Born in the 1970s in Hunan province, Sheng Keyi now lives in Shenyang, Guangdong province, and is usually considered one of the group of "female writers from Guangdong" that includes W…
Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and soc…
Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. All of his novels are set in hi…
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to re…
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional d…
** I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life rain…
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…
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, H…
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.
Laurent Gaudé est un romancier et dramaturge français. Après avoir été nommé pour le Prix Concourt 2002 avec La mort du roi Tsongor, il a gagné ce prix en 2004 pour son roman Le Soleil des Scorta.
Aki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her no…
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, 1967–) set her sights on becoming a writer from an early age. Her debut novel—Kōfuku na yūgi (A Blissful Pastime), written while she was a university student—received the Kaien P…
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (Th…
En 1975, elle reçoit le prix du festival des arts de Kyushu pour « La voix de l’eau » ce qui l’encouragea fortement dans sa carrière littéraire. Son ouvrage « Le Chaudron » l’a ensuite rendue célèbre …
Petra Soukupová je česká spisovatelka a scenáristka, laureátka literárních cen Magnesia Litera 2010 v kategorii Kniha roku za prózu Zmizet a Ceny Jiřího Ortena 2008 pro mladé literáty za knihu K moři.…
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1958, studied art history in Paris and has lectured in History of Art at the University of Iceland. Her earlier novel, The Greenhouse (2007), won the DV Cu…
Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud farm. She is the author of num…
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a …
Vencedor de prêmios no Brasil e no exterior, além de ser o primeiro brasileiro finalista do prestigiado International Booker Prize, ITAMAR VIEIRA JUNIOR nasceu em Salvador (1979) e é autor da coletânea …
