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France
Véronique Olmi
Véronique Olmi was born in 1962 in Nice and now lives in Paris. She is an acclaimed French dramatist and her twelve plays have won numerous awards. Olmi won the Prix Alain-Fournier emerging artist... -
Angola
Ondjaki
Ondjaki is the most prominent African writer of Portuguese from the generations born after Portugal’s former colonies achieved independence in 1975. He has written poetry, children's books, short... -
Nigeria
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia is a lawyer working in the areas of health, gender, and violence against women and children, and, since the publication of The Son of the House, one of Nigeria’s... -
Russia
Valery Panyushkin
Valery Panyushkin is a well-known, and widely translated, journalist and writer. He is the author of eleven books, two of which are about the Russian opposition movement, and the latest, Prison... -
Italy
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Born in 1922, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a film director, poet, writer and political thinker. Throughout his life he exhibited extraordinary cultural versatility and became a highly controversial figure. -
Britain
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a writer who divides his time between London and Oxford. In 2022, he was selected as a London Library Emerging Writer, and he is currently a Clarendon Scholar at... -
France
Valérie Perrin
Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, in the Vosges Mountains, France. She grew up in Burgundy and settled in Paris in 1986. Her novel The Forgotten Sunday (2015) won the Booksellers... -
Britain
Rob Perry
Rob Perry was born in 1987. He is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing program. In 2020, his novel Dog was shortlisted and highly commended in the Peggy Chapman Andrews First Novel Award. In... -
Italy
Carlo Piano
Carlo Piano, the son, journalist. Curious explorer of cities and their customs. Author of books on urban hinterlands. He loves the sea. -
Italy
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano, the father, architect. Has built cities all over the world. In this book he tells of an adventurous profession. He loves the sea and shared his passion with his son. -
Italy
Lorenza Pieri
Lorenza Pieri is an author, journalist, and translator. She grew up in Tuscany and spent long periods in Paris, Turin, and Rome, where she worked in publishing. She lived for eight years in Washington... -
Italy
Alessandro Piperno
Alessandro Piperno was born in Rome in 1972. His 2005 novel, The Worst Intentions, won the Campiello Prize for First Novel and became an instant bestseller in Italy, where Corriere della sera... -
Britain
Karen Powell
Karen Powell was born in Rochester, Kent. She left school at 16 but returned to education as a mature student to study English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in North Yorkshire. -
Britain
Christopher Prendergast
Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor of Modern French Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. He directed the 2002 Penguin translation of A la recherche... -
France
Pascale Pujol
Pascale Pujol grew up in Perpignan and now lives in Paris. Little Culinary Triumphs is her first novel. -
Italy
Piergiorgio Pulixi
Piergiorgio Pulixi was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1982. He is a member of Sabot, an experiment in collective crime fiction writing created by Massimo Carlotto, Italy’s preeminent author of crime... -
Italy
Massimo Recalcati
Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona. -
Iran
Parisa Reza
Parisa Reza was born in Tehran in 1965 to a family of intellectuals and artists, and moved to France at the age of seventeen. She was awarded the Prix Senghor 2015 for her first novel, The Gardens... -
Italy
Patrizia Rinaldi
Patrizia Rinaldi lives and works in Naples, where she was born in 1960. She is the author of numerous works of crime fiction published in Italy. Three, Imperfect Number is her first work to appear... -
United States
Abbigail N. Rosewood
Abbigail N. Rosewood was born in Vietnam, where she lived until the age of twelve. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. An excerpt from her first novel won first place... -
France
Ketty Rouf
Ketty Rouf was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1970. After reading for a masters’ degree in philosophy, she settled in Paris to pursue her studies, advised by eminent French philosopher Paul Ricœur,... -
France
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of Doctors Without Borders and a former Ambassador of France in Senegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, including The Abyssian, for which he... -
Canek Sánchez Guevara, grandson of Che Guevara, left Cuba for Mexico in 1996. He worked for many of Mexico’s most important newspapers as a columnist and correspondent, and he wrote a regular...
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Algeria
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal is the Arab world’s most courageous and controversial novelist. His first novel to appear in English ( An Unfinished Business/The German Mujahid, Bloomsbury/Europa) was the first...