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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.

Born in Rīga in 1926, Zigmunds Skujiņš was one of the most outstand

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Jean Giono

Jean Giono, the only son of a cobbler and a laundress, was one of France’s greatest writers. His prodigious literary output included stories, essays, poetry, plays, film scripts, translations and over thirty novels, many of which have been translated into English.

Giono was a pacifist, and was twice imprisoned in France at the outset and conclusion of World War II.

He remained tied to Provence and Manosque, the little city where he was born in 1895 and, in 1970, died.

Giono was awarded the Prix Bretano, the Prix de Monaco (for the most outstanding
collected work by a French writer), the Légion d’Honneur, and he was
a member of the Académie Goncourt.

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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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Takiji Kobayashi

Takiji Kobayashi (小林多喜二) was a Japanese author of proletarian literature.

Kobayashi was born in Odate, Akita, Japan and was brought up in Otaru, Hokkaidō. After graduating from the Otaru School of Higher Learning, which is the current Otaru University of Commerce, he worked at the Otaru branch of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank. His most famous work is Kanikōsen, or Crab-Canning Boat – a novel published in 1929. It tells the story of several different people and the beginning of organization into unions of fishing workers. He joined the Japanese Communist Party in 1931. The young writer was killed during a torture session by Tokkō police two years later, at age 29.

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Johan Harstad

Johan Harstad is a Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award (Brageprisen), previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over 11 countries. In 2009, he was named the first ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All The Confusion, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was made into a TV series in 2009 starring The Wire’s Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo.

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Jan Brokken

A well-known journalist, Jan Brokken made his debut as a writer in 1984 with the largely autobiographical novel De provincie (The Province), the story of a youth spent in the countryside, which was made into a successful film. He has published gripping travel books about, among others, Africa, Indonesia and Curaçao, and is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling novels De blinde passagiers (The Blind Passengers, 1996), De droevige kampioen (The Sad Champion, 1998) and Jungle Rudy (2006). His work, which has been translated into several languages, has been compared in the international press to that of Graham Greene and Bruce Chatwin.

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Herman Koch

Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.

Koch was born in Arnhem, and later moved to Amsterdam. He studied Russian for some months, and lived in Finland for a while. Nowadays he is married to the Spanish Amalia, and has a son, Pablo (1994).

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Hanna Bervoets

Hanna Bervoets (1984, Amsterdam) is one of the most acclaimed Dutch authors of her generation. After earning her Bachelors degree in Cultural Studies and a Masters in Journalism & Research she published nine novels, several screenplays, plays and a short story collection. She also writes essays and reviews on media, tech, popular culture and (queer) representation.

Bervoets received numerous nominations and awards for her work. In 2017, she was granted the prestigious Frans Kellendonk Prize for her entire body of works. Her novels are being translated in many languages and were adapted for film and television. Excerpts and short stories were published on international platforms such as Five Dials and The Guardian.

During the spring of 2018 B

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Thomas Heerma van Voss

Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is een Nederlands schrijver. Hij is de zoon van het schrijvende echtpaar Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve en de broer van schrijver Daan Heerma van Voss.

Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is a Dutch writer. He is the son of a married couple, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve and a brother to author Daan Heerma van Voss

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Maarten Inghels

Maarten Inghels is a writer and poet.

Maarten Inghels debuteerde in 2008 met ‘Tumult’ in de Sandwich-reeks onder redactie van Gerrit Komrij en ontwikkelde zich sindsdien tot een originele kunstenaar, dichter en schrijver. Met zijn dichtbundel 'Contact' (De Bezige Bij) verbond hij poëzie, beeld en acties die ontstonden tijdens zijn Stadsdichterschap van Antwerpen. Maarten Inghels is een meervoudige winnaar van de Vincent Van Meenenprijs. Zijn roman 'Het mirakel van België' over zijn ervaringen met de grootste meesteroplichter ter wereld verschijnt in november 2021 bij Das Mag.

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Gerwin van der Werf

Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)

Van der Werf won de eerste editie van de Turing Nationale Gedichtenwedstrijd in 2010 voor het gedicht Misbruik.

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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.

Born in Rīga in 1926, Zigmunds Skujiņš was one of the most outstand

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Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.

She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).

Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer.

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Mathijs Deen

Mathijs Deen (1962) is een Nederlandse schrijver, radiomaker (VPRO-radioprogramma OVT) en voorlezer van audioboeken.

Voor Over Oude Wegen ontving Deen in 2018 de Halewijnprijs. Het Lichtschip (La Nave Faro) is door de havenautoriteiten van Livorno bekroond vanwege zijn verdienste als verspreider van kennis over de zeevaart.

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Joost Oomen

Dichter, spreker, muzikant.

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Lara Taveirne

Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder een lek dak, verstoken van luxe en lawaai, maar dicht bij de natuur. Zo nu en dan schrijft ze ook een roman, zoals De kinderen van Calais (winnaar Debuutprijs 2015) en Wolf (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs 2025).

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Lynette Noni

Australian author Lynette Noni studied journalism, academic writing, and human behaviour at university before venturing into the world of fiction. She is the #1 bestselling and award-winning author of THE PRISON HEALER series, THE MEDORAN CHRONICLES, and the WHISPER duology. To date, her books have sold more than one million copies in over 20 countries across the globe.

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Emy Koopman

Emy Koopman (born 1985) is a Dutch writer, journalist and presenter. She has written for De Groene Amsterdammer, de Volkskrant, de Correspondent and hard//hoofd.

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Beatriz Serrano

Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, SModa o Vogue. Actualmente, trabaja en El País. Además, junto al escritor Guillermo Alonso, codirige el pódcast Arsénico Caviar, que fue galardonado con el premio Ondas en la categoría de mejor conversacional.

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Manik Sarkar

Manik Sarkar (Groningen, 1973) is literair vertaler en schrijver. Zijn debuutroman Ossenkop verscheen in 2024. Hij publiceerde verhalen in o.a. Papieren Helden en Wobby. Manik vertaalde onder meer werk van Philippe Claudel, James Baldwin en Hisham Matar en is sinds een aantal jaar docent op de Vertalersvakschool.

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Saou Ichikawa

Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’s top literary awards. She has congenital myopathy and uses a ventilator and an electric wheelchair. Ichikawa lives outside Tokyo.

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Eva Hermans-Kroot

Eva Hermans-Kroot was a Dutch blogger and writer who shared her experiences with her terminal lung cancer via social media and television. She gained fame by sharing her experiences on Instagram and her participation in the television and radio programs.

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Safae el Khannoussi

Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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Luuk Imhann

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