Our authors

Italy

Piero Boitani

Piero Boitani is one of Italy’s most renowned philologists and literary critics. An expert on ancient myths, medievalist, and Dante scholar, he is currently Professor of Comparative Literature at...

Italy

Carlo Bonini

Carlo Bonini is a staff writer at the Italian national daily, La Repubblica.

France

Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel (1902 – 1985) was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. Braudel has been considered one of the greatest of the modern historians who have emphasized the role of...

Russia

Alina Bronsky

Alina Bronsky is the author of Broken Glass Park, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, named a Publishers Weekly ’s Best Book of the Year, Just Call Me Superhero and Baba...

South Africa

Karin Brynard is a former political and investigative journalist and uses her research skills and eye for detail to fascinating effect in Weeping Waters. She is, today, one of Penguin South Africa’s...

Argentina

Jorge Bucay

Jorge Bucay is a gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist, and writer. He was born in 1949 in Argentina. His books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, and have been translated into more...

Britain

Ben Byrne

Ben Byrne was born in London. He studied Drama & Film at the University of Manchester and later lived in San Francisco, New York, and Tokyo, working as a brand consultant, filmmaker, and musician.

United States

Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including Andorra, The Weekend, and Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The...

Italy

Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri is widely considered to be one of the greatest living Italian writers. His bestselling Montalbano crime series is published in the UK by Picador. Born in Sicily, Camilleri died in...

United States

Chris Cander

Chris Cander is the author of two previous novels, 11 Stories, and Whisper Hollow. She lives with her husband, daughter and son in Houston, Texas.

Italy

Paolo Cangelosi

Paolo Cangelosi is very well renowned in the world of martial arts. The founder of one of the most prestigious martial arts academies in the world, he has tens of thousands of fans and is one of the...

Italy

Massimo Carlotto

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In addition to the many titles in his extremely popular “Alligator” series, he is also the author of The Fugitive, Death’s Dark Abyss,...

Australia

Felicity Castagna

Felicity Castagna was awarded the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2014 for her previous novel, The Incredible Here and Now, which was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre of Parramatta.

France

Johann Chapoutot

Johann Chapoutot was born in Martigues in 1978. He is currently a professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he researches political and cultural history, with a focus on Germany and...

Taiwan

Kevin Chen

Kevin Chen began his artistic career as a cinema actor, starring in the Taiwanese and German films Ghosted, Kung Bao Huhn, and Global Player. Now based in Germany, he is a staff...

New Zealand

Catherine Chidgey

Catherine Chidgey ’s novels have been published to international acclaim. Her first, In a Fishbone Church, won Best First Book at the NZ Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize...

France

Sandrine Collette

Sandrine Collette was born in Paris in 1970. She divides her time between Nanterre, where she teaches philosophy and literature, and Burgundy, where she has a horse stud. She is the author of numerous...

Chile

Francisco Coloane

Francisco Coloane was born in the southern Chilean island of Chiloé. His stories and novels, fruit of a literary career that spanned almost sixty years, have been translated into over ten languages.

France

Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris, and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York.

Spain

Flavia Company

Flavia Company was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has lived in Barcelona since the 1973. She is the author of twelve novels. Her fiction has been translated and published in more than six languages.

France

Laurence Cossé

Laurence Cossé’s A Novel Bookstore (Europa Editions, 2010), her ninth novel and an Indie Bound bestseller, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “marvelous and stimulating.”...

France

Cécile Coulon

Cécile Coulon was born in 1990. She is the author of seven novels, including Trois Saisons d’orage, which won the Prix des Libraires, three prize-winning collections of poems, and a collection...

Italy

Massimo Cuomo

Massimo Cuomo was born in Venice in 1974 and lives in Portogruaro, in a house that is closer to the countryside than to the city. He is the author of three novels and teaches creative writing to inmates...

France

Christelle Dabos

Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d’Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. The Mirror Visitor, her debut series,...