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october/november JOÃO CERQUEIRA has a PhD in History of Art from the University of Oporto. He is the author of seven books: Art and Literature in the Spanish Civil War, Blame It on too Much Freedom, The Tragedy of Fidel Castro, Devil’s Observations, Maria Pia: Queen and Woman, José de Guimarães (published in China by the Today Art Museum), José de Guimarães: Public Art. SERGIO CHEJFEC, originally from Argentina, has published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Among his grants and prizes, he has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in 2007 and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2000. His books have been translated into French, German, and Portuguese. He teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at NYU. His books published by Open Letter: My Two Worlds (2011, translated by Margaret Carson), The Planets (2012, translated by Heather Cleary), The Dark (2013, translated by H.C.). LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA is a poet, novelist, and translator born in Skopje, Macedonia. In her native language she has published eight books. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, and her work has been translated into more than 20 languages. She lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. NINA MUKERJEE FURSTENAU is a journalist and teacher. She teaches a food and wine writing course for the University of Missouri science and agriculture journalism program. Her nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Painted Bride Quarterly and Missouri Life. YARDENNE GREENSPAN was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to an American father and an Israeli mother. She graduated with honors in 2009 from Tel Aviv University, where she majored in Comparative and Hebrew Literature and in Multidisciplinary Arts. After completing her undergraduate studies she went on to travel in South America and East Asia, feeding her love of languages and cultures and writing throughout her travels. DAVID SCOTT HAMILTON studied linguistics and French at Simon Fraser University, and French literature and law at the University of Ottawa. He spent a decade living in the Outaouais region of Quebec where he taught English and worked as a freelance translator, producing significant works for numerous clients, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He now divides his time between Vancouver and Chambéry, France, and has turned his contributors attention exclusively to literary translation. Exit (Paradis, clef en main by Nelly Arcan), his debut literary translation, nominated for the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English translation. MISHKA HENNER was the recipient this year of the ICP Infinity Award for Art and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. His works are held in the Tate Collection, the Centre Pompidou, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Portland Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. MICHELINE MARCOM is the author of Three Apples Fell from Heaven, which was a New York Times Notable Book. The Daydreaming Boy won the 2005 PEN/USA Award in fiction and was named a best book by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. OLGA NIKOLOVA was born in Sandanski, Southern Bulgaria, but grew up in the small industrial city of Pernik. After graduating from Pernik’s Modern Languages High School, she pursued a master’s degree in English at Sofia University, where she won the Marko Minkoff scholarship for her thesis on the poetry of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. She completed her PhD at Harvard University. JORGE SANTIAGO PEREDNIK (1952-2011) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An influential poet and literary critic, he was also a publisher and a translator of English and American poetry. He had a long career as a teacher and became an important interlocutor for multiple generations of poets. CAROLE P. ROMAN is an award-winning author and former social studies teacher. Author of the highly successful Captain No Beard series, she lives on Long Island with her husband and near her children and grandchildren. ANTONIO TABUCCHI was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012. A master of short fiction, he won the Prix Médicis Etranger and the Italian PEN Prize and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Shelf Unbound is published bimonthly by Shelf Media Group LLC, 3322 Greenview Drive, Garland, TX 75044. Copyright 2013 by Shelf Media Group LLC. Subscriptions are FREE, go to www.shelfmediagroup.com to subscribe. what to read next in independent publishing

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