by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Florin Bican, Interviews, Invitați români
Florin Bican Florin Bican (29.03.1956) – scriitor, traducător şi jurnalist ocazional – e asociat cronologic generaţiei ’80, dar evoluează în afara ei. Scrie constant şi publică sporadic poezie, proză, traduceri şi articole, apărute în România, Marea Britanie, Statele...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Elisabeth Berchtold, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Elisabeth Berchtold Elisabeth Berchtold was born in 1971, in Sweden. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines. Marialucia, Norstedts, 2012, is her first collection of poems, widely aclaimed by readers and literary critics. Kära Svan, Norstedts, 2016, is...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Daniel Owen, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Daniel Owen Daniel Owen is a Brooklyn-based writer and member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective. He is the author of Toot Sweet (United Artists Books, 2015); the chapbooks Authentic Other Landscape (Diez, 2013) and Up in the Empty Ferries (Third Floor...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Henry Finch, International Poets, Poetry Shelf
Henry Finch Henry Finch’s poetry appears in The North American Review, The Sugar House Review, The Massachusetts Review, jubilat, The Seattle Review, Prelude, Forklift Ohio, Transom, The Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Franca Treur, Novelists, Story Shelf
Franca Treur Franca Treur (fiction writer; Netherlands) won the 2010 Selexyz Debut Prize for her novel Dorsvloer vol confetti [Confetti on the Threshing Floor], which was released as a feature-length film in 2014. Her second novel, De woongroep [The Roommates], came...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Novelists, Sabata-mpho Mokae, Story Shelf
Sabata-mpho Mokae Sabata-mpho Mokae (South Africa) writes in two languages; English and Setswana, a southern African language. He is the author of a biography The Story of Sol T Plaatje, a youth novella, Dikeledi [Tears], and a poetry collection, Escaping Trauma. His...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Mamle Kabu
Mamle Kabu Mamle Kabu, a writer of Ghanaian and German parentage, was born and raised in Ghana and completed her education in the United Kingdom, graduating from the University of Cambridge with a BA, MA and MPhil. She returned to Ghana in 1992 where she has since...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Memo, Robert G. Elekes, Writing Room
Robert G. Elekes Robert G. Elekes s-a născut într-o familie multietnică în 1985, în Braşov. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii Transilvania din Braşov. A primit titlul de doctor de la Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu, în 2012, pentru o lucrare despre...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Memo, Răzvan Țupa, Writing Room
Răzvan Țupa Răzvan Ţupa s-a născut la Brăila în 1975. Primul său volum, „fetiş” (2001), a obținut Premiul naţional pentru poezie „Mihai Eminescu“ (Botoşani, 2002). În 2003, „fetiş – o carte românească a plăcerii” a făcut obiectul unei a doua ediţii revăzute şi...
by XO | May 23, 2017 | Author, Nikola Madzirov, Polar(eyezed), Wanderer
Nikola Madzirov Nikola Madzirov (poet, essayist and translator) was born into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, Macedonia. His poetry has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the US, Europe and Asia....