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Argentina | 2013 Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) is an author, journalist, script writer and cinema critic. He won the prestigious Premio Herralde with his novel El Pasado, translated into more [...]

UK | 2013 Jean Sprackland was born and brought up in Burton-on-Trent in 1964. She studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a few years before [...]

Spain | 2013, 2019 Mercedes Cebrián (Madrid, 1971) is an author and translator. Her last book is La nueva taxidermia (Mondadori, 2011). She writes fiction, journalistic essays and poetry. She has [...]

Macedonia | 2013 Goce Smilevski was born in 1975 in Skopje, Macedonia. He was educated at Charles University in Prague, Central European University in Budapest, and Ss. Cyril and Methodius [...]

USA | 2013, 2015 Patrick Flanery is an American writer based in London. His first novel, Absolution(2012), won the Spear’s Best First Book Award, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC [...]

France | 2012 Sylvain Tesson (born in Paris in 1972) is a geographer, journalist and writer. Member of the Société des Explorateurs Français, he divides his time between long expeditions, writing [...]

Mexico | 2012 Majo Ramírez was born in Mexico in 1982. She is a young writer and an illustrator of several publications. In 2011 she won the Aura Estrada Prize, awarded biannually to a female [...]

USA/Nigeria | 2012 Teju Cole (born in the United States in 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer and art historian. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, he is the author [...]

Argentina | 2012 Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1939. He is an Argentine writer and filmmaker. A late starter, the first book he acknowledges today as is own is Vudú urbano(Urban [...]

Haiti/Canada | 2012 Dany Laferrière (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, in 13 April 1953) is a francophone Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, and raised in [...]