Daniela Kapitáňová

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  Michal Hvorecký

  Michal Hvorecký(born 1976) is a Slovak author.
  
  He is the author of two collections of short stories: Strong sense of Cleanliness (1998) and Hunters & Gatherers (2001). His novel The Final Hit appeared in 2003, Plush in 2005 (published in 2006 in German translation as City: Der unwahrscheinlichste aller Orte) and Eskorta in 2007 (will be published in 2009 in German translation).
  
  His books have been translated into German, Polish, Czech and Italian. Translations of his fiction and journalism have appeared in print in Germany, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. The novel Plush was dramatised and performed in the Prague theatre Na zabradli and in Schauspiel Hannover in Germany. In addition, Hvorecky writes regul

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  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
  Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the

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  Philip Gourevitch

  Gourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter Jacqueline Gourevitch and philosophy professor Victor Gourevitch, a translator of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995. Gourevitch graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.
  
  Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to pu

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  Stefan Zweig

  Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
  Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
  Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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  Janne Teller

  Danish writer and essayist Austro-German origin.
  Educated as a macroeconomist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in resolving conflicts and humanitarian issues around the world, especially in Africa. She began writing fiction full time since 1995. She has lived in various parts of the world, such as Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Mozambique. Now living in New York.
  Janne Teller's literature, which consists mainly of novels and essays, always focuses on existential outlook on life and human civilization, which causes often controversial debates. Furthermore, it was thought that her work Intet (2000), which was initially banned, revolutionized the novel for youth, and became a worldwide suc

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  Paolo Giordano

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  Paolo Giordano is a professional physicist and is currently working on a doctorate in particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, took Italy by storm where it has sold over a million copies. It is being translated into twenty languages and has sold all over the world.

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  Tim Marshall

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  Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years' experience in news reporting and presenting, he left full time news journalism to concentrate on writing and analysis.
  
  Originally from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a media studies or journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, after a wholly unsuccessful career as a painter and decorator he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before eventually securing himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder.
  
  After three years as IRN's Paris corres

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  Barbara Demick

  Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her next book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in December 2009 and Granta Books in 2010.
  
  Demick was correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1997. Along with photographer John Costello, she produced a series of articles that ran 1994-1996 following life on one Sarajevo street over the course of the war in Bosnia. The series won the George Polk Award for international reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in the features categor

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  Pavol Rankov

  Pavol Rankov is a writer of prose fiction, essayist, journalist, information scientist and university pedagogue, after completing his secondary schooling in Bratislava studied library science at the Philosophical Faculty of Bratislava's Comenius University (1983-1987). He worked as a methodologist in the Slovak National Library in Martin (1987-1990) and in the Slovak Pedagogic Library in Bratislava (1991-1992). From 1993 he has worked at the Department of Library Science and Scientific Information at Comenius University in Bratislava. He participates in projects with Slovak Radio. He lives in Bratislava.

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• Krisztián Grecsó

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• Orsolya Karafiáth

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  Jón Kalman Stefánsson

  Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t

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  Paweł Smoleński

  Reporter, publicysta, od 1989 roku dziennikarz „Gazety Wyborczej”, wcześniej współpracownik pism drugiego obiegu. Napisał m.in.: Pokolenie kryzysu, „Gazeta Wyborcza” — lustro demokracji, Salon patriotów, Pochówek dla rezuna, Irak. Piekło w raju, Izrael już nie frunie, Bedzies wisioł za cosik. Godki podhalańskie (wraz z Bartłomiejem Kurasiem), Balagan. Alfabet izraelski, Oczy zasypane piaskiem oraz Szcze ne wmerła i nie umrze - wywiad rzekę z Jurijem Andruchowyczem oraz Zielone migdały czyli po co światu Kurdowie. Kilkanaście jego reportaży opublikowała paryska „Kultura”. Laureat Nagrody Pojednania Polsko-Ukraińskiego w 2003 roku za książkę Pochówek dla rezuna i Nagrody im. Kurta Schorka za teksty poświęcone Irakowi. W 2006 roku otrzymał Nag

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  Jozef Karika

  Slovenský experimentálny spisovateľ a publicista.
  Vyštudoval históriu a filozofiu na Univerzite Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici. Na širšiu scénu vstúpil v roku 2001 ako kmeňový autor internetových stránok G.O.M.. Pracuje ako historik-kurátor a televízny redaktor. Získal Cenu literárneho fondu za publicistiku. Jeho reportáž Kontroverzná tabuľa získala prvé miesto v kategórii publicistika a Cenu diváka na celoslovenskej prehliadke tvorby lokálnych televízií Workshop 2008. Vyhrala aj prvé miesto v kategórii publicistika na česko - slovenskej filmovej prehliadke KAFKA 2008. V máji 2007 Karika prednášal o mágii v postmodernizme na Prírodovedeckej fakulte Karlovej Univerzity v Prahe. V jeseni 2007 na objednávku Žilinského samosprávneho kraja vytvor

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  Dominik Tatarka

  Vyštudoval francúzštinu a slovenčinu na Filozofickej fakulte Karlovej univerzity v Prahe a na Sorbonne v Paríži. Pôsobil ako stredoškolský profesor v Žiline a Martine. Zúčastnil sa Slovenského národného povstania ako člen Revolučného národného výboru a po ústupe do hôr ako partizán. Po Oslobodení bol redaktorom Národnej obrody, Pravdy, vedúcim výtvarnej redakcie vo vydavateľstve Tatran, scenáristom československého filmu v Bratislave. Pôsobil aj na Povereníctve školstva a informácií a vo Zväze československých spisovateľov.
  
  Od roku 1964 bol profesionálnym spisovateľom. K okupácii Československa spojeneckými vojskami roku 1968 zaujal nekompromisné stanovisko, za čo bol prenasledovaný komunistickým režimom, na 20 rokov prakticky vyradený z ver

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• Monika Kompaníková

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  Antal Szerb

  Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century.
  
  Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilated Jewish parents in Budapest, but baptized Catholic. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. From 1924 to 1929 he lived in France and Italy, also spending a year in London, England.
  
  As a student he published essays on Georg Trakl and Stefan George, and quickly established a formidable reputation as a scholar, writing erudite studies of William Blake and Henrik Ibsen among other works. Elected President of the Hungarian Literary Academy in 1933 - aged just 32 -, he published his first novel, The Pendragon Legend (which draws upo

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  Balla

  BALLA (vlastným menom Vladimír Balla) sa narodil 8. mája 1967 v Nových Zámkoch. Absolvoval Vysokú školu ekonomickú v Bratislave (1990), odvtedy pracuje na Okresnom úrade v Nových Zámkoch. Poviedky začal uverejňovať od roku 1992 najmä v časopisoch Dotyky a Literárny týždenník. Knižne debutoval zbierkou poviedok Leptokaria (1996), za ktorú získal Cenu Ivana Kraska. Vo svojej druhej knihe Outsideria (1997) sa pokúsil spojiť pôvodne samostatné poviedky do románového celku. Roku 2000 vydal zbierku krátkych próz Gravidita, roku 2001 Tichý kút, v roku 2003 knihu Unglik, v roku 2005 De la Cruz, v roku 2008 knihu s názvom Cudzí (2008) a v roku 2011 rozprávačské až autobiografické prózy V mene otca.

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• Lívia Hlavačková

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  Erik Tabery

  Erik Tabery, Jr. is a Czech journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper Respekt.

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  Ivana Gibová

  Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut roka. Niektoré poviedky z knihy Usadenina boli preložené do nemčiny a angličtiny. Novela Bordeline (2014) sa stala predlohou pre rovnomennú inscenáciu divadla Stoka a pražského divadla Nekroteatro. V roku 2016 vydala knihu Barbora, boch & katarzia, ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Anasoft litera 2017; získala cenu René Anasoft litera gymnazistov a bola nominovaná na Cenu Jána Johanidesa za najlepšiu prozaickú knihu autora do 35 rokov. V roku 2020 vyšla komixovo-poviedková kniha Eklektik Bastard.
  
  

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• Joachim B. Schmidt

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  Vladimira Sebova

  Magic, gods, and monsters of Slavic folklore.
  
  Vladimira Sebova is the Slovak author of Daughter of Winter (orig. Dcéra zimy), Son of the Underworld (orig. Syn podsvetia), Threads of Magic (orig. Vlákna mágie), and other novels. She writes YA fantasy stories inspired by Slavic mythology.
  
  The author’s books were published in Slovak and Czech language.
  
  Find Vladimira on Instagram www.instagram.com/vladimira.sebova/
  or visit www.VladimiraSebova.com
  
  Vladimira lives in Bordeaux, France

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  Marek Hudec

  Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii festivalu BRaK a Dúhového PRIDE.
  
  Po literárnom debute Prosté rozprávky vydal v roku 2022 dokumentárny román Uzol o bombardovaní jeho rodného mesta. Nominovali ho na Cenu René a ocitla sa aj ankete Kniha roka Denníka N.
  
  Ďalšia reportážna kniha Spúšť o teroristickom útoku pred barom Tepláreň sa zas objavila v ankete Kultúrna udalosť roka 2024. Komiks Veľká vzdialenosť bol zaradený do užšieho výbereu nesúťažnej sekcie Nejkrásnejší kniha Slovenska.
  
  Za divadelnú hru Nebolo to náhodou o živote speváčky Melánie Olláryovej bol ocenený v súťaži Dráma 2025.

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• Jana Bašnáková

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  Tomáš Forró

  Tomas Forro is a Slovak reporter covering crises and conflicts mostly in the regions of Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia.
  He is publishing mostly long-form reportages with investigative elements in various Central and Eastern European media such as Dennik N (Slovakia), Polityka (Poland) and others.
  Tomas Forro is an author of a book Donbas: Wedding Apartment in the Hotel War (2019), he was twice shortlisted for the Czech Journalism Award and he is a holder of 3 Slovak Journalism Awards (2016)

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  Lukáš Cabala

  IG https://www.instagram.com/knihy_nie_s...
  
  Lukáš Cabala (1986) ​sa narodil v Trenčíne. V roku 2011 spolu s rodičmi založil internetový antikvariát Čierne na bielom a dodnes ho vedie.
  
  Je čitateľom súčasnej a modernej svetovej prózy. Žije na severnej periférii mesta a vo voľnom čase sa venuje písaniu. V tvorbe ho priťahuje magický realizmus, vlnenie skutočnosti, ale i postupy realistického rozprávačského románu. Intímna novela Satori v Trenčíne je jeho prozaický debut. Knižka bola nominovaná na Anasoft litera, získala Cenu čitateľov Knižnej revue v kategórii Debut roka a Cenu knižných blogerov v Panta rhei awards.
  
  V roku 2021 vyšla druhá kniha s názvom Jar v Jekaterinburgu a v roku 2023 novela Spomenieš si na Trenčín? S touto knihou bol nominov

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• Lukáš Onderčanin

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• Júlia Marcinová

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• Kvet Nguyen

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• Matej Jurášek

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