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Authors
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Charif Majdalani
Charif Majdalani is a Lebanese writer and novelist. He has published nine novels in French, which have been translated into seven languages. He is a professor at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, where he was dean of the Department of French Literature. He is a member of L’Orient littéraire’s editorial board, a columnist for the French daily La Croix, and president of the International Writers’ House in Beirut. The English translation of his novel Histoire de la Grande Maison is forthcoming from Other Press in 2024.
Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar’s (www.amitmajmudar.com) third poetry collection is Dothead (Knopf, 2016). He is the first Poet Laureate of Ohio as well as a novelist and essayist.
Saikat Majumdar
Saikat Majumdar is the author of a novel, Silverfish (HarperCollins India, 2007), and a book of criticism, Prose of the World (Columbia University Press, 2013). His new novel, The Firebird, from which this story is excerpted, will be published in June 2015 by Hachette India. He teaches world literature at Stanford University.
Lamia Makaddem
Lamia Makaddem is a Tunisian poet and translator living in the Netherlands. The author of two books of poetry, her verse has been translated into English, French, Dutch, and Kurdish. In 2000 she was awarded the El Hizjra prize for literature. She translated the award-winning Dutch novel Jij zegt het (You said it), by Connie Palmen, and is currently working on the Arabic translation of Malva, by Hagar Peeters.
Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is the founder of the Obsidian Foundation and winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize. His 2017 debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His poems have appeared in the Cambridge Review, New York Times, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, and Wasafiri. He is a trustee for the Arvon Foundation and the Ministry of Stories, and a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective.
Marek Makowski
Marek Makowski’s work recently appeared in such venues as the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Yale Review. He teaches courses about writing, Shakespeare, and the self in the time of social media at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Shereen Malherbe
Shereen Malherbe is a British Palestinian author of three novels and a children’s series. Her latest novel, The Land Beneath the Light, a Palestinian reimagining of Jane Eyre, has been nominated for the Palestine Book Awards 2022. The Girl Who Stitched the Stars, the second in her migrant children’s series, has also been nominated for the Palestine Book Awards. After a decade living throughout the Middle East, Malherbe now resides in the UK with her husband and four children. She is currently working on her fourth novel.
Maria Malinovskaya
Maria Malinovskaya, born in Belarus, is a Moscow-based poet who writes in Russian. She is a PhD student in contemporary poetry studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and author of two books of documentary and language poetry. Her poetry has appeared in translation in English, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Polish. Her poem “white-red-white flag,” based on the events of the Belarusian protests, was honored with a 2021 Poesia Prize.
David Malouf
David Malouf (b. 1934) was born of Lebanese and British parents in Brisbane and was educated at Brisbane grammar school and the University of Queensland, where he taught for two years after graduation. He spent the next decade, from 1959 to 1968, in England and Italy, returning to Australia in 1968, where he took a position teaching English at the University of Sydney. His first novel was published in 1975 and was adapted for the stage in 2004. The Great World, published in 1990, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the French Prix Femina Etranger. Remembering Babylon, published in 1993, was shortlisted for that year's Booker Prize.
Vuyelwa Maluleke
Vuyelwa Maluleke was shortlisted for the Writivism Short Story Prize (2019) and the Brunel University African Poetry Prize (2014). She is the author of the chapbook Things We Lost in the Fire and a slam champion of the Word and Sound 2015 Poetry league competition with an essay in the recent publication Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction (2018).
Photo by Taras Khimchakdiv>Tania Malyarchuk
Tania Malyarchuk (b. 1983) is one of Ukraine’s most talented young prose writers. Her first novel, Adolpho’s Endspiel, or a Rose for Liza, appeared in 2004. Her later collections of shorter prose works include From Above Looking Down: A Book of Fears (2006), How I Became a Saint (2006), To Speak (2007), Bestiary of Words (2009), and Divine Comedy (2009). She is currently a writer-in-residence in Vienna, Austria.
Munur Mambetaliev
Munur Mambetaliev was born in Tash-Dobo, Kyrgyzstan, in 1932. A journalist and decorated war veteran, he is the author of nineteen books, including Selected Poems.
Alison Mandaville
Alison Mandaville is a poet and assistant professor of literature and English education at California State University.
Charlotte Mandell
Charlotte Mandell has translated over forty books from the French, including works by Blanchot, Flaubert, and Genet. Her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard was recently shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017.
Brano Mandić
Brano Mandić was born in 1979. He has written a short-story collection, Feb Waited for a Pencil (2016), and co-founded the publishing house Yellow Turtle (Žuta kornjača). He is one of the most widely read columnists in Montenegro.
Sergio Mansilla Torres
Sergio Mansilla Torres was born in Achao, Chiloé, Chile in 1958. He received his PhD in Spanish from the University of Washington; he is a tenured professor at the Southern University of Chile in Valdivia. Mansilla has published ten books of poetry, including Quercún (Los Libros del Taller, 2019).
Majid Maqbool
Majid Maqbool is an award-winning independent journalist and writer based in the Kashmir region.
Photo by Giuseppe Morettidiv>Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini (b. 1936) has established herself as a leading contemporary novelist, poet, dramatist, and journalist. She founded an all-female theater company, is the editor of Nuovi Argomenti, Italy’s premier literary journal, and is recognized among the foremost Italian writers. She was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Works by Maraini available in English translation include The Holiday, The Age of Malaise, Woman at War, The Silent Duchess, Bagheria, Voices, and Darkness.
Soledad Marambio
Soledad Marambio is a Chilean poet and translator. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and works at the University of Bergen’s Aging Project. Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else, a selection of her poems, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018.
Salgado Maranhão
Salgado Maranhão has won numerous Brazilian poetry prizes, including the Prêmio Jabuti twice. In addition to fourteen books of poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with leading Brazilian musicians. His two books in the US are Blood of the Sun (2012) and Tiger Fur (2015).
Kai Maristed
Kai Maristed is a novelist (Broken Ground, a Berlin story), playwright, and translator. Her short work has appeared in Agni, Ploughshares, and other journals, and is forthcoming in Five Points.
William Marling
William Marling is Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. His sixth book, Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s, has just been released by Oxford University Press. Twice a Fulbright professor (Spain, Austria), he has been Said Chair at American University of Beirut, the Drake Chair at Kobe College Japan, and the French Ministry of Education Professor at Université d’Avignon twice.
Ana Martins Marques
Ana Martins Marques (b. 1977, Belo Horizonte) is an award-winning Brazilian author of several poetry collections, including A vida submarina, Da arte das armadilhas, O livro das semelhanças, and Risque esta palavra. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. This House, published by Scrambler Books in 2017 and translated by Elisa Wouk Almino, is a selection of poems from Ana’s first three books originally published in Brazil.
Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman, one of the most important Dutch poets of the twentieth-century, was also an influential critic and editor. His work reflects an abiding fascination with classical European culture. Born in 1899, he died in 1940 while trying to escape to England after the outbreak of World War II.
Liza Martín
Born and raised in Mendoza, Argentina, Liza Martín left home when she turned eighteen to study for an international baccalaureate in Thailand through the United World College program. Completely alone on a foreign continent, writing became her refuge—her therapy. Once she graduated, Liza was accepted into the University of Oklahoma on a full scholarship, where she is currently studying English literature with a minor in professional writing. Being the first in her family to complete her studies abroad and the first to speak a second language, Liza aspires to represent her roots in her field of work. She writes in Spanish and English to make her art and culture accessible to both languages.
