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Ramona Depares

Ramona Depares is an author & journalist based in Malta. She has edited several local publications and magazines, including the lifestyle magazine Sunday Circle and the cultural quarterly Encore.

She joined The Times of Malta as a legal reporter soon after graduating in law. She was eventually appointed features editor, culture editor and - later - news editor at The Times of Malta.

Today she runs a website that specialises in culture related features and reviews - https://www.ramonadepares.com. She also runs an SEO content-writing project at https://contentculture.mt while working on new creative writing projects.

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John A. Bonello

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

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Antoine Cassar

Born in London to Maltese parents in 1978, Antoine Cassar grew up between England, Malta and Spain, and worked and studied in Italy, France and Luxembourg. In 2004, after a thirteen-year absence from the Maltese islands, he returned to Qrendi, the village of his family, to re-learn a language he had long forgotten.

A writer of Maltese, English and multilingual verse, in 2008 he represented Malta at the Puglia Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, and recited his poetry with Nabil Salameh of the Italo-Palestinian musical band Radiodervish. His book Mużajk, an exploration in multilingual verse (Ed. Skarta, 2008) was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and at the poetry festivals of Copenhagen and Berlin.

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Antoinette Borg

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

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Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.
O'Brien is perhaps best known for his book The Things They Carried (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by his wartime experiences. In 2010, The New York Times described it as "a classic of contemporary war fiction." O'Brien wrote the war novel, Going After Cacciato (1978), which was awarded the National Book Award.
O'Brien taught creative writing, holding the endowed chair at the MFA program of Texas State University–San Marcos every other academic year from 2003 to 2012.

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Craig Thompson

Craig Ringwalt Thompson (b. September 21, 1975 in Traverse City, Michigan) is a graphic novelist best known for his 2003 work Blankets. Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.

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William H. Gass

William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.

Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota. Soon after his birth, his family moved to Warren, Ohio, where he attended local schools. He has described his childhood as an unhappy one, with an abusive, racist father and a passive, alcoholic mother; critics would later cite his characters as having these same qualities.

He attended Wesleyan University, then served as an Ensign in the Navy during World War II, a period he describes as perhaps the worst of his life. He earned his A.B. in philosophy from Kenyon College in 1947, then his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1954, where he studied under Max Black. His dissertation,

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Hisham Matar

Hisham Matar was born in New York City, where his father was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations. When he was three years old, his family went back to Tripoli, Libya, where he spent his early childhood. Due to political persecutions by the Ghaddafi regime, in 1979 his father was accused of being a reactionary to the Libyan revolutionary regime and was forced to flee the country with his family. They lived in exile in Egypt where Hisham and his brother completed their schooling in Cairo. In 1986 he moved to London, United Kingdom, where he continued his studies and received a degree in architecture. In 1990, while he was still in London, his father, a political dissident, was kidnapped in Cairo. He has been reported missi

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.

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Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree गीताजंली क्ष्री (She was known as Geentanjali Pandey, and she took her mother's first name Shree as her last name) (born 1957) is a Hindi novelist and short story writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the author of several short stories and three novels. Mai was short listed for the Crossword Book Award in 2001. She has also written a critical work on Premchand.

Her first story, Bel Patra (1987) was published in the literary magazine Hans and was followed by a collection of short stories Anugoonj (1991)

The English translation of her novel Mai catapulted her into fame. The novel is about three generations of women and the men around them, in a North Indian middle-class family. Mai is translated into Serbian, Korean and Ge

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Deborah Abela

Deb knew she wanted to be a writer when she was 7 years old. Her first story was about a man made out of cheese. It wasn’t very good. She’s had much more practice writing since then and strangely enough her first writing job was for a kids’ show on channel Ten called “Cheez TV”. After 7 years of writing scripts about everything from llamas to bungy jumping and how to go to the toilet in outer space, Deb wrote her first novel - Max Remy Superspy Part 1: In Search of the Time and Space Machine.

It’s about a feisty girl called Max and her best friend Linden who travel the world as secret agents fighting bad guys. It’s an action packed series based on loads of adventures Deb had, just after she left school. She’s slept beside alligators, been h

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Immanuel Mifsud

Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967, the youngest in a working class family of eight children.

He started writing poetry at age 16, when he co-founded the literary group Versarti. At that same age he began to work in experimental theatre groups, directing his own plays and later he directed plays by Chekhov, Dario Fo, Max Frisch, Federico Garcia Lorca, David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Alfred Buttigieg.

Immanuel Mifsud writes poetry and prose, and some of his works have been translated into various languages and published in various European countries and USA.

His 2002 short story collection L-Istejjer Strambi ta' Sara Sue Sammut (Sara Sue Sammut's Strange Stories) won the Malta National Literary Award. The same book was later nominated for

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Trevor Żahra

Trevor Żahra, twieled iż-Żejtun fis-16 ta’ Diċembru 1947; bin Walter u Ġuża nee Caruana. Trevor huwa t-tielet minn erba’ aħwa. Huwa studja fl-iskola Sekondarja Teknika ta’ Raħal Ġdid u s-Sitt Klassi fil-Liċeo. Fl-1966 daħal jaħdem għal żmien qasir mal-istazzjoni tat-TV lokali, bħala script writer. Kien ukoll jipproduċi programmi għat-tfal u jagħmel xogħol ta’ Presentation Officer. Fl-1967 daħal il-Kulleġġ ta’ l-Għalliema fejn wara kors ta’ sentejn beda jgħallem il-Malti u l-Arti fl-iskejjel sekondarji. Illum huwa jinsab irtirat wara karriera ta’ 33 sena.

Trevor iżżewweg lil Stella nee Agius fl-1971 u kellhom żewgt itfal: Ruben u Marija. Stella mietet fl-1989 u llum Trevor huwa armel. Ta’ eta’ żgħira beda jinteressa ruħu fil-kitba u l-Arti. I

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Tatiana Salem Levy

Tatiana Salem Levy is a Brazilian writer and translator. Her parents were Turkish Jews established in Portugal during Brazilian military government. She studied literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and she has lived in the United States and France.

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Karl Schembri

Karl Schembri, born in 1978, is a novelist and poet who branched out of investigative journalism into the humanitarian field, all the while maintaining a healthy literary output. His first published work appeared in 1997 with the self-published poetry anthology Frekwenzi ta’ Spirti fis-Sakra (Frequencies of Drunken Spirits). Next came the short story collection Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx (Under the Sun, Minima) in 2002, which placed Schembri in the roster of alternative literary voices gathered under the umbrella of the short-lived but deeply influential micro-publisher Minima. But it was the release of his debut novel Il-Manifest tal-Killer (Choppy Books, 2006) which secured his position as a notable and urgent literary voice, even leading vet

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Clare Azzopardi

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

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Sarah Bernstein

Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in Scotland where she teaches at Edinburgh University. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in tender, Contemporary Women’s Writing, MAP and Cumulus. Now Comes the Lightning, a collection of poems, was published by Pedlar Press in 2015.

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Katya Adaui

Ha escrito los libros de relatos Aquí hay icebergs (La Perra Gráfica, Bolivia, 2018 y Penguin Random House, Perú, 2018), Algo se nos ha escapado (Criatura Editora, Uruguay, 2013 y Borrador Editores, Perú, 2011) y la novela: Nunca sabré lo que entiendo (Planeta 2018 y 2014, Perú). Sus cuentos aparecen en antologías peruanas y extranjeras. Su obra Siete olas fue presentada en Microteatro Lima. Trabaja como guionista de cine, columnista y tallerista. Entre septiembre y octubre de 2018 fue invitada a Pekín como residente del programa internacional de escritura de la academia de literatura Lu Xun. Cursó la maestría en Escritura Creativa de la Universidad Tres de Febrero en Buenos Aires.

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Antoinette Borg

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

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Karl Schembri

Karl Schembri, born in 1978, is a novelist and poet who branched out of investigative journalism into the humanitarian field, all the while maintaining a healthy literary output. His first published work appeared in 1997 with the self-published poetry anthology Frekwenzi ta’ Spirti fis-Sakra (Frequencies of Drunken Spirits). Next came the short story collection Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx (Under the Sun, Minima) in 2002, which placed Schembri in the roster of alternative literary voices gathered under the umbrella of the short-lived but deeply influential micro-publisher Minima. But it was the release of his debut novel Il-Manifest tal-Killer (Choppy Books, 2006) which secured his position as a notable and urgent literary voice, even leading vet

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