Per Petterson

Per Petterson

male, 57 years old
InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward, norwegian, To Siberia, In the Wake, I kjølvannet, Scandinavian Star
Per Petterson, is a prize-winning Norwegian novelist. Petterson's debut was "Aske i munnen, sand i skoa" (1987), a collection of short stories. He...
Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

male, 58 years old
All Aunt Hagar's Child, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction…Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, PEN/Hemingway Award
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and...
Lars Saabye Christensen

Lars Saabye Christensen

male, 56 years old
norwegian, The Halfbrother, Maskeblomstfamilien, The Nordic Council's Literature Prize, Modellen, novelist…InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward
Lars Saabye Christensen. His debut was in 1976 with the poem collection Historien om Gly. Among other notable books by this author, is Herman,...
Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra

male, 54 years old
Prix des libraires, L'Attentat, seclusion, Algerian army, Military of Algeria, The Swallows of Kabul…InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward
Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul (born January 10, 1955). Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army,...
David Malouf

David Malouf

male, 75 years old
World War II, poet, expatriate, From Brisbane, Brisbane Grammar School, Commonwealth Writers' Prize…Neustadt International Prize for Literature, InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward
David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) in Brisbane is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. His...
Dennis Bock

Dennis Bock

male, 45 years old
novelist, The Communist's Daughter, Books in Canada First Novel Award, InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward, University of Western Ontario, English
Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964, Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Bock studied English and philosophy at the...
Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman

male, 55 years old
trinity college, novelist, Guatemalan, Jewish-American, InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward, short list…PEN/Faulkner Award
Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His...
Frank Wynne

Frank Wynne

male, 47 years old
Deadline magazine, graphic novel, graphic novels, InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward, Tank Girl, Ivoirian…trinity college dublin
Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator and writer. Frank Wynne studied at Sligo Grammar School and Trinity College Dublin but moved to France...
Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa

female
spanish, Portuguese Translation Prize, The Migrant Painter of Birds, Weidenfeld Translation Prize, The Book of Disquiet, Oxford Weidenfeld…InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward
Margaret Jull Costa is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish fiction and poetry, including the works of Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Javier M...
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton

male, 46 years old
Commonwealth Writers Prize, The Logogryph, Writers Guild of Alberta, Salamander, Governor General's Award, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize…InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward
Thomas Wharton, PhD, (born 25 February 1963) is a Canadian novelist. Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Wharton attended the University of Alberta...