Priscilla Morris
Priscilla Morris is a British author of Cornish-Bosnian parentage, who lives in Monaghan, Ireland. She grew up in London, spending her childhood summers in Sarajevo. Black Butterflies, her debut novel, was inspired by family history and tells one woman's story of disintegration, loss, resilience and hope. When not writing, Priscilla teaches creative writing online and runs writing retreats in Catalonia. Find out more on www.priscillamorris.org
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I wrote my debut novel BLACK BUTTERFLIES (2022) to understand the siege that devastated Sarajevo from 1992-1996. It turned many of my maternal relatives, including my grandparents, into refugees. It's inspired by their stories and, in particular, by the extraordinary tale of my great-uncle, the Bosn
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Natasha Walter
British feminist writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (2010, Virago) and The New Feminism (1998, Virago), and is the director of Women for Refugee Women.
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Her father was Nicolas Walter, an anarchist and secular humanist writer; her grandfather was William Grey Walter, a neuroscientist. After attending North London Collegiate School, she read English at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with a double First, and then won a Frank Knox Fellowship to Harvard.Her first job was at Vogue magazine, she then became Deputy Literary Editor of The Independent and then a columnist for The Guardian. She went on to write for many publications and to appear regularly on BBC2's Newsnight Review and R -
Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator.
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His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.
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Vicent Andrés Estellés fue un periodista y poeta español. Está considerado como uno de los principales renovadores de la poesía contemporánea en valenciano, con un papel similar al que tuvieron en otras épocas Ausiàs March y Joan Roís de Corella. -
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Irena Svetek
Irena Svetek (1975) je doktorirala na Oddelku za primerjalno književnost in literarno teorijo na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Za prvi roman Od blizu je leta 2004 prejela nagrado Slovenskega knjižnega sejma za knjižni prvenec in nominacijo za kresnika. Napisala je še romana Sedmi val (2011) in Zaspi, mala moja, zaspi (2014), zadnja leta pa se ukvarja predvsem s scenaristiko; napisala je scenarij za celovečerni film Skupaj, scenarije za nadaljevanke in nanizanke Mame, Več po oglasih, Ena žlahtna štorija, Česnovi …
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Robert McCrum is an associate editor of the Observer. He was born and educated in Cambridge. For nearly 20 years he was editor-in-chief of the publishers Faber & Faber. He is the co-author of The Story of English (1986), and has written six novels. He was the literary editor of the Observer from 1996 to 2008, and has been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1990
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Kanishk Tharoor
Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories, a collection of short fiction. His journalism and criticism have appeared in international and Indian publications. His short fiction was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the U.S. He writes the “Cosmopolis” column for The Hindu Business Line’s BLINK magazine. He is currently at work on a radio series to be aired on BBC Radio in the spring of 2016, and on a novel. He studied at Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with BAs in History and Literature; at Columbia, where he was a FLAS fellow in Persian and South Asian studies; and at New York University, where he had a fellowship in the Creative Writing Programme. He lives in New York City.
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Salma
Salma is a writer of Tamil poetry and fiction. Based in the small town of Thuvarankurichi, she is recognised as a writer of growing importance in Tamil literature. Her work combines a rare outspokenness about taboo areas of the traditional Tamil women’s experience with a language of compressed intensity and startling metaphoric resonance.
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With the film, she thinks that she has truly arrived. Salma the film, through a series of interviews, tries to bring to light the realities that have shaped the poet, of how she would write hiding in the toilet because she could not pick up a pen outside. -
Neil Astley
Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, Britain’s leading poetry imprint, which he founded in 1978. His own books include novels, poetry collections and anthologies, most notably the Bloodaxe Staying Alive trilogy. He is also a trustee of Ledbury Poetry Festival and Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, and a development committee member of Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway, Ireland.
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Damià Bardera
Damià Bardera i Poch (Viladamat, 1982) és un escriptor i assagista català.
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Ha publicat dotze llibres. Un de poesia: El penúltim vòmit (2008); vuit reculls de contes: I alguns contes per llegir-los d'amagat (2010), Fauna animal (2011), Els homes del sac (2012), Els nens del sac (2013), Contes de propina (2014), Nens de llet (2016), Un circ al pati de casa (2019) i Bèsties de companyia (2022); una novel·la: Viladelsac (2015) i dos assajos: Mediterròniament. La catalanitat emocional (Biblioteca del Núvol, 2013), escrit en col·laboració amb Eudald Espluga, i L'home del sac: arquetip modern del no-res (Emboscall, 2015). -
Janine Di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is one of Europe's most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called "established, accomplished brilliance" and she has been cited as "the finest foreign correspondent of our generation".
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Born in the US, she began reporting by covering the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s and went on to report nearly every violent conflict since then. Her trademark has always been to write about the human cost of war, to attempt to give war a human face, and to work in conflict zones that the world's press has forgotten.
She continued writing about Bosnia long after most people forgot it. In 2000, she was one of the few foreign reporters to witness the fall of -
Stephan Vanfleteren
Stephan Vanfleteren is one of Belgium’s most renowned photographers. Among the general public, he is mainly celebrated for his penetrating black and white portraits of people from all walks of life, from artists and actors, to surfers, fisher- and sportsmen. However, his oeuvre is much more diverse than that. Starting his career as a press photographer, Vanfleteren made captivating photo reports about the events that dominated the news of the 1990s, such as the genocide in Rwanda, the war in Kosovo and the Dutroux affaire in Belgium. Later on, he began to elaborate a variation of themes in extended photo reportages, going from storefront façades to a journey along the mythical Atlantic Wall.
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Shelly Oria
Shelly Oria was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Israel. Her short story collection, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, came out from FSG and Random House Canada in November 2014. Shelly's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, fivechapters, and Electric Lit's Recommended Reading among other places, and won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria, and the LMCC Workspace Residency among other awards. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village, has a private practice as a creativity coach, and teaches fiction at Pratt Institute, where she also co-directs the Writers' Forum.
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Sonal Kohli
Sonal Kohli grew up in Delhi and now lives in Washington, D.C. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a BA in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. She has received fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Sangam House. 'The House Next to the Factory', her critically acclaimed book of linked stories, was long listed for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, was a Book of the Year for The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Wire and is a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.
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Joan Benesiu
Joan Benesiu, pseudònim de l'escriptor Josep Martínez Sanchis, (Beneixama, 22 de juliol de 1971) és un escriptor valencià.
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És professor de filosofia a un institut de secundària del sud del País Valencià (Cocentaina), on dirigeix des de fa nou anys un cineclub. La combinació de la seva prosa, suggeridora i enigmàtica, amb una veu molt personal deixa entreveure una narrativa d'alta volada que ofereix una literatura ambiciosa alhora que plaent. Després d'haver guanyat amb Intercanvi (Bromera) el premi Ciutat de Xàtiva l'any 2007, d'haver escrit nombrosos contes amb els quals ha obtingut diversos guardons i d'haver col·laborat en l'opuscle cultural L'Esca, d'Arbúcies, i en la revista Manual de Uso Cultural, de Màlaga, va publicar Gegants de gel -
Núria Cadenes
Núria Cadenes i Alabèrnia (Barcelona, 18 de febrer de 1970) és una periodista, escriptora i militant independentista catalana, filla de Teresa Alabèrnia i Domènech.
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Actualment viu a l’Horta Sud, prop de València. Treballa de llibretera i col·labora en diversos mitjans (VilaWeb, El Temps). Ha publicat, entre d’altres, els llibres Cartes de la presó (1990), L’Ovidi (2002), El banquer (2013) o Secundaris (2018). Amb AZ (2009) va guanyar el premi Ciutat d’Elx i el de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians i amb Tota la veritat (2016), el Crims de Tinta. -
Xavier Benguerel
Xavier Benguerel (Barcelona, 1905-1990), escriptor i traductor. Resideix al barri del Poblenou de Barcelona fins als 33 anys. L'any 1929 s'incorpora a la novel·la catalana amb Pàgines d'un adolescent. Des d'aleshores escriu més de vint novel·les, un recull de poemes, tres obres de teatre, quatre reculls de narracions i dos llibres de memòries. Abans de la guerra civil espanyola ja havia publicat la novel·la Suburbi (1936), ambientada al barri obrer del Poblenou, ara pràcticament desaparegut per la transformació dels Jocs Olímpics del 1992. En acabar la guerra, s'exilia a Xile fins al 1954. En tornar a Catalunya, reprèn la publicació de novel·les de fons autobiogràfic com El testament i la sèrie de novel·les d'Els vençuts, sobre l'exili. Gua
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Peter Benson
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Peter Benson was born in 1956 in Kent, UK and is the award-winning author of seven novels. His work has been described as ‘a far-reaching exploration into unlikely relationships’ and is characterised by the precision of its language, characterisations and approach. -
Maria Antònia Oliver
Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer fou una destacada escriptora mallorquina en llengua catalana, resident a Barcelona des del 1969. Éra principalment coneguda per la producció novel·lística i de narrativa breu, però també conreà la traducció (al català i castellà), l'assaig literari, la literatura infantil, la dramatúrgia i el guió. El 2016, quan ja tenia 46 anys de publicacions i un nombre de premis que n'avalaven la trajectòria, guanyà el Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes.
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