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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Mary Novakovich is a UK-based journalist and travel writer. Photo: Adam Batterbee Her book, My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland (2022), won the 2023 British Guild of Travel Writers Adele Evans Award for best travel narrative book, and was also shortlisted for the 2023 Stanford Travel Book of the Year. …
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(Note: This interview was originally conducted in Spanish and translated by Leslie Jones.Lea aquí la versión en español.) Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentinian author and scriptwriter. One of her best-known books is Las Viudas de los Jueves (2005, published in English as Thursday Night Widows, 2009), which was made into a film in 2009 and …
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Photo: Joanna Szymkiewicz Doreen Cunningham is an Irish-British writer, who was born in Wales. She is the author of Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales, which won the 2020 Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction; and was shortlisted for The Pat Kavanagh Award and the 2021 Eccles Centre & Hay …
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Self portrait by Slavko Milekić Slavko Milekić is a Serbian author, artist, translator and neuropsychologist, who now lives in Mexico. His books include Word Beads (2019), a collection of short stories, which he also illustrated; and The Theory of Language (1999), which he cowrote with Steven Weisler. Slavko teaches Cognitive Science and Digital Design at …
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Jacob Ross is a Grenadian novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. He now lives in the UK, where he teaches creative writing. His books include Pynter Bender (2008), which, in 2009, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize, the Society of Authors Best First Novel, and the Caribbean Review of Books "Book of the Year"; …
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Photo: Jim C. Hines Sofia Samatar is an American author, of Somali and Swiss-German Mennonite descent. Her books include The White Mosque (2022), which won the 2023 Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award), and was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. In 2014, her epic fantasy …
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Hafsa Zayyan is a Nigerian-Pakistani author and a dispute resolution lawyer working in the City of London. Her book We Are All Birds of Uganda won the MerkyBooks inaugural New Writer’s Prize. She has contributed to Of This Our Country, essays that explore writers' relationships with Nigeria; and Will You Read This Please?, short stories …
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Janice Pariat is an Indian author and poet. Her books include Everything the Light Touches: A Novel (2022), The Nine-Chambered Heart (2017), Seahorse (2014), and Boats on Land (2012). In 2013, Janice was awarded the Yuva Puraskar (Young Writer Award) by the Sahitya Akademi, and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction for Boats on Land. …
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