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Anna Arutunyan

Anna Arutunyan is a Russian-American journalist and the author of The Putin Mystique. She is currently a fellow at the Kennan Institute in Washington.

Anna Arutunyan’s work has appeared in USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Foreign Policy in Focus, and The Moscow News, where she is an editor and senior correspondent. She is author of The Media in Russia (McGraw- Hill, 2009), and is the co-author (with Vladimir Shlapentokh) of Freedom, Repression and Private Property in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2013). She has lectured on Russian power, politics and media at Tampere University in Finland and at Michigan State University.

A bilingual Russian-American, she was born in the Soviet Union in 1980 but grew up and received

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Sebastian Strangio

Sebastian Strangio is a journalist, author, and independence analyst focusing on Southeast Asia. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as an editor and reporter at The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper, and he has since traveled and reported extensively across Asia. His writing has appeared in more than 30 leading publications including The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. Sebastian is the author of Hun Sen’s Cambodia (Yale University Press, 2014), and is a leading commentator on contemporary Cambodian politics and society. He is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he is a research affiliate at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development at Chiang Mai Uni

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Bettine Vriesekoop

Bettine Vriesekoop is a former table tennis player from the Netherlands. Between 1977 and 2002 she played at top level in Europe. She retired from competition in 1997. While training in China she became interested in the culture and then studied Chinese language and philosophy in Leiden. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked in Beijing as a freelance correspondent for several Dutch newspapers including NRC Handelsblad.

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Paul Collier

Paul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College. He is the author of The Plundered Planet; Wars, Guns, and Votes; and The Bottom Billion, winner of Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize.

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Ryan Gingeras

Ryan Gingeras was raised in San Diego, California. After receiving his B.A. in History at the University of California, San Diego, he went on to complete his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He is currently Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Instruction, and the Chair of the Doctoral Committee at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Martin Meredith

Martin Meredith is a historian, journalist and biographer, and author of many acclaimed books on Africa.

Meredith first worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa for the Observer and Sunday Times, then as a research fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Residing near Oxford, he is now an independent commentator and author.

Meredith’s writing has been described as authoritative and well-documented, despite the pessimism inherent in his subject matter.

He is the author of Diamonds, Gold and War, Mugabe: Power, Plunder – which sold over 15 000 copies in South Africa, and The Struggle for Zimbabwe’s Future, The State of Africa and Nelson Mandela: A Biography, among many others.

His most recent book is Born in Africa, published by Jonathan Ball P

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Gary J. Bass

Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, is the author of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Knopf); Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (Knopf); and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton).

The Blood Telegram was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in general nonfiction and won the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award, the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, and the Ramnath Goenka Award in India. It was also a New York Times and Washington P

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Vladislav M. Zubok

Vladislav M. Zubok (see also: Владислав Зубок) is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of A Failed Empire, Zhivago’s Children, and The Idea of Russia.

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Ben Rawlence

Ben grew up in Wiltshire in the UK before studying in London, Tanzania and the USA. He worked for several years in New York and then in politics in the UK and in Tanzania before joining Human Rights Watch where he worked from 2006-2013.

He was an Open Society Foundations Fellow 2013.

He is represented by Sophie Lambert at Conville and Walsh in London.

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Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty (French: [tɔma pikɛti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.

Piketty was bor

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S.C.M. Paine

Sarah C. M. Paine is William S. Sims Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College.

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Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service with the Royal Marines he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.

His work in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere.

His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous Assembly and its sequel Indecent Exposure), dumbed- or watered-down education (the Wilt series), English class snobbery (An

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Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner was a prominent British-Czech philosopher, social anthropologist, and writer on nationalism.

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Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Sulmaan Wasif Khan is Assistant Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He also directs the Water and Oceans program at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP). He received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2012. He has written for The Economist, The American Interest, Prospect, e360, and YaleGlobal on topics ranging from Burmese Muslims in China to dolphin migration through the Bosphorus.

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Geoffrey B. Robinson

Geoffrey B. Robinson is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles who writes and teaches about the history of political violence, genocide, human rights, and mass incarceration, primarily in Southeast Asia.

A Canadian, he earned his BA at McGill University and his PhD at Cornell, where he was a student of Benedict Anderson and George Kahin. Before coming to UCLA in 1997, Robinson worked for six years at Amnesty International’s Research Department in London, and in 1999 he served as a Political Affairs Officer with the United Nations in Dili, East Timor.

His books include The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali and “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor (Princeton).

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Irene Vallejo

Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) estudió Filología Clásica y obtuvo el doctorado europeo por las universidades de Zaragoza y Florencia. En la actualidad lleva a cabo una intensa labor de divulgación del mundo clásico impartiendo conferencias y a través de su columna semanal en el diario Heraldo de Aragón. De su obra literaria destacan las novelas La luz sepultada (2011) y El silbido del arquero (2015), la antología periodística Alguien habló de nosotros (2017) y los libros infantiles El inventor de viajes (2014) y La leyenda de las mareas mansas (2015).

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Ed Douglas

Ed Douglas is a writer and journalist with a passion for the wilder corners of the natural world. A former editor of the Alpine Journal, a columnist for Climber and The Guardian, Ed is an enthusiastic amateur climber and mountain traveller, with a particular interest in the Himalaya

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Sheila Miyoshi Jager

American historian and Professor of East Asian Studies.

She is the author of two books on Korea and the co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era. She is a well-known historian of Korea and East Asia.

In the 1980s, she lived with the later American president Barack Obama.

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Cédric Proost

Cédric Proost is de auteur van het boek Je bent jong en je wilt… beleggen, actief als project consultant bij TriFinance en heeft vanuit zijn studies Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen een verleden als voorzitter van de financiële studentenvereniging Capitant Antwerpen. Via zijn sociale media kanalen probeert hij jongeren te inspireren en op weg te helpen met het maken van hun financiële beslissingen

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Willard A. Hanna

Willard Anderson Hanna

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Jan Caeyers

Jan Caeyers is a conductor and musicologist. One of Europe’s preeminent experts on Beethoven, he is the music director of the Beethoven orchestra Le Concert Olympique and a member of the Department of Musicology at KU Leuven.

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Giuliano da Empoli

Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza all'Università La Sapienza di Roma e ottenuto il master in Scienze Politiche all'Institut d'études politiques di Parigi. E'presidente del think tank Volta.

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Arco Gnocchi

Arco Gnocchi (1980, Amsterdam) is al 35 jaar iets te fanatiek voor Ajax en al minstens net zo lang geschiedenisnerd. Hij maakt de podcasts Alle Geschiedenis Ooit, Radio Oranje (beide over geschiedenis) en Pak Schaal (over Ajax). In dit boek komt alles waar hij zo veel van houdt samen.

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Richard Lloyd Parry

Richard Lloyd Parry was born in north-west England, and has lived since 1995 in Tokyo, where he is the Asia Editor of The Times newspaper of London. He has reported from twenty-eight countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. In 2005, he was named the UK's foreign correspondent of the year. He has also written for Granta, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.

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Eugene Rogan

Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East.

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Ronald Grigor Suny

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago.

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Martin Bossenbroek

Martin Philip Bossenbroek is een Nederlands historicus en auteur.

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Michael Axworthy

Michael George Andrew Axworthy was a British academic, author, and commentator. He was the head of the Iran section at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office between 1998 and 2000.

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Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is een van de oprichters van het journalistieke platform De Correspondent. Na negen jaar directeurschap vertrok hij in 2022, en begon het mediabedrijf POM met Alexander Klöpping. Hij schrijft over intentioneel leven en heeft twintig hoofdstukken aan Dagelijkse Rituelen toegevoegd.

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Daan Heerma van Voss

Daniel Jan (Daan) Heerma van Voss is een Nederlandse schrijver. Hij is de zoon van het schrijvende echtpaar Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve en de broer van schrijver Thomas Heerma van Voss.

Daniel Jan (Daan) Heerma van Voss is a Dutch writer. He is the son of two writers, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss and Christien Brinkgreve and a brother to the author Thomas Heerma van Voss.

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Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe was born in 1967. He writes essays, articles, and books. He is something of a non-fiction specialist.

His first book was Sacré Blues, a portrait of contemporary Quebec that won Canada's Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction, two Quebec Writers' Federation Awards, a National Magazine Award (for an excerpted chapter), and was short-listed for the Writers' Trust Award. It was published in 2000 by Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, and became a Canadian bestseller. Sacré Blues helped Taras fall in love with Quebec, and explained the origins of poutine to an eternally grateful country. The publisher let it go out of print, but used copies can be found starting at $89.23 on Amazon.

His second book, The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Touris

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Tim Hannigan

Tim Hannigan was born in Penzance in Cornwall in the far west of the United Kingdom. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a chef and an English teacher. He started his writing career as a travel journalist based in Indonesia. His first book, Murder in the Hindu Kush (The History Press, 2011), was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize. His second book, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java (Monsoon Books, 2012), won the 2013 John Brooks Award. He also wrote A Brief History of Indonesia (Tuttle, 2015), and edited and wrote new chapters for Willard Hanna's classic narrative history of Bali, now republished as A Brief History of Bali (Tuttle, 2016). His more recent books include The Travel Writing Tribe (2021) and The Granite

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić) is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.

He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams, or people with unique talents in obscure fields.

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Peter Conradi

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Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times & author of The King's Speech and of Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War, updated and out now in paperback

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Roman Krznaric

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to create change. His latest book is the international bestseller The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. His previous books, including Empathy, The Wonderbox, How to Find Fulfilling Work and Carpe Diem Regained, have been published in more than 25 languages. He is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum. His new book, History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity, is published in July 2024.

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Chris Miller

Chris Miller teaches International History at Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is also Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Eurasia Research Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. (Source: Amazon.com)

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Johan Op de Beeck

Johan Op de Beeck is a well-known TV face and has had a renowned career in media and journalism for 35 years. Previously, he was active as an anchor of the VRT news, documentary maker, director of Canvas, presenter and interviewer of various talk shows and editor-in-chief of various media at home and abroad. Today he is an independent communications consultant and author of a series of successful non-fiction books, which do very well in the bestseller lists and are always well received.

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Michela Wrong

Half-Italian, half-British, Michela Wrong was born in 1961. She grew up in London and took a degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge and a diploma in journalism at Cardiff.

She joined Reuters news agency in the early 1980s and was posted as a foreign correspondent to Italy, France and Ivory Coast. She became a freelance journalist in 1994, when she moved to then-Zaire and found herself covering both the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda and the final days of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko for the BBC and Reuters. She later moved to Kenya, where she spent four years covering east, west and central Africa for the Financial Times newspaper.

In 2000 she published her first book, "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz", the story of M

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Alice Miller

Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.
Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.

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Joris Luyendijk

Ik werd in 1971 geboren in Amsterdam, maar groeide vanaf mijn vijfde op in Hilversum, een dorp onder de rook van de hoofdstad. In 1990 kreeg ik de kans om een jaar in Amerika te gaan studeren en ik dacht met mijn Hollandse kop: als ik nou een universiteit kies in het midden van het land, zit ik lekker centraal. Zo kwam ik terecht in Kansas, en ik denk niet dat ik ooit nog zo geïsoleerd zal wonen. Mensen daar zijn al trots als ze op de kaart kunnen aanwijzen dat Europa boven Afrika ligt. Na een heerlijk jaar tussen optimistische mensen ging ik in Amsterdam studeren, wat uitmondde in een zwerftocht van politicologie, via geschiedenis, naar Arabische en religieuze antropologie. In 1995 deed ik een jaar onderzoek onder Egyptische leeftijdsgenot

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Geert Mak

Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.

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Tom Lanoye

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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).

Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from

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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Dutch literature. He has more than forty titles to his name, including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, scientific studies, columns, translations and anthologies. Exhibiting a powerful style and classical command of form, his work has contributed to literary revival and growing engagement, both of which are explicitly expressed in his work as a columnist and television documentary maker as well.

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Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans is a Flemish Belgian author, poet and essayist. He is the author of a literary and essayistic oeuvre - including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories. His poetry has been translated into various languages and he has taught at the Ghent Secondary Art Institute and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He has given lectures at the Sorbonne University, the universities of Vienna, Berlin and Mexico City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and University College London. His work has been published in The literary Review (Madison) The Review of contemporary fiction (Illinois) and Grand Street (New York). He was awarded the ECI Literatuurprijs and the Golden Book Owl Audience Award for War and Turpentine, a novel

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Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.

Series:
* Harry Hole
* Doktor Proktor

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Thomas Heerma van Voss

Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is een Nederlands schrijver. Hij is de zoon van het schrijvende echtpaar Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve en de broer van schrijver Daan Heerma van Voss.

Thomas Bram Heerma van Voss is a Dutch writer. He is the son of a married couple, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss en Christien Brinkgreve and a brother to author Daan Heerma van Voss

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Gerwin van der Werf

Gerwin van der Werf (De Meern, 13 juni 1969) is schrijver, columnist/publicist bij Dagblad Trouw en muziekdocent. Hij publiceerde vier romans bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact: Gewapende Man (2010), Wild (2011, longlist Libris Literatuurprijs), Luchtvissers (2013) en Een Onbarmhartig Pad (2018). Ook verschenen er van hem twee bundels met columns en verhalen over het onderwijs: Schooldagen (2014) en Stampen en Zingen (2018)

Van der Werf won de eerste editie van de Turing Nationale Gedichtenwedstrijd in 2010 voor het gedicht Misbruik.

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Martin Bossenbroek

Martin Philip Bossenbroek is een Nederlands historicus en auteur.

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Maartje Wortel

Maartje Wortel (1982) volgde de opleiding Beeld & Taal aan de Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 2007 won ze de Write Now!-wedstrijd voor literair talent. Ze publiceerde verhalen in Passionate, De Brakke Hond en De Gids en schreef columns voor NRC Handelsblad. De verhalenbundel Dit is jouw huis is haar debuut. Ze won er de Anton Wachterprijs 2010 mee, en kreeg de Nieuw Proza Prijs Venlo 2010 voor het verhaal 'Kranten', dat in de bundel is opgenomen. Haar roman Half mens werd voor verscheidene prijzen genomineerd. In januari 2014 verscheen haar derde boek IJstijd.

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Carolina Trujillo

Carolina Trujillo Píriz was born in Montevideo. At the age of six she came to the Netherlands with her mother and sister, as a political refugee. She attended the Amsterdam Film Academy and became a screenwriter in 1996.

In 1991, she won the first prize in an Argentinian novel contest with De exilios, maremotos y lechuzas. In 2002 she was awarded the Dutch Marten Toonder/Geertjan Lubberhuizenprijs for De bastaard van Mal Abrigo (her Dutch debut). In 2010 she won the BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs with her second Dutch novel: De terugkeer van Lupe García.

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Bart Van Loo

Schrijver en conferencier Bart Van Loo (1973) heeft zich de voorbije jaren ontwikkeld tot een zeldzaam dubbeltalent. Met zijn virtuoze minicolleges in De Wereld Draait Door raakte hij bekend bij het grote publiek, maar in de eerste plaats is Van Loo natuurlijk schrijver. Van zijn hand verschenen de alom geprezen Frankrijktrilogie en de bestsellers Chanson en Napoleon. In zijn nieuwste boek De Bourgondiërs is Bart Van Loo op het toppunt van zijn kunnen.

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Philip Dröge

Philip Dröge is journalist, columnist en initiatiefnemer van het populair-wetenschappelijke persbureau FAQT. Hij schreef eerder De schaduw van Tambora dat lovend door de pers werd ontvangen, schrijft voor diverse tijdschriften en treedt geregeld op als gastspreker en commentator op radio en televisie.

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Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Times and New York Times Best Sellers and have been translated in 46 languages.

In 2024, he co-founded The School for Moral Ambition, a non-profit organization inspired by his latest book Moral Ambition (2025) that wants to help as many people as possible to take the step towards a job with a positive impact.

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Lara Taveirne

Lara Taveirne schreef een thesis over liefdesverdriet. Ze schreef ook een keer een brief, waarmee ze zichzelf toegang verleende tot een vervallen sluiswachtershuis. Dertien jaar lang woonde ze onder een lek dak, verstoken van luxe en lawaai, maar dicht bij de natuur. Zo nu en dan schrijft ze ook een roman, zoals De kinderen van Calais (winnaar Debuutprijs 2015) en Wolf (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs 2025).

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, né le 4 avril 1971 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. Il reçoit le prix Femina des lycéens et le prix du premier roman pour son premier livre, Ma reine, sorti en 2017, le Grand Prix RTL-Lire en 2021, ainsi que le prix Goncourt 2023 et le Grand prix des lectrices de Elle pour son quatrième roman, Veiller sur elle.

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Safae el Khannoussi

Safae el Khannoussi (1994) is schrijver en promovendus aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Oroppa werd bekroond met de Boon en de Libris Literatuur Prijs.

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Sheila Sitalsing

Sheila Sitalsing (1968) is an economist and journalist. She was a correspondent in Brussels for Elsevier, and chief editor economic and politics for the Volkskrant.

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Charlie English

Charlie English is a British non-fiction author and former head of international news at the Guardian. He has written four critically-acclaimed books: The Snow Tourist (2008); The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu (2017, published in the US as The Storied City); and The Gallery of Miracles and Madness (2021). His latest, The CIA Book Club, has just been published. He lives in London with his family and a rather talented sheepdog named Enzo. You can reach Charlie through his website, or via X or Instagram at @charlieenglish1.

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Yuri Slezkine

Yuri Lvovich Slezkine (Russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Слёзкин Yúriy L'vóvich Slyózkin; born February 7, 1956) is a Russian-born American historian, writer, and translator.
He is a professor of Russian history, sovietologist and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is best known as the author of the book The Jewish Century (2004) and The House of Government: A Saga of The Russian Revolution (2017).

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Geert Mak

Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.

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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie was a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancient regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.

Emmanuel Ladurie was professor at the Collège de France and, since 1973, chair, department of history of modern civilization. He has had a distinguished career, serving as Administrateur Général of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (1987-94); member of the Institute (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences); Agrégé of the University, Doctor of Letters; Commander of the Legion of Honor (1996); and has taught at the universities of Montpellier, the Sorbonne, and Paris VII. Dr. Ladurie is the author of many historical works, including Les Paysans de Languedoc (1966), Histoire du Climat d

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Herald van der Linde

Herald van der Linde has traveled, lived, and worked in Indonesia and Hong Kong since the '90s. Married to an Indonesian, he is passionate about the social and cultural history of Indonesia and is the author of Jakarta: History of a Misunderstood City (2020), Asia’s Stock Markets From the Ground Up (2021), and Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire (2024). He also co-authored A Very Good Year To Learn About Wine (2012) and A(nother) Very Good Year to Learn About Wine (2013).

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Steven Lee Myers

Steven Lee Myers is a journalist who worked as correspondent for the New York Times for twenty-six years, seven of which in Russia during the period of consolidation of Putin's power.

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Odd Arne Westad

Odd Arne Westad, FBA, is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is currently the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Valerie Trouet

Prof. dr. Valerie Trouet bestudeert al meer dan twintig jaar de klimaatverandering aan de hand van jaarringen van bomen. Wereldwijd wordt ze erkend als een van de topexperts op het vlak van dendrochronologie. Ze is verbonden aan het Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research van de University of Arizona (VS) en publiceerde eerder onder meer in Nature en Science.

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Adam Shatz

Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also the host of the podcast “Myself with Others,” produced by the pianist Richard Sears. Adam has been a visiting professor at Bard College and New York University and a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990.

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Marietje Schaake

Marietje Schaake is a Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as well as the UN's High Level Advisory Body on AI. Between 2009-2019 she served as a Member of European Parliament where she worked on trade-, foreign- and tech policy.

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Tip Marugg

Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg was a Dutch-Antillian writer and poet of Venezuelan/Swiss heritage. Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch; Weekendpelgrimage (1957), In de straten van Tepalka (1967); and De morgen loeit weer aan (1988), which was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize. His style is best characterized as a variation on magic realism. Tip Marugg has also written several poems (in literary magazines as well as his book of poems Afschuw van Licht) and a Dikshonario Erotiko; a dictionary of all words with an erotic meaning used in Papiamentu.

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Julia Flynn Siler

Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her new book, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in May of 2019. Her most recent book is Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure. Her first book was the The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty.

As a veteran correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek magazine, Ms. Siler spent more than two decades in the Europe and the United States, reporting from a dozen countries on topics as varied as biotechnology, cult wines, puppy breeding, and a princess’s quest to restore a Hawaiian palace’s lost tr

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Bill Hayton

Bill Hayton is a longtime reporter with BBC News, specializing in contemporary Asia. He has also written for The Economist, the South China Morning Post, and the National Interest.

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Peter Apps

Peter Apps lives in England, and Deja Vu To The Nth is his third novel. He wrote it because he still thinks people are pretty amazing even though Peter hasn’t met anyone who has built a space portal, but then again, he hasn’t looked in everyone’s garden shed either.

He was born on 1st January 1948 has lived in Sheerness, Kent for most of his life. The Isle of Sheppey where Sheerness is situated has a long, rich history which has always fascinated Peter. History might seem a far cry from Science Fiction but imagining life in a Roman settlement is imagining a world just as alien as a distant planet.

Although he worked in a series of routine jobs he likes to do his own thing when he can.

For example, all his computers are Microsoft free zones an

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Susan Ewing

My two greatest joys as a kid were riding my bike and reading books. Both offered escape and adventure—my bike took me flying out into the physical world, while books were the bridge to an inner world of emotion and ideas. I came to writing as way to hold the physical world like a bird in my hands, so I could see more clearly, feel more deeply, and understand more completely. And because in those moments when writing works, it’s magic.

I was born and raised in Kentucky, but wandered west soon after graduating high school. I lived in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest for many years, rotating through a variety of jobs, like working as a bull cook in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay, commercial salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska, staking mining cl

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of “The Sympathizer,” awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. His most recent book, “To Save and to Destroy,” explores the idea of being an outsider. He is also the author of the short story collection “The Refugees;” the nonfiction book “Nothing Ever Dies,” a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; the children's book “Simone” along with illustrator Minnie Phan; the sequel to “The Sympathizer,” “The Committed;” the nonfiction book “A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial,” longlisted for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing, “The Displaced,” as well as a co-editor of

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Christopher Harding

For more information, see my website:
www.christopher-harding.com

I also write a free weekly newsletter: www.IlluminAsia.org

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Christopher E. Goscha

Christopher Goscha studied at the School of Foreign Service, University of Georgetown (BA), the Australian National University at Canberra (MA), the University Diderot Paris VIII (MA) and l’École des Hautes Études (PhD, La Sorbonne). He joined the history department at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2005. He teaches international relations, world history, the history of colonial and postcolonial Indochina, decolonization and the Indochina Wars. He has published several books including the Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954): An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (University of Hawaii/Cophenhagen, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2011), Vietnam, Un Etat né de la guerre (Paris, Armand Colin, 2011) and Th

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Hugh Aldersey-Williams

I was born in London in 1959, the same year C.P. Snow gave his infamous ‘two cultures’ lecture about the apparently eternal divide in Britain between the arts and sciences. Perhaps this is where it all begins. Forced to choose one or the other at school and university, I chose the latter, gaining an MA in natural sciences from Cambridge.

By graduation, I was aware of a latent interest in the arts, particularly in architecture and design, and was seeking ways to satisfy all these urges in something resembling a career. Journalism seemed the obvious answer, and after a string of increasingly disastrous editorial positions on technical magazines, I went freelance in 1986 and was able at last to write about what really interested me in newspaper

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Richard M. Eaton

Richard Maxwell Eaton is a Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, where he has taught since 1972. His research interests focus on the social and cultural history of pre-modern India (1000-1800), and especially on the range of historical interactions between Iran and India, and on Islam in South Asia.

Professor Eaton has authored several significant monographs that have contributed substantially to the field. These include studies on the social roles of Sufis in the Indian sultanate of Bijapur (1300-1700), the growth of Islam in Bengal (1204-1760), the social history of the Deccan from 1300 to 1761, and the interplay between memory and art in the Deccan plateau between 1300 and 1600. His scholarly work encompasses a

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Jason K. Stearns

Jason K. Stearns is an American writer who worked for ten years in the Congo, including three years during the Second Congo War. He first traveled to the Congo in 2001 to work for a local human rights organization, Héritiers de la Justice, in Bukavu. He went on to work for the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUC). In 2008 Stearns was named by the UN Secretary General to lead a special UN investigation into the violence in the country.

Stearns is the author of the book, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, and the blog, Congo Siasa

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of "Abraham Lincoln", a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.

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Toyo Shibata

Toyo Shibata (26 de junio de 1911 - 20 de enero de 2013) fue una poetisa japonesa. Su primera antología Kujikenaide ("No te desanimes"), publicada en 2009, vendió 1,58 millones de copias. A partir de 2011 empezó a escribir poemas para una segunda antología. Shibata murió el 20 de enero de 2013 en un hogar de ancianos en Utsunomiya, al norte de Tokio. Tenía 101 años de edad.

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Vali Nasr

Son of renowned Iranian academic Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Vali Nasr was born in Tehran in 1960, went to school in England at age 16, and immigrated to the U.S. after the 1979 Revolution. He received his BA from Tufts University in International Relations summa cum laude. He earned his masters in International Economics and Middle East Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1984, then went on to earn his PhD in Political Science from MIT in 1991.

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James C. Kennedy

James C. Kennedy (1963) is hoogleraar Nederlandse Geschiedenis sinds de Middeleeuwen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hij groeide op in de Verenigde Staten en is vanaf 2003 werkzaam in Nederland.

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Menno ter Braak

Menno ter Braak was a Dutch writer and literary critic, considered the Netherlands’ most important essayist and cultural critic during the Interbellum period. His shrewd intellect and challenging of preciousness in art earned him the title of the ‘conscience of Dutch literature’.

Together with friend and collaborator Edgar du Perron he founded the influential literary magazine “Forum”, which called for a rejection of contemporary aestheticism, as well as the Committee of Vigilance of anti-National Socialist Intellectuals.

In 1937, Ter Braak wrote what today stands as one of the most scathingly perceptive indictments of the Nazi movement, “National Socialism as a Doctrine of Rancour”, in which he expressed his urgent concern for the growing p

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Berend van der Kolk

Dr. Berend van der Kolk is universitair hoofddocent aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Hiervoor doceerde hij aan de IE Business School in Madrid, de London School of Economics en de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Hij publiceert in internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en bijdragen van hem verschenen bij Follow The Money en The Guardian.

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Caroline de Gruyter

Caroline de Gruyter (Zwolle, 11 september 1963) is een Nederlands journaliste, columniste en schrijfster. Zij is correspondent en columnist voor NRC en schrijft vooral over Europese politieke ontwikkelingen. Daarnaast is zij verbonden aan een aantal denktanks op het gebied van internationale betrekkingen. Haar journalistieke werk werd meerdere malen bekroond.

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Serhy Yekelchyk

Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk received his BA from Kyiv University and an MA from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Following a research fellowship in Australia in 1993–94, he came to Canada in 1995 to pursue a Ph.D. in Russian and Eastern European History at the University of Alberta. His dissertation analyzed representations of the past in Stalinist culture, with special emphasis on Soviet Ukraine. After graduating, he taught for a year at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) before coming to Victoria in 2001.

Dr. Yekelchyk’s research interests evolved since then to include the social and political history of the Stalin period, as well as the formation of a modern Ukrainian nation from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. His Ukraine: Birth

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Philip H. Gordon

Philip Gordon is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert. From 2013 to 2015, Gordon served as Special Assistant to the President, and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region. From 2009 to 2013, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

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Hans Werdmölder

Hans Werdmölder (1951) is criminoloog en antropoloog. Eerder verschenen van zijn hand onder meer Marokkaanse lieverdjes (2005), Nederland narcostaat (2022) en in 2023 de bestseller De zaak-Ridouan T.

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Norman M. Naimark

Norman M. Naimark is Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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Alfred Birney

Alfred Birney is een Nederlandse schrijver en nazaat van de voormalige kleurrijke plantersfamilie: De Birnies; een Indische familie uit Deventer. Zijn vader was afkomstig uit Surabaya en had Nederlandse, Oost-Javaanse, Chinese en Schotse wortels, vandaar de Angelsaksische achternaam. Zijn moeder was een Nederlandse. Veelvuldig terugkerende thema’s in zijn literaire werk zijn vervreemding van familie, voortdurend raadselen in verband hiermee oplossen en het onvermogen tot identificatie met moederland of vaderland. Hij publiceerde romans, novellen, verhalen, columns, essays, kritieken, toneelteksten, journalistiek werk en didactisch materiaal over gitaarmuziek. De stijl in zijn romans, novellen en verhalen is associatief, belevend, vertellend

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Anuna De Wever Van der Heyden

Anuna De Wever Van der Heyden is activist.

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Daniel J. Sargent

Daniel Sargent is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley.

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Beri Hanna

Karya-karya awal Beri Hanna diterbitkan ketika berusia 22 tahun dalam majalah Makelar Bandit Tolchopo, Tuan Wokodjo Milik Kita Semua, Cerita Manusia Tanjung Pauh, Manuskrip Yang Terbakar, Dongeng Penelitian Nambuk Kubo, Tahun Batu Sumpah Batu, Lamaran, dan karya terkenal bertajuk Lantak Laa: Dramaturgi Anonim Anonim.
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Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer is considered the first West Indian novelist, i.e. even though there were writers who wrote about Caribbean themes before him, he was the first to make a successful professional life out of it. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) of Afro-European heritage, he began writing in 1929 and self-published his first book, Creole Chips, in 1937.

Mittelholzer left Guyana for Trinidad in 1941, eventually migrating to England in 1948, living the rest of his life there except for three years in Barbados, and a shorter period in Canada. Between 1951 and 1965, he published twenty-one novels, and two works of non-fiction, including his autobiographical, A Swarthy Boy.

"Mittelholzer's novels include characters and situations from a varie

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James Palmer

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James Palmer has traveled extensively in East and Central Asia and has worked with Taoist and Buddhist groups in China and Mongolia on environmental issues. In 2003 he won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing. He lives in Beijing.
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H.M. van den Brink

Hans Maarten van den Brink (1956) is a Dutch writer and journalist who has won many literary awards with his novel Over het water (translated as On the water).

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Tommy Koh

Professor Tommy Koh is currently Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. He is the Chairman of the SymAsia Foundation of Credit Suisse. He is also the Rector of Tembusu College at the University Town of the National University of Singapore.

Prof Koh was the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Singapore from 1971 to 1974. He was Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York from 1968 to 1971 (concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Canada) and again from 1974 to 1984 (concurrently accredited as High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico). He

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Arita Baaijens

Arita Baaijens is ontdekkingsreizigster, schrijfster en fotograaf. Zij is lid van de oyal Geographical Society, de Explorers Club en de Long Riders Guild. Ze heeft ruim 25 woestijnexpedities op haar naam staan. In Mauretanië ontmoette ze de laatste vrouwelijke karavaangidsen, die in de vorige eeuw handelskaravanen door de Sahara begeleidden. In Arita's laatste boek Desert Songs blikt de ontdekkingsreizigster terug op de tochten die zij afgelopen twintig in Egypte en Soedan maakte. De reisboekhandels in Nederland kozen Desert Songs tot Beste reisfotoboek 2008. In september 2013 verscheen The Modern Explorers bij Thames & Hudson, met een hoofdstuk over de woestijnexpedities van Arita Baaijens.

Verder verschenen van haar Oase Farafra (2003), o

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Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is currently assistant managing editor for continuous news at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. Originally from the San Francisco Bay area, Chandrasekaran holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.

At The Post he has served as bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. In 2004, he was journalist-in-residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Ivo van de Wijdeven

Ivo van de Wijdeven is historicus en politiek analist. Hij adviseerde jarenlang de minister-president en voorziet media als De Correspondent, RTL Nieuws, VPRO OVT, NRC, Historisch Nieuwsblad, Geschiedenis Magazine en Clingendael Spectator van heldere uitleg. Eerder schreef hij De rafelranden van Europa, De spoken van Visegrád, De nieuwe rafelrand van Europa en De macht van het verleden, dat op de shortlist van de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs stond.
Met zijn verhalen wil hij iedereen die daarin geïnteresseerd is een historische achtergrond bieden bij de actualiteit.

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