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Edward Brooke-Hitching

Edward Brooke-Hitching is a writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker. The son of an antiquarian book dealer, he read English and Film at the University of Exeter before entering independent film production. ‘Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports’ is his first book. He lives in London.

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Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson is a bestselling American-British author known for his witty and accessible nonfiction books spanning travel, science, and language. He rose to prominence with Notes from a Small Island (1995), an affectionate portrait of Britain, and solidified his global reputation with A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), a popular science book that won the Aventis and Descartes Prizes. Raised in Iowa, Bryson lived most of his adult life in the UK, working as a journalist before turning to writing full-time. His other notable works include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and The Mother Tongue. Bryson served as Chancellor of Durham University (2005–2011) and received numerous honorary degrees and awards,

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Jan Terlouw

Jan Cornelis Terlouw was a Dutch politician, physicist and author. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982 under Prime Minister Dries van Agt.

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Guy Deutscher

Guy Deutscher is the author of Through the Language Glass and The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester.

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Dimitri Verhulst

Na zijn debuut in 1999 schreef Dimitri Verhulst 13 boeken, romans, verhalen, novellen, poëzie en toneel. Zijn werk verschijnt in meer dan 20 talen over de hele wereld en hij wordt gezien als een van de grote schrijvers uit de Lage Landen. De klassieker De helaasheid der dingen werd bekroond met de Gouden Uil Publieksprijs, met Godverdomse dagen op een bol won hij de Libris Literatuurprijs. Zijn laatste, De laatkomer, verkocht binnen een half jaar meer dan 75 000 exemplaren, wordt verfilmd en over de hele wereld vertaald.

• 2007 - Publieksprijs Gouden Uil voor De helaasheid der dingen
• 2007 - Humo's Gouden Bladwijzer voor De helaasheid der dingen
• 2008 - De Inktaap voor De helaasheid der dingen, literaire jongerenprijs Vlaanderen, Nederland e

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Herman Koch

Herman Koch (1953) is known as a television producer and a writer. The book 'Het diner', published in 2009, was his breakthrough in the Netherlands. It was published in 17 countries. It was partly based on a true story involving a homeless woman named, María del Rosario Endrinal Petit, in Barcelona (Spain), in December 2005.

Koch was born in Arnhem, and later moved to Amsterdam. He studied Russian for some months, and lived in Finland for a while. Nowadays he is married to the Spanish Amalia, and has a son, Pablo (1994).

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Esther Gerritsen

Esther Gerritsen (1972) is a Dutch novelist, columnist and screenwriter. Since her 2000 debut with Bevoorrecht bewustzijn (Privileged Consciousness), Gerritsen has been considered one of the best authors in the Netherlands and makes regular appearances on radio programs and at international literary festivals such as Litquake and Wordfest.

Her novels Superduif (Superdove, 2010), Dorst (Craving, 2012), Roxy (2014) and De Trooster (The Comforter, 2018) were all shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize. In 2005 she was awarded the BNG prize for her second novel Normale dagen (Ordinary Days, 2005) and in 2014 she was awarded the Frans Kellendonk prize for her body of work. Gerritsen writes a popular weekly column in the VPRO TV guide and she

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Rob van Essen

Rob van Essen (1963). Schrijver, vertaler, recensent Angelsaksische literatuur voor NRC Handelsblad.

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Rodaan Al Galidi

Al Galidi (eigenlijk Rodhan Al Khalidi) is een schrijver van Irakese afkomst. Hij is geboren in 1971, maar zijn precieze geboortedatum is onbekend, omdat zulke gegevens niet geregistreerd worden en verjaardagen niet gevierd worden in zijn streek van herkomst.

Al Galidi studeerde in Irak af als bouwkundig ingenieur. Na zijn studie vluchtte hij uit Irak om de dienstplicht te ontwijken; zes jaar later, in 1998, kwam hij in Nederland terecht, waar hij asiel aanvroeg. Het asiel werd hem geweigerd en hij is uitgeprocedeerd. Lessen Nederlands mocht hij bijgevolg niet bijwonen. Daarom leerde Al Galidi zich de Nederlandse taal en begon te schrijven. In Vlaanderen wordt hij als schrijver erkend en ontvangt hij een werkbeurs. In 2007 kon Al Galidi geni

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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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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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Keith Houston

Keith Houston is the author of Shady Characters, The Book, Empire of the Sum and Face with Tears of Joy. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Lapham's Quarterly, BBC Culture, and on Time.com. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland, with his family.

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Anya Niewierra

Anya Niewierra is de schrijfster van de thrillers Vrij uitzicht en Het Dossier. Ze woont, werkt, schildert en schrijft in Zuid-Limburg en in de Pyreneeën. Zowel haar jeugdjaren binnen de serene abdijmuren van Gymnasium Rolduc als het deels wonen in Frans Catalonië hebben Niewierra geïnspireerd tot het schrijven van Het bloemenmeisje.

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Teun van de Keuken

Teun Gerrit (Teun) van de Keuken is a Dutch journalist and television and radio program maker.

In 2015 Van de Keuken wrote the book Puur en Eerlijk (Pure and Fair) about misleading consumers. Goed Volk, a novel based on Van de Keuken's youth, followed in 2017. De

Supermarktsurvivalgids (The Supermarketsurvival guide) was published in the autumn of 2018. In it, Van de Keuken dissects the world of the supermarket and gives tips for conscious shopping.

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Sander Schimmelpenninck

Sander Schimmelpenninck (1984) is journalist, columnist bij de Volkskrant en presentator van de Zelfspodcast. In de tv-serie Sander en de kloof stelde hij kansenongelijkheid aan de kaak, in zijn boek Sander en de brug (ruim 27.000 verkocht) deed hij voorstellen om daar iets aan te doen.

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Maryam Hassouni

Maryam Hassouni debuteerde op haar vijftiende als actrice. Na een schitterende carrière en een studie Engels besloot ze zich volledig te richten op het schrijverschap. Ze schreef eerder een kinderboek. In 2022 verscheen Wat de fak, een zoals de NRC schreef `vlammend j'accuse tegen de film- en televisie-industrie'. In 2025 verschijnt haar roman Wezens, een indringende psychologische roman over transgenerationeel trauma en de eenzame strijd van een vrouw om zich van die erfelijke last te bevrijden. Een verhaal over vervreemding, existentiële schaamte en de weg naar heling.

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Yorick Goldewijk

Yorick Goldewijk schreef eerder o.a. Films die nergens draaien, waarvoor hij de Gouden Griffel won. De Engelse vertaling van dit boek werd uitgeroepen tot Times Children's Book of the Year.

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Karim Amghar

Karim Amghar is schrijver, programmamaker en mbo-docent.

Hij schrijft voor De Correspondent en Trouw en is auteur van de boeken Van radicaal naar amicaal en Hoor mij zie mij. Als programmamaker en presentator maakt hij televisieseries voor Human en NTR over mentale gezondheid, kansengelijkheid en diversiteit. Hij presenteerde veelgeprezen programma’s als Het M-Woord en De Maastrichtse droom.

In 2018 won Karim de Compassieprijs en in 2024 de titel Jonge Toezichthouder van het Jaar.

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Ali Abdaal

Ali Abdaal is a doctor, entrepreneur, amateur magician, and the world's most-followed productivity expert.

Ali became intrigued by the science of productivity while juggling the demands of medical training at Cambridge University and building his business on the side. While working as a doctor in the UK's National Health Service, Ali started to document his journey towards living a healthier, happier, more productive life on his YouTube channel and other social media platforms. To date, Ali’s evidence-based videos, podcasts and articles sharing insights into the human mind, have reached hundreds of millions of people all around the world.

In 2021, Ali took a break from his medical practice to focus full-time on his work popularising the sci

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Kory Stamper

Kory Stamper is a lexicographer (that is, a writer and editor of dictionaries) at Merriam-Webster (the dictionary). She has written and appeared in the "Ask the Editor" video series at Merriam-Webster, and has traveled around the world giving talks and lectures on language and lexicography. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications, including The Washington Post, The Guardian and The New York Times. A medievalist by training, she knows a number of languages, most of them dead. She drinks more coffee and owns more dictionaries than is good for anyone.

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Cecelia Watson

Cecelia is a historian and philosopher of science, and a teacher of writing and the humanities. She is currently part of Bard College’s Faculty in Language and Thinking. Previously she was an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at Yale University, where she was jointly appointed in the Humanities and Philosophy departments. Prior to that, she was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a scientific consultant for Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.

She has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College; and an M.A. in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, both from the University of Chicago.

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Arika Okrent

Arika Okrent is an American linguist, known particularly for her 2009 book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language, a result of her five years of research into the topic of constructed languages.
Arika Okrent was born in Chicago and became fascinated with languages at an early age. She flitted from language to language in school, wondering why she couldn't just settle down and commit to one, until she finally discovered a field that would support and encourage her scandalous behavior: Linguistics. After some lengthy affairs with Hungarian (she taught in Hungary after college) and American Sign Language (she earned an M.A. in Linguistics

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Keith Houston

Keith Houston is the author of Shady Characters, The Book, Empire of the Sum and Face with Tears of Joy. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Lapham's Quarterly, BBC Culture, and on Time.com. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland, with his family.

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Alex Boese

Alex Boese holds a master's degree in the history of science from UC San Diego. He is the creator of museumofhoaxes.com. He lives near San Diego.

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Guy Deutscher

Guy Deutscher is the author of Through the Language Glass and The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester.

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For the physics professor, please see: Guy Deutscher.

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Geraldine DeRuiter

Geraldine DeRuiter is founder of The Everywhereist blog, which TIME magazine described as "consistently clever" (note: Geraldine brings this up a lot. Even when it's not pertinent to the conversation). While ostensibly a travel writer, she also writes extensively about desserts she's enjoyed as well as Jeff Goldblum's entire filmography. Rather miraculously, her work has also garnered the attention of FORBES Magazine, which listed her blog as one of its Top 10 Lifestyle Websites for Women for 3 consecutive years, and THE INDEPENDENT, who included her on their list of 50 Best Travel Websites. (So, you know, that TIME thing was not just a fluke or a result of the editorial team getting drunk.)

When not on the road with her long-suffering and i

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Paul de Kruif

Paul Henry de Kruif was an American microbiologist and author of Dutch descent. Publishing as Paul de Kruif, he is most noted for his 1926 book, Microbe Hunters. This book was not only a bestseller for a lengthy period after publication, it has remained high on lists of recommended reading for science and has been an inspiration for many aspiring physicians and scientists.

He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree (1912) and remained to obtain a Ph.D. (1916). He immediately entered service as a Private in Mexico on the Pancho Villa Expedition and afterwards served as a Lieutenant and a Captain in World War I in France. Because of his service in the Sanitary Corps, he had occasional contacts with leading French bio

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David J. Peterson

My name is David Peterson, and I'm a language creator and writer. I'm the author of Living Language Dothraki, The Art of Language Invention, and Create Your Own Secret Language. I've been creating languages for television shows and movies since 2009. Some of the productions I've worked on (and languages I've created for them) are: HBO's Game of Thrones (Dothraki, High Valyrian, Astapori Valyrian); Syfy's Defiance (Castithan, Irathient, Indojisnen, Kinuk'aaz); Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem (Méníshè); Netflix's The Witcher (Hen Linge); the CW's The 100 (Trigedasleng); HBO's House of the Dragon (High Valyrian); and Legendary's Dune (Chakobsa).

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Nicholas Ostler

Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar and author. Ostler studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received degrees in Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics. He later studied under Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in linguistics and Sanskrit.

His 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World documents the spread of language throughout recorded human history.

His 2007 book Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin looks specifically at the language of the Romans, both before and after the existence of their Empire. The story focuses on the rise, spread, and dominance of Latin, both among other languages of the Italian peninsula in the early part of the 1st millennium BC and amon

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David Bellos

David Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, where he is also a professor of French and comparative literature. He has won many awards for his translations of Georges Perec, Ismail Kadare, and others, including the Man Booker International Translator’s Award. He also received the Prix Goncourt for George Perec: A Life in Words.

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John Barrow

Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS was an English statesman. He was born the son of Roger Barrow in the village of Dragley Beck, in the parish of Ulverston, then in Lancashire, now in Cumbria. He started in life as superintending clerk of an iron foundry at Liverpool and afterwards, in his twenties, taught mathematics at a private school in Greenwich.

Through the interest of Sir George Leonard Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, he was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792-94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney. He soon acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by

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Gabriel Wyner

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Author and founder of Fluent Forever.

Over 1.5 million people have read my material to learn how to speak a foreign language and remember it forever. You may be searching for a way to successfully learn your first foreign language, or you may be looking for more efficient ways to learn your third or fourth language. I'm hoping to give you a set of tools to help accomplish either of these goals.

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Gretchen McCulloch

Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist!

She writes the Resident Linguist column at Wired (and formerly at The Toast). McCulloch has a master’s in linguistics from McGill University, runs the blog All Things Linguistic, and cohosts Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. She lives in Montreal, but also on the internet.

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David Crystal

David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language studies, did some research there at the Survey of English Usage under Randolph Quirk (1962-3), then joined academic life as a lecturer in linguistics, first at Bangor, then at Reading. He published the first of his 100 or so books in 1964, and became known chiefly for his research work in English language studies, in such fields as intonation and stylistics, and in the

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Eddie Woo

Eddie Woo is the head mathematics teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, Sydney. He has been teaching maths for more than ten years.

In 2012, Eddie started recording his lessons and uploading them to Youtube - creating 'Wootube'. Since then, he has amassed a following of more than 270,000 subscribers and his videos have been viewed more than 14 million times.

In 2018, Eddie was named Australia's Local Hero of and shortlisted as one of the top ten teachers in the world.

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Nicola Gardini

Nicola Gardini è scrittore e pittore. Vive tra Oxford e Milano.
Scrive poesie, saggi, romanzi, memoir, articoli giornalistici, e traduce poesia dal latino e da alcune lingue moderne, soprattutto l’inglese. Dipinge prevalentemente a olio, su tela e su cartone.

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Morten H. Christiansen

Morten H. Christiansen is the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of psychology at Cornell University as well as a senior scientist at the Haskins Labs and professor in cognitive science of language at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and has edited four books. He lives near Ithaca, New York.

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Gaston Dorren

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