Nathalie Léger
Nathalie Léger is an award-winning French author living in Paris, as well as an editor, an archivist and a curator. Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden won the prestigious Prix du livre Inter 2012, voted for by readers across France. Other works include L’Exposition (2008), a semi-fictionalised essay about the enigmatic Countess of Castiglione, the most photographed woman in late 19th century Paris; and Les Vies Silencieuses de Samuel Beckett (2006). She curated the 2002 exhibition on Roland Barthes and the 2007 exhibition on Samuel Beckett, both at the Pompidou Centre. Since 2013 she has been the Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine (IMEC), a unique cultural institute dedicated to the archives of 20th and 21st cent
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Gemma Urraka
Gemma Urraka nació en San Sebastián, España. Aprendió a leer a escondidas y por su cuenta cuando tenía apenas cuatro años. Estudió Comunicación Audiovisual y Filología Inglesa en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, aunando así sus dos pasiones: el cine y la literatura.
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Escribió para la revista Rolling Stone; actualmente es programadora de cine para Warner Bros. Discovery.
Obsesionada por el vínculo entre imagen y palabra, anda siempre con la cámara al cuello, rebuscando fotos antiguas en mercadillos de segunda mano. Ha publicado Las vidas secretas (Niña Loba, 2020). En el año 2023 ganó el Premio La Bestia Equilátera de novela con Un instante en la oscuridad. También escribe poesía y ensayo. -
Elizabeth Smart
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels, produced by Maya Gallus. -
Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin worked as a journalist before turning to non-fiction and, later, memoir. She has served as arts editor of the New Statesman and deputy arts editor of the Evening Standard and has written features and book reviews for most of the broadsheet papers. Her first book Living at the End of the World (1998) looked at the mass psychology of millenarians. Rocket Dreams (2003), an offbeat elegy to the end of the space age, is at the same time a story about coming of age in the 1970s, while Last Days in Babylon (2007) blends memoir, political commentary and travelogue to explore the story of the Jews of Iraq.
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Suzanne Scanlon
Suzanne Scanlon is the author of two works of fiction, the critically acclaimed Promising Young Women (Dorothy 2012) and the experimental novel Her 37th Year, An Index (Noemi 2015). Her first work of nonfiction, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen, is forthcoming from Vintage and John Murray in the UK. Scanlon has taught at conferences and colleges nationwide; and has been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ox-Bow Artists Residency, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is the recipient of an MFA from Northwestern University and teaches creative writing at Northwestern and the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Granta, Fence, Harper’s Bazaar, the Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Re
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Joy Williams
Williams is the author of four novels. Her first, State of Grace (1973), was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her first collection of short stories was Taking Care, published in 1982. A second collection, Escapes, followed in 1990. A 2001 essay collection, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Honored Guest, a collection of short stories, was published in 2004. A 30th anniversary reprint of The Changeling was issued in 2008 with an introduction by the American novelist Rick Moody.
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Sabrina Orah Mark
Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of Wild Milk, a collection of fiction, as well as two collections of poetry, The Babies and Tsim Tsum. Happily, which began as a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood inThe Paris Review, is now out from Random House. She has received fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She lives in Athens, Georgia. You can read more about her teaching and her writing at www.sabrinaorahmark.com
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Joanna Walsh
JOANNA WALSH is a British writer. Her work has appeared in Granta Magazine, gorse journal, The Stinging Fly, and many others and has been anthologized in Dalkey's Best European Fiction 2015, Best British Short Stories 2014 and 2015, and elsewhere. Vertigo and Hotel were published internationally in 2015. Fractals, was published in the UK in 2013, and Hotel was published internationally in 2015. She writes literary and cultural criticism for The Guardian, The New Statesman, and others, is edits at 3:am Magazine, and Catapult, and created and runs the Twitter hashtag #readwomen, heralded by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers.”
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Whiting Awards, 5 Under 35
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Education: Brown University, University of California San Diego
Nominations: PEN/Open Book, Emerging Author
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is an award-winning Iranian-American author. Her 2018 novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the John Gardner Award for Fiction, and was long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award.
Oloomi is also the author of Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project). She is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Fiction to Catalonia, Spain. Her work has appeared in Th -
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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Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He is the author of Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, Ways of Going Home, My Documents, Multiple Choice, Not to Read, Chilean Poet and Childish Literature. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper's, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s, among other places.
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Violaine Bérot
Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Bérot, puéricultrice et auteur de livres jeunesse.
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En 1994, elle publie son premier roman, Jehanne. Dans Léo et Lola paru en 1996, elle aborde le thème de l'inceste. En 1999, avec Tout pour Titou, elle « écrit un roman d'une rare noirceur », selon Claude Mesplède. Notre père qui êtes odieux, publié en 2000, est un roman de la série du Poulpe qui se déroule dans les Pyrénées de son enfance. -
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and been translated into 20 languages. Fever Dream is her first novel and is longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.
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Socorro Venegas
Es escritora y editora mexicana. Entre sus libros están las novelas La noche será negra y blanca (2009, Premio Nacional de Novela Ópera Prima «Carlos Fuentes» y mención especial en el Premio de Literatura «Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz» que otorga la FIL Guadalajara) y Vestido de novia (2014); los libros de cuentos Todas las islas (2002, Premio Nacional de Cuento «Benemérito de América»), La muerte más blanca (2000) y La risa de las azucenas (1997). Sus cuentos se han traducido al inglés y al francés, y han sido recogidos en varias antologías. Fue escritora residente en el Writters Room de Nueva York, becaria del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Escribe la columna «Modo Avión» en la revista electró
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Federico Falco
Federico Falco is the author of four collections of short stories, a book of poems, and two novels: Cielos de Córdoba (Córdoba Skies, 2011) and Los Llanos (The Plains, 2020). He holds a BA in Communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2010 Granta selected him as one of the Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and in 2017 A Perfect Cemetery was finalist for the García Márquez Short Story Prize. During 2012 he was writer in residence at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. Falco currently is the short story editor at Chai Editora, dedicated to international contemporary fiction not previously translated into Spanish. His most recent n
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Francisco Bitar
Francisco Bitar nació el 7 de abril de 1981 en Santa Fe, ciudad en la que vive. Ha publicado cerca de veinte libros de poemas, narrativa y ensayo, entre los cuales se incluyen la novela Tambor de arranque, los cuentos de Teoría y práctica y otros textos fronterizos como Historia oral de la cerveza, Mi nombre es Julio Emanuel Pasculli o El artista. Con la novela La preparación de la aventura amorosa inauguró la serie «De ahora en adelante», que continuó con La leyenda del muñeco de nieve y El cuerpo de un escritor; y con La muerte de César Aira, dio inicio a la serie «Cementerio de elefantes». En 2023 se publicó El taller literario, la primera de las novelas dedicadas a Gori Lizmayer. Lleva adelante el sello editorial independiente El buen d
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María Luque
María Luque es rosarina y vive en Buenos Aires. Es una de las ilustradoras jóvenes con más éxito en Argentina y en los países de habla latina. Sus dibujos tienen un estilo único, genuino, fresco y cálido que la diferencia del resto. Desde 2005, exhibe sus trabajos en museos y galerías de Argentina, Chile, Perú, México y España. Casa Transparente ganó la primera edición del Premio de Novela Gráfica Ciudades Iberoamericanas, organizado por la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara.
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Alejandra Kamiya
Alejandra Kamiya (Buenos Aires, 13 de febrero de 1966) es una escritora argentina. De ascendencia japonesa, su obra, compuesta por tres libros de cuentos, aúna las culturas argentina y japonesa, y aborda las temáticas de los vínculos afectivos, la vida cotidiana y la muerte.
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Recibió, entre otros, los premios Universidad Católica Argentina-SUTERH (2007), Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires (2008), Max Aub (2010), Horacio Quiroga (2012) y Unicaja (2014). En 2024, recibió un Premio Konex por su labor como cuentista. -
Andrés Montero
Escritor y narrador oral, cofundador de la Compañía La Matrioska. Es autor de "El año en que hablamos con el mar", "La muerte viene estilando", "Taguada" y "Tony Ninguno" y del ensayo "Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI" y de los libros juveniles "Alguien toca la puerta", "Tres noches en la escuela", "En el horizonte se dibuja un barco" y "Bestiario de Chile".
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En 2017 obtuvo el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska de la Ciudad de México por la novela Tony Ninguno, y en 2022 recibió el Premio del Círculo de Críticos de Arte, el Premio de la Academia de la Lengua y el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas por La muerte viene estilando.
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Gemma Urraka
Gemma Urraka nació en San Sebastián, España. Aprendió a leer a escondidas y por su cuenta cuando tenía apenas cuatro años. Estudió Comunicación Audiovisual y Filología Inglesa en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, aunando así sus dos pasiones: el cine y la literatura.
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Escribió para la revista Rolling Stone; actualmente es programadora de cine para Warner Bros. Discovery.
Obsesionada por el vínculo entre imagen y palabra, anda siempre con la cámara al cuello, rebuscando fotos antiguas en mercadillos de segunda mano. Ha publicado Las vidas secretas (Niña Loba, 2020). En el año 2023 ganó el Premio La Bestia Equilátera de novela con Un instante en la oscuridad. También escribe poesía y ensayo. -
César González
César González, aka Camilo Blajaquis (Morón, 1989), es un escritor, poeta y director de cine argentino.
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Salomé Esper
Salomé Esper was born in Jujuy in 1984. She is a writer and editor. She studied Social Communication at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and has a specialty in Editorial Design from Edinba (Mexico). She has published two books of poetry: sobre todo (Intravenosa, 2010) and paisaje (Tres tercios, 2014). She currently edits Sencacional de escrituras and is the editorial coordinator at 17, Institute of Critical Studies.
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Paulina Tuchschneider
Paulina Tuchschneider was born in 1987 in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1989 on the first direct flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv.
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Her debut novel, "Girl Soldier," achieved widespread acclaim, was translated into Spanish, published internationally, and later adapted into a short film. An essay on her work, "About Swimming," appeared in "Neue Rundschau," the prestigious literary journal of Fischer Verlag in Germany.
She was invited to a residency on the Costa Brava by the literary organization "Finestres." In the same castle where Truman Capote had worked on "In Cold Blood," she wrote and investigated a murder case that had occurred in her family. The book is scheduled for publication later this year.
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Cynthia Rimsky
Cynhia Rimsky nació en Santiago de Chile, en 1962. Ha publicado Poste restante, La novela de otro, Los Perplejos, Ramal, Fui, El futuro es un lugar extraño, En obra, La revolución a dedo. Escribe crónicas y columnas para diversas revistas y da clases en la UNA. Vive en Argentina desde 2012.
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Paulina Tuchschneider
Paulina Tuchschneider was born in 1987 in Poland and immigrated to Israel in 1989 on the first direct flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv.
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Her debut novel, "Girl Soldier," achieved widespread acclaim, was translated into Spanish, published internationally, and later adapted into a short film. An essay on her work, "About Swimming," appeared in "Neue Rundschau," the prestigious literary journal of Fischer Verlag in Germany.
She was invited to a residency on the Costa Brava by the literary organization "Finestres." In the same castle where Truman Capote had worked on "In Cold Blood," she wrote and investigated a murder case that had occurred in her family. The book is scheduled for publication later this year.
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Natalia Litvinova
Natalia Litvinova nació en Gómel, Bielorrusia, el 10 de septiembre de 1986 y reside en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Traduce a poetas rusos. Publicó los poemarios Esteparia, Balbuceo de la noche, Grieta y Cartas de la locura, y tradujo la antología Rumbo a Karachnay de Shajriza Bogatyreva.
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James Vance Marshall
Pseudonym of Donald Gordon Payne.
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Donald Gordon Payne was an English author of adventure novels and travel books.
Donald Gordon Payne was born in Denmark Hill in South East London in January 1924. His father, Francis, was a New Zealander, who served in the First World War with the ANZACS. His mother was Evelyn Rodgers, a nurse during the Great War.
He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and then at Charterhouse School. As a child he travelled with his parents to New Zealand and parts of the East coast of Australia – an experience which left him with a lifelong affection for these countries.
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Nina Avellaneda
Avellaneda nació en Limache en 1989. Ha publicado los libros de relatos “Heroína” (Hebra, 2010, cuando estudiaba Pedagogía en Castellano en la PUCV) y “La extravía” (Ediciones del Desierto, 2015). El primero tiene las mismas formas breves que en “Souza” (Komorebi), que esta vez constituyen un puzzle novelístico.
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Éric Vuillard
Born in Lyons in 1968, Éric Vuillard is a French author and film director. His books include Conquistadors (winner of the Ignatius J. Reilly prize 2010), and La Bataille de l'occident and Congo, for both of which he was awarded the 2012 Franz-Hessel prize and the 2013 Valery-Larbaud prize. Sorrow of the Earth is the first of his titles to be translated into English.
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Socorro Venegas
Es escritora y editora mexicana. Entre sus libros están las novelas La noche será negra y blanca (2009, Premio Nacional de Novela Ópera Prima «Carlos Fuentes» y mención especial en el Premio de Literatura «Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz» que otorga la FIL Guadalajara) y Vestido de novia (2014); los libros de cuentos Todas las islas (2002, Premio Nacional de Cuento «Benemérito de América»), La muerte más blanca (2000) y La risa de las azucenas (1997). Sus cuentos se han traducido al inglés y al francés, y han sido recogidos en varias antologías. Fue escritora residente en el Writters Room de Nueva York, becaria del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Escribe la columna «Modo Avión» en la revista electró
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Francisco Bitar
Francisco Bitar nació el 7 de abril de 1981 en Santa Fe, ciudad en la que vive. Ha publicado cerca de veinte libros de poemas, narrativa y ensayo, entre los cuales se incluyen la novela Tambor de arranque, los cuentos de Teoría y práctica y otros textos fronterizos como Historia oral de la cerveza, Mi nombre es Julio Emanuel Pasculli o El artista. Con la novela La preparación de la aventura amorosa inauguró la serie «De ahora en adelante», que continuó con La leyenda del muñeco de nieve y El cuerpo de un escritor; y con La muerte de César Aira, dio inicio a la serie «Cementerio de elefantes». En 2023 se publicó El taller literario, la primera de las novelas dedicadas a Gori Lizmayer. Lleva adelante el sello editorial independiente El buen d
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John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles is an independent film director, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films.
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Peter Orner
Peter Orner was born in Chicago and is the author of three novels: Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006), and his most recent, Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) which was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (Orner has since bought Gilgamesh and is enjoying it.) Love and Shame and Love is illustrated throughout by his brother Eric Orner, a comic artist and illustrator whose long time independent/alt weekly strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green was made into a feature film in 2008. Eric Orner's work is featured this year in Best American Cartoons edited by Alison Bechdel.
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Joanna Ruocco
Joanna Ruocco is a prize-winning American author and co-editor of the fiction journal Birkensnake. In 2013, she received the Pushcart Prize for her story "If the Man Took” and is also winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Ruocco received her MFA at Brown, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. Her most recent novel is Dan, published by Dorothy, A Publishing Project. She also serves as Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Wake Forest University.
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Ruocco has also published romance novels under the pseudonyms Toni Jones and Alessandra Shahbaz.
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Caroline Hagood
Caroline Hagood is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks (FutureCycle Press, 2012), Death and Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay in Prose Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025), and Making Maxine’s Baby (Hanging Loose Press, 2015); the creative nonfiction books, Ways of Looking at a Woman (Hanging Loose Press, 2019) and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022); and the novels, Ghosts of America (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) and Filthy Creation (MadHat Press 2023).
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Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on September 2, 2025. Her book, Women of Fantasy in Their Own Words: Conversations with Contemporary Authors, edited wit -
Soledad Fariña
Estudió Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Chile y Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Estocolmo, Suecia. Dentro de su obra destacan títulos como El Primer Libro (Ediciones Amaranto, 1985), y el texto Albricia (Ediciones Archivo, 1988. En el año 2022 fue galardonada con el Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago, categoría ensayo, y en el 2024 obtuvo el Premio Mejores Obras Literarias del Ministerio de las Culturas de Chile, género poesía, por el libro Siempre volvemos a Comala (Editorial USACH, 2024). A lo largo de su trayectoria, sus textos han sido traducidos al inglés, francés, italiano y catalán, además de ser incluida en diversas antologías de poetas chilenos.
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Cecilia Alfaro Gómez
CECILIA ALFARO GÓMEZ (París, 1985) es escritora e ingeniera civil de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Futrono, su primera novela, ganó el Premio Municipal de Santiago 2023, categoría novela inédita.
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Alberto Giordano
Alberto Giordano was born in Rufino, in 1959, and has lived in Rosario since 1971. He is a professor and essayist.
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