Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea …
Sir Antony James Beevor is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolut…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of th…
Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel R…
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most w…
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the storie…
Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist la…
Giacomo Debenedetti è stato uno scrittore, saggista e critico letterario italiano. Fu tra i maggiori interpreti della critica letteraria in Italia nel XX secolo, uno dei primi ad accogliere la lezione…
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul…
Alicia Giménez Bartlett was born in Almansa, Spain, in 1951 and has lived in Barcelona since 1975. After the enormous success of her first novels, she decided to leave her work as a teacher of Spanish…
Zerocalcare sul finire del 2011 ha quasi 28 anni e per un sacco di tempo ha fatto soprattutto fumettacci sulle fanzine fotocopiate e locandine per concerti punk hardcore. Oltre ad un numero sterminato…
De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá…
Ana Campoy (Madrid, 1979) es escritora y periodista cultural. Licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual por la UCM, estudió guion y doblaje antes de dedicarse por completo a la literatura.
Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (…
Emily Adrian is the author of Seduction Theory, Daughterhood, The Second Season, and Everything Here Is Under Control, as well as two critically acclaimed novels for young adults. Her work has appeare…
Jesse Q Sutanto grew up shuttling back and forth between Jakarta and Singapore and sees both cities as her homes. She has a Masters degree from Oxford University, though she has yet to figure out a wa…
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 mu…
Jaime Riba nació en Vera en 1992. A los diecisiete años se mudó a Granada para comenzar sus estudios de Bellas Artes. Siempre mostró una inclinación hacia la creatividad y, aunque adora la escultura y…
