Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing Program. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
He is the recipient of the Abraham Polonsky Screenwriting Award for his screenplay Everything Divided as well as a participant in the Sundance Institute's filmmakers' lab for his current project, Fingernails and Smooth Skin. Chbosky lives in New York.
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År 2013 debuterade hon med kriminalromanen Märkta för livet på eget förlag som blev såld i 40 000 exemplar. Schepp har tecknat ett treboksavtal med Wahlström & Widstrand som hösten 2014 gav ut Märkta för livet på nytt. Märkta för livet är den första delen i serien om åklagare Jana Berzelius.
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Christel Stalpaert
Christel Stalpaert is sinds 2003 docent Theaterwetenschappen (Performing and Media Arts) aan de Universiteit Gent en mededirecteur van de onderzoeksgroep S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media). Ze studeerde Duitse filologie en Theaterwetenschappen aan de Universiteit Gent en publiceerde talrijke artikelen over theater en performance in boeken en tijdschriften (Documenta, Ballet-Tanz, Arcadia, Achttiende-eeuws Leven, e.a.).
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Katherine Noll
Katherine Noll is the author of more than 50 books for children. Her newest book,"Mirror, Mirror," is the first book in her first series for adults: "The Fat Fairy Tales."
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Katherine lives in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. While she writes she is kept company by her dog Jamie, a zany terrier-mix,and her cats Cosmo and Sabrina who help her out by walking on her keyboard. -
Karina Reiss
Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.
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Nina Gildert
Nina Gildert kommer från Vetlanda där hon arbetar som vårdadministratör. Ända sedan högstadiet har hon haft en fascination för skräckgenren, detta genom att hon tidigt upptäckte Stephen Kings böcker. Ett annat stort intresse för Nina är folktro och true crime-poddar. I mars 2020 fick hon med novellen Sömnparalys i Creepypodden och kom därefter igång med sitt skrivande på allvar vilket 2024 resulterade i boken 7 skräcknoveller innehållande sju stycken små creepypastor.
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Sara Engström
Sara Engström is an award-winning Swedish writer. She blends the well-known with the mystical, adjusts reality a bit and examines the result. She is interested in human ambiguity and her characters are filled to the brim with both flaws and ideals.
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Her latest book, Blodlunden, is a descent into dark secrets set in an 18th-century-inspired world. The ruler of the realm grafts beating hearts into ancient trees in order to control the people they once belonged to. And that’s not even the worst of it.