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  Renan Silva

  Renan Silva é professor, roteirista, poeta e pós-graduado em Escrita Criativa. A voz que ninguém escutou é seu primeiro romance, ganhando o prêmio Kindle de literatura 2023.

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  Renan Silva

  Renan Silva é professor, roteirista, poeta e pós-graduado em Escrita Criativa. A voz que ninguém escutou é seu primeiro romance, ganhando o prêmio Kindle de literatura 2023.

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  Stênio Gardel

  STÊNIO GARDEL nasceu em Limoeiro do Norte, interior do Ceará, em 1980. Trabalha no Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Ceará e é especialista em Escrita Literária. Desde 2017 tem participado de diversas coletâneas de contos.
  A palavra que resta é seu primeiro romance e foi escrito durante os Ateliês de Narrativa ministrados pela escritora Socorro Acioli em Fortaleza.

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  Tomasz Jedrowski

  Biography: Tomasz was born in West Germany to Polish parents and studied law at Cambridge. He lives in France, exploring local history, national identity, and ecology.
  
  His debut novel SWIMMING IN THE DARK was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and William Morrow in the USA, and has been translated into thirteen languages. Film/TV rights and opera rights have been optioned. The novel was a finalist for the Polari First Book Prize (2021).
  
  ‘Imagine CALL ME BY YOUR NAME set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart.’ — The Oprah Magazine
  
  Tomasz Jedrowski is currently writing his second novel.

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  Aline Bei

  Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultural OitavaArte. O peso do pássaro morto é o seu primeiro livro.

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  Mariana Salomão Carrara

  Mariana Salomão Carrara é paulistana, escritora e Defensora Pública, nascida em 1986. Tem publicados um livro de contos (Delicada uma de nós – Off-Flip, 2015), e os romances Idílico (EI, 2007), Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Quintal Edições, 2017), Se deus me chamar não vou (Editora nós, 2019, entre os 10 indicados ao Prêmio Jabuti 2020, em Romance Literário), “É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém” (Editora Nós, 2021, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo 2022 e entre os 10 indicados ao Jabuti 2022),”Não fossem as sílabas do sábado” (Todavia, junho/2022, Vencedor do Prêmio São Paulo 2023, Melhor Romance do Ano) e A árvore mais sozinha do mundo (Todavia, agosto/2024). Por contos e poemas avulsos, recebeu na juventude prêmios nacionais como Off-flip

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  Filipa Fonseca Silva

  Filipa Fonseca Silva was born in a small town called Barreiro, just across from Lisbon, Portugal, in 1979.
  
  She graduated in Communication from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and worked as an advertising copywriter until 2017. She is now a fulltime writer.
  
  Her debut novel is called Thirty Something – Nothing’s How We Dreamed It Would Be and it made her the only Portuguese author to reach Amazon Top100 in Women's Fiction. It was followed by The Strange Year of Vanessa M (2013), Things a Mother Discovers (and no one talks about), Taxi Tales (2017), I Hate My Boss (2018), The Elevator (finalist of Bertrand Book of the Year 2022), What if I Die Tomorrow? (finalist of Bertrand Book of the Year 2023) and Brave Green World (June 2024).
  
  She likes to

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  Socorro Acioli

  A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genres, for both adult and child readers. She has participated in a workshop run by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; has done research at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany; and is currently pursuing a PhD in Literary Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro.
  
  Socorro Acioli (Fortaleza, 24 de fevereiro de 1975) é uma escritora brasileira, formada em Comunicação Social com habilitação em jornalismo, mestre em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade Federal do Ceará e Doutoranda em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Fede

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  Aurora Venturini

  Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco

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  Domenico Starnone

  Domenico Starnone (Saviano, 1943) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e giornalista italiano.
  
  Ha collaborato e collabora a numerosi giornali (l'Unità, Il manifesto per cui è stato redattore delle pagine culturali) e riviste di satira (Cuore, Tango, Boxer), con temi generalmente improntati alla sua attività di insegnante di liceo.
  
  Ha scritto con costanza su Linus, negli anni '70-'80.
  
  Ha lavorato anche come sceneggiatore; film come La scuola di Daniele Luchetti, Denti di Gabriele Salvatores e Auguri professore di Riccardo Milani sono ispirati a suoi libri.
  
  Il suo libro maggiormente apprezzato, Via Gemito, ha vinto il Premio Strega nel 2001.

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  Conceição Evaristo

  Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of study in 1971, at the age of 25. She then moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she passed a public competition for teaching and graduated in Letters at UFRJ.
  
  In the 1980s, she contacted Grupo Quilombhoje. She debuted in literature in 1990, with works published in the series Cadernos Negros, published by the organization.
  
  She holds a Master's degree in Brazilian Literature from PUC-Rio, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).
  
  Her works, in particular the 2003 novel Ponciá Vicêncio, address themes such as racial, gende

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  Sandro Veronesi

  Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
  

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  Rachel M. Harper

  RACHEL M. HARPER is the author of three novels: THE OTHER MOTHER, upcoming from Counterpoint Press; THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE, shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and BRASS ANKLE BLUES, a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and Target Breakout Book. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely published and anthologized. Harper has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing. She lives in Los Angeles.

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  Gayl Jones

  Gayl Jones is an African-American writer from Lexington, Kentucky. Her most famous works are Corregidora, Eva's Man, and The Healing.
  
  Jones is a 1971 graduate of Connecticut College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English. While attending the college she also earned the Frances Steloff Award for Fiction. She then began a graduate program in creative writing at Brown University, studying under poet Michael Harper and earning a Master of Arts in 1973 and a Doctor of Arts in 1975.
  
  Harper introduced Jones's work to Toni Morrison, who was an editor at the time, and in 1975, Jones published her first novel Corregidora at the age of 26. That same year she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan, which hired her the f

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  Mario Benedetti

  Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.
  
  Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  James Baldwin

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
  
  James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
  
  He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France

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  Pablo Neruda

  Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
  Neruda’s career took him beyond literature into diplomacy, a path that a

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  Marguerite Duras

  Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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  Domenico Starnone

  Domenico Starnone (Saviano, 1943) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e giornalista italiano.
  
  Ha collaborato e collabora a numerosi giornali (l'Unità, Il manifesto per cui è stato redattore delle pagine culturali) e riviste di satira (Cuore, Tango, Boxer), con temi generalmente improntati alla sua attività di insegnante di liceo.
  
  Ha scritto con costanza su Linus, negli anni '70-'80.
  
  Ha lavorato anche come sceneggiatore; film come La scuola di Daniele Luchetti, Denti di Gabriele Salvatores e Auguri professore di Riccardo Milani sono ispirati a suoi libri.
  
  Il suo libro maggiormente apprezzato, Via Gemito, ha vinto il Premio Strega nel 2001.

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  James Baldwin

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
  
  James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
  
  He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France

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  Rachel M. Harper

  RACHEL M. HARPER is the author of three novels: THE OTHER MOTHER, upcoming from Counterpoint Press; THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE, shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and BRASS ANKLE BLUES, a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and Target Breakout Book. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been widely published and anthologized. Harper has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing. She lives in Los Angeles.

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  Jeferson Tenório

  Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.

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  Édouard Louis

  Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
  
  From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
  
  The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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  Ruth Guimarães

  Nascida em Cachoeira Paulista-SP, em 13 de junho de 1920, Ruth Botelho Guimarães, além de poeta, romancista, contista, cronista, jornalista e teatróloga, notabilizou-se como tradutora e pesquisadora da literatura oral no Brasil.1 Além disso, lecionou Língua Portuguesa por mais de 30 anos em escolas da rede pública de São Paulo.
  
  Ainda menina, revelou-se poeta e, aos dez anos de idade, já publicava seus primeiros versos nos jornais A Região e A Notícia, ambos de circulação local. Aos dezoito anos, mudou-se para a capital paulista a fim de prosseguir seus estudos na USP, onde concluiu os cursos de Filosofia e, mais tarde, de Letras Clássicas. Cursou também Folclore e Estética.
  
  Como jornalista, colaborou na imprensa paulista e carioca, mantendo t

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  Andréa del Fuego

  Andréa del Fuego é natural de São Paulo, Brasil, onde nasceu no ano de 1975. Trabalhou em publicidade, fez produção de cinema e realizou duas curtas-metragens. Colaborando em várias revistas, inicia-se na escrita com Minto enquanto Posso (2004). Uma primeira coletânea de contos seguida por Nego tudo (2005), Engano Seu (2007) e Nego Fogo (2009). Em paralelo experimenta o juvenil com Quase Caio (2008) e Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal (2008), e o registo infantil com Irmãs de Pelúcia (2010), estando também incluída em diversas antologias de contos.
  Com Os Malaquias (Brasil 2010/Portugal 2011), foi finalista do Prémio São Paulo de Literatura e do Prémio Jabuti, na categoria romance, e vencedora do Prémio Literário José Saramago, tudo em 2011.

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  Tomasz Jedrowski

  Biography: Tomasz was born in West Germany to Polish parents and studied law at Cambridge. He lives in France, exploring local history, national identity, and ecology.
  
  His debut novel SWIMMING IN THE DARK was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and William Morrow in the USA, and has been translated into thirteen languages. Film/TV rights and opera rights have been optioned. The novel was a finalist for the Polari First Book Prize (2021).
  
  ‘Imagine CALL ME BY YOUR NAME set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart.’ — The Oprah Magazine
  
  Tomasz Jedrowski is currently writing his second novel.

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  Andréa del Fuego

  Andréa del Fuego é natural de São Paulo, Brasil, onde nasceu no ano de 1975. Trabalhou em publicidade, fez produção de cinema e realizou duas curtas-metragens. Colaborando em várias revistas, inicia-se na escrita com Minto enquanto Posso (2004). Uma primeira coletânea de contos seguida por Nego tudo (2005), Engano Seu (2007) e Nego Fogo (2009). Em paralelo experimenta o juvenil com Quase Caio (2008) e Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal (2008), e o registo infantil com Irmãs de Pelúcia (2010), estando também incluída em diversas antologias de contos.
  Com Os Malaquias (Brasil 2010/Portugal 2011), foi finalista do Prémio São Paulo de Literatura e do Prémio Jabuti, na categoria romance, e vencedora do Prémio Literário José Saramago, tudo em 2011.

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