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USA/Turkey | 2015 Elif Batuman was born in New York during the disco age. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. Surprisingly, her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with [...]

Poland | 2014 Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most popular contemporary writers in Poland. She has twice won the NIKE Reader’s Prize. Her work has been translated into French, German, Czech, Danish, [...]

USA | 2014 Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Translated into more [...]

UK/Palestine | 2014 Selma Dabbagh is a British Palestinian writer of fiction. Her short stories have been published by Granta, International PEN, Wasafiri and Telegram. Her first novel, Out of [...]

Cuba | 2014, 2015, 2016 Born in Havana in 1965, José Aníbal Campos studied Germanic Philology at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Havana, where he later became Professor of [...]

Sweden | 2014 Swedish author Ulf Peter Hallberg has lived in Berlin since 1983. Hallberg’s highly acclaimed essay-novel The Flâneur’s Gaze(1993) describes Eastern and Western Europe after the [...]

USA/Mexico | 2014   Jennifer Clement is the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat (on the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat) and the novels: A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates [...]

USA | 2004, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 Michael Cunningham received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, for his novel The Hours, which was filmed in 2002, directed by [...]

Switzerland | 2013 Peter Stamm (Münsterlingen, 1963) is a Swiss writer. After living for a time in New York, Paris, and Scandinavia he settled down in 1990 as a writer and freelance journalist in [...]

France | 2013 Alba Arikha was born and raised in Paris. She is the author of four books: Muse and Walking on Ice, published by Macmillan under the name Alba Branca, and a [...]