Kaya McLaren is also author of Church of the Dog. She lives and teaches on the east slope of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State.

Tom McNeal was born and raised in Santa Ana, California, but spent part of every summer at the Nebraska farm where his mother grew up.

(born 1963) is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Bombay where he lived until his family moved to the New York area in 1977. 

Murat Menteş is the author of the novels Dublörün Dilemması (The Double’s Dilemma) and Korkma Ben Varım (No Fear, I’m Here). 

Martin Meredith is a journalist, biographer and historian.

Amanda Michalopoulou was born in Athens, Greece, in1966. She has studied French Literature in Athens University and has worked for many years as a columnist for Greek newspapers. 

Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. 

is the author of two books, the Indian bestseller The Diary of a Social Butterfly based on her hit column in Pakistan's Friday Times and a novel, The End of Innocence. Born in Pakistan, she lives in the UK.

Andrea Molesini was born and lives in Venice and teaches Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padova. 

NORBERTO MORAIS was born in the Black Forest, Germany in 1975 and moved to Portugal at the
age of six. 

known only by his last name, Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band The Smiths.

author and BAFTA award-winning director

also known as Jim Bob. He’s a musician and was frontman of Carter USM and headlined Glastonbury in 1989.

Sir Andrew Motion was born in 1952 and read English at Oxford University. He has taught English at the University of Hull, been the editor of the Poetry Review, and Editorial Director and Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus. 

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven previous books.

writes touching novels that deal with the questions of life. 

an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in numerous publications...

(1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

Håkan Östlundh brings his readers right into the action, amuses them, makes them nervous, angry, happy and sad with his knife-sharp skill visualizing scenes and creating characters. 

american writer and screenwriter