Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) bro…
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…
Joseph Roth, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now …
Benali was born in Morocco, but came to Rotterdam at the age of four. Later he moved to Amsterdam. Except novels and plays Benali also writes articles and reviews for various Dutch newspapers and maga…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.
S.E. Hinton, was and still is, one of the most popular and best known writers of young adult fiction. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Her novels changed the way peo…
He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the m…
Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (…
Jutta Chorus (1967, Leiden) is schrijver en journalist voor NRC Handelsblad. In 2003 won ze de Prijs voor Dagbladjournalistiek voor haar bijdragen over de korte politieke carrière van Pim Fortuyn. Ze …
Warsan Shire is a 24 year old Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally - including recent r…
Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz, Spain, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Out in the Open, his debut novel, was a huge bestseller in Spain, published in more than twenty-one countries, and is t…
Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder e…
Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. She is a 2022 recipient of a Whiting Award, the editor of McSweeney's Quarterly, a contribu…
Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and …
Lex Paleaux is schrijver, columnist en scenarist. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand onder meer de veelgeprezen romans Winterwater en Als de dood zucht, houd ik mijn adem in. Van Winterwater werd een suc…
TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to wh…
Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.
