Verena Cavalcante

Verena Cavalcante é mãe, escritora, tradutora, revisora de textos e professora de idiomas. Formou-se em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCC) e atualmente também divide seu tempo com o estudo da psicanálise. Verena publicou seu primeiro livro, Larva em 2015, aos 25 anos. Em 2018, lançou seu segundo livro, O Berro do Bode. Sua voz única e visceral carrega um alto teor de verdade, especialmente quando aborda a infância e os terrores do universo feminino. A realidade na ficção de Verena Cavalcante é absolutamente chocante, e ela mergulha em diferentes universos (femininos e masculinos, infantis e adultos, mágicos e mundanos) de maneira bastante peculiar. Nesses tempos pandêmicos, vive reclusa em uma casa no interior d

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He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in
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Ibrahim Nasrallah

Ibrahim Nasrallah (Arabic: إبراهيم نصرالله), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were forcibly displaced from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked in the media and cultural sectors till 2006 when he dedicated his life to writing. To date, he has published 15 poetry collections, 22 novels, and several other books. In 1985, he started writing the Palestinian Comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history in a series of novels in which each novel is an independent one; to date 13 novels have been published in the framework of th
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Alba de Céspedes

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.

Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service

Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war
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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.

From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu
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William March

William March (born William Edward Campbell) was an American author and a highly decorated US Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was a critical success and heralded as "the unrecognized genius of our time", without attaining popular appeal until after his death. His novels intertwine his own personal torment with the conflicts spawned by unresolved class, family, sexual, and racial matters. March often presents characters who, through no fault of their own, are victims of chance, and writes that freedom can only be obtained by being true to one's nature and humanity.
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Sandro Veronesi

Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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Oscar Nakasato

Nascido em 1963, Oscar Fussato Nakasato é neto de imigrantes japoneses. Seus avós (paternos e maternos) se instalaram em fazendas de café no interior de São Paulo para trabalharem como colonos, na esperança de enriquecerem e retornarem ao Japão. Desfeito o sonho de voltar ao país natal, a família Nakasato migrou para o interior do Paraná, onde adquiriu um sítio. Preocupados com a educação escolar dos filhos, seus pais transferiram-se para Maringá.
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Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) es una periodista y escritora argentina.

Se recibió de Licenciada en Comunicación Social en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente como periodista y columnista en medios gráficos, como el suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 (donde es sub-editora) y las revistas TXT, La mano, La mujer de mi vida y El Guardián. También participó en radio, como columnista en el programa Gente de a pie, por Radio Nacional.

Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez
Mariana Enriquez is a writer and editor based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night and has published two story collections in English,
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Andréa del Fuego

Andréa del Fuego é natural de São Paulo, Brasil, onde nasceu no ano de 1975. Trabalhou em publicidade, fez produção de cinema e realizou duas curtas-metragens. Colaborando em várias revistas, inicia-se na escrita com Minto enquanto Posso (2004). Uma primeira coletânea de contos seguida por Nego tudo (2005), Engano Seu (2007) e Nego Fogo (2009). Em paralelo experimenta o juvenil com Quase Caio (2008) e Sociedade da Caveira de Cristal (2008), e o registo infantil com Irmãs de Pelúcia (2010), estando também incluída em diversas antologias de contos.
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Cristhiano Aguiar

Cristhiano Motta Aguiar (Campina Grande, 1981) é escritor, crítico literário e professor. É mestre em Teoria da Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, doutor em Letras pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie e atuou como pesquisador visitante na Universidade de Berkeley, nos Estados Unidos. Tem livros de contos publicados[2] e participou da revista Granta - Melhores Jovens Escritores Brasileiros e trabalhou no Festival Recifense de Literatura. Tem textos publicados na Inglaterra, Estados Unidos e Argentina. Editou revistas artesanais e é, atualmente, editor do site Vacatussa.
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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.

From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.

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Bruna Dantas Lobato

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Oyinkan Braithwaite

OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo, a Nigerian publishing house, and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Mónica Ojeda

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Ojeda stands out as one of the leading figures in contemporary Latin American fiction literature. The author is renowned for her skill in crafting intense and unsettling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human psychology. Her stories often explore themes such as abuse, obsess
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Márcio Benjamin

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Carla Madeira

Carla Madeira nasceu em Belo Horizonte. Largou o curso de matemática e se formou em jornalismo e publicidade. Foi professora de redação publicitária na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e é diretora de criação da agência de comunicação Lápis Raro. Em 2014, lançou seu primeiro romance, “Tudo é rio”, um sucesso editorial, recebido com entusiasmo pelo público e pela crítica.
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María Fernanda Ampuero

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Tamara Klink

Aos 23 anos, Tamara concluiu sua primeira viagem solo pelo Mar do Norte no pequeno veleiro de 26 pés comprado pelo preço de uma bicicleta, a Sardinha. Em 2021, durante três meses, Tamara cruzou o Oceano Atlântico, tornando-se a brasileira mais jovem entre homens e mulheres a realizar o feito em solitário.

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R.F. Kuang

Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, translator, and award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel: An Arcane History, among others. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford; she is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale.
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Aline Bei

Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultural OitavaArte. O peso do pássaro morto é o seu primeiro livro.
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Dolores Reyes

Dolores Reyes nació en 1978 en Buenos Aires, donde estudió literatura clásica. Es profesora, conocida por su activismo feminista y madre de siete hijos.

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Dolores Reyes was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, where she studied classical literature. She is a teacher, known for her feminist activism, and a mother of seven children.

Eartheater is her first novel, which
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Uketsu

Associated Names:
* Uketsu
* 雨穴
* อุเก็ตสึ (Thai Profile)
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Ana Rüsche

Olá! Muito prazer :)

Adoro ler ficção científica, fantasia, poesia, dá para deduzir por minhas estantes.

Sou escritora, meu último trabalho é "A desconexão telepática e seus abalos sísmicos" publicado na revista seriada Mafagafo #2.2 e a novela Do Amor: o dia em que Rimbaud decidiu vender armas, edição caprichadíssima pela Editora Quelônio (2018). Ainda em prosa, publiquei o romance "Acordados" (2007).

Publiquei também 4 livros de poesia - meu primogênito recebeu tradução e publicação no México, Rasgada; o segundo foi republicado recentemente pela Editora Patuá, Sarabanda, o terceiro, Nós que adoramos um documentário recebeu o apoio do Proac, Gov. do Estado de São Paulo; o quarto eu mesma publiquei e fiz uma grande festa, o Furiosa, que
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Márcio Benjamin

Márcio Benjamin nasceu em Natal (RN), em 1980. Autor de romances, roteiros e livros de contos de horror rural e folclóricos (Maldito Sertão, Fome e Agouro), também já se aventurou no teatro (Hippie-Drive, Flores de Plástico, Ultraje) e trabalha como advogado. Figura constante em projetos do Sesc (Arte da Palavra, Mostra Sesc de Culturas, Mostra Sesc Carri, Flipelô), participou de eventos nacionais como a Bienal do Livro do Ceará e de Recife, e internacionais, como a Primavera Literária de Paris e Nova York e a Feira do Livro de Paris. Márcio também é roteirista de séries, curtas-metragens e longas-metragens. Ganhador dos Prêmios Moacy Cirne de Ficção de 2019 e do Prêmio Odisseia de Literatura Fantástica Narrativa Curta de Horror 2020.

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