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Chris Carter

Biographies can be an absolute drag, so I won’t bore anyone with a long life story.

I was born in Brasilia, Brazil where I spent my childhood and teenage years. After graduating from high school, I moved to the USA where I studied psychology with specialization in criminal behaviour. During my University years I held a variety of odd jobs, ranging from flipping burgers to being part of an all male exotic dancing group.

I worked as a criminal psychologist for several years before moving to Los Angeles, where I swapped the suits and briefcases for ripped jeans, bandanas and an electric guitar. After a spell playing for several well known glam rock bands, I decided to try my luck in London, where I was fortunate enough to have played for a numbe

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Danaja Lorenčič

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Lana Bastašić

Lana Bastašić rođena je u Zagrebu, tadašnjoj SFRJ, 1986. godine. Završila je studije anglistike i komunikologije u Banjoj Luci, i odbranila master rad iz Studija kulture na FPN u Beogradu. Objavila je dvije zbirke kratkih priča: Trajni pigmenti (SKC Kragujevac, 2010, konkurs edicije Prvenac) i Vatrometi (Čekić, Beograd, 2011). Samostalno je objavila knjigu priča za djecu, Nastja crta sunce (Banja Luka, 2015, ilustracije Sandre Dukić). Godine 2014. osvojila je prvu nagradu za neobjavljenu zbirku poezije na Danima poezije u Zaječaru i objavila Naivni triptih o Bosni i umiranju. Njen prvi roman, Uhvati zeca (Kontrast, Beograd 2018), dobitnik je Evropske nagrade za književnost 2020. godine. Roman je bio uvršten u najuži izbor za NIN-ovu nagradu

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Drago Jančar

Drago Jančar je končal Višjo pravno šolo v Mariboru. Med študijem je bil kulturni, glavni in odgovorni urednik študentskega lista Katedra. Po študiju je bil najprej zaposlen kot novinar pri dnevniku Večer, nato je bil svobodni pisatelj, za tem dramaturg pri Viba filmu in nazadnje tajnik in urednik pri založbi Slovenska matica v Ljubljani. Študijsko je večkrat bival v tujini, v ZDA, Veliki Britaniji, Nemčiji. Od leta 2001 je redni član SAZU. Je največkrat prevajani sodobni slovenski pisatelj.
Jančar je najprej začel s pisanjem pripovednih del v modernistični pripovedni tehniki in pod vplivom francoskega novega romana. V pripovednih delih obravnava spore posameznika z aktualnim družbenim okoljem (roman Petintrideset stopinj, novele O bledem hu

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Malin Stehn

Name: Malin Stehn
Born: 1969 in Boden (in the very north of Sweden)
Grew up: in Katrineholm (close to Stockholm)
I live: in an old house outside Malmö (in the very south of Sweden)
Family: married to Micke, a son and a daughter
Pets: Two cats. Peps, born 2020 and Bisou, born 2022
What I do : I am a full time author. My first book was published in 2006 and since then I have written more than 40 books for young readers. My first novel for adult readers, the psychological thriller Happy New Year , was published in 2021 and sold to 19 countries. It was followed by Happily Ever After (2023) and Hip Hip Hooray (2025).
Education: Master of Arts in literary studies at the University of Lund
Background: I worked as an editor for children's books for ten yea

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Boris Pahor

Boris Pahor (born 28 August 1913) was a Slovene writer from Italy. He was considered to be one of the most important authors in the Slovene language and had been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Pahor je bil rojen v Trstu leta 1913. Po dovršeni osnovni šoli je obiskoval katoliško Bogoslovno semenišče Koper (takrat, pod italijansko državo, Capodistria). Leta 1920 je bil priča požigu slovenskega Narodnega doma v Trstu, ki so ga izvedli italijanski fašisti, kot Tržačan pa tudi drugim zločinom, ki so bili storjeni nad v takratni Italiji živečim slovenskim prebivalstvom. V obdobju 2. svetovne vojne se je po propadu Mussolinijeve Italije in nemški okupaciji tržaške pokrajine na partizanski

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Vladimir Bartol

Bartol was born on February 24, 1903 in San Giovanni (Slovene: Sveti Ivan), a suburb of the Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste (now in Italy), as the third child of seven children of a middle class Slovene family. His father Gregor Bartol, was a post office clerk, and his mother Marica Bartol Nadlišek was a teacher, a renowned editor and feminist author. Vladimir's parents offered their children extensive education. His mother introduced him to painting, his father to biology. In his autobiographical short stories, Bartol described himself as an oversensitive and slightly odd child with a rich fantasy life. He was interested in many things: biology and philosophy, psychology, art, as well as theatre and literature. As a scientist, he collecte

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Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com

He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'

His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction. It's a book of which many readers are still fondest.

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Bogdan Novak

Bogdan Novak se je rodil kot četrti otrok v družini v Murski Soboti. Tam je ostal do svojega tretjega leta, potem pa so se preselili v ljubljansko Rožno dolino. Še vedno se zelo rad vrača v ljubljeno Prekmurje.
Brati je začel že s štirimi leti in pol in kmalu je postal pravi knjižni molj. Svojo mladost je preživljal v Ljubljani. Sprva je bil zaposlen kot knjižničar, nato pa je bil dolga leta novinar in urednik Pavlihe, Dela, Dnevnika ter bil tudi dopisnik iz Sarajeva. Zdaj je samostojni književnik in piše za mladino in odrasle. Živi v Brezjah nad Kamnikom.
Piše humorno, satirično in žanrsko prozo. Odlikuje ga predvsem smisel za humor in napeto napletanje zgodbe. Najbolj znano Novakovo delo za odrasle je literarna saga v dvanajstih knjigah, ci

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Mende Nazer

”Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.

Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her “Yebit,” or “black slave.” She called them “master.” She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own.

Normally, Mende’s story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she

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Jakob J. Kenda

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