John Bonello is the award winning author of the young adult fantasy trilogy ‘Il-Logħba tal-Allat’ (The Game of the Gods), the time-travelling duology for adults ‘Unus Mundus’ and the series of detective novels for children Irvin Vella, Virtual Investigator. Learn more about him at www.johnabonello.com
Antoinette Borg (imwielda fl-1973) iggradwat bħala accountant u għal għoxrin sena kienet taħdem bħala business advisor waqt li toħlom li xi darba ssir kittieba. Fl-2015 ħalliet ix-xogħol biex tipprova twettaq il-ħolma tagħha, u fl-2016 ippubblikat l-ewwel rumanz tagħha, Fittixni, li eventwalment rebaħ il-Premju Terramaxka fil-kategorija Xogħlijiet Oriġinali: Kotba għall-Adolexxenti. Fl-2018 ippubblikat it-tieni rumanz tagħha, (Ri)ġenerazzjoni, li bħala manuskritt kien rebbieħ tal-Konkors ta' Kitba Letteratura għaż-Żgħażagħ 2016. Iktar tard fl-2018 Antoinette ngħatat il-premju għall-Aħjar Awtur Emerġenti mill-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb u ppubblikat it-tielet rumanz tagħha, Amina. Antoinette toqgħod il-Mellieħa ma’ żewġha Brian u ż-żew
Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.
In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a
Matt Haig is the author of novels such as The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Radleys, and the forthcoming The Life Impossible. He has also written books for children, such as A Boy Called Christmas, and the memoir Reasons to Stay Alive.
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi
È il personaggio letterario di un racconto di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle su Sherlock Holmes. Di lei si dice avesse «il viso più bello fra le donne, e la mente del più deciso degli uomini». Dietro questo pseudonimo si nasconde Alessandro Gatti.
Clare Azzopardi (1977) is an award-winning writer who writes for both children and adults. She is the Head of Department of Maltese at the University of Malta Junior College and for the past several years has been an active member of Inizjamed, an NGO whose mission is to promote literature in Malta and abroad. With Inizjamed, she has co-organised literary festivals and workshops, often in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers (LAF). Her work has been translated into several languages and has appeared in a number of collections including Transcript, In Focus, Cúirt 21, Skald, Words without Borders and Novel of the World. Her play L-Interdett Taħt is-Sodda was published in French (Éditions Théâtrales, 2008) and in Arabic (I-ACT, 2009
Christy Lefteri was born in London in 1980 to Greek Cypriot parents who moved to London in 1974. She completed a degree in English and a Masters in creative writing at Brunel University. She taught English to foreign students and then became a secondary school teacher before leaving to pursue a PhD and to write. She is also studying to become a psychotherapist.
John Bonello is the award winning author of the young adult fantasy trilogy ‘Il-Logħba tal-Allat’ (The Game of the Gods), the time-travelling duology for adults ‘Unus Mundus’ and the series of detective novels for children Irvin Vella, Virtual Investigator. Learn more about him at www.johnabonello.com
Beth studied English at university before going into children’s publishing. She lives as close to the countryside as she can get while still being within reach of London, and wrote her first novel, The Flatshare, on her train journey to and from work. You’ll usually find her curled up with a book, a cup of tea, and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather).
Antoinette Borg (imwielda fl-1973) iggradwat bħala accountant u għal għoxrin sena kienet taħdem bħala business advisor waqt li toħlom li xi darba ssir kittieba. Fl-2015 ħalliet ix-xogħol biex tipprova twettaq il-ħolma tagħha, u fl-2016 ippubblikat l-ewwel rumanz tagħha, Fittixni, li eventwalment rebaħ il-Premju Terramaxka fil-kategorija Xogħlijiet Oriġinali: Kotba għall-Adolexxenti. Fl-2018 ippubblikat it-tieni rumanz tagħha, (Ri)ġenerazzjoni, li bħala manuskritt kien rebbieħ tal-Konkors ta' Kitba Letteratura għaż-Żgħażagħ 2016. Iktar tard fl-2018 Antoinette ngħatat il-premju għall-Aħjar Awtur Emerġenti mill-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb u ppubblikat it-tielet rumanz tagħha, Amina. Antoinette toqgħod il-Mellieħa ma’ żewġha Brian u ż-żew
Social worker by profession, specializing in the area of children in care, with experience in working with trauma, LGBTQI and youths. Started writing as a way of processing my personal looses and ended up finding a new way of how to express myself with the rest of the world. I try to enrich my narrative novels with core values which are part of my identity. Elements such as righteousness and sense of justice, empathy and above all, kindness.
Social worker by profession, specializing in the area of children in care, with experience in working with trauma, LGBTQI and youths. Started writing as a way of processing my personal looses and ended up finding a new way of how to express myself with the rest of the world. I try to enrich my narrative novels with core values which are part of my identity. Elements such as righteousness and sense of justice, empathy and above all, kindness.
