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Anton Hur is an author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator

Christoph Ransmayr was born in Wels, Upper Austria, in March 1954

Christos Tsiolkas has personal experience of the far-reaching impact of a slap. When he was 18 and about to go to university, his uncle slapped him ‘somewhere between affection and a warning’ so as not to forget where he came from

Jill Paton Walsh was the author of several highly praised novels for adults and many widely acclaimed children’s books

Tommy Wieringa was born in the Netherlands in May 1967

Tom McCarthy's work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio

Antonio Muñoz Molina was born in Ubeda, Spain, in 1956

Born in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1981, Fiston Mwanza Mujila lives in Graz, Austria

Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 was, for its time, an unusual Booker Prize choice. Based on the true case of a Soviet child murderer, readers could treat the book as a thriller or as something more ambitious

Rohinton Mistry is the author of three novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of short stories