USA | 2009, 2011, 2016 Stefan Merrill Block was born in 1982 and grew up in Plano, Texas. His first novel,The Story of Forgetting, was released in 2008. The Story of Forgetting won Best First [...]
Sweden | 2009 Born in 1945, Swedish writer and journalist Richard Swartz has lived in Vienna since 1976. Report 2009 From the very first day Santa Maddalena [...]
Vietnam | 2009, 2010 Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Australia. He has received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Book of the [...]
USA | 2009 Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of three novels. Her first novel, Tea (Algonquin, 2000), was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year (Houghton [...]
UK | 2009, 2015 Adam Foulds was born in 1974 and lives in south London. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia and his poetry has appeared in a number of [...]
UK | 2009 Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, Canada and brought up around Llangoed, Ynys Mon (Wales). He completed a PhD thesis on Pacific and American literature from King’s College, [...]
Spain | 2009 Jordi Puntí was born in 1967 and lives in Barcelona (Spain). He worked for several years as a cultural supplement sub-editor for El País newspaper and now is a regular contributor to [...]
Canada | 2009 Sheila Heti was born in Toronto. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, and philosophy and art history at the University of Toronto. She is the author [...]
UK | 2008, 2014, 2019 Edward Docx was born in the north of England. He grew up in Manchester and London. After school, he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and [...]