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.

Moses Joseph Roth was born on September 2, 1894. He studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Vienna, where he decided to volunteer for the army to fight in World War I. This experience marked him forever, and along with the nostalgia he felt for a disappearing world, they would define his literary universe. Roth profoundly depicts the soul of his characters amidst the great social changes in Europe.

His work reflects the uprooting and existential crisis caused by the collapse of the empire in which he had grown up. Exiled in Paris after the rise of Nazism, Roth continued to write. He died in 1939 as a result of the effects of alcoholism and depression. Despite his tragic end, his literary legacy remains more alive than ever, especially for his ability to capture the end of an era and the disillusionment of a transforming world.

Writer and television scriptwriter, her work explores themes such as female identity, motherhood, and family relationships.

Until now unpublished in Catalan, her novels have been translated into more than ten languages (including Spanish, by Anagrama), and have made her one of the Nordic authors with the most international projection.

Her novel Bröd och mjölk (Bread and Milk) has been praised for its intimate and evocative prose, and its author has received some of the most prestigious awards in Swedish narrative, such as the Swedish Radio Fiction Prize, the P. O. Enquist Literary Prize, the Vi Magazine Literature Prize and the Aniara Prize.

Known as “the other Murakami” or “the perverse Murakami,” he is possibly one of the most prominent authors when it comes to capturing on paper the violence and darkness that lie hidden within individuals, not sparing any details for the reader, whom he turns into a witness of his characters' actions.

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.”

Jean-François Beauchemin (born in 1960 in Drummondville, Quebec) is a prolific Franco-Canadian author whose novels, poems, essays, and reflections have received significant critical acclaim. He has won prestigious awards such as the Prix Jean-Hamelin and the Prix des libraires du Québec, and has been a two-time finalist for the Governor General's Award for works of fiction written in French.

His work has been described as “one of the best-kept secrets” of Quebec literature.