Jan Urban
Journalist and pedagogue.
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Gazeta Wyborcza journalist, he specializes in problemes of Africa and Middle Asia and Caucas. Witness of the most important political events in whole word in end of one century and begging of another, constant witness of events in Aphaganist since spring of 1992. Author of a book Dobre miejsce do umierania (1994 - A good place to die), effect of few years of journeys to Caucas in time of fall of Soviet Empire and crating new independent countries. Published in 2002 Modlitwa o deszcz about Afganistan was nominated for NIKE Award 2003. It got Józef Tischner Award, Readers Award in Podporiusz 2003 and Amber Butterfly in Arkady Fiedler Competition. Wojciech Jagielski got also Dariusz Fikus Award for 2002.
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Hanna Krall
Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.
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Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.
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Marek Rabij
Polish journalist and publicist, specializing in globalization and transcontinental economic relations, traveler, expert on Southeast Asia.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
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Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her most recent biographical, non-fiction work, King Kong Theory has also been translated into English, and recounts her experiences working within the French sex industry, and attendant infamy and praise associated with the aforementioned Baise-Moi.
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Hanna Krall
Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.
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Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.
Światową sławę przyniósł jej oryginalny w formie wywiad z Markiem Edelmanem Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem (1977). Ostatn -
Jessica Bruder
Jessica Bruder is a journalist who writes about subcultures and resilience.
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For her most recent book, "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" (W.W. Norton & Co.), she spent months living in a camper van, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing and hit the road full time, enabling them to travel from job to job and carve out a place for themselves in our precarious economy. The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving—from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border.
Jessica has been teaching at Columbia Journalism School since 2008. She has written for publications including Harper's Magazine, The Nation, WIRED, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Interna -
Mick Conefrey
Mick Conefrey is the author of the award-winning Adventurer’s Handbook and How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt. An internationally recognised filmmaker, he has produced several BBC documentaries on mountaineering and exploration, including The Race for Everest. He lives in north Oxford with his family.
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Wojciech Tochman
Reporter, non-fiction writer. He has twice been shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Prize and has won the Polish Book Publishers Association Award.
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He began his career as a reporter at the youth weekly Na przełaj before leaving school, and soon after he joined the first reporting team at "Gazeta Wyborcza". His reports from this period were published in a book, Stairs Don’t Burn (2000, 2006). Before he got his masters degree at Warsaw University he went to Bosnia with a convoy organised by humanitarian aid worker Janina Ochojska. He then went back to the Balkans repeatedly for many years, and the book Like Eating A Stone is the result of those journeys. His next book was Dear Daughter (2005), the moving account of his efforts to find out what h -
Åsne Seierstad
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
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She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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Wojciech Jagielski
Gazeta Wyborcza journalist, he specializes in problemes of Africa and Middle Asia and Caucas. Witness of the most important political events in whole word in end of one century and begging of another, constant witness of events in Aphaganist since spring of 1992. Author of a book Dobre miejsce do umierania (1994 - A good place to die), effect of few years of journeys to Caucas in time of fall of Soviet Empire and crating new independent countries. Published in 2002 Modlitwa o deszcz about Afganistan was nominated for NIKE Award 2003. It got Józef Tischner Award, Readers Award in Podporiusz 2003 and Amber Butterfly in Arkady Fiedler Competition. Wojciech Jagielski got also Dariusz Fikus Award for 2002.
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Leoš Kyša
Narodil se v listopadu roku 1979. V podstatě celé dětství strávil na Opavsku. Vystudoval zde Obchodní akademii v Opavě a dále pokračoval ve studiích na Slezské univerzitě v Opavě.
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Mezi roky 2003 až 2017 působil jako redaktor v mnoha redakcích různých mediálních domů (Borgis - Právo, Mediacop - Týden a Instikt, Ambit Media - Fresh marketing, Economia - Hospodářské noviny, Empresa Media - Instinkt, publicistika TV Barrandov, Mafra - Mediahub.cz)
Od roku 2017 je spisovatelem na volné noze. Působí též jako externí vyučující na Slezské univerzitě v Opavě.
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Elisabeth Åsbrink
Elisabeth Katherine Åsbrink is a Swedish author and journalist.
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Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. A native of Albania, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. She lives and works in Lo
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Marek Rabij
Polish journalist and publicist, specializing in globalization and transcontinental economic relations, traveler, expert on Southeast Asia.
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Marek Torčík
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.
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Jakub Stanjura
Žije v Praze. Vystudoval anglistiku a bohemistiku na Univerzitě Karlově. Jeho románový debut Srpny (2023) o manipulaci a gaslightingu se ihned po vydání stal knižním bestsellerem, dočkal se divadelního zpracování a překladu do několika cizích jazyků. V říjnu mu vyjde druhý román Medúzy (2025).
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