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　　Olivier Rolin was born in 1947 in Paris. Part of his childhood was spent in Africa (Sénégal), followed by classical literary studies in Paris. In 1967, he entered the cole Normale Supérieure, one of the most prestigious French “Grandes coles.” In his twenties, he joined the Maoist far-left in France, a period he related in his novel Paper Tiger, translated into Chinese in 2012. He worked as a journalist for a while as literary critic and reporter, and since the late 70’s he has been a chief editor with Le Seuil, one of France’s most prominent publishing houses.

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　　Born in the town of Muglen, Burgas region, on Jan 29, 1957. Georgi Grozdev has graduated with a major in Journalism at the Sofia University (1982). He’s a descendant of refugees from Odrin Thrace during the Balkan War of 1912.

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　　Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, South Wales. His debut novel, Submarine, was published by Penguin in the UK and Shanghai 99 in China. It won the Curtis Brown prize, has been translated in to fifteen languages and made in to a film, directed by Richard Ayoade. His second novel, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His debut poetry pamphlet was published by Faber and Faber.

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　　Prachakom was born in the Northeast of Thailand and started his writing career in 1994. To date (2015) he has had 31 books published.
　　He has been awarded both ‘Best’ and ‘Honorable’ prizes 6 times by the National Institute of Development and the Office of the Basic Education Commission of Thailand in the categories of Collection of Short Stories, Novels and Non-Novels.

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　　Sunethra Rajakarunanayake is bilingual writer. She has published 41 books in Sinhala and English. She has received 4 state awards and 5 other national level awards. She is the only writer in Sri Lanka who has gained two golden book awards. “Sambol+”, a collection of her short stories was short listed for the Gratiaen Award in 2004. Sunethra’s first state award in 1999 was for “Attaining Age”, a collection of short stories in English. Her books translated into Tamil and English also received State and other translation awards. Her short stories have been translated into Tamil and Telugu.

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　　Charlotte Hill O’Neal aka Mama C is a visual artist, musician and poet/writer . She was born in Kansas City, KS in 1951 and has lived in Africa with her family since 1970. She is co-director of the United African Alliance Community Center UAACC located outside of Arusha, Tanzania and a Co Director of the Arusha Poetry Club in Arusha, Tanzania which serves as a platform for East African poets around the planet.

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　　She was born on Feb. 4th, 1949. She has received Baccalaureate in medicine and surgery, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore. Then she won the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. She is currently working as a surgeon in rural Karnataka in south India.

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　　He went into magazine journalism in New Delhi in 1985 and has since worked and written for journals in Delhi, Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai) as well as parts of rural India. In 2000 He published a book of essays on the state of Bihar, Bihar is in the Eye of the Beholder (Viking/Penguin India) which was well received. His interest in language and its use led him to write Language as an Ethic (2003) in the Penguin ‘Interrogating India’ series. He also translated two late medieval bhakti poets from Kerala in Two Measures of Bhakti (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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　　Nermin Yildirim was Born in 1980. She graduated from Eskisehir Anatolian University Faculty of Communication Sciences Press Department. After her graduation, she worked as a journalist, editor and columnist for various newspapers and magazines, and as a copywriter for advertisement agencies.

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　　She was born in Haifa in 1963, and now lives in Tel-Aviv. She published four collections of short stories and novellas, three novels, three children’s books and one play for “Hacameri Theater of Tel-Aviv.”Katzir's books were translated into 11 different languages, including Chinese. She works as a critic and editor for "Hakibbutz Hameuchad" Publications and teaches creative writing.

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　　He graduated from Griffith University Nathan Campus. He received Bachelor of Arts Majoring in Literature and Theology. He is currently PhD. candidate, researching: Writing: Violence and the Sublime Fold.

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