Authors
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Photo by Mathieu Bourgoisdiv>Roberto Bolaño
The author of many acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist. He was described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation," and his many prizes include the prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos.
Robert Bonazzi
Robert Bonazzi is the author of Man in the Mirror: The Story of Black Like Me (Orbis, 1997) and afterwords to John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (Penguin, 2010). Other books include Awakened by Surprise (fiction, Lamar University, 2016), Outside the Margins (essays, Wings, 2015), plus five books of poetry.
Cynthia Bond
Cynthia Bond is a writer and educator who has taught writing to homeless and at-risk youth throughout Los Angeles for more than fifteen years. As a PEN Rosenthal Fellow, Cynthia also founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.
Tanella Boni
Tanella Boni is one of the most prominent figures in modern African literature. Boni’s 2004 novel Matins de couvre-feu received the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize. In 2009 she won the Antonio Viccaro International Poetry Prize. The poem here is from Là où il fait si clair en moi, winner of the 2018 Prix Théophile Gautier from the French Academy.
Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (born 24 June 1923) is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher. His works have been of great importance in post-war French literature, at the same time poetic and theoretical, examining the meaning of the spoken and written word. He has also published a number of translations, most notably Shakespeare as well as several works on art and art history, including Miró and Giacometti.
Piedad Bonnett
Piedad Bonnett (b. 1951), one of Colombia’s most celebrated writers, has been widely recognized as a leading voice in contemporary Latin American poetry. She is the author of several award-winning collections, including Los habitados (The haunted, 2016) and the highly acclaimed Lo que no tiene nombre (That which has no name, 2013).
Photo by Hector Munozdiv>Luis Jorge Boone
From Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, Luis Jorge Boone is the author of eleven books including novels, books of poetry, and short-story collections. He is the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Cuento Inés Arredondo (2005), Poesía Joven Elías Nandino (2007), the Carlos Echánove Trujillo Literary Prize for Essay (2009), and the Premio Ramón López Velarde (2009). The English edition of his short-story collection The Cannibal Night, translated by George Henson, will appear later this year.
Drawing by Beatriz Crespodiv>Alexander Booth
Alexander Booth (www.wordkunst.com) is a poet and literary translator. A recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his translations of German poet Lutz Seiler, in field latin (Seagull Books, 2016), his poetry and translations have appeared in numerous international print and online journals. After many years in Rome, he currently lives in Berlin.
Xavier Bordes
Xavier Bordes is a French poet and translator born in Arc-en-Argens. He’s the author of twenty collections, most recently L’Astragalizonte et autres poèmes, published by Traversées in 2016. His collection Comme un bruit de source, published by Gallimard, won the Max Jacob prize in 1999. He has translated Greek poets including Odysseus Elytis, C. P. Cavafy, and Manolis Anagnostakis.
Phil Borges
For more than thirty years Phil Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges they face. His work is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and his award-winning books include, most recently, Tibet: Culture on the Edge. He has hosted television documentaries on indigenous cultures for Discovery and National Geographic. In 2004 Phil was honored with a Lucie at the International Photography Awards for his humanitarian work. He lectures and teaches internationally, and his current projects focus on social and economic gender issues in the developing world.
Sara Borjas
Sara Borjas is a self-identified Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet. Her debut collection, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (2019), received a 2020 American Book Award. Borjas was featured as one of Poets & Writers’ 2019 Debut Poets. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, CantoMundo, Postgraduate Writers Conference, and Community of Writers. She believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized. She teaches creative writing at UC Riverside and the UCR Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA Program but stays rooted in Fresno.
Indrajit Bose
Indrajit Bose is currently assistant professor of English at Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Sodepur. He graduated from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and did his MA and PhD in English at Jadavpur University. He holds the eTBE certificate from the University of South Carolina and has been trained in ELT by the British Council, India. Bose is a Fellow at Presidency College, Kolkata. He also teaches French at GNIHM, Sodepur. He is a teacher trainer, materials developer in ELT, poet, translator, and the chief editor of Poetry Central.
Zoltán Böszörményi
Zoltán Böszörményi (b. 1953) is a Hungarian poet, writer, and publisher in Romania; two of his novels have been published in Sohar’s translation: Far from Nothing (2006) and The Club at Eddie’s Bar (2013). Ragged Sky will publish The Conscience of Trees, his poetry in English translation, in late 2018.
Photo © Margarita Mejiadiv>Andrea Cote Botero
Andrea Cote Botero (b. 1981, Colombia) is the prizewinning author of the poetry collections Puerto calcinado (2003) and La ruina que nombro (2014). She is also a translator of poetry from English into Spanish and is currently assistant professor of poetry in the bilingual MFA program at the University of Texas, El Paso.
Recaredo Silebo Boturu
Recaredo Silebo Boturu (b. Baresó, 1979) is a poet, playwright, narrator, essayist, actor, and theater director from Equatorial Guinea. His writings expound on social issues while salvaging and rearticulating oral traditions. Author of the short story La danza de la abuela (2011; The grandmother’s dance), he is best known for his book of poetry and drama, Luz en la noche (2010; Light in the night). Presently, he is finishing a second book, Soliloquio (Soliloquy). Boturu’s work is at the heart of the theatrical activity in his country. He directs the theater company Bocamandja, which has performed in Spain and Colombia. In addition to working closely with other theater companies in Malabo and Bata, he is a key member of Orígenes, a Spanish-Guinean independent theatrical association that seeks to establish a national theater company in Equatorial Guinea.
Photo by David Boullatadiv>Issa J. Boullata
Issa J. Boullata (b. 1929) is a Palestinian scholar, writer, and translator of Arabic literature. He has authored several books on Arabic literature, poetry, and the Qur'an, and has written numerous articles and book reviews for scholarly journals and encyclopedias. He is a two-time winner of the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award and a contributing editor of Banipal magazine of London.
Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. The author of fifteen novels, her most recent English translations include Before and Texas: The Great Theft. Deep Vellum will publish Heavens on Earth in December.
Stéphane Bouquet
Stéphane Bouquet is the author of several collections of poems and a book of essays on poems, La Cité de paroles (2018). Bouquet is a recipient of a 2003 Prix de Rome and a 2007 Mission Stendhal Award.
Coral Bracho
Coral Bracho’s (b. 1951) early work altered the landscape of Mexican poetry. She is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize, Xavier Villaurrutia Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bracho has collaborated with several painters and is a member of Mexico’s National Organization of Artists.
Matías Serra Bradford
Matías Serra Bradford (b. 1969, Buenos Aires) is a critic, writer, translator, and author of the travel diary Diario de un invierno en Tokio, the collected obituaries of Cómo falsificar una sombra, the essays of Animales tímidos: 23 poetas perdidos, and the novels La guillotina, El secreto entre los rusos, La biblioteca ideal, and Manos verdes, among others. He is currently editor of the Ñ supplement of the newspaper Clarín.
Olga Bragina
Olga Bragina is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. She was born in Kyiv in 1982 and graduated from the Kyiv National Linguistic University with a degree in translation. She has published five collections of poetry, a book of short stories, and a novel. Her poetry has been translated into twenty-two languages. She lives in Kyiv and is currently working on translating Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska into Ukrainian.
Photo by John Clifforddiv>Giannina Braschi
Called “one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today” by PEN, Giannina Braschi creates linguistic and structural hybrids of poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, treatise, and drama. She is the cutting-edge author of the postmodern poetry trilogy El imperio de los sueños / Empire of Dreams; the experimental Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!; and a philosophical work of dramatic fiction, United States of Banana. Born in Puerto Rico, she lives in New York.
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930), a poet, historian, literary critic, and essayist, was born in Bridgetown, the capital city of Barbados. Brathwaite spent his childhood in Barbados but would spend his adult life traveling, learning, and teaching all over the globe. He attended Harrison University in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge, England, where he graduated with honors in 1953. After graduating from Cambridge, Brathwaite embarked on a journey to Ghana where he worked in Ghana's Ministy of Education for more than ten years. Brathwaite familiarized himself with Ghanaian traditional verse and pre-colonial African myths, which would be influencial to his own writing. Later on, he earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1968. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of the West Indies, and New York University. He won the 1994 Neustadt Prize.
Juliette Bretan
Juliette Bretan is a writer and PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where she researches depictions of Poland and east central Europe in modernist literature. She has previously written for The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, Arts Desk, and more.
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst’s classic The Elements of Typographic Style (4th ed., 2012) has just appeared in French translation. His other books include A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. His latest publication is a volume of poems, The Ridge (2023).
