Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfi…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Yasmina Reza began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987 she wrote Conversations after a Burial, which won the Molière Award for Best …
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.
Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Her father was a semi-retired managing director of a Midland chemical firm. She was o…
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…
Michele Mari è nato a Milano nel 1955. Figlio del designer e artista Enzo Mari, insegna Letteratura Italiana all'Università Statale di Milano. Dal 1992 risiede a Roma.
È autore di numerose raccolte di racconti, romanzi, volumi illustrati, radiogrammi, testi di canzoni e libretti per il teatro. È stato docente e direttore della “Scuola Holden – Storytelling and Perfo…
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…
Sergio Oricci (Fiesole, 1982) vive a Cluj-Napoca, in Romania, dove lavora come traduttore. Suoi testi sono apparsi su GAMMM, Nazione Indiana, ‘tina e altrove. Ha fondato e cura la rivista Clean. Tra i…
Brooke Warra grew up in a deep, dark wood where she developed a taste for the weird and macabre. Her work has appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. She lives and writes with her ch…
Luigi Musolino nasce nel 1982 in provincia di Torino, dove risiede e lavora. Specializzato in folclore italiano, è autore di varie raccolte di racconti nel campo del weird, dell'horror e del gotico ru…
Niviaq Korneliussen was born in 1990 in Nuuk and grew up in Nanortalik, a small town in Southern Greenland. She participated in 2012 in the short story competition Allatta! (let us write!) for young u…
Maria Lazar, 1895 geboren, entstammte einer großbürgerlichen jüdischen Wiener Familie. Sie absolvierte das berühmte Mädchengymnasium der Kugenia Schwarzwald, in deren Salon Oskar Kokoschka sie 1916 po…
TIFFANY McDANIEL is the international bestselling author of Betty, The Summer that Melted Everything, and On the Savage Side. She is the winner of over a dozen literary prizes, including the Guardian'…
Fatma Bahar Aydemir (* 1986 in Karlsruhe) ist eine deutsche Journalistin und Schriftstellerin. Fatma Aydemir wuchs in einem Vorort von Karlsruhe auf. Ihre Großeltern kamen als kurdisch-türkische Gastar…
Julia Armfield was born in London in 1990. She is a fiction writer and occasional playwright with a Masters in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway University. She was shortlisted for the …
Es anestesista, autor y dramaturgo. Ha publicado relatos en revistas literarias y en antologías colectivas. En 2018 ganó el Premio Hystrio Escritura de Escena y fue uno de los autores seleccionados pa…
