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Goran Petrovic was born in 1961, in Kraljevo, Serbia. He now lives in Belgrade and works as an editor. He is unquestionably one of Serbia's most prominent contemporary writers and has won all the main literary prizes in Serbia. His books are widely read and some of them had first print runs of sixty thousand and even a hundred thousand copies. Part of Petrovic's work has already been translated into Russian, Italian, Spanish and French.
- - Sixty-nine Drawers | Sitniãrnica "Kod sreçne ruke"
- - The Siege of the Saint-Sauveur Church | Opsada crkve svetog spasa
- - Atlas described from the sky | Atlas opisan nebom
Antonio Ungar is a journalist and a writer. He was born in 1974 in Bogotá and now lives in Palestine where he writes and works as a corespondent for Latin-American magazines and newspapers. In 2007, he appeared on the Bogotá 39 list of Latin-Americas 39 most important writers under 39 years of age.
- - The Wolf's Ears | Las orejas del lobo
Heloneida Studart was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1932. Imprisoned for several months in 1969 for her literary, journalistic, and union activities, Heloneida Studart was for a number of years on the black list of the military then in power. Following the assassinations of some very close friends, she wrote O pardal é un passaro azul, when Brazil was going through a new process of democratization. Heloneida Studart has also been a deputy for the PT (Workers' Party) of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1978 to 2007. She passed away in december 2007.
Sylvain Trudel is an implacable novelist who sees literature not as distraction but rather as the art of probing our consciousness. His first novel, The Breath of the Harmattan, published in 1986 and rewritten in 2001, won over the critics who recognized in him a kinship with Réjean Ducharme. Sylvain Trudel won the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award in 2007 for his short stories collection, La mer de la Tranquillité.
Born in Poznan, Poland, in 1930, Odojewski has acquired a reputation as an author, radio scriptwriter, and journalist. As well, he has received a number of literary prizes. His literary career began in 1951, when an excerpt from his book Wyspa ocalenia was read on Polish state radio. Dismissed for political reasons from his position as director in the Contemporary Theatre Studio of Polish radio, he left his native country in 1971 when he received a scholarship to study at the Berlin Academy of Literature. He has lived in the German capital ever since. He has also worked in the cultural affairs department of Radio Free Europe.
Writer, essayist, and professor of mathematics at the University of New Brunswick, Vladimir Tasic was born in Yugoslavia in 1969. In 2004, he won two of Serbia's most prestigious literary prizes with Rain and Paper, the Vital Prize and above all, the Nin Prize for the best novel of the year. This literary award is the most famous in Serbia : it has existed over 50 years and the previous winners were Kis, Crnjanski, Ivó Andric, Pekic, Pavic, Arsenijevic, David Albahari, Goran Petroviç.
Maximilien Durand was born in 1976. He holds a DEA (Advanced Studies Degree) from the Department of History and Philology Sciences of the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris where he wrote his thesis on Coptic Language in Haliographical Literature. He also holds degrees in first and second cycles of study from the École de Louvre where he presently teaches The History of Paleochristian Art, Byzantine Art and Christian Iconography.
Svetislav Basara was born in Serbia in 1953. One of the most brilliant - and most controversial - writers of his generation, his iconoclastic production includes books that are small masterpieces of the absurd. He excels as well in the pastiche with emphasis on versions marked by a sense of anarchy and burlesque. He has published a number of novels, short story collections and works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into English, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, and French.
Vladan Matijevic was born in 1962, in Cacak, Serbia. He is the author of two collections of poems, a collection of short stories and four novels and he has won important literary prizes in his country.
Born in French Flanders, David Descamps now lives in Marseille. He studied German language and literature at university and has published various pieces in literary periodicals. His attraction to cinema has led him in recent years to involvement in projects in which literature and cinema merge. A "physical" actor in a 2006 medium-length film, Dolly ou Les oies sauvages, he continues to explore several areas of creation, seeking in his writing as well a certain kind of energy. L'Apéritif des faibles is his first novel.
- - The Weaks' Drink | L'apératif des faibles
Gabriella Baracchi was born in 1940 in Como, in Italia. She is a teacher and Il vestito di sacco is her only novel.
Jean-Franois Beauchemin has worked for Radio-Canada as editor, designer, and director. His novel was short-listed for the following literary prizes: Quebec Booksellers 2005, Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie, prix France-Québec. Beauchemin's novel will be made into an animation film by the French production society Finalement.
Elena Botchorichvili was born in Georgia where she became a journalist. She has been living in Quebec since 1992. Her first novel The Butterfly Drawer (Le tiroir de papillon) was published in 1999.
- - Opera
Born in Greece, Pan Bouyoucas moved to Quebec in 1963 where he works as a translator, playwriter, and film critic. L'autre, published by Les Allusifs in 2001, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. He won the literary prize Collégiens du Québec 2005 with Anna Pourquoi.
Born in Mexico, Vilma Fuentes lives in Paris and works as a journalist. She is also a literary consultant, a book critic and a magazine director. King Lopitos is her fourth novel translated in French after La Castañeda (La Différence), Gloria (La Différence), L'autobus de Mexico (Actes Sud)).
Dominique Kopp is a speech therapist and author of two books for young readers : Le kimono blanc (éditions Gautier-Languereau,2004) and Demain, il fera beau (éditions Gautier-Languereau, 2005), with another to appear in 2006. The Order of Things is her first novel and she lives in France, near Paris.
- - The Order of Things
Born in France, André Marois lives in Quebec. Shove It Up Your Head is his second novel for adults. He has also published books for children and a collection of short stories. His other books are published by Albin Michel, Les 400 coups, Boréal and Trait d'union.
Born in Poland and living in Canada since 1968, Tecia Werbowski is the author of a number of novellas including Le mur entre nous (The Wall Between Us), published in 1995 by Actes Sud and unanimously hailed by critics.
- - Anonymous Love
- - Ich Bin Prager
