Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the Uni…
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…
Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (Hebrew: דויד גרוסמן) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel …
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times,…
Sandy Tolan is a teacher and radio documentary producer. He is the author of two books: Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later (Free Press, 2000), about the intersection between race…
Dorit Rabinyan (Hebrew: דורית רביניאן) is an Israeli writer and screenwriter. She was born in Kfar Saba to an Iranian Jewish family. She has published three novels, two of which have been widely transl…
Meir Shalev (Hebrew: מאיר שלו) was one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. He received many awards for his work, including the National Jewish Book Award and Israel’s Brenner Prize, both for A Pige…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
D. A. Mishani (born in 1975) is an Israeli crime writer, editor and literary scholar, specializing in the history of detective fiction. His first detective novel, "The missing file", was published in …
Ayelet Tsabari is the author of The Art of Leaving, finalist for the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for memoir, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review B…
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals,…
Noa Yedlin is an Israeli author, the recipient of the Sapir Prize (the Israeli Man Booker) and the Prime Minister's Literature Award and author of the bestselling House Arrest, Stockholm, People Like …
Hannah Lillith Assadi received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She also attended Columbia University for her bachelor's where she received the Philolexian Prize for…
Mourid Barghouti is a Palestinian poet and writer. He has published 12 books of poetry, the last of which is Muntasaf al-Lail (Midnight). His Collected Works came out in Beirut in 1997. In 2000 he was…
Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii fest…
