1209 Authors
Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah (born 1952 in Iran) studied physics in Tehran and was active in the student resistance. He published two novels about life under the Khomeini regime before fleeing his homeland in 1985. At…...
Azhar Abidi
Azhar Abidi was born in Pakistan in 1968. After studying in England and Australia, he co-founded the literary magazine Cipher, which published the works of Pakistani writers writing in English from Karachi,…...
Marguerite Abouet
Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971. At the age of twelve, she was sent with her older brother to study in France under the care of a great-uncle. She now lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris,…...
Hosam Aboul-Ela
Hosam Aboul-Ela teaches in the department of English and the program in World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston. He has lived most of his life in two exotic foreign countries—Egypt…...
Eric Abrahamsen
Eric Abrahamsen is a freelance translator and literary scout in Beijing, where he has lived since 2001. His translations have appeared in the Asia Literary Review and The Guardian, among other places,…...
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu (1948–96) was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1948. An award-winning journalist, writer, and dramatic adviser, he portrayed like no other the myriad contradictions of urban…...
Manuel Silva Acevedo
Manuel Silva Acevedo was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1942. His books of poems include: Perturbaciones (1967), Lobos y ovejas (1976), Mester de Bastardía (1977), Monte de Venus (1979), Terrores diurnos…...
André Aciman
André Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, and Call Me By Your Name, a novel. He is also the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters…...
Suzane Adam
Suzane Adam was born in Satu Mare, Transylvania, and came to Israel at age ten. She completed her art studies majoring in medieval art, photography, and etching. She later went on to study graphic art…...