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Sara Kadefors writes for both teens and adults. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Elizabeth Klehfoth grew up in Elkhart, Indiana. She received her BFA in creative writing from Chapman University and her MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, where she taught fiction writing and composition. She currently lives in Los Angeles. All These Beautiful Strangers is her first novel.

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Andrée A. Michaud

Deux fois lauréate du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général (Le Ravissement, 2001, et Bondrée, 2014), récipiendaire du prix Arthur Ellis et du prix Saint-Pacôme du roman policier pour Bondrée, ainsi que du prix Ringuet en 2006 pour Mirror Lake (adapté au cinéma en 2013), Andrée A. Michaud construit une œuvre éminemment personnelle qui ne cesse, depuis son premier roman, de susciter les éloges de la critique et des lecteurs avides de mystère. Son polar Lazy Bird, porté par des airs de jazz, est paru en 2010 au Seuil, en France, dans la collection Point noir.

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Michel Jean

Michel Jean est un écrivain innu de la communauté de Mashteuiatsh, au Québec. Il a publié dix livres, dont huit romans. Kukum, publié chez Libre Expression au Canada, Depaysage et Points en France, a remporté le Prix France-Québec 2020 et les prix VLEEL, Nature Nomade de même que le Prix du meilleur roman des lecteurs et libraires Points 2023.

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Kev Lambert

Kev (formerly Kevin) Lambert est né en 1992 et a grandi à Chicoutimi. Son premier roman Tu aimeras ce que tu as tué, d’abord paru au Québec en 2017, puis en France en 2021, a fait du bruit en plus d’être finaliste du Prix Médicis, en sélection du Prix des libraires et de remporter le Prix découverte du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Son second roman, Querelle de Roberval, a fortement marqué la rentrée littéraire 2018. Il a été finaliste en 2019 du prix Wepler, du Prix littéraire des collégiens, du Prix des libraires et du Prix littéraire du Monde, avant de remporter le prix Sade, le prix Ringuet, le Prix du CALQ – Œuvre de la relève, et le Prix du roman décerné par le Salon du livre du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. Il a également fait partie de la pre

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Sébastien Fréchette, alias Biz, né en 1974 est membre du groupe Loco Locass fondé en 1995. Loco Locass est un groupe hip-hop québécois, surtout connu pour la défense du français et ses prises de position politiques, particulièrement pour son engagement en faveur de la souveraineté du Québec.

Biz signe un premier roman autobiographique avec Dérives.

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Alain Farah

Né en 1979, Alain Farah a publié un roman, Matamore no 29 (Le Quartanier, 2008) et un livre de poèmes, Quelque chose se détache du port (Le Quartanier, 2004). Professeur à l'université McGill, il enseigne la littérature française contemporaine et la création littéraire. Il vit à Montréal.

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C'est comme chroniqueuse sur Évasion et reporter au Petit Journal de TQS que Claudia Larochelle a fait ses premiers pas en télévision, au début des années 2000, avant d'être affectée aux pages culturelles du Journal de Montréal, puis du défunt site Rue Frontenac. En 2011, elle publiait le recueil de nouvelles Les bonnes filles plantent des fleurs au printemps et signait un des textes du collectif Amour & libertinage par les trentenaires d'aujourd'hui, qu'elle codirigeait. Elle anime depuis 2012 l'émission hebdomadaire LIRE diffusée sur ARTV et collabore régulièrement comme journaliste, recherchiste et chroniqueuse dans les médias écrits, à la radio et à la télévision. Elle est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en journalisme et d'une maîtrise en

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Fanny Britt

Fanny Britt is a Quebec playwright, author and translator. She has written a dozen plays (among them Honey Pie, Hôtel Pacifique and Bienveillance) and translated more than fifteen. She has also written and translated several other works of literature. Jane, the Fox and Me is her first graphic novel.

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Naomi Fontaine

Naomi Fontaine, née en 1987, est une romancière et enseignante innue originaire de Uashat dans la région administrative québécoise de la Côte Nord, au Canada.

Lors de ses études, son talent d'écriture est remarqué par François Bon, professeur de création littéraire, qui l'encourage à mettre de l'avant sa voix.

Elle commence alors à participer à des concours de création littéraire, notamment au Concours canadien de rédaction et d’art pour autochtones, et à rédiger des textes qui donneront lieu à son œuvre intitulée Kuessipan. Elle poursuit ensuite son parcours littéraire dans le cadre du programme Première ovation de l'Institut canadien de Québec sous le mentorat de Jean Désy.

Composé de soixante-six textes portant sur des actes simples de la v

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Sébastien Dulude

Né à Montréal en 1976, Sébastien Dulude a grandi dans le quartier Mitchell à Thetford Mines de six à seize ans. Écrivain et éditeur, il est l’auteur de trois recueils de poésie dont ouvert l’hiver (La Peuplade, 2015). Amiante est son premier roman.

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Geneviève Pettersen

Geneviève Pettersen est née en 1982 à Wendake, après que sa mère ait été prise de contraction en magasinant de l’artisanat Huron. Elle a grandi entre Québec, Jonquière, Chicoutimi, St-Honoré et Falardeau avant de poser ses pénates à Montréal un peu avant les attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Après des études en sociologie des religions et en littérature à l’UQÀM, elle a travaillé dans l’édition puis fait un saut en publicité pour finalement revenir à son premier amour, l’écriture. Fascinée par ce que révèlent les histoires de bonnes femmes, elle blogue sous le pseudonyme de Madame Chose.

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Mikella Nicol

Mikella Nicol est née en 1992. Elle détient une maîtrise en études littéraires de l’UQAM et est l’auteure de deux romans publiés chez Le Cheval d’août éditeur. Elle est libraire à Montréal.

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Valérie Chevalier

Valérie Chevalier est une actrice, animatrice, écrivaine et doubleuse québécoise.

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Caroline Dawson

Caroline Dawson est née en 1979 à Valparaiso au Chili. Elle est professeure de sociologie au cégep Édouard-Montpetit à Longueuil et autrice de Là où je me terre (2020) publié aux Éditions Remue-ménage.

Ses années d'études supérieures sont marquées d'un parcours militant et d'une implication politique au sein de sa communauté universitaire. En 2004, elle publie, sous la direction du professeur de sociologie de l'Université de Montréal et de ses collègues étudiants, un article intitulé « Génération numérique et nouvelle économie » dans une revue appartenant aujourd'hui aux Éditions Presses de Sciences Po. L'article est une analyse de l'insertion des jeunes socialement et professionnellement dans une société où la « culture Internet » est de pl

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Jean-Philippe Pleau

Jean-Philippe Pleau est sociologue. Né en 1977, il travaille à la radio de Radio-Canada depuis 2005. Il a coanimé l’émission C’est fou… avec Serge Bouchard de 2014 à 2021, et il anime depuis l’automne 2021 l’émission Réfléchir à voix haute sur ICI Première.

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Simon Paré-Poupart

Simon Paré-Poupart ramasse les ordures depuis vingt ans. Ses études universitaires en sociologie et en administration internationale, ainsi que son expérience comme intervenant social n’auront pas eu raison de sa vocation de vidangeur. Ordures! est son premier livre.

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Stéphane Bourguignon

Scénariste de formation, Stéphane Bourguignon a œuvré une dizaine d’années dans le milieu de l’humour à titre d’auteur et a publié, chez Québec Amérique, des romans qui continuent de connaître un grand succès: L’Avaleur de sable, Le Principe du geyser, Un peu de fatigue et Sonde ton cœur, Laurie Rivers. Il est également l’auteur de la télésérie la Vie la vie, récompensée à deux reprises par l’Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision, et de Tout sur moi, une comédie inspirée de personnages et de faits véridiques.

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Jean-Baptiste de Boyer d'Argens

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (June 24, 1704 - January 11, 1771) was a French philosopher and writer.

Boyer was born in Aix-en-Provence. An arch-opponent of the Catholic Church, intolerance and religious oppression, he had to flee his native France and his books were frequently denounced by the Inquisition. In 1724 he accompanied the French ambassador on a journey to Constantinople, where he lived for a year. After an adventurous youth, he was disinherited by his father. He then settled for a time in Amsterdam, where he wrote his famous Lettres juives (The Hague, 6 vols, 1738-1742), Lettres chinoises (The Hague, 6 vols, 1739-1742), and Lettres cabalistiques (2nd ed., 7 vols, 1769); also the Mémoires secrets de la république des le

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Angie Abdou

Angie Abdou was born and raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She received an Honours B.A. in English from the University of Regina, an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University. She makes her home in the Canadian Rockies along the BC/Alberta border with her two children. She has published eight books: a short story collection, four novels, a collection of essays, and two memoirs. Her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2011. The Canterbury Trail was a finalist for Banff Mountain Book of the Year and won a 2012 IPPY, Gold Medal for Canada West. In Case I Go was a finalist for a Banff Mountain Book Aw

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Dany Laferrière

Né à Port-au-Prince en avril 1953, Dany Laferrière a grandi à Petit-Goâve. Il écrit pour le journal Le Petit Samedi soir et fait partie de l’équipe de Radio Haïti. Il quitte son pays natal à la suite de l’assassinat de son collègue et ami, le journaliste Gasner Raymond. Il s’installe au Québec où il occupe plusieurs emplois avant de commencer à écrire.

Son premier roman, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer, paraît en 1985 (VLB). Le succès est immédiat et les réactions nombreuses. Laferrière devient alors l’un des principaux représentants d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains dans le paysage littéraire québécois.

Dany Laferrière écrit ensuite Éroshima (1987), puis L’Odeur du café (VLB, 1991), qui est récompensé par le prix Car

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Dallas Hunt

Dallas Hunt is a teacher, writer, and member of Wapisewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. As a proponent of language revitalization, he wanted his debut book for children, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, to include words in Cree. Dallas lives in Winnipeg and enjoys reading great books to his nieces and nephews.

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Jeanne Siaud-Facchin

Ancienne attachée des Hôpitaux de Paris et de Marseille, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin est psychologue praticienne. Spécialiste reconnue des surdoués, elle est notamment l'auteur de L'Enfant surdoué, le livre de référence sur ce sujet. Elle a également créé Cogito'Z, premiers centres français de diagnostic et de prise en charge des troubles des apprentissages scolaires.

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Alonso Sánchez Baute

Alonso Sánchez Baute, abogado de la Universidad Externado de Colombia de Bogotá, desde sus inicios se ha dedicado a trabajar en ámbitos afines a su profesión en el campo de la cultura. Aunque comenzó a escribir en sus ratos libres, su pasión por la literatura pronto se convirtió en una disciplina diaria que lo ha llevado a producir, hasta el momento, tres novelas y una compilación de cuentos cortos, todos inéditos. Al diablo la maldita primavera, obra ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Ciudad de Bogotá 2002, es su ópera prima.

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Yukiko Motoya

Yukiko Motoya (本谷有希子) is a seasoned Japanese author, playwright, voice actress and theatre director. She has won prestigious awards in most of those fields including the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, Mishima Yukio Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.

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Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and five novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her novel The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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Violet Kupersmith

Violet Kupersmith is the author of the novel BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY and the short story collection THE FRANGIPANI HOTEL. She previously taught English with the Fulbright Program in the Mekong Delta and has lived in Da Lat and Saigon, Vietnam. She was the 2015-2016 David T.K. Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, and she is the recipient of a 2022 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Denis Mukwege

Dr Denis Mukwege is a world-renowned gynaecologist and human rights activist from east DRC. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his global efforts to end the use of rape as a weapon of war. Dr Mukwege founded Panzi Hospital and Foundation, and has become one of the world’s leading specialists on treating survivors of wartime sexual violence.

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie won the prestigious Prix Décembre.

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Peter Edwards

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Gil Courtemanche

Gil Courtemanche est journaliste depuis 1962.

Jusqu’en 1977, il a collaboré à différentes émissions radio et télé de Radio-Canada telles que Le 60, Métro Magazine et Présent national.

De 1978 à 1980, pour Radio-Canada toujours, il a conçu et animé l’émission L’Événement et a aussi été animateur et scripteur de l’émission Enjeux, tout en étant éditorialiste à la sation CBOT à Ottawa (réseau anglais). En 1978, il a animé et scénarisé le premier magazine d’affaires publiques de Télé Québec, Contact.

De 1980 à 1986, Gil Courtemanche a été animateur, analyste et correspondant pour les émissions Télémag, Première Page, Le Point, à Radio-Canada.

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Susanna Moodie

Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.

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Érik Orsenna

Érik Orsenna, pseudonyme d'Erik Arnoult est un romancier français. Après des études de philosophie et de sciences politiques, il a fait des études en Angleterre (London School of Economics). Son pseudonyme Orsenna est le nom de la vieille ville du Rivage des Syrtes, de Julien Gracq.

Érik Orsenna, nom de plume of Erik Arnoult is a French novelist. After studying philosophy and political science, he studied economics at the London School of Economics. His pseudonym Orsenna is the name of the old town of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq.

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Hervé Bouchard

Herve Bouchard is a professor of literature at the Cegep de Chicoutimi and a novelist. His novel Parents et amis sont invités a y assister won the 2006 Grand prix du livre de Montreal. Harvey, his first children's book, won Governor General's awards for text and illustration. Herve lives in Saguenay, Quebec.

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Sanora Babb

Sanora Babb was an American novelist, poet, and literary editor.

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Tessa McWatt

Guyanese-born Canadian writer Tessa McWatt is the author of six novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018, for her memoir: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. She is also a librettist, and works on interdisciplinary projects and community-based life writing through CityLife: Stories Against Loneliness. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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Michael Delisle

Michael Delisle est un poète, romancier et nouvelliste québécois né en 1959 à Longueuil. Il est notamment l'auteur de romans: Le désarroi du matelot (1998), Dée (2002), Le sort de Fille (2005), Tiroir no 24 (2010) et Le feu de mon père (2014). Son écriture précise, simple et poignante décrit des univers troubles. Il enseigne la littérature depuis 1992 au Collège du Vieux-Montréal.

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Monique Proulx

Monique Proulx is a French-Canadian writer who has achieved considerable literary recognition, both in Canada and abroad. Her first novel, Sans Coeur et sans reproche, won the Adrienne Choquette literary award, and some of her other novels have won her awards such as the Signet d’Or de Plaisir de Lire, le Prix des Libraires du Québec, the Prix Littéraire Desjardins and the Prix Québec-Paris. She has twice been short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in French, and was also short-listed for the 2004 CBC “Canada Reads” competition.

Proulx was born in Quebec City on January 17th, 1952. She earned a degree in literature and theatre from the Université Laval, and has taught French and theatre. She took time off in 1980 to work o

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Ying Chen

Ying Chen (en chinois, 应晨) est une écrivaine sino-canadienne née à Shanghai en 1961. Ying Chen y poursuit ses études universitaires jusqu'à l'obtention de sa licence-ès-lettres françaises. Outre le dialecte de sa région et le mandarin, elle a appris le russe, l'italien, l'anglais et le français. En 1989, elle vient étudier au département de langue française de l'Université McGill. Elle a habité Magog et depuis 2003 réside à Vancouver. Elle est mère de deux enfants.
Puis pour tromper la nostalgie de sa Chine natale, elle se met à l'écriture jusqu'à y consacrer douze heures par jour. Lorsqu'elle commence ses journées, elle se laisse bercer par la musicalité des textes de Marcel Proust qu'elle lit à haute voix. Son premier roman La mémoire de l

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Germaine Guèvremont

Germaine Guèvremont, born Grignon, was a Canadian writer who was a prominent figure in Quebec literature. Her novel The Outlander won the 1950 Governor General's Award for fiction.

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Tõnis Vilu

Tõnis Vilu (1988) is a poet currently residing in Tartu, Estonia.

His poetry includes themes like mental health, individual growth and politics.

Two-time winner of the Gustav Suits poetry prize (with Kink psühholoogile (2016) and Kõik linnud valgusele (2022)) and the recipient of the Annual Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (with Tundekasvatus (2020)).

He also hosts a radio show about mental health (Katus on IDA radio: https://www.idaidaida.ee/shows/katus).

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Hassan Ghedi Santur

Hassan Ghedi Santur emigrated from Somalia to Canada at age thirteen. He has a BA in English Literature and an MFA from York University, and an MA from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has worked as a radio journalist for CBC radio and his print journalism work has appeared in the New York Times, Yahoo News, and The Walrus, among others. In 2010, he published his debut novel Something Remains, followed by Maps of Exile, an exploration of the plight of African migrants in Europe. He is currently working on his third novel, Other Worlds, Other Lives.

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Nancy Huston

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Huston lived in Calgary until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, USA. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she was given the opportunity to spend a year of her studies in Paris. Arriving in Paris in 1973, Huston obtained a Master's Degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, writing a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes.

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Née à Calgary (Canada), Nancy Huston, qui vit à Paris, a publié de nombreux romans et essais chez Actes Sud et chez Leméac, parmi lesquels Instruments des ténèbres (1996, prix Goncourt des lycéens et prix du livre Inter), L'empreinte de l'ange (1998, grand prix des lectrices de ElleJ et Lignes de fail

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Bryan Perro

Bryan Perro est un écrivain, éditeur et libraire québécois, spécialisé dans la littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse.

Perro fait ses études collégiales en sciences humaines au Cégep de Shawinigan en 1988, puis il obtient un baccalauréat en enseignement du théâtre de l’Université du Québec à Montréal en 1992, assorti d’un complément de formation en arts plastiques. Il termine en 2003 une maîtrise en études québécoises à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières où il étudie très sérieusement le loup-garou dans la tradition orale du Québec, ce qui fait de lui l’unique "lougarologue" canadien. Écrivain, conteur, comédien et metteur en scène, notamment pour le Théâtre de la bécane, il enseigne le théâtre au Collège Shawinigan de 1994 à 2003. Titula

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Toshiki Okada

Toshiki Okada (岡田利規 Okada Toshiki, born July 3, 1973) is a Japanese playwright, theater director, novelist, and founder of the theatrical company chelfitsch. He is known for "his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and his unique choreography."

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Lynn Coady

Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, Group Therapy, runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Lewis R. Gordon

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon.

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Debbie Bateman

Debbie Bateman is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her short story collection, "Your Body Was Made for This," was published by Ronsdale Press in October of 2023. Now post-menopausal, Debbie is still too young to be told what she cannot do. She is a quiet rebel, a known hugger of trees, and a practitioner of Buddhism. A proud mother of three sons, she lives in Quw'utsun (Cowichan) on Vancouver Island with her husband. https://bcbooklook.com/temple-of-the-...

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Neil Bissoondath

Neil Devindra Bissoondath, novelist, short-story writer, essayist (b at Arima, Trinidad and Tobago 19 Apr 1955). He attended St Mary's College in Port of Spain before emigrating to Canada in 1973, when he became a student at York University (BA 1977). After graduating, he began teaching English as a second language and French in Toronto. Bissoondath began writing short stories in the late seventies, and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1983. He credits his uncle, author V.S. Naipaul, for providing inspiration. Bissoondath's first book, a collection of short stories called Digging Up the Mountains (1985), deals with feelings of cultural alienation, exile and domestic upheaval - themes he has continued to explore in his other writing

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Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. Julius Knipl has been published in several book collections including Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay and The Beauty Supply District. Other serialized comics by Katchor include The Jew Of New York (collected and published as a graphic novel in 1998), The Cardboard Valise and Hotel & Farm. He regularly contributes comics and drawings to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Metropolis magazine.

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Silmy Abdullah

Silmy Abdullah is a Bangladeshi-Canadian author, lawyer and social justice advocate. Her debut collection of short stories, Home of the Floating Lily, explores the Bangladeshi immigrant experience in Toronto. Set primarily in a Bengali neighbourhood in the Scarborough/East York Area, close to the Danforth and Victoria Park intersection, the stories are inspired by her own lived experience as an immigrant, as well as the work she does in her community as a lawyer.

Silmy provides legal services to low-income South Asian clients in Ontario, many of whom are newcomers. Her practice focuses on the intersection of immigration, poverty and gender-based violence. Working on the ground with marginalized communities helps her to find the seeds for in

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Marilyn Dumont

Marilyn Dumont’s poetry has won provincial and national awards. She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She teaches sessional creative writing for Athabasca University and Native studies and English for the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

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William Bell

William Bell is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young adults.

Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1945, he has been a high school English teacher and department head, and an instructor at the Harbin University of Science and Technology, the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, and the University of British Columbia.

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Hassan Loo Sattarvandi

Hassan Loo Sattarvandi is a Iranian-Swedish author who grew up in Hagalund in Greater Stockholm.

His debut Still (Style) was published in 2008 and depicts the lives of a few young working class men in Hagalund. It received the Swedish Katapultpriset i 2009 for the best debut the previous year.

His second novel Belägring (Siege) came out in 2011.

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Lorena Gale

Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, Angélique and Je me souviens.

She appeared in such movies as Fantastic Four, The Chronicles of Riddick, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. She has guest starred on programs such as The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Smallville and Kingdom Hospital. Until August 2005, she starred as Priestess Elosha on the SciFi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.

Her play, Angélique, the story of executed slave Marie-Joseph Angelique, was the winner of the 1995 duMaurier National Playwriting Competition in Canada.

Gale died following a battle with cancer on June 21, 2009, aged 51.

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Stéphane Dompierre

Stéphane Dompierre est auteur et éditeur. Depuis 2004, il cumule les succès littéraires, tant auprès de la critique que du public, avec plus de 100 000 exemplaires vendus de ses romans et de ses recueils de chroniques. Portant un regard incisif sur la société contemporaine, il aime explorer nos travers et nos contradictions, mais toujours avec humour et bienveillance.

Son premier roman, Un petit pas pour l’homme, lui a valu le Grand Prix de la relève littéraire Archambault en 2005, en plus de s’attirer la faveur des critiques et un succès public instantané. Boursier du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Stéphane Dompierre a d’abord fait des études en musique avant de se tourner vers l’écriture. Son premier roman est édité en France e

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Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India.

His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was short

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Anne Peyrouse

Née dans le Midi de la France, Anne Peyrouse vit au Québec depuis plus de 25 ans. Docteure en littérature, elle enseigne la création littéraire à l'Université Laval au département des Lettres et à la Formation continue. Elle a publié un recueil de nouvelles et deux recueils de poèmes: Des neiges et des cendres et Dans le vertige des corps qui a obtenu le prix Félix-Leclerc. Elle a publié également deux anthologies de poésie et un renku, Comme papiers au vent. Elle a gagné plusieurs prix littéraires, à la fois pour son écriture poétique et pour ses nouvelles. On retrouve plusieurs de ses textes dans des revues au Québec et en France.

Elle a été directrice littéraire de la maison d'édition Le Loup de Gouttière et elle poursuit actuellement cet

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Sean Michaels

SEAN MICHAELS is the author of the novels Us Conductors, The Wagers and Do You Remember Being Born?, and founder of the pioneering music blog Said the Gramophone. His non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Pitchfork and The New Yorker. Sean is a recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, the Grand Prix Numix, the Prix Nouvelles Écritures, and he has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Prix des libraires du Quebec. Born in Stirling, Scotland, Sean lives in Montreal, Canada.

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Enis Batur

Ahmet Enis Batur is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, publisher and editor.

Born in Eskişehir, Enis Batur studied at St. Joseph High School (Istanbul), METU-Sociology (Ankara), and Sorbonne University (Paris).

Enis Batur is one of the leading figures in contemporary Turkish literature with a large body of work, extending to over two hundred volumes. Some of his works have been translated into European languages including French, English and Italian.

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Denise Boucher

Denise Boucher was a Canadian writer in Quebec.

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Gus Weill

Gus Weill, Sr., was an American author, public relations specialist, and political consultant originally from Lafayette, Louisiana.

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Olinda Beja

Com apenas dois anos deixou as ilhas maravilhosas e passou a viver do outro lado do mar, em terras frias da Beira Alta, Portugal. Licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas (Português/Francês) pela Universidade do Porto, Olinda Beja é docente do Ensino Secundário desde 1976. Ensina também Língua e Cultura Portuguesa na Suíça, é assessora cultural da Embaixada de São Tomé e Príncipe e dinamizadora cultural.

Foi vencedora em 2013 do prémio literário Francisco José Tenreiro prémio este atribuído à obra A Sombra do Ocá.

Em 2015 o livro da sua autoria Um Grão de Café entrou para o Plano Nacional de Leitura de Portugal.

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Oonya Kempadoo

Oonya Kempadoo is a writer who was born in Sussex, England in 1966 of Guyanese parents. She was brought up in Guyana and has since lived in Europe and various islands in the Caribbean.

Her first novel, Buxton Spice, was published to great acclaim in 1998, and was nominated for the 2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second book, Tide Running (Picador, 2001), set in Plymouth, Tobago, is the story of young brothers Cliff and Ossie.

Oonya Kempadoo has studied art in Amsterdam and has lived in Trinidad, St. Lucia, Tobago, and now lives in Grenada.

She was named a Great Talent for the Twenty-First Century by the Orange Prize judges and is a winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize.

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Joseph Mitchell

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Joseph Mitchell was an American writer who wrote for The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on the fringes of society, especially in and around New York City.
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