Haiti | 2016 Makenzy Orcel, “a solitary poet”, according to his Canadian editor Rodney Saint-Eloi, was born in 1983 in Port-au-Prince. After completing his studies in linguistics, he left [...]
UK | 2016 Isabella Hammad was born in London and educated at Oxford, Harvard and NYU. In 2013 she received the Harper Wood Creative Writing Studentship from Cambridge University, and she is the [...]
UK | 2016 Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, which was shortlisted for The Dylan Thomas Prize 2015 and has been translated into seven languages. Her stories and essays have appeared in [...]
Spain | 2016 Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975), made his debut in 2001 with Katia’s Sister: finalist of the Herralde prize and later made into a film by Mijke de Jong). Then followed two [...]
UK | 2016 Polly Stenham is a playwright. Her plays include That Face at the Royal Court, for which she was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2007 and the 2008 [...]
USA | 2016 Joshua Cohen was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1980. He is the author of five works of fiction – A Heaven of Others, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin [...]
UK | 2016 Ned Beauman was born in 1985 in London. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. His [...]
Mexico | 2016 Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Mexico City, 1981) defines herself as a “visual artist who writes”. She graduated in fine arts from the ENPEG, La Esmeralda, and obtained a master’s degree [...]
Italy | 2015 Andrea Bajani (born in Rome 1975) is one of the most respected and award-winning novelists of contemporary Italian literature. After his debut in 2005 with Cordiali saluti (Cordial [...]
Syria | 2015 Nihad Sirees was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1950. After training and working as an engineer, he became an acclaimed novelist, play writer and screenwriter. His first novels were [...]
