María Belmonte
María Belmonte Barrenechea (Bilbao, España,1953) es una escritora, traductora, investigadora española e intérprete de catalán y español.
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Edward Dolnick
Edward Dolnick is an American writer, formerly a science writer at the Boston Globe. He has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post, among other publications. His books include Madness on the Couch : Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis (1998) and Down the Great Unknown : John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon (2001).
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May Sarton
May Sarton was born on May 3, 1912, in Wondelgem, Belgium, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her first volume of poetry, Encounters in April, was published in 1937 and her first novel, The Single Hound, in 1938. An accomplished memoirist, Sarton boldly came out as a lesbian in her 1965 book Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. Her later memoir, Journal of a Solitude, was an account of her experiences as a female artist. Sarton died in York, Maine, on July 16, 1995.
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
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Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
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Mircea Cărtărescu
Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
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Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.
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Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That -
Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick is the author of, among other books, the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments and three essay collections: The End of the Novel of Love, Approaching Eye Level, and, most recently, The Men in My Life. She lives in New York City.
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Lucía Lijtmaer
Lucía Lijtmaer Paskvan (1977, Buenos Aires, Argentina) es una periodista y escritora nacida en Argentina y criada en Barcelona ciudad donde se exiliaron sus padres. Es especialista en cultura pop desde la perspectiva de género.
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Carlos García Gual
Carlos García Gual (Palma de Mallorca 1943): a Spanish writer, philologist, hellenist, editor, mythographer and critic.
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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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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.
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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.
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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. -
Antonio Scurati
Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche del linguaggio televisivo. Nel 2005 Scurati diviene Ricercatore in Cinema, Fotografia, Televisione. Nel 2008 si trasferisce alla Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM di Milano, dove svolge l'attività di ricercatore e docente titolare nell'ambito del Laboratorio di Scrittura Creativa e del Laboratorio di Oralità e Retorica.
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Milena Busquets
Milena Busquets was born in Barcelona in 1972. She attended the Lycée Français de Barcelone and obtained a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in University College London. She worked for many years at Editorial Lumen, the publishing house that her family had set up in the early 1960s and that was sold to Random House forty years later. She later founded her own publishing house, wrote a first novel, worked for a gossip magazine and in PR for a fashion brand and currently works as a journalist and as a translator.
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Sara Mesa
Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan (forthcoming from Open Letter). Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.
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Sergio del Molino
Sergio del Molino (Madrid, 1979) es autor de La hora violeta, novela por la que recibió el Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa 2013 y el Premio Tigre Juan 2013, entre otros, y que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas. Desde su debut literario, en 2009, ha publicado la colección de relatos Malas influencias (2009), el ensayo literario Soldados en el jardín de la paz (2009), una antología de sus textos periodísticos más personales, El restaurante favorito de Nina Hagen (2011), la que fue su primera novela No habrá más enemigo (2012) y Lo que a nadie le importa (2014), que anticipa en clave narrativa algunos temas que aparecen en La España vacía, su primer gran ensayo.
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Pedro Olalla
Pedro Olalla González de la Vega (Oviedo, España, 1966) es escritor, helenista, profesor, traductor y cineasta, y en estos campos desarrolla su actividad profesional en colaboración con editoriales e instituciones educativas y culturales de diversos países del mundo. Desde hace más de treinta y cinco años, mantiene una intensa relación con Grecia, país en el que se inició en el helenismo y en el que, en 1994, fijó su residencia. Sus obras literarias y audiovisuales exploran y dan a conocer la cultura griega y humanista combinando elementos literarios, plásticos y científicos mediante un lenguaje marcadamente personal. En el ámbito social, el autor defiende activamente mediante sus escritos, iniciativas, conferencias e intervenciones pública
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Eva García Sáenz
Aviso importante sobre suplantación de identidad
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Desde el equipo de Eva García Sáenz de Urturi queremos aclarar que los mensajes supuestamente enviados vía Goodreads y correo electrónico realizando comentarios positivos a novelas de autores noveles son falsos.
Se trata de un caso de suplantación de identidad online, un problema que lamentablemente está afectando últimamente no solo a Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, sino también a otros escritores y agentes literarios.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi no ha enviado esos correos ni mensajes privados.
Estos intentos de contacto pueden llevar a enlaces fraudulentos o incluso a intentos de extorsión para recuperar cuentas.
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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.
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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. -
Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1988. She has published novels, short stories, and poems, earning her nominations and accolades in various literary contests. In 2017, she was listed in Bogotá39 by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American fiction writers under forty. In 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in the Netherlands. In 2021, Granta magazine named her one of the best Spanish-language authors under 35.
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Ojeda stands out as one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin American fiction literature. The author is renowned for her skill in crafting intense and unsettling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human psychology. Her stories often explore themes such as abuse, obsess -
Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
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David Uclés
DAVID UCLÉS (Úbeda, 1990), licenciado y máster en Traducción e Interpretación por francés, alemán e inglés, es, además, escritor, músico y dibujante. Ha publicado las novelas La península de las casas vacías (Siruela/Premio Cálamo Mejor Libro 2024), Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) y El llanto del león (Premio Complutense de Literatura). Fue galardonado con las becas Leonardo y Montserrat Roig. En sus obras predomina el realismo mágico.
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Ha trabajado en Alemania, Suiza y Francia, y ha escrito para Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, La Vanguardia, Revista L y Actúa. También ha participado en varios festivales literarios: Centroamérica Cuenta, Festival 42, FLEM, Book Friday y Literaktum, y clausuró la Biennal de Pensament de Barcelona.
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Pol Guasch
Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is a poet and member of the cultural production company La Sullivan. He earned an undergraduate degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (University of Barcelona), holds a master’s degree in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity (UB), and he completed the Independent Studies Program at MACBA.
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He has been an associate professor of literature and cultural critique at the UB and is currently researching contemporary theory and literature at King’s College London, thanks to a grant.
He has published the novel Napalm al cor, winner of the Premi Llibres Anagrama 2021.
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Susan Fenimore Cooper
Susan Fenimore Cooper was an American writer, best known for her nature diary Rural Hours. She was the daughter of James Fenimore Cooper.
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Gilles Clément
Gilles Clément is a French gardener, garden designer, botanist, entomologist and writer. He has gained attention for his design of public parks in France, such as Parc André-Citroën. In 1998, he was the recipient of France's National Landscape Prize.
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Nuccio Ordine
Nuccio Ordine was an Italian author and philosopher, professor of literature at the University of Calabria. He was one of the world's top experts on Renaissance and the philosopher Giordano Bruno.
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Jean-Philippe Postel
Jean-Philippe Postel worked as a physician from 1979 till 2014.
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Pedro Olalla
Pedro Olalla González de la Vega (Oviedo, España, 1966) es escritor, helenista, profesor, traductor y cineasta, y en estos campos desarrolla su actividad profesional en colaboración con editoriales e instituciones educativas y culturales de diversos países del mundo. Desde hace más de treinta y cinco años, mantiene una intensa relación con Grecia, país en el que se inició en el helenismo y en el que, en 1994, fijó su residencia. Sus obras literarias y audiovisuales exploran y dan a conocer la cultura griega y humanista combinando elementos literarios, plásticos y científicos mediante un lenguaje marcadamente personal. En el ámbito social, el autor defiende activamente mediante sus escritos, iniciativas, conferencias e intervenciones pública
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Rafael Argullol
Rafael Argullol Murgadas (Barcelona, 1949), narrador, poeta y ensayista, es catedrático de Estética y Teoría de las Artes en la Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Es autor de más de treinta libros en distintos ámbitos literarios. Entre ellos: poesía (Disturbios del conocimiento, Duelo en el Valle de la Muerte, El afilador de cuchillos), novela (Lampedusa, El asalto del cielo, Desciende, río invisible, La razón del mal, Transeuropa, Davalú o el dolor, Pasión del dios que quiso ser hombre) y ensayo (La atracción del abismo, El Héroe y el Único, El fin del mundo como obra de arte, Aventura: Una filosofía nómada, Manifiesto contra la servidumbre, Maldita perfección. Escritos sobre el sacrificio y la celebración de la bellez
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Cecilia Samartin
I was born in Cuba at the height of the revolution. My family left when I was nine months old so I have no memories of my own, although I "borrowed" countless memories from my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
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I grew up in a quiet Los Angeles suburb and secretly dreamed of becoming a writer, but after high school I decided to study psychology instead and became a marriage and family therapist. I'm glad I did because my experience as a therapist is what finally inspired me to face my fears, and embrace my dream of becoming a writer.
Most of my clients over the years have been immigrants like me so many of my stories reflect the themes of lost homeland, and the search for meaning/identity in a new world.
I think of myself m