Contributors

Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Juan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. For many years he worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. He lived in Madrid until his death in 1994.

Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the guerilla group which was to become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s. Marcos is the author of several books, including Story of the Colours and Our Word is Our Weapon.

Mia Couto was born in Mozambique in 1955. When his country became independent in 1975, Couto interrupted his studies to become a journalist and newspaper editor. Later, he resumed his studies, and is now an environmental biologist. He has published poetry, short stories and a number of novels. His work has been widely recognized in the Portuguese speaking world, and has been translated into a number of European languages.

Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. Her novel The Healing was shortlisted for the 1998 National Book Award. She is also the author of Eva's Man, The White Rat: Short Stories, and numerous other works which include plays and poetry.

Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. The Scott Holland Memorial Lectures are held in his memory.

Alexander Paul Charrier McKee OBE (25 July 1918 – 22 July 1992) was a British journalist, military historian, and diver who published nearly thirty books.

Jane Brox (born 1956) is an American author, who specializes in non-fiction works. Her father was John Brox (1910-1995). She graduated from Colby College in 1978 and currently lives in Maine.

Dominic Greyer has been fascinated by peculiar place names ever since his parents took him, at age three, on a family holiday to Boot, in Cumbria. Twenty-five years later, after establishing himself as a talented young photographer and cinematographer (including making music promos with Blur, Pulp and Fatboy Slim and a Channel 4 TV series, 'Lesser Spotted Britain') he began touring the highways and byways of Britain searching for ever odder place names to photograph. Over 30,000 miles and two hundred photos later, the result is FAR FROM DULL