Authors

Featured authors, 2024 – August 2026

A contemporary international line-up drawn from more than forty countries — writers publishing today, not names from the last century. Each author is listed with the book we are featuring, the month they appear in the programme, and whether they take part through Digital Placement or Virtual Participation.

Showing 100 featured authors.

September 2024

5 authors

Sally Rooney

Ireland

Normal People

Featured: September 8, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Ocean Vuong

United States

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Featured: September 15, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Han Kang

South Korea

The Vegetarian

Featured: September 22, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Bernardine Evaristo

United Kingdom

Girl, Woman, Other

Featured: September 3, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Zadie Smith

United Kingdom

White Teeth

Featured: September 10, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

October 2024

4 authors

Elif Shafak

Turkey

The Forty Rules of Love

Featured: October 17, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Yaa Gyasi

Ghana

Homegoing

Featured: October 24, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Colson Whitehead

United States

The Underground Railroad

Featured: October 5, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Jhumpa Lahiri

United States

The Namesake

Featured: October 12, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

November 2024

4 authors

Arundhati Roy

India

The God of Small Things

Featured: November 19, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Amitav Ghosh

India

The Shadow Lines

Featured: November 26, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Jo Nesbo

Norway

The Snowman

Featured: November 7, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Crime Fiction

Fredrik Backman

Sweden

A Man Called Ove

Featured: November 14, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

December 2024

4 authors

Sofi Oksanen

Finland

Purge

Featured: December 21, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Dorthe Nors

Denmark

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Featured: December 2, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Sjon

Iceland

The Blue Fox

Featured: December 9, 2024
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Iceland

Hotel Silence

Featured: December 16, 2024
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

January 2025

4 authors

Leila Slimani

France

Lullaby

Featured: January 23, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Psychological Fiction

Edouard Louis

France

The End of Eddy

Featured: January 4, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Autofiction

Delphine de Vigan

France

Based on a True Story

Featured: January 11, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Psychological Fiction

Maylis de Kerangal

France

Mend the Living

Featured: January 18, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

February 2025

4 authors

Daniel Kehlmann

Germany

Measuring the World

Featured: February 25, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Jenny Erpenbeck

Germany

Go, Went, Gone

Featured: February 6, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Fernando Aramburu

Spain

Homeland

Featured: February 13, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Political Fiction

Javier Cercas

Spain

Soldiers of Salamis

Featured: February 20, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

March 2025

5 authors

Rosa Montero

Spain

The Delta Function

Featured: March 1, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Colombia

The Sound of Things Falling

Featured: March 8, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Pilar Quintana

Colombia

The Bitch

Featured: March 15, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Samanta Schweblin

Argentina

Fever Dream

Featured: March 22, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Speculative Fiction

Mariana Enriquez

Argentina

Things We Lost in the Fire

Featured: March 3, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Horror

April 2025

4 authors

Claudia Pineiro

Argentina

Elena Knows

Featured: April 10, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Crime Fiction

Alejandro Zambra

Chile

Ways of Going Home

Featured: April 17, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Lina Meruane

Chile

Seeing Red

Featured: April 24, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Benjamin Labatut

Chile

When We Cease to Understand the World

Featured: April 5, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Nonfiction

May 2025

4 authors

Valeria Luiselli

Mexico

Lost Children Archive

Featured: May 12, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Fernanda Melchor

Mexico

Hurricane Season

Featured: May 19, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Guadalupe Nettel

Mexico

Still Born

Featured: May 26, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Alvaro Enrigue

Mexico

Sudden Death

Featured: May 7, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

June 2025

4 authors

Gabriela Cabezon Camara

Argentina

The Adventures of China Iron

Featured: June 14, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Daniel Galera

Brazil

Blood-Drenched Beard

Featured: June 21, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Paolo Giordano

Italy

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Featured: June 2, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Claudia Durastanti

Italy

Strangers I Know

Featured: June 9, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Memoir

July 2025

4 authors

Roberto Saviano

Italy

Gomorrah

Featured: July 16, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Investigative Nonfiction

Olga Tokarczuk

Poland

Flights

Featured: July 23, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Szczepan Twardoch

Poland

The King of Warsaw

Featured: July 4, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Dorota Maslowska

Poland

Snow White and Russian Red

Featured: July 11, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

August 2025

4 authors

Jachym Topol

Czech Republic

Gargling with Tar

Featured: August 18, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Eugene Vodolazkin

Russia

Laurus

Featured: August 25, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Andrey Kurkov

Ukraine

Death and the Penguin

Featured: August 6, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Satire

Serhiy Zhadan

Ukraine

The Orphanage

Featured: August 13, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: War Fiction

September 2025

5 authors

Mircea Cartarescu

Romania

Solenoid

Featured: September 20, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Georgi Gospodinov

Bulgaria

Time Shelter

Featured: September 1, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Speculative Fiction

Miljenko Jergovic

Croatia

Sarajevo Marlboro

Featured: September 8, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Short Stories

Mieko Kawakami

Japan

Breasts and Eggs

Featured: September 15, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Sayaka Murata

Japan

Convenience Store Woman

Featured: September 22, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

October 2025

4 authors

Hiromi Kawakami

Japan

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Featured: October 3, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Keigo Higashino

Japan

The Devotion of Suspect X

Featured: October 10, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Crime Fiction

Yu Hua

China

To Live

Featured: October 17, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Yan Lianke

China

Dream of Ding Village

Featured: October 24, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

November 2025

4 authors

Liu Cixin

China

The Three-Body Problem

Featured: November 5, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Science Fiction

Kim Young-ha

South Korea

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

Featured: November 12, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Bora Chung

South Korea

Cursed Bunny

Featured: November 19, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Short Stories

Shin Kyung-sook

South Korea

Please Look After Mom

Featured: November 26, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

December 2025

4 authors

Madeleine Thien

Canada

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Featured: December 7, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Esi Edugyan

Canada

Washington Black

Featured: December 14, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Omar El Akkad

Canada

American War

Featured: December 21, 2025
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Speculative Fiction

Rawi Hage

Canada

De Niro's Game

Featured: December 2, 2025
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

January 2026

4 authors

Rabih Alameddine

Lebanon

An Unnecessary Woman

Featured: January 9, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Ahmed Saadawi

Iraq

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Featured: January 16, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Magical Realism

Sinan Antoon

Iraq

The Corpse Washer

Featured: January 23, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Alaa Al Aswany

Egypt

The Yacoubian Building

Featured: January 4, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

February 2026

4 authors

Leila Aboulela

Sudan

The Translator

Featured: February 11, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Maaza Mengiste

Ethiopia

The Shadow King

Featured: February 18, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Nadifa Mohamed

Somalia

The Fortune Men

Featured: February 25, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Kenya

Dust

Featured: February 6, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

March 2026

5 authors

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Uganda

Kintu

Featured: March 13, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Zimbabwe

Nervous Conditions

Featured: March 20, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

NoViolet Bulawayo

Zimbabwe

Glory

Featured: March 1, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Satire

Damon Galgut

South Africa

The Promise

Featured: March 8, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Lauren Beukes

South Africa

Zoo City

Featured: March 15, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Speculative Fiction

April 2026

4 authors

Marlon James

Jamaica

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Featured: April 22, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Kei Miller

Jamaica

Augustown

Featured: April 3, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Monique Roffey

Trinidad and Tobago

The Mermaid of Black Conch

Featured: April 10, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Magical Realism

Richard Flanagan

Australia

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Featured: April 17, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

May 2026

4 authors

Trent Dalton

Australia

Boy Swallows Universe

Featured: May 24, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Coming-of-Age

Eleanor Catton

New Zealand

The Luminaries

Featured: May 5, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

Becky Manawatu

New Zealand

Aue

Featured: May 12, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Anuk Arudpragasam

Sri Lanka

A Passage North

Featured: May 19, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

June 2026

4 authors

Shehan Karunatilaka

Sri Lanka

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Featured: June 26, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Magical Realism

Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan

Exit West

Featured: June 7, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Speculative Fiction

Kamila Shamsie

Pakistan

Home Fire

Featured: June 14, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Tahmima Anam

Bangladesh

A Golden Age

Featured: June 21, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

July 2026

4 authors

Perumal Murugan

India

One Part Woman

Featured: July 2, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Geetanjali Shree

India

Tomb of Sand

Featured: July 9, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

Megha Majumdar

India

A Burning

Featured: July 16, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Viet Thanh Nguyen

United States

The Sympathizer

Featured: July 23, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Historical Fiction

August 2026

4 authors

Min Jin Lee

United States

Pachinko

Featured: August 4, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Historical Fiction

Celeste Ng

United States

Little Fires Everywhere

Featured: August 11, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Brit Bennett

United States

The Vanishing Half

Featured: August 18, 2026
Participation: Digital Placement
Genre: Literary Fiction

Jesmyn Ward

United States

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Featured: August 25, 2026
Participation: Virtual Participation
Genre: Literary Fiction

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