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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rui Cardoso Martins (Portalegre, Portugal, 1967) is a writer, scriptwriter, and playwright, and the co-creator and co-writer, with director Tiago Guedes, of A Herdade/The Domain (Golden Lion candidate in Venice 2019 Film Festival, Toronto TIFF). He also worked the script of director João Canijo diptic Living Bad/Bad Living (Silver Bear winner, Berlinale 2023). He is a two-time winner of the […]
Ana Paula Tavares has published a number of works, including Ritos de Passagem (1985), O Sangue da Buganvília (1998, republished in 2023), Ex-votos (Votive offerings) (2003) and A Cabeça de Salomé (The Head of Salome) (2004). Her latest book of poems is Manual para amantes desesperados (2007) and her collected poetry has been published in […]
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).
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!
T Kira Māhealani Madden is a hapa-Kanaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, NYSCA/NYFA, and Yaddo. Her debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, […]
Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in SLAM magazine, the Huffington Post, Springhouse Journal, and elsewhere. He was awarded the 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award for Fiction and the 2015 Summer Literary Seminars Montreal Flash Fiction Prize. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. His most recent novel, The New Naturals, was published […]
Camille Bordas is a novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels in English, The Material (Random House, 2024), and How to Behave in a Crowd (Tim Duggan Books, 2017). Her earlier two books, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts, were written in her native French. Her fiction has appeared in The […]