Photo: Terria Clay/WCS Jonathan C. Slaght is an American wildlife biologist and author. He is one of the leading experts on Blakiston’s fish owls. His book, Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (2020), won several awards, including the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, the …
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Usha Raman is an Indian author and poet. She is also a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hyderabad. Her first novel, Polite Conversations, was published in 2024. Her other books include Writing for the Media (2010); a collection of poems, All the Spaces in Between (2009); and a children’s book, …
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Rebecca Lowe is a British journalist specializing in the Middle East and human rights. Her book, The Slow Road to Tehran: A Revelatory Bike Ride through Europe and the Middle East (2022), was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2023. Rebecca has written for the BBC, The Guardian, The Times, …
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Photo: Ed Shaw Lindsey Davis is a British author. The first Falco book, The Silver Pigs, won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel award in 1989. Lindsey has won several awards, including the Crimewriters’ Association Dagger in the Library, Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, as well as the Crimewriters’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement …
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Robert W. Norris is an American writer and retired teacher who lives near Fukuoka, Japan. Robert’s books include his memoir, The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise (2023); novels, including Looking for the Summer (1996); The Many Roads to Japan: A Search for Identity (1997); Toraware (1998); and Autumn Shadows in August (2006). …
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(Note: This interview was originally conducted in Spanish and translated by Leslie Jones.Lea aquí la versión en español.) Luis Sagasti is an Argentinian writer, lecturer and art critic. Luis’s books include Lenguas Vivas (2023), which was longlisted for the Premio FILBA-Medifé for best novel 2024; Leyden, Ltd. (2019); Por qué escuchamos a Led Zeppelin (2019); Una …
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Andrew Terrill is a writer and photographer from London, England, who now lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. His books The Earth Beneath My Feet (2021) and On Sacred Ground (2022) describe a solo 7,000-mile walk from Italy to Norway. This walk raised funds and awareness for homeless people in the …
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Nilanjana Roy is an Indian author, journalist and editor. Her novels include Black River (2022), which was listed as one of the best crime novels of 2023 by The Guardian; The Hundred Names of Darkness (2013); The Wildings (2012), which won the 2013 Shakti Bhatt First Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth …
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Shugri Said Salh is a Somali writer, now living in San Diego, USA. Her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert (2021) won the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural and Indigenous Category; and was a finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the 2021 CALIBA/Golden Poppy Award; as well as …
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Photo: Igor Emmerich Ann Morgan is a British author and literary explorer. In 2012, Ann challenged herself to read a book from every country, recording her quest at ayearofreadingtheworld.com and in the non-fiction book Reading the World. She is also the author of two novels, Beside Myself and Crossing Over. Her next non-fiction book, Relearning …
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