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Ana Margarida de Carvalho was born in Lisbon, where she graduated in law and worked as a journalist for 25 years. Her first novel Que Importa a Fúria do Mar (Teorema) was praised by critics, shortlisted for a number of prizes and awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE/DGLAB in 2013. Her second novel, Não Se […]
Ondjaki is an Angolan author of numerous novels, poetry books and children’s books. His work has been translated into several languages and awarded literary prizes, including the prestigious Prix Littérature-Monde 2016, the Jabuti Prize and the Saramago Prize (2013) for Os Transparentes (Transparent City).
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro was born in Angola in 1979 and moved to Portugal when she was two years old. She writes poetry and fiction. Her first novel, Essa dama bate bué!/ Loose Ties (Guerra e Paz Editores, 2018), is an electrifying and colourful story, with shadows of an uncertain and shifting past. Is both a […]
Germano Almeida, the author of eighteen books and the founder of the publishing house Ilhéu Editora, was born in Cape Verde and practices law on the island of São Vicente. In 2018, he received the Prémio Camões, the most important prize for Portuguese-language writers. Almeida’s 1989 debut novel The Last Will & Testament of Senhor […]
Steven Gillis is the author of six novels and two short story collections. A founding member of the Ann Arbor Book Festival Board of Directors, and a finalist for the 2007 Ann Arbor News Citizen of the Year, Steve taught writing at Eastern Michigan University. In 2004 Steve founded 826Michigan, a mentoring program for students. […]
Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her first collection won the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction; her second was a finalist for The Aspen Prize, The Story Prize, The Chautauqua […]
Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry (The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path), three novels (Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, and The Topeka School), several limited editions and artist books (including Blossom, with Thomas Demand), and the 2016 monograph The Hatred of Poetry. He has received fellowships from […]
Thanks to an ongoing partnership, DISQUIET is pleased to be hosting an editor from Granta, one of the best-known and most-read literary magazines in the English-speaking world, in 2024. Stay tuned for more information to follow!
Joy Williams is the author of five collections of stories including, most recently, 99 Stories of God and The Visiting Privilege, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award. She has also published four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a book of essays, Ill Nature, which was […]
Shayla Lawson is the author of three books of poetry—A Speed Education in Human Being, the chapbook PANTONE and I Think I’m Ready to see Frank Ocean—and the forthcoming essay collection THIS IS MAJOR (Harper Perennial, 2020). Their work has appeared in print & online at Tin House, PAPER, ESPN, Salon, Guernica, & others. A MacDowell and […]