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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 3 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a Fulani boy who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic faith and his Senegalese roots.

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George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She wrote more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand advocated for women's rights and passion, criticized the institution of marriage, and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. She was considered scandalo

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Émile Zola

Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse

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Jean Anouilh

Works, such as Antigone (1944), of French playwright Jean Anouilh juxtapose harsh reality and fantasy.

A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist, whose summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon supplemented the meager income of the family.

He attended école primaire supérieure and received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, a pupil at the same time and later a major director, recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure, who hardly noticed a boy some t

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Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.

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Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her most recent biographical, non-fiction work, King Kong Theory has also been translated into English, and recounts her experiences working within the French sex industry, and attendant infamy and praise associated with the aforementioned Baise-Moi.

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Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

She has been awar

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Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007; reissued by Graywolf, 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ M

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Lynne Tillman

Here’s an Author’s Bio. It could be written differently. I’ve written many for myself and read lots of other people’s. None is right or sufficient, each slants one way or the other. So, a kind of fiction – selection of events and facts.. So let me just say: I wanted to be a writer since I was eight years old. That I actually do write stories and novels and essays, and that they get published, still astonishes me.

My news is that my 6th novel MEN AND APPARITIONS will appear in march 2018 from Soft Skull Press. It's my first novel in 12 years.

Each spring, I teach writing at University at Albany, in the English Dept., and in the fall, at The New School, in the Writing Dept.

I’ve lived with David Hofstra, a bass player, for many years. It makes

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Nelly Arcan

Nelly Arcan (born Isabelle Fortier) was a Canadian novelist.

Her first novel, Putain, enjoyed immediate critical and media success and was a finalist for both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina. Afterwards, Arcan wrote several short stories, opinion pieces and columns for various Quebec newspapers and literary magazines.

Arcan was found dead in Montreal on September 24, 2009. According to the Montreal police spokeperson, the cause of the author's death is not yet known, but they are treating it as a suicide. She had just finished writing her last book, Paradis clés en main.

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David Foenkinos

David Foenkinos is a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director who studied both literature and music in Paris.

His novel La délicatesse is a bestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in December 2011, with Audrey Tautou as the main character. His novels have appeared in over forty languages, and in 2014 he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Charlotte.

Growing up in a home with few books and often absent parents, David Foenkinos read and wrote little during his childhood. At 16, he required emergency surgery as a result of a rare pleural infection and spent several months recuperating in hospital, where he began to devour books, learning to paint and play the guitar. From this experience, he says, he kep

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Theodor Kallifatides

Theodor Kallifatides (Θοδωρής Καλλιφατίδης) is a Greek-born Swedish author.

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Sara Stridsberg

Sara Stridsberg is a Swedish author and translator. Her first fiction novel, Happy Sally, was about Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim the English Channel.

In 2007, she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her novel Drömfakulteten (The Dream Faculty), which is her second novel and a fictitious story about Valerie Solanas, who wrote the SCUM manifesto, which Stridsberg has translated into Swedish.

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Vigdis Hjorth

Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important novel, and a roman à clef.

Hjorth has three children and lives in Asker.

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Niels Fredrik Dahl

Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.

Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.

Dahl er en av Norges mest markante forfatterne og har utgitt noveller, dikt, gjendiktning og skuespill. Hans første roman "Journalisten" utkom i 1997. For romanen "På vei til en venn" (2002) ble han tildelt Brageprisen. Han ble også nominert til Kritikerprisen og P2-lytternes pris. Både denne og romanen "I fjor sommer" (2003) er oversatt til en rekke språk

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Ursula Parrott

Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – September 1957), was an American writer of romantic novels. Her first book, Ex-Wife (1929), was a best seller, and was adapted for film as The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer. Exploring changing sexual mores and their implications for women, Ex-Wife was considered scandalous in its time. Between 1930 and 1936, Parrott sold the rights to eight more novels and stories that were made into films.

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Lena Andersson

Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard . In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

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Nicolas Mathieu

Nicolas Mathieu is a French author and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2018.

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Amanda Svensson

Amanda Svensson är bosatt i Malmö. Hon är verksam som kulturjournalist och debuterade med den uppmärksammade Hey Dolly (2008).

Amanda Svensson nominerades till Augustpriset 2011 för Välkommen till den här världen: med motiveringen:
”En oliksidig triangel är inte perfekt, konstaterar författaren till den här romanen, om kärlek, vänskap och en ödesdiger svartsjuka. I 'Välkommen till den här världen:' svingar sig Amanda Svensson suveränt mellan olika språknivåer och skildrar färgsprakande, lekfullt och hektiskt tre unga människor på jakt efter mening i Köpenhamns elektrifierade natt. En nattklubbstragedi, en hela-havet-stormarlek på liv och död. Det är intensivt, det är innovativt och det är alldeles alldeles underbart.”

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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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Julia Kerninon

Julia Kerninon est née en 1987 à Nantes, où elle vit. Elle est docteure en lettres, spécialiste de littérature américaine. Elle s’est fait remarquer dès son premier roman, Buvard (2014), qui a reçu notamment le prix Françoise-Sagan.

Trois livres vont suivre aux Éditions du Rouergue, dans lesquels elle affirme son talent et déroule son principal thème de prédilection, la complexité du sentiment amoureux.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 3 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a Fulani boy who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic faith and his Senegalese roots.

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Elin Cullhed

Born 1983

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Olivier Bourdeaut

Olivier Bourdeaut est né au bord de l’Océan Atlantique en 1980. L’Education Nationale, refusant de comprendre ce qu’il voulait apprendre, lui rendit très vite sa liberté. Dès lors, grâce à l’absence lumineuse de télévision chez lui, il put lire beaucoup et rêvasser énormément.
Durant dix ans il travailla dans l’immobilier allant de fiascos en échecs avec un enthousiasme constant. Puis, pendant deux ans, il devint responsable d’une agence d’experts en plomb, responsable d’une assistante plus diplômée que lui et responsable de chasseurs de termites, mais les insectes achevèrent de ronger sa responsabilité. Il fut aussi ouvreur de robinets dans un hôpital, factotum dans une maison d’édition de livres scolaires – un comble – et cueilleur de fleu

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Lilia Hassaine

Lilia Hassaine est une romancière, journaliste française et chroniqueuse de télévision. Elle reçoit le prix Renaudot des lycéens pour son troisième roman, Panorama.
Après des études littéraires Lilia Hassaine participe, en 2012, au programme Monde Académie du Monde puis intègre, en 2013, l'Institut français de presse dont elle sort diplômée en 2015. Elle travaille pour Arte, Le Parisien et Le Monde, puis, en 2014, remporte le 5e prix Santé et Citoyenneté du meilleur web-documentaire avec De mèche contre le cancer. En janvier 2018, Lilia Hassaine rejoint Bangumi, la société de production créée par Yann Barthès. Travaillant dans un premier temps en coulisses, elle participe en plateau à l'émission Trump, Saison 1 présentée par Martin Weill le

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Alica Cárska

Autorka za svoj debut získala a v roku 2023 Cenu Nadácie Tatra banky v kategórii Mladý tvorca/Mladá tvorkyňa.

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Ladislav Kužela

Doc. MUDr. Ladislav Kužela, PhD., MPH je slovenský gastroenterológ, autor mnohých odborných publikácií, vysokoškolský pedagóg, bývalý hlavný odborník MZ SR pre gastroenterológiu.

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Camille Laurens

Camille Laurens sur les hommes qu'elle décrit dans son livre..

Elle ne va pas à leur rencontre, du moins pas comme on pourrait croire. Elle ne fond pas sur eux pour les capter, les saisir, leur parler. Elle les regarde. Elle se replit de leur iamge comme un lac du reflet d'un ciel. Elle les maintient d'abord dans cette distance qui permet de les réfléchir. Les hommes restent donc là longtemps, en face d'elle. Elle les regarde, elle les observe, elle les contemple. Elle les voit toujours comme ces voyageurs assis vis-à-vis d'elle dans les trains maintenant rares où cette disposition existe encore : non pas à côté d'elle, dans le même sens, mais en face, de l'autre côté de la tablette où gît le livre qu'elle écrit. Ils se tiennent là. C'est le

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Abdellah Taïa

Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality.

Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008

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Fiona Mozley

Fiona Mozley grew up in York and went to King's College, Cambridge, after which she lived in Buenos Aires and London. She is studying for a PhD in medieval history. Elmet is her first novel and it has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.

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Alica Cárska

Autorka za svoj debut získala a v roku 2023 Cenu Nadácie Tatra banky v kategórii Mladý tvorca/Mladá tvorkyňa.

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Anne Peyrouse

Née dans le Midi de la France, Anne Peyrouse vit au Québec depuis plus de 25 ans. Docteure en littérature, elle enseigne la création littéraire à l'Université Laval au département des Lettres et à la Formation continue. Elle a publié un recueil de nouvelles et deux recueils de poèmes: Des neiges et des cendres et Dans le vertige des corps qui a obtenu le prix Félix-Leclerc. Elle a publié également deux anthologies de poésie et un renku, Comme papiers au vent. Elle a gagné plusieurs prix littéraires, à la fois pour son écriture poétique et pour ses nouvelles. On retrouve plusieurs de ses textes dans des revues au Québec et en France.

Elle a été directrice littéraire de la maison d'édition Le Loup de Gouttière et elle poursuit actuellement cet

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Pierre-Luc Gagné

Pierre-Luc Gagné est né à Rimouski, quelques mois avant le référendum de 1995. Récipiendaire du prix « nageur olympique dans les nuages » aux derniers jeux d’été et d’hiver, il se parfume de poésie à temps perdu et il perd toujours son temps. Ne voulant rien manquer, il se trempe le nez un peu partout. Il étudie en techniques de travail social au Cégep de Rimouski avant de se diriger vers les lettres et le cinéma à l’Université Laval. Lorsqu’on lui demande ce qu’il veut faire plus tard, il répond qu’il souhaite aimer longtemps. Son activité créatrice s’intéresse aux formes de l’intime. Il a publié L’Homme est un lion que je n’ai su faire rugir (Hamac, 2021) et Le jardin de la morte (Hamac, 2023). De plus, il est codirecteur littéraire du co

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