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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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Vanda Juknaitė – Lietuvos prozininkė, dramaturgė, eseistė.

1972 m. VU baigė lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą. Mokytojavo, dėstė Klaipėdos konservatorijoje.

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Lydia Sandgren, född 8 januari 1987, är en svensk författare. Hon har uppmärksammats för att år 2020 ha vunnit Augustpriset.

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Andreas Cervenka

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Her innovative style was influenced by dialects and biblical language.

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Lydia Sandgren

Lydia Sandgren, född 8 januari 1987, är en svensk författare. Hon har uppmärksammats för att år 2020 ha vunnit Augustpriset.

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Doug Brod

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Frans G. Bengtsson

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Kathy Willis

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Inés Garland

Colabora con diversos medios periodísticos y coordina talleres literarios. Su libro Una reina perfecta fue premiado en 2005 por el Fondo Nacional de las Artes por un jurado compuesto por Liliana Heker, Ana María Shua y Vicente Batista. Varios de los relatos que integran este libro también han sido galardonados. El cuento Una reina perfecta fue traducido al inglés para el National Welsh Review. Su novela Piedra, papel o tijera recibió el premio destacado de la Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de Argentina (ALIJA) y ha sido traducida al alemán (editorial Fisher) donde ha cosechado excelentes críticas y premios y al francés (editorial L’école des Loisirs).

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Inma López Silva

Inma López Silva é unha das novas narradoras galegas máis destacadas. A súa novela "Neve" en abril gañou o Premio Rúa Nova en 1996. Seguiron os relatos de "Rosas, corvos e cancións". Con "Concubinas" obtivo o Premio Xerais 2002. No 2007 publicou "New York, New York", diario dunha estadía na cidade norteamericana, que despois foi traducido para o castelán.

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Anne Charlotte Leffler

Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello (October 1, 1849 - October 21, 1892), was a Swedish author.

She was the daughter of the school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag. Her brother was noted mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler.

Her first volume of stories appeared in 1869, but the first to which she attached her name was Ur lifvet ("From Life," 1882), a series of realistic sketches of the upper circles of Swedish society, followed, by three other collections with the same title. Her earliest plays, Skådespelerskan ("The Actress," 1873), and its successors, were produced anonymously in Stockholm, but in 1883 her reputation was established by the success of Sanna qvinnor ("True Women") and En räddande engel (

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John Richard Saylor

John Richard Saylor, PhD, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University. He has spent the better part of his career studying phenomena that occur at the interface between air and water. In addition to lakes, his scientific interests include the physics of drops, bubbles, and waves, and he has applied his research to applications such as the use of water sprays and ultrasonics to clean diesel exhaust and methods for using radar to study raindrops. He was a student at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop in 2017 and was a literary artist resident at the Herlene Wurlitzer Foundation in 2018. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina

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Martin Kragh

Martin Börje Kragh född 9 augusti 1980, är en svensk forskare med inriktning på rysk och östeuropeisk ekonomi, politik och historia. Han är biträdande chef för Centrum för Östeuropastudier vid Utrikespolitiska institutet.

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Juha-Pekka Koskinen

Juha-Pekka Koskinen has published several acclaimed historical novels, short stories collections, books for children and some thirty short stories in various magazines and anthologies.

Koskinen’s epic historical novels are a mystical blend of historical fact and fiction. He takes the reader on a journey through history, in the tradition of Bulgakov, Marquez, Eco and Calvino.

Koskinen has received grants from Finnish Cultural Foundation and Häme Province Foundation in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2012 and won the Karisto Foundation Award in 2005 and 2009.

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Raymond P. Scheindlin

Raymond P. Scheindlin is a scholar of early Hebrew literature, specializing in the Hebrew writing that emerged from contact between Jews and Arabs in the Middle Ages–the medieval Golden Age of Hebrew Literature.

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Daniel Sjölin

Daniel Sjölin, född 31 oktober 1977 i Bålsta, Håbo, är en svensk författare och programledare.

Daniel Sjölin är författare och var under sju år programledare för litteraturprogrammet Babel SVT. För det senare tilldelades han 2008 Örjan Lindbergerpriset för att ha gjort "den goda litteraturen tillgänglig för en bred publik". Han har även varit litteraturkritiker för bl.a. Svenska Dagbladet och BLM, samt redaktör för tidskriften Lyrikvännen. Sjölin nominerades till Augustpriset 2007 för Världens sista roman.

2012 blev Daniel Sjölin hedersdoktor vid humanistiska fakulteten vid Göteborgs universitet.

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Perttu Häkkinen

Perttu Häkkinen (s. kesäkuu 1979 Kokkola) on suomalainen muusikko ja toimittaja.

Häkkinen perusti vuonna 1998 elektronisen musiikin yhtye Imatran Voiman yhdessä Jaakko Kestilän kanssa. Hän on käyttänyt muusikkona taiteilijanimeä Randy Barracuda ja Kestilä nimeä Fresh O Lexx. Imatran Voimalta on julkaistu kolme albumia, joista ensimmäinen vuonna 2004. Imatran Voiman lisäksi hän on soittanut muun muassa yhtyeissä Itäväylä, Anaalivaihe, Boyz of Caligula ja Tähtiportti. Vuonna 2009 julkaistiin Häkkisen ensimmäinen sooloalbumi Randy Barracudana ruotsalaisyhtiö Flogsta Danshallin kautta. Hänen toinen sooloalbuminsa Random Works of Randy Barracuda Vol. II julkaistiin vuonna 2012 yhdysvaltalaisen Losonofono Recordsin kautta.

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Göran Persson

Hans Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.

Since leaving office, Persson has been a consultant for the Stockholm-based PR firm JKL. He published a book in October 2007, Min väg, mina val (My path, my choices).

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Kenneth Hermele

Kenneth Zwi Hermele (1948-2025) var en svensk författare, ekonom och humanekolog.
Hermeles bok En shtetl i Stockholm (2018) var nominerad till Augustpriset.

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Karin Bojs

Karin Bojs is an author and science journalist. She was head of the science desk at Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily newspaper in Sweden, for nearly two decades. Karin has an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University, and has received several awards, including the 2015 Swedish August Prize for My European Family.

Karin lives in Stockholm on top of a hill with a view over Lake Mälaren. She often leaves her apartment for her country house where she keeps honey bees, produces cider and maintains an orchid meadow. During the long, dark Scandinavian winter nights she enjoys dancing the tango.

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