Pauline Delabroy-Allard
Pauline Delabroy-Allard (born 1988) is a French writer. Her first novel, All About Sarah, was published in 2018, and received numerous awards and critical acclaim.
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Pauline Delabroy-Allard est la fille de l'universitaire vernien et écrivain Jean Delabroy. Après avoir fait des études de lettres classiques, elle devient libraire, ouvreuse dans un cinéma puis, à 23 ans, professeure documentaliste dans un lycée.
En 2018, son premier roman publié, aux Éditions de Minuit, Ça raconte Sarah, obtient une reconnaissance critique importante, et le prix des libraires de Nancy / Le Point et le Prix Envoyé par la poste, et est sélectionné dans la deuxième sélection du Goncourt ainsi que pour le prix Goncourt des lycéens6. Elle est lauréate d
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Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美 Kawakami Hiromi) born April 1, 1958, is a Japanese writer known for her off-beat fiction.
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Born in Tokyo, Kawakami graduated from Ochanomizu Women's College in 1980. She made her debut as "Yamada Hiromi" in NW-SF No. 16, edited by Yamano Koichi and Yamada Kazuko, in 1980 with the story So-shimoku ("Diptera"), and also helped edit some early issues of NW-SF in the 1970s. She reinvented herself as a writer and wrote her first book, a collection of short stories entitled God (Kamisama) published in 1994. Her novel The Teacher's Briefcase (Sensei no kaban) is a love story between a woman in her thirties and a man in his sixties. She is also known as a literary critic and a provocative essayist.
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Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters.
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His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 68, 69), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969-70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007).
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Christina Georgina Rossetti, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wrote lyrical religious works and ballads, such as "Up-hill" (1861).
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Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that she decided to publish her first novel, "A Vida Sem Ti" ("Life Without You", Oficina do Livro), followed by "Cuba Libre" (Oficina do Livro, 2007), "A Lucidez do Amor" ("The War Wife", Porto Editora, 2010) , "A Mulher-Casa" ("La Femme-Maison", Porto Editora, 2012), and "Apneia" (Casa das Letras, 2020), a disturbing story about domestic violence and child abuse.
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He has worked on a huge range of subjects and platforms, with clients as diverse as such Waterstone’s, Sainsbury’s and Oxfam, and in countries as different as India and Australia. He’s illustrated for several major publishers and is pleased to be working on Nosy Crow’s start-up list.
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Lors de ses études, Maureen Windgrove débute un blog BD, sous le pseudonyme Diglee. Elle y publie d'abord des travaux réalisés à Émile Cohl, des croquis et aussi des BD, inspirées pour la plupart par son quotidien. Ce sont ces dernières qui la poussent à continuer dans cette voie.
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Passionnée par les possibilités créatives du numérique, elle fait ses études dans le domaine du jeu vidéo. En 2008, elle fonde le Forum Dessiné, un site communautaire de BD collective improvisée. Toujours actif aujourd'hui, le site a vu défiler 2.600 dessinateurs et près de 300.000 dessins.
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After a year working in a studio, I graduated from the Professionnal Storyboard course at The Animation Workshop (Denmark). Ever since, I have been wanting to explore many ways of storytelling and spent months working on my first comic book, coming out in January 2019. I am excited and open for new adventures !
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Thibault Lambert
Thibaut Lambert, né le 11 décembre 1987 à Dinant (province de Namur), est un auteur de bande dessinée et illustrateur belge francophone.
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Biographie
Thibaut Lambert naît le 11 décembre 1987[1],[2] à Dinant[3].
Il fait ses études secondaires en technique de qualification arts plastiques à l'institut Saint-Roch de Marche-en-Famenne, il poursuit dans cette voie à l’Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles d'où il sort diplômé bachelier en arts visuels puis il poursuit sa formation artistique en peinture à l'académie des beaux-arts de Saint-Gilles pendant trois ans en cours du soir[4].
Il est animateur de stage de bande dessinée pour la bibliothèque communale de Bertrix en 2007 et il anime les plaines de jeux communales de Neuvillers en 2008[4].
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Zuzana Brabcová
The daughter of Jiří Brabec and Zina Trochová, both literary historians, she was born in Prague. After completing her schooling, she worked in the University Library in Prague, in a hospital and as a cleaner. She later became an editor, working for several publishing houses.
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Her first novel Daleko od stromu (Far from the tree) was first published in a Samizdat edition in 1984 and then in Prague in 1991. It received the Jiří Orten Award in 1997. This was followed by the novel Zlodějina (Thievery) in 1996.In 2000, she published her third novel Rok perel (Year of pearls), the first Czech novel to deal with lesbian love.
Brabcová was awarded the Magnesia Litera for fiction in 2013 for her novel Stropy.