Joshua Cohen
(Pulitzer prize winning author of Witz, Book of Numbers, The Netenyahus)
Joshua Cohen is the author of six novels, one collection of short fiction, and one collection of nonfiction. Called “a major American writer” by the New York Times, and “an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today” by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. The Netanyahus won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Mary Costello
Mary Costello is the author of two short story collections and two novels
Her work has been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the EU Prize for Literature. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. The River Capture (2019), her second novel, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Novel of the Year and the Dalkey Novel Award. A new novel, A Beautiful Loan, is forthcoming in 2026. Mary lives in Galway.
Professor Valérie Bénéjam
