katern auf einem Dorf im Münsterland.
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Oliver Uschmann grew up in Wesel on the Lower Rhine. He studied literature in Bochum and life in Berlin. With his wife Sylvia Witt, he -
Hannah O'Brien
Hannah O'Brien is the pen name of a German author of crime and mystery novels taking place in Ireland.
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Phan Kế Bính
Phan Kế Bính (1875 – 1921), hiệu là Bưu Văn, bút hiệu Liên Hồ Tử, là một nhà báo, nhà văn nổi tiếng của Việt Nam đầu thế kỷ 20.
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Phan Kế Bính là một nhà báo, nhà văn nổi tiếng của Việt Nam đầu thế kỷ XX. Ông là người công khai hưởng ứng phong trào Duy Tân, nhưng không trực tiếp chỉ đạo. Ông viết báo cho nhiều tờ báo trong nước, trong vai trò là một trợ bút, chủ yếu là dịch thuật, biên khảo sách chữ Hán. Sau đó ông lần lượt cộng tác với các tờ báo: Ðông Dương tạp chí, Lục tỉnh tân văn, Trung Bắc tân văn. Đặc biệt là với tờ Đông Dương tạp chí, ông có thời gian làm trong ban biên tập, và tác phẩm của ông phần lớn đều đăng trên tạp chí này. -
Lê Thành Khôi
Giáo sư Lê Thành Khôi sinh năm 1923 tại Hà Nội là một học giả. Ông lấy bằng tiến sĩ về kinh tế học năm 1949 tại Paris, Pháp, sau đó ông tốt nghiệp Học viện Luật pháp quốc tế tại Den Haag, Hà Lan, cử nhân văn chương tại Đại học Sorbonne, học Hán ngữ tại Trường Ngoại ngữ phương Đông ở Paris. Năm 1968, ông hoàn thành cùng lúc 2 luận án tiến sĩ về công nghệ giáo dục và tiến sĩ về văn khoa và khoa học xã hội.
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Lê Thành Khôi sinh ra trong một gia đình trí thức có truyền thống Nho học và Phật giáo ở Hà Nội. Từ lúc còn nhỏ ông đã được đào tạo một cách căn bản theo hướng đa ngành. Cộng thêm với tính ham học, đây là một ưu thế của ông trên con đường nghiên cứu và hoạt động khoa học của mình. Ông là một học giả uyên bác trên nhiều lĩnh vực từ kinh tế họ -
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Tomáš Ulej
Tomáš Ulej je publicista a aforista. V roku 2012 debutoval zbierkou aforizmov Ale, za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska za debut v literatúre. V roku 2013 bol nominovaný na Novinársku cenu za jeho stĺpčeky v denníku SME. Každý týždeň publikuje v denníku SME aj svoje aforizmy v rubrike Ulejovo Ale. Jeho druhá zbierka aforizmov vyjde v roku 2014 vo vydavateľstve KK Bagala.
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Michael Žantovský
Czech diplomat (ambassador), politician, author, journalist, lyricist and psychologist (by university degree). His mother Hana Žantovská was a leading translator from English, especially poetry.
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Hans Rath
Hans Rath, Jahrgang 1965, studierte Philosophie, Germanistik und Psychologie in Bonn. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Berlin, wo er unter anderem als Drehbuchautor tätig ist. Mit der Romantrilogie «Man tut, was man kann», «Da muss man durch» und «Was will man mehr» hat Rath sich eine große Fangemeinde geschaffen. Zwei der Bücher wurden bereits fürs Kino verfilmt. «Und Gott sprach: Wir müssen reden» sowie «Manchmal ist der Teufel auch nur ein Mensch» wurden ebenfalls zu Bestsellern.
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Frans Pointl
Frans Pointl werd op 1 augustus 1933 in Amsterdam geboren als zoon van een Joodse moeder, Rebecca van Dam, en een Oostenrijkse vader, de kunstschilder, cineast, fotograaf en muzikant Christian Pointl. Frans groeide op in Heemstede. Zijn ouders scheidden toen hij vijf jaar was.
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In 1942 ging Rebecca van Dam bij familie in Amsterdam wonen, aan de Waalstraat. Frans werd bij een pleeggezin in Krommenie ondergebracht. Later verhuisde hij naar een kindertehuis. Meteen na de oorlog werd Frans herenigd met zijn moeder, die bijna haar gehele familie verloren had. Samen betrokken zij een eenvoudige huurkamer aan de Stalinlaan, de latere Vrijheidslaan. Frans begon aan een MULO-opleiding en bleef na het behaalde examen bij zijn moeder wonen. Rebecca over -
Maureen Anne Jennings
Maureen Anne Jennings has worn the hats of a journalist, copywriter, editor, publishing consultant, media relations manager, book festival director, and Fillmore East staffer. She owns more than 100 hats, not all of them work related.
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After the obligatory waitressing during college, she squandered a few years behind the bar at various dives in lower Manhattan. She also owned and operated a pub in northern California.
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Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Traveler’s Tales Italy, Cartwheels on the Faultline, and Saltwater Sweetwater as well as various periodicals.
She graduated from Fordham University summa cum laude in comparative literature and still reads as many novels as she possibly can. She