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WiPC 50 Years, 50 Cases
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tiene publicados los libros de poesía Sica ti Gubidxa Cubi (Como un sol nuevo, 1994), Ca Guichi Xtí’
Guendaranaxhii (Las Las Espinas del Amor, Amor 2003), y el libro de cuentos Ti gunaa qui runa (Una mujer necia,
2006). De 1999 a 2003 fue asesor y miembro del jurado dictaminador de las becas del Programa de Apoyo
para Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas del FONCA. Es maestro, ha recorrido México y el Reino Unido leyendo
su obra literaria, y actualmente labora en la Jefatura de Sector 03 de Escuelas Secundarias Técnicas del
Istmo oaxaqueño.
Matt Turner has been a copywriter for over fi fteen years, writing for the business, consumer
and public sectors. He is also an experienced project manager and tone-of-voice consultant, and a
co-founder of Writers Ltd, a leading copywriting company with offi ces in UK, Paris and Sydney.
For more information, visit www.writers.uk.net
Elise Valmorbida is an Italian-Australian writer who runs the communications agency word-design
and teaches creative writing at Central Saint Martins. Her published works include The Book
of Happy Endings (2007), many short stories and three novels: Matilde Waltzing (1997), The TV President
(2008) and The Winding Stick (2009). Honoured by the Edinburgh International Film Festival as a
Trailblazer, she is the script consultant and producer of award-winning indie feature fi lm Saxon, released
to critical acclaim in 2009. She is a member of English PEN and the not-for-profi t writers’ association 26.
She has worked closely with International PEN on the 26:50 project as well as the creation of a new brand
identity. Her website is at www.word-design.co.uk/books
Andrew Wachtel is Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University,
where he also serves as dean of the Graduate School. His most recent published books are Russian
Literature (co-authored with Ilya Vinitsky, 2009) and The Balkans in World History (2008). He is active as a
translator from Russian, Slovene and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. His book-length translations of A Voice
by Anzhelina Polonskaya and The Prophecy and Other Stories by Drago Jancar were published in 2006 and
2009 respectively. He is currently working on a research project on wine and globalisation
in the Balkan and Black Sea regions.