Focus Arab World

Participants of the Focus section

2009: Arab World

Yassin Adnan, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Raja Alem, Nujum Alghanem, Khaled Al-Khamissi, Malek Alloula, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Ali Al-Muqri, Taleb Al-Refai, Badria Al-Shihi, Sinan Antoon, Ali Bader, Rehab Bassam, Mahi Binebine, Inam Bioud, Rachid Boudjedra, Assia Djebar, Fouad El Auwad, Mansoura Ez Eldin, Joumana Haddad, Ala Hlehel, Jabbar Yassin Hussin, Abed Ismail, Randa Jarrar, Abduh Khal, Khaled Khalifa, Moncef Mezghanni, Hala Mohammad, Fatima Naoot, Amjad Nasser, Arwa Abduh Othman, Mekkawi Said, Girgis Shoukry, Mahmoud Shukair, Alawiyya Sobh, Dalia Taha, Samar Yazbek, Ghassan Zaqtan, Youssef Zeidan

2008: Focus Africa

Alaa al-Aswani, Chirikure Chirikure, Amma Darko, Fatou Diome, Kossi Efoui, Nuruddin Farah, Aminatta Forna, Piet Grobler, Susan Kiguli, Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, Lebogang Mashile, Wilfried N’Sondé, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Boualem Sansal, Binyavanga Wainaina

2007: Latin American Literature

Claudia Amengual, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Ferréz, Jorge Franco, Oscar Hijuelos, Martín Kohan, Guadalupe Nettel, Elsa Osorio, Ignacio Padilla, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Antonio José Ponte, Carmen Posadas, Cristina Rivera Garza, Juan Manuel Roca, Santiago Roncagliolo, Eduardo Sguiglia, Karla Suárez, Amir Valle

2006: Francophone Literatures

Hélé Béji, Gao Xingjian, Edouard Glissant, Yasmina Khadra, Dany Laferrière, Yanick Lahens, Henri Lopes, Daniel Maximin, Anna Moi, Khaled Najar, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Aminata Sow Fall, Abdourahman A. Waberi

2005: California

Rae Armantrout, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Andrew Sean Greer, Robert Hass, Norman M. Klein, Nathaniel Mackey, David Mas Masumoto, Eileen Myles, Michael Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Kevin Starr, D.J. Waldie, Steve Wasserman

2003: Greece

Katerína Angeláki-Rooke, Jorgi Jatromanolakis, Ioanna Karystiani, Menis Koumandareas, Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Nikos Panajotopoulos, Jorgos Skambardonis, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Soti Triantafillou, Charis Vlavianos

2002: Spain

Jesús Ferrero, Antonio Gamoneda, Luis García Montero, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Almudena Grandes, Julio Llamazares, Eduardo Mendoza, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas