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2010 – 2011
ZHANG YIMOU, CHINA
ANNEMARIE JACIR, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

2006 – 2007

STEPHEN FREARS, UK

JOSUÉ MÉNDEZ, PERU

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2004 – 2005

MIRA NAIR, INDIA

ADITYA ASSARAT, THAILAND

2014 – 2015

MICHAEL ONDAATJE, CANADA

MIROSLAV PENKOV, BULGARIA

2012 – 2013

MARGARET ATWOOD, CANADA

NAOMI ALDERMAN, UK

2010 – 2011

HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER, GERMANY

TRACY K SMITH, US

LITERATURE

Mozambican writer Mia Couto and his protégé, Brazilian

novelist Julián Fuks, have very diferent approaches to

iction. Couto, with over 30 acclaimed books to his

name, says ‘stories and words are always coming at me

and just lowing out again’. Fuks, by contrast, says he

agonises over every sentence. The two writers met up

in São Paulo, Mozambique and the Azores, the setting

for Couto’s current work in progress. ‘For the irst time

in my life I showed someone else – Julián – my irst

drafts, with all their mistakes. I was almost ashamed to

share them with him.’ The experience seems to have

intrigued both men. ‘I tried to get away from myself

and get crazier,’ Fuks says, ‘but I’ve ended up going back

to my old obsessive habits. Only now, thanks to Mia,

I’m looking at them in a very diferent way.’

Mia Couto

Julián Fuks

Literature

2008 – 2009

MARTIN SCORSESE, US

CELINA MURGA, ARGENTINA

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