Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoi…
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, pl…
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…
Lygia Fagundes Telles (born April 19, 1923) is a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in São Paulo and is one of Brazil's most important living writers.
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.
In 1999, Besson, who was a jurist at that time, was inspired to write his first novel, In the Absence of Men, while reading some accounts of ex-servicemen of the First World War. The novel won the Emm…
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine.
Solvej Balle er en særegen stemme i dansk litteratur. Hun var del af en gruppe hovedsageligt kvindelige forfattere, som debuterede eller slog deres navne fast i begyndelsen af 90’erne. Siden Balle deb…
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute o…
She is a journalist and teacher, holding a master’s degree in Brazilian Literature and a Ph.D. in Literary Studies. She writes for children, young adults, and adults. In 2006, she was the only Brazili…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and…
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…
Natalia Borges Polesso nasceu em Bento Gonçalves, em 1981. É pesquisadora, escritora e tradutora. Publicou Recortes para álbum de fotografia sem gente (2013), Coração à corda (2015), Amora (2015), ven…
Julia Dantas nasceu em Porto Alegre, em 1985. Formou-se em jornalismo, estudou crítica de arte em Buenos Aires, atuou como tradutora e hoje se dedica à edição de livros. Faz mestrado em escrita criati…
Marcela Dantés nasceu em Belo Horizonte, em 1986. Estudou Comunicação Social na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e é pós-graduada em Processos Criativos em Palavra e Imagem, pela PUC Minas. Pela …
S. Ganeff nasceu na cidade de São Paulo, mas não sei se ainda está por lá. Já fez natação, ballet, sapateado, capoeira, Kumon e Cultura Inglesa. Já tentou carreira de hostess, gênio da matemática, atr…
DORA FREIND é escritora, atriz e dramaturga. Bacharel em artes cênicas pela UNIRIO, teve sua trajetória reconhecida e premiada no Brasil e no exterior, com destaque para o Festival de Cinema de Veneza…
