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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  Chico Buarque

  Francisco Buarque de Hollanda is popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic and cultural commentary on Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular.
  
  Son of the academic Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Buarque lived in several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Italy. He wrote and studied literature as a child and came to music through the bossa nova compositions of João Gilberto. He performed music throughout the 1960s as well as writing a play that was deemed dangerous by the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time. Buarque, along with several of his fellow musicians, were thre

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  Jon Fosse

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

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  Milton Hatoum

  Milton Hatoum nasceu em 1952, em Manaus (Amazonas), onde passou a infância e uma parte da juventude. Em 1967 mudou-se para Brasília, onde estudou no Colégio de Aplicação da UnB. Morou durante a década de 1970 em São Paulo, onde se diplomou em arquitetura na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP, trabalhou como jornalista cultural e foi professor universitário de História da Arquitetura. Em 1980 viajou como bolsista para a Espanha, onde morou em Madri e Barcelona. Depois passou três anos em Paris, onde estudou literatura comparada na Sorbonne (Paris III). Autor de quatro romances premiados, sua obra foi traduzida em dez línguas e publicada em catorze países.
  Foi professor de literatura francesa da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (1984-

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  Elvira Vigna

  Nascida no Rio de Janeiro em 1947, é diplomada em literatura pela Universidade de Nancy, França, e mestre em comunicação pela UFRJ. Escreve sobre arte contemporânea no site Aguarrás.

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• Bernardo Kucinski

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  Caio Fernando Abreu

  Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu nasceu no dia 12 de setembro de 1948, em Santiago, no Rio Grande do Sul. Jovem ainda mudou-se para Porto Alegre onde publicou seus primeiros contos. Cursou Letras na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, depois Artes Dramáticas, mas abandonou ambos para dedicar-se ao trabalho jornalístico no Centro e Sul do país, em revistas como Pop, Nova, Veja e Manchete, foi editor de Leia Livros e colaborou nos jornais Correio do Povo, Zero Hora, O Estado de São Paulo e Folha de São Paulo.
  
  No ano de 1968 — em plena ditadura militar — foi perseguido pelo DOPS (Departamento de Ordem Política e Social), tendo se refugiado no sítio da escritora e amiga Hilda Hilst, na periferia de Campinas, São Paulo.
  
  Considerado um dos

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  Marcelo Rubens Paiva

  Escritor, dramaturgo e jornalista, estudou na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP, freqüentou o mestrado de Teoria Literária da Unicamp e o King Fellow Program da Universidade de Stanford, na Califórnia.
  
  Publicou cinco romances: Feliz ano velho (1982, Prêmio Jabuti), Blecaute (1986), Uabrari (1990), Bala na agulha (1992) e Não és tu, Brasil (1996). Publicou também o livro de crônicas As Fêmeas (1994). Foi traduzido para o inglês, espanhol, francês, italiano, alemão e tcheco. Como dramaturgo, escreveu: 525 linhas (1989); O predador entra na sala (1997); Da boca pra fora; e aí, comeu? (1999, Prêmo Shell); Mais-que-imperfeito (2000); Closet Show (2001); e No retrovisor (2002).

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  Hiromi Kawakami

  Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
  
  Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
  
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  Pierre Lemaitre

  Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter. He is internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
  
  His first novel that was translated into English, Alex, is a translation of the French book with the same title, it jointly won the CWA International Dagger for best translated crime novel of 2013.
  
  In November 2013, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for Au revoir là-haut (published in English as The Great Swindle), an epic about World War I. His novels Camille and The Great Swindle won the CWA International Dagger in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

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  Conceição Evaristo

  Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of study in 1971, at the age of 25. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she passed a public competition for teaching and graduated in Letters at UFRJ.
  
  In the 1980s, she contacted Grupo Quilombhoje. She debuted in literature in 1990, with works published in the series Cadernos Negros, published by the organization.
  
  She holds a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature from PUC-Rio, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
  
  Her works, in particular the 2003 novel Ponciá Vicêncio, address themes such as racial, gende

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  Alejandro Zambra

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

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• Reinaldo Moraes

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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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• Michel Laub

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  Cristovão Tezza

  Cristovão Tezza nasceu em Lages, Santa Catarina, em 1952, mas mudou-se para Curitiba ainda quando criança. É considerado um dos mais importantes autores da literatura brasileira contemporânea. Além de escritor, com mais de uma dezena de livros publicados, leciona na UFPR. É autor, entre outros, de Trapo, O fantasma da infância, Aventuras provisórias, Breve espaço entre cor e sombra (Prêmio Machado de Assis/Biblioteca Nacional de melhor romance de 1998) e O fotógrafo (prêmios da Academia Brasileira de Letras e Bravo! de melhor romance do ano). A publicação do inédito O filho eterno marca seu retorno à Record. O livro venceu os mais importantes prêmios literários do país: primeiro lugar no Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portu

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  Ana Maria Gonçalves

  Ana Maria Gonçalves nasceu em 1970, na cidade Ibiá-MG. Publicitária por formação, residiu em São Paulo por treze anos até se cansar do ritmo intenso da cidade e da profissão. Em viagem à Bahia, encantou-se com a Ilha de Itaparica, onde fixou residência por cinco anos e descobriu sua veia de ficcionista, passando a se dedicar integralmente à literatura. Atualmente, reside em New Orleans, no estado americano da Louisiana.
  Em 2002, estreou como escritora com a publicação de Ao lado e à margem do que sentes por mim – “livro terno, íntimo, vivido e escrito em Itaparica”, segundo o depoimento de Millor Fernandes. O livro teve circulação restrita, apesar da primorosa edição artesanal. Mas é em 2006 que a autora se torna conhecida no meio literário

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  Socorro Acioli

  A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genres, for both adult and child readers. She has participated in a workshop run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; has done research at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany; and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.
  
  Socorro Acioli (Fortaleza, 24 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma escritora brasileira, formada em Comunicação Social com habilitação em jornalismo, mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Fede

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  Vanessa Barbara

  Vanessa Barbara is a Brazilian journalist and author. She writes for the magazine Piauí and the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. Her articles are also featured in the International New York Times.
  
  Barbara won the 2009 Jabuti Prize in Journalism for her work O Livro Amarelo do Terminal, about the Tietê Bus Terminal. She was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2008 for her debut book O Verão do Chibo. She was also listed by Granta among the Best of Young Brazilian Novelists in 2012.

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  Andréa del Fuego

  Andréa del Fuego é natural de São Paulo, Brasil, onde nasceu no ano de 1975. Trabalhou em publicidade, fez produção de cinema e realizou duas curtas-metragens. Colaborando em várias revistas, inicia-se na escrita com Minto enquanto Posso (2004). Uma primeira coletânea de contos seguida por Nego tudo (2005), Engano Seu (2007) e Nego Fogo (2009). Em paralelo experimenta o juvenil com Quase Caio (2008) e Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal (2008), e o registo infantil com Irmãs de Pelúcia (2010), estando também incluída em diversas antologias de contos.
  Com Os Malaquias (Brasil 2010/Portugal 2011), foi finalista do Prémio São Paulo de Literatura e do Prémio Jabuti, na categoria romance, e vencedora do Prémio Literário José Saramago, tudo em 2011.

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  Édouard Louis

  Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
  
  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  Lili Anolik

  Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her work has also appeared in Harper's, Esquire, and The Believer, among other publications. Her book, Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A., will be published by Scribner in January 2019.

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• Minna Rytisalo

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• Jenni Räinä

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  Geovani Martins

  Born in 1991, in Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro. He worked as a “plate man”, a cafeteria attendant, a waiter at a children's buffet and at a beach tent. In 2013 and 2015, he participated in the workshops of the Literary Festival of the Peripheries (“Flup”). He published some of his short stories in Setor X magazine and was invited twice to Flip's parallel programming.

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  Noora Vallinkoski

  Noora Vallinkoski (s. 1981) on Tanskassa asuva turkulaisen lähiön kasvatti ja työläisperheen tytär. Vallinkoski on opiskellut mediatutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittamista Turun yliopistossa. Hän pitää kirjoista, joissa yhteiskunnallisuus yhdistyy estetiikkaan. Perno Mega City on hänen esikoisteoksensa.
  (Atena kustannuksen sivulta)

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  Itamar Vieira Junior

  Itamar Vieira Junior (Salvador, 1979) é um escritor brasileiro. Formou-se em Geografia na Universidade Federal da Bahia, onde também concluiu mestrado. É doutor em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos pela Universidade Federal da Bahia com estudo sobre a formação de comunidades quilombolas no interior do Nordeste brasileiro. Em 2018, venceu o Prémio LeYa, com o romance “Torto Arado”.

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  Michel Alcoforado

  Antropólogo

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  Rubem Braga

  Rubem Braga was a notable Brazilian. He was born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim city, state of Espírito Santo, on January 12, 1913 and is one of the few writers to attain recognition among the Brazilian literary establishment by solely penning crônicas (periodical Brazilian short stories published in newspapers) throughout his career.
  
  Braga was raised in his hometown, but at an early age was sent to the city of Niterói by his parents, to live with relatives. He attended law school in Rio de Janeiro, but graduated in Minas Gerais, in the year of 1932, after having acted as a field reporter in the Diários Associados for the Revolta Constitucionalista.
  
  He was a correspondent in Italy for the Brazilian newspaper Diário Carioca during World War II. He

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