Matt Killeen
MATT KILLEEN was born in Birmingham, in the UK, back when trousers were wide and everything was brown. Early instruction in his craft included being told that a drawing of a Cylon exploding isn't writing and copying out your mother's payslip isn't an essay "about my family". Several alternative careers beckoned, some involving laser guns and guitars, before he finally returned to words and attempted to make a living as an advertising copywriter and largely ignored music and sports journalist. He now writes for the world's best loved toy company, as it wasn't possible to be an X-wing pilot. Married to his Nuyorican soul mate, he is parent to both an unfeasibly clever teenager and a toddler who is challenging his father's antiestablishment cr
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Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. His most recent book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), w
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921 – 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
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Dürrenmatt was born in the Emmental (canton of Bern), the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather Ulrich Dürrenmatt was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935. Dürrenmatt began to study philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Zurich in 1941, but moved to the University of Bern after one semester. In 1943 he decided to become an author and dramatist and dropped his academic career. In 1945-46, he wrote his first play, "It is written". On October 11 1946 he married actress Lotti Geissler. She died in 1983 and Dürrenmatt was married again to another actress, Charlotte Kerr, the following year.
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Phil Earle
Phil was born in Hull in 1974, and he studied English and Drama at Hull University. He worked for a year as a carer in a children’s home, then after training as a drama therapist, he worked in a therapeutic community in London, which cared for multiply abused adolescents. Then, changing tack completely, he chose a marginally more sedate life as a children’s bookseller. It was here that he developed an obsession for kid’s literature, in particular, young adult fiction.
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After three years at Ottakar’s, he became a sales rep, and then a key account manager for Transworld/Random House, and is now sales director at Simon and Schuster Children’s Books.
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Katarzyna Berenika Miszczuk
Lekarka, absolwentka Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego. Debiutancką powieść Wilk napisała w wieku piętnastu lat, a wydała trzy lata później (2006). W 2009 roku ukazała się kontynuacja tej książki - Wilczyca. Autorka została za nią nominowana do nagrody Nautilus, przyznawanej przez czytelników w corocznym plebiscycie na najlepszy polski utwór literacki z gatunku fantastyki. Wilczyca zdobyła w nim piąte miejsce. W Wydawnictwie W.A.B. pisarka opublikowała trylogię, na którą składają się powieści: Ja, diablica (2010), Ja, anielica (2011) oraz Ja, potępiona (2012).
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Holly Bourne
Holly started her writing career as a news journalist, where she was nominated for Best Print Journalist of the Year. She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health.
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Inspired by what she saw, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling, award-winning ‘Spinster Club’ series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, 'How Do You Like Me Now?', examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark.
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Polski prozaik, reportażysta, krytyk literacki i scenarzysta filmowy.
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Ukończył filologię polską (1964 r.) na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, po maturze w siedleckim Liceum im. S. Żółkiewskiego (1959 r.). Debiutował jako krytyk filmowy w tygodniku "Dookoła Świata". Jako reportażysta debiutował na łamach tygodnika "Życie Literackie". W latach 1964-1970 był redaktorem Wytwórni Filmowej "Czołówka", w następnych latach pracował w redakcjach m.in. "Walki Młodych", "Prawa i Życia", "Ekspress Reporterów", "Sztandaru Młodych" oraz "Głosu Nauczycielskiego". Otrzymał wiele nagród klubowych Stowarzyszenia Dziennikarzy Polskich oraz w konkursach na reportaż, organizowanych przez redakcje czasopism.
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After art college and film school, Peter worked as an animator on commercials, pop videos, and two BAFTA-winning children’s TV shows, and wrote and directed several successful short films.
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Katherine studied Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis and Chinese literature and language at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has worked at an international translation company, a technology startup, and a reading charity. She now writes full time.
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His debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the national Summer Reading Challenge. The Memory Thieves was an Observer Book of the Month and a World Book Day Summer Read, while Furthermoor was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. Darren’s stories have won awards and been translated into several languages. He’s been nominated twice for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
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She started writing when she was six.
She started hiding her writing when she was seven.
She was forced out of the writing closet when she was 35. One of her favourite activities is talking to teenagers about writing because she was too shy to do this when she was young.
She studied at Queens University Belfast, where she did two degrees. For fun. She currently lives with her husband Michael and their ancient VW campervan Gerda.
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Hania Czaban
Z książek nauczyła się marzyć. Niesamowite historie tańczą w jej głowie od najmłodszych lat. Na co dzień Hania dzieli swój czas pomiędzy czytanie, pisanie i… robienie zadań z matematyki. Wiele osób mówi jej, że powinna skupić się na szkole, ale ona potrafi znaleźć w życiu równowagę. Z literaturą nie rozstaje się ani na krok, choć fascynuje ją też fizyka, a kosmos wcale nie jest jej straszny. (Nie wie, jak połączy te wszystkie zainteresowania ze studiowaniem ekonomii, które ma w planach, ale pracuje nad tym!) Dla tej dziewczyny wszystko jest możliwe. Cały ten czas to jej literacki debiut!
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Dale A. Jenkins
Dale Jenkins has had a lifelong interest in the Navy and international affairs. He is a former US Navy officer who served on a destroyer in the Pacific and for a time was home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan. Pacific Fleet commitments took him to the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. While on active duty, he was awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. His business career was primarily in international banking, and he was also a staff director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dale currently serves on the Samuel Eliot Morison Committee of the Naval Order of the United Sates, New York, and as a Regional Director of the Naval War College Foundation. As a result of his active-duty experience and new
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Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
Writing was always something I intended to do eventually.
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I WANT TO WRITE HERE ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED during and after writing 'A Man Who Seemed Real'. Call it strange, reassuring, disturbing, striking …
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Charles Benoit
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Kathryn Evans
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