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WORDS ... CONTRIBUTORS<br />

unpublished) stories about life in Communist Poland from 1945–80, which recount tales of ordinary<br />

people trying to adapt themselves to the absurdity of life in that era.<br />

Esther Heboyan is a Paris-based writer, translator, academic and mother. She was born in Istanbul in<br />

1955 to Armenian parents who emigrated fi rst to Germany, then to France. Later on, she herself moved to<br />

Great Britain, then to the United States. She holds an MA in journalism from the University of Iowa, Iowa<br />

City, and a PhD in American literature from the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris. She has published<br />

a short story collection, Les Passagers d’Istanbul (Editions Parenthèses, 2006) and a volume of poetry, Les<br />

Rhododendrons (Editions Empreinte, 2009). Her English-language work has appeared in Ararat magazine,<br />

New York, and online at Armenian Poetry Project (http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/). A second story<br />

collection, Comme un dimanche d’août à Burgaz, is due in 2011 from Editions Empreinte.<br />

Jamie Jauncey ayuda a la gente a encontrar su lugar en el mundo a través de la palabra escrita.<br />

Como escritor, instructor y coach, trabaja con empresas de todo tipo. Sus dos novelas más recientes,<br />

The Witness (2007) y The Reckoning (2009), fueron preseleccionadas para el premio Royal Mail de libros<br />

infantiles de Escocia. Jauncey fue presidente de la Sociedad de Autores de Escocia y en la actualidad es<br />

director del Festival Internacional del Libro de Edimburgo, el más grande del mundo. Su tío bisabuelo, R.<br />

B. Cunninghame Graham, fue presidente fundador de <strong>PEN</strong> Escocia. Jamie escribe semanalmente sobre<br />

lenguaje en su blog http://afewkindwords.blogspot.com<br />

for his collection of short stories The Good Times (1989). His recent novels include You Have to Be Careful in<br />

the Land of the Free (2004) and Kieron Smith, Boy ( 2009) which won the 2009 Scottish Arts Council/SMIT<br />

Book of the Year Award. His newest collection of short stories is titled If It Is Your Life (2010).<br />

Nikita Makarov est né à Dax dans le Sud-Ouest de la France en 1987. Bilingue, il a fait ses études<br />

en France et en Russie. Il terminait ses études supérieures à l’Institut littéraire de Gorky auprès de l’Union<br />

des écrivains russes à Moscou en 2009 en qualité de traducteur littéraire dans la section française.<br />

Son travail de fi n d’études concernait la traduction poétique en français de Lermontov, Le Novice.<br />

Il vit en France et en Russie.<br />

John Mateer was born in South Africa. He has published books and chapbooks of poems in South Africa,<br />

Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Macau and Portugal, as well as a prose travelogue on Indonesia. His latest<br />

publications include The West: Australian Poems 1989–2009, Ex-White/Einmal-Weiss: South African Poems<br />

(2009), a collection of poems on the vestiges of Portuguese empire, Southern Barbarians (2009) and, with<br />

Layli Rakhsha, English and Persian translations of his early Afrikaans poems. Recently he has been in China<br />

researching the work of the French archaeologist, novelist and poet Victor Segalen.<br />

Susana Medina es autora de Souvenirs del accidente, Cuentos rojos, Juguetes fi losófi cos, que es su<br />

primera novela en inglés, y del corto cinematográfi co Los Juguetes fi losófi cos de Buñuel, que se ha mostrado<br />

ampliamente en el Reino Unido. Escribe tanto en inglés como en español. Su tesis de doctorado Borgesland,<br />

un viaje textual por los espacios imaginarios en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges, es su primera incursión en el<br />

género de ensayo. Colabora con diversas publicaciones de arte y literarias, y enseña literatura hispánica<br />

en la Open University, Londres. Su obra multi-media se encuentra esparcida por internet. Ver www.<br />

susanamedina.net<br />

Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948, and has worked as an actress in British fi lm and<br />

television. Her collection of short stories, Shape-shifter ( 1990), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize<br />

for Best First Book, the <strong>PEN</strong>/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her fi rst novel,<br />

The Ventriloquist’s Tale (1997), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and received the Whitbread Award<br />

for Best First Novel. Her most recent novel is Eating Air ( 2010).<br />

Casey Merkin is an American writer who left Paris in 2009 and is rumoured to currently reside<br />

in Alaska.<br />

Larissa Miller est née à Moscou en 1940. Elle est l’auteur de dix-huit livres de poésie et de prose,<br />

dont deux livres en langue anglaise. Son recueil poétique en deux langues Guests of Eternity ( 2008)<br />

a paru en Angleterre. Elle est membre du l’Union des écrivains russes depuis 1979 et ainsi que du<br />

centre russe du <strong>PEN</strong> <strong>International</strong> depuis 1991. Elle vit à Moscou. Pour plus d’informations consultez<br />

www.larisamiller.ru<br />

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo nació en Niefang, Guinea Ecuatorial, en 1950. Escritor y periodista, fue<br />

director adjunto del Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano de Malabo (la capital de su país), y director del<br />

Centro de Estudios Africanos en la Universidad de Murcia, España, donde reside desde hace varios años<br />

WiPC 50 Years, 50 Cases

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