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Jack Gilbert

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.'s neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he and his classmate Gerald Stern developed a serious interest in poetry and writing.

His work is distinguished by simple lyricism and straightforward clarity of tone. Though his first book of poetry (Views of Jeopardy, 1962) was quickly recognized and Gilbert himself made into something of a media darling, he retreated from his earlier activity in the San Francisco poetry scene (where he participated in Jack Spicer's Poetry as Magic workshop) and moved to Europe, touring from country to country while

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Pablo Katchadjian

Pablo Katchadjian es un escritor y poeta argentino nacido en Buenos Aires en 1977. Graduado en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Katchadjian ha dedicado su carrera a explorar formas innovadoras de escritura, desafiando las convenciones narrativas y expandiendo las posibilidades del lenguaje literario. Debido a eso, su obra es conocida por su creatividad y audacia, así como por su talante experimental y la capacidad para jugar con los límites de la literatura, abarcando poesía, narrativa breve y novelas.

Entre sus trabajos más comentados hallamos El Aleph engordado (2009), obra que reescribe y amplía el célebre cuento de Jorge Luis Borges, añadiéndole palabras y párrafos a la vez que mantiene el texto original. Esta obra tuvo como ef

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.

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John Williams

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John Edward Williams, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, 1954; M.A., University of Denver, 1950; B.A., U. of D., 1949), enlisted in the USAAF early in 1942, spending two and a half years as a sergeant in India and Burma. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948, and his first volume of poems, The Broken Landscape, appeared the following year.

In the fall of 1955, Williams took over the directorship of the creative writing program at the University of Denver, where he taught for more than 30 years.

After retiring from the University of Denver in 1986, Williams moved with his wife, Nancy, to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he resided until he d

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Martín Kohan

Martín Kohan es un escritor argentino y profesor de Teoría Literaria en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en la Universidad de la Patagonia.

Sus obras se publican en editoriales como Einaudi (Italia), Serpent’s Tail (Reino Unido), Seuil (Francia) y Suhrkamp (Alemania). Ciencias morales (2007) es su novela más popular y ha sido llevada al cine con el nombre "La mirada invisible", bajo la dirección de Diego Lerman. En la película Kohan interpreta el breve papel de empleado de una tienda de discos. También con Ciencias morales ha ganado el Premio Herralde de Novela 2007.

En 2014 recibió el Premio Konex - Diploma al Mérito como uno de los 5 mejores novelistas del período 2008-2010 de la Argentina.

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Fleur Jaeggy

Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English.

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Leila Guerriero

Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez

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Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.

In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens.

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Sara Gallardo

Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre (*Buenos Aires, 23 de diciembre de 1931-†14 de junio de 1988) fue una escritora argentina de la generación de narradoras y poetas de la década del 50-60, durante el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, junto a colegas coterráneas como Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch, Beatriz Guido, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Norah Lange, Alejandra Pizarnik, Elvira Orphée y Silvina Ocampo. Su novela Eisejuaz es un ejemplo del temprano realismo mágico sudamericano.

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Édouard Levé

Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales. He began painting in 1991. Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995.

Levé's first book, Oeuvres (2002), is an imaginary list of more than 500 books by the author, not actually written, although some of the items were taken up as the premisses of later books actually written and published by Levé (for example the photography books Amérique and Pornographie).

Levé traveled in the United States in 2002, writing Autoportrait and taking the photographs for the series

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Violaine Bérot

Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Bérot, puéricultrice et auteur de livres jeunesse.

En 1994, elle publie son premier roman, Jehanne. Dans Léo et Lola paru en 1996, elle aborde le thème de l'inceste. En 1999, avec Tout pour Titou, elle « écrit un roman d'une rare noirceur », selon Claude Mesplède. Notre père qui êtes odieux, publié en 2000, est un roman de la série du Poulpe qui se déroule dans les Pyrénées de son enfance.

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Aurora Venturini

Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco

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Samanta Schweblin

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

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Carlos Busqued

Carlos Busqued nació en Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco (Argentina), en 1970 y falleció el 29 de Marzo de 2021. Produjo los programas de radio Vidas Ejemplares, El otoño en Pekín y Prisionero del Planeta Infierno. Colaboró en la revista El Ojo con Dientes.

Carlos Busqued was born in the northern Argentinian province of Chaco in 1970. He passed away on 29 March 2021. Under This Terrible Sun is his first novel.

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Federico Falco

Federico Falco is the author of four collections of short stories, a book of poems, and two novels: Cielos de Córdoba (Córdoba Skies, 2011) and Los Llanos (The Plains, 2020). He holds a BA in Communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2010 Granta selected him as one of the Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and in 2017 A Perfect Cemetery was finalist for the García Márquez Short Story Prize. During 2012 he was writer in residence at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Falco currently is the short story editor at Chai Editora, dedicated to international contemporary fiction not previously translated into Spanish. His most recent n

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Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.

Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.

Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English,

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Diego Muzzio

Es narrador y poeta. Actualmente vive en Francia. En 1991 publicó su primer libro de poemas, El hueso del ojo. En 1996 obtuvo el Primer Premio de Poesía del Fondo Nacional de las Artes por su libro Sheol Sheol, publicado en 1997 por el Grupo Editor Latinoamericano. En el 2000 recibió el Primer Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por Gabatha, publicado en México por la editorial Práctica Mortal, en el 2001. También ha publicado: Hieronymus Bosch, Segundo Premio de Poesía, Fondo Nacional de las artes, año 2004 (Ediciones del Dock, 2005), Tratado sobre la ejecución de animales (Honoarte, 2008), y El sistema defensivo de los muertos (Hilos editora, 2012).

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Ana Paula Maia

Ana Paula Maia (Nova Iguaçu, 1977) is a Brazilian writer, scriptwriter and musician.

During her adolescence she player at a punk rock band and studied piano. As a scriptwriter she took part in the script of the short film O entregador de pizza (2001), and along with Mauro Santa Cecilia and Ricardo Petraglia, she wrote the theatrical monologue O rei dos escombros assembled in 2003 by the Moacyr Chaves firm. She published her first novel under the title O habitante das falhas subterrâneas in 2003.

She is the author of the trilogy A saga dos brutos, started by the short novel Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos y O trabalho sujo dos outros —published in one volume— and concluded by the novel Carvão animal.

Influenced by Dostoievski, by Qu

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Pablo Katchadjian

Pablo Katchadjian es un escritor y poeta argentino nacido en Buenos Aires en 1977. Graduado en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Katchadjian ha dedicado su carrera a explorar formas innovadoras de escritura, desafiando las convenciones narrativas y expandiendo las posibilidades del lenguaje literario. Debido a eso, su obra es conocida por su creatividad y audacia, así como por su talante experimental y la capacidad para jugar con los límites de la literatura, abarcando poesía, narrativa breve y novelas.

Entre sus trabajos más comentados hallamos El Aleph engordado (2009), obra que reescribe y amplía el célebre cuento de Jorge Luis Borges, añadiéndole palabras y párrafos a la vez que mantiene el texto original. Esta obra tuvo como ef

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Selva Almada

Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her début The Wind that Lays Waste, she has published three novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction (Dead Girls) and a kind of film diary (written in the set of Lucrecia Martel’s most recent film Zama, based on Antonio di Benedetto’s novel). She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award (both in Spain). Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. Her most recent novel, No es un río (This is not a River) has ju

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Ariana Harwicz

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Ariana Harwicz nació en Buenos Aires en 1977. Estudió guión cinematográfico en el ENERC (Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica), dramaturgia en el EAD (Escuela de Arte Dramático) y completó sus estudios con una licenciatura en Artes del espectáculo en la Universidad Paris VIII y un máster en Literatura comparada en La Sorbona. Matate, amor, es su primera novela.
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Compared to Nathalie Sarraute, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterized by its violence, eroticism, irony and direct criticism to the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships. Born in Buenos A

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Tomás Downey

Tomás Downey (Buenos Aires, 1984) es guionista, egresado de la ENERC, y autor de una novela aún inédita. Actualmente, trabaja en un nuevo libro de relatos. Acá el tiempo es otra cosa es la obra ganadora del Primer Premio en género cuento del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, edición 2013. El jurado estuvo integrado por José María Brindisi, Mariana Enriquez y Guillermo Saccomanno.

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Alejandra Kamiya

Alejandra Kamiya (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1966) es una escritora argentina. De ascendencia japonesa, su obra, compuesta por tres libros de cuentos, aúna las culturas argentina y japonesa, y aborda las temáticas de los vínculos afectivos, la vida cotidiana y la muerte.

Recibió, entre otros, los premios Universidad Católica Argentina-SUTERH (2007), Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires (2008), Max Aub (2010), Horacio Quiroga (2012) y Unicaja (2014). En 2024, recibió un Premio Konex por su labor como cuentista.

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Andrés Montero

Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI" y de los libros juveniles "Alguien toca la puerta", "Tres noches en la escuela", "En el horizonte se dibuja un barco" y "Bestiario de Chile".

En 2017 obtuvo el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska de la Ciudad de México por la novela Tony Ninguno, y en 2022 recibió el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte, el Premio de la Academia de la Lengua y el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas por La muerte viene estilando.

También ha recibido el Premio Marta Brunet, el Premio Municipal d

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Salomé Esper

Salomé Esper was born in Jujuy in 1984. She is a writer and editor. She studied Social Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has a specialty in Editorial Design from Edinba (Mexico). She has published two books of poetry: sobre todo (Intravenosa, 2010) and paisaje (Tres tercios, 2014). She currently edits Sencacional de escrituras and is the editorial coordinator at 17, Institute of Critical Studies.

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Pierre Senges

Pierre Senges (born 1968, Romans-sur-Isère) is a French writer. His work includes fifteen books, often collaborations with illustrators, and over twenty-five plays for radio.
His books are sometimes noted for having a baroque style. They frequently combine erudition and invention Fragments of Lichtenberg or play with the relation between the true and untrue Veuves au maquillage and La réfutation majeure.
Senges' radio plays (fictions radiophoniques) have been produced by France Culture and France Inter. His many prizes include the Prix Wepler, the Prix SACD Nouveau Talent Radio in 2007, the Grand prix de la fiction radiophonique de la SGDL in 2008, the Prix du deuxième roman, the Prix Rhône-Alpes, and the Prix meilleure page 111.

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Alberto Giordano

Alberto Giordano was born in Rufino, in 1959, and has lived in Rosario since 1971. He is a professor and essayist.

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