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Born in Newark, New Jersey, Philip Roth went on to become one of the most awarded American writers of his generation

Carol Lake is President of the J P Morgan Chase Foundation. Over the past 30 years she has held senior positions with a number of major global corporations including British Telecom, McDonnell Douglas, Cable & Wireless and J.P. Morgan, where she has spent the last 21 years

The tone of The Hand-Reared Boy is lightly humorous, with a sentiment that never drops into sentimentality. It presents without swagger, much that is not easy to accept.

Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist and playwright

Ekin Oklap was born in Izmir, Turkey, and grew up in Italy

Misha Hoekstra was born in the US in 1963

Carolina Orloff was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1977

Mary Beard is an acclaimed author and broadcaster, and one of Britain’s best-known classicists

Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works often involved the Holocaust

Rebecca Liu is a writer, critic, and editor at the Guardian Saturday magazine