Literary meeting that has its antecedent in the Festival of European Literatures, created in 2007 to celebrate 50 years of the European Union, and held in different venues in Mexico. Since 2011 it has been held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Over thirteen years, 24 countries of the European Union have participated in the European Literature Festival at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. 125 authors have shared their particular vision and creative process with the Guadalajara audience. We invite you to explore this map of creators that shows and shares the vitality of contemporary European literature.
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Contact European Union Delegation in México
Cristina Martínez, Press and information section, at the phone number (52) 55 5540 9065
Contact FIL Guadalajara
Itzel Sánchez, responsible for the Programs in Other Languages, at the phone number (52 33) 3810-0331, ext. 905
Abdelá Taia
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(Marruecos, 1973)
Adam Thirlwell
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(United Kingdom, 1978)
Adam Thirlwell was born and grew up in North London. He is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and assistant editor of Areté magazine.
His first novel, Politics, a love story with digressions, was published in 2003, and his second book, Miss Herbert: A Book of Novels, Romances & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes, in 2007. Miss Herbert won a 2008 Somerset Maugham Award. Hi is also the author of The Escape (2009), Kapow! (2012) and Lurid & Cute (2015)
In 2003, Adam Thirlwell was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British novelists'. He lives in Oxford.
Afonso Cruz
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(Portugal, 1971)
He is a writer, illustrator, musician and filmmaker. Since 2008, the year he began writing, he has published over twenty books. His debut novel was A Carne de Deus followed by Enciclopédia da Estória Universal in 2009, which received the Grand Camilo Castelo Branco Prize for Short Stories. In 2011, he published Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai (Maria Rosa Colaço Literary Prize), A Contradição Humana (SPA/RTP Authors’ Prize, White Ravens 2011 selection), and O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-loiças, distinguished in 2016 with the FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil do Brasil) Prize.
In 2012, he was awarded the European Union's Literature Prize for the book Kokoschka’s Doll, and published Enciclopédia da Estória Universal: Recolha de Alexandria and the novel Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja, which was honored with the Time Out - Book of the Year. In 2013, he published Enciclopédia da Estória Universal: Arquivos de Dresner, O Livro do Ano, O Cultivo de Flores de Plástico (theater play) and Para onde Vão os Guarda-chuvas (winner of the Authors’ Prize for Best Narrative Fiction Book) and Assim, Mas Sem Ser Assim.
In the last two years, he has published the non-fiction book Jalan, Jalan: Uma Leitura do Mundo and the seventh volume of Enciclopédia da Estória Universal: Biblioteca de Brasov.
Copyright on his books has been sold to various countries.
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Aleš Šteger
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(Slovenia, 1973)
Poet, novelist, essayist, editor and translator, Aleš Šteger is one of the most important authors in contemporary Slovenian literature and belongs to the generation of writers that began to publish immediately after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
He is author of six poem collections: Šahovnice ur (1995); Kašmir (1997); Protuberance (2002; The Book of Things (2005); The Book of Bodies (2010) and Nad nebom pod zemljo (2015). He also wrote the travelogue Včasih je januar sredi poletja (1999); the book of short prose Berlin (2007); the essay collection S prsti in peto (2009); the musical for puppets Kurent (2011, published as a novel for young adults in 2015) and the novels Absolution (2014) and Neverend (2017).
In 2012, he began the project 'Written on the Spot': every year he chooses a specific location around the world [Ljubljana, Fukushima, Mexico City (in 2015 during the protests for the kidnapping of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa), Belgrade, Cochin, the Solovetsky Islands, Shanghai] where he takes exactly two hours to capture his impressions of what he sees and feels directly onto paper.
He has also done several translations from Spanish to Slovenian (Neruda, Orozco, Vallejo) and from German (Benn, Huchel, Grunbein, Bachmann).
Alessandro Baricco
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(Italy, 1958)
Alessandro Baricco is Italy's most famous contemporary writer. He studied philosophy and earned a diploma in piano at university. After a short time working as a copywriter for an ad agency, he started his writing career as a music and cultural critic for the Italian press. His first novel, Castles of Anger (1991), won Italy's Prix Medicis and the Campiello Prize. His other novels include Ocean Sea (1993), Silk (1996), City (1999) and Without Blood (2002). Silk, which became an immediate best seller in Italy, has been translated into 16 languages, including Japanese. Baricco has also written plays and essays and hosted television programs on opera and literature. In 1991 he founded a training program for writers, The Holden School.
Alexander Peer
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(Austria, 1971)
Alexander was born in 1971 in Salzburg and studied German, philosophy and journalism. He currently lives in Vienna and is an independent writer, reader and organizer of writing workshops as well as a number of radio shows (Ö1). From time to time he writes articles and reviews for all kinds of magazines and newspapers. He is a member of the PEN Club of Austria (PEN International is one of the most famous international organizations of authors).
Alexander has many publications in anthologies and literary magazines in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and has participated in more than 100 readings at festivals, literary soirées and libraries in Austria and many European countries. He has received a number of prizes and scholarships (Stadtschreiber in Schwaz in Tirol 2011 and writer-in-residence in der Villa Sträuli 2012).
Andrea Bajani
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Italian novelist, poet, and journalist. After his debut with Cordiali saluti (Einaudi, 2005), it was Se consideri le colpe (Einaudi, 2007) which brought him a great deal of attention. Antonio Tabucchi wrote about his debut novel, "I read this book with an excitement that Italian literature hasn't made me feel in ages." The book won the Super Mondello Prize, the Brancati Prize, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize.
After three years, with his novel Ogni promessa (Einaudi, 2010; published in English as Every Promise by MacLehose Press), he won the oldest Italian literary award, the Bagutta Prize. His collection of short stories, La vita non è in ordine alfabetico (Einaudi, 2014) won the Settembrini Prize in 2014. His most recent novel is Un bene al mondo (Einaudi 2016), and is currently being made into a film. In 2013 he published Mi riconosci, a moving homage to the famous Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.
In 2017 Einaudi published his first book of poems, Promemoria. The second one, Dimora naturale, will be published in May 2020. He is also an author of journalistic essays and regularly contributes to the daily newspaper la Repubblica.
Bajani taught Creative Writing at the Scuola Holden in Torino, and has been Chief Editor for Italian fiction at Bollati Boringhieri publishing house since 2017. A book of literary criticism analyzing his work, written by Sara Sicuro and entitled Andrea Bajani. Una geografia del buio, was published in 2019.
Andrés Neuman
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Anja Snellman
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(Finland, 1954)
Antoine Volodine
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Antonia Michaelis
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(Germany, 1979)
Antonia Michaelis was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1979. Despite studying medicine, she decided to devote herself to literature full time. She began to write between classes when she was very young, and has never stopped. She has received several prizes for her work and many of her books for young adult have appeared on German popular book lists. They have been translated into various languages. Her first novel, The Storyteller, was published in Spanish by the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) and endorsed as a Good Book by the 2016 Recommended Book Guide for Children and Young Adults published by IBBY México and the Mexican Ministry of Culture. She is also the author of Die wunderliche Reise von Oliver und Twist and Tiger Moon, for which she won the Batchelder Honor Book Award granted by the American Library Association for the best book of the year in the United States.
Arnon Grunberg
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(Netherlands, 1971)
He is one of the most celebrated Dutch authors working today, he lives in New York. Besides novels he publishes reports in columns in international newspapers and magazines for example The New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Libération. His work is translated in 29 languages.
Arpád Kun
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Kun was born in 1965 in the west Hungarian town of Sopron. He had planned on moving overseas to switch languages and become an English language writer, but he only got as far as the Faculty of Arts of Budapest University, where he graduated with a degree in Hungarian Literature and History in 1991. For two years, he organised a weekend secondary school in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He graduated in Paris with a university degree in French Literature in 1996.
He attended half-heartedly a PhD training in Aesthetics at the end of the 90s, but did not become a doctor, he taught – quite more than half-, but not really whole-heartedly – the history of painting at a French university, he wrote – quarter-heartedly – scripts for a TV series, he was a university lector in Bordeaux between 2003 and 2005 – this time with three quarters of his heart in it. Since 2006, he has been living in Norway with his wife and his four children. Besides writing, he works in a village near a fjord as a home care aide for the elderly. Family and literature are his life, but he also likes making strudel, picking mushrooms, and many other things. He has written four volumes of poetry and two novels. His first novel, Happy North (available, among others, in Hungarian, Spanish and Turkish languages) has received a number of awards.
Artur Domosławski
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(Poland, 1967)
Domosławski is a journalist and reporter. Between 1991 and 2011 he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. Since 2011 he has written for the weekly review Polityka and the Polish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. In 2010 he was named Journalist of the Year by the monthly Press.
His interest is focused mainly on Latin America, an area that he has written about in Latin American Fever (2004) and Death in Amazonia (2013). Domosławski has also written about alter-globalist movements and north-south relationships in The World is Not for Sale, Conversations on globalization (2002), and Rebellious America. Seventeen Dialogs on the Dark Sides of the Freedom Empire (2007).
His most celebrated work is the biography of Ryszard Kapuściński, titled Kapuściński non-fiction (2010), a monumental work that was carefully documented.
His recent publication The Excluded is a kind of summary of 20 years of travels in Southern countries and in it Domosławski tries to outline a wide portrayal of those, “Who no one is going to speak for and who no one will ever miss”. It is a big picture of the global South and a collective portrait of people without a voice or representation – people who have been defeated, humiliated and disowned. Domosławski tells stories from various continents and decades that uncover the complex reasons for the current migration from towns.
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
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Camilla Läckberg
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(Sweden, 1974)
Camilla Läckberg is an economist who changed careers and became Europe’s Queen of Crime. She has now written her tenth book in the Fjällbacka series and released six children’s books about Super-Charlie.
Camilla grew up in Fjällbacka, a small fishing community located on Sweden’s west coast. After studying at the School of Business, Economics and Law in Gothenburg she moved to Stockholm and worked as a product manager at both Telia and Fortum. However, she wasn’t happy as an economist, and found her escape through a writing course, run by the publisher Ordfront, and during the course Camilla started writing the story that would become her debut novel, The Ice Princess.
The week Camilla gave birth to her son Wille, The Ice Princess was accepted by a publisher, and was in bookshops in 2003. By 2006 Camilla Läckberg was Sweden’s bestselling author. She is the sixth most read writer in Europe. So far her books have been published in over 60 countries.
Cloé Korman
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Colm Tóibín
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Cynan Jones
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Jones was born near Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales. He is the author of four short novels, The Long Dry (Parthian, 2006), Everything I Found on the Beach (Parthian, 2011), Bird, Blood, Snow (Seren, 2012), and most recently The Dig (Granta, 2014).
His first novel won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award and saw the author nominated as the 2008 Hay Festival Scritture Giovani. The Dig – a chapter of which was shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award – won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize earlier this year.
His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta and New Welsh Review.
Dacia Maraini
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(Italy, 1936)Novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and film scriptwriter. Belonging to the so-called Silent Generation, Maraini is among the most famous and translated authors of contemporary Italian literature. Her work is characterized by exploring women’s historic and social conditions from within a broader reflection on multiple social issues.
During the early sixties, Marini published her first novels: La vacanza (1962), L'età del malessere (La edad del malestar, 1963), which won the Formentor Prize, and A memoria (1967). She also published her first book of poetry with critical acclaim: Crudeltá all'aria aperta (Crueldad al aire libre, 1967). Later, she published the novels Memorie di una ladra, Donna in guerra (1975) Storia di Piera (1980), La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (La larga vida de Marianna Ucrìa, 1990).
In 1994, she published Voci. In 1998, she published a poetry anthology called Se amando troppo and, the following year the book of short stories Buio (Dark). In 2001, she published La nave per Kobe, which narrates a Maraini family trip to Japan, and the book of fables La pecora Dolly (Dolly the Sheep).
In 2004 she published the novel Colomba. In 2007, she wrote Il gioco dell’universo, and Passi affrettati (Hasty Steps) devoted to the issue of violence against women.
In 2008 she published Train to Budapest. She later published the travel book La seduzione dell'altrove (2010); then, La grande festa (2011), and L'amore rubato (2012).
She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Foggia and was awarded a Grand Cross from the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Dan Lungu
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(Romania, 1969)
Director of Romania’s National Museum of Literature in Iasi, and one of the most acclaimed and translated Romanian writers. Dan Lungu has written novels, short story anthologies, and has collaborated on various other books, for example, Camaradas de camino. La experiencia femenina en el comunismo (2008), Calle Revolución, no 89 (2009) and Libros, películas, músicas y otros entretenimientos en el comunismo (2014).
He is also author of the following novels: El Paraíso de las gallinas (falsa novela de rumores y misterios), 2004 (published in Spanish by publishing house Nashari Narrativa in 2011); I’m an Old Communist Biddy, 2007 (published in Spanish by publishing house PreTextos); Cómo olvidar a una mujer, 2009; En el infierno todas las bombillas están quemadas, 2011.
His most praised and translated book, I'm an Old Communist Biddy! has been adapted for the stage by the companies Bouwkunde of Deventer (The Netherlands); Katona Joszef, of Budapest, and the Tatarasi Cultural Center (Iasi, Romania), and was adapted for film in 2010.
Most of his novels have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek, Norwegian, Croatian, Macedonian and Turkish.
David Le Breton
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David Machado
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David Machado was born in Lisbon in 1978. He published the novels O Fabuloso Teatro do Gigante, Deixem Falar as Pedras, The Shelf Life of Happiness (European Union Prize for Literature, Salerno European Book Prize) and Debaixo da Pele. He has also published several children’s stories including: A Noite dos Animais Inventados (2005 Branquinho da Fonseca Award), O Tubarão na Banheira (2010 SPA/RTP Author Award 2010), A Mala Assombrada, Parece Um Pássaro, Eu Acredito, Uma Noite Caiu Uma Estrela, and Os Livros do Rei.
In 2018 he published the young adult’s novel Não Te Afastes. His books have been published in twelve languages.
Domingo Villar
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(Spain, 1971 -2022) 
“I am a literary author and I have written three novels: Water-Blue Eyes (Siruela 2006), Death on a Galician Shore (Siruela, 2009) and El ultimo barco (Siruela, 2019). I have also written a handful of short stories, compiled in anthologies and published in print media. My books have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian and Hebrew.
In 2013, I cowrote the film adaptation of my novel Death on a Galician Shore with Felipe Vega, directed by Gerardo Herrero.
In January 2015, The Guardian newspaper selected Death on a Galician Shore as one of the ten best crime novels translated into English in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.
My books have been reviewed in the literary supplements of most Spanish, European and Latin American newspapers. I have given talks at the most important universities in Spain and in several universities overseas. I often participate in literary fairs and conferences as a guest author, as well as at a variety of events that focus specifically on crime fiction.”
Dušan Šarotar
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(Slovenia, 1968)
He is a Slovene writer, poet, screenwriter and photographer. He has published four novels (Island of the Dead in 1999, Billiards at the Hotel Dobray, 2007, Stay with me, my dear, 2011 and Panorama, 2015), three collections of short stories (Blind Spot, 2002, Bed and Breakfast, 2003 and Nostalgia, 2010), three poetry collections (Feel for the Wind, 2004, Landscape in Minor, 2006 and The House of My Son, 2009) and a book of essays (Not Sea Not Earth, 2012).
Šarotar is also the author of fifteen screenplays for documentary and feature films, mostly for television. The short film, entitled Mario was watching the sea with love, based on the author's short story from the collection Blind spot, and on his screenplay, won the 2016 Global short film award in New York and the first prize in Ningbo, China, for the “best short film” in the Central and East European film selection.
The author’s poetry and prose has been included in several anthologies and translated into Hungarian, French, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Czech and English. In 2012 the collection of short stories Nostalgia was nominated for the national Best Short Story Award. In 2008, the novel Billiards at the Hotel Dobray was shortlisted for the national Novel of the Year Award and translated into Hungarian, Croatian and French. A feature film based on this novel is currently planned. In 2015 his latest novel, Panorama was shortlisted for the national Novel of the Year Award. Panorama was translated into English (Peter Owen Publishers, UK, 2016) and Spanish (Arlequin, Guadalajara, 2016). In 2019, his novel Billiards at the Hotel Dobray was published.
Elvira Navarro
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She studied philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2004 she won the Young Artists Competition held by Madrid’s City Council, and between 2005 and 2008 enjoyed a creation grant at the Student Residence.
Navarro has published two complementary books: La ciudad en invierno (Caballo de Troya, 2007) and La ciudad feliz (Mondadori, 2009), as well as the novel La trabajadora (Random House, 2014).
Her work has earned the XXV Jaén Novel Award and the IV Tormenta Award for best new author, and she has received distinction as Fnac New Talent. Navarro is also author of the blog Periferia, a work in progress about the neighborhoods in Madrid that explores bordering and indefinite spaces.
In 2010 she was included in the list of the 22 best Spanish-language storytellers under 35 in Granta magazine. In 2013 she was chosen as one of the Spanish voices with the most promising future by the magazine El Cultural. Her work has been partially translated into English, French, Swedish, Italian, Turkish and Arabic.
She has collaborated with magazines such as El Cultural de El Mundo, Ínsula, Letra Libres, Quimera, Turia, Calle 20, and with the newspapers Público, eldiario.es and El País. She writes literary reviews in Qué Leer, Revista de Libros and for the blog La tormenta en un vaso, and teaches writing workshops.
Emmi Itäranta
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Emmi Itäranta grew up in Finland and now resides in Canterbury, United Kingdom. She writes fiction in Finnish and English. Her writing method uses the two languages in parallel, resulting in the final manuscript in both languages, rather than just one. Emmi's stories often revolve around ecological themes and explore various power structures in the society.
Emmi's debut novel Teemestarin kirja (Teos 2012) / Memory of Water (HarperVoyager 2014), a dystopian coming of age story about a world where freshwater has become a precious resource, has won numerous awards. The translation rights have been sold in more than twenty territories to date. The book has also been adapted for the stage multiple times in Finland, as well as into a radio drama, and has been optioned for a film.
Emmi's second novel, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki / The City of Woven Streets (UK) / The Weaver (US) was published in Finnish by Teos in 2015 and in English by HarperVoyager in 2016. It is a fantasy set on an island where dreaming is forbidden. The novel won the Tampere City Literary Award and the Kuvastaja Award for the best fantasy book in Finland, and was nominated for the Tähtivaeltaja Award. The translation rights have been sold in nine territories.
Emmi's former life includes stints as a columnist, theatre critic, dramaturge, scriptwriter and press officer. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, petting cats and reading. She wishes to keep writing until the stars go cold.
Erich Hackl
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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dicky
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(Poland, 1962)
One of Poland’s most original and also most popular poets, he has devised his own poetical style, the source of which some critics have identified as baroque poetry, and others as Ukrainian folklore. He enjoys using repetitions and leitmotifs (the poems in his books are numbered, arranged in a cycle), and often publishes several versions or expressions of the same motif alongside each other. Also typical for him is neo-semanticism, i.e. using existing words with a new meaning, especially archaic words, or words deemed vulgar.
On the thematic side, Dycki’s poetry investigates and redefines the links between death and the erotic, obsessively returning (especially in his early collections) to the motifs of the funeral, the cemetery and the danse macabre, carefully placing them in the context of situations that are symbolic of a “youth lifestyle” and liberal morality.
The poet is interested in states of being that lead to exclusion – schizophrenia, prostitution, homelessness and homosexuality. Dycki possesses an unusual ability to present drastic problems and situations in a masterful, awe-inspiring way. The elements of “gallows humour” that appear in his generally sombre poems are very effective.
Ewa Lipska
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(Poland, 1945)
Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków in the Polish People's Republic in 1945. She studied painting and art history at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and has published nineteen volumes of poetry since 1967. Much of her work emerges out of the events of World War II, and interrogates social and political issues with a skeptical surrealism. Her most recent volumes—1999, Sklepy Zoologiczne (Pet Shops), Ja (I), Gdzie Indziej (Somewhere Else), and Drzazga (Splinter, 2006)—are influenced in particular by her friendships with Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal.
Frédéric Boyer
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Frédéric Boyer is a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright and French translator. He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris before teaching literature there. Currently he is the editor-in-chief of Humanities at Grupo Bayard, where he led a new translation of the Bible (1995-2001) in collaboration with contemporary French writers such as Jean Echenoz, Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Carrère and Olivier Cadiot. Boyer's own work synthesizes his personal writing with the translation of ancient texts such as Las Confesiones de san Agustín, Fedra and El cantar de Roldán.
Gabriela Babnik
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(Germany, 1979)
Gabriela Babnik completed her studies in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 2005, where she also obtained her Master’s degree on the modern Nigerian novel in 2010. Since 2002, she has been regularly publishing literary criticism, interviews, commentary, reports and essays in literary-cultural magazines and supplements such as Literatura, Mentor, Ekran, Poetikon, Književni listi, Pogledi and others. Her first novel Koža iz bombaža (Cotton Skin, 2007) received the award for the Best Debut Novel at the Slovenian National Book Fair in 2007. Her second novel V visoki travi (In the Tall Grass, 2009) was shortlisted for the “Kresnik Award” for the best novel of the year in 2010. Her most recent novel, Sušna doba (Dry Season, 2012), was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013. As a literary critic, she was honoured with the “Josip Stritar” Young Critics Award that same year. She has been a full member of the Slovenian Writers' Association and the Slovene Literary Critics' Association since 2010. She and her family divide their time between Slovenia and Africa.
Gonçalo M. Tavares
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Goran Petrović
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Gregor Sander
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(Germany, 1968)
In his stories and novels, Sander often takes up the theme of separation between West Germany and East Germany.
His literary career began in 2002, with the volume of short stories Ich aber bin hier geboren. With short stories that give title to the volume Winterfisch, he participated in the spring of 2011 in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, where he won the 3sat Prize. Currently, Sander is a freelance author and lives in Berlin.
His work includes the books Was gewesen wäre, published by Wallstein, Göttingen, 2014 (has not been translated into Spanish); Winterfisch, short stories, published by Wallstein, Göttingen, 2011, translation into Spanish: Pescado de invierno, published by Herder Editorial, Mexico, 2015; translation by Claudia Cabrera; Abwesend, novel, published by Wallstein, Göttingen, 2007, translation into Spanish: Ausente, published by El Tercer Nombre, Madrid, 2008; translation by Gema Facal Lozano; Ich aber bin hier geboren, short stories, published by Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2002 (has not been translated into Spanish)
Hagar Peeters
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She was born in 1972 in Amsterdam. Her literary career focused on poetry; between 1999 and 2012 published seven book of poems and, between 2002 and 2002, was granted the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize, the Jo Peters Poetry Prize and the Poetry Day Prize—three of the country’s most important poetry prizes.
Malva is her first novel, and a happy consequence of her career in poetry. The novel earned her the prestigious Fintro Literature Prize for the best novel written in Dutch in 2016, as well as nominations for the Bronzen Uil award, which is granted to the best literary debut in Dutch; the Opzij Literature Prize, which is given to female writers; as well as the Ópera Prima ANV and Inktaap awards.
Herman Koch
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Igor Marojević
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Igor Marojević was born in Vrbas, Voyvodina, in the northern region of Serbia. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. He is author of the novels Schnitt (Corte, 2007, 2008, 2014), Žega (El calor, 2004, 2008, for which he received the Borislav Pekić and Stevan Pešić awards; and Majčina ruka (La mano de mi madre, 2011) which form part of an unfinished pentalogy called: Ethnofiction. However he has other published books: the novels Obmana boga (1997) translated into Spanish: El engaño de Dios, H20, Barcelona 2005), Dvadeset četiri zida, (Veinticuatro paredes, 1998, 2010) and Parter (Platea, 2009); the essay Kroz glavu (A través de la cabeza, 2012, Premio Desimir Tošić) and three books of short stories jointly titled: Tragači, Mediterani, Beograđanke (Los buscadores, 2001, 2005 in Macedonian, Mediterráneos, 2006, 2008, Las belgradenses, 2014)– and the same number of published plays.
Marojević has been included in a dozen Serbian prose anthologies. In his works, he is thought to have created a new form of poetry in Serbian literature: fragile realism, trance, ethnofiction itself. Igor Marojević lives in Belgrade.
Ingo Schulze
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Isaac Rosa
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Iva Pekárková is the author of some 30 books, a taxi driver on both sides of the road, and a political refugee as well as an economic migrant.
She studied microbiology and virology in Prague but defected to the West in 1985 without taking a degree and ended up in New York where she, just like any self-respecting American author, was dirt-poor and tried her hand at a hundred-and-one jobs. She ended up driving the official New York Yellow Cab which gave her inspiration for Gimme the Money. A few years after the Velvet revolution she returned to her homeland but then she took off again, this time to London where she tried her hand at driving the not-so-official London minicab.
She likes writing, photography, travel and getting to know exotic places and cultures.
Jani Virk
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(Slovenia, 1962)
Writer, poet, translator and editor with extensive and varied literary work. He writes poetry, short stories, essays, novels and screenplays, and translates from German into Slovenian.
He has a literature degree from the University of Ljubljana, and has worked as an editor at the literary journal Literatura and the newspaper Slovenec.
Virk is a public figure in his country and is also known outside Slovenia; his books have been translated into English, French, Croatian, German and Spanish. In 1999 he received the Prešeren Foundation Award, the highest award in the arts in Slovenia, for his collection of stories called Vista al Tycho Brahe, published by Arlequín.
His works address existential questions about God and love, with a good dose of mordacity, interwoven with autobiographical elements. His latest book, the novel Kar je odnesla Reka, kar je odnesel dim (Lo que se llevó el río, lo que se llevó el humo), was published in cooperation with the city of Maribor and the European Union in 2012, the year in which Maribor was the European Capital of Culture.
Janne Teller
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(Denmark, 1964)
Javier Calvo
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(Spain, 1973)
Joe Dunthorne
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(United Kingdom, 1982)
Joseph Oliver Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. Dunthorne is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize.He lives in London where he co-organises a monthly night of literary miscellany, Homework.
His debut novel, Submarine, in which a teenager records with comedy and anguish his relationship with his girlfriend and his lop-sided view of the strains on his parents’ marriage, was translated into fifteen languages and made into an award-winning film directed by Richard Ayoade and produced by Ben Stiller. Submarine, was published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in the UK and Random House in the US.
His poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and has featured on Channel 4, and BBC Radio 3 and 4. His debut poetry pamphlet, Joe Dunthorne Faber New Poets 5, was published by Faber and Faber in 2010. His second novel Wild Abandon, published by Hamish Hamilton, appeared in 2011.Wild Abandon is an account of a brother and sister living in a rural commune. Dunthorne’s short stories have been published in McSweeney’s, The Paris Review and The Guardian.
Joe Dunthorne received the Curtis Brown Award for Submarine. Wild Abandon won the Encore Award for best second novel of 2012.
Both of his novels Submarine (Submarino) and Wild Abandon (Desenfreno) have been translated into Spanish and published in Mexico by Suma de Letras (Submarino in 2011 and Wild Abandon in 2013).
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(Netherlands, 1971)
I was born in Amsterdam in 1971, but grew up in Hilversum, a village under the smoke of the capital, from the age of five. In 1990 I had the opportunity to study in America for a After a wonderful year among optimistic people, I went to study in Amsterdam, which led to wandering from political science, through history, to Arabic and religious anthropology. In 1995 I did research for a year among Egyptian peers, and in 1998 that yielded a book as well as a doctorate. A good man sometimes beats his wife.
That book was again a reason for the Volkskrant and the Radio 1 Journaal to ask me as a correspondent in the Arab World. I stayed in the Middle East until April 2003. My third book is about this immersive and confusing time, People like us. In 2001 I also wrote A tip of the veil about Islam, but that is dated and therefore no longer available.
In September 2010 I was asked to participate in the Binnenhof in The Hague for a month. That yielded You didn't hear it from me, but ... A month at the Binnenhof which some colleagues got rather angry about. Shortly after its appearance, The Guardian asked me to come and work for them in London, and that is what I do nowadays. I have a blog there for which I describe the financial world from an anthropological perspective. It is a lot of fun to do and getting used to writing in English. London is a great city, the New York of Europe, and I hope to stay there for a while.
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(Portugal, 1974)
José Luís Peixoto was born in the small town of Galveias in the Portuguese northern Alentejo. In 2001, he began his career as a writer.
At just 27 years of age, José Luís Peixoto was the youngest person ever to win the José Saramago Literary Prize. Since this recognition, his work has received wide acclaim both nationally and internationally. His books have been translated into and published in 26 languages.
You Died on Me was selected by the magazine Visão as one of the ten best books of the first decade of this century. The Implacable Order of Things (published as the Blank Gaze in the UK) was also chosen as one of the best books of the decade by the newspaper Expresso.
His novel A House in Darkness was included in the European edition of “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die – a Chronological Guide of the Most Important Novels of All Time”.
Blank Gaze was included in the Financial Times list of best novels to be published in England in 2007, and was also included in the Discover Great New Writers program of Barnes & Noble, the American bookstore chain.
He received the Oceanos-Prêmio in 2016 (the Brazilian literary award for Portuguese-language literature) for Galveias; the Libro d'Europa Award in 2013 (Italy) for Book; the Portuguese Authors Society Award 2013 (Portugal) for A Child in Ruins; the Cálamo Prize in 2007 (Spain) for The Piano Cemetery and the José Saramago Prize in 2001 (Portugal) for The Implacable Order of Things/Blank Gaze.
José Manuel Fajardo
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(Spain, 1957)
A writer, journalist, translator, and cultural manager, Fajardo has written for several Spanish and international publications such as the Spanish newspapers El Mundo, El Periódico de Catalunya, El País e InfoLibre; the Mexican newspapers Milenio and El Informador; the Italian newspaper Il sole 24ore, and the magazines Le Monde, Diplomatique, and Cambio 16, among others. In 1992, he won the International Journalism Prize awarded by the King of Spain.
In 2002, he won the Charles Brisset Literary Award bestowed in France for his novel, Una belleza convulsa, and in 2011 he received the Prix Alberto-Benveniste (also in France) for his novel Mi nombre es Jamaica.
As a novelist, he has published Una belleza convulsa, A pedir de boca and the Tríptico sefardí trilogy, comprised of the novels Carta del fin del mundo, El converso, and Mi nombre es Jamaica. He is the author of the historical essays La epopeya de los locos, Las naves del tiempo, and Vidas exageradas; the book of short stories Maneras de estar; and the book of chronicles Los años del miedo: crónica de la violencia (1990-2015). He has co-authored, alongside Antonio Sarabia and José Ovejero, the novel Primeras noticias de Noela Duarte. In collaboration with photographer Daniel Mordzinski, he published the travel book La senda de los moriscos.
His books have been translated into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek, Serbian, and Romanian. He currently lives in Lisbon.
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(Sweden, 1976)
Ramqvist has published short stories, essays and four novels. She is considered one of the most influential Swedish writers of her generation.
The press highlights her work as Editor in Chief at the Arena magazine and her contributions as a columnist of the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. She has also worked as a literary critic and written about politics. In 2009, she had her literary debut with her acclaimed novel The Girlfriend which is currently being adapted for the theater stage. In 2012, she published the novel The Beginning, which turned her into a cult author and put her on the international stage as a powerful literary voice with the ability to provoke calm yet ferocious questioning instead of providing easy scandalous answers. Her skillful prose is charged with meaning and deals with contemporary topics such as sexuality, commercialization, loneliness, and belonging.
With psychological intrigue and set in a seductive atmosphere, The White City: A Novel is her international showpiece and winner of the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize. It will be translated into nine languages.
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Leena is one of the leading Finnish writers of her generation. Her debut novel, Sinun jälkeesi, Max (After you, Max, 2009) tells the story of Siamese twin brothers living in the early 20th century. It was awarded the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper’s literature prize in 2009. In 2011 she published an uproarious children’s book, Miss Milky Ray (Cow Belle Queen).
Galtbystä länteen (West of Galtby, 2013), Parkkinen’s latest novel was awarded the Kalevi Jäntti prize. Works by Leena Parkkinen have been published in eight languages so far.
“Until I was twelve years old, I believed that someday I would just wake up and be able to fly. At fourteen I realized that I probably won´t ever find a wardrobe that leads into another world. It was a trauma of which I never quite recovered. As a writer I have wanted to write worlds that are so whole that the reader wants them to be true. Not fantasy, but worlds that have their own magic circle. Somehow my themes have always remained the same. “Portraits of otherness”. When I write historical novels, I want to write the story of those who have rarely had their own voice heard.
Maybe, if I had to put in one word, the most important thing for me in literature is compassion. That in the literature one can more easily identify with anothers person feelings and wants to step into their position. And that, if anything, is the most difficult thing in this world.”
Leila Slimani
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(Morocco, 1981)
Leila Slimani was born in Rabat in 1981 to a Moroccan father and a Franco-Algerian mother. Upon completing her education at the French lycée in Rabat she went to Paris to enroll at the Institute of Political Studies. She then studied at the ESCP Business School with a major in Media Studies. After working for several years as a journalist at L’Express and Jeune Afrique, she decided to devote herself to literature. Her debut novel, Adèle (2014), an exploration of female sexual addiction, was widely praised by critics. The Perfect Nanny, her second novel, was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2016, consolidating her literary career. In 2017, her contentious nonfiction book Sex and Lies: Sex Life in Morocco was published in France. She is currently the French representative in the Council of La Francophonie.
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I was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 where I still live. At the age of 18 I decided that I would try to understand just about everything that needs to be understood about human existence. That meant reading a lot and analyzing sense data, staying alert and radically present in my own life and coming to grips with what knowledge and truth is and how they can be reached. Soon I felt a need to write to organize my findings. Thoughts are usually as vague as emotions, it is only when they are written down, or at least verbalized, that they do pass the test of stringency, clarity and consistency. So I began writing and sending my pieces to newspapers. I read extensively, especially novels.
My intellectual and artistic proclivities as a writer have always revolved around those collective tacit agreements in society that I perceive to be false, hypocritical or based on shaky premises. Recurring themes are the most basic questions of human existence. What does it mean to be a human being? Why do we behave the way we do? How do we, by nature, perceive reality and what impact does this natural perception of reality have on norms. That is, is biology in the way for ethics and ideology, and how would we ideally perceive reality to live up to our high ethical and ideological standards? Would they even be needed if we were differently constructed biologically? In short: why don’t we do the right thing although we usually know what it is – or is this question part of the problem of describing reality, and thus part of the answer? (I think so)
In 1999 my first novel was published. Since then I have written another five, three absurdist tales and two realistic novels about love, its hurdles and pains. Between 1991 and 1994 I studied at Stockholm University: English, Political science and German. Since 1995 I have made my living as writer in various genres.
Leopold Federmair
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(Austria, 1957)
He is an essayist and literary critic; regular contributor to newspapers (Neuer Zürcher Zeitung, Der Standard, Falter, and others); author of more than 20 titles published in Austria and Germany, some of them translated into French and Polish; translator of French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese (Michel Houellebecq, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Francis Ponge, Ricardo Piglia, Ryu Murakami, etc.).
Leopold Federmair’s life and work are marked by diversity and are also the sources for his literature. As his work well reflects, he is an author committed solely to literature and creation. He delves between the threads of a word, swimming between languages and cultures—and beyond them—and beyond molds and unconscious and often self-imposed limits, such as those of culture or the tyranny of political correctness.
Through Federmair you can learn about a generation of Austrian writers that are already established but not well known in the Spanish-speaking world, while his pages reveal universal literature and references.
Lucia Duero
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(Slovakia, 1988)
Slovakian writer and translator. She wrote the poetic novel El problema principal (Amargord, 2018) and a series of essays about borders. Her texts have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Latin America and the United States.
In recent years, she has translated Mexican literature into Slovak (Amparo Dávila, José Emilio Pacheco, Arqueles Vela), and she is currently translating El libro vacío, by Josefina Vicens. She has also translated the work of Anne Carson, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Aimé Césaire and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others. In 2017, she won the II Marcelo Reyes Award for Translation in Mexico City.
Magnus William-Olsson
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(Poland, 1985)
She had a glowing debut with the novel Toksymia (Lampa i Iskra Boża) in 2009, which was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Award, although previously she had published several poems. After her debut, she started writing her doctorate on Romanian cinema at the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University. She spent a lot of time in Romania which gave rise to her following book, Bukareszt. Kurz i krew (Czarne, 2013) (Bucharest. Polvo y sangre), which aroused great interest and enthusiastic response from the public and critics. The book was nominated for the Paszport Polityki Award (a very prestigious award for young artists by the weekly publication Polityka) and the Nike Award (the most important Polish literary prize), and won the Teresa Torańska Award from Newsweek, the Gwarancja Kultury DVT Award, and the Gryfia Prize (given to the year’s most important book written by a woman).
The protagonists of her first novel, Toksymia, are united by the place where they live (one of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in Warsaw), and they all are sick, to a greater or lesser degree. The author decidedly chooses the dark side of life. She portrays a world of disgusting, ugly and mean people that provoke repulsion and compassion in equal measure.
We cannot deny the knowledge that her novel Bukareszt gives us; it is an important book that reminds us of a not-so-distant nightmare. Rejmer writes about issues that you cannot forget, on reeducation through torture, the totalitarian system, the decree banning birth control, and the tragedies arising from this.
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(Romania, 1956)
Poet, narrator and essayist. Literary critics consider him to be one of the most important contemporary Romanian writers. He is a Doctor in Romanian Literature at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest. Cărtărescu is also one of the main theoreticians on Romanian post modernism.
Of his poetry work, which he cultivated throughout the eighties, Levantul (1990 - Romanian Writers’ Union Prize) stands out. It had never been translated into Spanish until now and Impedimenta recovered a version that was especially prepared by the author. Cărtărescu plunged into narrative with the short story volume Nostalgia (1993, Impedimenta, 2012; Romanian Academy Prize, Tormenta Prize for the best translation, 2013; Estado Crítico Translation Prize, 2012). Lulu (1994, Impedimenta, 2011; Writers’ Union of Romania Prize, ASPRO Prize) followed; a tortuous and brilliant novel that looks into the double mystery. His project Orbitor (1996-2007, Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2015), a trilogy that will soon be published by Impedimenta, is considered to be his most mature work to date. In 2015 he published the novel Solenoid. He has published a book of short stories called Las Bellas Extranjeras (2010, Impedimenta, 2013; 2014 Euskadi de Plata Narrative Prize), a satire that verges on grotesque which narrates genuine Romanian literary life sequences that are also cosmopolitan. This work has become a true sales success in Romania. His works have been translated into English, Italian, French, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian and Hungarian.
In 2015, he was awarded the Austrian Prize for European Literature. In 2017 he obtained the Leteo Award for all his published work, in León (Spain). In 2018, he was awarded the Thomas Mann Prize for Literature and the Formentor de las Letras Prize.
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(Croatia, 1942)
At the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, he earned a degree in comparative literature and English, and also completed studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He is a high-ranking brigadier in the Croatian Army. During his first year of studies, he began devoting himself to theater in the Experimental Student Theater in Zagreb which in the sixties, along with the International Festival of Student Theaters in Zagreb, was the place for research and affirmation for young theater artists—not only from Croatia and Yugoslavia, but all over Europe.
He devoted himself to directing two plays, Ars longa, vita brevis, by John Arden (1967) and Vietrock, by Megan Terry (1968), which young people lived as their manifesto, and which won awards at festivals for theater professionals (MEES, Sarajevo, 1968). His first professional stage direction was Zriniada at the Zagreb Youth Theater (1969) after which he signed onto more than 60 plays in Zagreb as a director.
He has filmed several TV dramas and adaptations of plays, as well as dozens of radio dramas and adaptations. In addition to devoting himself to directing, he has focused on writing about theater (reviews, essays) and translating dramas and other texts.
He periodically publishes specialized analysis in the journal from the St. George Association: National Security and the Future.
Sunja le escribe a Vukovar (published in Spanish by La Zonámbula) is his first published book.
Mojca Kumerdej
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(Morocco, 1969)
Born in Casablanca in 1969. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993. She taught philosophy at the University of Burgandy, in a Lyceum, and at the Saint-Lô teacher training college. She won a residency scholarship at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, where she resided for two years.
She debuted as a novelist with Une Gourmandise (2000), a book centered on the memories of a moribund food critic. Later, she republished it under the title, Gourmet Rhapsody (2000, Seix Barral, 2010). This novel won the Meilleur Livre Prix de Littérature Gourmande.
Her second novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006; Seix Barral, 2007) achieved international success and became a bestseller in France. It was adapted to film by Director Mona Achache. It won prizes including the Prix des Libraires in 2007.
Her most recent novel, La vida de los elfos (Seix Barral, 2015) is a tale that is full of imagination and enchantment in a poetic and disquieting universe.
Olga Grjasnowa
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(Azerbaijan, 1984)
Olga Grjasnowa was born in Azerbaijan. At the age of twelve she went to Germany to live with her family. Before entering into the world of literature she studied a career related to dance. For many years she lived in Poland, Russia and Israel, and currently lives in Berlin.
In 2011 she finished her studies at the German Literature Institute, time during which she published contributions in anthologies and literary magazines. In 2010 she was awarded the Drama Award from the Wiener Wortstätten cultural project for her first piece of drama, Compassionate Germans. During this same year she received the Grenzgänger Scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation, and in 2012 the Hermann Lenz scholarship.
Her first novel, All Russians Love Birch Trees, was honored in 2012 with the Klaus-Michael Kühne Award, which awards funds for the promotion of literature, as well as the Anna Seghers Award, which recognizes young writers. The novel introduced her talent to a new generation of German-speaking writers with migrant origins. Grjasnowa deserves recognition not only for her brave exploration of the circumstances surrounding the lives of foreign-born German citizens, one of the most controversial issues in modern-day Germany, but also her gift for literature. Her work is viewed as a reflective study with melancholy for that which is lost, while still maintaining a subtle humor.
In addition to the excellent critical reception of All Russians Love Birch Trees was her debut by Yael Ronen at the Maxim Gorki Theater, in Berlin.
In August of 2014 her second novel, Die juristische Unschärfe einer Ehe, will be published.
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(Fiji, 1974)
Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and short story writer. Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 but brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was educated at King Henry VIII Comprehensive in Abergavenny and read English at New College, Oxford, before gaining his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, Sheers' first collection of poetry, The Blue Book, was shortlisted for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best 1st Collection 2001.
His début prose work, The Dust Diaries, a travel memoir set in Zimbabwe, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. Sheers' second collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill was published in November 2005 and won a Society of Authors Somerset Maugham Award. His first novel, Resistance, imagines an alternative wartime Britain in which German forces have occupied the country, the narrative centring upon the remote Welsh border valley of Olchon in 1944. November 2009 saw the release of Sheers' novella White Ravens.
Pawel Huelle
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I spent my childhood under the Northern Lights in Lapland. I didn´t know that I lived at the edge of the world, since the only world I knew was the one I lived in. As far as I knew, there were palm trees only in stories. When I read my first book, when I was eight, I realised that you can have as many worlds as you are able to imagine. As I grew up, I heard more stories and my world got wider and wider.
I became an author all of a sudden, just after having finished the manuscript for my first novel. I was offered a book deal and The Limit was published in Finland in September 2006. A few years later The Limit was translated into Dutch. It found a surprisingly wide audience in the Netherlands and Belgium, and it was a critical success as well. At the same time, I was struggling to write my second novel – the second ones are never very easy – and it was published in 2010. True has been translated into 17 languages and has taken me all around the world.
In my novels I deal with family, memory, blueberry pie, identity, limits, doll houses, sorrow, freedom, ice cream, womanhood, body experience, religion, revolution, the impossibility of giving an accurate report of history, the absence of God, the presence of God (or at least a dog), eating candy, drinking, loving, forgiving: I deal with life as a whole, life as we see it on the threshold of literature and on the threshold of our time.
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Roman Simić was born in Zadar, Croatia, in 1972. He graduated with a degree in Comparative Literature and Spanish Studies from the University of Zagreb. He is editor of the literary magazine Relations and Zivi jezici, an anthology of European short stories. He published In the Moment Like in the Wilderness, a collection of poems which was a finalist for the Gorán Award for Young Poets in 1996, and the short stories A Place Where We’re Going to Spend the Night in 2000, and What We Fall in Love With in 2005.
Simić is the Artistic Director of the Festival of the European Short Story, and editor of the series Anthology of European Short Stories. As a writer of prose, he won the Literary Colloquium Berlin Award in 2004 and the Cultural City Network Graz Award in 2003. He participated in the presentation of Croatian contemporary prose writers in Vienna in 2001 and 2003, and in Gothenburg in 2004. He also took part in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Rome in 1999, and the Days of André Malraux, an international literary gathering that took place in Sarajevo in 2000.
Simić’s publications include In the Moment Like in the Wilderness, verses, 1996, Zagreb; A Place Where We’re Going to Spend the Night, stories, 2000, Zagreb; and What We Fall in Love With, stories, 2005. Simić lives in Zagreb and works as an editor at the Profil International publishing house.
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Rosa Montero was born in Madrid and studied journalism and psychology. Since late 1976, she has worked exclusively with the newspaper El País, where she was the chief editor of the Sunday supplement in 1980-1981. She won the World Prize for Interviews in 1978; the National Journalism Prize for reports and literary articles in 1980, and Madrid’s Press Association Prize for her professional career in 2005.
She has published the following novels: Absent Love: A Chronicle (1979), The Delta Function (1981), I’ll Treat You Like a Queen (1983), My Beloved Boss (1988), Tremor (1990), Beautiful and Dark (1993), The Cannibal’s Daughter (Spring Novel Prize in 1997), The Heart of the Tartar (2001), The Lunatic of the House (2003), which won the Qué Leer Prize in 2004 for best book of the year; the Grinzane Cavour Prize for best foreign book published in Italy in 2005, and the Roman Primeur Prize in 2006 (France); Story of the Transparent King (2005), which won Qué Leer Prize in 2005 for best book of the year, and the Mandarache Prize in 2007; Instructions to Save the World (2008), Reader’s Prize at the European Literature Festival in Cognac (France, 2011); Tears in Rain (2011), The Ridiculous Idea of Not Seeing You Again (March 2013) Weight of the Heart (2015). She has also published a book of short stories, Lovers and Enemies, which won the Critics Circle Award of Chile in 1999, and two biographical essays, Stories of Women and Passions, as well as children’s stories and compilations of interviews and articles.
Rosa Matteucci
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Rosa Matteucci was born in the city of Orvieto in the central region of Umbria in 1960 and currently lives in the city of Genoa.
Her first publication was the novel Lourdes in 1998; and later Libera la Karenina che è in te (2003) and Cuore di mamma (2006), all with Adelphi.
Editorial Rizzoli published India per signorine (2008) and Bompiani in 2010, Tutta mio padre, with GiuntiLe donne perdonano tutto tranne il (2012) and again with Adelphi, Costellazione Familiare (2016).
Rosa Matteucci is a journalist as well as a writer. She works for the newspapers La Stampa and Corriere dell’Umbria. In 2009 she reported on Guadalajara with a piece on Mexican architect Luis Barragán for the magazine Abitare and in 2010 won the Carletti journalism prize with a report about Romania. She has also made incursions into the world of film as an actress and has written two monologues for the theater, Elementos de economía doméstica para señoritas de buena familia decaída, and Lourdes, launched at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In 2011 she began working with a visual artist and has also written texts for four contemporary art installations put on in Genoa and Milan.
Salla Simukka
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Salla is a translator, literary critic and author of fiction for young readers. She was born and raised in the second largest city in Finland, Tampere. She knew that she wanted to be a writer at nine years old. She wrote the first version of her first published book when she was 18 years old. She has written several novels and a short collection of prose for young readers, and has translated fiction for adults and children and the theater. She also writes book reviews for the Finnish newspapers Helsingin Sanomat and Hämeen Sanomat, and for the weekly publication Suomen Kuvalehti.
Between 2009 and 2013, she was editor of the literary magazine for young readers, LUKUfiilis. Since 2009, she has been a scriptwriter at the Finnish broadcasting company, YLE.
In January 2013, she was awarded the Topelius Award for best novel for young readers for her novels Without a Trace (Jäljellä, Tammi Spring, 2012) and Elsewhere (Toisaalla, Tammi Fall, 2012). This is Finland’s oldest recognition and is awarded to the best works for children and young readers.
In December 2013, she was awarded the Finland Prize in recognition of her significant career in arts and for her exceptional achievements and involvement in her field.
The author has published the trilogy Me llamo Lumikki in Spanish, made up of three titles: Rojo como la sangre (La Galera), Blanco como la nieve (La Galera), and Negro como el ébano (La Galera). The judging panel commented that her work contains important messages both about individuals (the right to be oneself) and about society (the pressures that come with power and freedom of choice).
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A poet, novelist and short story writer, Sasja Janssen made her literary debut in 1999 with the publication of an excerpt from De brieven (The letter), a novella, in De Revisor. Her novel De kamerling (The eunuch) was published by Querido in 2001, followed by Teresa zegt (Teresa says) in 2005.
From 2006 she primarily has written poetry, which has been published in the collections Papaver (2007); Wie wij schuilen (Whom we shield; 2010), nominated for the Jo Peter Poetry Prize; and Ik trek mijn species aan (I put on my species; 2014), nominated for the VSB Poetry Prize.
Sasja Janssen lives and works in Amsterdam.
Stefan Chwin
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Theresia Enzensberger was born in 1986 in Munich and now lives in Berlin. She studied film and cinematography at Bard College in New York and writes as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ZEIT Online, Krautreporter and Monopol. In 2014, she founded the award-winning magazine BLOCK. Hanser launched her debut novel, Blaupause, in 2017.
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Tiziano Scarpa
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(Italy, 1963)
Italian novelist, playwright and poet. He made himself known in 1996 with his novel Occhi sulla graticola. In 2005, he founded the Il primo amore magazine after an enjoyable experience in the Nazione Indiana blog collective.
He wrote some books set in Venice. The most well-known is Venezia è un pesce, an unusual kind of tourism guide that describes the various physical and spiritual experiences that body parts can feel in this city: the chapters are titled Hands, Feet, Eyes, Mouth, etc.
In 2009, he won the Premio Strega with Stabat Mater, one of his most well-known books in which he tells the story of an abandoned girl who was raised in an musical orphanage during the start of the 18th Century, right when the great Antonio Vivaldi was teaching violin there and composing music for the orphaned children’s orchestra.
His books have been translated into Spanish, English, French, Romanian, German, Russian, Catalonian, Turkish, Hebrew, Dutch, Korean, Chinese and Swedish. At the Collective Translation Laboratory at the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City, he is currently working on the Spanish version of Corpo, a collection of aphorisms devoted to all parts of the male human body.
Tommy Wieringa
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(Netherlands, 1967)
Tommy Wieringa grew up partly in the Netherlands, and partly in the tropics. He began his writing career with travel stories and journalism, and is the author of the bestselling- novels Joe Speedboot (F. Bordewijk Prize, 2006), Little Caesar (shortlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award, 2013) and These Are the Names.
These Are the Names was awarded the Golden Owl Reader Prize, the Libris Literatura Prize and the Golden Inktaap (a youth prize), and was shortlisted for the Italian Premio Strega Europeo and the Gregor Von Rezzori Prizes. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the Oxford/Weidenfeld Prize. Wieringa was ranked in 2013 as the most important Dutch author of the year by the Editio Top 35 ranking list which considers critical acclaim, sales numbers, international success as well as public profile. In early 2017 Wieringa returned with a second migration tale, titled The Death of Murat Idrissi. His new, astounding novel, The Holy Rita, about a father and son, and about modern times in a traditional village town, will appear in October 2017.
His work has been published in more than fifteen countries and has garnered the highest acclaim both at home and abroad.
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(Sweden, 1959)
Viveca Sten was born in Stockholm in 1959, and is one of the most popular contemporary authors in her country. She was the Head of the Legal Department of the Swedish Postal Service for years, and she has always worked at Red Cross for Refugees.
In 2008, she published Still Waters, the first of the crime series, featuring the protagonists Thomas Andreasson and Nora Linde. Her debut was a huge success across Europe.
This book and the other books in the series were loved by millions of readers and she has dedicated her time exclusively to writing since 2011. She lives with her husband and her three children close to Stockholm.
Since 1917, the Sten family has spent all their summers on Sandhamn Island, where her novels take place. Viveca describes the detective work with a lot of realism and transmits the growing sensation of insecurity and fear very well, as the murderers interrupt the festive atmosphere on the island,.
Sten wrote many non-fiction books before the Sandhamn series, which have been published in over fifteen countries. The Spanish titles in the series are: En aguas tranquilas, Círculos cerrados, No culpable and Morirás esta noche.
Xaver Bayer
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(Austria, 1977)
Bayer graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in philosophy. Currently he is making a name for himself as an independent writer.
In 2001, Bayer made his debut with the novel Today Could be a Lucky Day. Since then he has changed his register with each book, although they all share a common theme: observance of the dull bourgeois society. His following novels were Alaska Highway (2003) and Weiter (2006). He achieved great success with a book of short stories, The Transparent Hands, in 2008. His most recent novel, When Children Throw Stones into the Water, was published in 2011.
Bayer received the State Literature Grant (2000/2001), the Writing Between Cultures Literature Award (2000), the Hermann-Lenz Grant (2002), the Reinhard-Priessnitz Award (2004), the Austrian Award for the Promotion of Literature (2005), the Hermann-Lenz Award (2008), and the Austrian Award for the Promotion of Literature (2011).
Antonio Scurati
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(Italy, 1969)
The writer and media theorist Antonio Scurati was born in Naples in 1969. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Milan, he continued his studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and ultimately did his doctorate at the University of Bergamo with a dissertation on text theory. He teaches creative writing and rhetoric.
His essay “Guerra. Narrazioni e culture nella tradizione occidentale” was one of the finalists for the Premio Viareggio. The essay not only examines the archetype of the warrior in Western cultural history, but also traces the historical development of the war paradigm – from its origins in ancient epics, its crisis phase in the modern romantic age, its shock in the age of television. Scurati's novel Il sopravvissuto won the Premio Campiello and the Premio Nazionale Letterario Pisa and was inspired by the events of the 1999 school shooting in Littleton (USA). In a text enriched with numerous references from world literature, Scurati intertwines two time periods in his novel Una storia romantic: the days of the Milan uprising before the unification of Italy and the period almost forty years later (1885). This novel was followed by Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo in 2009. The novel uses a mixture of fiction and reality to explore the media’s voracious hunger for tragedy. His most recent publication, M. Il figlio del secolo, the first of three planned biographical volumes about Benito Mussolini, was awarded the Premio Strega in 2019 and has triggered controversial debate.
Scurati writes for the weekly newspaper “Internazionale” and the daily newspaper “La Stampa”. In September 2019, “Corriere della Sera” announced the start of its collaboration with Scurati. His first article was dedicated to euthanasia.
Georgi Gospodinov
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(Bulgaria, 1968)
Poet, writer, and playwright. His books are translated in more than 25 languages. He became internationally known with his Natural Novel (1999). His second novel, The Physics of Sorrow, was the winner of the Central European Angelus Award (2019) and the Jan Michalski Prize (2016), and a finalist for many international awards, among them the PEN America Translation Prize, Premio Strega Europeo, etc. According to The New Yorker, “Georgi’s real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation…” Recently, Gospodinov was awarded the Usedom Prize (Germany) for contribution to the European literature by a jury presided by Olga Tokarczuk.
Gospodinov has published 4 short-story collections also widely translated. His story “Blind Vaysha” became an Oscar Academy Award nominee short animation in 2017 (director: Theo Ushev). His stories are part of many international anthologies, including Best European Fiction (2010)
His latest novel, Time Shelter, came out in March 2020, in the peak of the pandemic and now is forthcoming by Gallimard (France), Liveright/Norton (USA), Fulgencio Pimentel (Spain), etc.
Ivana Dobrakovová
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(Slovakia, 1982)
Ivana is a writer and translator. She is based in Turin, where she works as a freelance translator from the French and Italian into Slovak, notably of Elena Ferrante’s highly successful Neapolitan saga. She has published a novel, Bellevue (2010), and several collections of short stories. She has won several literary competitions, including the Ján Johanides Award in the category Best Fiction Debut by a Young Writer, and Poviedka (Short Story) 2008. All her books have been shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera prize including her latest, Matky a kamionisti/Mothers and Truckers (2018), which won the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature.
John Boyne
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(Ireland, 1971)
I was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
I’ve published 13 novels for adults, 6 novels for younger readers, and a short story collection, including The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas which was a New York Times no.1 Bestseller and was adapted for a feature film, a play, a ballet and an opera, selling around 11 million copies worldwide.
Among my most popular books are The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Ladder to the Sky and My Brother’s Name is Jessica.
In 2012, I was awarded the Hennessy Literary ‘Hall of Fame’ Award for my body of work. I’ve also won 3 Irish Book Awards, and many international literary awards, including the Que Leer Award for Novel of the Year in Spain and the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize in Germany. In 2015, I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia.
My novels are published in 54 languages.
My 13th adult novel, The echo chamber, which explores the negative effect of social media on society, was published in August 2021 and reached no.1 on the Bestseller Charts in Ireland.
Luís Carmelo
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(Portugal, 1954)
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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(Netherlands, 1991)
Miguel Gane
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(Rumania/Spain, 1993)
Pierre Ducrozet
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(France, 1982)
XSofi Oksanen
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(Finland, 1977)
Sofi Oksanen was born in 1977 in Jyväskylä (Finland). She learned Estonian from her mother but she writes in Finnish. After focusing on Literature Studies at the universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki, she moved to the Drama School in Helsinki and studied Dramaturgy. Her début novel Stalinin lehmät (2003, Stalin's Cows) describes the lives of the Estonian immigrants in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s, during an era in which official policies oppressed minorities and the Estonians were often attacked as Russians.
In her second novel Baby Jane (2005), set in Helsinki in the 1990s, Oksanen once again tackles the theme of violence against women, a theme she further pursued in the following stage play: Puhdistus (Purge). The play was premièred in 2007 at the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki and won great success with critics and audiences. The play is set in contemporary Estonia and tells of the fateful encounter between two women. Seeking refuge from pimps, the young Russian, Zara goes to stay on a farm owned by the elderly Finn, Aliide. Aliide must overcome her skepticism and misanthropy before she can take in the younger woman. Over time, the two women learn that are linked to one another through a fifty-year-old family tragedy. When Estonia was occupied by Soviet troops, Aliide's fear of male brutality directed against women forced her to make monstrous choices. The play Puhdistus served as the foundation for the novel of the same name (2008, tr: Purge, 2009). In both the play and the novel, the example of Estonia is used to dissect European history and reveal the brutal and misanthropic nature of totalitarian power structures. In Oksanen's work, the private sphere is closely connected to larger political events: in Purge, the abused body of a young woman becomes the symbol of occupied Estonia. Oksanen specifically shows what the loss of personal freedom can mean from a female perspective. The novel has been translated into over 20 languages and has won both the Runeberg and the Finlandia Áwards. In 2010 she was also awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Sofi Oksanen lives in Helsinki.
Stina Jackson
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(Sweden, 1983)
Stina Jackson was born in 1983 and raised in Skelleftea, northern Sweden. In 2006 she moved to Denver, Colorado, where she lives with her husband and small dog. The Silver Road is her debut novel.
Verena Keßler
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(Germany, 1988)
Verena Keßler was born in 1988 in Hamburg and now lives in Leipzig, where she studied at the German Literature Institute. In 2018 she took part in the Kölner Schmiede novel workshop and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation writing workshop in 2019. She was a fellow of the 23rd Klagenfurt literature course. The Ghosts of Demmin is her first novel.
Clara Obligado
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(Argentina, 1950)
She was born in Buenos Aires and has a degree in Argentine literature. In 1976, she had to go into exile to Madrid, where she has lived ever since. There, she began to write and gave the first Creative Writing Workshops in the peninsula, an activity that she carried on in several European and Latin American universities, and that she develops to this day independently. In 1996 she received the Lumen Women's Prize for her novel La hija de Marx (Lumen), which was followed by others such as Si un hombre vivo te hace llorar (Planet, 1998), No le digas que lo quieres (Anaya, 2002) and Salsa (Plaza and Janés, 2002). She has an essay production linked to feminism, the situation of women in art and culture, as in Mujeres contracorriente (Plaza and Janés, 2004). As an editor and anthologist, she ventured into the genre of short stories with two volumes: Por favor, sea breve 1 and 2 (Páginas de Espuma, 2001 and 2009) signposts in the implementation of the genre in Spain. In the last fifteen years, a series of story books have been highlighted that have had a great impact on both shores: Las otras vidas (2006), El libro de los viajes equívocos (2011) – IX Setenil Award for the best short story book of the year in 2012-, La muerte juega los dados (2015) and La biblioteca de agua (2019), all of them published in the publishing house Páginas de Espuma.
She received the Juan March Cencilio Prize for short novel with Petrarca para viajeros (Pre-Textos, 2015). Her most recent books are the essays Una casa lejos de casa. Foreign literature (Contrabando, 2020) and Todo lo que crece, (Páginas de espuma, 2021)
She has coordinated for Nordica Editorial the Atlas of Latin American Literature (Unstable Construction).
Daniel Mårs
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(Sweden, 1986)
Ioana Gruia
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(Romania, 1978)
She has published the books of poems : La luz que enciende el cuerpo (Visor, 2021, Premio Hermanos Argensola), Carrusel (Visor, 2016, Premio Emilio Alarcos) and El sol en la fruta (Renacimiento, 2011, Premio Andalucía Joven de Poesía), the novels El expediente Albertina (Espasa/Castalia, 2016, Premio Tiflos) y La vendedora de tiempo (Espuela de Plata, 2013) and the book of short stories Las mujeres de Hopper (Tres Hermanas, 2022). La luz que enciende el cuerpo was voted by critics of the magazine El Cultural, as one of the ten best poetry books in Spanish of 2021.
She is also the author of the essays Tocar la piel del tiempo. La poesía de Luis García Montero (Renacimiento, 2022), La literatura comparada, una disciplina hospitalaria (Universidad de Salamanca, 2021), La cicatriz en la literatura europea contemporánea (Renacimiento, 2015) andEliot y la escritura del tiempo en la poesía española contemporánea (Visor, 2009). Two anthologies of her poetry have been published: Feminista con alma de bolero (Ayuntamiento de Lucena, 2021, by Jacob Lorenzo) and El cuerpo cítrico (El Ángel Editor, Quito, 2020, by Xavier Oquendo). She has received the Best Poetic Cycle Award of the Ditet e Naimit International Poetry Festival (Tetovo, North Macedonia, 2020). She has participated in international literature festivals such as Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo Latino (Mexico), Luna de Locos and Las líneas de su mano (Colombia), Paralelo Cero (Ecuador) or the Festival de la Palabra (Puerto Rico). Her website is www.ioanagruia.com
Krisztina Tóth
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(Hungary, 1967)
Manon Uphoff
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(Netherlands, 1962)
Manon Uphoff was born in 1962, into a family of thirteen children. She left home at the age of 16, studied literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist, screenwriter and writer whose novels have been shortlisted for numerous awards. Falling is like flying has been a literary phenomenon in the Netherlands, with around 50 thousand copies sold; it appeared on 32 best of 2019 lists and has been shortlisted for four awards, and won the prestigious Charlotte Köhler Prize. It has been translated into English (Pushkin Press), where it received critical acclaim in The Times Literary Supplement and The Irish Times, among others, and into Spanish (Gatopardo Editions) with excellent reviews in various media (Zenda et al). More information about Manon Uphoff can be found on his website: www.manonuphoff.com.
This month, the literary magazine De Revisordevoted a whole number to her work. From Sam Garrett (translator of Falling is like flying) in De Revisor:
“Reading Falling is like flying I became hopelessly entangled in the voice of what came to be called 'Yours Truly' in my English translation. But the book is full of voices. Of idiots and heroines, of know-it-alls and bullies, of dreamers and disillusioned.
Without wanting to fall into the language of propaganda, I dare to say: Manon Uphoff is the Callas, the Nick Cave, the Cesária Évora of Dutch literature. There is no ear that hears more nuances, there is no other voice that can handle so many registers!
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
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(Dakar, 1990)
Mohamed currently lives in France, and is the author of four novels: Terre ceinte (Ed. Présence africaine, 2015, Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma and Prix Grand Prix du roman métis), Silence du chœur (Ed. Présence africaine, 2017, Prix Littérature-Monde of the Festival Étonnants Voyageurs 2018), De purs hommes (Philippe Rey/Jimsaan, 2018) and La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (Philippe Rey/Jimsaan, Prix Goncourt 2021), which will be published in Spanish by Anagrama publishing house under the title La más recóndita memoria de los hombres, in 2022.
Nicola Lagioia
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(Italy, 1973)
Nicola Lagioia was born in Bari in 1973. Since 2017 he has been the director of the Turin International Book Fair. He is one of the authors and presenters of Página 3, the cultural press magazine of Radio Rai 3. He was first part of the selection committee and then a jury member at the Venice International Film Festival. He has worked for several publishing houses.
With minimum fax he published Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj (2001), and with Einaudi Occidente per principianti (2004), Riportando tutto a casa (2009. Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci, Premio Vittorini, Premio Volponi), La ferocia (2014. Premio Strega, Premio Mondello) and La città dei vivi (2020, Premio Alessandro Leogrande, Premio Bottari Lattes, Premio Napoli). For Chora Media, he is the author of the podcast La città dei vivi. He writes for several newspapers, including La Repubblica and La Stampa. His books have been translated in 20 countries.
Paulo José Miranda
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(Portugal, 1965)
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(Portugal, 1969)
Carolina Schutti
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(Austria, 1976)
Carolina Schutti was born in Innsbruck, where she still lives. She studied German philology, English and American Studies, classical guitar and classical voice.
Her publications include short stories, poetry and radioplays. She works with musicians and develops interdisciplinary projects. Schutti has received several awards for her literary work, including the European Union Prize for Literature. Her books have been published in twenty countries.
Carolina Schutti is known for her poetic yet powerful books that pay particular attention to society's outsiders. Her texts are often about the search for identity and home, about escapes from bleak living conditions and about the question of guilt and innocence. Her latest novel Ocean Breeze shows the power that books, education and encounters can have by showing two sisters from the lower classes living in great isolation that the world has more in store for them than a life of poverty and lies.
A powerful journey into the hidden burdens of displacement (Ksenia Samotiy, Irish Independent)
Un livre subtil, à savourer (Le Monde)
A mesmerising book from a masterful writer (Asymptote Journal)
Claudia Durastanti
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(United States of America, 1984)
Claudia Durastanti is the author of five novels. She is the Italian translator of Elizabeth Hardwick, Joshua Cohen, Donna Haraway and writes for several literary supplements. Strangers I Know (Premio Strega Off in 2019, Pen Translates Award, longlist Prix Femina and Prix Les Inrockuptibles) has been translated into twenty-one languages. Missitalia (La Nave di Teseo, Premio Mondello 2024) will be published by Anagrama in Spain. She currently lives in Rome and curates the feminist imprint La Tartaruga.
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(Hannover, 1983)
Studied economics in Berlin and Paris. He is the author of several novels and lives in Berlin. He has received several awards, such as the Alfred Döblin, the Literatour Nord and the Bavarian Book Prize. From 2003 to 2014 he edited the culture and society magazine freitext. Since 2013 he has been the curator of a literary series at the Maxim Gorky Theater and a researcher at the German Institute for Human Rights.
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(Donostia-San Sebastián, 1969)
is the author of the Baztán Trilogy, the most important literary phenomenon in Spanish of recent times: El guardián invisible, Legado en los huesos and Ofrenda a la tormenta. The three film adaptations were successfully launched between 2017 and 2020 and are currently available on Netflix. The trilogy was followed by All this I will give to you (2016 Planeta Award), the best-selling novel to have won this award in recent years and the subject of a television series adaptation by France Télévisions.
In 2019, she returned to the Baztán universe with North face of the heart, which, together with the Baztán Trilogy, will inspire a series produced in the United States and Great Britain, a landmark in contemporary Spanish fiction. Esperando al diluvio is her latest novel, also in the process of being adapted for the screen. In 2021, Los privilegios del ángel, her first novel, was republished. Today, her works have been translated into 38 languages all over the world, and boast more than 4 million readers.
Dylan Brennan
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Brennan divides his time between Mexico and Ireland and writes poetry and prose. He was the winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award. In 2022, he won the inaugural Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend Poetry Film Award for Four Attempts at Making a Human, a poetry film in collaboration with Jonathan Brennan. He has read at literary festivals in Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Italy, Ireland and the United States and has twice received a Culture Ireland Travel Grant. His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Galician and Greek. His most recent book, Let the Dead (2023), is available from Banshee Press.
Eva Meijer
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(Netherlands, 1980)
Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes are language including silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics.
Their philosophical work mostly focuses on language, democracy and social justice, with special attention for nonhuman animals and nature. Meijer currently writes columns and essays for Dutch newspaper NRC.
Their first novel Het schuwste dier (Prometheus) was published in 2011. Short stories and poems have been published in Dutch and Flemish literary magazines, such as De Revisor, Tirade and De Brakke Hond. Their second novel Dagpauwoog was published in November 2013, to critical acclaim. In 2016 the book Dierentalen (Animal Languages) was published, a popular philosophical book about nonhuman animal languages and the question what language actually is. Their third novel Het vogelhuis (Bird Cottage), was published in September 2016 and chosen as one of the books of the month by DWDD book panel on national television. It won the readers' prize of the BNG Bank Literatuurprijs. Dierentalen and Het vogelhuis are translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish. In 2017 De soldaat was een dolfijn was published, an essay about political animals, which won the 2018 Hypatia prize. In 2018 Meijer won the Halewijnprijs for all their books. In 2019, De grenzen van mijn taal was published, a philosophical essay about depression. Voorwaarts, a novel, was also published that year. When animals speak: Towards an interspecies democracy, an academic book, came out in November 2019 (New York University Press) and was awarded the ASCA Book Award in 2020. In 2020 their novel De nieuwe rivier was published, a magical-realist murder mystery. In 2021 Meijer wrote the essay for the Dutch Month of Philosophy: Vuurduin. Aantekeningen bij een wereld die verdwijnt. In the same year, the novella Haar vertrouwde gedaante was published. In 2022 Meijer published three books: a novel called Zee Nu, in which the North Sea floods the Netherlands, Verwar het niet met afwezigheid. Over politieke stiltes, an essay about politics and silence, and Misschien is een ander woord voor hoop. Een pleidooi voor meerstemmigheid in het politieke en publieke debat a pamflet about the public debate, and the role of language in politics. In 2023, the poetry collection Het witste woord and the novel Dagen van glas were published.
Ioana Pârvulescu
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(Rumania, 1960)
A well-known and appreciated writer in Romania, she is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches Moderna Romanian literature and coordinates a master's degree in editing. For 18 years, she wrote a weekly chronicle in the magazine România literară (Literary Romania), and at the Publishing house Humanitas (Bucharest), she started and took care of the collection of world literature Cartea de pe noptieră (The book of the night table). Her novels have been translated into fifteen languages. In Spanish, she has been published La vida empieza el viernes(Life Begins on Friday) by Editorial Báltica (Madrid), translated by Joaquín Garrigós Bueno. In October 2024 Los inocentes,( The innocents) by Editorial Armaenia (Madrid), translated by Rafael Elias Pisot Diaz will be published.
She has twice received the European Union Prize for Literature, for the novel Life Begins on Friday (in 2013) and for the short prose A Voice (in 2018).
Her novels in Romania are best sellers and long sellers: Life Begins on Friday (2009), Viitorul începe luni (The Future Begins on Monday)(2012), Inocenții (The Innocents)(2016), Prevestirea, (The Prophecy)(2020) and Aurul pisicii (Cat's Gold)(2024). Among her essays, the most successful have been those dedicated to everyday life: Return To The Interwar Bucharest (2003), In the intimacy of the 19th century (2005), as well as the study of literary history Alfabetul doamnelor(The ladies' alphabet)(1999).
She has coordinated collective volumes, the most important being Și eu am trăit în comunism (I too lived under communism)(2015). She has translated authors such as Angelus Silesius, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Nadeau and Milan Kundera from German and French into Romanian, as well as several albums by Astérix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
Neige Sinno
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(France, 1977)
She was born in 1977 in the Hautes-Alpes region. She lived in the United States for a while and currently resides in Mexico with her partner and her daughter. She is a translator and has published the short story collection La Vie des rats (2007), the literary essay Lectores entre líneas: Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Piglia y Sergio Pitol (Aldus, 2011, Lya Kostakowsky Prize) and the novel Le Camion (2018). After its launch in France, Triste tigre, a non-fiction text that deals with the systematic sexual violence she suffered as a child, she immediately became the publishing phenomenon of the year and has received multiple awards, including in 2023 the Prix littéraire Le Monde; the Prix Blù Jean-Marc Roberts; the Prix Les Inrockuptibles; the Prix Goncourt des lycéens; the Prix Femina and in 2024 in its Italian translation the European Strega Award.
Tomasz Różycki
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(Poland, 1970)
Różycki writes poetry and fiction. He has published nine collections of verse (the most recent, Ręka pszczelarza [The Beekeeper’s Hand], appeared in 2022), epic poems and novels. He has won numerous literary prizes in Poland and abroad, including the Václav Burian Award (2017) and the Wisława Szymborska Award (2023). His collection of literary sketches, Błędna kartografia Europy [A False Cartography of Europe], won him the title “Ambassador of the New Europe”. Mira Rosenthal’s English translation of his poetry collection, Kolonie [Colonies], was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2014). In 2023 he received the Grand Continent Prize for his book The Lightbulb Thieves. He is a former resident of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme. His poetry has been translated into languages including Spanish, French, English, Bulgarian, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian, and has appeared in many foreign anthologies and journals.
Books in Spanish:
Colonias [Kolonie], translated by Xavier Farré, Madrid: Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2015.
Poetry anthology: Poesía a contragolpe. Antología de poesía polaca contemporánea (autores nacidos entre 1960 y 1980), translated by A. Murcia, G. Beltrán, X. Farré, Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2012.
To be published in Mexico in November 2024: Ladrones de las bomillas [Złodzieje żarówek] by Sexto Piso.
Ulla Lenze
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(Mönchengladbach, 1973)
Studied music and philosophy in Cologne and today lives and works as a freelance writer near Berlin. She has published several novels and received numerous awards, such as the Literature Award from the Culture Circle of German Companies and the Lower Rhine Literature Award for all her work. In 2023 she held the Max Cade Chair as a visiting professor at Dartmouth (EU).
Yuri Andrukhovych
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(Ukraine, 1960)
He is one of the most significant writers at the contemporary literary scene in Ukraine. He is a prose writer, poet, essayist, translator, and public intellectual. His works have been translated and published in Poland, Germany, Canada, Hungary, Finland, Croatia, United States, Sweden, Spain and other countries – all together into 22 languages. Andrukhovych is one of the cofounders of the Bu-Ba-Bu literary group, which is associated with the emergence of Ukrainian postmodernism. He is an author of seven novels, and a few poetry and essays collections.
Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Herder Prize, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Angelus Award, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal. Themes prevalent in his work include Central and Eastern Europe, politics, society, national identity.
