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UK | 2003 Orlando Figes is the author of Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia. His book, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, won the Wolfson history prize, the W.H. [...]

Ireland | 2003, 2005 John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the former literary editor of the Irish Times and the author of twelve novels, including Kepler (Guardian Prize for [...]

UK | 2003 Carole Angier is the prize-winning biographer of the Caribbean novelist Jean Rhys and of the Italian writer Primo Levi. Her innovative biography of Levi, The Double Bond, won critical [...]

USA | 2002, 2012 Terry Tempest Williams author, naturalist, and environmental activist, has been called “one of the world’s most poetic and daring nature writers.” Her books include Refuge, An [...]

Slovenia | 2002 Brina Svit was born in Slovenia in 1950, and divides her time between Paris and Slovenia. She works as a journalist, screenwriter and director, and has written three novels. Con [...]

Slovenia | 2002, 2012 Tomaž Šalamun was born in 1941 in Croatia and raised in Slovenia. He is widely considered to be one of the leading poets of Central Europe, and has published twenty-six [...]

UK | 2002 Anna Pavord is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller,The Tulip. She is the gardening correspondent for the Independent, a contributor to the Observer and an associate [...]

USA | 2002 Lawrence Krauser is a playwright, illustrator and novelist. His debut novel,Lemon, was published by McSweeney’s Press. He is currently writing, directing and scoring the feature film [...]

UK | 2002 Matthew Kneale’s fifth novel, English Passengers was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received the 2000 Whitbread Writer’s Award. He lives in London.         [...]

USA | 2002 Verlyn Klinkenborg lives in Massachusetts and Montana. He is the author of Making Hay, and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Esquire, and [...]