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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 [...]

USA | 2008 Philip Boehm is the author of numerous translations from Polish and German, including works by Franz Kafka, Ida Fink, and Christoph Hein. Based in St. Louis, he is also a playwright [...]

UK | 2008 Tim Dee has been a BBC radio producer for twenty years and a birdwatcher for twice that time. He was born in Liverpool in 1961 and divides his time between Bristol and Cambridge. In [...]

South Africa/UK | 2008 Barbara Trapido was born in Cape Town and has lived in England since 1964. She is the author of six novels – Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread Prize), [...]

Colombia | 2008 Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared [...]

Iran/USA | 2008 Dalia Sofer was born in Iran and fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been a resident at Yaddo. A [...]

Portugal | 2008 José Luis Peixoto was born in 1974 in the small Portuguese village of Alentejo. He teaches languages and contemporary literature and is also a journalist and literary critic. He [...]

India | 2007 Tishani Doshi is a writer and dancer based in Madras. Her first book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the 2006 Forward prize for best first collection. She was also winner of the [...]

India | 2007 Tanuja Chandra is an Indian film director and writer. Her films include Hope and a Little Sugar and Zindagi Rocks.         Report 2007 I have just spent a very [...]