1209 Authors
Zehra Çirak
Zehra Çırak was born in 1960 in Istanbul, Turkey. She moved to Germany with her family in 1962 and has lived in Berlin since 1982. Her awards include the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (1989 and 2001)and…...
Gentian Çoçoli
Gentian Çoçoli (b. 1972) is a poet and translator from Albania. He has published three collections of poetry, most recently Dheu njerėzor [Human Soil] (2006). He has translated several contemporary…...
Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín Ómarsdóttir (1962) lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland. Kristín writes poetry, novels, short stories, and plays and works in the field of visual arts. She has published…...
Klas Östergren
Klas Östergren was born in Stockholm in 1955 and is the author of several novels including the landmark Gentlemen (1981) and its sequel, Gangsters (2005). A leading star of Swedish literature for…...
Siddiq Aalam
Siddiq Aalam was born in 1952 in a small town Purulia in India and since 1983 has lived in Calcutta, a city which is the background of his first novel Charnock ki Kashti. He holds an M.A. in English and…...
Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Of Turkish descent, this writer of short stories and fiction was born in Adapazan. While pursuing his higher education, his desires conflicted with that of his father’s; originally enrolled in the…...
Carmine Abate
Carmine Abate was born in Calabria, southern Italy. He immigrated to Germany at a young age and now lives in Trentino, northern Italy, where he teaches university. His first book, a collection of short…...
Azra Abbas
Azra Abbas was born in 1948 in Karachi. She earned her master’s degree in Urdu from Karachi University and went on to teach Urdu literature at a government college in Karachi. Eventually, she…...
Salar Abdoh
Salar Abdoh was born and raised in Tehran and came to the United States after the revolution. His first book, The Poet Game, was published in the United States in 2000. His second work, With Opium, will…...