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Violet Moller

Dr. Violet Moller is a freelance historian and author whose work focuses on the history of ideas and how knowledge has been transmitted through the centuries. She also hosts the history podcast "Travels Through Time."

Moller started her career as a journalist, covering theatre, art, books, going out, music and culture in general. Her work has appeared in The Face, Arena, The Scotsman, Metro Scotland, and The List. She then worked as an editor and translator in Denmark. Her fist book, "The Curious World of Dickens," was published in 2012. Her most recent book, "The Map of Knowledge," was published in 2019 and received the RSL Jerwood Prize for Non-fiction.

Moller received her M.A. in Classics and Medieval History and her Ph.D. in Intellectual

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.

See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author.

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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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Tommy Wieringa

Tommy Wieringa (born 20 May 1967 in Goor, Overijssel) is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2006 for his novel Joe Speedboat.

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Jan Luiten van Zanden

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Emeritus hoogleraar economische geschiedenis Universiteit Utrecht

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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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Oliver Pötzsch

Oliver Pötzsch is a German writer and filmmaker. After high school he attended the German School of Journalism in Munich from 1992 to 1997. He then worked for Radio Bavaria. In addition to his professional activities in radio and television, Pötzsch researched his family history. He is a descendant of the Kuisle, from the 16th to the 19th Century a famous dynasty of executioners in Schongau.

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Anthony Bale

Professor Anthony Bale, MA (Oxford), MA (York), DPhil (Oxford), is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, England.

Anthony Bale teaches on the BA English, MA Medieval Literature and Culture and supervises doctoral students working on medieval topics.

Bale has published widely on medieval literature, culture, and religion. In particular, his work has explored relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, and has recently published a new translation and edition of The Book of Margery Kempe with Oxford University Press. His current work explores travel and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages.

He has received f

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Laurent Binet

Son of an historian, Binet was born in Paris, graduated from University of Paris in literature, and taught literature in Parisian suburb and eventually at University. He was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel, HHhH.

Laurent Binet est né à Paris. Il a effectué son service militaire en Slovaquie et a partagé son temps entre Paris et Prague pendant plusieurs années. Agrégé de lettres, il est professeur de français en Seine-Saint-Denis depuis dix ans et chargé de cours à l'Université. HHhH est son premier roman.

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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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Violet Moller

Dr. Violet Moller is a freelance historian and author whose work focuses on the history of ideas and how knowledge has been transmitted through the centuries. She also hosts the history podcast "Travels Through Time."

Moller started her career as a journalist, covering theatre, art, books, going out, music and culture in general. Her work has appeared in The Face, Arena, The Scotsman, Metro Scotland, and The List. She then worked as an editor and translator in Denmark. Her fist book, "The Curious World of Dickens," was published in 2012. Her most recent book, "The Map of Knowledge," was published in 2019 and received the RSL Jerwood Prize for Non-fiction.

Moller received her M.A. in Classics and Medieval History and her Ph.D. in Intellectual

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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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Janina Ramírez

Janina Sara María Ramírez (née Maleczek; 7 July 1980), sometimes credited as Nina Ramírez, is a British art and cultural historian and TV presenter, based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. She specialises in interpreting symbols and examining works of art, within their own historical context.

Ramírez went to school in Slough. She gained a degree in English literature, specialising in Old and Middle English, from St Anne's College, Oxford, before completing her postgraduate studies at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. She completed an art/literature PhD on the symbolism of birds, which led to a lectureship in York's Art History Department, followed by lecturing posts at the University of Winchester, University of Warwick, and Univ

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Catherine Nixey

Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. Her mother was a nun, her father was a monk, and she was brought up Catholic. She studied classics at Cambridge and taught the subject for several years before becoming a journalist on the arts desk at the Times (UK), where she still works. The Darkening Age, winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award, is her first book. She lives in London.

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Joren Vermeersch

Joren Vermeersch is jurist, historicus, auteur en adviseur ideologie voor N-VA. Bijdragen zijn steeds in eigen naam. Hij publiceerde ‘1349: Hoe de Zwarte Dood Vlaanderen en Europa veranderde’, en met Theo Francken ‘Continent zonder grens’ en ‘Migratie in 24 vragen en antwoorden’.

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Rosie Hewlett

Rosie Hewlett is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of MEDEA and MEDUSA.

Having secured a First Class Honours degree in Classical Literature and Civilisation at the University of Birmingham, Rosie Hewlett has studied Greek mythology in depth and is passionate about unearthing strong female voices within the classical world. Rosie currently lives in Kent with her husband and is now a full-time author spending her days lost inside her favourite stories from mythology.

Rosie's first traditionally published novel, Medea, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Her self-published debut novel, Medusa, won the Rubery Book of the Year award in 2021 and is being re-released in hardback for the first time in autumn 2025.

Her brand new book Sweetbitte

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Tobi Lakmaker

Tobi Lakmaker was born in 1994 and lives in Amsterdam. He writes columns for De Groene Amsterdammer and LINDA.meiden. The History of My Sexuality is his first book.

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Sarah Neutkens

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Honor Cargill-Martin

A twenty-four year old from London, Honor read Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Oxford, where she won a scholarship before graduating with a first-class degree in 2019. She remained at Oxford to study for a masters degree in Greek and Roman History, graduating with a Distinction. Honor completed a second masters in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in London, where she was awarded a Distinction for work focusing on the art of the Italian - and especially the Venetian - Renaissance. She is currently studying for a doctorate focusing on political sex scandals in Ancient Rome at Christ Church College Oxford.

Honor has published a number of fiction titles for children and teenagers. Her first non-fiction book Messalina: A

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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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Jan Luiten van Zanden

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Emeritus hoogleraar economische geschiedenis Universiteit Utrecht

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