Gustav Torgny Lindgren was a Swedish writer. Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. He w…
Santiago Roncagliolo ha vivido en México, Perú y España. Su libro Abril rojo (Alfaguara, 2006) lo convirtió en el ganador más joven del Premio Alfaguara de Novela. y está en vías de traducción a más d…
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and pu…
Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers
Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and play…
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on …
Kjell Askildsen (f. 1929) debuterte med novellesamlingen Heretter følger jeg deg helt hjem i 1953. Askildsen har fått Kritikerprisen to ganger, for novellesamlingene Thomas F's siste nedtegnelse til a…
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist. She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Deat…
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in 1978, has a Tunisian father and a Swedish mother. He grew up in Stockholm, has studied economics in Paris and been an intern at the UN in New York. He made a celebrated d…
Anna Burns (born 1962) is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.
Klas Östergren was born in Stockholm in 1955 and is the author of several novels including the landmark Gentlemen (1981) and its sequel, Gangsters (2005). A leading star of Swedish literature for ne…
Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard. In the same year, the same book, won her the L…
Samanta Schweblin was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta. She is the author of three story collections that have won numerous awards, including the prestigio…
Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the…
Lina Wolff is a Swede who has lived and worked in Italy and Spain. During her years in Valencia and Madrid, she began to write her short story collection Many People Die Like You. Her novel, Bret East…
Kelby Losack is the author of Texas Tea, God Is Wearing Black, Mercy, Letting Out the Devils, and several other books. Co-host of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne and Nicholas Rall. He works …
Xuemo （雪漠）, is a shining star in the Chinese literary and cultural world. Born in Gansu, China, he has a prolific career spanning over 70 works. His writings have been translated into more than 20 lan…
