Michel Benoît
Michel Benoît (a nom de plume) is a religious scolar and novelist. After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology, he entered the Benedictine order as an unordained monk at the abbey of Saint Benoît sur Loire (from which he took his pen name), remaining a monk for twenty-two years. Because of his ideological non-conformity, he eventually left the Catholic Church and decided to devote himself to research and writing. His first book, Prisoner of God, an autobiographical account of his lfe in the monastery, became an international bestseller when it was published in 1992. This was followed by two religious essays, a travel book based on a trip to India, and then the thriller The Thirteenth Apostle, which although fiction, is claimed to be derived from
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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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David B. Gil (Cádiz, 1979) es licenciado en Periodismo, posgraduado en Diseño Multimedia y máster en Dirección de Redes Sociales. Ha trabajado como redactor editorial para DC Comics en España y Latinoamérica y ha sido responsable de comunicación en diferentes organizaciones políticas, además de redactor en varios medios de comunicación. Autopublicó 'El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo', que fue finalista del Premio Fernando Lara y primera obra autoeditada en ganar un Premio Hislibris de Novela Histórica. Actualmente publicada por Suma de Letras (2017), continúa siendo la ficción histórica mejor valorada por los lectores de Amazon España. Su segundo trabajo, 'Hijos del dios binario' (Suma, 2016), fue finalista del premio Ignotus y elegida com
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Dolores Redondo Meira (born 1 February 1969) is a Spanish writer of noir novels, author of the Baztán Trilogy, and winner of the 2016 Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize.
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Dolores Redondo began studying for her law degree at the University of Deusto, though she did not complete it. She studied gastronomy in San Sebastián, worked in several restaurants, and had her own before devoting herself professionally to literature. She has lived in the comarca of Ribera Navarra [es] in Cintruénigo since 2006.
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
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He quit in 2007, just shy of his fortieth birthday, to try and focus more on writing. His first book, Sanctus, became the biggest selling debut thriller of 2011 in the UK and also an international bestseller, translated into 27 languages and published in over 50 countries.
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Patrick es padre de tres hijos. Piloto de formación y experto consultor de negocios de grandes empresas internacionales. Fue piloto profesional, hasta un siniestro, y ahora trabaja como consultor, además de estar particularmente interesado en la historia religiosa.
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A debutat cu romanul Pânza de păianjen, fiind susținută de scriitori faimoși ai epocii, ca Liviu Rebreanu, Mihail Sebastian și Camil Petrescu. În anul 1977 a publicat la editura Cartea Românească un volum autobiografic intitulat Pe firul de păianjen al memoriei. -
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Su adolescencia transcurrió entre Buenos Aires y San Luís donde estudió bachillerato técnico, mientras ayudaba a su padre en la pizzería “El Vesubio” atendiendo las mesas o haciendo pizzas. Desde esa época aprendió el arte d -
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He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in