Tammy Watchorn Tamsin Ballard • Tamsin Walker • Tania Hershman • Tasmin Maitland • Tegwen Norris • The Mighty Douche Softball Team • Thees Spreckelsen • Thomas Fritz • Thomas Bell • Thomas Bourke • Thomas JD Gray • Tien Do • Tim Warren • Tim Theroux • Tim Gray • Timothy Harris • Tina Rotherham-Winqvist • Tina Andrews • Tom Mandall • Tom Bowden • Tom Darby • Tom Emmett • Tony & Joy Molyneaux • Torna Russel-Hills • Tracey Martin • Tracy Northup • Trevor Wald • Trevor Lewis • Tristan Burke
Val Challen Vanessa Garden • Vanessa Nolan • Vasco Dones • Victoria Adams • Victoria Walker • Vinita Joseph • Visaly Muthusamy • Vivien Doornekamp-Glass
Walter Prando Wendy Langridge • Wendy Toole • Wenna Price • Will Buck & Jo Luloff • William G Dennehy • William Prior
Yukiko Hiranuma
Zoe Brasier Zoë Perry
Born in Durrës, Albania, Elvira Dones is a novelist, screenwriter and documentary film-maker currently based in the US. After seven novels in Albanian, she wrote the two most recent in Italian, her adopted language: Vergine giurata (Sworn Virgin, 2007) and Piccola guerra perfetta (Small Perfect War, 2010) about the Kosovo war. In her prize-winning documentary on the phenomenon of ‘sworn virgins’ in Albania, Dones interviews twelve survivors of the practice, one of whom has recently emigrated to the US, like Hana in the novel. A film of the novel Sworn Virgin is due out in 2014.
Clarissa Botsford studied Italian at Cambridge and Comparative Education in London before moving to Rome. She has worked in the fields of teaching, intercultural education and publishing, and is also a musician. She currently teaches English and Translation Studies at Rome University and translates contemporary Italian fiction and poetry.