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USA | 2012 Michael Thomas Taren is an American poet and visual artist living in France. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Poetikon, [...]

Italy/Ireland | 2012 Michael Jacobs (Genoa, Italy 1952) is a writer of Irish/Italian ancestry with particular interest in Travel, History of Art, Spain, Latin America and Gastronomy. His most [...]

Ireland | 2011 Frank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland, he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. He has [...]

Kashmir | 2011, 2012 Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the [...]

England | 2011 Alice Albinia read English Literature at Cambridge University. After graduating, she moved to Delhi, where she worked for the next two a half years as a journalist and editor. It [...]

Australia | 2011 Bonnie McDougall was born in Sydney and first studied Chinese at Peking University (1958-59). Academic appointments include teaching and research at Sydney University, followed [...]

Spain | 2011 Javier Montes (Madrid, 1976) received the José María Pereda Prize for his first novel, Los penúltimos (Pre-Textos, 2008) and has just published his second Segunda parte (Pre-Textos, [...]

Philippines | 2011, 2015 Miguel Syjuco was born and raised in Manila. His debut novel Ilustrado won the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, the Hugh MacLennan Prize, the Palanca Award; was a finalist [...]

Australia/UK | 2011 Evie Wyld has lived in South East London for most of her adult life, with frequent trips to Australia, and to her family’s sugar cane farm in New South Wales. Much of her [...]

USA | 2011, 2016 John Vaillant is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Outside, and Men’s Journal, among others. Of particular interest [...]