Artists

Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers.
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Sarah Churchwell was born in 1970 in the USA. She is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London.
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Patrick DeWitt was born in 1975 in Vancouver, Canada. He currently lives in Oregon, USA and is the author of three novels which were selected for several prizes and awards. He is also a screenwriter.
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Omar El-Akkad is an award-winning journalist and author who has travelled around the world to cover many of the most important news stories of the last decade.
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Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Rivers, The Hands of Strangers and Desperation Road. Rivers was named in numerous Best Books of the Year lists and garnered the 2014 Mississippi Author Award for Fiction. 
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Lennie Goodings is Chair at Virago Press where she is editor of, among others, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters, Naomi Wolf, Sarah Dunant, Margaret Atwood. She is Canadian and has lived in London for years.
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Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott was born and raised in Houston, Texas, before coming to call Los Angeles and London her adopted homes. She is a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA course and was the winner of the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. Swan Song is her first novel.
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Christian Guay-Poliquin was born just north of the U.S. border in Quebec, in 1982. He believes that the art of the narrative is grounded in the demands and details of our daily life and situated in a world shaped by experience.
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Nathan Hill was born in Iowa in 1975 and lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. The Nix is his first novel.
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Nancy Lee's work has been published in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. She has served as Visiting Canadian Fellow for the University of East Anglia, as well as Writer-in-Residence for Historic Joy Kogawa House, the City of Richmond and the Ville de Vincennes, France.
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Jennie Melamed is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who specialises in working with traumatised children. She lives in Seattle. Gather The Daughters is her first novel.
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Andrée A. Michaud is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction (Le Ravissement and Bondrée) and the recipient of the Arthur Ellis Award and the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel for Bondrée (The Last Summer), as well as the 2006 Prix Ringuet for Mirror.
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Guillaume Morissette is the author of The Original Face (Véhicule Press, 2017), one of The Globe And Mail's best books for 2017, and New Tab (Véhicule Press, 2014), a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Both books have been translated and published in French by Éditions du Boréal.
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Heather O'Neill has written for This American Life and the New York Times. Her first novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, was shortlisted for the Orange Women's Prize; her second, The Girl who was Saturday Night, was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
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Tommy Orange was born and raised in Oakland, California. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He currently teaches at the MFA programme at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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Éric Plamondon was born in Québec in 1969 and currently lives in Bordeaux. He is the author of the 1984 trilogy (Le Quartanier, 2016) quickly considered shining examples of a new generation of Québécois literary innovation.
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Pochoda is a novelist and writer, previously a world ranked squash player. Her novel Visitation Street was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
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Guy Vanderhaeghe is the author of five novels, four collections of short stories, two plays, and one teleplay. He is a three-time winner of the Governor’s-General Award for English language fiction for his collections of short stories, Man Descending and Daddy Lenin, and for his novel The Englishman’s Boy, which was also short-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize and The Giller Prize.
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John Vigna is the author of Bull Head, selected by Quill & Quire as an editor’s pick of the year and finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. It was published in France by Éditions Albin Michel (Loin de la violence des hommes).
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Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Erica Wagner is Consulting Literary Editor for Harper's Bazaar. She was the literary editor of the Times for seventeen years and is now a contributing writer for the New Statesman, as well as writing for many other publications.
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Cherie Dimaline is a writer and editor from the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario who has published 4 books of short stories, literary fiction and young adult fiction. Her latest book, The Marrow Thieves, won the 2017 Governor General’s Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers.
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Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books including Wake Up, Sir!, and You Were Never Really Here, both published by Pushkin Press.
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Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous novels, including You Don’t Have to Live Like This, which won the 2015 James Tait Black Prize.
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Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, cultural commentator, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in Poland, brought up in Paris and Montreal, came to the UK as a graduate student and lives in London.
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Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, has been published in 23 territories and 18 languages. Her next book, Our Homesick Songs, will be published by Penguin Canada in 2018. 
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Michael Redhill is the author of the novels Consolation, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Martin Sloane, a finalist for the Giller Prize. He's written a novel for young adults, four collections of poetry and two plays, including the internationally celebrated Goodness.
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Peter Frankopan, juror for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College.
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Mark Gilbert, Chair of the Jury for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, is Professor of History and International Studies at the Bologna campus of the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University.
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Matt Gilbert is a copywriter who also writes about books, place and other diversions on his blog Richly Evocative.
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On 12th December 2013, Dany Laferrière was elected at the Académie française, his election represents a major event in the literary annals. He was born in Port-au-Prince and spent his childhood in Petit-Goâve.
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Antonia Maioni is the Dean of Arts at McGill University, which runs the Cundill History Prize. She holds a B.A. from Université Laval, an M.A. from Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. 
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Georgina Godwin is an independent broadcast journalist. A regular chair of literary events worldwide, she’s the voice of the Arts Podcast for The British Council.
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