Susan Abulhawa
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(Arabic: سوزان أبو الهوى)
susan abulhawa was born to refugees of the 1967 war when Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter. She is the founder and President of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water, was likewise a bestseller, translated into 20 languages. The reach of her books and volume of her readership have made abulhawa one of the most widely read Arab authors in the world. Her latest novel, Against the Loveless Wo
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Hatem al-Haj
Dr. Hatem al-Haj is Dean of the Sharia Academy of America and a member of the Fatwa Committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA). He holds a PhD in Comparative Fiqh and a Masters in Islamic Law. He is the author of many published articles on Islamic topics.
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Dr. al-Haj’s website, www.drhatemalhaj.com, is a useful resource for information on Islam and topics of interest to new Muslims, young Muslims, and Muslims living in non-Muslim societies. -
Andie Dominick
Andie Dominick grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and earned a bachelor of arts degree in English and a master of arts degree in creative writing from Iowa State University. She published a book based on her and her older sister's experiences with Type 1 Diabetes, entitled Needles. She says "I have always loved writing and I've always loved to observe and comment on the world around me." Dominick lives in Des Moines with her husband, Doug, and their three children.
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Nejra Mekić - Korkmaz
Nejra Mekić-Korkmaz je Sarajka koja živi i radi u Turskoj, a objavila je knjigu "Kišni ljiljan".
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''Nakon udaje preselila sam se u Istanbul i posljednjih godina sa porodicom živim na relaciji Istanbul - Teheran. Imala sam priliku da upoznam žene iz naše države, ali i žene iz Sirije, Afganistana, Libije, Pakistana, žene koje su prošle kroz jednu od najgorih trauma - silovanje. Upravo zbog toga sam se i odlučila da ih podržim pisanjem knjige "Kišni ljiljan" - ističe Sarajka. -
Aldin Omeragić
AIdin Omeragić rođen je 09.06.1996. godine u Sarajevu, gdje je završio osnovnu i srednju školu, a nakon toga upisuje Ekonomski fakultet u Sarajevu. Nepredvidivom sudbinom i smrti njegove majke, njegov život kreće drugim putem. Kao petogodišnjak dolazi u Dom za djecu bez roditeljskog staranja u Sarajevu, u kojem počinje praviti prve korake u kreiranju svoga života. Tokom odrastanja u Domu tražio je odgovore na mnoga pitanja o svome ocu i razlogu njegovog odrastanja u Domu. Od malih nogu, Aldin je naučio vrijednost zajedništva i borbe. Njegova odlučnost da ne odustane i da se bori oblikovala je njegov put ka zreloj osobi. Kroz ljubav prema sportu pronašao je izlaz iz svakodnevne stvarnosti. Sport mu je davao osjećaj pripadnosti. Košarku je tr
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Sarah Cypher
Sarah Cypher is a freelance book editor and author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine, April 2023). She has an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Creative Writing Fellow in fiction. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New Ohio Review, Majuscule, North American Review, LEON Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She grew up in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife.
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William F. Powell
William F. Powell is an internationally recognized artist recognized as one of America's foremost colorists. He has written and illustrated more than 30 instructional art books.
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Elizabeth Haran
Elizabeth Haran was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (known as Southern Rhodesia.
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Afterwards, her family moved to England and wandered from there to Australia. Today she lives with her husband in a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. She has two grown sons. Her passion for writing she discovered early 30s.Previously she worked as a model, owned a nursery and worked with young children in a primary school.
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Sibilla Aleramo
Sibilla Aleramo (14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian author and feminist best known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.
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Her first book described her decision to leave her husband and son and move to Rome, which she did in 1901. She became active in political and artistic circles. During this time she writes extensively on feminism and homosexual understanding. -
Lemn Sissay
Lemn Sissay OBE (born 21 May 1967), is a British author and broadcaster.
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is a controversial American author and former associate professor of political science and social studies at Harvard University. Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two books about the Holocaust: Hitler's Willing Executioners (1996) and A Moral Reckoning (2002). He is also the author of Worse Than War (2009), which examines the phenomenon of genocide.
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"The book [Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust] sparked controversy in the press and academic circles. Some historians have characterized its reception as an extension of the Historikerstreit, the German historiographical debate of the 1980s that sought to explain Nazi history. The book was a "publis -
Basem Khandaqji
Basem Khandaqji (Arabic: باسم خندقجي) is a Palestinian writer, journalist, and prisoner, was born in 1983. His novel A Mask, the Color of the Sky won the Arabic Booker Prize in 2024.
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He has studied at An-Najah National University and Al-Quds University. He was arrested by the Israeli defence forces on November 2, 2004, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has published several novels, poems, and studies from prison.
باسم خندقجي، كاتب وشاعر فلسطيني من مواليد 1983. درس في جامعة النجاح الوطنية في قسم الصحافة والإعلام. اعتُقِل من قبل قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلية في 2004، وحكم عليه بالسجن مدى الحياة.
له عدة روايات ودواوين شعر كتبها من داخل السجن.
فازت روايته «قناع بلون السماء» بالجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية 2024. -
Layla K. Feghali
Layla K. Feghali is an ethnobotanist, cultural worker, and author who lives between her ancestral village in Lebanon and her diasporic home in California, where she was born and raised. Her dedication is the stewardship of eco-cultural re-membrance and decolonization movements, and the many layers of relational restoration, systemic reckoning, and healing that entails. Feghali offers a line of plantcestral medicine, education, and other culturally-rooted offerings and mutual aid efforts, with an emphasis on land-based ancestral practices from the Crossroads (southwest Asia + northern Africa) and its diasporas.
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She has a background in mental health (MSW), community organizing, herbalism, folkoric dance, and traditional healing.
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Stefania Auci
Stefania Auci è nata a Trapani ma vive da anni a Palermo, dopo aver girato l’Italia. Insegnante, ex avvocato, ex cancelliere, si dedica alla narrativa urban fantasy, horror e romance sin dall’adolescenza.
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A ottobre 2011 è uscito il suo romance di esordio, Fiore di Scozia, edito da Harlequin Mondadori e a dicembre 2012 il suo seguito La Rosa Bianca. Nel 2010 ha pubblicato con edizioni 0111 Hidden in the dark, breve raccolta di racconti urban fantasy tratti dalla saga di Moray Place 12, Edimburgo. -
Abu Bakr Khaal
Abu Bakr Hamid Khaal is an Eritrean writer. He is best known for his 2008 novel African Titanics which was translated into English by Charis Bredin.[1] He has written a couple of other books, e.g. The Scent of Arms and Barkantiyya: Land of the Wise Woman.
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A member of the Eritrean Liberation Front who fought against the Ethiopian government, Khaal also lived in Libya for many years before moving to Denmark.[2] -
Izzeldin Abuelaish
Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian medical doctor and founder of the Daughters for Life Foundation.
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Before his three daughters were killed by an Israeli tank shell during the Israeli incursion into Gaza,Dr. Abuelaish worked as a researcher at the Gertner Institute at the Sheba Hospital in Tel Aviv and was the first Palestinian doctor to receive a staff position at an Israeli hospital.
Abueaish is an important figure in promoting Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. -
Julie A. Swanson
Julie Swanson grew up on Michigan's "Little Finger", the Leelanau Peninsula, where many of her stories are set, but has lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, California, and Virginia. For the past twenty-five years she's lived in Charlottesville, VA. Julie writes middle grade and young adult novels and enjoys sports, the outdoors, "making things" (almost any type of art or craft, woodworking), reading, writing, eating, planting trees, and spending time with family. She suddenly has 6 grandchildren! Good thing she loves kids...
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Alexander Khan
Alexander Khan is a British-born writer, former British soldier, and passionate storyteller whose memoirs delve into the raw terrain of identity, loss, and the long road to healing. Born in Scotland to a Pakistani father and an English mother, his early life was marked by displacement, cultural conflict, and the silent struggle of living between two worlds.
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His debut memoir, Orphan of Islam (HarperCollins, 2012), broke new ground by giving voice to a story few dared to tell. Deeply personal and powerfully honest, it struck a chord with readers from all walks of life and continues to resonate to this day.
Now based in Hampshire with his wife and son, Alexander divides his time between writing, public speaking, and advocacy. A qualified skydive -
Carmine Abate
Carmine Abate was born in Calabria, southern Italy. He immigrated to Germany at a young age and now lives in Trentino, northern Italy, where he teaches university. His first book, a collection of short stories, was published in 1984. He has since published numerous prize-winning novels including Between Two Seas and a collection of poetry.
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Veit Heinichen
Veit Heinichen, né en 1957, a été journaliste, éditeur puis cofondateur de la maison d'édition Berlin Verlag en 1994. Amoureux de la ville de Trieste depuis sa première visite en 1980, il y vit désormais comme journaliste et écrivain.
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Faustin Charles
Faustin Charles was born in Trinidad in 1944 and his passion for writing started when he was still at school. As there are no publishing houses in the Caribbean, he came to the conclusion that he would have to move to Britain or the United States in order to have a career.
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He has been regularly published since 1969 but has not confined his talents to the written word.. He is passionate about the culture, myths and folktales of the whole Caribbean area and has worked tirelessly to promote knowledge, interest and understanding amongst ex-patriots and his adopted countrymen alike.
He has been the Community Literacy Officer in Enfield since 1997 and has encouraged many youngsters to realise the richness and pleasure of the written word. He undert -
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a Haitian academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Rolph (as he was known conversationally) was the son of Ernst Trouillot and Anne-Marie Morisset, both Black intellectuals from Port-au-Prince. His father was a lawyer and his uncle, Hénock Trouillot was a professor who worked in the National Archives of Haiti. Hénock was an influential noiriste historian. He attended the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint-Martial, moving on to the École Normale Supérieure. However, faced with repression from the Duvalier regime in 1968, Trouillot joined a mass exodus of students who found refuge in New York.
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In 2011 Trouillot was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime -
Sunisa Manning
Sunisa Manning was born and raised in Bangkok by Thai and American parents. She went to Brown University and now lives in California. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and other places. She's been honoured with residencies at Hedgebrook and Hambidge, and awarded fellowships at San Jose State and the SF Writer’s Grotto. A Good True Thai is her first novel.
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Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays, and a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Fadia Faqir
Fadia Faqir (b. 1956) is a British Arab writer based in Durham, UK. Her work was translated into fifteen languages and published in eighteen countries. She is a Writing Fellow at St Aidan's College, Durham University, where she teaches creative writing.
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Faqir’s work is written entirely in English and is the subject of much ongoing academic research and discussion, particularly for its ‘translation’ of aspects of Arab culture. It is recognised for its stylistic invention and its incorporation of issues to do with Third World women’s lives, migration, and cultural in-betweeness -
Feri Lainšček
Rodil se je očetu Štefanu Lainščku in mami Tereziji. Gimnazijo je obiskoval v Murski Soboti. Svojo študijsko pot je nadaljeval na tedanji Fakulteti za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, kjer je študiral novinarstvo. Lainšček ima status samostojnega ustvarjalca v kulturi in je solastnik in urednik Podjetja za promocijo kulture Franc-Franc.
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Feri Lainšček je za svoja literarna dela prejel številne nagrade in priznanja. Leta 1995 mu je Prešernov sklad dodelil nagrado za roman Ki jo je megla prinesla. Dve leti kasneje je prejel nagrado kresnik za roman Namesto koga roža cveti. Leta 2007 je ponovno prejel nagrado kresnik za roman Muriša. Zbirka pravljic Mislice so prejele nagrado večernice za najboljšo slovensko mladinsko literarno delo. -
James W. Bennetts
James W Bennetts is an author, consultant, and native of Minnesota, where he lives with his partner. CATECHISMS is his second novel, following up his internationally published first novel, THE NAME GAME, about a thief who mistakenly assumes the identity of a wanted man.
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Rosa Ventrella
Rosa Ventrella was born in Bari and lives in Cremona. She graduated in modern history and received a master’s in school management. She has given several lectures on the condition of women in history and in her novels counts passionately about the feelings and worries of women. She also teaches creative writing. Her novel Il giardino degli oleandri, (Newton Compton, 2013) has sold over 50,000 copies, for months in the charts of the best-selling novels, and is currently being translated in Germany, Poland, Greece, Serbia and Lithuania. Fiori di magnolia, (Amazon Publishing, 2017), for months in the top 100 best selling ebook of contemporary fiction. Storia di una famiglia perbene (Newton Compton) was the literary case of the London BookFair
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كريمة أحداد, Karima Ahdad
روائية وصحافية مغربية مقيمة بإسطنبول. وُلدت بمدينة الحسيمة شمال المغرب عام 1993. عمِلت في مجال الصحافة المكتوبة والرقمية داخل وخارج المغرب منذ عام 2014.
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حاصلة على الإجازة في الإعلام والاتصال من المعهد العالي للإعلام والاتصال بالرباط عام 2014، وعلى ماستر في الاتصال السياسي من نفس المعهد عام 2017.
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ـ نزيف آخر الحلم: مجموعة قصصية حاصلة على جائزة اتحاد كتاب المغرب للأدباء الشباب عام 2015.
ـ بنات الصبّار: رواية صادرة عن دار الفنك للنشر عام 2018، وحاصلة على جائزة محمد زفزاف للرواية عام 2019. وهي الآن قيد الترجمة إلى اللغة الإنجليزية
ـ حلمٌ تركي: رواية صادرة عن المركز الثقافي العربي عام 2021.
ـ المرأة الأخرى: صادرة عن منشورات المتوسط 2024
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Chiara Comito
Chiara Comito, arabista, è laureata in Lingue e in Relazioni e istituzioni di Asia e Africa. Nel 2012 ha fondato Editoriaraba, il principale sito web italiano sulla letteratura araba contemporanea. Ha scritto per diverse testate “Internazionale”, “Vice”, “Arab Media Report”. Lavora come analista geopolitica occupandosi di Medio Oriente e collabora con festival letterari e del cinema, case editrici, librerie e biblioteche per promuovere la cultura araba.
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A.R. Azzam
Dr Abdul Rahman Azzam is a graduate of Oxford University where he completed his BA and PhD in history. He is the author of RUMI AND THE KINGDOM OF JOY (Muhammadi Trust, 2000) and in 2007 Longman published his biography of Saladin to critical acclaim. The Edinburgh Evening News called it ‘a comprehensive survey not just of the man, but of the age in which he lived’, the FT Weekend described it as ‘absorbing’ and The Irish News praised the book as ‘timely and well-written'. SALADIN was a bestseller when published in Arabic and was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam. THE OTHER EXILE, about the St Helena Island hermit, Fernão Lopes, a real-life Robinson Crusoe, was published in May 2017, and he is working on THE RET
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Nada Samih-Rotondo
Nada Samih-Rotondo is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer, educator, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. When she is not befriending trees or attuning to hidden stories, she is leading transformational educational experiences and addressing the social-emotional needs of historically underserved and multilingual youth. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works as the manager of education at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. All Water Has Perfect Memory, her first bo
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Sony Labou Tansi
Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 - 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the "New African Writing." His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years, he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.
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Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif (Arabic: أهداف سويف) is an Egyptian short story writer, novelist and political and cultural commentator. She was educated in Egypt and England - studied for a PhD in linguistics at the University of Lancaster.
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Her novel The Map of Love (1999) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and subsequently translated into 21 languages. Soueif writes primarily in English, but her Arabic-speaking readers say they can hear the Arabic through the English. Along with in-depth and sensitive readings of Egyptian history and politics, Soueif also writes about Palestinians in her fiction and non-fiction. A shorter version of "Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey" was originally published in The Guardian and then printed in full in Soueif's re -
Jack D. Forbes
Jack D. Forbes was a Native-American writer, scholar and political activist. He is best known for his book, Columbus and Other Cannibals, which has become a primary text of the Anti-civilization Movement.
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Ava Homa
Ava Homa is a writer, journalist, and activist. DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND FIRE (May 2020) is her debut novel published by the HarperCollins in Canada & ABRAMS in the US. Her collection of short stories Echoes from the Other Land (Mawenzi, Toronto, 2010) was nominated for the 2011 Frank O’Conner Short Story Prize and secured a place among the ten winners of the 2011 CBC Reader’s Choice Contest, running concurrently with the Giller Prize. Homa is also the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-In-Exile Scholarship.
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In different settings across North America and Europe, Homa has delivered speeches on writing as resistance, human rights, gender equality, Kurdish affairs, media literacy, and other topics.
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Max Lobe
Max Lobe is a Swiss-Cameroonian novelist, short story writer, and poet. In 2017, he received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize for his novel Confidences about the Cameroon war of independence. He currently lives in Geneva where he founded GenevAfrica, an association that builds bridges between Swiss and African authors.
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Hesham Al-Awadi
He was born in Kuwait and educated in the United Kingdom.
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He completed his BA, MA, MPhil and PhD in the fields History, Politics, International Relations and Communication in various British universities including the University of Cambridge and Exeter.
He taught history for graduates and undergraduates at George Washington University in the States, and at Exeter University in the UK.
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Claire Hajaj
Claire Hajaj has spent her life building bridges between two worlds, sharing both Palestinian and Jewish heritage. She has lived on four continents and worked for the United Nations in war zones from Burma to Baghdad. A former contributor to the BBC World Service, Claire’s writing has also appeared in Time Out and Literary Review. She lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh Dhondy is an Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist of Parsi descent. He is well known not only for his writing, but also for his film and TV work.
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Roopa Farooki
Roopa was brought up in London and graduated from New College in Oxford in 1995. She worked in advertising and it 2004 quit to write full time. She now lives in south east London and south west France with her husband and two sons. Bitter Sweets is her first novel and in 2007 it was nominated for the Orange Award for New Writer.
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Her second novel, Corner Shop was released in October 2008 and her third novel is due in 2009. -
Yewande Omotoso
YEWANDE OMOTOSO was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria, moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. Trained as an Architect she is the author of Bom Boy (Modjaji Books, 2011) which won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist in the the inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize. Her second novel The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus, 2016) was longlisted for the Bailey's Women Prize and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic, 2022) is Omotoso's third novel. Omotoso works as a Storytelling Advisor with Greenpeace International and lives in Johannesburg.
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Stefania Barca
STEFANIA BARCA é investigadora doutorada do CES, onde coordena a equipa do projecto FP7 Marie Curie ITN 'Entitle'. Obteve o seu Doutoramento em História Económica pela Universidade de Bari (Itália) em 1997; possui agregação como professora associada em História Contemporânea e em História Económica pelo Ministério da Educação, Universidade e Investigação (MIUR) na Itália, e lecciona cursos sobre a crise ecológica nos programas de doutoramento do CES/UC. Em 2005-06 foi investigadora visitante no âmbito do Programa de Estudos Agrários da Universidade de Yale, e de 2006 a 2008 foi pós-doutoranda 'Ciriacy Wantrup' na Universidade de California em Berkeley. As suas publicações incluem uma série de artigos em revistas italianas e internacionais,
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