Writers & Presenters
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Lea Carpenter
Lea Carpenter is a novelist and screenwriter. Her first book, Eleven Days (Knopf 2013) was a history of America’s special operations forces told through the eyes of a young mother. Her second book, Red White Blue (Knopf 2018), was a thriller about CIA’s China Ops Division in the post nine-eleven era. Her first screenplay, “Mile 22”, about CIA’s Special Activities Division, was made into a film directed by Peter Berg starring John Malkovich and Mark Wahlberg.
Carpenter spent ten years as an editor in literary publishing. Lea was an editor on the launch of Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s National Magazine Award-winning literary magazine, as well as having served as Deputy Publisher for The Paris Review.
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
Martin Suter
Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is a writer, columnist and screenplay author. Until 1991 he worked as a creative director in advertising, before deciding to focus exclusively on writing. His novels (most recently Elephant and Allmen and the Koi) and his Business Class stories enjoy international success. Martin Suter and his family live in Zurich.
Suter has published fourteen novels, written four stage plays and seven screen plays. He has been awarded numerous literary awards. His works have been translated into over thirty languages and his books have resided regularly on bestseller lists around the world .
https://www.martin-suter.com
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Elisa Shua Dusapin, born to a French father and a South Korean mother, grew up between Paris, Seoul and Porrentruy. With Zoé editions, she published Winter in Sokcho (2016), Les Billes du Pachinko (2018) and Vladivostok Circus (2020). Her work has been translated or is in the process of being translated into dozen languages. Winter in Sokcho, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, won her the National Book Award 2021 and is being adapted to film by the director Koya Kamura.
Photo credits: Romain Guélat, éditions Zoé.
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, literary critic, journalist and television presenter. He co-founded 2 literary magazines and has been responsible for the literary section of Le Figaro Magazine. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. Beigbeder is a bestselling author, his novel 99 Francs established him as a controversial force within French literature. He has been awarded various prizes including the 2003 Prix Interallié and the 2009 Prix Renaudot, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 for his novel Windows on the World. Some of his latest works are A Life Without End, translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by World Editions and Un barrage contre L’Atlantique.
Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize among others. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, where he served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C.
Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Aneesa Abbas Higgins is the award-winning translator of Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Other authors she has translated include Nina Bouraoui, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Ali Zamir. Her work has earnt her numerous awards and citations, including the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the National Book Award. Her translations have also appeared in Asymptote and Words Without Borders. Before becoming a translator, she taught French for many years in an international school in London.