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  Martí

  Marti es el nombre con el que firma Marti Riera.
  Nace en Barcelona, en 1955. Cursa estudios de Bachillerato, Arquitectura y Diseño Gráfico. Durante la época de 1975 a 1979 publica sus historietas en revistas alternativas como Rock Cómic o Star. A partir de 1979 colabora con El Víbora. En 1984 sale a la luz Taxista, que posteriormente es editado en Francia, U.S.A e Italia. En 1988 publica Monstruos Modernos y en 1989 Terrorista y Doctor Vértigo, álbum por el que recibe el premio a la mejor obra nacional del 8º Salón Internacional del Cómic De Barcelona.

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  Alessandro Baricco

  Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.
  
  He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
  
  Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si

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  Paul Lafargue

  French revolutionary Marxist socialist and Karl Marx's son-in-law.Lafargue was born in Cuba to French and Creole parents. Karl Marx even once reffered to him by the n-word.
  
  Lafargue his main work was called the right to be lazy. In which he calls upon not only the right to work, but also the right to be lazy. At the beginning of that book he claimed that the African slaves lived under better circumstances than the European worker.
  
  At 69 he died together with his wife Laura in a suicide pact.
  
  

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  Irène Némirovsky

  Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.
  
  Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
  
  When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began

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  Almudena Grandes

  She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She was married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.
  
  As Emilie L. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".
  
  Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an inten

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  Katherine Mansfield

  Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
  
  Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing.
  
  Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associat

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  Annie Ernaux

  The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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  Jon Fosse

  Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
  
  He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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  Ágota Kristóf

  Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
  
  Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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  Andrea Wulf

  Andrea Wulf is a biographer. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners, published in April 2008. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. She was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now resides in Britain.

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  Paco Roca

  Francisco Martínez Roca (aka Paco Roca) is a graphic artist and a cartoonist from Valencia, Spain, who has won several art/writing awards. His graphic novel Wrinkles has been adapted into an animated movie.

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  Piedad Bonnett

  Poeta, novelista, dramaturga y traductora colombiana nacida en Amalfi, Antioquia, en 1951.
  Es licenciada en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de los Andes, donde ocupa la cátedra de Literatura desde 1981.
  Tiene una maestría en Teoría del Arte, la Arquitectura y el Diseño por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

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  Alejandro Zambra

  Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.

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  Samanta Schweblin

  Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

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  Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

  Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in the town of Goheung in Jeolla Province, a town famous for its beautiful mountains and sea. Her graphic novels include The Song of My Father, Jiseul, and Kogaeyi, which have been translated and published in France. She also wrote and illustrated The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo, A Day with My Grandpa, and My Mother Kang Geumsun. She received the Best Creative Manhwa Award for her short manhwa “Sister Mija,” about a comfort woman. She has had exhibitions of her works in Korea and Europe since 2012, and her graphic novels and manhwa deal mostly with people who are outcasts or marginalized.

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  Sara Mesa

  Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan (forthcoming from Open Letter). Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.

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  Marina Garcés

  Marina Garcés es filósofa y ensayista, profesora titular de Filosofía en la Universidad de Zaragoza. Es una de las impulsoras del proyecto colectivo de pensamiento crítico y experimental Espai en Blanc.

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  Irene Solà

  Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and Dikes novel, the 2017 Documenta Prize.

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  Ana Penyas

  Ana Penyas (1987) es una ilustradora española que, en 2018, se convirtió en la primera mujer en ganar el Premio Nacional del Cómic.​​

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  Bea Lema

  Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
  
  In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
  
  Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was

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  David Uclés

  DAVID UCLÉS (Úbeda, 1990), licenciado y máster en Traducción e Interpretación por francés, alemán e inglés, es, además, escritor, músico y dibujante. Ha publicado las novelas La península de las casas vacías (Siruela/Premio Cálamo Mejor Libro 2024), Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) y El llanto del león (Premio Complutense de Literatura). Fue galardonado con las becas Leonardo y Montserrat Roig. En sus obras predomina el realismo mágico.
  
  Ha trabajado en Alemania, Suiza y Francia, y ha escrito para Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, La Vanguardia, Revista L y Actúa. También ha participado en varios festivales literarios: Centroamérica Cuenta, Festival 42, FLEM, Book Friday y Literaktum, y clausuró la Biennal de Pensament de Barcelona.
  
  La península de

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  João Pedro George

  JOÃO PEDRO GEORGE nasceu em Moçambique, a 13 de Fevereiro de 1972. Licenciado em Sociologia, Mestre em Sociologia Económica e Histórica e Doutor em Sociologia da Cultura, com a tese Luíz Pacheco: maldição e consagração no meio literário português, pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde leccionou entre 1998 e 2008, como professor assistente convidado.
  É autor de obras como O Meio Literário Português (1960-1999), Não é Fácil Dizer Bem, Puta que os Pariu! A Biografia de Luiz Pacheco ou O Que é um Escritor Maldito? Estudo de Sociologia da Literatura.
  Em paralelo, depois de ter colaborado na imprensa (O Independente e Periférica), na secção de crítica literária, divide a sua actividade como tradutor, ed

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