Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick is the author of, among other books, the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments and three essay collections: The End of the Novel of Love, Approaching Eye Level, and, most recently, The Men in My Life. She lives in New York City.
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John B. Judis
John B. Judis is an American journalist. Born in Chicago he attended Amherst College and received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor to The American Prospect.
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A founding editor of Socialist Revolution (now Socialist Review) in 1969 and of the East Bay Voice in the 1970s, Judis started reporting from Washington in 1982, when he became a founding editor and Washington correspondent for In These Times, a democratic-socialist weekly magazine.
He has also written for GQ, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post.
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Manuel Jabois
Manuel Jabois Sueiro (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1978) es un periodista y escritor español.
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Miguel Milá
Miguel Milá (Barcelona, 1931), Premio Nacional de Diseño, Compasso d'Oro y Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, es uno de los maestros indiscutibles del diseño industrial en España. Miembro de la generación de los pioneros del diseño de los años 1950, ha visto cómo algunos de sus muebles y lámparas se han convertido en auténticos clásicos. Comenzó a trabajar como interiorista en el estudio de arquitectura de su hermano Alfonso y Federico Correa a finales de esa década, una época en que apenas se sabía qué era el diseño industrial. Ante la escasez de objetos, medios y materias primas, pronto empezó a diseñar sus propios muebles y lámparas, que no tardó en producir a través de su empresa, Tramo (acrónimo de Trabajos Molestos), montad
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Andrea Weiss
Andrea Weiss is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker and nonfiction author. Her books include Paris Was A Woman (Harper Collins, 1995), Vampires And Violets (Penguin, 1993), and, most recently, In The Shadow Of The Magic Mountain: The Erika And Klaus Mann Story (University of Chicago Press, 2008). They have been translated into French, German, Korean, Swedish, Japanese, and Croatian.
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Costică Brădățan
Costică Brădățan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of several books, and his work has been translated into many languages, including Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi. Bradatan writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, Dissent, and The New Statesman, and serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Juan Valera
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish realist author, writer and political figure.
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He was born at Cabra, in the province of Córdoba, and was educated at Málaga and at the University of Granada, where he took his degree in law, and then entered upon a diplomatic career (1847). Over the next five decades, Valera filled a number of positions in a variety of various places. He accompanied the Spanish Ambassador to Naples. Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57). After his return to Madrid, he became one of the editors of the liberal journal El Contemporáneo (1859), and was appointed Minister to Frankfurt (1865). After the revolution of 1868 he was -
María Belmonte
María Belmonte Barrenechea (Bilbao, España,1953) es una escritora, traductora, investigadora española e intérprete de catalán y español.
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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism. -
Paloma Chen
Paloma Chen (Alicante, 1997) ha estudiado Periodismo y Construcción y Representación de Identidades Culturales. Ha investigado sobre la diáspora china en España en Crecer en ‘un chino’ y ha colaborado con El Salto, El País y La Marea. Ha ganado el Premio Nacional de Poesía Viva L de Lírica 2020 y ha recitado en festivales como Irreconciliables en Málaga, Vociferio en València, FuriAsia en Barcelona, La Voz de las Mujeres en Tenerife, Feministaldia en Donostia o el Ciclo de Cultura Antirracista en Madrid y en espacios como el Fórum Social Europeu Das Migrações o el Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum.
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Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
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Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
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Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb was an American writer and editor of Simon & Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker.
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Eva Baltasar
Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including the 2008 Miquel de Palol, the 2010 Benet Ribas, and the 2015 Gabriel Ferrater. Permafrost was her first novel.
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Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author of the novels Green Girl (Harper Perennial) and O Fallen Angel (Harper Perennial). She is also the author of Heroines (Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents) and Book of Mutter (Semiotexte(e)'s Native Agents). A collection of talks and essays, The Appendix Project, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in April 2019, and a collection of stories and other writing, Screen Tests, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in June 2019. She is at work on a novel, Drifts, and a study of Hervé Guibert. She teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.
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Jana Beňová
Jana Beňová (born 1974) is a Slovakian poet and novelist. She studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, graduating with a degree in dramaturgy in 1998. She wrote for a number of local publications, including Dotyky, Fragment and Slovenské Pohľady. She also worked for the daily newspaper SME under a pseudonym. At present, she works at the Theatre Institute in Bratislava.
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Her first book of poems Svetloplachý came out in 1993, followed by further collections Lonochod and Nehota. She wrote a novel called Parker (2001), and a collection of short stories, Dvanásť poviedok a Ján Med (2003). In 2008, she published Plán odprevádzania (Seeing People Off), subtitled Café Hyena. This book won the EU Prize for Literature. She has w -
Guillermo Martínez
Guillermo Martínez is an Argentinian novelist and short story writer. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires.
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After his degree in Argentina, he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
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Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020); Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks.
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Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Image, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, the Washington Post, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals and anthologies. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into -
Maruja Torres
María Dolores Torres Manzanera nació en Barcelona en 1943. Comienza a trabajar como periodista a los 21 años y se da a conocer con sus trabajos en la revista de cine Fotogramas y en Por Favor.
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Cultivó todas las facetas del periodismo, desde su trabajo como corresponsal de guerra hasta las entrevistas. Pertenece a la redacción del diario 'El País', donde fueron famosas sus series de artículos Hogueras de agosto y Nosotros a lo nuestro.
En 1986 publica su primer libro, ¡Oh es él! viaje fantástico hacia Julio Iglesias. Le siguen libros de periodismo y viajes hasta que en 1998 saca a la luz su primera obra de ficción, Un calor tan cercano, una novela que le vale un premio y el reconocimiento de la crítica.
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Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.
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Marta D. Riezu
Marta D. Riezu (Terrassa, 1979) es periodista especializada en comunicación de moda en medios como El País, La Vanguardia, Yo Dona, Marie Claire, Telva, Vanity Fair o Apartamento. Ha publicado dos libros: Agua y jabón (Terranova, 2021) y La moda justa (Anagrama, 2021).
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Anatole Broyard
Anatole Paul Broyard was an American writer, literary critic and editor for The New York Times. In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, Intoxicated by My Illness (1992) and Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993), were published after his death.
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After his death, Broyard became the center of controversy and discussions related to how he had chosen to live as an adult in New York. He was criticized for failing to acknowledge his black ancestry. -
David Galef
I’ve published extremely short fiction in the collections Laugh Track and My Date with Neanderthal Woman (Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize), extremely long fiction in the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress (Kirkus Best Books of the Year), and a lot in between. My latest is Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook, from Columbia University Press. Day job: professor of English and creative writing program director at Montclair State University. I’m also the editor in chief at Vestal Review, the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet.
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Adelaida García Morales
Nacida en Extremadura, se trasladó a Sevilla a los 13 años; posteriormente fue a vivir a Madrid, donde se licenció en Filosofía.
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Publicó su primera obra en 1985, El Sur y Bene, un libro de relatos que sería utilizado como base para la película "El Sur", de Víctor Erice.
Con su siguiente obra, El Silencio de las Sirenas, obtuvo el Premio Herralde de Novela.
Otras obras: La Lógica del Vampiro, Las mujeres de Héctor, La tía Águeda, Nasmiya, Mujeres solas, El secreto de Elisa, La señorita Medina, El testamento de Regina y una Historia perversa. -
Hong Ying
Hong Ying was born in Chongqing in 1962, towards the end of the Great Leap Forward. She began to write at eighteen, leaving home shortly afterwards to spend the next ten years moving around China, exploring her voice as a writer via poems and short stories. After brief periods of study at the Lu Xun Academy in Beijing and Shanghai’s Fudan University, Hong Ying moved to London in 1991 where she as writer. She returned to Beijing in 2000.
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Best known in English for the novels K: the Art of Love, Summer of Betrayal, Peacock Cries, and her autobiography Daughter of the River, Hong Ying has been published in twenty- nineteen languages and has appeared on the bestseller lists of numerous countries, she won the Prize of Rome for K: the Art of Love i -
Tom Morris
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Nina Berberova
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.
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Born in 1901 to an Armenian father and a Russian mother, Nina Berberova was brought up in St Petersburg.[1] She left Russia in 1922 with poet Vladislav Khodasevich (who died in 1939). The couple lived in several European cities before settling in Paris in 1925. There Berberova began publishing short stories for the Russian emigre publications Poslednie Novosti ("The Latest News") and Russkaia Mysl’ ("Russian Thought"). The stories collected in Oblegchenie Uchasti ("The Easing of Fate") and Biiankurskie Prazdniki ("Billancourt Fiestas") were written during -
William Zinsser
William Knowlton Zinsser is an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, where he worked as a feature writer, drama editor, film critic, and editorial writer. He has been a longtime contributor to leading magazines.
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Toriyama Sekien
Japanese painter whose real name was Toyofusa Sano. It is one of the precursors of ukiyo-e, a genre of engravings made by woodcut. Sekien's artistic work was based almost exclusively on the representation of monsters and ghosts. his yokai are based on traditional texts and some previous paintings and prints. Sekien's compilation is made up of four books: The Night Parade of the One Hundred Demon Illustrated (1776), One Hundred Illustrated Demons of the Present and the Past (1779), Supplement of the One Hundred Demons of the Present and the Past (1780) and The Bag of the hundred utensils appeared at random (1784).
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Alana S. Portero
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mujeres trans.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
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Mohammed El-Kurd
MOHAMMED EL-KURD is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.
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In 2021, He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine.
He is best known for his role as a co-founder of the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement. His work has been featured in numerous international outlets and he has appeared repeatedly as a commentator on major TV networks.
Currently, El-Kurd serves as the first-ever Palestine Correspondent for The Nation. His first published essay in this role, "A Night with Palestine's Defenders of the Mountain," was shortlisted for the 2022 One World Media Print Award.
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Beatriz Serrano
Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, SModa o Vogue. Actualmente, trabaja en El País. Además, junto al escritor Guillermo Alonso, codirige el pódcast Arsénico Caviar, que fue galardonado con el premio Ondas en la categoría de mejor conversacional.
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Anna Pacheco
Es periodista y escritora especializada en temas sociales, trabajo, feminismos y cultura popular con perspectiva de clase y género. Máster en Antropología Social, es autora de la novela Listas, guapas, limpias y coautora del podcast Ciberlocutorio. Ha colaborado en medios como El País, El Salto, El Diario y Planta baixa (TV3), entre otros.
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Sabina Urraca
Sabina Urraca es una periodista y escritora española, conocida especialmente por sus artículos de periodismo gonzo o de inmersión.
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Rosario Villajos
Rosario Villajos (Córdoba,1978) dedicó su infancia a dibujar, leer y ver películas. Ha vivido en ocho ciudades diferentes de tres países distintos. Regresó a España en 2017, desde entonces no ha dejado de escribir y dibujar. Ha publicado una sola novela gráfica, FACE (Fanfare - Ponent Mon) y tres obras narrativas, Ramona (Mrs. Danvers, 2019), La muela (Aristas Martínez, 2021) y La educación Física (Seix Barral, 2023), por la que obtuvo el Premio Biblioteca Breve.
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Colabora en algunos medios de forma eventual y por encargo reseñando libros, discos o escribiendo sobre cualquier tema de su interés.
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Vincent Bevins
Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist. He reported for the Financial Times in London, then served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, before covering Southeast Asia for the Washington Post.
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Delphine de Vigan
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.
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In 2011, she published a novel Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit (Nothing holds back the night) that deals with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix Renaudot des lycéens. -
Richard Seymour
Northern Irish Marxist writer and broadcaster, activist and owner of the blog Lenin's Tomb.
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Seymour is a former member of the Socialist Workers Party.
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Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work. In 2001, the Eric Hoffer Award was established in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005.
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Hoffer was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1902 (or possibly 1898), the son of Knut and Elsa Hoffer, immigrants from Alsace. By the age of five, he could read in both German and English. When -
Mary Karr
Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame in 1995 with the publication of her bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
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Karr was born January 16, 1955, in Groves, a small town in East Texas located in the Port Arthur region, known for its oil refineries and chemical plants, to J. P. and Charlie Marie (Moore) Karr. In her memoirs, Karr calls the town "Leechfield." Karr's father worked in an oil refinery while her mother was an amateur artist and business owner.
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Mike Davis
Mike Davis was a social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lived in San Diego.
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Beth Kephart
I'm the award-winning writer of more than two-dozen books in multiple genres—memoir, middle grade and young adult fiction, picture books, history, corporate fable, and books on the making of memoir.
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I'm also an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and an essayist and critic with work appearing in The New York Times, Life magazine, Ninth Letter, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and elsewhere.
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Sara Mesa
Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan (forthcoming from Open Letter). Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.
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Laura Fraser
I am a long-time journalist and San Franciscan who loves travel and books. I'm the author of the NYT-bestselling memoir An Italian Affair, and its sequel, All Over the Map. I also wrote a book about the diet industry, Losing It. I am the co-founder and editorial director of Shebooks.net, which publishes short, top-shelf ebooks by women. My own Shebook, The Risotto Guru, is all about eating in Italy.
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I'm passionate about reading, and have kept a list of all the books I've read since I was about ten, which you can find on my website: http://www.laurafraser.com/booklists/. I teach and coach writing, particularly memoir and personal essay. -
Alexander Chee
"Alexander Chee is the best new novelist I've seen in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic - and pure."--Edmund White
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“A complex, sophisticated, elegant investigation of trauma and desire - like a white hot flame.”--Joyce Hackett, in The Guardian
“A coming-of-age novel in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death . . . A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.”--Washington Post Book World
Alexander Chee was born in South Kingston, RI, and raised in South Korea, Guam, Truk and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA F -
Cecilia Pavón
Cecilia Pavón (Mendoza Argentina en 1973) es una escritora y artista argentina. Vive en Buenos Aires desde los 90, donde se licenció en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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En 1999 fundó junto a Fernanda Laguna la galería de arte y editorial Belleza y Felicidad. Publicó los libros de prosa Nomadismo por mi país, Los sueños no tienen copyright, Once Sur, Pequeño recuento sobre mis faltas y Todos los cuadros que tiré; y los libros de poemas Diario de una persona inventada, 27 poemas con nombre de persona, Un hotel con mi nombre, Querido libro y La libertad de los bares, entre otros. -
Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore is author of the award-winning memoir Between Panic & Desire, the writing guides The Story Cure and Crafting the Personal Essay, and many other books. He has published essays and stories in The Georgia Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction, and teaches master classes and workshops across the United States as well as in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Canada, and Mexico.
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Jana Leo
JANA LEO is a conceptual artist with degrees in philosophy and architecture. Leo taught at Cooper Union for seven years, and now divides her time between New York and Madrid. In 2007 Leo started Civic Gaps, and in 2008 Fundacin Mosis, both think tanks dedicated to studying neglected spaces in the city.
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Graham Tarrant
Graham Tarrant is the author of a variety of books on many different subjects. Quiz books hold a particular fascination and Everything but the Oink! manages to combine this passion with his other great love: food.
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Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado nació en Buenos Aires. Exiliada política de la dictadura militar, desde 1976 vive en España. Es licenciada en Literatura, y ha dirigido los primeros talleres de Escritura Creativa que se organizaron en este país, actividad que ha llevado a cabo para numerosas universidades y diversas instituciones y que realiza de forma independiente.
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En 1996 recibió el premio Femenino Lumen por su novela La hija de Marx y en 2015 el premio de novela breve Juan March Cencillo por Petrarca para viajeros. Ha publicado con Páginas de Espuma las antologías Por favor, sea breve 1 y 2, señeras en la implantación del género en España, y los volúmenes de cuentos Las otras vidas, El libro de los viajes equivocados (que mereció el IX Premio Setenil al m -
Michael W. Clune
Michael Clune is the critically acclaimed author of the memoirs Gamelife and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin. His academic books include A Defense of Judgment, Writing Against Time, and American Literature and the Free Market. Clune’s work has appeared in venues ranging from Harper’s Magazine, Salon, and Granta to Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PMLA, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has been recognized by fellowships and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and others. He is currently the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of Bookslut.com. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian and The Toronto Globe and Mail, among other publications.
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Lorenza Mazzetti
Lorenza Mazzetti (born 1928, Florence) is an Italian author and film maker.
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She is the author of Il cielo cade (The Sky Falls, 1961), based on her tragic childhood. She was orphaned at a very young age and brought up by her aunt and uncle, along with their two daughters. On 3 August 1944, the SS killed her aunt and two cousins. Her uncle committed suicide a year later.
In the early 1950s, Mazzetti moved to London where she studied at the Slade School of Art. On the strength of a short film she made at Slade, an adaptation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis in 1954 with an exceptional intuition for not falling for the usual artificial clichés, the British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund awarded her the opportunity to make Together, a film abou -
José Carlos Agüero
José Carlos Agüero Solórzano es historiador, activista de derechos humanos e investigador en temas de memoria. Escribió dos poemarios de distribución casi invisible y que circulan de mano en mano: El nacimiento de los monstruos (2010) e Indiferencia de los elementos (2013).
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Asimismo, ha publicado recientemente "Cada uno. un lugar de memoria. Fundamentos conceptuales del Lugar de la Memoria" (LUM 2015) junto con Ponciano del Pino, "Aprendiendo a vivir se va la vida. Conversaciones con Carlos Iván Degregori (IEP 2015) junto con Pablo Sandoval, y "Los rendidos: Sobre el don de perdonar" (IEP 2015). -
Chris Marker
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.
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He is best known for directing La Jetée (1962), as well as Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary about Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. -
Diana Athill
Diana Athill was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company André Deutsch Ltd.
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She was born in Norfolk in 1917 and educated at home until she was fourteen. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and graduated in 1939. She spent the war years working at the BBC Overseas Service in the News Information Department. After the war she met André Deutsch and fell into publishing. She worked as an editor, first at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch, until her retirement at the age of 75 in 1993.
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Tara Rodgers
Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is an independent writer, composer, and musician, and the founder of Pinknoises.com, a website devoted to women DJs, electronic musicians, and sound artists. Her electronic compositions have been released on several recordings and exhibited at venues including the Eyebeam Museum in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto. She has received the New Genre Composition Prize from the International Alliance of Women in Music and a 2006 Frog Peak Experimental Music Award. Rodgers has an MFA in electronic music from Mills College. She is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and 2011-12 Faculty Fellow in Digital Cultures & Creativity at the University of Maryland.
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Patricio Pron
Patricio Pron (1975) es autor de los volúmenes de relatos Hombres infames (1999), El vuelo magnífico de la noche (2001) y El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (Literatura Mondadori, 2010), y de las novelas Formas de morir (1998), Nadadores muertos (2001), Una puta mierda (2007) El comienzo de la primavera (Literatura Mondadori, 2008), ganadora del Premio Jaén de Novela y distinguida por la Fundación José Manuel Lara como una de las cinco mejores obras publicadas en España ese año y El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (Literatura Mondadori, 2011) que será publicada en las editoriales más prestigiosas del panorama internacional, destacando Faber and Faber en Reino Unido, Flammarion en Francia y Knopf en Estad
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Anne Dufourmantelle
Docteur en philosophie et diplômée de Brown Univesity, Anne Dufourmantelle a enseigné à l’école d’architecture UP6-la Villette, et donné un séminaire à l’Institut des Hautes Etudes en Psychanalyse à l’Ecole normale supérieure. Anne Dufourmantelle meurt le 21 juillet 2017 en tentant de sauver l'enfant d'une amie de la noyade sur une plage du sud de la France.
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Marilar Aleixandre
María Pilar Jiménez Aleixandre, nada en Madrid o 1 de maio de 1947, é escritora en lingua galega, tradutora, bióloga e académica de número da Real Academia Galega.
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De avoas e avós andaluces, valencianos e madrileños, naceu en Madrid en 1947. Di sentir saudade dos sitios nos que viviu, Ceuta, Doña Mencía (Córdoba), e Madrid, pero dende 1973 reside en Galicia, onde adoptou o galego como a súa lingua literaria e se converteu nunha das escritoras galegas actuais con obra máis consolidada e recoñecida. É profesora da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde ensina Didáctica das Ciencias Experimentais e Educación Ambiental, dende 1988.
O primeiro relato que escribiu, un conto sobre vampiros, foi o xermolo de Agardando polos morcegos. Logo viñer -
Paul Henderson
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Noël Burch
Noël Burch is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University Charles de Gaulle in Lille. His book Theory of Film Practice is widely regarded as one of the key works of Western film criticism.
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in Best American Short Stories, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Alexis Ravelo
De procedencia humilde y formación autodidacta, (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 1971) se ha destacado por sus novelas de corte policial, sus colecciones de relatos y sus libros infantiles, pero es autor, además, de seis espectáculos dramático-musicales, los guiones de un programa de televisión, artículos y docenas de letras de canciones para diversos intérpretes. Defiende una concepción artesanal del hecho literario, en la cual se combinan amenidad, reflexión e incomodidad.
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Julián Ayesta
Julián Ayesta Prendes (Gijón 1919-1996) fue un escritor español de posguerra, colaborador de las principales revistas literarias de esta época (Garcilaso, Acanto, Fantasía, Juventud).
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Nacido en el seno de una conocida familia asturiana, se licenció en Derecho y en Filosofía y Letras, y en 1947 ingresó en la Carrera Diplomática. En este ámbito ocupó diversos cargos en distintas legaciones en Beirut, Bogotá, Ámsterdam, Viena y la antigua Yugoslavia, en la que fue Embajador de España. -
Annelies Verbeke
Annelies Verbeke is a Flemish writer from Belgium. She lives in Ghent. Verbeke studied German language and Scenario writing. In 2003 she debuted at Uitgeverij De Geus with her novel Slaap! with which she won the Vlaamse debuutprijs, the Gouden Ezelsoor and the Vrouw en Kultuur Debuutprijs. The novel was on the longlists of the AKO Literatuurprijs and the Libris Literatuurprijs and was nominated for the Gerard Walschapprijs.
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Vernon Lee
Violet Paget, known by her pen name Vernon Lee, is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel, poetry and contributed to The Yellow Book. An engaged feminist, she always dressed à la garçonne, and was a member of the Union of democratic control.
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Her literary works explored the themes of haunting and possession. The English writer and translator, Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction."
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Andreas Huyssen
Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986. He is the founding director of the university's Center for Comparative Literature and Society and one of the founding editors of the New German Critique.
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Marisa Madieri
Marisa Madieri è stata una scrittrice italiana. In origine il cognome della famiglia paterna (fiumana, ma di origini evidentemente ungheresi) era Madjarić, poi fu modificato in Madierich e successivamente in Madieri. La famiglia, esule dall'Istria, riparò a Trieste nel 1949, e per molti mesi visse in condizioni precarie, insieme a tanti altri profughi italiani, nel campo profughi del Silos presso la stazione ferroviaria. Di questo periodo avrebbe scritto poi nel suo primo libro Verde acqua (Einaudi 1987) in cui narra dell'esodo di Fiume, dell'identità di questa città e di altri fatti legati alla sua infanzia e adolescenza, in cui la memoria è anche ricerca delle proprie radici.
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Pilar Asuero
Pilar Asuero es escritora, editora y cofundadora del proyecto de difusión literaria La Elocuente. Es graduada en Letras Hispánicas en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y ha cursado el Máster de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad Complutense y el Máster de Edición en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Fue residente de la promoción XXII de la Fundación Antonio Gala para jóvenes creadores. Las cabras es su primera novela.
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Edoardo Albinati
Da oltre vent’anni lavora come insegnante nel penitenziario di Rebibbia, esperienza narrata nel diario Maggio selvaggio. Suoi reportage dall’Afghanistan e dal Ciad sono usciti sul “Corriere della Sera”, “la Repubblica”, “The Washington Post”. Ha scritto film per il cinema di Matteo Garrone e Marco Bellocchio. Tra gli ultimi libri pubblicati, ricordiamo Tuttalpiù muoio con Filippo Timi e Vita e morte di un ingegnere.
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Denise Riley
Denise Riley (born 1948) is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s.
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Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, "identity", and philosophy of language, are recognised as an important contribution to feminism and contemporary philosophy. She was Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and is currently A.D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London. Among her poetry publications is Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and -
Gerd Brantenberg
Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg is a Norwegian author, teacher, and feminist writer. She is also the cousin of radio and TV entertainer Lars Mjøen.
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Brantenberg was born in Oslo, but grew up in Fredrikstad. She studied English, History, and Sociology in London, Edinburgh, and Oslo. She has an English hovedfag (main subject, comparable to a Master), from the University of Oslo, where she also studied history and political science.
Since 1982 she has been a writer full-time.
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Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He studied University College, Oxford University and Southampton University. He currently teaches on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Henri Roorda
Henri Roorda van Eysinga was born on November 30, 1870, and killed himself on November 7, 1925. He was raised amidst revolutionary ideals: when he was a child, his family had to relocate to Switzerland after his father was declared persona non grata by the Dutch government, and there his parents befriended the anarchist thinkers Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin. The young Roorda studied math and went on to work as a teacher who was beloved by his students; he was, however, deeply disappointed by his work. Accordingly, Roorda wrote a progressive critique of the prevailing educational structure (Le Pédagogue n'aime pas les enfants), as well as humorous columns for the Swiss dailies, which were collected in numerous compilations. He frequentl
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Andrea Galaxina
Hola! Soy Andrea Díaz Cabezas o Andrea Galaxina.
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Nací en 1986 en Santander, Cantabria.
Crecí un pueblo mediano, Muriedas, demasiado cerca y a la vez demasiado lejos de Santander, ciudad que sí que estaba demasiado lejos de todo lo que me gustaba. Pero lo llevé como pude hasta que tuve la oportunidad de marcharme a Oviedo, en Asturias, a estudiar Historia del Arte.
En Oviedo, además de estudiar la carrera, conocer a algunas de mis mejores amigas e ir a un montón de conciertos, empecé a hacer fanzines. En ese momento creé mi editorial Bombas para Desayunar.
Cuando acabé la carrera, opté por hacer el Máster de Formación del Profesorado y pude comprobar que la docencia no está del todo mal.
Después de mi experiencia asturiana volví a Cantabria. En e -
Allison K. Williams
Allison K Williams is a writer, editor and podcaster. Her work has been seen in Brevity, Kenyon Review Online, Smokelong Quarterly, Story Club, Prairie Schooner’s blog, The Drum, the Christian Science Monitor, and the New York Times. Her radio stories have aired on NPR and CBC-Canada. She serves as Social Media Editor and hosts a literary podcast for Brevity, and lives in Dubai.
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Almudena Hernando
Almudena Hernando Gonzalo (Madrid,1959) es arqueóloga y catedrática de Prehistoria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Centra sus investigaciones en la Etnoarqueología, la teoría arqueológica, la arqueología de género y la construcción de identidades.
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Debra Ollivier
Ollivier lived in France for over ten years, had her two children there, and became a dual citizen. She currently divides her time between Paris and Los Angeles, where she lives with her family, and is at work on a historical novel.
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Eva Comas-Arnal
Eva Comas-Arnal (Gavà, 1975) és escriptora, traductora, periodista, filòloga, narradora oral i professora del Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Ha publicat diverses investigacions sobre l'obra de Mercè Rodoreda, les més destacades de les quals són Afinar l'estil. La reescriptura de La mort i la primavera de Mercè Rodoreda a partir dels comentaris d'Armand Obiols (IEC, 2022) i El somni blau. Estudi dels somnis en la narrativa de Mercè Rodoreda (IEC, 2020).
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Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale (Montevideo, 2 de noviembre de 1923) es una poeta, traductora, ensayista, profesora y crítica literaria uruguaya. Entre los premios que ha recibido destacan en 2015 el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana, en 2016 el Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca y en 2018 el Premio Cervantes.
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Considerada integrante de la Generación del 45 con otros escritores uruguayos como Mario Benedetti, Juan Carlos Onetti, Carlos Maggi o Idea Vilariño, es también madre del economista Claudio Rama Vitale, y cuarta generación de emigrantes italianos en Uruguay, donde se formó en una familia culta y cosmopolita. Lectora preferente de obras históricas, su descubrimiento de dos poetas uruguayas de entresiglos, Delmira Agustini y, en e -
Victoria Ocampo
Writer, critic and publisher of the legendary literary magazine Sur, she was one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Sister of the writer Silvina Ocampo.
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Marion Winik
Longtime All Things Considered commentator Marion Winik is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead and seven other books. The Baltimore Book of the Dead is forthcoming from Counterpoint this fall. Her award-winning column on BaltimoreFishbowl.com appears monthly, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun and elsewhere. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast and reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Review. She is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a professor in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore. More info at marionwinik.com.
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Xavier Aldekoa
Xavier Aldekoa has been living in Africa for more than a decade, covering conflicts and social matters in some forty countries around the continent, producing reports and filming documentaries for the written and audiovisual press. Since 2009 he has been correspondent in Africa for the daily La Vanguardia. He has also taken part in founding international social journalism projects, among them the magazine 5W, which publishes chronicles and research reports, and Muzungu Productions. He has published the books Oceà Àfrica (Ocean Africa, in Catalan, Ara Llibres, 2017; Spanish, Editorial Península), Fills del Nil (Children of the Nile, in Catalan, Ara Llibres, 2017; Spanish, Editorial Península), África adentro (Inside Africa, 5W, 2018), and In
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Paul Le Blanc
Paul Le Blanc is an American historian at La Roche University in Pittsburgh as well as labor and socialist activist who has written or edited more than 30 books on topics such as Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg.
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Valeria Correa Fiz
De formación y profesión abogada. A pesar de que su pasión por la literatura le viene desde la niñez, no fue hasta 2015 cuando se conoció públicamente su faceta de escritora. Ha coordinado clubes de lectura para las librerías norteamericanas Barnes & Noble durante cuatro años. Posteriormente estuvo a cargo del club de lectura de la librería Melting Pot de Milán (Italia) y actualmente coordina el club de lectura del Instituto Cervantes de Milán. Ha impartido talleres de escritura creativa en las ciudades norteamericanas de Miami y Weston.
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En la actualidad los imparte en el taller de la escritora Clara Obligado (Madrid) y en el Instituto Cervantes de Milán. En los últimos años ha vivido en Miami (Estados Unidos), Milán (Italia) y actualme -
Avigdor Dagan
Avigdor Dagan (אביגדור דגן, born Viktor Fischl) was an Israeli writer, playwright, literary translator and diplomat.
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Also writes as אביגדור דגן
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Núria Cadenes
Núria Cadenes i Alabèrnia (Barcelona, 18 de febrer de 1970) és una periodista, escriptora i militant independentista catalana, filla de Teresa Alabèrnia i Domènech.
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Actualment viu a l’Horta Sud, prop de València. Treballa de llibretera i col·labora en diversos mitjans (VilaWeb, El Temps). Ha publicat, entre d’altres, els llibres Cartes de la presó (1990), L’Ovidi (2002), El banquer (2013) o Secundaris (2018). Amb AZ (2009) va guanyar el premi Ciutat d’Elx i el de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians i amb Tota la veritat (2016), el Crims de Tinta. -
Lois Pereiro
Luis Ángel Sánchez Pereiro, máis coñecido como Lois Pereiro, nado en Monforte de Lemos o 16 de febreiro de 1958 e finado na Coruña o 24 de maio de 1996, foi un escritor e poeta galego. No ano 2011 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas.
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Naceu en Monforte de Lemos, de familia procedente do Incio. Estudou no colexio dos Escolapios, e comezou a escribir con 15 anos. Tras rematar o COU marchou a Madrid, onde comezou Ciencias Políticas e Socioloxía. Logo dunha estancia en Monforte traballando na empresa familiar, adicada ao vidro, regresou a Madrid para estudar lingua inglesa, francesa e alemá. Alí fundou a revista Loia xunto a Antón Patiño, Manuel Rivas e o seu irmán Xosé Manuel Pereiro.
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Tomáš Ulej
Tomáš Ulej je publicista a aforista. V roku 2012 debutoval zbierkou aforizmov Ale, za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska za debut v literatúre. V roku 2013 bol nominovaný na Novinársku cenu za jeho stĺpčeky v denníku SME. Každý týždeň publikuje v denníku SME aj svoje aforizmy v rubrike Ulejovo Ale. Jeho druhá zbierka aforizmov vyjde v roku 2014 vo vydavateľstve KK Bagala.
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Gabriel Miró
Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer fue un escritor español, encuadrado habitualmente en la llamada generación del 14 o el novecentismo.
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Ricardo Gullón ha calificado los relatos de Miró como novelas líricas. Son, por tanto, obras más atentas a la expresión de sentimientos y sensaciones que a contar sucesos, en las que predominan:
- La técnica del fragmentarismo,
- La utilización de la elipsis.
- La estructuración del relato en escenas dispersas, unidas a través de la reflexión y la rememoración.
La temporalidad constituye el tema esencial de la obra del autor alicantino, quien incorpora el pasado a un presente continuado, por medio de las sensaciones, la evocación y el recuerdo. Como, antes que él, hiciera Azorín. También lo sensorial es en la -
Xavier Alcalá
Francisco Xavier Alcalá Navarro, máis coñecido como Xavier Alcalá, nado en Miguelturra (Cidade Real) o 19 de agosto de 1947, é un escritor galego.
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Viviu en Ferrol dende a infancia, e estudou no Instituto Concepción Arenal desa vila. Estudou Enxeñaría de Telecomunicacións na Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría e Sistemas de Telecomunicación da Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Doutorouse en Informática no Departamento de Electrónica e Sistemas da Facultade de Informática da Universidade da Coruña. Foi profesor asociado de dita facultade, e impartiu docencia tamén na Facultade de Xornalismo da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, a Universidade Católica Arxentina e a Escola de Organización Industrial de Madrid.
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Mansur al-Hallaj
Mansur al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج Abū 'l-Muġīṭ Al-Ḥusayn bin Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ; Persian: منصور حلاج Mansūr-e Ḥallāj) (c. 858 – March 26, 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism, who wrote exclusively in Arabic. He is most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.
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Maria Messina
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Maria Messina (Palermo, 14 marzo 1887 – Pistoia, 19 gennaio 1944) è stata una scrittrice italiana.
Nacque a Palermo, secondo alcune fonti a Alimena, in provincia di Palermo, da Gaetano, ispettore scolastico, e Gaetana Valenza Traina, discendente di una famiglia baronale di Prizzi. Cresciuta a Messina, trascorse un'infanzia isolata, con i genitori ed i fratelli. Durante l'adolescenza, viaggiò molto, per via dei continui spostamenti del padre, finché, nel 1911, la sua famiglia si stabilì a Napoli.
All'età di ventidue anni, iniziò una fitta corrispondenza con Giovanni Verga, e tra il 1909 e il 1921, pubblicò una serie di racconti. Grazie all'appoggio di Verga, i