Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am鈥�
Julio Llamazares was born in Vegami谩n, a small village in the region of Le贸n. At the age of twelve he left the mountain area, attended a boarding school in Madrid and then studied law. Today Llamazare鈥�
Am茅lie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japa鈥�
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A鈥�
Nora Ikstena is a prose writer and essayist. Ikstena is one of the most visible and influential prose writers in Latvia, known for elaborat style and detailed approach to language. After obtaining a d鈥�
Adania Shibli (毓丿賳賷丞 卮亘賱賷) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul鈥�
- Syrian writer - born in Jableh city, 1970 - published her first stories collection in 1999 - wrote many scripts for movies and TV series while working in the Syrian state TV, and she produced and prese鈥�
Milena Michiko Fla拧ar (St. P枚lten, 1980) studied comparative literature, Germanic and Roman languages at the University of Vienna, and taught German to non-native speakers. After several successful pu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�
