Olive Senior - PEN International

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por su oposición a la dictadura. También fue delegado de la agencia de noticias española EFE en África
central, y profesor visitante en la Universidad de Missouri – Columbia (Estados Unidos). Su Antología
de la literatura guineana (1984) es considerada por la crítica internacional como la obra fundadora de la
literatura escrita en Guinea Ecuatorial. Además de relatos cortos, ha publicado libros de historia (Historia
y tragedia de Guinea Ecuatorial [1977], España en Guinea [1998]) y las novelas Las tinieblas de tu memoria
negra (1987), Los poderes de la tempestad (1997) y El Metro (2007), que le han situado como uno de los
escritores africanos más sobresalientes del momento.
Patrice Nganang est un auteur camerounais qui est né en 1970. Il est romancier, essayiste et poète.
Ses œuvres sont traduits en plusieurs langues. Son dernier roman, Mont Plaisant, a été publié par Phebus
en 2010.
Tamara O’Brien taught English at Adam Mickiewicz University in 1984 and subsequently, after a
long and winding road that took in a bookshop and two Councils (Camden and The British), became a
copywriter. She now enjoys creating perfect worlds with words. Her website is at www.tamaracopy.com
Nick Parker lives on the outskirts of town. By day he’s a creative director of the language consultancy
The Writer. By night he writes very short stories, very slowly. His fi rst collection, The Exploding Boy and
Other Tiny Tales, is due out in summer 2010. Drop him a line at spigmite@gmail.com
Amruta Patil is a writer and artist whose work aims to seamlessly blend text and image.
She is the author of a graphic novel, Kari, and co-editor of Mindfi elds, a magazine about ideas and
alternative education. She has an abiding love for mythology and history and a growing interest in
sustainable living. She is currently working on a graphic novel based on the Mahabharata. Her website
is at www.amrutapatil.com
Franco Pesce está iniciándose como escritor y traductor (según él, dos labores casi iguales). Nacido
en Santiago de Chile, vive actualmente en Londres, ciudad que dejará pronto para comenzar en la
Universidad de Cambridge un doctorado en literatura hispanoamericana. Escribe en http://frangopeixe.
wordpress.com y lee correos en fpesce@puc.cl
Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, near Moscow, in 1969. Since 1998 she has been
a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and, in 2003, became a member of Russian PEN. In 2004 her
book A Voice was published in English by Northwestern University Press as part of its acclaimed series
‘Writings from an Unbound Europe’ and shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European
Poetry in Translation as well as for the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European
Languages’ prize for literature in translation.
Rita Sabah a obtenu son diplômée de l’Université de Ramat-Aviv (Israël) en 1983. Elle traduit de
l’anglais et de l’hébreu plusieurs essais et pièces de théâtre. Également journaliste, elle collabore
régulièrement avec Le Monde Diplomatique. En 1999, sa nouvelle intitulée « Dans le mellah de Meknès »
a été publiée dans la Revue d’études palestiniennes.
Olive Senior is one of the Caribbean’s most internationally recognized and acclaimed writers and
has also won recognition in her adopted country of Canada. Among her many awards and honours she
has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and F.G. Bressani Literary Prize, was nominated for Canada’s
Governor-General’s Literary Award and was runner-up for the Casa de Las Americas Prize and the Pat
Lowther Award. She is also the awardee of a rare Gold Medal from the Institute of Jamaica. Her body
of published work includes four books of poetry, three collections of short stories and several awardwinning
non-fi ction works on Caribbean culture including The Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage.
Ed Sowerby is a professional copywriter based in London who has written for all sorts of businesses
and brands over the years, from Nike and Guinness to Greenpeace, the National Gallery and The Climate
Group. He fi rst cut his quill at The Writer, where he won two Communicators in Business awards.
Since then he’s been brand language manager at Orange, and is now senior copywriter at the creative
consultancy Figtree. When he’s not writing, he is a keen goalkeeper, an impatient fi sherman and a
terrible cook. He can be contacted at edsowerby@gmail.com
Víctor Terán nació en Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, en 1958. Es profesor de enseñanza media.
Su obra ha sido publicada en muchas revistas y antologías internacionales. En 1993, 1998 y 2005, recibió
la beca del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes para Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas, con las
cuales escribió las obras Yuuba’ xtí’ Guendarusaana (El dolor del abandono, 1995), Xpacaanda’ Cha’ba’
(El Sueño del Flojo, 2000), y la obra inédita Diidxa’ ndahui naquite (Relatos breves de humor). También
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