Misha Defonseca (born 1937), born as Monique de Wael, is a Belgian writer and the author of Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, first published in 1997 and at that time professed to be a memoir. …
Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Island of Sea Women, Peo…
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van…
Lilian Jackson Braun was an American writer. She is well-known for her light-hearted series of The Cat Who... mystery novels. The Cat Who books center around the life of former newspaper reporter Jame…
Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, was an English novelist. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit.…
Sue Hubbell is a graduate of the Universtiy of Southern California. She received a master's degree in library science from the Drexel Institute of Technology and was a librarian at Brown University. I…
Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. He won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction with his bestselling novel I…
Gerbrand Bakker werd geboren op 28 april 1962 in Wieringerwaard, als derde zoon in een boerengezin van zeven kinderen. Heeft van 1967 tot 1992 'op school' gezeten: kleuterschool; lagere school; havo; …
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker, who held both a Master's in Theology and a Doctorate of Divinity. Famous for his research on comparative religion, he was best known as…
Viola Ardone è laureata in Lettere e ha lavorato per alcuni anni nell'editoria. Autrice di varie pubblicazioni, insegna latino e italiano nei licei. Fra i suoi romanzi ricordiamo: La ricetta del cuore…
Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijm…
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. Fr…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
Prof. dr. Valerie Trouet bestudeert al meer dan twintig jaar de klimaatverandering aan de hand van jaarringen van bomen. Wereldwijd wordt ze erkend als een van de topexperts op het vlak van dendrochro…
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentia…
Jean-Philippe Pleau est sociologue. Né en 1977, il travaille à la radio de Radio-Canada depuis 2005. Il a coanimé l’émission C’est fou… avec Serge Bouchard de 2014 à 2021, et il anime depuis l’automne…
Simon Paré-Poupart ramasse les ordures depuis vingt ans. Ses études universitaires en sociologie et en administration internationale, ainsi que son expérience comme intervenant social n’auront pas eu …
