Our authors are as diverse as our books – as well as publishing winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction (Lionel Shriver); the Nobel Prize for Literature (Elfriede Jelinek, Kenzaburo Oe, Herta Muller); the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (Jonathan Trigell), we publish debut novelists, voices in translation, and provocative non-fiction writers.
Walter Mosley, Neil Bartlett, David Toop, Derek Raymond, Stella Duffy, Attica Locke, Jah Wobble, Joe Boyd – just a few of the stellar names who consider themselves Serpent’s Tail authors.
Sam Hawken is a native of Texas now living on the east coast of the United States. A graduate of the University of Maryland, he pursued a career as a historian before turning to writing. The Dead Women of Juárez is his first novel.
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Novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq was born on the 26th of February 1958, on the French island of Reunion. At the age of six, Michel was given over to the care of his paternal grandmother, a communist, whose family name he later adopted. His literary career began when, at twenty, he started to move in [...]
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Pawel Huelle (born 1957) is a novelist, playwright and newspaper columnist who has lived most of his life in Gdansk, which often features as the setting for his work. After graduating from Gdansk University in the early 1980s he worked as a press officer for the Solidarity trade union. He was also a university lecturer [...]
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Langston Hughes was born in 1902. His first poem in a nationally known magazine was ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ which appeared in Crisis in 1921. In 1925, Hughes was awarded the first Prize for Poetry by Opportunity magazines for his poem ‘The Weary Blue’ which gave its title to his first book of poems, [...]
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Fabrice Humbert currently teaches literature at a French secondary school. In 2009 The Origin of Violence was published in France, where it was immediately hailed by the press as ‘a great novel’ and ‘a revelation’. This exceptional critical acclaim was rewarded when the novel won the first ever French Orange Prize for Fiction.
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