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Our Authors
Alma Books is proud to be the publisher of such diverse authors as Tibor Fischer, Tom McCarthy, Robert M. Pirsig, Carmen Posadas, Yasutaka Tsutsui and William T. Vollmann.
Most of our authors are prize-winning and internationally acclaimed writers, but we also invest in new talent and publish a number of debut novelists each year, as well as quality fiction in translation and a few non-fiction titles.
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| Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport of Hungarian parents. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won a Betty Trask Award... |
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| Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Remainder, was a worlwide success and has been translated into many languages... |
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| Carmen Posadas has consistently topped the bestseller charts in Latin America, Spain, France, and Italy. Critics have hailed her fiction as the perfect blend of Agatha Christie and Pedro Almodóvar... |
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Complete Author List
Rosie Alison
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Born in 1964, Rosie Alison read English at Keble College, Oxford. She spent over ten years working in television, as a producer-director of arts documentaries (her director credits include The South Bank Show, Omnibus and Grand Designs). Currently Head of Development at Heyday Films in the UK – the production company of the Harry Potter film series – she has recently co-produced two feature films (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, just released, and the forthcoming film Is There Anybody There?).
| » View all books by Rosie AlisonAharon Appelfeld
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Aharon Appelfeld is the author
of more than forty works
of fiction and nonfiction, including
Badenheim 1939,
The Iron Tracks (winner of the
National Jewish Book Award),
and Tzili: The Story of a Life (winner
of the Prix Médicis Étranger).
Other honors he has received
include the Giovanni Bocaccio
Literary Prize, the Nelly Sachs
Prize, the Israel Prize, the Bialik
Prize, and the MLA Commonwealth
Award.
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» View all books by Aharon AppelfeldChris Barnard
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Chris Barnard was born
in Nelspruit in 1939. He
completed a BA degree in 1960
at the University of Pretoria.
He worked as a journalist for
seventeen years and as a script
writer and film producer between
1978 and 1994. Barnard
has published thirty books,
including novels, plays for
stage and radio, short stories,
film scripts and children’s
books. Currently Barnard lives
on a farm next to the Hartebeespoort
dam, cultivating
oranges and macadamia nuts.
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» View all books by Chris BarnardMichel Benoît
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Religious scholar and novelist Michel Benoît was born in Madagascar in 1940 (then a French colony). In 1962, having studied Biochemistry under Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod and obtained a PhD in Pharmacology, he entered the Benedectine order as an unordained monk, remaining there for twenty-two years. Because of his ideological non-conformity, he eventually quit the Catholic Church and decided to devote himself to research and writing.
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» View all books by Michel BenoîtPeter Benson
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Born in 1956, Peter Benson was educated in Ramsgate, Canterbury and Exeter. His first novel, The Levels, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. This was followed by A Lesser Dependency, winner of the Encore award, The Other Occupant, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award. He has also published short stories, screenplays and poetry, some adapted for TV, radio and many translated into other languages.
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» View all books by Peter BensonSteven Berkoff
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Considered one of the foremost playwrights and theatre directors of his generation, Steven Berkoff has also appeared in films such as Octopussy and A Clockwork Orange, and is the author of numerous books, ranging from short-story collections to travelogues, plays and poetry volumes.
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» View all books by Steven BerkoffDmitry Bykov
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Dmitry Bykov is the author of five novels, a biography of Pasternak, winner of the 2007 "Big Book" Prize and the National Bestseller Prize, two collections of short-stories, two volumes of essays and eight collection of poetry. He writes for various literary publications, hosts a weekly radio show and appears regularly on Russian television
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» View all books by Dmitry BykovJohn Calder
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Since 1949, John Calder has published eighteen Nobel Prize winners and around fifteen hundred books. He has put into print many of the major French and European writers, almost single-handedly introducing modern literature into the English language. His commitment to literary excellence has influenced two generations of authors, readers, booksellers and publishers. He is the author of several plays, a memoir and various non-fiction titles. Solo is his second book of poetry.
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» View all books by John CalderHoracio Castellanos Moya
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Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Honduras, but grew up in El Salvador. He became famous in 1997 with the publication of his novel El Asco (Nausea), because of which he was forced into exile. Before that he had already lived in Canada, Costa Rica, Spain and Mexico, where he worked as a journalist and writer. After spending two years in Frankfurt, he is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, USA.
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» View all books by Horacio Castellanos MoyaLindsay Clarke
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Lindsay Clarke is the author of 7 novels, including The Chymical Wedding, which won the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989. He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he became a long-term Associate of the MA Creative Writing programme, is Creative Consultant to the Pushkin Trust in Northern Ireland, and has directed conferences at Dartington, been Scholar-in-Residence at Schumacher College, and has lectured widely in England abroad and tutored many courses for the Arvon Foundation. He lives in Somerset with his wife who is a ceramic artist.
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» View all books by Lindsay ClarkeAlan Davies
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Born in Pontnewydd in South
Wales, Alan Davies read
Anthropology at University
College London. After a
career in industry, he turned
to writing and the study of the
life and works of A.J. Cronin,
one of his lifelong passions.
He has two children and lives
in Shropshire with his wife.
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» View all books by Alan DaviesLord Gawain Douglas
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Lord Gawain Douglas was born in 1948, the younger son of Francis, the 11th Marquess of Queensberry. Following his father's death in the 1950s he went with his mother Mimi to live an unusual and solitary childhood in Portmeirion, North Wales. Formal education (which Gawain studiously ignored) always took second place to that provided by the mountains, rivers and forests – the mystic Welsh country inspired his early poetic imaginings.
In 1971 Gawain married Nicolette, a fellow student at the Royal Academy of Music, where they both studied piano, and they have brought up a large family of six children together. They now live in Deal in Kent, close to the sea.
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» View all books by Lord Gawain DouglasTibor Fischer
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Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London, he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won a Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Subsequent works include The Thought Gang, The Collector Collector, Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid and Voyage to the End of the Room.
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» View all books by Tibor FischerAlessandro Gallenzi
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Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and Oneworld Classics, and the successor of John Calder at the helm of Calder Publications. As well as being a literary publisher with almost ten years of experience, he is a translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. His collection of poetry Modern Bestiary - Ars Poetastrica was published in 2005 to critical acclaim. He lives in Richmond with his wife and two children.
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» View all books by Alessandro GallenziJane Hawking
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Dr Jane Hawking, who was Stephen Hawking's wife for over twenty years, is a writer and lecturer. Her book At Home in France was published in 1994, followed by Music to Move the Stars in 1999. She lives and works in Cambridge.
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» View all books by Jane HawkingMichael Holden
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Michael Holden was born in 1970 and lives in London, where he works as a broadcaster, writer and journalist. All Ears is his first book.
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» View all books by Michael HoldenMichel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq lives
in County Cork, Ireland.
He is the bestselling author
of Atomised, Platform,
Whatever and The Possibility
of an Island. He is also a poet,
essayist and rap artist.
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» View all books by Michel HouellebecqMorag Joss
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Morag Joss began writing in
1996. She is the creator of the
three Sara Selkirk novels, the
first of which, Funeral Music,
was shortlisted for a Dilys
Award by the USA Mystery
Booksellers Association. Her
fourth novel, Half Broken
Things, won the 2003 Silver
Dagger Award and was adapted
as a film for UK television
in 2007. Her sixth novel The
Night Following was one of six
finalists from over six hundred
submissions for the Edgar
Award for Best Novel 2009.
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» View all books by Morag JossKapka Kassabova
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Kapka Kassabova was born
in Bulgaria in 1973 and learned
to speak English at the age of
sixteen, when her parents emigrated
to England and later to
New Zealand. She now lives in
Edinburgh, and is the author of
two novels, four poetry collections
and two travel guides. Her
memoir Street without a Name
was shortlisted for the European
Book Prize and the Authors’
Club Dolman Travel Prize in
2009. She is currently a Royal
Literary Fund Fellow at Strathclyde
University in Glasgow.
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» View all books by Kapka KassabovaJim Keeble
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Winner of “Travel Writer
of the Year” in 1995 for his
non-fiction title Independence
Day: A Broken Heart’s
Voyage around the USA,
Jim Keeble, wrote his first
novel My Fat Brother in 2003
followed by The A–Z of Us in
2005. Jim has also worked as a
screenwriter for Oliver Stone,
Ridley Scott, John Landis
and Kenneth Branagh. He has
written dramas for ITV and
the BBC and he is currently
writing pilot episodes for three
new TV series.
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» View all books by Jim KeebleTrilby Kent
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Trilby Kent's first children’s novel, Medina Hill, was published by Tundra Books (McClelland & Stewart/Random House) in October 2009. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. She lives in London.
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» View all books by Trilby KentMichael Kimball
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Michael Kimball lives and works in the USA. His first two novels, The Way the Family Got Away and How Much of Us There Was, have been published to great critical acclaim both in the UK and in the US, and have since been translated into many languages
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» View all books by Michael KimballJohn Kinsella
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John Kinsella is the author
of many books of poetry, fiction,
criticism and drama. He
is the editor of The Penguin
Book of Australian Poetry
(Penguin, 2009). He is a Fellow
of Churchill College,
Cambridge and a Professorial
Research Fellow at the University
of Western Australia.
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» View all books by John KinsellaGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Giuseppe Tomasi di
Lampedusa, Duke of Palma
and Prince of Lampedusa,
was born in Palermo in 1896.
Other than three articles that
appeared in an obscure Italian
journal in 1926–27, Lampedusa
was unpublished in his
own lifetime. He began The
Leopard, his only novel, in
1954, at the age of fifty-eight.
When he died aged sixty-one,
the completed manuscript of
The Leopard had received only
rejections from publishers.
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» View all books by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaAlberto Manguel
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1948,
Alberto Manguel is a Canadian
Argentine-born writer,
translator and editor. He is the
author of numerous non-fiction
books such as The Dictionary
of Imaginary Places (co-written
with Gianni Guadalupi in
1980) and A History of Reading
(1996) The Library at Night
(2007) and Homer’s Iliad and
Odyssey: A Biography (2008),
and novels such as News from a
Foreign Country Came (1991),
for which he won the McKitterick
Prize.
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» View all books by Alberto ManguelSimon May
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Dr Simon May is Fellow in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is author of Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on 'Morality' and other philosophical works, as well as one of the few contemporary aphorists to be included in Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists (Bloomsbury, 2007). Atomic Sushi, an entertaining travel account of Japan written while he was visiting Professor of Philosophy at Tokyo University, is also published by Alma Books (2006).
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» View all books by Simon MayAnthony McCarten
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Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and
was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a
Superhero, all three books being translated into many languages. McCarten
has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success
Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce
Comique, in 2001. Also a film-maker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or
novels into feature films which he directed himself.
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» View all books by Anthony McCartenTom McCarthy
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Tom McCarthy was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known for the reports, manifestos and media interventions he has made as General Secretary of the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Remainder, was a worlwide success and has been translated into many languages. His non-fiction book Tintin and the Secret of Literature is published by Granta.
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» View all books by Tom McCarthyAndrea McNicoll
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Andrea McNicoll is a fluent Thai speaker who lived and worked in Thailand for twelve years. A graduate of Glasgow University's prestigious Creative Writing MPhil programme, she works in Glasgow in the field of mental health. Moonshine in the Morning is her first book.
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» View all books by Andrea McNicollRobert Menasse
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Translated in more than twenty countries, Robert Menasse is one of the leading voices in Austrian literature, and the recipient of numerous literary awards.
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» View all books by Robert MenasseLouise Miller
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Born in England (1968) and
educated mainly in Canada,
Louise Miller has a Master’s
degree in both politics and
law. A Fine Brother is her first
book. She has been recently
involved with a documentary
on the subject of the work
of British women in Serbia
during the First World War,
which was shown in February
2011 on Serbia’s RTS 2 to an
audience of one million.
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» View all books by Louise MillerRichard C. Morais
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Born in Lisbon and raised in Switzerland, Morais is an American who has lived most of his life overseas. He started his writing career in New York in 1984, moved to London for Forbes in '86 where he lived for 17 years, eventually becoming European Bureau Chief and Senior Editor. He won three awards and was nominated six times at the London-based Business Journalist Of The Year Awards. His first book, an unauthorized biography of Pierre Cardin, was published to critical acclaim by Bantam Press in 1991. Morais's fiction was a semi-finalist in the 2004 William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. His short story, 'Confessions of an Aerophobe', was short-listed for Britain’s Ian St James Award and published in the literary magazine, Acclaim. The Hundred-foot Journey is his first novel.
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» View all books by Richard C. MoraisMaureen Myant
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Maureen Myant is an educational psychologist based in Glasgow. In 2004 she was awarded a New Writers’ Bursary by the Scottish Arts Council and she has completed an MLit in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.
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» View all books by Maureen MyantJ.G. Nichols
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J.G. Nichols was born in Liverpool and lives on the Wirral. His previous volume of poetry is The Flighty Horse. He has translated many of the greatest classics of Italian literature, including Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio's Decameron and Leopardi's Canti, and has been awarded the Florio Prize and the Monselice Prize for translation. His new collection of poetry, Now and Then, will be published by Herla in 2009.
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» View all books by J.G. NicholsIto Ogawa
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Born in 1973, Ito Ogawa is the
author of several children’s
books. The Restaurant of
Love Regained, her first novel,
is a bestseller in Japan and has
been adapted into a successful
movie. Ito runs a hugely
popular website where she
offers daily recipes of
Japanese cuisine.
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» View all books by Ito OgawaRoberto Olla
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Roberto Olla is an award-winning writer and TV journalist. He has produced a number of internationally acclaimed history documentaries, including The Last Godfathers and Emigrants. His other books include More Cherries, Please, Uncle, Combat Film and The Non-Persons: Italians in the Holocaust.
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» View all books by Roberto OllaKachi A. Ozumba
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Kachi A. Ozumba was born in Nigeria in 1972. He is a winner of the Art Council England’s Decibel Penguin Short Story Prize and of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and appeared in many journals and anthologies. He lives in Newcastle where he is pursuing a research degree in literature/creative writing while working on his next novel. |
» View all books by Kachi A. OzumbaRobert M. Pirsig
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Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Robert M. Pirsig has achieved world fame and classic status for his iconic book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. This was followed, seventeen years later, by Lila: An Inquiry into Morals, an updated version of which was published by Alma in 2006.
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» View all books by Robert M. PirsigCarmen Posadas
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Carmen Posadas has consistently topped the bestseller charts in Latin America, Spain, France, and Italy. Born in Uruguay and raised in Europe, she attended a British boarding school, where she absorbed the English masters in her field, from Daphne du Maurier to Roald Dahl. As a novelist she has developed a highly original narrative voice, a perfect blend combining an absurdist sense of the uncanny with a mastery of characterization and plotting, which she attributes to her penchant for Anglo-American authors such as Henry James. Critics have hailed her fiction as the perfect blend of Agatha Christie and Pedro Almodóvar.
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» View all books by Carmen PosadasEmili Rosales
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Emili Rosales was born in Sant Carles de la Ràpita in 1968. He works as a publisher and has been a regular contributor to the newspapers Avui and La Vanguardia. He has been described by critics as one of the most interesting voices of the new generation of Catalan writers. The Invisible City is his fourth novel and an international bestseller. |
» View all books by Emili RosalesJoydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
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Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was
born in Jamshedpur,
India, and lives in New
York. His first novel, The
Gabriel Club, was published
to great acclaim in
over fifteen countries.
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» View all books by Joydeep Roy-BhattacharyaClara Sánchez
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Born in Guadalajara, Clara
Sánchez is the author of
eight novels including Últimas
noticias del paraíso (2000)
which won the prestigious
Alfaguara Prize in 2000. She
is a newspaper columnist for
top-selling Spanish newspaper
El País and has been an occasional
contributor for national
television. Her books have
all been translated in several
languages.
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» View all books by Clara SánchezMitsugu Saotome
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Born in China, Mitsugu Saotome won the Naoki Prize for his novel Kyojin no ori (The Cage of the Traveller). From an early age he wrote historical fiction, an interest that he claims to be derived from his ancient samurai heritage. A prolific writer, his novels are immensely popular in Japan.
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» View all books by Mitsugu SaotomeMike Stocks
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Mike Stocks was born in Lancashire and educated at Birmingham University, and currently lives in Edinburgh. He writes novels, poetry and translations, and has worked both as a lexicographer and as an editor for several British publishers. He is the founder of Anon, the anonymous submissions poetry magazine. His debut novel, White Man Falling, won the Goss First Novel Award. His poetry collection Folly is published by Herla, and his translations of Roman poet Belli by Oneworld Classics.
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» View all books by Mike StocksSarah Stonich
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Sarah Stonich has been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and a Loft McKnight Fellowship, among others. Her first novel, These Granite Islands, was a critical success. It was translated into seven languages and shortlisted for France’s prestigious Grand Prix de lectrices d’Elle. In 2005 she moderated discussions at the Irish Writers’ Festival in Aspen in panels featuring Edna O’Brien, Jamie O’Neill, Colum McCann, Nuala O’Faolin and others. Irish traditions of storytelling have been most inspiring to her as a writer.
| » View all books by Sarah StonichAnna Stothard
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Anna Stothard lived in Los Angeles for two years, studying at the American Film Institute, before returning to London. She has written weekly columns in The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph, as well as articles in other newspapers. Her first novel, Isabel and Rocco, was published in 2004, and she is now working on her third book.
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» View all books by Anna StothardAlexander Terekhov
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Alexander Terekhov graduated from Moscow University’s Department of Journalism and won acclaim as a writer of short stories. His work has since been translated into French, German and English. He spent his childhood in a small industrial town in central Russia, which still preserved “the spirit of the early builders of communism”, and his resulting disillusionment underlies both the complex structure and the atmospheric milieu of The Rat Catcher.
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» View all books by Alexander TerekhovSofia Tolstoy
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Sofia Tolstoy was the wife of Leo Tolstoy for nearly fifty years. She gave birth to his thirteen children and raised his numerous grandchildren, keeping a detailed diary of her entire married life.
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» View all books by Sofia TolstoyYasutaka Tsutsui
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The winner of various awards, including the Izumi Kyoka Prize, the Kawabata Prize and the Yomiuri Literary Prize, Yasutaka Tsutsui is one of the leading Japanese novelists and short-story writers. Many of his works have been adapted into plays, animes and movies.
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» View all books by Yasutaka TsutsuiVarious Authors» View all books by Various AuthorsWilliam T. Vollmann
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William T. Vollmann is the author of seventeen books, including Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award. He has also won the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Center/USA West Award, and the Srauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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» View all books by William T. VollmannJun'ichi Watanabe
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Jun'ichi Watanabe was born in Hokkaido. After graduating, he became an orthopaedic surgeon, but in 1969 he resigned this post and moved to Tokyo to pursue a full-time career as a writer. The recipient of prestigious literary awards such as the Naoki Prize and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize, Watanabe has written numerous scientific texts as well as biographical books and works of fiction, many of which have been made into films. |
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