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  Björn Larsson

  Björn Larsson född 1953 i Jönköping, är en svensk författare och professor i franska vid Lunds universitet.

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  Ken Greenhall

  Ken Greenhall was born in Detroit in 1928, the son of immigrants from England. He graduated from high school at age 15, worked at a record store for a time, and was drafted into the military, serving in Germany. He earned his degree from Wayne State University and moved to New York, where he worked as an editor of reference books, first on the staff of the Encyclopedia Americana and later for the New Columbia Encyclopedia. Greenhall had a longtime interest in the supernatural and took leave from his job to write his first novel, Elizabeth (1976), a tale of witchcraft published under his mother’s maiden name, Jessica Hamilton. Several more novels followed, including Hell Hound (1977), which was published abroad as Baxter and adapted for a cr

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  Joanna Quinn

  Joanna Quinn was born in London and grew up in Dorset, in the South West of England, where her debut novel The Whalebone Theatre is set.
  
  Joanna has worked in journalism and the charity sector. She is also a short story writer, published by The White Review and Comma Press among others. She teaches creative writing and lives in a village near the sea in Dorset.
  

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  Jane Robins

  Jane Robins began her career as a journalist with The Economist, The Independent, and the BBC. She has made a specialty of writing historical true crime and has a particular interest in the history of forensics. She has published three books of nonfiction in the UK, Rebel Queen (Simon & Schuster, 2006), The Magnificent Spilsbury (John Murray, 2010), and The Curious Habits of Doctor Adams (John Murray, 2013). More recently, she has been a Fellow at the Royal Literary Fund.

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  Déborah Danowski

  Déborah Danowski is a Professor of Philosophy at the PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro).

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  Lidia Ravera

  Lidia Ravera is an Italian writer, journalist, essayist and screenwriter. She became famous in 1976 for Porci con le ali, co-written by Marco Lombardo Radice, a novel dealing with the myths and ideals of the years around 1968.

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  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow.
  In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodg

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  Melissa Bank

  Melissa Bank was an American author. She published two books, "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a volume of short stories, and "The Wonder Spot," a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
  
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  Jessica Hamilton

  Jessica^^Hamilton
  
  Pseudonym for Ken Greenhall

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  Elif Batuman

  Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught.
  
  Batuman is currently the writer-in-residence at Koç University. While in graduate school, she studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, titled, "The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel," is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. In February 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with R

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  Romana Petri

  Romana Petri (Roma, 1965) è una scrittrice e traduttrice italiana.
  Figlia del cantante e attore Mario Petri, vive tra Roma e Lisbona. Insieme al marito Diogo Madre Deus dirige la casa editrice Cavallo di Ferro.
  Critica letteraria, traduttrice dal francese, dallo spagnolo, dal portoghese di autori come Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Alina Reyes, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Anne Wiazemsky, Helena Marques, Ana Nobre de Gusmão, Inês Pedrosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, ha recentemente tradotto dall'inglese "Il diario di Adamo ed Eva" di Mark Twain. Autrice di radiodrammi per la Rai, ha pubblicato diversi contributi per le testate Leggere, Nuovi Argomenti e l'Unità; collabora oggi con Il Messaggero e La Stampa. I suoi libri sono tradotti e pubblicati in Germania

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  Michael Frank

  Michael Frank’s essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, The TLS, and Tablet, among other publications. His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

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  Leonardo Caffo

  Leonardo Caffo (Catania, 1988) è un filosofo, scrittore, curatore editoriale e opinionista italiano. E' professore di Estetica della Moda, dei Media e del Design alla NABA di Milano, insegna inoltre Ecologia dell'Arte alla IULM sempre a Milano. In precedenza ha insegnato Filosofia Teoretica al Politecnico di Torino.
  Scrive sull'inserto culturale «la Lettura » del «Corriere della Sera».
  Tra i suoi ultimi libri: Il cane e il filosofo (Mondadori 2020) e Quattro capanne. O della semplicità (nottetempo 2020). Per Einaudi ha pubblicato La vita di ogni giorno (2016), Fragile umanità (2017), Vegan (2018) e Velocità di fuga (2022).

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  Giulia Caminito

  Giulia Caminito è nata a Roma nel 1988 e si è laureata in Filosofia politica. Ha esordito con il romanzo La Grande A (Giunti 2016, Premio Bagutta opera prima, Premio Berto e Premio Brancati giovani), seguito nel 2019 da Un giorno verrà (Bompiani, Premio Fiesole Under 40).
  
  

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  Goliarda Sapienza

  Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.
  
  

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  Pierre Boileau

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac.
  
  In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for Le Repos de Bacchus . It is given to the author of the best example of detective fiction in the world each year.
  
  He met Narcejac in 1948 at the awards dinner when Narcejac received the same award for one of his novels.

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  Selma Lagerlöf

  Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings". She later also became the first female member of the Swedish Academy.
  
  Born in the forested countryside of Sweden she was told many of the classic Swedish fairytales, which she would later use as inspiration in her magic realist writings. Since she for some of her early years had problems with her legs (she was born with a faulty hip) she would also spend a lot of time reading books such as the Bible.
  
  As a young woman she was a teacher in the southern parts of Sweden for ten years befo

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  Monica Brizzi

  Amo leggere un po’ di tutto, dai grandi classici alla fantascienza. Quando scrivo, però, finisco sempre per raccontare storie d’amore.
  
  
  

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  Grazia Deledda

  Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
  

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  Alessandro Piperno

  Alessandro Piperno (Roma, 25 marzo 1972) è uno scrittore italiano.
  Nato da padre ebreo e madre cattolica si è laureato in letteratura francese presso l'Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, dove ha insegnato a contratto la medesima materia ed è divenuto ricercatore dal 1º ottobre 2008. Nel 2000 ha pubblicato il controverso saggio critico "Proust antiebreo" sulla figura di Marcel Proust.
  Nel 2005 è giunto alla notorietà con la pubblicazione del suo primo romanzo Con le peggiori intenzioni. Sulla scia di una critica molto favorevole del giornalista Antonio D'Orrico del Corriere della Sera (che lo definisce "un nuovo Proust"), ottiene un grande successo di pubblico (quasi 200.000 copie vendute in pochi mesi) e vince il premio Campiello ope

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  Georges Rodenbach

  Georges Rodenbach was born in Tournai to a French mother and a German father from the Rhineland (Andernach). He went to school in Ghent at the prestigious Sint-Barbaracollege, where he became friends with the poet Emile Verhaeren. Rodenbach worked as a lawyer and journalist. He spent the last ten years of his life in Paris as the correspondent of the Journal de Bruxelles, and was an intimate of Edmond de Goncourt. He published eight collections of verse and four novels, as well as short stories, stage works and criticism. He produced some Parisian and purely imitative work; but a major part of his production is the outcome of a passionate idealism of the quiet Flemish towns in which he had passed his childhood and early youth. In his best k

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  Sayaka Murata

  Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
  She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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  Alba Donati

  Alba Donati, pseudonimo di Alba Franceschini (Lucca, 1960), è una poetessa e critica letteraria italiana. Vive tra Firenze e Lucignana, un borgo di 180 abitanti, dove ha aperto una libreria.
  Ha esordito su Poesia, nel 1993, nella rubrica di Milo De Angelis “I poeti di trent'anni”. Ha lavorato per Rai 3 e Rai Radio Tre ed ha tenuto per molto tempo rubriche di poesia su vari quotidiani.
  Ha pubblicato: "La Repubblica contadina" (City Lights, 1997, Premio Mondello Opera Prima e Premio Sibilla Aleramo); "Non in mio nome" (Marietti, 2004, Premio Diego Valeri, Premio Carducci, Premio Pasolini, Premio Cassola); "Idillio con cagnolino" (Fazi, 2013, Premio Lerici-Pea, Premio Dessì, Premio Ceppo).

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  Rebecca Kauffman

  Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She received her B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music in Violin Performance, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU. She currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
  

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  Alberto Moravia

  Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
  Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".

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  Kaho Nashiki

  Kaho Nashiki (Japanese: 梨木香歩 | Chinese: 梨木香步) (1959–) was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto. She writes for both children and adults, and much of her writing has fantasy-like motifs with religious or spiritual elements. Her 1994 novel about a girl and her grandmother, Nishi no majo ga shinda (The Witch of the West is Dead), received the JAWC New Talent Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award, and the Niimi Nankichi Children's Literature Award, becoming a huge bestseller that was adapted into a movie. Her other works include Uraniwa (Back Yard), which won the 1995 Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and Numachi no aru mori o nukete (Through the Swampy Woods), which garnered t

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  Helen McClory

  Helen McClory lives in Edinburgh and grew up between there and the isle of Skye. Her first collection, On the Edges of Vision, was published by Queen's Ferry Press in August 2015 and won the Saltire First Book of the Year 2015. Her second collection, Mayhem & Death, was written for the lonely and published in March 2018.
  
  There is a moor and a cold sea in her heart.
  

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  Amitav Ghosh

  Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
  Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.

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  Bianca Pitzorno

  Bianca Pitzorno (Sassari, 1942) è una scrittrice, autrice televisiva e traduttrice italiana. Celebre soprattutto come autrice di romanzi per ragazzi, dal 2000 è anche ambasciatrice UNICEF.
  
  Born in 1942, she's an Italian writer and screenwriter specialized in children literature.
  
  She graduated in Classic Literature, with a thesis on Prehistoric Archeology. For seven years she worked as a responsible for cultural children’s television programmes for the Italian public television (RAI). She also worked as an archeologist, theatre writer, screenwriter, lyricist and teacher.
  
  From 1970 to 2011 she published many assays and novels, for both kids and adults, translated in many countries all over Europe, America and Asia. She translated Tolkien, Sylvia

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  Viola Di Grado

  Viola Di Grado was born in Catania in 1987. She lived in Kyoto, Leeds and London, where she earned her MA in East Asian philosophies. Her widely translated first novel- Settanta acrilco trenta lana (70% Acrylic 30% Wool) published when she was 23- was the winner of the prestigious 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and the Rapallo Opera Prima Award. It was also longlisted for the Strega Award and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and journals.

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  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels, series of comic books, and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.

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  Laura Pugno

  Per diversi anni ha lavorato nelle redazioni di case editrici, riviste e siti web, soprattutto di cinema. È stata lettrice di sceneggiature, e consulente per la Rai.Ha tradotto più di una decina tra saggi e romanzi dall’inglese e dal francese e insegnato traduzione all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
  Collabora con le pagine culturali del «Manifesto» e con la Cronaca di Roma di «Repubblica».
  Nel 2001 ha raccolto le sue poesie, con alcune prose di Giulio Mozzi, in Tennis, Nuova Magenta Editrice. Il suo primo libro di racconti, Sleepwalking, è uscito nel 2002 per Sironi editore. Nel 2005 è stata finalista al premio di poesia Antonio Delfini e ha vinto il premio Scrivere Cinema all'Autumn Film Festival.
  Ad aprile 2007 pubblica il poemetto Il col

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  Marisha Pessl

  Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013.
  
  Marisha's Facebook:
  
  facebook.com/MarishaPesslOfficial
  
  

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  Fausta Cialente

  Fausta Terni Cialente was an Italian novelist, journalist and political activist. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize.
  
  Cialente's first novel Natalia, completed in 1927, treated the lesbian relationship of an unhappily married woman. It was published in Rome in 1930 and won the Dieci Savi Prize. When the initial print run of 3000 copies had been sold, her publisher wanted to print more copies but the censors in the Fascist regime asked for two sections of the book to be revised. Cialente refused and the book was not reprinted but in 1932 a French translation was published in France. In 1930 her short story "Marianna" was published in the literary magazine L'Italia Letteraria which was edited by Giambattista Angioletti. From 1940 she wrote

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  William Sloane

  Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  William^^Sloane

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  Lyndall Gordon

  Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) is a British-based writer and academic, known for her literary biographies. She is a Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
  
  Born in Cape Town, she was an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, then a doctoral student at Columbia University in New York City. She married the pathologist Siamon Gordon; they have two daughters.
  
  Gordon is the author of Eliot's Early Years (1977), which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature; and Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, shortlisted for the BBC Four S

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  Katia Tenti

  Katia Tenti è nata a Bolzano, dove vive ed è dirigente della Pubblica Amministrazione. Ha dedicato gran parte dei suoi studi all’approfondimento dei fenomeni di devianza sociale. Per diversi anni ha svolto la sua attività professionale nell’ambito dell’organizzazione dei servizi sociali. Ovunque tu vada è il suo primo romanzo.

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  Kazuo Kamimura

  Name (in native language) : 上村一夫

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  Rick Dufer

  Riccardo Dal Ferro è filosofo, scrittore ed esperto di comunicazione e divulgazione. Direttore della rivista di filosofia contemporanea ENDOXA, porta avanti il suo progetto di divulgazione culturale attraverso il suo canale Youtube “Rick DuFer” e lo show podcast “Daily Cogito”. Performer ed autore teatrale, ha girato l’Italia con i monologhi “Seneca nel Traffico” e “Quanti GIGA pesa Dio?”. Nel 2014 esce il suo romanzo d’esordio “I Pianeti Impossibili”; nel 2018 esce “Elogio dell’idiozia” (che vedrà una seconda edizione ampliata e rivista nel 2021); nel 2019 per edizioni De Agostini esce “Spinoza & Popcorn”, un saggio sulla filosofia pop; nel 2020 esce “I racconti della vera nuova carne” per Poliniani, raccolta di storie gotiche illustrate d

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  Jennifer duBois

  Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writer’s Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction. Jennifer earned a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Missouri Review, Salon, The Kenyon Review, Cosmopolitan, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, and has been a

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  Sacha Naspini

  Sacha Naspini was born in 1976 in Grosseto, a town in Southern Tuscany. He has worked as an editor, art director, and screenwriter, and is the author of numerous novels and short stories which have been translated into several languages. Nives is his first novel to appear in English.

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  Ferenc Karinthy

  Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He wrote more than a dozen novels. Epepe ("Metropole") and Budapesti Tavasz ("Spring Comes to Budapest") have been translated into English, as have two of his plays.
  
  Karinthy worked as a script editor for Nemzeti Színház and Madách Theatre, as well as theatres in Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen. Between 1957 and 1960, Karinthy translated a number of writers into Hungarian including Machiavelli and Molière. He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.

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  Austin Wright

  Austin McGiffert Wright was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.
  He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, Islandia. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943–1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959.
  
  He married Sara Hull Wright, in 1950. They had three children: Joanna Wright (died 2000), Katharine Wright of Berkeley, CA, and Margaret Wright, and two granddaughters, Madeline Giscombe and Elizabeth Perkins.

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  Nogaye Ndiaye

  Nogaye Ndiaye è nata in Italia da genitori di origine senegalese. Cresciuta in un paesino di provincia, ha assorbito tutto il pregiudizio che la nostra società riserva a chi è “straniero”. Laureata in giurisprudenza presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Ndiaye è curatrice del profilo instagram @leregoledeldirittoperfetto, nonché attivista e divulgatrice.

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  Fumi Saimon

  柴門ふみ in Japanese

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  Paolo Nori

  Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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  Nadia Terranova

  Nadia Terranova (1978) è nata a Messina e vive a Roma. Tra i suoi libri, Bruno. Il bambino che imparò a volare (Orecchio Acerbo 2012, illustrazioni di Ofra Amit) che ha vinto il Premio Napoli e il Premio Laura Orvieto ed è stato tradotto in Spagna. Collabora con «IL Magazine» e «pagina99». Gli anni al contrario (Einaudi Stile Libero 2015) è il suo primo romanzo.

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  Grazia Deledda

  Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
  

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  Alberto Moravia

  Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
  Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".

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  Elsa Morante

  Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
  She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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  Goliarda Sapienza

  Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.
  
  

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  Paolo Nori

  Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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  Andrea Bajani

  Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
  Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
  Nel 2011 vince il Premio Bagutta con il romanzo Ogni promessa.

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  Antonio Albanese

  Antonio Albanese, divenuto noto grazie alla esilarante galleria di personaggi di "Mai dire gol" negli anni '90 si è poi rivelato negli anni successivi uno degli attori più interessanti del panorama comico italiano. E non solo comico, perché la sua carriera inizia come attore drammatico e le sue doti in questo campo non sono certo da trascurare.
  
  Nato ad Olginate (Lecco) il 10 ottobre 1964 da una famiglia di origine siciliana, Antonio Albanese si iscrive alla Civica Scuola d'Arte Drammatica di Milano, dove si diploma nel 1991.
  
  Debutta come attore di cabaret al teatro Zelig di Milano, partecipa al "Maurizio Costanzo Show", al varietà condotto da Paolo Rossi "Su la testa...!" (1992), alla trasmissione "Mai dire gol" (1993): in quest'ultima, mette

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  Michela Murgia

  Michela Murgia è nata a Cabras nel 1972 ed è stata a lungo animatrice in Azione Cattolica. Ha fatto studi teologici ed è socia onoraria del Coordinamento teologhe italiane. Ha pubblicato nel 2006 Il mondo deve sapere che ha ispirato il film Tutta la vita davanti e nel 2009 il bestseller Accabadora, vincitore del Premio Campiello 2010.

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  Antonio Manzini

  Antonio Manzini (Roma, 1964) è un attore, sceneggiatore, regista e scrittore italiano.
  
  Antonio Manzini is an Italian actor, director, novelist and scriptwriter.

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  Laura Pugno

  Per diversi anni ha lavorato nelle redazioni di case editrici, riviste e siti web, soprattutto di cinema. È stata lettrice di sceneggiature, e consulente per la Rai.Ha tradotto più di una decina tra saggi e romanzi dall’inglese e dal francese e insegnato traduzione all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
  Collabora con le pagine culturali del «Manifesto» e con la Cronaca di Roma di «Repubblica».
  Nel 2001 ha raccolto le sue poesie, con alcune prose di Giulio Mozzi, in Tennis, Nuova Magenta Editrice. Il suo primo libro di racconti, Sleepwalking, è uscito nel 2002 per Sironi editore. Nel 2005 è stata finalista al premio di poesia Antonio Delfini e ha vinto il premio Scrivere Cinema all'Autumn Film Festival.
  Ad aprile 2007 pubblica il poemetto Il col

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  Nadia Terranova

  Nadia Terranova (1978) è nata a Messina e vive a Roma. Tra i suoi libri, Bruno. Il bambino che imparò a volare (Orecchio Acerbo 2012, illustrazioni di Ofra Amit) che ha vinto il Premio Napoli e il Premio Laura Orvieto ed è stato tradotto in Spagna. Collabora con «IL Magazine» e «pagina99». Gli anni al contrario (Einaudi Stile Libero 2015) è il suo primo romanzo.

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  Kaho Nashiki

  Kaho Nashiki (Japanese: 梨木香歩 | Chinese: 梨木香步) (1959–) was born in Kagoshima Prefecture and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto. She writes for both children and adults, and much of her writing has fantasy-like motifs with religious or spiritual elements. Her 1994 novel about a girl and her grandmother, Nishi no majo ga shinda (The Witch of the West is Dead), received the JAWC New Talent Award, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award, and the Niimi Nankichi Children's Literature Award, becoming a huge bestseller that was adapted into a movie. Her other works include Uraniwa (Back Yard), which won the 1995 Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and Numachi no aru mori o nukete (Through the Swampy Woods), which garnered t

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  Rebecca Kauffman

  Rebecca Kauffman is originally from rural northeastern Ohio. She received her B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music in Violin Performance, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from NYU. She currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
  

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  Jude Ellison S. Doyle

  Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York.
  
  Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. He is the author of "Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why" (Melville House 2016), which has been called "smart, funny and fearless" (Boston Globe), "compelling" and "persuasive" (New York Times Book Review). The Atlantic predicted that "Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon." Doyle’s second book, "Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power" (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brav

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  Jessica Hamilton

  Jessica^^Hamilton
  
  Pseudonym for Ken Greenhall

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  Roberta Recchia

  Laureata in Lingue e Letterature Europee e Americane, fino a dieci anni fa ha lavorato in un’azienda leader nel ramo delle spedizioni internazionali. Nel 2013 ha deciso di abbandonare il lavoro d’ufficio per dedicarsi all’insegnamento, per cui ha scoperto una profonda passione. Oggi è docente di lingua inglese in una scuola superiore romana.
  Vive con il suo adorato chihuahua, Claudio, in una piccola città sul litorale laziale.
  Scrive da sempre, ma l’idea di pubblicare le sue storie era sempre rimasta un sogno nel cassetto. Nel 2023 ha deciso che era tempo di aprire quel cassetto.

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  Elisabetta Rasy

  Elisabetta Rasy è una giornalista, scrittrice e saggista italiana.
  
  Elisabetta Rasy is an Italian journalist, writer and essayist.

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  Claudia Durastanti

  Claudia Durastanti è una scrittrice e traduttrice italiana. Si laurea in antropologia culturale all'Università La Sapienza di Roma, per poi proseguire gli studi alla De Montfort University di Leicester e tornando a La Sapienza per un master in editoria e giornalismo.
  
  Ha lavorato come consulente editoriale per il Salone del libro di Torino e ha cofondato il Festival Italian of Literature in London.
  
  Ha esordito nel 2010 con il romanzo Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra vincendo il Premio Mondello Giovani, il Premio Castiglioncello Opera Prima ed arrivando in finale al Premio John Fante.
  
  Traduttrice presso Marsilio e minimum fax, ha in seguito pubblicato i romanzi A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate nel 2013 e tre anni dopo Cleopatr

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  Sady Doyle

  Sady Doyle is better known as Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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  Beijing Tongzhi

  Beijing tong zhi (北京同志) is the anonymous author of the work known in English as Beijing Comrades or Beijing Story (北京故事). The novel was adapted into the film 藍宇 [Lan Yu] directed by Stanley Kwan.
  
  The pseudonymous author's real-world identity has been a subject of debate since the story was first published on a gay Chinese website over a decade ago. The author is known variously as Bei Tong, Beijing Comrade, Tongzhi, Beijing tong zhi, Xiao He, and Miss Wang.

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  Andrea Donaera

  Andrea Donaera (Maglie, 1989) vive a Bologna. È laureato in Scienze della Comunicazione presso l’Università del Salento, dove è segretario del Centro di ricerca “PENS: Poesia Contemporanea e Nuove Scritture”.Dal 2016 dirige la collana di poesia Billie della casa editrice ‘Round Midnight. È il direttore artistico del festival letterario “Poié” di Gallipoli, e del Festival della poesia dialettale “Oju lampante”. Dal 2017 collabora con il magazine di approfondimento culturale “Midnight”, curando la rubrica Urban dedicata alla giovane poesia italiana. Ha pubblicato alcune raccolte di poesia.
  Io sono la bestia è il suo primo romanzo.

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  Andrea Morstabilini

  Andrea Morstabilini was born in Lodi, in the misty middle of the Po Valley, in Northern Italy, in 1983. He studied Modern Literature at the University of Milan with a thesis on the Fantastic in late 19th century Italian literature. He (predictably) loves Gothic novels and architecture, the theatre, cats, and cemeteries. A Blood as Bright as the Moon, forthcoming from Titan Books, is his English-language debut. He is the author of two previous novels in Italian and various essays and short stories. He also works as an editor. He lives in Milan, and sometimes Kraków, with his husband.

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  Eishes Chayil

  Eishes Chayil is a pseudonym for a descendant of some of the main founders and leaders of Chassidut in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Poland. She was raised in a world of Chassidic schools, synagogues, and summer camps. She works as a journalist for two international orthodox papers located in Brooklyn, New York.

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  Franco Berrino

  Franco Berrino è un medico ed epidemiologo italiano.
  Laureatosi in medicina e chirurgia magna cum laude all'Università degli Studi di Torino nel 1969 e specializzatosi in anatomia patologica, si è poi dedicato soprattutto all'epidemiologia dei tumori. Dal 1975 al 2015 ha lavorato all'Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, dove ha diretto il Dipartimento di medicina preventiva e predittiva.
  Autore di molte pubblicazioni scientifiche, ha collaborato al Food, nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of cancer,pubblicato nel 2007 dal World Cancer Research Fund International. Suoi interventi particolarmente significativi sono lo studio per lo sviluppo dei registri tumori in Italia, la collaborazione al progetto europeo sulla sopravvivenza

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