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Bel Kaufman

Bel Kaufman (b. 1911) was a bestselling writer, dedicated teacher, and lecturer best known for her novel Up the Down Staircase (1965), a classic portrayal of life in the New York public school system. Kaufman was born in Berlin, the daughter of Russian parents and granddaughter of celebrated Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. Her family moved to Odessa when she was three, and Russian is her native language. The family also lived in Moscow before immigrating to New York City when Kaufman was twelve. There, she graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College and with high honors from Columbia University. Kaufman then worked as a high school teacher in the city for three decades. The success of Up the Down Staircase launched her second career as a

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffman appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.

Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major author

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Moni Nilsson-Brännström

Moni is a Swedish author, best known for the books about the boy Tsatsiki. Earlier she owned the 17th chair of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. She is one of the initiators of the young-adult-culture-house Palatset in Stockholm.

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Yaroslav Hrytsak

Yaroslav Hrytsak is a leading Ukrainian historian and public intellectual. He is the author of numerous publications in modern history of Eastern Europe. He has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Central European University (Budapest), and has been awarded various Ukrainian and foreign awards for academic achievements and public endeavors.

Народився 1 січня 1960 р. у с. Довге, Стрийського району Львівській області. Доктор історичних наук з 1996 р. Професор Львівського університету ім. І. Франка. Директор Інституту історичних досліджень Львівського державного університету ім. І. Франка, гість-професор Центрально-європейського Інституту в Будапешті, Сенатор і завідувач кафедрою історії України Українського Католицького

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Jesús Carrasco

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz, Spain, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Out in the Open, his debut novel, was a huge bestseller in Spain, published in more than twenty-one countries, and is the winner of many international awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature 2016 and an English PEN award.

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Patrik Ouředník

The writer, translator and essayist Patrik Ouředník was born in Prague on 23 April 1957. After finishing his basic education he worked as an assistant in a bookshop, an assistant archivist, warehouseman, postman, labourer and ambulance man. From 1974 to 1976 he studied acting and directing at a People’s Art School in Prague. In 1985 he emigrated to France. He translates from French into Czech (Rabelais, Jarry, Queneau, Beckett, Vian and others) and from Czech into French (including Vančura, Hrabal, Holan, Skácel and Holub).

He is the author of twelve books, including fiction, essays, and poems. He has received a number of literary awards for his writing, including the Czech Literary Fund Award.

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Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. Barnes has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh (having married Pat Kavanagh). In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories.
In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was awarded the 2021 Jerusalem Prize.

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Monika Helfer

Monika Helfer (1947), vormals Monika Helfer-Friedrich, ist eine österreichische Schriftstellerin.
Thema ihrer Bücher sind oft schwierige Familienbeziehungen, wobei sie einen besonderen Fokus auf die Kinderperspektive legt. „Die Figuren in Monika Helfers Büchern haben Mut, Überlebenswillen und den gesunden Trotz eines Kindes, nämlich den Trotz, sich von gesellschaftlichen Wertvorstellungen und Kategorisierungen nicht beirren zu lassen“, so Dorothea Zanon in ihrer Laudatio anlässlich der Verleihung des Österreichischen Ehrenkreuzes für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse.

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Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.

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Miha Kovač

Miha Kovac is associate professor at the Department for Library and Information science and Book Studies, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His main research speciality are contemporary book markets.

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Szczepan Twardoch

Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Katowicach.
Mieszka w Pilchowicach na Górnym Śląsku.

W listopadzie 2012 roku nakładem Wydawnictwa Literackiego ukazała się powieść p.t. Morfina, nominowana do Paszportu Polityki 2012.

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Maria Matios

Maria Matios is a contemporary Ukrainian writer. Winner of the “Book of the Year 2004” and of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia). Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790. She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovyna region. Presently she resides in Kyiv.

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Sofia Andrukhovych

See also Софія Андрухович

Sofia Andrukhovych (* 17 November 1982) in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the daughter of another Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.

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Nils Sakss

Nils Sakss (Konstantinovs) mācījies spēlēt amerikāņu futbolu Amerikā, kino režiju - Francijā, teātra mākslu - Pēterburgā, strādājis par pludmales glābēju Dubajā, par sanitāru Ģaiļezera slimnīcā Rīgā, bijis bērnu sporta treneris Anglijā, laikrakstu "Diena" un "Dienas Bizness" žurnālists, kā arī izveidojis izdevniecību "Severīns".

Ieguvis maģistra grādu teoloģijā.

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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

Maria Iordanidou
Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.

Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

Maria Iordanidou
Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.

Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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Jesús Carrasco

Jesús Carrasco was born in Badajoz, Spain, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Out in the Open, his debut novel, was a huge bestseller in Spain, published in more than twenty-one countries, and is the winner of many international awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature 2016 and an English PEN award.

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Claire Berest

Claire Berest, née le 14 juillet 1982 à Paris, est une écrivaine française.
Diplômée d'un Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres (IUFM), elle enseigne quelque temps en ZEP avant de démissionner. Claire Berest a publié son premier roman, Mikado, en janvier 2011 aux éditions Léo Scheer. Son deuxième roman, L' Orchestre vide, s'inspire de l'histoire d'amour vécue avec le chanteur canadien Buck 65.
Son compagnon est l'écrivain Abel Quentin.
Avec sa sœur Anne Berest, elle co-écrit en 2017, Gabriële, en hommage à leur arrière grand-mère Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia.
Son dernier roman, Rien n'est noir, met en scène Frida Kahlo et Diego Rivera.

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Victoria Amelina

Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Юріївна Амеліна), later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.

Viktoriia Yuriivna Amelina was born in Lviv on 1 January 1986. She emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of fourteen, then returned to Ukraine soon after. After completing a degree in computer science in Lviv, Amelina started her career in IT before becoming a full-time writer and poet in 2015.

From 2015, when her first book Синдром листопаду, або Homo Compatiens (The Fall Syndrome: about Homo Compatiens) was published, she dedicated her time solely to writing.

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Viktorie Hanišová

Viktorie Hanišová (born 1980) debuted in 2015 with the well-received novel Anežka /Anežka, about the dysfunctional relationship of a mother and her adoptive daughter, concealed racism and stereotyping. Hanišová is a graduate in English and German from Charles University, Prague. She works as a translator and language teacher.

Viktorie Hanišová pochází z Prahy, na Univerzitě Karlově vystudovala anglistiku a germanistiku. Věnuje se překladatelství a je lektorkou cizích jazyků.
Spisovatelsky debutovala v roce 2015 příznivě přijatým románem Anežka o nefunkčním vztahu matky a adoptivní dcery, o skrytém rasismu a stereotypech. V roce 2018 následoval román Houbařka o dětském traumatu a domácím násilí. Román Rekonstrukce završuje volnou trilogii romá

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Дар'я Анцибор

Дар’я Анцибор — фольклористка, антропологиня, кандидатка філологічних наук, авторка телеграм-каналу «Гриби, гроби і дисертації», співавторка подкасту «Пороблено». Наукова співробітниця Державного наукового центру захисту культурної спадщини від техногенних катастроф. Пише та публікує науково-популярні статті у виданнях «Куншт» і «Їжакультура».

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Maik Yohansen

Maik (Mykhailo) Hervasiiovych Yohansen or Mike Johansen (Ukrainian: Майк Гервасійович Йогансен; pseudonyms Villi Vetselius [Willy Wetzelius] and M. Kramar; 16 October 1895, Kharkiv, Ukraine – 27 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine) – was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and linguist.

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Andra Putnis

Andra is an Australian writer working to tell powerful stories to help us better understand our world and each other.

Her debut book reveals the incredible stories of how her two Latvian grandmothers lived through the terror of the Second World War and survived to immigrate to Australia.

Against the backdrop of our increasingly uncertain world, the book delves into why we need the stories of our grandmothers to better understand where we come from and who we want to be.

Andra lives in Canberra on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country with her partner and two children. She's loves spending time curled up reading or outside in the sun.

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Miha Kovač

Miha Kovac is associate professor at the Department for Library and Information science and Book Studies, School of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His main research speciality are contemporary book markets.

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Andra Putnis

Andra is an Australian writer working to tell powerful stories to help us better understand our world and each other.

Her debut book reveals the incredible stories of how her two Latvian grandmothers lived through the terror of the Second World War and survived to immigrate to Australia.

Against the backdrop of our increasingly uncertain world, the book delves into why we need the stories of our grandmothers to better understand where we come from and who we want to be.

Andra lives in Canberra on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country with her partner and two children. She's loves spending time curled up reading or outside in the sun.

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Carolin Emcke

Carolin Emcke, geboren am 18. August 1967 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, lebt als freie Publizistin in Berlin. Sie studierte ab 1987 Philosophie, Politik und Geschichte in London, Frankfurt am Main und an der Harvard University. Ihre Doktorarbeit „Kollektive Identitäten. Sozialphilosophische Grundlagen“ wurde 2000 im Campus Verlag veröffentlicht.

Von 1998 bis 2006 arbeitete Carolin Emcke als festangestellte Redakteurin beim Nachrichtenmagazin DER SPIEGEL. Ab 1999 bereiste sie als Auslandsredakteurin zahlreiche Krisenregionen und berichtete unter anderem aus dem Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Irak und dem Gaza-Streifen. Aus den Briefen, die sie zwischen 1999 und 2003 an ihre Freunde schrieb, entstand 2004 ihr erstes Buch „Von den Kriegen – Briefe an

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Ilona Leimane

Rakstniece Ilona Leimane dzimusi Rīgā 1905.gada 5.oktobrī namsaimnieku Jūlija un Lienes Hermīnes Leimaņu ģimenē. Jūlija Leimaņa māte Kristīne, dzimusi Endzelīna, bijusi valodnieka Jāņa Endzelīna māsa. Tas ietekmējis nākamās rakstnieces Ilonas Leimanes sevišķi lielo interesi par valodas bagātību.
Bērnībā Ilona vasaras pavadījusi pie vecmāmiņas un vectētiņa Ilzes un Indriķa Kļaviņiem Suntažu pagasta Eļmos. Apkārtējā daba uz meiteni atstājusi lielu iespaidu. Lielu ietekmi uz Ilonu atstāj vecaistēvs Indriķis, senu nostāstu zinātājs un labs stāstītājs, pagasta vecākais un izslavēts vārdotājs, kas jaunībā bijis arī skolotājs. Šķiet tieši vectēva ietekmē krāšņākā rakstnieces daiļrades daļa saistās ar senatni un no vectēva dzirdētie nostāsti atradu

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Evald Flisar

Evald Flisar, born in 1945 in Slovenia, then still part of Yugoslavia, is an iconic figure of contemporary Slovenian literature. Novelist, playwright, essayist, editor, globe-trotter (travelled in 98 countries), underground train driver in Sydney, Australia, editor of (among other publications) an encyclopaedia of science and invention in London, author of short stories and radio plays for the BBC, president of the Slovene Writers’ Association (1995 – 2002), since 1998 editor of the oldest Slovenian literary journal Sodobnost (Contemporary Review), he is also the author of 16 novels (eleven of them short-listed for kresnik, the Slovenian “Booker”), two collections of short stories, three travelogues, two books for children (both nominated f

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Olesya Khromeychuk

Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian of 20th century East-Central Europe, specialising in Ukrainian history. She has a PhD in History from University College London. Olesya has previously taught at King’s College London, the University of East Anglia, University College London and the University of Cambridge. She also runs a theatre company, Molodyi Teatr London, that stages documentary pieces exploring urgent social and political themes. Originally from Lviv, Olesya moved to the UK in 2000, since when she has been actively engaged in the life of the Ukrainian community in London and beyond.

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Oksana Lutsyshyna

See also Ukrainian spelling; Оксана Луцишина

Oksana Lutsyshyna (née Kishko; born 10 October 1974) is a Ukrainian poet, professor and writer who is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize, and member of PEN Ukraine. She primarily writes poetry and fiction in Ukrainian, with additional work on blogs for the feminist website Povaha.

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