Marlene van Niekerk

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  Alexander Strachan

  Alexander Strachan is 'n Afrikaanse skrywer. Hy matrikuleer in 1972 aan die Hoër Landbouskool Tweespruit. Hy studeer tale aan die Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat en later ook literatuur-wetenskap aan Unisa. Hy word 'n professor in Zoeloe aan die Universiteit van Zoeloeland; hy praat Zoeloe vlot. Ná sy bedanking skryf hy voltyds en sit sy wildboerdery voort.

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  P.G. du Plessis

  Pieter Georg du Plessis is op 14 Julie 1934 op Boshof in die Vrystaat gebore. Sy pa was vir veertig jaar onderwyser in Engels in die Vrystaat. Pieter, soos hy verkies om genoem te word, gaan skool op Cornelia en Heidelberg in Gauteng waar hy aan die Hoër Volkskool matrikuleer.
  
  Hy behaal die grade:
  BA -1955 -(Universiteit van Pretoria),
  Onderwysdiploma- 1957 - (Pretoriase Onderwyskollege),
  BA Honneurs - 1960- (Universiteit van die Witwatersrand)
  Phd -1966 - (Universiteit van die Witwatersrand)
  
  In sy beroepslewe maak hy 'n draai in die onderwys (Hoërskool Fakkel in Johannesburg), lektor by die Johannesburgse Onderwyskollege, senior lektor in Afrikaans en Nederlands by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand, Direkteur by die Instituut vir Taal, L

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  Ian McEwan

  Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
  
  McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P

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  Toni Morrison

  Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
  Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction a

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  J.M. Coetzee

  J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere prose and profound moral and philosophical depth, explore themes of colonialism, identity, power, and human suffering. Born and raised in South Africa, he later became an Australian citizen and has lived in Adelaide since 2002.
  Coetzee’s breakthrough novel, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), established him as a major literary voice, while Life & Times of Michael K (1983) won him the first of his two Booker Prizes. His best-known work, Disgrace (1999), a stark and unsettling examination of post-apartheid South Africa, secured his second Booker Pri

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  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
  
  His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia

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  Tim Winton

  Tim Winton was born in Perth, Western Australia, but moved at a young age to the small country town of Albany.
  
  While a student at Curtin University of Technology, Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer. It went on to win The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1981, and launched his writing career. In fact, he wrote "the best part of three books while at university". His second book, Shallows, won the Miles Franklin Award in 1984. It wasn't until Cloudstreet was published in 1991, however, that his career and economic future were cemented.
  
  In 1995 Winton’s novel, The Riders, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, as was his 2002 book, Dirt Music. Both are currently being adapted for film. He has won many other prizes, including the Miles

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  Antjie Krog

  Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from the University of Pretoria in 1976. With a teaching diploma from the University of South Africa (UNISA) she would lecture at a segregated teacher’s training college for black South Africans.
  
  She is married to architect John Samuel and has four children: Andries, Susan, Philip, and Willem. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

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  Deon Meyer

  Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
  
  After military duty and studying at the Potchefstroom University, he joined Die Volksblad, a daily newspaper in Bloemfontein as a reporter. Since then, he has worked as press liaison, advertising copywriter, creative director, web manager, Internet strategist, and brand consultant.
  
  Deon wrote his first book when he was 14 years old, and bribed and blackmailed his two brothers into reading it. They were not impressed (hey, everybody is a critic ...)
  Deon Meyer
  
  Heeding their wisdom, he did not write fiction again until he was in his early thirties, when he started publishi

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  Tayari Jones

  Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Silver Sparrow was named a #1 Indie Next Pick by booksellers in 2011, and the NEA added it to its Big Read Library of classics in 2016. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State Univers

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  Helen Garner

  Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.
  
  Her most recent books are The First Stone, True Stories, My Hard Heart, The Feel of Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In 2006 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Melbourne.
  
  Praise for Helen Garner's work
  
  'Helen Garner is an extraordinarily good writer. There is not a paragraph, let alone a page, where she does not compel your attention.'
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  'She is outstanding in the accuracy of her observations, the intensity of passio

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  Tommy Wieringa

  Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.

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  P.G. du Plessis

  Pieter Georg du Plessis is op 14 Julie 1934 op Boshof in die Vrystaat gebore. Sy pa was vir veertig jaar onderwyser in Engels in die Vrystaat. Pieter, soos hy verkies om genoem te word, gaan skool op Cornelia en Heidelberg in Gauteng waar hy aan die Hoër Volkskool matrikuleer.
  
  Hy behaal die grade:
  BA -1955 -(Universiteit van Pretoria),
  Onderwysdiploma- 1957 - (Pretoriase Onderwyskollege),
  BA Honneurs - 1960- (Universiteit van die Witwatersrand)
  Phd -1966 - (Universiteit van die Witwatersrand)
  
  In sy beroepslewe maak hy 'n draai in die onderwys (Hoërskool Fakkel in Johannesburg), lektor by die Johannesburgse Onderwyskollege, senior lektor in Afrikaans en Nederlands by die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand, Direkteur by die Instituut vir Taal, L

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  Katarina Wennstam

  Katarina Wennstam är en av Sveriges mest lästa författare med en bakgrund som kriminal­journalist i SVT. Som frontfigur i den svenska debatten om kvinnors rättig­heter och lika villkor har Wennstam ­varit avgörande för flera viktiga lagändringar, bland annat den nya samtyckes­lagen som trädde i kraft 2018. ­Sekelskiftesmorden innebär en vändning i Wennstams författarskap, utan att skifta fokus från ­kvinnofrågorna.
  
  Efter två decennier som journalist, ­författare och debattör i feministiska och kriminal­politiska frågor har Katarina idag en hög trovärdighet och en stor plattform på sociala medier. Hennes böcker har älskats av läsare och litteratur­kritiker och hennes första bok, Flickan och ­s­kulden, ­betraktas idag som en kultbok.
  

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  Gun-Britt Sundström

  Gun-Britt Sundström är en svensk författare, översättare och litteraturkritiker.
  
  Som författare är Sundström mest känd för Maken (1976), en diskussionsroman om parförhållanden, och För Lydia (1973), som återberättar Hjalmar Söderbergs Den allvarsamma leken med handlingen sedd ur kvinnans perspektiv och flyttad sextio år framåt i tiden. Sedan 90-talet är hon även verksam som översättare av barnböcker och skönlitteratur. Då hon 2003 utnämndes till hedersdoktor vid Stockholms universitet löd motiveringen bland annat: "hennes språkliga lyhördhet gör henne till en ypperlig översättare ... Genom sin medverkan i bibelkommissionen 1980-2000 har hon kommit att betyda mer för den stilistiska utformningen av Gamla Testamentets text än någon annan enski

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  Sally Andrew

  Sally Andrew lives in a mud-brick house on a nature reserve in the Klein Karoo, South Africa, with her partner, artist Bowen Boshier, and other wildlife (including a giant eland and a secretive leopard). She also spends time in the wilderness of southern Africa and the seaside suburb of Muizenberg. She has a Masters in Adult Education (University of Cape Town).
  
  For some decades she was a social and environmental activist, then the manager of Bowen’s art business, before she settled down to write full-time. Recipes for Love and Murder is her first novel. It will be published in at least twelve languages, across five continents.

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  Arjen Lubach

  Arjen Lubach (1979) debuteerde in 2006 met de roman Mensen die ik ken die mijn moeder hebben gekend, in 2008 gevolgd door het eveneens geprezen Bastaardsuiker. Zijn derde roman, Magnus, werd bekroond met de publieksprijs van de Dioraphte Jongerenliteratuurprijs.
  
  In 2013 verscheen IV, dat genomineerd werd voor De Gouden Strop 2013 en de Crimezone Debuutprijs won. In 2014 verscheen de midprice-editie, waar Lubach een nieuw einde voor schreef. Hij zei hierover: 'Ik heb geen spijt van het oude einde. Maar het nieuwe einde heeft meer te maken met de huidige situatie in de wereld en de wereld van het boek.'
  
  Sinds 2014 presenteert hij de razend populaire en alom geprezen satirische show Zondag met Lubach.

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  Karl Ove Knausgård

  Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize.
  
  Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.

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  Peter Buwalda

  Peter Buwalda is a Dutch writer. He was a journalist and an editor at several publishers. He was co-founder of literary music magazine Wah-Wah and wrote stories and essays for De Gids, Vrij Nederland, Bunker Hill and Hollands Maandblad. In September 2010 he made his debut with the novel Bonita Avenue. It received a magnificent reception and became a bestseller. It was awarded the Academica Debutantenprijs, the Selexyz Debuutprijs and the Tzumprijs and was nominated for nine awards including the AKO Literatuurprijs, the Libris Literatuur Prijs, the KANTL Proza Prijs, the NS Publieksprijs and De Gouden Strop 2011.
  
  The translation rights were sold to countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy and France.

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  Ocean Vuong

  Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the American Book Award and the MacArthur “Genius Grant," he has also worked as a line cook, tobacco harvester, nursing home volunteer, and fast-food server, the latter becoming inspiration for The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City.

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  Lina Wolff

  Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, was awarded the prestigious Vi magazine literature prize, given to writers to watch out for, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Swedish Radio award for Best Novel of the Year. She now lives with her family in Sweden.

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  Annika Norlin

  Stacken är Annika Norlins första roman. Novellsamlingen Jag ser allt du gör (2020) nominerades till Augustpriset, Borås Tidnings debutantpris, Norrlands litteraturpris och Katapultpriset för årets bästa skönlitterära debut.
  
  Annika Norlin är också låtskrivare och artist, som släpper musik under eget namn, samt i projekten Säkert! och Hello Saferide.
  

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  Stefan Ahnhem

  ”As a kid, I never dreamt of being a writer. Putting letters in the right order to form words did not come easily to me. In school, while the rest of my class had Swedish lessons, a strange-smelling lady would pull me out of the classroom to play with wooden blocks painted with colourful letters.
  
  For as long as I can remember, however, I have been a passionate storyteller. Growing up as an only child undoubtedly sparked my creativity, and all the hours spent playing by myself fed my vivid imagination. My grandfather’s rocking chair was a marvellous spacecraft able to transport me to all the planets in the universe. And the world map that my teacher stubbornly refused to pull down revealed precisely where the secret treasure was buried.
  
  From

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  Roxane van Iperen

  Roxane van Iperen (1976) is auteur en jurist. In 2016 verscheen haar debuutroman Schuim der aarde, waarmee ze de Hebban Debuutprijs won. In 2018 volgde 't Hooge Nest, waarvan tot op heden meer dan 275.000 exemplaren zijn verkocht. Het werd bekroond met de Opzij Literatuurprijs 2019 en stond op de shortlist van de NS Publieksprijs 2020. Elf landen verwierven de vertaalrechten, waaronder het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland, waar het boek ook de bestsellerlijsten haalde. De filmrechten zijn verkocht aan Man Up, het productiebedrijf van Carice van Houten en Halina Reijn. Van Iperen heeft een vaste column over macht in Vrij Nederland en schrijft voor diverse media.
  
  Roxane van Iperen (1976) is a lawyer and publicist. She writes for FD, NRC Handel

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  Andrev Walden

  Andrev Igor Walden, född 14 maj 1976 i Mariefred, Södermanlands län, är en svensk författare, journalist och illustratör. Han skriver för Dagens Nyheter. Walden tilldelades Augustpriset 2023 för sin romandebut Jävla karlar, som också blev det årets bäst säljande svenska roman.

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  Ruth Kvarnström-Jones

  Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor och slogans i butiksfönster.
  
  Vissa blir franko- eller anglofiler i tonåren. Andra, som Ruth Kvarnström-Jones, snöar in på Sverige.
  – Scoutföreningen i byn hade ett utbyte med Karlstadsscouterna och jag drömde om att lära mig svenska. Därför läste jag Scandinavian Studies i London och fick bo i Sverige ett halvt år redan första läsåret. Vilken sommar! Jag la alla pengar på svenska skivor, tidningar och glass.
  Framåt hösten tog hon tåget hem med alldeles för mycket bagage – bland annat en hel prinsesstårta – och kunde dessutom tala flytande svenska

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