Héctor Abad
Héctor Abad was born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1958, where he studied medicine...
Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah (Iran) is also the author of three other Dutch novels released in English...
Rodaan Al Galidi
Rodaan Al Galidi is a poet and writer. Born in Iraq and trained as a civil engineer...
Johannes Anyuru
Johannes Anyuru (Sweden, 1979), the son of a Ugandan father and a Swedish mother...
Gary Barker
Gary Barker is an author, researcher, and human rights activist. He is founder and...
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder is a journalist and critic, and is responsible for the literary...
Linda Boström Knausgård
Linda Boström Knausgård (Sweden) is an author and poet, as well as a producer of...
Maryse Condé
MARYSE CONDÉ was born in Guadeloupe in 1937 as the youngest of eight siblings ...
Saskia de Coster
Saskia de Coster (Belgium) is an author as well as a visual artist, playwright, and...
Mia Couto
Mia Couto, born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955, is one of the most prominent...
Bram Dehouck
Bram Dehouck (Belgium) was the first author ever to win both the Golden Noose and the...
Adeline Dieudonné
Adeline Dieudonné was born in 1982 and lives in Brussels. A playwright and short-story...
Renate Dorrestein
Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018) is an internationally bestselling author who occupies a...
Esther Gerritsen
Esther Gerritsen (the Netherlands) is an established novelist and playwright...
Anne-Gine Goemans
Anne-Gine Goemans (1971) is a Dutch journalist and novelist. Goemans debuted in 2008...
Benoîte Groult
Benoîte Groult was born in Paris in 1920. She studied classical philology and then...
Kristien Hemmerechts
Kristien Hemmerechts’ extensive output includes more than twenty novels, and numerous...
Petra Hůlová
Petra Hůlová’s provocative novels, plays, and screenplays have won numerous awards, in
Anna Janko
Anna Janko is one of the best-known contemporary Polish writers. A poet and literary...
Pierre Jarawan
Pierre Jarawan was born in 1985 to a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to...
Gaëlle Josse
Gaëlle Josse holds degrees in law, journalism, and clinical psychology. Formerly a poet .
Nuria Labari
Nuria Labari was born in Santander and has degrees in Political Science ...
Tom Lanoye
Tom Lanoye is an award-winning, highly acclaimed Belgian novelist, poet, and playwright...
Julia von Lucadou
Julia von Lucadou was born in Heidelberg in 1982. She studied film and theater at ...
Paolo Maurensig
Paolo Maurensig was born in Gorizo, and lives in Udine, Italy. Now a bestselling author...
Marente de Moor
Marente de Moor worked as a correspondent in Saint Petersburg for a number of years...
Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is one of the most exciting contemporary female black voices in lit…
Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser is among Sweden’s most renowned authors. He made his name with...
Carl Nixon
Carl Nixon was born in Christchurch in 1967 and is one of New Zealand’s leading authors
Samar Yazbek
Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer, novelist, and journalist. She was born in Jableh ...
Christine Otten
Christine Otten (Netherlands), writer, performer and theater maker, is driven by a...
Stine Pilgaard
Stine Pilgaard is a graduate of the Danish Writers’ Academy and the University of Copenh
Pilar Quintana
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian author. She debuted with Cosquillas en la lengua ...
Jaap Robben
The multitalented Jaap Robben is a Dutch poet, novelist, playwright and performer…
Tatiana de Rosnay
Tatiana de Rosnay, of English, French, and Russian descent, was born in 1961 ...
Marijke Schermer
Marijke Schermer is a novelist and playwright. Her stage work has been performed by severa
Carol Shields
Carol Shields (1935–2003) was an award-winning American-born Canadian author...
Charles den Tex
Charles den Tex is the Netherlands’ leading thriller writer. His work has been...
Emanuele Trevi
Emanuele Trevi is an Italian writer and critic whose essay on the poet Pietro Tripodo...
Jan Vantoortelboom
Jan Vantoortelboom teaches English at The University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen…
Annelies Verbeke
Annelies Verbeke is a writer of novels, short stories and plays. She made her literary...
Bert Wagendorp
Bert Wagendorp has covered many cycling events for newspaper De Volkskrant, and...
Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh studied law in Passau and Leipzig, and holds a doctorate in international law ...
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