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Ireland | 2007 His stories were collected as Dublin Where the Palm Trees Grow (Faber & Faber, 1996). His later novels are Headbanger (London, Secker & Warburg, 1996); and Sad Bastard [...]

Nigeria/USA | 2007 Uzodinma Iweala was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon Mays Scholar and recieved a number of   prizes for his [...]

Brazil | 2007 Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, playwright and journalist, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. His books are translated into more than ten languages and published in many [...]

USA | 2007 Askold Melnyczuk is a poet and a novelist, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Gettysburg Review, The Los Anegles Times, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, and The [...]

UK | 2006 Glyn Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire in 1962. Many of his plays have been staged in London and New York, and his poetry has won several awards, including the E.M. Forester Prize from [...]

Ireland | 2006 Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1952. His poetry collections include A Dream of Maps (1981), A Round House (1983), Blue Shoes (1989), Cacti (1992), The Bridal [...]

France | 2006 Philippe Besson was born in 1967 in Paris where he has lived and worked for most of his life. He is the author of several novels among which En absence des hommes , Son frère, [...]

Ireland | 2006 Philip Ó Ceallaigh was born in 1968 in Ireland. He has lived and worked in Spain, Russia, the United States, Romania, Kosovo, Georgia and Egypt, at a variety of jobs, from labourer [...]

Ukraine/UK | 2006 Born in 1946 in a displaced persons camp in Germany, Marina Lewycka came to England with her parents and sister when she was a year old. She graduated from Keele University in [...]

USA | 2006 Benjamin Kunkel was born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado in 1972. He is a graduate of Deep Springs College and Harvard University, where he studied English literature. His literary [...]