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Jonathan Escoffery is the author of If I Survive You (MCD/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a New York Times and Booklist Editor’s Choice, an IndieNext Pick, and an International Bestseller. If I Survive You was nominated for more than a dozen prizes and awards internationally, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, the […]
Ana Bárbara Pedrosa is the author of three novels Lisboa, Chão Sagrado (2019, finalist for the Fundação Eça de Queiroz literary prize), Palavra do Senhor (2021) and Amor estragado (2023). She also wrote a non-fiction book called Viagens com o Mehdi (2024), which is travel literature. Besides, Pedrosa has written for plenty newspapers and magazines in Portugal. She has advanced degrees in Human […]
Ana Cláudia Santos’s first collection of stories, A Morsa – Contos de Inocência e de Violência, was released in 2022. She has translated authors such as Carlo Collodi, Giacomo Leopardi, Italo Svevo, Sergio Solmi, Carlo Levi and Fleur Jaeggy. She has a PhD in Theory of Literature from the University of Lisbon and dedicates herself to the study […]
Kalaf Epalanga (1978) is a writer and musician born in Benguela, Angola, and based in Berlin. As a musician, he co-founded the record label Enchufada and is a member of Buraka Som Sistema (on hiatus since 2016). He has written columns for the Portuguese newspaper Público, GQ Magazine (Portugal), the independent Angolan online magazine REDE […]
João Pedro Vala is a novelist, literary critic, translator and proofreader. He regularly collaborates with LER, Observador and Bam Bam Cinema. He published two novels: Grande Turismo (2022 – Finalist for the Eça de Queiroz Foundation Literary Prize) and Campo Pequeno (2024, Winner of the first edition of Prémio Wook Novos Autores), as well as […]
Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The […]
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s first novel, House of Stone (W. W. Norton 2019), won the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and was listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. Tshuma has lectured on House of Stone at […]
Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories (2023, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/4th Estate), a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction, and A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy […]
A poet and multimedia artist, Diana Khoi Nguyen is the author of Root Fractures (2024) and Ghost Of (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her video work has been exhibited at the Miller ICA. Nguyen is a Kundiman and MacDowell fellow and member of the Vietnamese artist collective, She Who Has […]
Mia Couto, born in Beira/Mozambique in 1955, is among the most prominent writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa. After studying medicine and biology in Maputo, he worked as a journalist. Besides writing, he is now a biologist and teaches at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. In 2013, Mia Couto was awarded the Camões Prize for Literature 2013 and the prestigious Neustadt International […]