


Books in series

Islanda
2018

Olanda
2018

Japan
The Passenger
2018

Portogallo
2019

Grecia
2019

Norvegia
2019

Berlino
2019

The Passenger
Brazil
2019

India
2020

Turchia
2020

Svezia
2020

The Passenger
Paris
2020

Rome
The Passenger
2021

Spazio
2021

Svizzera
2021

Napoli
2021

The Passenger
Ireland
2021

The Passenger
California
2022

Nigeria
2022

Oceano
2022

Barcellona
2022

Milano
2022

Paesi baltici
2023

Messico
2023

Mediterraneo
2023

Dubai ed Emirati Arabi Uniti
2025

Copenaghen
2025

Puglia
2025
Authors

Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic author, painter, translator, cartoonist and essayist. He has studied at the School of Visual Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His most famous works are 101 Reykjavík, which was made into a popular film, and Höfundur Íslands (Iceland's Author), which won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2001. He was nominated for the prize again in 2005 for the novel Rokland (Stormland), along with the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 101 Reykjavík and Rokland.







Dailės istorikė dr. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė gimė Vilniuje, nuo 2002 dirba Londone didžiausio Lietuvos dienraščio užsienio korespondente. 2008 m. debiutavo istoriniu romanu "Silva rerum" (leidykla "Baltos lankos"), tapusiu dešimties leidimų sulaukusiu bestseleriu ir pripažintu "literatūros įvykiu" Lietuvoje. Įvertintas kritikų ir kultūros istorikų, romanas skaitytojus pavergė autentišku, daugiasluoksniu, magišku ir įtraukiančiu pasakojimu apie XVII a. (1659-1667) atmosferą. 2009 m. "Silva rerum" tapo lietuviška Metų knyga 2010 m. kritikų oficialiai įvardinta viena iš dešimties įsimintiniausių dešimtmečio knygų 2008 m. Jurgos Ivanauskaitės premija 2009 m. Lietuvių literatūros instituto Kūrybiškiausių knygų dvyliktuke 2011 m. "Baltos lankos" išleido "Silva rerum II", nekantriai lauktą, septynių laidų sulaukusį tęsinį apie 1707-1710 Didijį Marą, tapusį perkamiausia knyga Nr. 1. 2011 m. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė Vilniaus miesto apdovanota "Šv. Kristoforu" "Už Vilniaus atspindžius literatūroje" 2011 m. "Silva rerum II" tapo lietuviška Metų knyga

Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel based on his grandfather's notebooks recollecting his time before, during and after the First World War. ——————————————————————————— Stefan Hertmans is een Belgisch schrijver, dichter en essayist. Hij is auteur van een literair en essayistisch oeuvre (poëzie, roman, essay, theatertekst, kortverhaal) dat hem in binnen- en buitenland bekend maakt. Zijn gedichten en verhalen verschenen in het Frans, Spaans, Italiaans, Roemeens, Kroatisch, Duits, Bulgaars. Hertmans doceerde aan het Stedelijk Secundair Kunstinstituut Gent en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone kunsten (KASK, Hogeschool Gent) en leidde er het Studium Generale tot oktober 2010. Hij gaf lezingen aan de Sorbonne, de universiteiten van Wenen, Berlijn en Mexico City, Library of Congress (Washington), University College London. Zijn werk verscheen onder meer in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) en Grand Street (New York). Hertmans werkte mee aan tijdschriften zoals Raster, De Revisor, Het Moment, NWT, Yang, Dietsche Warande & Belfort, Poëziekrant en Parmentier. Van 1993 tot 1996 was hij redacteur van het Nederlandse tijdschrift De Gids, hij recenseerde voor De Morgen en schreef de boekenbijlage van De Standaard. In Nederland publiceerde hij in Trouw. In 2017 werd hij Commandeur in de Kroonorde. Stefan Hertmans is een Vlaams schrijver, dichter en essayist. Stefan Hertmans in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia Stefan Hertmans in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren Stefan Hertmans bij "Schrijversgewijs" Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish writer, poet and essayist. Stefan Hertmans in the English Wikipedia


Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters. In 1993 he debuted with the book Tatt av kvinnen, and a year later published a children's book, Fisken, about a forklift operator named Kurt. Loe has a distinctive style of writing which is often likened to naïve art. He often uses irony, exaggeration and humor.

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (born 1979) is a Nigerian creative writer and journalist. His debut short-story collection The Whispering Trees was longlisted for the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2014, with the title story shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Ibrahim has won the BBC African Performance Prize and the ANA Plateau/Amatu Braide Prize for Prose. He is a Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow (2013), a Civitella Ranieri Fellow (2015). In 2014 he was selected for the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature, and was included in the anthology Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara (ed. Ellah Allfrey). He was a mentor on the 2013 Writivism programme and judged the Writivism Short Story Prize in 2014. He was chair of judges for the 2016 Etisalat Flash Fiction Prize. His first novel, Season of Crimson Blossoms, was published in 2015 by Parrésia Publishers in Nigeria and by Cassava Republic Press in the UK (2016). Season of Crimson Blossoms was shortlisted in September 2016 for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa's largest literary prize.[14] It was announced on 12 October 2016 that Ibrahim was the winner of the $100,000 prize. Ibrahim was the recipient of the 2016 Goethe-Institut & Sylt Foundation African Writer's Residency Award.

Giovanni Soldini è un velista italiano, divenuto famoso soprattutto per le sue navigazioni solitarie. A 16 anni compie per la prima volta nella sua vita la traversata dell'Atlantico. Nel 1989 vince la A.R.C.(Atlantic Rally for Cruisers), ovvero la regata transatlantica per imbarcazioni da crociera. Diventa famoso, come navigatore solitario, durante La Baule-Dakar del 1991. Per molti è lui il miglior navigatore solitario di tutti i tempi ed ha avuto il merito di far conoscere e avvicinare allo sport della barca a vela, centinaia di persone che hanno scoperto la passione per il mare e per la vela grazie alle sue imprese negli oceani sparsi per il mondo. È l'alba del 3 marzo 1999 a Punta del Este, nonostante l'ora, centinaia di persone in attesa, fra cui moltissimi giornalisti, fotografi e operatori televisivi, affollano i moli. Alle 5:55 ora locale (9:55 in Italia) FILA, il 60 piedi condotto da Giovanni Soldini, taglia vittoriosamente il traguardo della terza tappa dell'edizione 1998-99 della Around Alone, il giro del mondo a vela per navigatori solitari. Si conclude così felicemente un'impresa eroica la cui valenza sportiva, pur importante, è passata in secondo piano sopraffatta largamente dalla grande dimostrazione di coraggio del navigatore milanese protagonista del salvataggio di Isabelle Autissier, rovesciatasi in pieno Pacifico meridionale e lontana da qualsiasi possibile intervento di salvataggio per via delle condizioni meteorologiche. Se è vero, infatti, che Isabelle è una sua grande amica sicuramente Giovanni non avrebbe comunque esitato ad accorrere in soccorso di chiunque si fosse trovato in pericolo come nel caso di Marc Thiercelin, il più diretto rivale del navigatore italiano alla vittoria finale. Questi ha infatti disalberato in Atlantico subito dopo aver doppiato Capo Horn, ma ha rifiutato l'aiuto prontamente offerto da Soldini nonostante il francese solo pochi giorni prima, avesse addirittura chiesto la squalifica dell'italiano per il non essere più un navigatore solitario dopo il salvataggio di Isabelle. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni...

Irena Brežná, born in 1950 in Bratislava. In 1968, she emigrated to Switzerland with her parents. Since graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Basel University (lic. phil. in Slavonic studies, philosophy and psychology) in 1975, she has worked as a teacher of Russian, a translator and interpreter of Slavonic languages and for 10 years as a psychologist at psychology research institutes in Munich and Basel. More recently, she has begun to work increasingly as an independent journalist and author. She continues to be actively involved in a variety of areas on a voluntary basis. For 12 years during the 1970s and 1980s she campaigned for the release of Soviet political prisoners in her role as a coordinator for the Swiss chapter of Amnesty international. She has helped those who opposed the regimes in Central and Eastern Europe (inter alia the Moscow Centre for Prison Reform) and she assisted in establishing the first Slovak feminist magazine Aspekt in Bratislava. Her other work includes fundraising for Chechen women’s projects, and collecting works of world literature for a library in Mamou, Guinea in West Africa, as well as text books for local schools. During The First Chechen war (1994-96) and during a short period of independence there (1996-98), she visited the destroyed country several times and since then has reported in more than 80 texts on the atrocities committed in the conflict and about the freedom fight of Chechen female human rights activists.

Marcello Flores D'Arcais (Padova, 1945) è uno storico italiano. Autore di apprezzate pubblicazioni, si è occupato principalmente della storia del comunismo, del XX secolo, del genocidio degli Armeni durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, dei diritti umani e delle vittime di guerre.
German translator and publicist. Her main topics are Norway and its military occupation by Germany during the second world war. She was born in Büdingen as a daughter of a Norwegian doctor and a German woman.


LUCIANO AMARAL nasceu no Porto, a 16 de Maio de 1965. É licenciado em História (1988) e mestre em História dos Séculos XIX e XX (1993), pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, com a tese O País dos Caminhos que se Bifurcam: Política Agrária e Evolução da Agricultura Portuguesa durante o Estado Novo (1930-1954) e doutorado pelo Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença (2003), com a tese How a Country Catches-Up: Economic Growth in Portugal in the Postwar Period (1950-1973). Presentemente, é Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa desde 2003, tendo sido Visiting Student da London School of Economics (1997) e Investigador do Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença entre 1995 e 2003. Foi, entre 2017 e 2021, presidente da Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social.

Müzisyen, Yazar, Yönetmen, Politikacı. (in English see O.Z. Livaneli) Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve uluslararası ödül almış ve eserleri John Baez, Maria Farandouri gibi sanatçılar tarafından yorumlanmıştır. Kültür, sanat ve politika alanında Türkiye’nin önemli isimlerinden birisi olan sanatçı, sanat yaşamı boyunca 300’e yakın besteye ve 30 film müziğine imzasını attı. Bugüne kadar üç uzun metrajlı film yönetti; "Yer Demir Gök Bakır", "Sis" ve "Şahmeran". Valencia Film Festivali'nde "Altın Palmiye" ve 1989'da Montpelier Film Festivali'nde "Altın Antigone" ödülüne layık görüldü. "Sis", "En iyi Avrupa Film Ödülü"ne aday gösterildi. Sanatçının filmleri Türkiye, ABD, Fransa, Almanya, İsviçre, ve Japonya'da gösterime girdi ve BBC, WDR, İspanya, Kanada ve Japon televizyonları gibi bir çok televizyon şirketine satıldı. Ekim 1986'da Cengiz Aytmatov'un daveti üzerine Federico Major, Yaşar Kemal, Arthur Miller ve diğer ünlü sanatçı ve düşünürlerin katıldığı Kırgızistan ve daha sonra Wengen, Granada ve Mexico City'de toplanan Issyk - Kul Forumu'nda yer aldı. Livaneli, Elia Kazan, Jack Lang, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Mikhail Gorbaçov gibi ünlü kişilerle birlikte dünya kültürünün ilerlemesi ve dünya sanatlarının gelişmesine katkıda bulunmak üzere çalışmalarda bulundu. 1996 yılında Paris’te merkezi bulunan UNESCO (Birleşmiş Milletlerin Eğitim Kültür Bilim Kurulu) tarafından büyükelçilik verilen sanatçı Livaneli, orjinali ilk kez 1978’de çıkan "Nazım Türküsü"adlı albümde Nazım Hikmet'in şiirlerinden bestelediği şarkıları bir araya getirdi. Sabah Gazetesi'nde köşe yazarlığına yaptı. Bir dönem CHP'den Milletvekili olarak aktif siyaset hayatına da katıldı.

Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until the year 2000. Since then he has been a full time writer. His first published work, the poetry collection, Með byssuleyfi á eilífðina, came out in 1988. He has published two other collections of poetry and a number of novels. His novel Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin (Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night) won The Icelandic Literature Prize in 2005. Three of his books have also been nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize. He was the recipient of the Per Olov Enquists Prize for 2011, awarded at the book fair in Gautaborg in September 2011.


Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, N.Y. and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Hobart, and Five Points as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. She was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville, and has had residencies and fellowships at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband, Clay, and her dog, Cooper.
Vive a Rimini fino alla maturità scientifica, trasferendosi successivamente a Bologna per iscriversi al corso in Scienze della comunicazione dell'Alma Mater Studiorum. Nel 2002, segue i corsi della Scuola Holden a Cesena esperienza conclusa non in modo positivo. Si laurea nel 2005 con la tesi L'oggetto culturale nell'industria italiana. Il caso del Signor M. ovvero i criteri di pubblicazione di un libro. Il suo romanzo d'esordio, Senza coda (Fanucci, 2005), ha ricevuto nel 2006 il Premio Campiello Opera prima; si tratta di un'opera che racconta "di un'infanzia che si misura angosciosamente con il mondo adulto, con le sue sopraffazioni e violenze, varcando la linea d'ombra che conduce ad una pensosa maturità". Il 22 marzo 2007 pubblica con Guanda il romanzo Il buio addosso (premio Insula romana 2008). Il 12 febbraio 2009 viene messo in commercio il terzo romanzo, Bianco (Guanda), che vince la XXVIII edizione del Premio Comisso, il Premio Tondelli 2009 e il premio della critica Ninfa-Camarina 2010. Il 23 febbraio 2012 viene pubblicato il romanzo Il senso dell'elefante (Guanda), che vince il Premio Campiello Giuria dei Letterati 2012, il premio Vigevano - Lucio Mastrolonardi, il premio Bergamo. È tradotto in Germania, Francia, Spagna, Stati Uniti, UK, Canada, Svezia. Nel febbraio 2015 esce per Feltrinelli il romanzo Atti osceni in luogo privato. Vive a Milano, dove lavora come caporedattore di una rivista di psicologia. Scrive per la cultura del Corriere della Sera.


Guadalupe Nettel (born 1973) is a Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published in several genres, both fiction and non-fiction. Nettel is a prolific author and a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines, including Letras Libres, Hoja por hoja, L'atelier du roman, and L'inconvénient. In 2006 she was voted one of thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival. She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and is now based in Barcelona, where she works as a translator and holds writing seminars and a workshop on Potential Literature (based on the French Oulipo). She is the author of Juegos de artificio [False Games], Les jours fossiles [Fossil Days], Pétalos y otras historias incómodas [Petals and other Awkward Stories], and El huésped [The Host], and the recipient of the Premio Herralde, third place, for El huésped, and the 2008 Premio Antonin Artaud and the 2007 Gilbert Owen Short Story Prize in Mexico for Pétalos. Guadalupe Nettel’s stories have been described as “marvellous” by the distinguished Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vázquez, and the critic Juan Ignacio Boido has praised Nettel’s creation of “a universe where Roberto Bolaño’s visceral poets rub shoulders with the fragile but unbreakable women of Haruki Murakami.”

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Paolo Giordano is a professional physicist and is currently working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. It is being translated into twenty languages and has sold all over the world.


Leonardo Bianchi (1986) è laureato in Giurisprudenza all’Università Alma Mater Studiorum di Bologna. Giornalista e blogger, è news editor di VICE Italia. Collabora (o ha collaborato) con Valigia Blu, Internazionale e altre testate. Dal 2008 scrive di politica, attualità e cultura anche sul suo blog satirico La Privata Repubblica. Ha pubblicato La Gente. Viaggio nell'Italia del risentimento (Minimum Fax, 2017).

Carmen Boullosa (b. September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. Her work has been praised by a number of prominent writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as Publishers Weekly. She has won a number of awards for her works, and has taught at universities such as Georgetown University, Columbia University and New York University (NYU), as well as at universities in nearly a dozen other countries. She is currently Distinguished Lecturer at the City College of New York. She has two children—Maria Aura and Juan Aura—with her former partner, Alejandro Aura—and is now married to Mike Wallace, the Pulitzer Prize–winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. (from Wikipedia)

At the age of 8, Najat El Hachmi immigrated with her family to Catalonia, Spain. She studied Arab literature at the University of Barcelona. She began writing when she was twelve years old and has continued ever since, first as entertainment, and later as a means to express concerns or to reflect and re-create her own reality, in the (at least) two cultures to which she belongs. Her first book, Jo també sóc catalana (I am also Catalan, 2004), was strictly autobiographical, dealing with the issue of identity, and the growth of her sense of belonging to her new country. In 2008, she won one of the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for her novel L'últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch).

Jānis Joņevs (1980) is a prose writer. His first novel Jelgava '94 immediately became a cult book among readers. During the TV show Great Reading the novel was chosen among the 100 most favourite Latvian books of all times. It was also praised among critics and received numerous awards. The novel is set in Jelgava town in 1994 and focuses on youngsters who are driven to heavy metal music. Sharing this taste of music and subculture they explore the life through the eyes of their youth. It is a book of a whole generation which experienced their youth in the nineties when Latvia had just regained independence. This novel has been adapted for the theatre performance by Jelgava New Theatre, and currently is being shot as a film. It has been translated into French by Gaїa Editions in 2016 under the title Metal. The translation rights of the novel have been sold to Norway, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, and Slovenia. Jānis Joņevs also writes short stories, especially for children. In 2014 publishing house Liels un mazs published his book for the smallest Slepenie svētki/ Secret Celebration. Joņevs translates from French – A. Kristoff's The Notebook, and B. M. Kolté's In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. Jānis Joņevs together with Mārcis Lācis have written a play for the black comedy theatre performance Bārdas/The Beards staged at Dirty Deal Teatro in Riga in 2015, and the play Rīga. Urbānie mīti/ Riga. Urban Myths staged at the New Riga Theatre in 2016. Also he together with publicist Anete Konste have written a stories for the theatre performance Zvērīgā mīla/ Beastly Love staged at Dirty Deal Tearo in 2017.




Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays. For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.

Frank Westerman (Emmen, 1964) groeide op in Assen en studeerde Tropische Cultuurtechniek aan de Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen. In 1987 woonde hij een jaar in de Andes van Peru, waar hij de irrigatiemethoden van Aymara-indianen onderzocht. Frank studeerde cum laude af en mag Ir. voor zijn naam zetten. Zijn allereerste journalistieke reportages schreef Frank toen hij nog studeerde. Zo versloeg hij voor Het Parool de poging van Mario Vargas Llosa om president van Peru te worden en de Amerikaanse anti-drugscampagne om de teelt van coca uit te roeien in de Chapare-regio van Bolivia. Voor het VPRO-programma Het Gebouw maakte Frank twee radio-documentaires van driekwartier. De eerste in april 1992 vanuit de 'dodenvallei' van Noordwest-Kameroen - meer hierover bij Stikvallei - en de tweede in de herfst van 1993 vanuit het volledig platgebombardeerde stadje Vukovar aan de Donau. Omdat Frank zich uitsluitend wilde toeleggen op het schrijven ging hij na zijn flirt met de radio door met de geschreven journalistiek. Voor het tijdschrift Atlas schreef hij in 1993 het dertig-pagina's tellende verhaal 'Het goede meer': zijn debuut bij een literaire uitgeverij.

Toine Heijmans (1969, Nijmegen) is columnist bij De Volkskrant, en schrijver van een aantal non-fictie boeken en romans. Hij woont met zijn gezin in Amsterdam. In alles een generalist schrijft hij over een brede waaier aan onderwerpen. Zijn veelgelezen tweewekelijkse columns maken samen een portret van Nederland, terwijl zijn boeken over de zee gaan, over dementie, over bergbeklimmen of migratie. Daarnaast schreef hij scenario’s voor de televisieserie De Fractie. Zijn werk krijgt veel waardering. Als eerste Nederlandse schrijver werd hem in Frankrijk de Prix Médicis Etranger toegekend, een van de prestigieuze Franse literatuurprijzen; vervolgens werd hem het ridderschap verleend in de orde van de Kunsten en de Letteren. Daarnaast won hij enkele journalistieke prijzen. (Source: https://toineheijmans.nl/)




Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore the issue of time and climate change through language, mythology and memoir. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and he has directed documentary films. His novel LoveStar was chosen as “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers, it received the DV Literary Award, The Philip K. Dick special citation Award of 2013 and won the french Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire as best foreign Sci-Fi in France 2016. His children’s book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize and has been published or performed in 35 countries. His first book of poetry was a runaway best seller published by the Bonus supermarket chain in Iceland. The Story of the Blue Planet received the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award 2000 and the West Nordic Children’s Book Prize 2002 and the Green Earth Honor Award 2013 and the UKLA Award 2014. The play from the story was performed on the main stage of YPT in Toronto in 2005 and 2013. He has been active in the fight for preserving the delicate nature of Iceland, his book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation takes on these issues. Dreamland has been made into a feature-length documentary film. Andri Magnason is the winner of the Kairos Award of 2010 granted by the Alfred Toepfer institute in Hamburg. His most recent documentary films are The Hero's Journey to the Third Pole - a bipolar musical documentary with elephants and Apausalypse, available on the website of Emergence Magazine. Andri Snær Magnason lives in Reykjavík. He is married with four children. His work has been published to more than 40 languages.



Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British writer, journalist and broadcaster who resides in the United States. Through his career at The Guardian, Winchester covered numerous significant events including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. As an author, Simon Winchester has written or contributed to over a dozen nonfiction books and authored one novel, and his articles appear in several travel publications including Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic. In 1969, Winchester joined The Guardian, first as regional correspondent based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but was later assigned to be the Northern Ireland Correspondent. Winchester's time in Northern Ireland placed him around several events of The Troubles, including the events of Bloody Sunday and the Belfast Hour of Terror. After leaving Northern Ireland in 1972, Winchester was briefly assigned to Calcutta before becoming The Guardian's American correspondent in Washington, D.C., where Winchester covered news ranging from the end of Richard Nixon's administration to the start of Jimmy Carter's presidency. In 1982, while working as the Chief Foreign Feature Writer for The Sunday Times, Winchester was on location for the invasion of the Falklands Islands by Argentine forces. Suspected of being a spy, Winchester was held as a prisoner in Tierra del Fuego for three months. Winchester's first book, In Holy Terror, was published by Faber and Faber in 1975. The book drew heavily on his first-hand experiences during the turmoils in Ulster. In 1976, Winchester published his second book, American Heartbeat, which dealt with his personal travels through the American heartland. Winchester's third book, Prison Diary, was a recounting of his imprisonment at Tierra del Fuego during the Falklands War and, as noted by Dr Jules Smith, is responsible for his rise to prominence in the United Kingdom. Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, Winchester produced several travel books, most of which dealt with Asian and Pacific locations including Korea, Hong Kong, and the Yangtze River. Winchester's first truly successful book was The Professor and the Madman (1998), published by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne. Telling the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the book was a New York Times Best Seller, and Mel Gibson optioned the rights to a film version, likely to be directed by John Boorman. Though Winchester still writes travel books, he has repeated the narrative non-fiction form he used in The Professor and the Madman several times, many of which ended in books placed on best sellers lists. His 2001 book, The Map that Changed the World, focused on geologist William Smith and was Whichester's second New York Times best seller. The year 2003 saw Winchester release another book on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Meaning of Everything, as well as the best-selling Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded. Winchester followed Krakatoa's volcano with San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in A Crack in the Edge of the World. The Man Who Loved China (2008) retells the life of eccentric Cambridge scholar Joseph Needham, who helped to expose China to the western world. Winchester's latest book, The Alice Behind Wonderland, was released March 11, 2011.
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Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2011, Waterstones selected it as part of its big literary debut promotion, ‘Waterstones 11’. It was also a book of the year for The Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard, and Telegraph India, among others. His second novel, The Book of Gold Leaves, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim. The Book of Gold Leaves was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016, longlisted for the Folio Prize, and was a finalist for the 2015 Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year (Fiction). Mirza has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Guernica, Scroll India, Caravan Magazine, Wriers Mosaic, Al Jazeera English, and The New York Times. Waheed’s latest novel Tell Her Everything was nominated for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 and Tata Literature Live Book of the Year. It won the Hindu Prize for Fiction 2019. Tell Her Everything was published by Melville House in the US and the UK in February 2023.

Adrian Igoni Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was first published in 2005 and reissued in 2008. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. His father is the Jamaican poet and novelist Lindsay Barrett.

Su último trabajo publicado es En la Barrera (Altaïr, 2012), sobre la Gran Barrera de Coral australiana. Es también autor de Sólo para gigantes (Edit. Alfaguara, 2011), Només per a gegants (Ámsterdam, 2011), que será adaptada al cómic a finales de noviembre de 2012 y al cine en fechas recientes. La obra Sudd, escogida por El Periódico y la revista Qué Leer entre las diez mejores novelas del año 2007. Antes de escribirla, recorrió el Nilo, desde las fuentes en el lago Victoria, hasta el delta de Alejandría. Sus anteriores novelas Hora de Times Square y Ático, fueron acogidas con excelentes críticas que han subrayado su carácter renovador. Ático fue seleccionada por la crítica de los Estados Unidos como una de las cinco obras más representativas de la vanguardia española de los últimos años en la antología que publicará Palgrave MacMillan. Como autor de libros de viajes, se le señala entre los más destacados impulsores del género. Con Diablo de Timanfaya levantó una gran polémica cultural y política. Su libro Una España inesperada le ha convertido en referente del nuevo periodismo literario en español. Su última obra publicada es Los mares de Wang, un viaje por la costa China que inaugura su proyecto Anfibia. Es coguionista de Ordinary Boys, una docuficción sobre el barrio de Tetuán de donde salieron cinco terroristas del 11 M.




At the age of seven, António Lobo Antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school - he is a psychiatrist. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola, from 1970 to 1973. It was there, in a military hospital, that he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium. In 1979, Lobo Antunes published his first novel - Memória de Elefante (Elephant's Memory), where he told the story of his separation. Due to the success of his first novel, Lobo Antunes decided to devote his evenings to writing. He has been practicing psychiatry all the time, though, mainly at the outpatient's unit at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda of Lisbon. His style is considered to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner, James Joyce and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He has an extensive work, translated into several languages. Among the many awards he has received so far, in 2007 he received the Camões Award, the most prestigious Portuguese literary award.

Tishani Doshi (born 1975) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. Born in Madras, India, to a Welsh mother and Gujarati father, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. Her first poetry collection, Countries of the Body, won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection.[1] She has been invited to the poetry galas of the Guardian-sponsored Hay Festival of 2006 and the Cartagena Hay Festival of 2007. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was published by Bloomsbury in 2010 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011,[2] and shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010. She writes a blog titled "Hit or Miss" on Cricinfo,[3] a cricket-related website. In the blog which she started writing in April 2009, Tishani Doshi makes observations and commentaries as a television viewer of the second season of the Indian Premier League. She is also collaborating with cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan on his biography, to be published when he retires.[4] She works as a freelance writer and worked with choreographer Chandralekha until the latter's death in December 2006.[5] She graduated with a Masters degree in creative writing from the Johns Hopkins University. Countries of the Body was launched in 2006 at the Hay-on-Wye festival on a platform with Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and others. The opening poem, The Day we went to the Sea, won the 2005 British Council supported All India Poetry Competition; she was also a finalist in the Outlook-Picador Non-Fiction Competition. Her short story Lady Cassandra, Spartacus and the dancing man was published in its entirety in the journal The Drawbridge in 2007.[6] Her most recent book of poetry, Everything Begins Elsewhere[7] was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2013. Her newest book, The Adulterous Citizen – poems stories essays (2015) was launched at the 13th annual St. Martin Book Fair by House of Nehesi Publishers, making Tishani Doshi the first important author from India to be published in the Caribbean. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tishani\_...


Hyam Yared est née en 1975 à Beyrouth où elle vit avec ses trois filles. Poète et nouvelliste, elle a publié trois recueils de poésie qui lui ont valu des prix et de nombreuses invitations dans des festivals de poésie, notamment au Canada, au Portugal, au Mexique et en Suède.


David Samuel Harvard Abulafia is a British historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. His published works include Frederick II, The Mediterranean in History, Italy in the central Middle Ages, The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic encounters in the age of Columbus and The Great Sea: a human history of the Mediterranean.



Antonello Provenzale (1958) si è laureato in Fisica nel 1982 e ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica presso l’Università di Torino nel 1987, con una tesi sui moti turbolenti a grande scala in oceano. Ricercatore presso il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche dal 1987, è Dirigente di Ricerca dal 2007. Dal 2015 è direttore dell’Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse del CNR, con sede principale a Pisa. Dal 2000, l’attività di ricerca si è focalizzata sempre più sulla dinamica del clima planetario, sulle interazioni fra geosfera e biosfera e sugli impatti dei cambiamenti climatici su ciclo dell’acqua, incendi e processi eco-idrologici. Recentemente, si è dedicato sullo studio della “Critical Zone”, lo strato vivente fra il fondo dell’acquifero superficiale e la cima della vegetazione che include le falde, il suolo e gli organismi che lo abitano, la vegetazione, e tutti i processi fisici, chimici, geologici, geomorfologici e biologici che controllano l’alterazione delle rocce, i cicli biogeochimici e il funzionamento degli ecosistemi terrestri. Collabora con il Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso, con cui ha promosso la creazione del primo osservatorio di Critical Zone italiano all’altopiano del Nivolet.


Pino Cacucci (Alessandria, 1955) è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e traduttore italiano. Cresciuto a Chiavari, si è trasferito a Bologna nel 1975 per frequentare il DAMS. All'inizio degli anni ottanta è vissuto per lunghi periodi sia a Parigi che a Barcellona. In seguito viaggia molto in America latina e soprattutto in Messico dove ha abitato per lunghi periodi. Ha pubblicato finora numerosi libri di narrativa e saggistica. Pone in risalto personaggi storici non vincitori, sommersi e nascosti dalla Storia ufficiale. Come posto in evidenza dallo stesso Autore nell´Opera "In ogni caso nessun rimorso”, la Storia viene scritta sempre dai vincitori ed i suoi protagonisti perdono, come conseguenza delle loro azioni tutto: battaglie, lavoro, amici, ideali, la loro stessa vita, tranne la dignità, ma con l'aggiuntiva sfortuna di vivere in un'epoca in cui la dignità stessa era l'ultima delle qualità necessarie per passare alla Storia. Particolarmente intensa è anche la sua attività come traduttore.

Margherita Carbonaro was born in Milan, Italy, in 1964. She studied Italian Philology and Literature at Milan State University. She has been working for over twenty years in publishing, both as an editor and as a translator from German and English – and presently also from Latvian – for some of Italy’s most prestigious publishing houses. She has translated, among others, works by significant authors such as Thomas Mann, Herta Müller, Max Frisch, Ingo Schulze, Uwe Timm, Pearl S. Buck, Nora Ikstena. Her translation of Zigmunds Skujiņš “Miesas krāsas domino” is scheduled to be published in 2017 by Iperborea Publishing House, Milan. She is also author of a collection of short stories, “La vita è qui / Das Leben ist hier”, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2012. After having lived for several years in Berlin and Beijing, she lives currently in Italy and Southern Germany.

Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017—and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan and works as a writer and consultant in Japan, the United States and France. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: A Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and has written two other books published by Marchialy in France. 𝗝’𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗨 𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗔̂𝗠𝗘 𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗦 (I Sold My Soul For Bitcoins) 2019


Connie Palmen (Aldegonda Petronella Huberta Maria Palmen) is a Dutch author. She was born on November 25, 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg. Palmen debuted with the novel De wetten (1990), published in the USA as The Laws (1993), translated by Richard Huijing. The Laws was shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel was De vriendschap (1995), published in the USA as The Friendship (2000), translated by Ina Rilke. Palmen had a relationship with Ischa Meijer in the years preceding his death in 1995. From 1999 on she lived with D66 politician Hans van Mierlo, and the couple married on 11 November 2009 until his death on 11 March 2010.

Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, 31 July 1933, in the Hague) is a Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P.C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Rituelen, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Constantijn Huygens Prize, and has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004). (Het volgende verhaal won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993.) In 2005 he published "De slapende goden | Sueños y otras mentiras", with lithographs by Jürgen Partenheimer.



Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught. Batuman is currently the writer-in-residence at Koç University. While in graduate school, she studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, titled, "The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel," is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. In February 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which details her experiences as a graduate student. She has also published pieces in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1. Her writing has been described as "almost helplessly epigrammatical." She resides in Twin Peaks, San Francisco.

Nato a Salerno nel 1971, esordisce nel 2000 scrivendo LaCapaGira, film recitato interamente in dialetto barese e diretto dal fratello Alessandro. La pellicola riscuote grandissimo consenso e vince il David di Donatello, il Nastro d’argento e il Ciak d’oro per la migliore opera prima. Nel 2002 scrive, sempre per la regia del fratello, il film Mio cognato, e nel 2008 firma la sceneggiatura di Galantuomini, per la regia di Edoardo Winspeare. Nel 2009 collabora con il regista austriaco Thomas Woschitz alla scrittura di Universalove, premio Max Ophüls in Germania alla migliore opera prima. Nel 2006 esordisce come narratore pubblicando da Einaudi il romanzo Apocalisse da camera. Nel 2009 inizia la carriera di giocatore di poker professionista diventando in breve uno dei nomi di maggiore spicco della scena online internazionale.
