Lina Meruane An award-winning Chilean writer and scholar teaching at New York University. Since 1998, she has authored a short-story collection, a play and five novels. Sangre en el ojo, was awarded the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico 2012), as well as the Premio Valle Inclan Prize (UK 2019) for Megan MacDowell´s translation into English as…
Alexandra Berková She was born on July 2, 1949 in Trenčín . Her father was the conductor of the symphony orchestra Bohumil Berka and her mother was a journalist. From the age of nine until her university studies, she lived in Teplice . She graduated from SUPŠ sklářské in Kamenický Šenov and in 1968–1973 she studied Czech and art education…
Nizar Aghri A Syrian-Kurdish writer and translator, born in Turkey in 1961. He translates from several languages. He published three novels: “The Mullah Papers of Saffron” 2005, “Salem Street” 2017, and “The Search for Azar” 2021. He translated a number of novels by Italian writer Ari de Luca. Lives and works in Oslo. His Novel "In Search For Azar" reached…
Yasser Abdel Latif An award winning writer and poet from Cairo, Egypt. He has lived and worked in Edmonton since 2010. He has published four fiction books, two poetry collections, and translated many literary works from French and English into Arabic. He writes mainly in Arabic although his works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. He…
Adel Esmat a novelist who was born in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt in 1959. Esmat published his first novel Obsession of Death in 1995; and now he has published nine novels including Stable Life, The Naked Man, People and Places, and The Crow's Sound.[1] In 2011, Esmat received the 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature by an award ceremony held at…
