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  Lucia Berlin

  Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
  
  Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books: Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92 and Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.
  
  Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also

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  Felix Salten

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  Felix Salten was an Austrian writer. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867.
  
  When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. In 1900 he published his first collection of short sto

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  Juan Díaz Canales

  Juan Díaz Canales is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director, known as the co-creator of Blacksad.

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  Van Jensen

  Van Jensen was born and raised in the farm country of Western Nebraska where he wrote and drew stories as soon as he could hold a pencil. He became a newspaper crime reporter, then a magazine editor, and eventually an author of comic books and graphic novels. He has written some of the world’s biggest characters, including James Bond and The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern Corps for DC Comics. He also has co-created acclaimed series including Two Dead from Simon & Schuster/Gallery 13 (with National Book Award-winning artist Nate Powell), Cryptocracy from Dark Horse (with Pete Woods), and Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer from Top Shelf/IDW (with Dusty Higgins).
  
  Jensen is known for creating fiction that combines mind-bending genre

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  Satu Rämö

  My name is Satu Rämö. I'm a Finnish-Icelandic author of the nordic blue crime book series called HILDUR.
  
  Here you can find my interview in Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
  
  I was born in Finland in 1980 and moved to Iceland twenty years ago and started writing books.
  
  I have published numerous bestselling, prizewinning non-fiction titles in my native Finland, ranging from travel guides to Iceland, to inspirational memoirs and an Icelandic knitting book.
  
  My crime fiction debut Hildur (2022) changed the game for me as an author, totally. HILDUR-series is Icelandic-Finnish nordic blue crime fiction that takes place in a small village in the Westfjords of Iceland. Nordic blue is similar to nordic noir but more human. The stories ar

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  Anja Portin

  Anja Portin on helsinkiläinen kirjailija, joka kirjoittaa sekä kauno- että tietokirjallisuutta. Hänen tuotantonsa sisältää romaanin, lastenkirjoja, esseistiikkaa ja tietokirjoja. Hänen lastenkirjoistaan on tehty myös näytelmäsovituksia. Portin on opiskellut Helsingin, Turun ja Islannin yliopistoissa ja valmistunut filosofian ja oikeustieteen maisteriksi. Hän on työskennellyt toimittajana sanomalehdessä ja kustantamossa sekä tutkijana Turun yliopistossa ja Åbo Akademin ihmisoikeusinstituutissa. Portinin lastenromaani Radio Popov voitti vuoden 2020 lasten- ja nuortenkirjallisuuden Finlandia-palkinnon.

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  Leïla Slimani

  Leïla Slimani is a French writer and journalist of Moroccan ancestry. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
  
  Slimani was born in Rabat, Morocco and studied later political science and media studies in Paris. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. In 2014 she published her first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre, which two years later was followed by the psychological thriller Chanson douce. The latter quickly turned into a bestseller with over 450,000 copies printed within a year even before the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

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