Yaa Gyasi
YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she held a Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.
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John Steptoe was an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books from New York City. He began working on his first children's book, Stevie, while still a teenager and achieved great success during his tragically short career, encouraging the advancement of African American culture by producing work about the African American experience that children could appreciate. Recipient of two Coretta Scott King Awards and two Caldecott Honors, Steptoe was posthumously honored by the creation of the John Steptoe New Talent Award, an award designated annually by the Coretta Scott King Award Task Force. Steptoe's best known work is Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, for which he won his second Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.
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William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer. His novel Clotel (1853) is considered the first novel written by an African American; it was published in London, where he was living at the time. Brown was a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama. He has a school named after him in Lexington, Kentucky and was among the first writers inducted to the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Ayobami Adebayo's stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and one was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth short story competition. She holds BA and MA degrees in Literature in English from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. She also has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia where she was awarded an international bursary for Creative Writing. Ayobami has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Ledig House, Hedgebrook, Threads, Ebedi Hills and Ox-Bow.
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Ananda Devi
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Saroo Brierley
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Nikita Lalwani
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Robin D.G. Kelley
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Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence is a national activist organization of radical feminists of color advancing a movement to end violence against women of color and their communities through direct action, critical dialogue and grassroots organizing.
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INCITE! is a national, activist organization of radical feminists of color that is mobilizing to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. By supporting grassroots organizing, we intend to advance a national movement to nurture the health and well-being of communities of color. Through the efforts of Incite!, women of color and our communities will move closer towards global peace, justice and liberation. -
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Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and has lived in the UK for eighteen years. She studied law at the University of Wolverhampton and has an M.Sc. in International Project Management from Glasgow Caledonian University as well as an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University of London. The Girl with the Louding Voice won The Bath Novel Award for unpublished manuscripts in 2018 and was also selected as a finalist in 2018 The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor competition. Abi lives in Essex with her husband and two daughters, who inspired her to write her debut novel. -
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He has written for the BBC, ITV, Granta, Esquire, GQ and Tate Britain.
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Jasun Horsley is an author of several books on popular culture, psychology, and high strangeness. He is a transmedia storyteller, independent scholar, and existential detective. He lives and farms in Spain.
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Books and things (the good ones) are like half-drawn maps of independent explorations into undiscovered lands. But to map the unknown means that first you have to get lost.
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Sarai Johnson
I’m Sarai (pronounced Sara).
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I’m a writing educator in the DC-Metropolitan Area with more than 10 years of experience. My career started in lifestyle journalism; I worked for The Indianapolis Star, The Alexandria Gazette, and DC Modern Luxury. I’ve worked with writing nonprofits Shout Mouse Press and Writopia Lab. I’ve also taught writing at Howard University and American University where I earned degrees in Journalism and Literature, respectively. I’m currently teaching full-time at Howard University while working on a second novel.
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I write contemporary romance and women's fiction. I always give my characters their happily ever after, but I love to make them work for it! It's a long road to love, so sit back and enjoy the ride.
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Danielle Marcus
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I was trying to think of a super amazing story to share about my life, but as I sat here and thought, I realized that I didn’t have one. I’m just plain old Danielle, a girl from Detroit, Michigan with big dreams and a passion for writing. I was raised in a two parent home and to me, both my mother and father were simply AMAZING!
Writing is my life! I go to sleep thinking about my characters and I wake up thinking about my plot. When I craft my novels, I shoot for growth. I ask myself “How am I going to outdo myself this time?”. My stories are meant to be realistic. I want for you to have a connection to the characters. If you haven’t read a Danielle Marcus book, you’re definitely missing out!
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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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Danzy Senna
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She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards.
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Martin Cruz Smith
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Martin Cruz Smith was an American writer of mystery and suspense fiction, mostly in an international or historical setting. He was best known for his series featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko, ten novels as of 2025, who was introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park and appeared in Independence Square (2023) and Hotel Ukraine (2025). -
W.O. Mitchell
William Ormond Mitchell was an author of novels, short stories, and plays. He is best known for his 1947 novel Who Has Seen the Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and a collection of short stories, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award. Both of these portray life on the Canadian prairies where he grew up in the early part of the 20th century. He has often been called the Mark Twain of Canada for his vivid tales of young boys' adventures.
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Barry Cryer
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After appearing in University revue, Cryer was offered a week's work at the Leeds City Varieties theatre, home of The Good Old Days, which became the longest-running television entertainment show in the world. Cryer left university after learning his first-year results and travelled to London. After impressing impresario Vivian Van Damm, Cryer began as the bottom billing act at the Windmill Theatre in London, a theatre which showed comedy acts in between nude tableau shows.
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Diana Nyad
For her maverick open-water performance of the 1970s, Diana Nyad was known as the world’s greatest long-distance swimmer. For the next thirty years, Nyad was a prominent sports broadcaster and journalist, filing compelling stories for National Public Radio, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and others. She is a national fitness icon, has written three other books, is a talented linguist, and is one of today’s most powerful and engaging public speakers.
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Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Ezra Greenspan
Ezra Greenspan holds the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities and is professor of English at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of William Wells Brown: A Reader and the author of William Wells Brown: An African American Life. He is a founding editor of the journal Book History.
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Jim Landwehr
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Jim has four published memoirs, At the Lake, Cretin Boy, Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir and The Portland House: A '70s Memoir. Jim also has six poetry collections, Tea in the Pacific Northwest, Thoughts from a Line at the DMV, Genetically Speaking, Reciting from Memory, Written Life, and On a Road.
His non-fiction stories have been published in Main Street Rag, The Sun Magazine, Story News, and others. His poetry has been featured in Rosebud Magazine, Portage Magazine, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and many others.
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Graham Russell Gao Hodges
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Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel Brown Girl, Brownstones.
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Marshall was educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). She taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale University before holding the Helen Gould Sheppard Chair of Literature and Culture at New York University. In 1993 she received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College. She was a MacArthur Fellow anda past winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 2009, She received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. -
Janis Mackay
I am from Edinburgh, have travelled a lot, lived in France, Palestine, Greece, London, Sussex, the far north of Scotland, and am now living in the beautiful Scottish Borders with a partner, a writing hut and a river in my garden. I always wanted to be a writer but following advice to get ‘a proper job’ I took myself off to the big city of London when I was just nineteen and trained to be a journalist. By 21 I was a journalist on Fleet Street – but soon realised this wasn’t the kind of writing I wanted to do. So off I went – round the world having all kinds of adventures – sailing yachts, sleeping on beaches, looking after children, working on kibbutz…then back to Scotland for more adventures – looking after children with learning disabiliti
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Jack Craven
JACK CRAVEN has always shaped his professional journey around his passions. Starting as a trial lawyer with the Chicago State’s Attorney’s office, he moved into private practice and later took on the role of CEO for his family’s business for nearly two decades. Yet his move into executive coaching stands out as the most challenging—and rewarding—chapter of his career. It was during this time that Jack created his “Living All In” philoso- phy. He has utilized his extensive professional and personal growth journey to empower individuals to discover deeper purpose, joy, and happiness in their lives. Since 2007, Jack has also been an active member and certified facilitator for the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), the world’s leading commun
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David G. Maillu
David Maillu was born in colonial Kenya on 19 October 1939. He went to school at age 12, at a Salvation Army School. After four years, he sat for a national colonial education examination, called Common Entrance Examination after which he joined Intermediate School whereby we sat for the Kenya African Primary Education (KAPE). There would be another examination after two years, called Kenya Junior Secondary Education, then finally the East Africa Cambridge School Certificate examination (The O-Level).
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He went to a technical school to Painting and Decorating, which took 3 years. He also enrolled for the British Tutorial College, to study for the High School education. Right from his Intermediate and Technical Schools, he developed passion in -
Ciku Kimeria
Ciku Kimeria lives and works in Kenya as a consultant focusing on international development issues. In her free time, she enjoys writing and traveling. She is particularly fascinated by the universality of human emotions and enjoys reading books about people whose culture she knows little about. She hopes to use her work to reach more people with stories about Kenyan people that they can relate to - even if they do not know much about Kenya. She holds a BSc in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928 – 30 November 2015) was an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet.
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Born Marjorie King in 1928 in Southampton, England, and died on 1st December 2015 in Kenya[.] Marjorie travelled to Kenya to work as a missionary in 1954. She worked at the S.J. Moore Bookshop on Government Road, now Moi Avenue in Nairobi, for some years. There she organised readings which were attended by, among others, Okot P'Bitek, the author of Song of Lawino, and Jonathan Kariara, a Kenyan poet. She met Macgoye, a medical doctor, and the two were married in 1960. In 1971, an anthology entitled Poems from East Africa included the acclaimed poem "A Freedom Song". Her 1986 novel Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize and has been used as a -
Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri (Scandiano, Reggio Emilia) è stato uno dei grandi maestri della fotografia italiana. Nella sua opera ha usato la fotografia come mezzo per mettere in discussione la realtà, attraverso immagini che fanno riflettere, sulla differenza tra ciò che vediamo, ciò che rappresentano e il loro significato.
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Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) was an extraordinary photographer as well as a prolific writer and curator. He is considered to be the most important Italian photographer of the 20th century. Ghirri’s work covers a wide range of subjects mostly photographed in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. His photos are presented in a deadpan manner that is occasionally humorous and often rooted in art history. Ghirri’s landscapes are a contemporary int -
Clara Barley
Clara Barley lives in the Calder Valley.
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The Moss House is Clara's first novel which was published by Bluemoose Books in 2019 and was selected by New Writing North for Read Regional 2020/21.
Clara has also published several non-fiction books on historic subjects under her name of Angela Clare. She has also written historical-based scripts for performance at a range of national museums and heritage sites. -
Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi is the author of three previous novels, Nude Men, Vapor, and, most recently, Love Creeps. Her writing has appeared in Best American Humor and elsewhere. She lives in New York.
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E. Tracy Grinnell
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Elder Series #1, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books, 2006), and Music or Forgetting (O Books, 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Mirrorly, A Window (flynpyntar press, 2009), Leukadia (Trafficker Press, 2008), Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, 2008), Humoresque (Blood Pudding/Dusie #3, 2008) Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). Grinnell’s poetry has been translated into French, Serbian, and Portuguese. She has taught creative writing at Pratt Institute, Brown University, and in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa Uni
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Louise Nayer
Born in NYC and now living in San Francisco my book Burned: A Memoir, about a family tragedy and triumph, was recently published by Atlas and Co. and featured as one of Ten Upcoming Titles in O Magazine. I've discussed the book on NPR in Cape Cod and was featured in The Cape Cod Times. The book was recently bought by Audio Books.
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I've also written two books of poetry, received six California Arts Council grants and co- wrote, with Virginia Lang, a non-fiction book(Rodale) How to Bury a Goldfish. I've taught writing classes for over 30 years. I'm a full-time Professor of English at City College of San Francisco. Presently, I'm working on a novel and welcome emails from readers and other authors. -
Timuel D. Black Jr.
Timuel Dixon Black Jr. was an American educator, civil rights activist, historian and author. A native of Alabama, Black was raised in Chicago, Illinois and studied the city's African American history.
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Lydia R. Otero
In 2011, the Border Regional Library Association presented a Southwest Book Award to Lydia Otero for La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City. Being born and raised in Tucson with deep family roots on both sides of the Arizona-Sonora border inspired the author's interest in regional history. In 2019, Otero received the Dolores Huerta Legacy Award for their activism and scholarship focusing on bringing awareness to Mexican American and local history. The author is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson, Arizona. Learn more at lydiaotero.com.
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Eric Gamalinda
Born and raised in Manila, Eric Gamalinda first published in the Philippines four novels: Planet Waves, Confessions of a Volcano, Empire of Memory, and My Sad Republic; a short story collection, Peripheral Vision; and a collection of poems, Lyrics from a Dead Language. All were written and published in the last decade of the twentieth century to literary acclaim and recognized with National Book Awards and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards many times over, on top of his nonfiction and plays. His fifth novel, The Descartes Highlands, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize. His other US publications include the poetry collections Zero Gravity, winner of the Asian American Literary Prize, and Amigo Warfare; and a short story collection, Peop
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Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages.
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Kariuki Kimuyu
Kariuki Kimuyu is a writer based in Nairobi, where he is currently working on his fifth book. Kesho & Malkia. When he is not whacking away at the keyboard, you can find him taking long walks or stopping to buy anything consumable by the roadside.
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Eleanor Burney
I'm Eleanor, a writer living in South Manchester, UK.
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My debut novel, 'You Never Knew Her', was published in January 2025.
I like to write about the complexities of human relationships: the misunderstandings, the things left unsaid, the secrets people keep, and the lies they tell.
I read every genre, and love to read what writers write about writing.
A few of my favourite authors are Lucy Atkins, Abigail Dean and Meg Mason. -
Uzma Aslam Khan
Uzma Aslam Khan is the prize-winning author of five novels published worldwide. These include Trespassing, translated in 18 languages and recipient of a Commonwealth Prize nomination; The Geometry of God, a Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2009; Thinner Than Skin, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. Her work has twice won a Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize, and appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Australian Book Review, Nimrod, AGNI, Calyx, and Guardian UK, among many other periodicals.
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Khan’s fifth novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, is set in the British penal settlement -
Mai Al-Nakib
Mai Al-Nakib is the author of An Unlasting Home, a novel published by Mariner Books/HarperCollins in 2022. Her collection of short stories, The Hidden Light of Objects, published by Bloomsbury, won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's First Book Award in 2014. Her short stories have appeared in various publications, including, Ninth Letter, The First Line, After the Pause, and World Literature Today. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and teaches English and comparative literature at Kuwait University.
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K. Sello Duiker
Kabelo 'Sello' Duiker's debut novel, Thirteen Cents won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region.
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He suffered a nervous breakdown in 2004, prior to committing suicide by hanging himself in January 2005. -
Deborah Lawrenson
After a childhood of constant moves around the world - my family lived at various times in Kuwait, China, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore - I read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. I trained as a journalist on a weekly South London newspaper, then worked on several national newspapers and magazines.
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My first novel Hot Gossip (1994) was a satire based on my experiences working on Nigel Dempster's diary column, and was followed by a sequel, Idol Chatter (1995). The Moonbathers, a black comedy, followed in 1998.
The Art of Falling was a complete change of direction, which took five years to research and write. But trying to get it published was like starting from scratch again. In the end, after many false dawns and disappointments, I p -
Mircea M. Țara
Mircea M. Țara s-a născut pe 10 ianuarie 1987 la Baia Mare. La finele liceului descoperă pasiunea pentru literatura de dincolo de propunerile din programa pentru bacalaureat. Însă imaginația și-a cultivat-o încă din copilărie, inventând povești pentru micii roboți din lego sau soldăței din plastic, pe covorul persan din sufragerie.
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A absolvit facultatea de Litere secția Română-Engleză din cadrul Universității de Nord, iar după ce traduce cartea Drumul înfometat semnată de cunoscutul romancier nigerian Ben Okri, în 2011 finalizează un master în marketing online obținut în cadrul ASE București.
Nu la mult timp după aceea se mută la Arad, unde își începe cariera în publicitate și pune pe hârtie prima schiță a cărții cu care pe 1 aprilie 2017 deb -
Hannah Jewell
Hannah Jewell is the Pop Culture Host on the video team at The Washington Post, formerly a senior staff writer at BuzzFeed UK, where she became known for her humor writing about gender and her satire of UK and US politics, and for presenting BuzzFeed's live 2016 election night show.
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She was born in London, but her parents whisked her away to California when she was a baby, and so she grew up frolicking on beaches and through redwood forests. She earned a degree from UC Berkeley in Middle Eastern Studies, taking a year out to study and work in Beirut. She had a great time in Lebanon but now is unfortunately banned from that country. She then returned to the UK in 2013 for an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge, which w -
Mohammad al Murr
Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Al Murr Al Falasi (born 1955 in Dubai) is a short-story writer from the United Arab Emirates.
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He has published over 15 volumes of short stories and has had two collections translated into English: Dubai Tales and The Wink of the Mona Lisa.
Al Murr graduated from Syracuse University in the United States, and has been a member of a number of UAE academic institutions and councils. He is the head of the Dubai Cultural Council, recently reorganized as the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
In 2011 Al Murr was appointed to the Federal National Council's 15th Chapter as a representative of the Emirate of Dubai, and elected uncontested as Speaker. He served as the speaker from 2011 to 2015. -
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially -
Steven Bouma-Prediger
Steven Bouma-Prediger (PhD, University of Chicago) is Leonard and Marjorie Maas Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He regularly writes and speaks on environmental issues and is the author of For the Beauty of the Earth.
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Mukul Hossine
Md Mukul Hossine was born in Patgram, Bangladesh, and has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences. In 2008, he arrived in Singapore and has been working in its construction sector.
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Mukul writes poems, novels, and short stories. He enjoys composing poetry to remember his mother back home and has spent many long nights writing. His favourite poet is Rabindranath Tagore.
His novel, Buker Simanaye Sukh (Happiness at Heart’s Edge) and his poetry collection Apurna Vasana (Unfulfilled Desire) have been published in Bangladesh. -
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Donald Sewell Lopez, Jr. (born 1952) is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan, in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
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Son of the deputy director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Donald S. Lopez. -
Hilary McD. Beckles
Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles KA (born 11 August 1955) is a Barbadian historian, he is the current vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Committee.
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Educated at the University of Hull in England, Beckles began his academic career at UWI, and was granted a personal professorship at the age of 37, becoming the youngest in the university's history. He was named pro-vice-chancellor and chairman of UWI's Board for Undergraduate Studies in 1998, and in 2002 was named principal of the university's Cave Hill campus. Although his focus has mainly been on Afro-Caribbean history, especially the economic and social impacts of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade, Beckles has also had a longst -
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton).
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Gabriela Rabago Palafox
Narradora, poeta y dramaturga. Fue profesora normalista; comentarista y guionista de televisión. Colaboró en Al Sur del Sur, Círculo Administrativo Económico y Contable, El Cuento, El Gallo Ilustrado, El Heraldo de México, Excélsior, Geo, Geografía Universal, La Onda, La Semana de Bellas Artes, Natura, Nonotza, Política y Cultura, Siete, Tierra Adentro, y Vudú. Becaria del CME, 1979. Premio Nacional de Cuento Infantil Juan de la Cabada 1977 por Relatos de la ciudad sin dueño. Premio Puebla de Ciencia Ficción 1988 por Pandemia. Premio Clementina Otero de Barrios 1979 por Godofrina. Premio Literario de Novela Policiaca 1994 en cuento por Los cazadores.
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Christopher Okigbo
Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.
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