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Pakistan | 2006 Uzma Aslam Khan was born in 1969 in Lahore and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Her first novel The Story of Noble Rot, was published in 2001. Her second novel Trespassing (2003) was [...]

UK | 2006 Tobias Hill was born in London in 1970. He has published three collections of poetry: Year of the Dog (1995), Midnight in the City of Clocks (1996), influenced by his experiences of [...]

Spain | 2006 Marcos Giralt Torrente is the author of five books: Entiéndame, París,Nada sucede solo, Los seres felices and Seis cuentos. In 1999 he was awarded the Herralde Novel Prize for París [...]

UK | 2006 Susan Elderkin was born in Sussex, England in 1968. She studied at Cambridge and at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains (2001) won a Betty [...]

Canada | 2006 Anita Rau Badami’s first novel Tamarind Woman was published in the United States and England in 2002. She was the youngest recipient ever of the Marian Engel Award. She won the [...]

Malaysia/UK | 2006 Tash Aw grew up in Malaysia and moved to England at the age of 18 to attend university. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and [...]

Vietnam | 2006 Monique Truong was born in Saigon in 1968 and moved to the United States at age six. She graduated from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law, going on to [...]

France | 2005 Pierre Péju comes from a family of booksellers in Lyon. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He took an active part during the 1968 demonstrations. Since 1971, he has contributed [...]

USA | 2005 Daniel Mason was born in California in 1976. He received his Bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard in 1998 and his medical degree from University of California, San Francisco. He [...]

Germay | 2005 Judith Hermann was born in 1970 in Berlin, where she lives and works as a writer. Her first book, Sommerhaus, später [Summerhouse, later] was an international bestseller and [...]