Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist and former painter known for her evocative, lyrical prose and her autoethnographic approach to historical fiction. Drawing deeply from her family's experie…
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received…
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the…
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Span…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japa…
Marc Levy was born in France. When he turned eighteen, he joined the Red Cross, where he spent the next six years. In 1983, he created a computer graphics company based in France and the United States…
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she w…
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Claire’s first book, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in January, 2011. It will be published simultaneously in the UK by Bloomsbury.
Alessia Gazzola, nata a Messina nel 1982, è medico chirurgo specialista in medicina legale. Ha esordito nella narrativa con il romanzo L’allieva, che ha fatto conoscere e amare al pubblico italiano, e…
Sarah Bernstein is from Montreal, Quebec and lives in Scotland where she teaches at Edinburgh University. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in tender, Contemporary Women’s Writing, MAP and …
Meltem Gürle, 1966 da Almanya'da doğdu. Çocukluğunu İzmir'de, öğrencilik yıllarını İstanbul'da geçirdi. Felsefe ve edebiyat eğitimi aldı. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yabancı Diller Yüksek Okulu'nda edebiyat…
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…
1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Ayşegül Savaş grew up in London, Copenhagen, and Istanbul. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta, among others. She lives in Paris.
Beatriz Serrano es Licenciada en Periodismo por la Universidad Complutense. Ha desarrollado su carrera en el periodismo digital, especializándose en nuevas narrativas. Ha escrito para medios como Buzz…
Anne de Marcken is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. Winner of the The Novel Prize, her novel, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, was simultaneously published by New Directions (US), Fitzcarral…
Anna Pazos (Barcelona, 1991) és una escriptora, periodista i documentalista catalana. Ha escrit articles per a diversos mitjans de comunicació com ara Núvol, Vice, The Jerusalem Post, El País, La Vang…