Camille de Peretti was born in Paris in 1980. Passionate about painting and literature, she has been writing since 2005 and is the author of eight novels.
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Intan Paramaditha is an award-winning Indonesian novelist, short story writer, and scholar. She holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU and is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University. Her works explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, politics, and myth, and have been translated internationally. Her novel The Wandering received the […]
Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City to a Palestinian-Lebanese father and an Iraqi-German mother, and educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as an aid worker with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and has advised on humanitarian and peacebuilding issues throughout West Asia and North Africa. He […]
One of Italy’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists, Nicola Lagioia has been the recipient of the Volponi, Straniero and Viareggio awards. In 2015, he won the Strega Prize for Ferocity (Europa, 2017). He has been a jury member of the Venice Film Festival and was the programme director of the Turin Book Fair from 2018 […]
Taiwanese author Kevin Chen started his career as a cinema and theater actor. Now based in Germany, he has published several novels, essays, and short story collections in Taiwan. He is the winner of several literature awards in Taiwan. His first English publication Ghost Town, translated by Darryl Sterk, was reviewed by the New York […]
Liam McIlvanney is the winner of the Saltire First Book Award and the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. He is a regular contributor to publications including the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where […]
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Brotherhood, his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma and the French Voices Grand Prize, in Alexia Trigo’s translation. He was named Chevalier of […]
Ann Goldstein is a celebrated translator of Italian and long-time chief of the copy department at The New Yorker. She has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante’s books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a […]
Maki Kashimada’s accolades include the 1998 Bungei Prize for her debut novel, Two, the Mishima Yukio Prize for Love at 6,000 Degrees Celsius, and the Akutagawa Prize for Touring the Land of the Dead, published in English by Europa Editions in 2021.
Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian and she was a recent Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives. She works and teaches in Sydney in media and global studies. Friends and Dark Shapes is her first novel.
