Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bella鈥�
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France鈥檚 most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won鈥�
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph鈥�
Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other鈥�
Gy枚rgy Dragom谩n is a Hungarian author and literary translator. His best-known work, The White King (2005) has been translated to at least 28 langugages. He was born in T芒rgu Mure艧 (Marosv谩s谩rhely) Tran鈥�
JUSTIN TORRES grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is a recipien鈥�
脡douard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. 脡douard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lyc茅e Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr鈥�
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Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with t鈥�
Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women鈥檚 magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Osamu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work鈥�
