TE22 Potpourri

About the Authors

Andrea Lundgren TE22-07

Antonella Lattanzi TE22-10

Antonella Lattanzi (born 1979 in Bari, Italy) is a screenwriter and novelist. Alongwith FilippoGravinio, shewrote screenplays for Fiore by Claudio Giovannesi (2013) and 2night by Ivan Silvestrini (2016). She was a finalist for the 2013 Stresa Prize and won the 2017 Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize. In addition to her screenwriting, she has also published three novels, short stories and a few non-fiction pieces.

Andrea Lundgren (born 1986 in Boden, Sweden) began herwriting career in 2010 with the novel I tunga vintrars mage . Her second novel, Glupahungern was adapted into a play in 2018, the same year that her first short story collection, Nordic Fauna , was released. She has recentlywon the Tidningen Vi:s litteraturpris and the Samfundet de Nios vinterpris for this collection.

Ángelo Néstore TE22-11

Lada Vukić TE22-08

Ángelo Néstore (born 1986 in Lecce, Italy) is a Spanish-Italian poet currently based in Malaga, Spain. They are a professor at the University of Malaga and have been widely translated themself into various languages. Their first poetry collection, Adán o nada , came out in 2017. The collection excerpted here, Impure Acts , won them the XXXII Premio Hiperión de Poesía. In 2021, they created a poetic piece in the Prado Museum by invitation.

Lada Vukić (born in Zadar, Croatia) works as a bookkeeper when not writing creatively. Special Needs , excerpted here, is her debut novel, which won her the VBZ Unpublished Novel of the Year award in 2020.

Heidi Amsinck TE22-09

Lejla Kalamujić TE22-12

Heidi Amsinck (born in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer and journalist currently based in London. She has written various short story collections, which have been produced for radio by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. Her first published collection, Last Train to Helsingør , cameout in 2018. My Name is Jensen is her first noir novel.

Lejla Kalamujić (born 1980 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) writesproseandessays thatexploretopicsrelated tosexuality,mental health, and death. In 2016, her collection Call Me Esteban won the Edo Budisa Literary Award and was nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. She draws inspiration from her personal experiences, social environment, and other female authors.

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