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Rwanda
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare, Rwanda in 1979. Surviving the Tutsi genocide, she moved to France in 1994 to study political science and work for humanitarian causes. She is now an... -
Britain
Emma Jane Unsworth
Emma Jane Unsworth’s first novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything (Hidden Gem) won a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2012. Her short story... -
Italy
Adriana Valerio
Adriana Valerio is a historian of religion and has taught History of Christianty at the University of Naples. One of the first Italian women to graduate in theology, for the last three decades... -
South Africa
André Carl van der Merwe
André Carl van der Merwe was born in Harrismith in the Free State, South Africa. When his family moved to Cape Town, after two years of national service, he started studying fine art in Cape Town... -
Brazil
Alexandre Vidal Porto
Alexandre Vidal Porto was born in São Paulo. A career diplomat, a Harvard-trained lawyer, and a human rights activist, he writes a regular column for Folha de S. Paulo. His fiction has appeared... -
Italy
Marco Videtta
Marco Videtta is a well-known screenwriter and the author of several successful Italian television series. Poisonville is his first novel. -
Britain
Rebecca Wait
Rebecca Wait grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and read English at Oxford University. She is the author of prize-winning short stories and plays, as well as critically acclaimed novels... -
Britain
Fay Weldon
A novelist, playwright and essayist, Fay Weldon is best known for her novels The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Praxis, and Worst Fears. She received an honorary doctorate from the University... -
France
Anne Wiazemsky
Anne Wiazemsky is an acclaimed French actress, author and filmmaker born in West Berlin. She has written several award winning novels: Filles bien élevées (La Société des Gens de Lettres Grand... -
Canada
Ian Williams
Ian Williams’ debut novel Reproduction won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and his debut nonfiction work, Disorientation, was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust... -
Britain
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson was educated at Oxford University. He has written 12 novels of which A Small Death in Lisbon won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Novel of the Year and the International Deutsche Krimipreis. -
Australia
Rohan Wilson
Rohan Wilson was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald 's Best Young Novelists in 2012. His debut novel, The Roving Party, won the 2011 The Australian /Vogel Literary Award as well as... -
Germany
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf was born in 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (currently Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland). She is a literary critic, novelist, and essayist, and perhaps the best-known writer to emerge... -
United States
Tamsen Wolff
Tamsen Wolff is a professor in Princeton University’s English Department, where she specializes in modern and contemporary drama, voice, directing, and dramaturgy. She has published essays in... -
Australia
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley ’s previous novels have been awarded the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Indie Award for Best Fiction, the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction, and have been shortlisted... -
Britain
Benjamin Wood
Benjamin Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College London, where he teaches fiction modules and founded the PhD in Creative Writing program. His first novel The Bellwether... -
Australia
Charlotte Wood
Charlotte Wood is the author of five novels and a book of non-fiction, and for three years edited The Writer's Room Interviews magazine. The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, Indie... -
Britain
Emily Woof
Emily Woof is a graduate of Oxford University. She has written a trilogy of one-woman plays, and is also an actress who has had notable roles in The Full Monty (1997) and The Woodlanders (1998). -
United States
Tom Wright
What Dies in Summer, Tom Wright's debut novel, was a New York Times Editor's Pick and a finalist for the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Awards. A Texas native, Wright is a licensed and practicing... -
Mexico
Aura Xilonen
Aura Xilonen is a novelist and filmmaker. She won the 2015 Mauricio Achar Prize for her first novel, The Gringo Champion. -
Russia
Guzel Yakhina
Born in Kazan, Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is the winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. She has denounced Russia’s aggression... -
United States
Jonathan Yardley
Jonathan Yardley has been a book critic and columnist at the Washington Post since 1981. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism and a Fellowship from the Nieman Foundation... -
United States
Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.
Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. is the author of The Night of the Old South Ball and Joe Alsop’s Cold War. He has served as the editorial page editor at The Washingtonian Star, where he won a Pulitzer Prize... -
Japan
Atsuhiro Yoshida
Born in Tokyo in 1962, Atsuhiro Yoshida is an award-winning book designer and a renowned author who has published more than 40 books. Goodnight Tokyo has been translated into French and...