Leila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including The Kindness of Enemies, The Translator, Minaret and Lyrics Alley, which was Fiction Winner of the Scottish Book Awards. Her work […]
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Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she […]
Deon Meyer is the internationally acclaimed, prizewinning author of thirteen thrillers, including The Last Hunt, The Woman in the Blue Cloak, Fever, Icarus, Cobra, Seven Days and the Barry Award-winning Thirteen Hours. His books have been published in twenty-seven languages. He lives in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Lauren Francis-Sharma is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel ’Til the Well Runs Dry, a Black Caucus of the American Library Association honoree and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. She resides near Washington, DC, with her husband and two children and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury […]
Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, essayist and novelist, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and winner of the prestigious Forward poetry prize for his collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature and in 2018 he […]
Francisco Goldman is an award-winning author of five novels and two non-fiction books. His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, the Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Long Night of White Chickens was awarded the American Academy’s Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. The Art of Political Murder won The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel […]
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Angel of History, An Unnecessary Woman, The Hakawati, Koolaids and I, the Divine, as well as the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize. An Unnecessary Woman was a National Book Award and National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist. He divides his time between […]
Val McDermid’s best-selling novels have won the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award, and the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger and Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She is also a multiple finalist for the Edgar Award, including for the Fact Crime nominee Forensics. Val McDermid’s Festival appearance is generously supported by Scottish Books International.
Samantha Harvey is the author of three novels; Dear Thief, All Is Song and The Wilderness, which won the Betty Trask Prize. Her books have been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Guardian First Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize, as well as longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the […]
John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Cities, Tales of Two Americas and Maps, his debut collection of poems. He is executive editor at the Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in […]
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times-bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was the winner of two British Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, […]
Mark Bowden is the author of 13 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down. He reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 20 years and now writes for the Atlantic and other magazines.
