is the author of the novels The Ragged End, After Zenda, and A Book of Liszts.

lives in Viterbo and works in the Oriental Institute Library of the University of Rome.

an American writer. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

Nancy Stout is a writer and photographer living in New York City, currently employed by Fordham University as a Reference Librarian. 

p.g.sturges was born in 1953 in Hollywood, California. Early in life he was a good student and a poor pianist, culminating in an eighth grade performance of the Marines Hymn, the end of which he could not remember.

an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. 

Duong Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. Since the publication of No Man’s Land in 2006 (which went on to sell over 200,000 copies in France), she lives in Paris. Sanctuary of the Heart is her ninth novel.

(b. 1970 in Kayseri) is a Turkish writer, freelance journalist and radio programmer. After completing his primary and secondary education in Ankara and Cologne, she graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.

is the author of a number of books, including the bestseller Ten Hours until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do.

an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. 

Kenan Trebincevic was born in a town called Brcko in 1980 to a Bosnian Muslim family who was exiled in the Balkan War. 

One of Japan’s best-known and most respected writers, Tsutsui has been known since his debut in 1960 for his witty, inventive novels and short stories spanning a number of genres, principally fantasy. 

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang, but lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied law through the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solicitor in one of Kuala Lumpur's most reputable law firms. 

Thrity Umrigar is the best-selling author of the novels Bombay Time, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet and The Weight of Heaven. 

a former writer and editor at Spy, Vogue and Allure magazines. 

Victoria Van Tiem, like her protagonist, is an artist, a gallery owner and a former creative director, with a background in marketing and brand development. Love Like the Movies is her first novel.

 

(Bogotá, 1973) is best known as the author of EL RUIDO DE LAS COSAS AL CAER, winner of the Premio Alfaguara and the English Pen Award, and also a finalist for the Médicis.

Half-Dutch, half-Swedish, Barbara Voors grew up in Iran, until her family fled during the 1979 revolution. Since her debut, Voors has sold over 500,000 novels in Sweden alone, and has enjoyed great success in Holland and Belgium.

Melanie Warner is a freelance writer for various publications, including The New York Times, Fast Company and BNET.com.

was born in Oslo and this is where he lives and works.