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 [...]
UK | 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2017 Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland and now lives in London. His poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books and the New York [...]
Afghanistan/France | 2003, 2005 Atiq Rahimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1962, and educated at the Franco-Afghan Lycée there. He joined his father in exile in India after the 1973 coup but [...]
Serbia | 2003 Natasha Radojcic-Kane was born in Belgrade. She graduated with a BA in English literature from Fordham University and earned an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia. Her first book, [...]
Israel | 2003 Dorit Rabinyan was born in Israel . Her first novel , Persian Brides(1999), has been published in ten languages and winning the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Award. Her second [...]
South Korea | 2003 Suki Kim was born and raised in South Korea and came to New York at the age of thirteen. She graduated from Barnard College and went on to study at the School of Oriental and [...]
UK | 2003, 2014 William Fiennes’s first book, The Snow Geese was published to wide acclaim in the US and UK in 2002. A blend of memoir, essay, natural history and reportage, the book has been a [...]
