S.A. Chakraborty
S. A. Chakraborty is the author of the critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling The Daevabad Trilogy. Her work has been nominated for the Locus, World Fantasy, Crawford, and Astounding awards. When not buried in books about thirteen-century con artists and Abbasid political intrigue, she enjoys hiking, knitting, and re-creating unnecessarily complicated medieval meals. You can find her online at www.sachakraborty.com or on Twitter and Instagram at @SAChakrabooks, where she likes to talk about history, politics, and Islamic art. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter, and an ever-increasing number of cats.
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Nina Simon
I write crime stories about strong women. My first novel, MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT, is a New York Times bestselling mystery about a grandma, single mom, and teenage girl who come together to solve the murder of a naturalist who washes up in the Monterey Bay.
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Writing has always been my joy. In college, I was an electrical engineering student by day and a slam poet by night. After a brief stint at NASA, I started designing interactive exhibits and eventually became a museum director. I wrote two books of nonfiction about creating participatory, relevant cultural institutions. Nonprofits were my "real" job; writing was on the side.
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Alex Jennings
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Naomi Novik
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to
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Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.
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Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
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Laini Taylor
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.
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She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mi -
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Heather Fawcett
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I'm the author of books for adults and children, including Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Even the Darkest Stars, Ember and the Ice Dragons, The School Between Winter and Fairyland, and more.
I'm only occasionally on Goodreads, so if you want a more reliable way to get in contact with me, I'd recommend using social media (I'm on Instagram and Facebook) or the contact form on my website.
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Roshani Chokshi
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Laurie Forest
Laurie Forest is a New York Times, USA Today & Internationally Bestselling Author who lives deep in the backwoods of Vermont where she sits in front of a wood stove drinking strong tea and dreaming up tales full of dryads, dragons and wands. She has penned THE BLACK WITCH CHRONICLES including - THE BLACK WITCH, THE REBEL MAGES (a compilation of the prequel novels WANDFASTED & LIGHT MAGE), THE SHADOW WAND, THE DEMON TIDE & THE DRYAD STORM. She is currently working on her first standalone adult romantasy - SILVERLING.
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M.L. Wang
Hi, I'm M. L. Wang, writer of sci-fi & fantasy, winner of Mark Lawrence's 5th Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO).
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R.F. Kuang
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S.G. Prince
I’m a character-driven SFF author who writes about magic, found family, and forbidden love. Enemies to lovers is my trope. Romance is my favorite genre to read, though I'm trying to branch out. I was born in Ohio, spent a few childhood years in Missouri, grew up in Florida, and have since lived in Fort Worth, Seattle, San Francisco and now the East Bay. I bake sourdough on Wednesdays and dessert on Fridays. I’m a hobby photographer. I have two distinct writing styles, one serious (adult), one goofy (YA), which basically reflects who I am as a person. My favorite words are always, surrender and headlong. S is my least favorite letter.
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Chelsea Abdullah
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Consumed by wanderlust, she has put down roots in various states. After earning her MA in English at Duquesne University, she moved to New York, where she currently lives. When not immersed in her own fictional worlds, she spends her free time playing video games, doodling characters, and hoarding books she doesn’t have the shelf space for. -
Hannah Kaner
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Hannah’s trade has always been story telling. From creating and unravelling mysteries in Northumberland with her mates, to annoying the hell out of her supervisors at the University of Cambridge by insisting on comparing Terry Pratchett to Charles Dickens, and studying narrative theory in video games.
They grudgingly (or joyfully?) gave her a 1st Class degree in English.
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Rusty Whitener
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Taeko Kamiya
Taeko Kamiya is a internationally recognized linguist, teacher and author. She studied at Doshisha Women's College (Kyoto) before receiving Masters degrees from the University of San Francisco in education and from Monterey Institute of International Studies in linguistics. She taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and has written several critically acclaimed books about the Japanese Language.
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Luke Phillips
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From trekking through California looking for Bigfoot to camping out in the Highlands on the trail of real-life reported big cats, Luke has strayed from the mainstream into the eerie world of cryptozoology. There, truth may well be stranger and far scarier than fiction!
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Rowena Cory Daniells
I write the kind of books that keep you up all night.
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I write the kind of books that got you reading fantasy way back when. I also write gritty crime-noir with a touch of paranormal under RC Daniells.
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Ghada Karmi
Dr Ghada Karmi was born in Palestine and then had to flee with her family when it became Israel. She grew up in Britain and now she's a doctor, author, academic, and well-know international commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Ghada still vividly remembers a huge bombing just behind her house in Jerusalem. "It was absolutely dreadful. I was bewildered, I was scared - I could see my parents were scared, which is very scary for a child because you think your parents know it all and they look after you. I knew, from that moment on, things had changed for us. I didn't know how, but things weren't going to be the same again."
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Roman- und Sachbuchautorin, Dokumentarfilmautorin, Journalistin, Übersetzerin.
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Langjährige Seminarleitung im Bereich Buddhistische Spiritualität und Kontemplative Therapie.
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Nandi Taylor
Nandi grew up devouring sci-fi and fantasy novels, and from a young age wrote books of her own. Her books are an expression of what she always wanted more of growing up—diverse protagonists in speculative settings. Common themes she writes about are growth, courage, and finding one’s place in the world.
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Emma Törzs
EMMA TÖRZS is a writer, teacher, and occasional translator based in Minneapolis,
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Minnesota. Her fiction has been honored with an NEA fellowship in prose,
a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and an O. Henry Prize. Her stories
have been published in journals such as Ploughshares, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed,
Strange Horizons, and American Short Fiction. She received her MFA from
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Han Song
Born 1965 in Chongqing, Han works as a journalist for the state news agency Xinhua. His first short story collection, Gravestone of the Universe 宇宙墓碑 was published in 1981 in the Taiwanese journal Huanxiang 幻象. It waited ten years for publication in the People's Republic of China because publishers found its tone too dark.
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Sally Swift
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Kate Baker
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Kamala Markandaya
Pseudonym used by Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, an Indian novelist and journalist. A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterward published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, though she still labeled herself an Indian expatriate long afterward.
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Known for writing about culture clash between Indian urban and rural societies, Markandaya's first published novel, Nectar in a Sieve, was a bestseller and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1955. Other novels include Some Inner Fury (1955), A Silence of Desire (1960), Possession (1963), A Handful of Rice (1966), The Nowhere Man (1972), Two Virgins (1973), The Golden H -
Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen earned her PhD in folklore at Indiana University, and has since held a number of teaching positions, from UC Berkeley to state and private schools throughout the Midwest. With nearly 30 academic articles and book chapters to her name, she also focuses on making folklore research widely available to the general public.
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Rita Chang-Eppig
Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation/Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Writers Grotto, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She lives in California.
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N.E. Bode
Julianna Baggott
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Borned on 30 September 1969, she teaches at Florida State University. She's married to David G.W. Scott and has four kids. Along with her husband, she is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Kids in Need - Books in Deed., getting free books to underprivileged kids in Florida.
Today, she is a critically acclaimed and bestselling author, who wrote novels and poetry, and who has over fifty overseas editions of her books. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Best American Poetry, Best Creative Nonfiction, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Here & Now. For two years, her alter-ego, N. E. Bode was a recurring personality on XM Radio. Her wor -
Douglas Nicholas
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Other awards include Honorable Mention in the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation 2003 Prize For Poetry Awards, second place in the 2002 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards from PCCC, International Merit Award in Atlanta Review's Poetry 2002 competition, finalist in the 1996 Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry competition, honorable mention in the 1992 Scottish International Open Poetry Competition, first prize in the journa -
Benjamin Bishop
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Arwen Elys Dayton
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She spends months doing research for her stories. Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid (which she explored by flashlight when researching Resurrection), Hong Kong and its many islands, lots of ruined castles in Scotland, and the cold cities around the Baltic Sea. She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire.
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James Essinger
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Hi! My name is James Essinger and I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction.
In my fiction I have a particular interest in personal relationships, travel, history, information technology and chess.
In my non-fiction I have a particular interest in the history of computing, and in language.
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a former professor of Law and Head of Department of Islamic Jurisprudence and Legislation at the University of the Punjab. He has authored around 1000 books (over 400 of which are published) and delivered over 6000 lectures around the world. Dr Qadri has openly declared that he does not receive any royalties from his books but writes as a service to humanity. Dr Qadri has been conferred the highest Islamic academic title of 'Shaykh-ul-Islam' which means an Authority on Islam.
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As a leading politician in Pakistan he has started a peaceful anti-corruption and pro-democracy reformist struggle in December 2012.
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Sherman A. Jackson
Sherman A. Jackson (also known as Abdul Hakim Jackson) is an American scholar. He is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He was formerly the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan.
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He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan. From 1987 to 1989, he served as Executive Director of the Center of Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo, Egypt. He is author of several books, including Islamic L -
Adrian Stone
Adrian Stone is an alias for the Dutch writer Ad van Tiggelen. Adrian has always had a passion for fantasy, already from a young age.
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At the end of the seventies he was one of the first people in The Netherlands to play the then unknown game of Dungeons & Dragons with a group of friends, something he continued to do for twenty years. In his working life Adrian became an investor, a profession which caused him to travel widely and in which he has given countless presentations on amost all continents.
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Richard Reed
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Mike Veseth
Wall Street Journal wine columnist Lettie Teague writes that “Of all the wine blogs in the wide, wide blogosphere, one that I look forward to reading the most is Mike Veseth’s Wine Economist. There’s nothing else quite like it—a blend of economic insight … and often irreverent winespeak.”
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Economist Mike Veseth (pronounced VEE-seth) is an authority on global wine markets who travels the world studying wine economics and speaking to wine industry groups. He reports his discoveries on this blog, The Wine Economist, and in more than a dozen books including Wine Wars (2011), Extreme Wine (2013) and Money, Taste & Wine: It’s Complicated! (2015). The newest book, Around the World in Eighty Wines, will appear in November, 2017.
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Kara Oh
The first time Kara Oh read a romance novel, it was an accident. She'd forgotten to pack a book for a trip she was taking so she picked up a hardcover that looked interesting. She liked it so much that she went to the bookstore to purchase another by Johanna Lindsey. When the store clerk took her to the romance section, she was surprised because she'd always assumed she wouldn't like romance novels. That's when she learned that she loved romance novels and since then, she's read so many she's lost count.
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Over the years, she's focused on writing self-help relationship books. She'd always admired people who could weave a good story. But she was sure she wasn't one of those kind of people. But she was getting antsy to try something new so she d -
Katherine Forrister
Katherine Forrister is an author and narrative designer. Her works include Lodestone, The Hand-Me-Down Maiden, and Curio Citizen. Under the pen name K. E. Torwood, she published Lazare: Gaston Leroux's Continued Investigation Concerning the Phantom of the Opera.
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Katherine lives near Kansas City with her family, where she enjoys local festivals and conventions, hiking, playing open-world video games, and curling up on the sofa to read on cold winter days. -
Herbert Fingarette
Herbert Fingarette was an American philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles under the direction of Donald Piatt.
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Kesha D. Ely
I grew up on the west side of Chicago, off of Central and Division, with my 12 siblings and parents. The environment was bad but my family and I found ways to distract ourselves from the violence: by filming home movies, starting a band, hosting family award shows and brainstorming ideas for movies and tv shows. I owe my drive for creativity to them. I started writing at 8 years old, badly at that, but I've improved my hobby. I began composing piano instrumentals around the same age. My video editing hobby started about 2 years ago, I began diving into that by producing book trailers for writers online and even for myself. I've always wanted to direct or see my works come to life, making edits is the closest I can get to that right now.
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Titania Blesh
Hey, I’m Tita.
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I’m a sci-fi and fantasy author, 2022 winner of the Cassiopea Prize for Best Italian Sci-Fi Novel.
I love astronomy (duh!) and volcanoes. My life goal is to climb all the volcanoes on Earth and Olympus Mons on Mars.
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Michael Waddington
Michael Waddington is a criminal defense lawyer and best-selling author who defends cases in military courts worldwide. He has been reported on and quoted by hundreds of major media sources worldwide. He has provided consultation services to CNN Investigative Reports, 60 Minutes, Katie Couric, ABC's "Nightline," the BBC, German Public Television, CNN, CBS, the Golden Globe-winning TV series "The Good Wife," and various other international media outlets.
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He appeared in a major CNN documentary, "Killings at the Canal" and some of his cases have been the subject of books and movies. These include the Academy Award-winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side," the 2019 feature film, "The Kill Team," (and the 2013 documentary by the same name), th -
Jami Fairleigh
Jami Fairleigh is a biracial, Japanese-American writer, urban planner, and hobby collector from Washington. She shares her life with a husband, a trio of well-mannered horses, a pair of dubiously behaved parrots, and one neurotic dog.
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Ava Kelly
Ava Kelly is an engineer with a deep passion for stories. Whether reading, watching, or writing them, Ava has always been surrounded by tales of all genres. Their goal is to bring more stories to life, especially those of friendship and compassion, those dedicated to trope subversion, those that give the void a voice, and those that spawn worlds of their own.
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Matthew A. Goodwin
Matthew A. Goodwin has been writing about spaceships, dragons and adventures since he was twelve years old. His passion for fantasy began when he discovered a box set of the Hobbit radio drama on cassette tape in his school’s library at the age of seven. He fell in love with fantasy worlds and soon discovered D&D and Warhammer miniatures.
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Not wanting to be limited by worlds designed by others, he created Thutopia (now called the Thuton Empire), a fantasy world of his own which he still writes about to this day.
Like many kids with an affinity for fantasy, a love of science fiction soon followed. He loved sweeping space operas and gritty cyberpunk stories which asked questions about man’s relationship to technology. That led him to write his -
Gisèle Pineau
Gisèle Pineau is a French novelist, writer and former psychiatric nurse. Although born in Paris, her origins are Guadeloupean and she has written several books on the difficulties and torments of her childhood as a Black person growing up in Parisian society.
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During her youth, she divided her time between France and Guadeloupe due to her father's stationing in the military.[2] Pineau struggled with her identity as a Black immigrant due to the racism and xenophobia she experienced at her all-white school in the Kremlin-Bicotre suburb.[2] Pineau took to writing in order to console the difficulties of her French upbringing and Caribbean heritage, as her works would connect the two cultures rather than separating them.[3][4]
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Gabriela Rabago Palafox
Narradora, poeta y dramaturga. Fue profesora normalista; comentarista y guionista de televisión. Colaboró en Al Sur del Sur, Círculo Administrativo Económico y Contable, El Cuento, El Gallo Ilustrado, El Heraldo de México, Excélsior, Geo, Geografía Universal, La Onda, La Semana de Bellas Artes, Natura, Nonotza, Política y Cultura, Siete, Tierra Adentro, y Vudú. Becaria del CME, 1979. Premio Nacional de Cuento Infantil Juan de la Cabada 1977 por Relatos de la ciudad sin dueño. Premio Puebla de Ciencia Ficción 1988 por Pandemia. Premio Clementina Otero de Barrios 1979 por Godofrina. Premio Literario de Novela Policiaca 1994 en cuento por Los cazadores.
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Francisco Ramalheira
Francisco Ramalheira é professor, gosta de jogar à bola com os amigos e de comer tudo aquilo que acrescenta tecido adiposo. Quem o conhece diz que é um pouco distraído. Quem o conhece bem, sabe que «pouco» é um eufemismo. Tem uma cadela, chamada Luz, e dois gatinhos, a Farrusca e o Ranhoso, não sendo da sua responsabilidade o processo de batismo deste último.
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O escritório da sua humilde habitação está repleto de todo o género de livros (incluindo de banda desenhada), videojogos e jogos de tabuleiro. É para lá que vai quando quer abandonar a civilização.
É o autor do podcast «Ora Eça», no qual conversa com várias personalidades do mundo literário português.
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