Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg was a Dutch-Antillian writer and poet of Venezuelan/Swiss heritage. Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch; Weekendpelgrimage (1957), In de straten van Tepalka (1967); and De…
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in …
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as S…
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in No…
Augusto José Antonio Roa Bastos was a noted Paraguayan novelist and short story writer, and one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco W…
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (June 10, 1863 – July 16, 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is usually considered one of the foremost figures in Dutch literatur…
Annejet van der Zijl is a Dutch writer. Born in 1962, she studied mass communication at the UVA in Amsterdam and did a MA International Journalism at City University in London. She worked in magazine …
Mariama Bâ (1929 – 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age came to criticise what she perceived as inequalities bet…
Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.
Raoul de Jong (Rotterdam, 1984) is schrijver, programmamaker, danser en levensgenieter. Hij reisde op zijn negentiende vier maanden in zijn eentje door Afrika. Op zijn eenentwintigste overleefde hij v…
Manon Uphoff was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for nume…
Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom (Paramaribo, 22 februari 1898 – Kamp Sandbostel (Neuengamme), 24 of 29 april 1945) was een Surinaamse anti-koloniale schrijver en nationalist. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoor…
Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller WILD DARK SHORE, a Reese's Book Club Pick and named Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far for 2025; as well as …
In Koli Jean Bofane is a Congolese writer. Bofane was born in Équateur province in 1954; his mother left his father for a Belgian settler and he grew up mainly on his stepfather's coffee plantation.Af…
Maartje Wortel (1982) volgde de opleiding Beeld & Taal aan de Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2007 won ze de Write Now!-wedstrijd voor literair talent. Ze publiceerde verhalen in Passionate, De Bra…
Karin Amatmoekrim was born in 1976, in Paramaribo, Suriname. She emigrated to the Netherlands in 1981 and has been living in Amsterdam since 1999. She studied modern literature at the University of Am…
Yamen Manai was born in 1980 in Tunis and currently lives in Paris. Both a writer and an engineer, Manai explores the intersections of past and present, and tradition and technology, in his prose.
Abdul Aziz Al Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA in engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and engineering diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-c…
Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker. He won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for Frankenstein in Baghdad. He lives and works in Baghdad.
Charlotte Van den Broeck was born in Turnhout, Belgium, in 1991. After studies in English and German, she took a Masters in Drama at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. She has published two collectio…
Constance Debré is the daughter of journalist François Debré (1942-2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942-1988), granddaughter of Michel Debré (1912-1996), former Prime Minister of General de…
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
