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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Alain Damasio, né Alain Raymond le 1er août 1969 à Lyon, est un écrivain français de science-fiction. Il choisit ce patronyme en l'honneur de sa grand-mère Andrée Damasio.
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Né d'un père carrossier et d'une mère agrégée d'anglais1, Alain Damasio obtient un bac scientifique. Après une classe préparatoire HEC, il intègre l'ESSEC, qu'il quitte en 1991. Il choisit de s'isoler (d'abord dans le Vercors puis à Nonza, en Corse) pour s'adonner à l'écriture. Son domaine de prédilection est l'anticipation politique. Il marie ce genre à des éléments de science-fiction ou de fantasy.
Jeune, il écrit de nombreuses nouvelles. Son premier texte long vendu à plus de 50 000 exemplaires est La Zone du dehors, roman d’anticipation qui s’intéresse aux sociétés de c -
Serge Joncour
Serge Joncour est un auteur français. Originaire d’une famille de paysans, il a grandi à Paris. Il a passé son enfance entre la Nièvre, l'Eure-et-Loir et le Valais suisse. Pendant des années, tout en menant parallèlement toutes sortes d’activités (dont maître-nageur et publicitaire), il écrit : de la poésie, des nouvelles, des romans… Finalement, son premier roman, "Vu", est publié aux éditions du Dilettante en 1998. Il a alors 37 ans. Depuis il a publié plus d’une quinzaine de livres, dont "U.V." (2003) qui a obtenu le prix France-Télévision, "L’Idole" (2004) récompensé par le Prix de l’Humour noir, "L'écrivain national" (2014) Prix des Deux Magots 2015, "Repose-toi sur moi" (2016) Prix Interallié et élu Meilleur roman français 2016 du Mag
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a philosopher, activist, filmmaker, and author of more than thirty books including The Genius of Judaism, American Vertigo, Barbarism with a Human Face, and Who Killed Daniel Pearl? His writing has appeared extensively in publications throughout Europe and the United States. His documentaries include Peshmerga, The Battle of Mosul, The Oath of Tobruk, and Bosna! Lévy is cofounder of the antiracist group SOS Racisme and has served on diplomatic missions for the French government.
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María Belmonte
María Belmonte Barrenechea (Bilbao, España,1953) es una escritora, traductora, investigadora española e intérprete de catalán y español.
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Maxie Wander
Maxie Wander wurde als Kind einer kommunistischen Familie im Wiener Arbeiterbezirk Hernals geboren. Sie hätte als erste ihrer Familie Abitur machen sollen, ging jedoch mit 17 Jahren von der Schule ab. Ohne Berufsausbildung verdiente sie als Sekretärin, Fotografin, Journalistin und Drehbuchautorin ihr Geld. Von 1958 bis zu ihrem Tod 1977 lebte sie mit ihrem Mann, dem österreichischen Schriftsteller Fred Wander, in Kleinmachnow bei Berlin. Das Paar hatte drei Kinder, eine Tochter, die bereits 1968 verstarb, einen Sohn und einen Adoptivsohn.
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Domingos Amaral
Domingos Freitas do Amaral nasceu a 12 de Outubro de 1967, em Lisboa. Depois de se ter formado em Economia, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa, e de ter feito um mestrado em Relações Internacionais, na Universidade de Colúmbia, em Nova Iorque, decidiu seguir a sua carreira como jornalista. Actualmente, é o director da revista Maxmen, desde o seu lançamento, em Março de 2001. Colabora também com o Diário Económico e a revista Grazia. Antes, trabalhou no jornal O Independente durante 11 anos, além de ter colaborado com outras publicações, como o Diário de Notícias, Grande Reportagem, City, Invista e Fortuna. Colaborou também com a Rádio Comercial e com a SIC. É casado, tem dois filhos - uma rapariga e um rapaz - e vive em Lisboa. Enquanto
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Sébastien Spitzer
Sébastien Spitzer – Ecrivain. Journaliste (TF1, M6, Rolling Stone magazine). Photographe amateur.
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Sébastien Spitzer est journaliste indépendant. Il a publié plusieurs livres d'enquête sur l'Iran, les Etats-Unis et le terrorisme international. Ces rêves qu’on piétine est son premier roman. Il vit à Paris. -
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of stories and two books of literary essays, as well as hundreds of pages of political commentary.
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Pete Fromm
Pete Fromm is a five time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for his novels IF NOT FOR THIS, AS COOL AS I AM and HOW ALL THIS STARTED, a story collection, DRY RAIN, and the memoir, INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES. The film of AS COOL AS I AM, starring Claire Danes, James Marsden, and Sarah Bolger was released in 2013. He is the author of four other short story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines. He is on the faculty of Oregon’s Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program, and lives in Montana with his family.
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Gaël Faye
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rum
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Jessie Cave
Jessie Cave is an English actress, comedian, writer and artist, best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter series.
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Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali is a French economist and scholar. From 1981 to 1991, he was an advisor to President François Mitterrand. He subsequently cast doubt on Mitterrand's past as a mid-level Vichy government functionary in his retrospective of Mitterrand's career, C'était François Mitterrand, published in 2005.
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In April 1991 he became the first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the financial institution established by western governments to assist the countries of eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union in their transition to democratic market economies. He worked at the bank until 1993.
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Jean Hegland
Jean Hegland's first novel, INTO THE FOREST, has been translated into eleven languages and is a frequent choice for campus- and community-wide reading programs. A film version starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood is scheduled for release in spring 2015. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY promises her second novel, WINDFALLS, is “a good prospect for reading groups.” Excerpts from her non-fiction work, THE LIFE WITHIN: CELEBRATION OF A PREGNANCY, have appeared in a junior high school science textbook, a college English textbook, and a guided journal for pregnant women. STILL TIME, her most recent novel, celebrates the work of William Shakespeare while taking a hopeful look at the harrowing challenges of dementia. Jean is a frequent presenter at writers' c
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Rocío Bonilla
Rocío Bonilla Raya
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EN: After studying Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, Rocio Bonilla worked in fields such as photography and advertising. Since 2010 she has forged two careers as an illustrator of children's books and a painter of murals.
ESP: Nací en Barcelona en 1970.
Licenciada en BBAA por la Universidad de Barcelona.
CAP en pedagogía.
Cursos específicos de ilustración con Ignasi Blanch y Roger Olmos.
Inicié mi trayectoria profesional a través de diversas disciplinas como la pintura, el muralismo, la fotografía, la pedagogía y, finalmente, la publicidad, que me mantuvo apartada de los lápices durante 12 años.
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Alexandre Dumas fils
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José Eduardo Agualusa
«José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] nasceu no Huambo, Angola, em 1960. Estudou Silvicultura e Agronomia em Lisboa, Portugal. Os seus livros estão traduzidos em 25 idiomas.
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Escreveu várias peças de teatro: "Geração W", "Aquela Mulher", "Chovem amores na Rua do Matador" e "A Caixa Preta", estas duas últimas juntamente com Mia Couto.
Beneficiou de três bolsas de criação literária: a primeira, concedida pelo Centro Nacional de Cultura em 1997 para escrever « Nação crioula », a segunda em 2000, concedida pela Fundação Oriente, que lhe permitiu visitar Goa durante 3 meses e na sequência da qual escreveu « Um estranho em Goa » e a terceira em 2001, concedida pela instituição alemã Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Graças a esta bolsa viveu -
Aurélien Bellanger
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Verónica Gago
Verónica Gago is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET). Her work is deeply influenced by active participation in the experience of Colectivo Situaciones.
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Antonio Garrido
Es Ingeniero Industrial y reside en Valencia, en donde trabaja como profesor del Master de Diseño de Transporte en el Centro de Formación de Postgrado de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia y profesor de la Escuela Superior de Diseño Industrial en la Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU. Es director de una empresa de consultoría de diseño de automóviles, y escribe artículos en prensa especializada. Es también profesor invitado del taller literario de novela histórica del Instituto Valenciano de Estudios Clásicos y Orientales.
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Vanessa Springora
Vanessa Springora est une éditrice, écrivaine et réalisatrice française. Elle publie, début janvier 2020, l'ouvrage Le Consentement, témoignage de sa relation avec Gabriel Matzneff lorsqu'elle était adolescente.
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Germano Almeida
Germano de Almeida nasceu na ilha da Boavista, Cabo Verde, em 1945. Licenciou-se em Direito em Lisboa e exerce actualmente advocacia na cidade do Mindelo. Estreou-se como contista no início da década de 80, colaborando na revista Ponto & Vírgula. A sua obra de ficção representa uma nova etapa na rica história literária de Cabo Verde. Está publicada em Portugal pela Caminho e começa a despertar interesse no estrangeiro, nomeadamente o romance O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno da Silva Araújo, do qual vários países compraram os direitos, encontrando-se já publicado no Brasil, na Itália e França. O filme de baseado nesta obra (O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno) foi recentemente galardoado com o 1º Prémio do Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano
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Tânia Ganho
Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that she decided to publish her first novel, "A Vida Sem Ti" ("Life Without You", Oficina do Livro), followed by "Cuba Libre" (Oficina do Livro, 2007), "A Lucidez do Amor" ("The War Wife", Porto Editora, 2010) , "A Mulher-Casa" ("La Femme-Maison", Porto Editora, 2012), and "Apneia" (Casa das Letras, 2020), a disturbing story about domestic violence and child abuse.
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Trifonia Melibea Obono
Trifonia Melibea Obono (Equatorial Guinea, 1982) is a journalist and political scientist, as well as a professor and researcher on women and gender in Africa. She has been a professor in the literature and social sciences faculty of the UNGE (National University of Equatorial Guinea) in Malabo since 2013 and is part of the team of the Afro-Hispanic Studies Center of the UNED. She is finishing her PhD in interdisciplinary studies in gender and equality at the University of Salamanca. She has contributed to numerous national and foreign publications, and is the author of two novels, Herencia de bindendee (Ediciones del Auge, 2016) and La bastarda (Flores Raras, 2016), the latter of which is forthcoming from The Feminist Press in 2018, transla
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Joumana Haddad
Joumana Haddad (جمانة حداد) is a Lebanese poet, translator, journalist and women rights activist.
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She’s been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women in March 2014 by CEO magazine Middle East (position 62), for her cultural and social activism.
She is head of the Cultural pages for "An Nahar" newspaper, and an instructor of creative writing at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She’s also the editor-in-chief of Jasad magazine, a controversial Arabic magazine specialized in the literature and arts of the body.
She has already published several essays and poetry collections, widely acclaimed by critics. Her books have been translated to many languages and published abroad.
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Olivier Bourdeaut
Olivier Bourdeaut est né au bord de l’Océan Atlantique en 1980. L’Education Nationale, refusant de comprendre ce qu’il voulait apprendre, lui rendit très vite sa liberté. Dès lors, grâce à l’absence lumineuse de télévision chez lui, il put lire beaucoup et rêvasser énormément.
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Durant dix ans il travailla dans l’immobilier allant de fiascos en échecs avec un enthousiasme constant. Puis, pendant deux ans, il devint responsable d’une agence d’experts en plomb, responsable d’une assistante plus diplômée que lui et responsable de chasseurs de termites, mais les insectes achevèrent de ronger sa responsabilité. Il fut aussi ouvreur de robinets dans un hôpital, factotum dans une maison d’édition de livres scolaires – un comble – et cueilleur de fleu -
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Born Kathrine Kressmann, she married Elliott Taylor in 1928. Her first and most famous book, "Address unknown", was initially published by Story magazine. As both the editor and her husband deemed the story "too strong to appear under the name of a woman", she took on the pseudonym Kressman Taylor, which she used for the rest of her professional life.
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Ivan Jablonka
Ivan Jablonka is a French historian. He received the Prix Médicis in 2016.
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Philippe Collin
Philippe Collin est un producteur de radio, auteur et journaliste. Il effectue des études d'histoire à l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, à Brest. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise d'histoire contemporaine consacrée à l'épuration des collaborateurs à la Libération.
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Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He grew up working in his fathers tailor shop. He himself became a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete high school and university, where he studied art history.
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In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He li -
Gaël Faye
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Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of México as well as by European influences that include Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality.
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In 1929 Kahlo married the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. They shared political views, and he encouraged her artistic endeavors. Although she has long been recognized as an important painter, public awareness of her work has become more widespread since the 1970. Her "Blue" house in Coyoacán, México City is a museum, donated by Diego Rivera upon his death in 1957. -
Christine Angot
French novelist and playwright, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father. It is a subject which appears in several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works are autofiction and the events described true. Angot herself describes her work - a metafiction on society's fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject - as a performative (cf Quitter la ville).
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Bessora
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Parinoush Saniee
PARINOUSH SANIEE (پرینوش صنیعی) is a sociologist and psychologist. She worked as Manager of the research department in Supreme Coordination Council for Technical and Vocational Education Ministry in Iran. She has written several novels, of which SAHME MAN is the first; PEDAR-E AAN DIGARI is the second-also published to great acclaim in Iran; others are awaiting approval by the censorship board.
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François-Henri Désérable
François-Henri Désérable (born Amiens, France, 6 February 1987) is a French author and a former professional ice hockey player.
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Karine Tuil
Après des études de droit et un diplôme de l'Université Paris II, Karine Tuil est l'auteur de neuf romans, d'une pièce de théâtre et de plusieurs scénarios.
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En septembre 2000 parait son premier roman Pour le Pire aux éditions Plon qui inaugure une collection "jeunes auteurs". Il relate la lente décomposition d'un couple. il est plébiscité par les libraires mais c'est son second roman, Interdit, (Plon 2001) - récit burlesque de la crise identitaire d'un vieux juif - qui connaît un succès critique et public. Sélectionné pour plusieurs prix dont le prix Goncourt, Interdit obtient le prix Wizo. Il est traduit en plusieurs langues. Le sens de l'ironie et de la tragi-comédie, l'humour juif se retrouvent encore dans 'Du sexe féminin' en 2002 - une -
Giuliano da Empoli
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Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois (b. 1950) is a French journalist and author. He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1990s. The French version of the novel won the Prix Femina. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ("All Men Do Not Inhabit This World in the Same Way"), a novel told from the perspective of a prisoner looking back on life.
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Neige Sinno
Neige Sinno is a French writer who has studied American literature in the United States and Mexico, and worked as a translator and literature professor. She is the author of two previous books, Le Camion and La Vie des rats. Born in France, she has lived in Mexico for the past 20 years. Her 2023 book, Triste tigre, won several of France’s top literary prizes and became the publishing sensation of the year.
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Maylis de Kerangal
Maylis de Kerangal est une femme de lettres française, née le 16 juin 1967 à Toulon. Elle passe son enfance au Havre, fille et petite-fille de capitaine au long cours. Elle étudie en classe préparatoire au lycée Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen et ensuite à Paris de 1985 à 1990 l'histoire, la philosophie et l'ethnologie. Elle commence à travailler chez Gallimard jeunesse une première fois de 1991 à 1996, avant de faire deux séjours aux États-Unis, à Golden dans le Colorado en 1997. Elle reprend sa formation en passant une année à l'EHESS à Paris en 1998.
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John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos was a prominent American novelist, artist, and political thinker best known for his U.S.A. trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—a groundbreaking work of modernist fiction that employed experimental narrative techniques to depict the complexities of early 20th-century American life. Born in Chicago in 1896, he was educated at Harvard and served as an ambulance driver during World War I, experiences that deeply influenced his early literary themes. His first novel, One Man’s Initiation: 1917, and the antiwar Three Soldiers drew on his wartime observations and marked him as a major voice among the Lost Generation.
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Joan Tronto
Joan Claire Tronto, is a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and was previously a professor of women's studies and political science at Hunter College and the Graduate School, City University of New York.
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Victoria Mas
Victoria Mas was born in 1987. The Mad Women's Ball, her first novel, has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lycéens) and been hailed as the bestselling debut of the season. She has worked in film in the United States, where she lived for eight years. She graduated from the Sorbonne University in Contemporary Literature.
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Anne Berest
Anne Berest is the bestselling co-author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Françoise Sagan. With her sister Claire, she is also the author of Gabriële, a critically acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse. She is the great-granddaughter of the painter Francis Picabia. For her work as a writer and prize-winning showrunner, she has been profiled in publications such as French Vogue and Haaretz newspaper. The recipient of numerous literary awards, The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize and has been a long-selling bestseller in France.
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Jiří Dvořák
Jirí Dvorák is an award-winning Czech author and plant biologist who combines his passion for biology and adventure in writing books. He has worked as a proofreader and editor of periodicals and currently is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Our Beautiful Garden. He lives and works in Prague.
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Mauro Libertella
Writer and journalist born in México in 1983. After living in Buenos Aires all his life he is considered an Argentine author.
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Joana Bértholo
Nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. É licenciada em Design de Comunicação pelas Belas-Artes de Lisboa e doutorada em Estudos Culturais pela European University Viadrina, na Alemanha. Em paralelo à criação literária, escreve para teatro, faz apoio dramatúrgico e dá aulas. Na editorial Caminho tem publicados três romances, dois livros de contos e um livro infanto-juvenil. O primeiro romance «Diálogos Para o Fim do Mundo» ganhou o Prémio Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho 2009. «O Museu do Pensamento» foi considerado pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores o melhor livro Infanto-Juvenil de 2018; e o romance «Ecologia» foi finalista do prémio APE, PEN, DST, Casino da Póvoa e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos 2019. Em teatro, começou por escrever para o Festival Tea
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Kerry Hudson
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel.
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Her first novel, TONY HOGAN BOUGHT ME AN ICE-CREAM FLOAT BEFORE HE STOLE MY MA, was published by Chatto & Windus in Summer 2012. It has since been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Southbank Sky Arts Award, Green Carnation Prize, Polari Prize, Author's Club First Book Award and Saltire First Book Award. It was the winner of the Scottish Book Awards: Best First Novel.
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Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She became an outspoken advocate for ameliorating the condition of slaves in the colonies and she began writing political pamphlets. Today she is perhaps best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men.
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In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of Maximilien Robespierre and for her close relation with the Girondists. -
Delphine Horvilleur
Elle est une femme rabbin française appartenant à l'organisation juive libérale Judaïsme en mouvement issue du Mouvement juif libéral de France et de l'Union libérale israélite de France, écrivain et philosophe.
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Elle est membre du Conseil des rabbins libéraux francophones ainsi que directrice de la rédaction de la Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a.
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She is France's third female rabbi, and (as of 2012) editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine "Revue de pensée(s) juive(s) Tenou'a". She leads a congregation in Paris, and is currently co-leading the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, a Jewish liberal cultural and religious association affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism. -
Masashi Matsuie
Masashi Matsuie (Tokio, 1958) estudió en la Universidad de Waseda, en Tokio, y trabajó como editor de ficción en el grupo editorial Shinchôsha, donde fue responsable de publicar autores como Haruki Murakami y lanzó Shincho Crest Books, un sello especializado en literatura de otros idiomas. Dirigió también varias de las revistas del mismo grupo como Kangaeru hito y Geijutsu shincho, antes de dejar la compañía en 2010. Su primera novela, La casa de verano (Kazan no fumoto de, 2012; Libros del Asteroide, 2024) recibió el Premio Yomiuri de Literatura, pese a que es un galardón que suele recaer en autores con una larga trayectoria literaria. Además ha publicado las obras Shizumu Furanshisu (2013), Yûga-na no ka dô ka, wakaranai (2014), Hikari no
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Négar Djavadi
Négar Djavadi was born in Iran in 1969 to a family of intellectuals opposed to the regimes both of the Shah, then of Khomeini. She arrived in France at the age of eleven, having crossed the mountains of Kurdistan on horseback with her mother and sister. She is a screenwriter and lives in Paris. Disoriental is her first novel.
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Hervé Bazin
Hervé Bazin (Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin) (April 7, 1911, Angers - February 17, 1996, Angers) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families
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Nathacha Appanah
See also: Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand
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Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah is a Mauritian-French author. She comes from a traditional Indian family.
She spent most of her teenage years in Mauritius and also worked as a journalist/columnist at Le Mauricien and Week-End Scope before emigrating to France.
Since 1998, Nathacha Appanah is well-known as an active writer. Her first book Les Rochers de Poudre d'Or (published by Éditions Gallimard) received the " Prix du Livre RFO". The book was based on the arrival of Indian immigrants in Mauritius.
She also wrote two other books Blue Bay Palace and La Noce d'Anna which also received some prizes for best book in some regional festivals in France.
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Terry Eagleton
Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr. Terry Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster and as Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the University of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to the University of Notre Dame in the Autumn '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Department.
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He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 -
Miguel Bonnefoy
Miguel Bonnefoy was born in France in 1986 to a Venezuelan mother and a Chilean father. In 2013, he was awarded the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain, which has previously helped to launch the careers of writers such as Marie Darrieussecq. Octavio's Journey is Bonnefoy's first novel, written in French.
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Gabi Martínez
Su último trabajo publicado es En la Barrera (Altaïr, 2012), sobre la Gran Barrera de Coral australiana. Es también autor de Sólo para gigantes (Edit. Alfaguara, 2011), Només per a gegants (Ámsterdam, 2011), que será adaptada al cómic a finales de noviembre de 2012 y al cine en fechas recientes.
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La obra Sudd, escogida por El Periódico y la revista Qué Leer entre las diez mejores novelas del año 2007. Antes de escribirla, recorrió el Nilo, desde las fuentes en el lago Victoria, hasta el delta de Alejandría. Sus anteriores novelas Hora de Times Square y Ático, fueron acogidas con excelentes críticas que han subrayado su carácter renovador.
Ático fue seleccionada por la crítica de los Estados Unidos como una de las cinco obras más representati -
Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning writer on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism.
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She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019), founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant, and a regular contributor to The Guardian. -
Mário de Carvalho
Mário de Carvalho nasceu em 1944, em Lisboa. Licenciou-se em Direito pela Universidade de Lisboa em 1969. Desde jovem que se envolveu na luta antifascista, tendo estado preso ainda na década de 1960 e durante o serviço militar. A sua luta política leva-o ao exílio, primeiro para a França, depois para a Suécia, em 1973. Após o 25 de Abril regressa a Portugal. A sua estreia literária dá-se em 1981, tendo desde aí publicado regularmente numa grande diversidade de géneros: romance, drama, contos, guiões.
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A sua escrita é extremamente versátil e torna-se impossível incluí-lo numa escola literária. A crítica considera-o um dos mais importantes ficcionistas da actualidade e a sua obra encontra-se traduzida em vários países (Inglaterra, França, Gréci -
Artemis Cooper
She is the only daughter of the second Viscount Norwich and his first wife, Anne (née Clifford), and a granddaughter of Lady Diana Cooper. She has a brother, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, and a half-sister, Allegra Huston, the only child of Lord Norwich and Enrica Soma Huston, the estranged wife of American film director John Huston. She attended the French Lycee, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Woldingham and Camden School for Girls. She then went to St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a degree in English language and literature. In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of York.
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Michelle Perrot
Michelle Perrot is professor emeritus at Paris VII and one of France’s most distinguished cultural historians. She has received numerous awards and honors in France and abroad for her published histories of work, prisons, private life, and women.
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Léonora Miano
Née à Douala au Cameroun, Léonora Miano vit en France depuis 1991 où elle a fait des études en lettres.
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Elle a gagné plusieurs prix littéraires :
- Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
- Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
- Prix René-Fallet 2006
- Prix Bernard-Palissy 2006
Born in Douala (Cameroon), Leonora Miano lives in France since 1991 where she studied literature.
She has won several literary awards:
- Prix Louis-Guilloux 2006
- Prix du Premier Roman de Femme 2006 pour L'Intérieur de la nuit
- Prix René-Fallet 2006
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Evan Ratliff
Evan Ratliff is the editor of The Atavist magazine. His writing has appeared in Wired, where he is a contributing editor; The New Yorker; National Geographic; and other publications. He is also the story editor of Pop-Up Magazine, a live event.
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Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published fifteen books of stories, essays, and novels, including Enough About Love (Other Press, 2011), The Sextine Chapel (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), and A Thousand Pearls (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011).
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Frédéric Beigbeder
Beigbeder was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels ( Barbara Cartland et al.); his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Upon graduation at the at the age of 24, began work as an advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher, and dilettante.
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In 1994, Beigbeder founded the "Prix de Flore", which takes its name from the famous and plush Café de Flore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who h -
Sandrine Collette
Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud farm. She is the author of numerous novels. Nothing but Dust, winner of the Landerneau Prize for crime fiction, was her English-language debut.
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Shani Boianjiu
Shani Boianjiu was born in 1987 in a small town on the Israel/Lebanon border, and she served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Vice magazine, and Zoetrope: All Story. Shani is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award, for which she was chosen by Nicole Krauss. She lives in Israel.
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Charlotte Delbo
Charlotte Delbo was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
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Born in Vigneux-sur-Seine, Essonne near Paris, Delbo gravitated toward theater and politics in her youth, joining the French Young Communist Women's League in 1932. She met and married George Dudach two years later. Later in the decade she went to work for producer Louis Jouvet and was with his company in Buenos Aires when Wehrmacht forces invaded and occupied France in 1940.
She could have waited to return when Philippe Pétain, leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime, established special courts in 1941 to deal with members of the resistance. One sent -
Régine Pernoud
Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909 in Château-Chinon, Nièvre - 22 April 1998 in Paris) was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc.
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Laurent Gaudé
Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta.
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He studied theater and has written many dramatic works, among them Onysos le furieux, Cendres sur les mains, Médée Kali, and Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate.
In 2002 he was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt for La Mort du roi Tsongor. Two years later, he won the prize for his novel The Scortas' Sun (French: Le Soleil des Scorta). -
Kamel Daoud
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
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The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author -
Zigmunds Skujiņš
Rakstnieks, viens no ievērojamākajiem 20. gadsimta otrās puses latviešu prozaiķiem, izcils novelists, romānu, kinoscenāriju, lugu un eseju autors. Dzimis 1926. gada 25. decembrī Rīgā. Mācījies Rīgas Valsts tehnikumā un Jaņa Rozentāla mākslas vidusskolā. 1946.–1960. g. līdzstrādnieks avīzē “Padomju Jaunatne” un žurnālā “Dadzis”, 1960.–1962. g. un 1968.–1973. g. prozas konsultants Latvijas Rakstnieku savienībā, 1992.–1995. g. Latvijas Radio un televīzijas padomes pirmais priekšsēdētājs. Z. Skujiņš ir viens no visvairāk tulkotajiem latviešu rakstniekiem, viņa darbi izdoti vācu, angļu, krievu, bulgāru, čehu, slovāku, ungāru u. c. valodās vairāk nekā septiņos miljonos eksemplāru.
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Born in Rīga in 1926, Zigmunds Skujiņš was one of the most outstand -
Kim Barnouin
Before she was a Skinny Bitch, Kim Barnouin was a high school drop-out turned model who only crossed paths with a vegetable on her pizza. Today she is the co-author of The New York Times Bestseller Skinny Bitch with its sequels Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, Skinny Bitch: Bun in the Oven, Skinny Bitch: Just Bitchin and a line of fitness DVDs.
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Born in Rhode Island and raised in Maryland, Kim felt she wasn’t ready for college and dropped out in the 11th grade. Soon after, Kim received her GED, brushed community college and switched gears to modeling. At the age of 22, Kim moved to South Beach where the waves of Miami left Kim feeling seriously lost. She modeled, waited tables to make ends meet and considered herself more of a helpless beach bum.
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Kamel Daoud
Né en 1970 à Mostaganem, Kamel Daoud est journaliste au Quotidien d’Oran où il tient une chronique à succès « Raïna raïkoum ». Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont le recueil de nouvelles La Préface du nègre ( barzakh, 2008 ) récompensé par le Prix Mohammed Dib et traduit en allemand ainsi qu’en italien.
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The Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud is the winner of the edition 2014 of the Five Continents Prize. This was the decision of the jury chaired by the Nobel Prize of literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Clézio on 26th September 2014 in Paris at the head office of the International Organization of the Francophonie. The novel “Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry” (Barzakh Editions in 2013) by the Algerian author -
Tânia Ganho
Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that she decided to publish her first novel, "A Vida Sem Ti" ("Life Without You", Oficina do Livro), followed by "Cuba Libre" (Oficina do Livro, 2007), "A Lucidez do Amor" ("The War Wife", Porto Editora, 2010) , "A Mulher-Casa" ("La Femme-Maison", Porto Editora, 2012), and "Apneia" (Casa das Letras, 2020), a disturbing story about domestic violence and child abuse.
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"Apneia" was semifinalist of the Oceanos Prize and finalist of the Bertrand Prize for Best Portuguese Novel of the Year. In 2021, Tânia Ganho won a six-month literary grant from the Minist -
Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer and translator. Her parents were Turkish Jews established in Portugal during Brazilian military government. She studied literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and she has lived in the United States and France.
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Patrícia Reis
PATRÍCIA REIS nasceu em Lisboa, a 12 de Dezembro de 1970. Começou como jornalista n' O Independente aos dezassete anos. Passou pela revista Sábado, de que foi editora, fez um estágio em Nova Iorque na revista Time e, no regresso dos EUA, colaborou no Expresso, trabalhou nas revistas Marie Claire e Elle e nos «projectos especiais» do jornal Público. Em 1997 passou a colaborar com o atelier de Henrique Cayatte, na produção de conteúdos para a Expo' 98. Desta colaboração surgiu o Atelier 004 de que é directora e que, entre outros projectos, produz a Egoísta.
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Escreveu a curta biografia de Vasco Santana e o romance fotográfico Beija-me (2006), em co-autoria com João Vilhena, a novela Cruz das Almas (2004) e os romances Amor em Segunda Mão (2006), -
Karine Tuil
Après des études de droit et un diplôme de l'Université Paris II, Karine Tuil est l'auteur de neuf romans, d'une pièce de théâtre et de plusieurs scénarios.
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En septembre 2000 parait son premier roman Pour le Pire aux éditions Plon qui inaugure une collection "jeunes auteurs". Il relate la lente décomposition d'un couple. il est plébiscité par les libraires mais c'est son second roman, Interdit, (Plon 2001) - récit burlesque de la crise identitaire d'un vieux juif - qui connaît un succès critique et public. Sélectionné pour plusieurs prix dont le prix Goncourt, Interdit obtient le prix Wizo. Il est traduit en plusieurs langues. Le sens de l'ironie et de la tragi-comédie, l'humour juif se retrouvent encore dans 'Du sexe féminin' en 2002 - une -
Sara Duarte Brandão
Nasceu no Porto em 1997. Licenciada (2019) em Design de Comunicação pela FBAUP e Mestra (2022) em Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartes pela FLUP. Venceu o Prémio Literário NORTEAR (2018) e em 2019 cocriou o projeto Knit&Wine. Em 2020 cofundou a Truz Truz Editora. Em 2022 frequentou o Curso de facilitadores em criação artística comunitária da PELE e cocriou o projeto musical Abondai. Integra projetos que cruzam várias áreas artísticas como o teatro, as artes plásticas e a literatura.
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Vanessa Springora
Vanessa Springora est une éditrice, écrivaine et réalisatrice française. Elle publie, début janvier 2020, l'ouvrage Le Consentement, témoignage de sa relation avec Gabriel Matzneff lorsqu'elle était adolescente.
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Hugo Gonçalves
Hugo Gonçalves (1976) é autor de vários romances. Na Companhia das Letras, estão publicados "Filho do pai", "Revolução" (vencedor do Prémio Fernando Namora e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos), "Deus Pátria Família" (semifinalista do prémio Oceanos), "Filho da mãe" (finalista dos prémios P.E.N. Clube e Fernando Namora), "O coração dos homens" e "Enquanto Lisboa arde o Rio de Janeiro pega fogo".
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Guionista da série "Rabo de Peixe" (Netflix), foi correspondente de diversas publicações portuguesas em Nova Iorque, Madrid e no Rio de Janeiro, cidade onde trabalhou como editor literário.
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Fridrik Erlings
Friðrik Erlingsson
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Fridrik Erlings was born in Reykjavik in 1962. From 1980 - '90 he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He was a guitar player and songwriter in two Icelandic rock bands; Purrkur Pillnik from '81-'83 and in '86 he founded the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes with Einar Orn and Bjork before leaving music to pursue writing.
Fridrik is the author of several novels, both Fiction and Young Adult novels. He's written numerous lyrics for contemporary pop and rock artists; he has written screenplays for film and television, the most recent the screenplay for 'Thor - Legends of Valhalla', the first feature length 3D-animation film made in Iceland. He has also lectured screenwriting at The Icelandic Film School.
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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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Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality.
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Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008 -
Philippa Levine
Philippa Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and the Co-Director of the Program in British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Andrea Marcolongo
Andrea Marcolongo, nata nel 1987 e laureata in Lettere classiche presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano, è una scrittrice italiana attualmente tradotta in 27 Paesi. Autrice de La lingua geniale. 9 ragioni per amare il greco (Laterza, 2016) e de La misura eroica (Mondadori, 2018), scrive per TuttoLibri de «La Stampa». Traduttrice dal greco, visiting professor presso l'Universidad de Los Andes di Bogotá e l'UNAM di Città del Messico e presidente 2019 del Festival de l'histoire di Blois, è stata finalista in Francia al Prix des Lecteurs. Ora vive a Parigi.
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Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer and translator. Her parents were Turkish Jews established in Portugal during Brazilian military government. She studied literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and she has lived in the United States and France.
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Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul.
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Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his true identity in 2001 after leaving the army and going into exile and seclusion in France. Anonymity was the only way for him to survive and avoid censorship during the Algerian Civil War.
In 2004, Newsweek acclaimed him as "one of the rare writers capable of giving a meaning to the violence in Algeria today."
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Philip Gooden
Philip Gooden lives in Bath. In addition to his Nick Revill series, Sleep of Death, he is the author of The Guinness Guide to Better English and the editor of The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes. Each of his Nick Revill mysteries revolves around a Shakespearean play mirroring life - in Sleep of Death the play was Hamlet, in this offering it is Troilus and Cressida.
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AKA Philippa Morgan.
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Heidi Sopinka
Heidi Sopinka has worked as a bush cook in the Yukon, a travel writer in Southeast Asia, a helicopter pilot, a magazine editor, and is co-designer at Horses Atelier. She has written for The Paris Review, The Believer, Brick, and Lenny Letter. She is widely published as a journalist in Canada, where she won a national magazine award and was The Globe and Mail's environment columnist. The Dictionary of Animal Languages, her début novel, was chosen by AnOther magazine as “one of the six novels set to conquer 2018,” was a semi-finalist for The Morning News Tournament of Books Best Novels from 2018, was long-listed for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and has been translated into Polish and Dutch.
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Lilia Hassaine
Lilia Hassaine est une romancière, journaliste française et chroniqueuse de télévision. Elle reçoit le prix Renaudot des lycéens pour son troisième roman, Panorama.
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Après des études littéraires Lilia Hassaine participe, en 2012, au programme Monde Académie du Monde puis intègre, en 2013, l'Institut français de presse dont elle sort diplômée en 2015. Elle travaille pour Arte, Le Parisien et Le Monde, puis, en 2014, remporte le 5e prix Santé et Citoyenneté du meilleur web-documentaire avec De mèche contre le cancer. En janvier 2018, Lilia Hassaine rejoint Bangumi, la société de production créée par Yann Barthès. Travaillant dans un premier temps en coulisses, elle participe en plateau à l'émission Trump, Saison 1 présentée par Martin Weill le -
Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek was an American musician, best known as one of the founders, and keyboardist for the rock group 'The Doors'.
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Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Jean-Baptiste Andrea, né le 4 avril 1971 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. Il reçoit le prix Femina des lycéens et le prix du premier roman pour son premier livre, Ma reine, sorti en 2017, le Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2021, ainsi que le prix Goncourt 2023 et le Grand prix des lectrices de Elle pour son quatrième roman, Veiller sur elle.
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Eliane Brum
Eliane Brum é jornalista, escritora e documentarista. Trabalhou 11 anos como repórter do jornal Zero Hora, de Porto Alegre, e 10 como repórter especial da Revista Época, em São Paulo. Desde 2010, atua como freelancer. Atualmente, escreve artigos para os jornais El País (português e espanhol) e The Guardian (inglês).
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Publicou seis livros – cinco de não ficção e um romance -, além de participar de coletâneas de crônicas, contos e ensaios. -
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Jornalista, escritor e argumentista brasileiro nascido a 23 de Janeiro de 1941, na Ilha de Itaparica, Bahía.
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Estreou como jornalista em 1957 no Jornal da Bahia. Estudou Direito na Universidade Federal da Baía e, enquanto estudava, participou na edição de jornais e revistas e numa colectânea de contos editada pela universidade em 1961.
Em 1963, Ribeiro escreveu o seu primeiro romance, Setembro não faz sentido, que só foi publicado cinco anos mais tarde. Fez o mestrado em Administração Pública e Ciência Política, em 1964, na Universidade da Califórnia do Sul, nos Estados Unidos da América, e, de 1965 a 1971, ingressa na Universidade Federal da Bahía como professor de Ciências Políticas.
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Carole Martinez
Ancienne comédienne, Carole Martinez se recycle dans l'enseignement et devient professeur de français dans un collège d'Issy-les-Moulineaux. Elle profite d'un congé parental en 2005 pour se lancer dans l'écriture. Elle désire écrire 'quelque chose qui soit entre le conte et le roman.' Puisant dans les légendes de sa tradition familiale espagnole, elle brode 'Le coeur cousu' à partir des histoires que sa grand-mère lui racontait. Ce premier roman est un succès et Carole Martinez reçoit le prix Renaudot des lycéens en 2007, le prix Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs 2007 (jury de jeunes lecteurs), Prix Ulysse de la première oeuvre 2007. Au début de l'année 2011, elle publie un roman policier pour la jeunesse, 'L' Oeil du témoin', après un premi
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Tânia Carneiro
Tânia Carneiro é psicóloga clínica, especialista em psicologia clínica e da saúde e em psicoterapia pela Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses. Grupanalista. Vice-Presidente da Zona Sul da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática. Sempre se interessou pela temática da vergonha mas, a vontade de explorar mais o tema de forma diferente esteve diretamente relacionada com episódios de vergonha da sua filha de seis anos. Como é que a posso ajudar? – pensou. O livro O Monstro da Vergonha foi a forma que encontrou para tentar minimizar os estragos que a vergonha provoca.
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Maria Filomena Mónica
MARIA FILOMENA MÓNICA nasceu em Lisboa, a 30 de Janeiro de 1943. Licenciou-se em Filosofia na Universidade de Lisboa, em 1969, e doutorou-se em Sociologia na Universidade de Oxford, em 1978.
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Colabora regularmente na imprensa. Entre outros livros publicados, é autora de «Eça de Queirós» (Quetzal, 2001), «Bilhete de Identidade» (Alêtheia, 2005) e «Cesário Verde» (Alêtheia, 2007).
É investigadora-coordenadora do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.