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Chile | 2004 Carlos Franz was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile. In 1997, he founded the National Library Literary Workshop in Santiago. In 2001, he was named Visiting Fellow of the Centre of Latin [...]

UK | 2004 Ben Faccini grew up in rural France, was educated in England, and has lived in Paris, London and Italy. His books include The Water-Breather and The Incomplete Husband. He currently [...]

Hungary | 2004 Peter Esterhazy was born in Budapest in 1950. He is considered to be the most significant Hungarian writer today. He is the author of numerous essays, dramas, short stories, and [...]

Germany | 2004 Marcus Braun was born in 1971 in Bullay/Mosel. He has published the novels Delhi (1999) and Nadiana (2000) as well as several plays. His most recent novel is Wedding Preparations. [...]

Netherlands | 2004 Hans Maarten Van den Brink was born in 1956 in Holland. He worked as an editor and reporter, as well as the special envoy to China during the Tiananmen Square crisis. He has [...]

UK | 2003 Tim Pears was born in 1956. He is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. His first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the [...]

Canada | 2003, 2007 David Young is the author of the plays Glenn, Inexpressible Island,Clout, Love is Strange and Fire which have been widely produced in Canada, the United States and Europe. He [...]

UK | 2003 Rupert Thomson was born in England in 1955. His novels, which have been shortlisted for awards including the Writer’s Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize and have been [...]

Russia/USA | 2003 Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972. His novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Prize for First Fiction, was a New York Times Notable Book and [...]

Pakistan | 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015, 2016 Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1973, and is the author of six novels, including Burnt Shadows, which has been translated into more than [...]