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…
Petra Hůlová Prose writer, the recipient of several literary awards including the Magnesia Litera, the Josef Škvorecký Award and the Jiří Orten Award. Her books have been published in many languages including English, German, Hungarian, Polish and Italian. She was born in Prague on 12 July 1979. Translated By: Khaled Al Beltagy Professor of Language and…
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…
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…
Julia Alvarez Translated By: Nermin Nizar The novel's major themes include acculturation and coming of age. It deals with the myriad hardships of immigration, painting a vivid picture of the struggle to assimilate, the sense of displacement, and the confusion of identity suffered by the García family, as they are uprooted from familiarity and forced to begin a new life in New York…
