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Informationen zum Autor Ali Smith is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels include The Accidental , There but for the and, most recently, How to Be Both , winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award. She was born in Scotland and now lives in Cambridge. Yiyun Li (b. 1972) is a prize-winning short story writer and novelist. Named by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists in 2007, her work has won her the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, The PEN/Hemingway Award and the California Book Award. She lives and teaches in California. Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international publications including the Boston Review , Harper's and the New Yorker . Nors's works include Wild Swims , Karate Chop , Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - which are all published by Pushkin Press. Born in rural Jutland, she lives on the North Sea coast in Denmark. The award-winning novelist Sasa Stanisic was born in Visegrad, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1978 and has lived in Germany since 1992. His debut novel How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone was acclaimed by readers and critics alike, and has been translated into 30 languages so far. Before the Feast , his second novel, won the 2014 Leipzig Book Fair Prize, was longlisted for the German Book Prize, and won the Alfred-Döblin and Hohenemser literary prizes. Klappentext A celebration of bookshops around the world from a selection of writers including Pankaj Mishra, Iain Sinclair and Ali Smith. Zusammenfassung These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell.
