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  Antun Branko Šimić

  Pjesnik, esejist, kritičar i prevoditelj. Šimić bijaše pjesnikom izrazite težnje da zgusnutim, škrtim stihom intenzivira doživljaj svijeta. Takav je bio i kao esejist i kritik: volio je strogi red, čuvao se razlivenosti i praznine.
  Napisao je brojne eseje, književne i likovne kritike, polemike o novom pjesništvu, nekoliko kraćih proza, dnevnik, autobiografiju, nekoliko dramskih fragmenata, te započeo roman Dvostruko lice. Posthumno su mu objavljena izabrana djela, sabrana djela, proza i poezija.

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  Marguerite Duras

  Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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  Ivo Andrić

  Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
  Born in Travnik in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andrić attended high school in Sarajevo, where he became an active member of several South Slav national youth organizations. Following the assassination of Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Andrić was arrested and imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian police, who suspected his involvement in the plot. As the authorities were unable to build a strong case against him, he spent much of the war under house arrest, only being r

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  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
  Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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  Danzy Senna

  Danzy Senna is an American novelist, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Her parents, Carl Senna, an Afro-Mexican poet and author, and Fanny Howe, who is Irish-American writer, were also civil rights activists.
  
  She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards.
  
  Her debut novel, Caucasia (later republished as From Caucasia With Love), was well received and won several awards including the Book-Of-The-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association.
  
  Her second novel, Symptomatic, was also well received. Both books feature a biracial protagonist and offer a unique view on life from

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  Yōko Ogawa

  Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.
  
  A film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals; the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Og

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  Tove Jansson

  Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.
  
  Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.
  
  Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.
  
  Jansson's Moomin books have been translated in

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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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  Miroslav Krleža

  A leading Croatian writer and figure in the cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918-1941) and the Republic (from 1945, until his death in 1981). He has been often proclaimed as the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.

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  Irena Vrkljan

  Hrvatska pjesnikinja, prozaistica, radiodramatičarka, esejistica, prevoditeljica, poznata i kao "hrvatska Virginia Woolf". Djeluje na hrvatskoj književnoj sceni već više od pedeset godina.
  
  Studirala je na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu (arheologiju, etnologiju i germanistiku) i na Filmskoj akademiji u Berlinu. Od 1960. do 1971. radila je na televiziji kao urednica emisije Portreti i susreti. Okušala se u različitim književnim žanrovima objavivši više od dvadeset knjiga: pjesničkih zbirki, romana, autobiografske proze i eseja. Piše i scenarije za televizijske i radijske drame. Knjige su joj prevedene na više stranih jezika. Dobitnica je književnih nagrada “Ksaver Šandor Gjalski” za knjigu Svila, škare, “Ivan Goran Kovačić” za roman Marina il

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  Olja Savičević Ivančević

  Writes poetry, prose, columns. Author of several poetry collections and books.
  
  Lives in Split, Croatia.

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  Robert Perišić

  Robert Perišić (born. 1969) is a prominent Croatian poet, writer and journalist. He took his BA in Croatian language and literature at Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb. His criticism and essays were published in Feral Tribune and Playboy magazines. Perišić lives in Zagreb and works as a freelance writer.

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  Dubravka Ugrešić

  Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav, Croatian and Dutch writer. She left Croatia in 1993 and was based in Amsterdam since 1996. She described herself as "post-Yugoslav, transnational, or, even more precisely, postnational writer".
  
  Dubravka Ugrešić earned her degrees in Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb, and worked for twenty years at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar.
  
  She started writing professionally with screenplays for children’s television programs, as an undergraduate. In 1971 she published her first book for children Mali plamen, which was awarded a prestigious Croatian literary prize for ch

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  Ivo Brešan

  Ivo Brešan was born in Vodice (Croatia) in 1936. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. From 1960 until 1983 he worked as a graduate teacher at the Sibenik Grammar School. Since 1983, he has been the art director of the Šibenik Theatre and the Šibenik Intemationational Children's Festival. Brešan is one of Croatia's most performed contemporary playwrights; he often writes in the Šibenik dialect. He has written several very succesful movies scenarios.

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  Miljenko Jergović

  Miljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.
  
  Jergović has established himself as a writer in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, and his stories and novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Critics have acclaimed his capability to turn every topic into a story without changing it at all, hence preserving its internal logic.
  
  His more acclaimed works include his debut Opservatorija Varšava (Warsaw Observatory, 1988); Hauzmajstor Šulc (Schultz the Repairman, 2000), both collections of poetry; a collection of short stories Sarajevski marlboro (Sarajevo Marlboro, 1994); the novels Mama Leone and Dvori od oraha ("The Mansion in Walnut," 2003; and the drama Kažeš, anđeo (You

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  Ante Tomić

  Ante Tomić is Croatian writer and journalist.
  
  A native of Split, Ante Tomić begin to write as a reporter for local daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. His articles showed great literary talent that would manifest in his 2000 debut novel Što je muškarac bez brkova. Three years later he wrote novel Ništa nas ne smije iznenaditi, describing the life of recruits in Yugoslav People's Army. Both novels are adapted to screen.
  
  Ante Tomić now writes for Jutarnji list. In 2004 he travelled across USA in order to cover presidential campaign by talking to "ordinary" people.

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  Jurica Pavičić

  Jurica Pavičić, pisac, kolumnista, scenarista, filmski kritičar. Diplomirao je komparativnu književnost i povijest na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu.
  
  Godine 1992. nagrađen je nacionalnom nagradom za filmsku kritiku „Vladimir Vuković“. Od 1994. piše u različitim novinama nedeljnu kolumnu Vijesti iz Liliputa, u kojoj secira društvo, politiku i kulturu ratne i posleratne Hrvatske. Za tekstove iz te serije 1996. dobija Nagradu nacionalnog novinarskog društva „Marija Jurić Zagorka“, 2002. Nagradu za doprinos novinarstvu „Veselko Tenžera“, a 2007. Nagradu „Miljenko Smoje“ Slobodne Dalmacije. Kolumna danas izlazi u Jutarnjem listu.
  
  Kao književnik debitovao je 1997. socijalnim trilerom Ovce od gipsa, u kojem problematizuje tematiku ratnog zločina u

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  Maša Kolanović

  Graduated Croatian language and comparative literature.

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  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.

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  Ivica Ivanišević

  Ivica Ivanišević je pisac opće prakse koji iz pojedinačnih komedija gradi kolektivnu. Njegove autorske preokupacije uključuju jučer, danas i malo sutra. Kad je sit svega i gladan južnjačke utjehe, postaje javni bilježnik perfekta, prizora iz mračnog života, zavičajnih humoreski, filozofije grintanja i svih onih malih nostalgičnih nevolja koje moraju ući u zapisnik da bi se znalo da je život, zapravo, jedno veliko čudo.

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• Ivica Prtenjača

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  Antun Branko Šimić

  Pjesnik, esejist, kritičar i prevoditelj. Šimić bijaše pjesnikom izrazite težnje da zgusnutim, škrtim stihom intenzivira doživljaj svijeta. Takav je bio i kao esejist i kritik: volio je strogi red, čuvao se razlivenosti i praznine.
  Napisao je brojne eseje, književne i likovne kritike, polemike o novom pjesništvu, nekoliko kraćih proza, dnevnik, autobiografiju, nekoliko dramskih fragmenata, te započeo roman Dvostruko lice. Posthumno su mu objavljena izabrana djela, sabrana djela, proza i poezija.

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  Ocean Vuong

  Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the American Book Award and the MacArthur “Genius Grant," he has also worked as a line cook, tobacco harvester, nursing home volunteer, and fast-food server, the latter becoming inspiration for The Emperor of Gladness. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently splits his time between Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City.

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  Ia Genberg

  Ia Gabriella Genberg (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish journalist and novelist.
  
  Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she debuted as a writer in 2012 with the novel Söta fredag ("Sweet Friday"). Her fourth novel, Detaljerna ("The Details"), won the August Prize in 2022, the year of its publication. The English translation, by Kira Josefsson, was shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
  
  Author Picture: Sara Mac Key

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  Marina Vujčić

  Marina Vujčić rođena je 1966. u Trogiru. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu diplomirala je kroatistiku.
  U nakladi izdavačke kuće Profil 2010. godine objavljuje roman "Tuđi život", a 2014. u izdanju Hena coma knjigu drama "Umri ženski" i roman "A onda je Božo krenuo ispočetka" koji je 2015. godine ušao u uži izbor od četiri hrvatska naslova nominirana za Europsku nagradu za književnost.
  Za dramu "Umri ženski" 2014. godine dobila je nagradu Marin Držić, a za dramu "Podmornica" istu nagradu 2017. godine.
  2015. godine u izdanju Hena coma objavljuje roman "Mogla sam to biti ja".
  Iste godine na natječaju V. B. Z.-a i Tisak medije romanom „Susjed“ osvaja nagradu za najbolji neobjavljeni roman 2015., koji objavljuje izdavačka kuća V. B. Z.
  U koautors

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  Xóchitl González

  I'm a native of Brooklyn, New York, where I was raised by my maternal grandparents in South Brooklyn. A proud graduate of the New York City public school system, I studied performing arts at Edward R. Murrow high school before getting my B.A. in Fine Art and Art History at Brown University in 1999. Nearly twenty years later, on the eve of my 40th birthday, I decided to listen to the long whispered dream of writing. I attended The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and then was accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop where I was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Prize for Fiction. I completed my MFA in May of 2021 at the tender age of 43. Before writing I worked as an entrepreneur, consultant, wedding planner, fund-rais

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• Borna Vujčić

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  Ling Ma

  Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is author of the novel SEVERANCE, and the story collection BLISS MONTAGE. She lives in Chicago with her family.

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  Caroline Wahl

  Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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