Authors & Translators
Gotz Aly
Gotz Aly is a freelance journalist and historian living in Berlin. He is the author of numerous scholarly works on the Holocaust and was the 2004-2006 visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main. Books: Fromms
Bruce Bauman
Bruce Bauman's work has appeared in Salon, BOMB, Bookforum, and numerous anthologies and literary magazines. He is an associate editor of Black Clock magazine and is adjunct professor in the CalArts MFA Writing Program. He is married to the painter Suzan Woodruff, and lives in Los Angeles. Books: And the Word Was
Gerard Bleandonu
Gerard Bleandonu is a communicty psychiatrist in a suberb of Lyon in France. He is the author of books on group therapy and on dreams. Books: Wilfred Bion: His Life and Works
Marcianne Blevis
Marcianne Blevis is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. She is a member of the Societe de Psychanalyse Freudienne and Director of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapeutic Department at the Sainte-Anne Hospital (Paris). She has published numerous articles in psychoanalytic journals and art publications. Books: Jealousy
Stefano Bolognini
Stefano Bolognini, the author of several books, including Psychoanalytic Empathy, is a frequent morning show guest and contributor to newspapers in Italy. Winner of the Gradiva Award for Like Wind, Like Wave, he lives and works in Bologna. Books: Like Wind, Like Wave
Daniel Cil Brecher
Daniel Cil Brecher is an independent historian living in Amsterdam. A former director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, he has taught at Haifa University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His documentary films and exhibitions have been shown throughout Europe and the U.S. Books: A Stranger in the Land
Svetlana Broz
Dr. Svetlana Broz, cardiologist, is currently Director of the NGO Garden of the Righteous in Sarajevo, the President of the Board of The First Children's Embassy in the World and a member of various NGOs, including the Association of Independent Intellectuals CIRCLE 99. She lives in Sarajevo. Books: Good People in an Evil Time
Dori Carter
Dori Carter is a former screenwriter and television producer. Her first novel, Beautiful Wasps Having Sex, published in 2000, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Carter lives with her husband, dogs, cats, cows, and horses in Santa Barbara, California. Books: We Are Rich
Ronit Chacham
Ronit Chacham, a native of Israel currently living in Jerusalem, is a widely published cultural critic who contributes regularly to news magazines in Israel. She is also the author of numerous works of fiction, including children's books, short stories, and plays. Books: Breaking Ranks
Myriam Chapman
Myriam Chapman teaches French at New York City's Bank Street School for Children. Why She Married Him is her first novel. Books: Why She Married Him
Yvette Christianse
Yvette Christianse was born in South Africa under apartheid and emigrated with her family via Swaziland to Australia at the age of eighteen. She is the author of the 1999 poetry collection Castaway. She teaches English and postcolonial studies at Fordham University and lives in New York City. Unconfessed, her first novel, was honored as a 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist. Books: Unconfessed
Sylvain Cypel
Sylvain Cypel, senior editor at Le Monde, joined the paper in 1998 as deputy head of the international section, following a five-year tenure as editor in chief of Courrier International and a stint as deputy editor in chief at the journal Les Echos. Cypel has long worked for the daily Le Matin de Paris and as a freelance journalist for France 2, Liberation, and other media outlets, often covering the Middle East. He holds degrees in sociology, contemporary history, and international relations, the last of which he earned at the University of Jerusalem. He lived in Israel for twelve years, and is now based in Paris. Walled was originally published in French; the Spanish translation of the book has been awarded the 23rd "Francisco Cerecedo" Journalism Prize from the Association of European Journalists. Books: Walled
Erri De Luca
Erri de Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and lives near Rome today. He is the author of several novels, including God's Mountain and Sea of Memory. Books: Three Horses: A Novel
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte was chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 1999 to 2007 and chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 1999 to 2003. Her work contributed to the indictment, arrest, or prosecution of dozens of persons accused of genocide and other war crimes, including Slobodan Milosevic, Theoneste Bagosora, and two of the world's most-wanted men, Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic. Del Ponte has received numerous awards and honors. She is currently Switzerland's ambassador to Argentina. Books: Madame Prosecutor
Elizabeth Diamond
Elizabeth Diamond lives in Devon, England. An Accidental Light is her first novel, for which she received a British Arts Council grant. She has just finished her second novel. Books: An Accidental Light
Sean Dixon
Sean Dixon is a writer and actor. His work has been published in The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, and Brick, A Literary Journal. Coach House Books published Dixon's play collection, AWOL, and his young adult novel, The Feathered Cloak, was published by Key Porter. He lives and plays banjo in Toronto. Books: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal
Daniel Dorman
Daniel Dorman, M.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. He has a background in family medicine, psychoanalysis, and research in neurophysiology. Dr. Dorman has practiced and taught psychotherapy for over thirty years. He lives in Los Angeles. Books: Dante's Cure
Francoise Dorner
Francoise Dorner is an actor, playwright, and screenwriter. In 1994 she was awarded the Prix du Jeune Theatre by the Academie Française for two of her plays. The Woman in the Row Behind, which won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2004, is her first novel. She lives in Paris. Books: The Woman in the Row Behind
Charles Enderlin
Charles Enderlin has been the Bureau Chief for France 2 since 1990. When Shattered Dreams (Other Press, 2003) was first published in France it was an immediate bestseller and led to a documentary series aired worldwide. The Lost Years also became the basis for a television documentary, "The Years of Blood," to be aired in its American version by the Discovery Times Channel and in its international version by TV stations all over Europe. He has lived in Jerusalem since 1968. Books: Shattered Dreams, The Lost Years
Patricia Ferguson
Patricia Ferguson trained and worked as a nurse and midwife, and this experience informs much of her fiction. She is the author of six novels, including It So Happens (2005) and Peripheral Vision (2007), both long-listed for the Orange Prize. Peripheral Vision is her first novel to be published in the United States. She lives in Bristol, England. Books: Peripheral Vision
Lydia Flem
Lydia Flem is the author of several books on Freud and Freudianism, and is also the author of the best-selling work Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and lives in Brussels and Paris with her husband and daughter.Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California. Books: Freud the Man
Ronald Florence
Books: Blood Libel
Amity Gaige
Books: O My Darling, The Folded World
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, proclaimed "the Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of eight books, including Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather. Books: Our Roots Are Deep with Passion
Leigh Hafrey
Leigh Hafrey is Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-Master of Mather House, Harvard College. His journalism, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in the New York Times and other American and European periodicals. Books: The Story of Success
Patrice Higonnet
Patrice Higonnet was born in Paris in 1938. He was educated in American, French, and English universities and is currently the Goelet Professor of History at Harvard University. He has written books on the compared history of the French and the American Revolutions, and on French history and culture, most recently Paris: Capital of the World(Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also had numerous articles published in renowned academic journals, as well as reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review. Books: Attendant Cruelties
Linda Hopkins
Linda Hopkins, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis certified analyst. Formerly an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Temple University Medical School, she is now in full-time private practice at Clinical Associates Main Line in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Books: False Self
Gail A. Hornstein
Gail Hornstein is Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and was the Founding Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center for its first ten years. Books: To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World
Belinda Jack
Books: Beatrice's Spell
Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar was born in Chicago in 1978. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt, and moved back to the U.S. at thirteen. She is a writer and translator whose honors include the Million Writers Award, the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award and the Geoffrey James Gosling Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares as well as in numerous journals and anthologies. Her translations from the Arabic have appeared in Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers; recently, she translated Hassan Daoud's novel, The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A Map of Home is her first novel. Visit Randa online at rockslinga.blogspot.com. Books: Map of Home, A
Reinhard Kaiser
Reinhard Kaiser, writer, translator, and editor, was born in 1950 and now lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has won many literary prizes for his books, including Paper Kisses. Books: Paper Kisses
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905. She published her first novel, Gilgi--A Girl Just Like Us, in 1931. Her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, instantly became a bestseller. After the war, she resumed writing under the name of Charlotte Tralow, enjoying only modest success until her early works were rediscovered and reissued in the late 1970s. She died in 1982 in Cologne. Books: Artificial Silk Girl
Sheila Kohler
Books: A Perfect Place, Cracks, The Children of Pithiviers, Crossways, Bluebird, or The Invention of Happiness
George Konrad
George Konrad, a former president of International PEN and the Academy of Arts in Berlin, is the author of The Case Worker and The Invisible Voice, among many other widely translated books. He lives in Budapest. Books: A Guest in My Own Country
Hanna Krall
Hanna Krall was born in Warsaw in 1937 and was a reporter for Polityka from 1957 until 1981, when martial law was imposed and her publications were banned. The recipient of numerous international literary awards, her books have been translated into 15 languages. She lives in Warsaw. Books: Woman from Hamburg, Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories
Barry M. Lando
Barry M. Lando spent 25 years as an award-winning investigative producer with 60 Minutes. The author of numerous articles about Iraq, he produced a documentary about Saddam Hussein that has been shown around the world. He lives in Paris. Books: Web of Deceit
Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis won two Emmys and many other honors as a writer and producer of Hill Street Blues. His "Meritocracy Quartet" is intended to chart the progress of a generation. The first book of the quartet, Meritocracy: A Love Story, won both the Independent Publishers Book Award for General Fiction and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine. Books: Conference of Birds, Meritocracy, Theme Song For An Old Show
Betty Jean Lifton
Books: Twice Born
Kara Lindstrom
Kara Lindstrom was a set decorator and production designer on movies before becoming a screenwriter. She splits her time between Los Angeles and Paris. Books: Sparkle Life
Philip Lopate
Phillip Lopate is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, critic, poet, and editor. He is the author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan (2004), as well as the essay collections Against Joie de Vivre, Bachelorhood, Being with Children, Portrait of My Body, and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically. He is the editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, and the Library of America's Writing New York. Two Marriages is his first book-length fiction since The Rug Merchant (1987). He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Books: Two Marriages
Rosetta Loy
Books: The Water Door
Linda Mck. Stewart
Linda McK. Stewart is a travel writer whose work has appeared in major metropolitan newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. She currently resides in New Jersey. Books: 25 Months
Icchokas Meras
Icchokas Meras was born in 1934 in Kelme, a town in northwestern Lithuania. His novels, short fiction, essays, and plays have been widely published and translated. Meras has been the recipient of many literary awards including the International Rememberance Award for Excellence and Distinction in the Literature of the Holocaust, for Stalemate. He currently lives in Holon, Israel. Books: Stalemate
Donigan Merritt
Donigan Merritt is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of seven novels, among them One Easy Piece (1981) and My Sister's Keeper (1983). He lives in Washington, DC. Books: Possessed by Shadows, The Common Bond
Anna Mitgutsch
Anna Mitgutsch's fiction includes Three Daughters and Lover, Traitor, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Recipient of the 2001 Solothurner Literaturpreis for German-language literary achievement, she lives in Austria and Boston. Books: House of Childhood: A Novel
Alberto Moravia
Books: Conjugal Love
Christian Oster
Christian Oster is a novelist who lives in Paris. In the last two decades, he has published eight novels as well as numerous stories, poems, and essays in French reviews. Books: The Unforeseen
Eric Paras
Eric Paras received his doctorate in the history of European thought at Harvard University and is an affiliate of Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He lives in McLean, Virginia. Books: Foucault 2.0
Mietek Pemper
Mietek Pemper was born in Krakow in 1920. He studied law and economics, and, after 1945, sociology at Krakow's Jagiellonian University. Between completing his master's degree and leaving in 1958, he held a leading position in the office for auditing state-owned companies. He now lives in Augsburg, Germany. Books: The Road to Rescue
George Prochnik
Books: Putnam Camp
Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabate is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvainia, and has authored or edited over twenty books on modernist authors such as Joyce and Pound, and on literary theory, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Books: The Ethics of the Lie
Leo Rangell
Dr. Leo Rangell has contributed over 450 articles and seven books to psychoanalytic literature. He has also twice been President of both the American and the International Psychoanalytic Associations. He is currently the Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Rangell resides in Los Angeles, California. Books: My Life in Theory
Phyllis Raphael
Phyllis Raphael is a journalist, essayist, and novelist. She is the winner of a PEN award for short fiction, and her stories and essays have appeared in the Village Voice, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Vogue. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University. A chapter of Off the King's Road appeared in Harper's magazine. She lives in New York City. Books: Off the King's Road
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Rogers is Professor Emeritus of English at Penn State. His previous novels are The Pursuit of Happiness, The Confessions of a Child of the Century, and At the Shores. Books: Jerry Engels
James Runcie
James Runcie is the author of two previous novels, The Discovery of Chocolate and The Colour of Heaven. He is also an award-winning filmmaker and theater director and has scripted several films for British television. His most recent film, J.K. Rowling . . . A Year in the Life, aired in the U.K. in 2007. Runcie lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two daughters. Books: Canvey Island
Tom Sancton
Tom Sancton makes his debut as a writer of political thrillers with The Armageddon Project. For 22 years he worked at Time magazine, most recently as the Paris Bureau Chief. He coauthored the 1998 international bestseller Death of a Princess: The Investigation, which examined the circumstances surrounding Princess Diana’s death. His acclaimed memoir, Song for My Fathers (Other Press, 2006), recounts his early life among legendary jazz men in his native New Orleans. He currently lives in Paris. Books: Song for My Fathers
Lara Santoro
Lara Santoro was born in Rome and educated in the U.S. and France. A veteran journalist who has worked for the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek, Santoro has traveled extensively covering wars, famines, and every major aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Mercy is her first novel. She lives in Ranchos de Taos, NM. Books: Mercy
Ralph James Savarese
Poet, essayist, translator, and scholar, Ralph James Savarese teaches American literature and creative writing at Grinnell College. He lives in Grinnell, Iowa. Books: Reasonable People
Joe Schwarcz
Books: An Apple A Day
Matthew Spencer
Matthew Spencer is currently working towards a master's degree in Editorial Studies at Boston University's Editorial Institute. He earned his bachelor's degree in literature from Boston University in 2002. Books: Elected Friends
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Weinfelden, Switzerland. He is the author of the novel, Agnes (1998), and numerous short stories and radio plays. He lives outside of Zurich. Books: Unformed Landscape, In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
Harry Thomas
Harry Thomas edited Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1993) and Talking With Poets (Handsel Books, 2004). He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. Books: Talking With Poets
Didier Van Cauwelaert
Didier van Cauwelaert is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Poisson d'Amour, La Vie Interdite, and Rencontre Sous X (forthcoming in English from Other Press). He wrote a libretto that was featured in the recent off-Broadway musical, Amour. He lives in Paris. Books: One Way, Out of My Head
Angel Wagenstein
Angel Wagenstein is a prizewinning Bulgarian novelist. His novel, Isaac's Torah, has been published in Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, France, the Czech Republic, and is forthcoming from Handsel Books. Farewell, Shanghai, his third novel, won the Jean Monnet award in 2004. Books: Isaac's Torah, Farewell Shanghai
Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Best New American Voices, StoryQuarterly, and other periodicals. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and recipient of the Carol Houck Smith Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is a contributing editor of A Public Space. This is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles. Books: The Interloper
Sandra Radzanower Wolkoff
Sandra Radzanower Wolkoff, CSW, is Director of the Marks Family Right from the Start 0-3+ Center at North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center. Among other duties, she is managing editor of and frequent contributor to Parent and preschooler Newsletter. She lives in Wantagh, New York. Books: Raising Young Children Well
