Deng Xiaohua (Changsa, 1953). Chinese writer born into a family of intellectuals persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. After a life marked by precariousness, she embarks on self-education and begins writing her first stories in the early 1980s under the pseudonym that has accompanied her to this day, Can Xue, which means the snowdrift that resists melting.

He is one of the most representative writers of Korea, deeply committed to the movements for democratization and reunification of his country. He wrote his first novel while studying in high school, in 1962, for which he received the New Writer Award. Two years later, he was imprisoned for political reasons, and during his time in prison, he became interested in the labor activism movement.

From 1966 to 1969, he was part of the South Korean military contingent in the Vietnam War; he was forced to erase evidence of the civilian massacres and to bury the dead, an experience that would leave him deeply marked.

At 82 years old, Hwang Sok-yong is the most recognized and translated writer of

Korean literature. A key figure in the resistance against the coup d’état and the denunciation of corruption in the South Korean government. To this day, he continues to lead protests with the same unwavering commitment that in the past cost him imprisonment and exile.

An Austrian writer and journalist of Jewish origin, renowned for his sharp critical insight and his ability to portray interwar Europe. Born in Brody, within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he experienced firsthand the social and political upheavals of his time.

After the First World War, he settled in Berlin, where he became a chronicler of the fall of the great empires and a witness to the rise of totalitarian regimes. He died in exile in Paris in 1939, leaving behind an essential literary legacy for understanding the fragility of European society in his era.

A writer based in Stockholm, her work explores themes such as female identity, motherhood, and family relationships. She has received several literary awards, including the Swedish Radio Fiction Prize, the P. O. Enquist Literary Prize, the Vi magazine Literature Prize, and the Aniara Prize. Her novel Bröd och mjölk (Bread and Milk) has been praised by critics for its intimate and evocative prose; translated into several languages, it has strengthened her international reputation.

A Japanese novelist, essayist, and filmmaker. Often known as “the other Murakami,” his novels explore the dark nature of the human soul through themes such as disillusionment, drug use, surrealism, murder, and crime.

His first novel, Kagirinaku tōmeini chikai burū (Almost Transparent Blue), won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, was translated into dozens of languages, and brought the author significant international recognition.

His career captivated critics and readers throughout the 1990s with cult novels such as Piercing and In the Miso Soup, which, thirty years later, retain their full narrative power.

She grew up between Tubbercurry and Castlebar, in the west of Ireland, the daughter of a Catholic family that had emigrated to Great Britain. She currently lives in London and regularly writes for The Guardian, New Statesman, and The Irish Times.

Her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (2013), won a number of literary awards and has been translated into several languages. Following her second novel, The Lesser Bohemians (2017), she established herself as one of Ireland’s most widely read authors and in 2018 was nominated among the top ten contemporary English-language writers, according to The Times’ literary supplement.

Takashi Hiraide was born in Moji, now part of Kitakyūshū, in 1950. A renowned poet, linked to the publishing world for many years, he has also worked as a literary critic and poetry professor.

He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in the 1970s and shortly thereafter published his first poetry collection (The Inn, 1976), balancing his career as a poet with his work at the Kawadeshobishinsha publishing house in Tokyo.

In 2001, he debuted with his first novel after years of establishing himself as a poet.

Takashi Hiraide's works have been highly praised by Japanese author Kenzaburo Oé, who considers them “an experiment that sheds light on a completely new type of prose within the same poetry.”

Graduated from the University of Montreal, Beauchemin worked for many years as a host and producer for Société Radio-Canada. He published his first novel, Comme enfant je suis cuit (1998), and gained wider attention with Le jour des corneilles (2004), which won the Prix Jean-Hamelin. Around that time, he suffered a serious illness that led him to leave Radio-Canada to recover and devote himself to writing full-time. La fabrication de l’aube, a philosophical novel about a man confronting his mortality, was published in 2006 and won the Prix des Libraires du Québec in 2007.