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Denmark | 2002 Jens Christian Grøndahl is one of Denmark’s leading writers and the author of Silence in Octoberand Indian Summer. Lucca, his tenth novel, will be published internationally in [...]

India | 2002 Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta is one of the most widely known Indian authors writing in English today. His books include In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta [...]

Ireland | 2002 Since the publication of his first book in 1967, Paul Durcan has made satirical, celebratory and extraordinarily moving poetry out of his country’s fortunes and misfortunes. His [...]

USA/Italy | 2002 Gabriella de Ferrari is a writer and art historian. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Cloud on Sand, and most recently,Gringa Latina: A Woman of Two Worlds, a [...]

Canada | 2002 Dennis Bock born in 1964 on the north shore of Lake Ontario and brought up in Oakville, just west of Toronto. He attended the University of Western Ontario, and took one year off [...]

UK | 2002 Diran Adebayo was born in London in 1968 to Nigerian parents. His first novel, Some Kind of Black, won him the 1995 Saga Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel [...]

USA | 2001 Vendela Vida’s first novel, Girls on the Verge, received great acclaim when published in 1999. Her articles have appeared in Vogue, Jane, and The Chicago Sun Times, as well as on [...]

UK | 2001 Colin Thubron has been called “one of the two or three best living travel writers, in some ways probably the best”(Jan Morris, The Independent), and his work is widely translated. His [...]

UK | 2001, 2004 Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975. Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth, a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, won numerous awards, including the [...]

Cuba | 2001 Jose Manuel Prieto is a Cuban-born historian, essayist, and novelist who lived in the Soviet Union for 12 years. He is the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire   [...]