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Alina Bronsky

Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

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Steve Tesich

Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.

His novel Karoo was published posthumously in 1998. Arthur Miller described the novel: "Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of wise outrage.” The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Rencontre d'été.

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Hape Kerkeling

Hans-Peter Wilhelm “Hape” Kerkeling is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play narrator, audiobook and dubbing actor.

He became a popular television and stage comedian in the mid-1980s. In 1985, at the age of 20, he was given his first regular television show, "Känguru". This was followed by other comedy formats such as "Total Normal" and "Darüber lacht die Welt" as well as hosting major television shows such as the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest and the Golden Camera awards.

He has written, directed and acted in several cinema and television films. His fictional characters such as Horst Schlämmer, Siegfried Schwäbli, Uschi Blum and Evje van Dampen also became known to

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Lajos Egri

Lajos N. Egri (born June 4, 1888; died February 7, 1967) was the author of The Art of Dramatic Writing, which is widely regarded as one of the best works on the subject of playwriting, though its teachings have since been adapted for the writing of short stories, novels, and screenplays[...]

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Nora Bossong

Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.

Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).

An advocate for democracy, peace and human rights, Bossong was also a member of the presidium of the PEN C

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Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch, won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for best debut and is being translated into five languages.

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Tijan Sila

Tijan Sila was born in Sarajevo (1981) in the former Yugoslavia , where he spent his childhood. During the siege of the city in the Bosnian War, he fled with his family and came to Germany in 1994. He grew up in Landau in der Pfalz . As a teenager, he played guitar in the punk band Atlas Lanze.

Sila studied German and English at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg . His autobiographical debut novel Tierchen unlimited was published in 2017.

In 2018, the novel Die Fahne der Wünsche followed , about an apathetic teenager who grows up in a fictional totalitarian regime. In May 2021, the novel Krach was published , in which Sila processes his youth in the Palatinate province and the punk scene of the late 1990s.

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Jan-Philipp Sendker

Jan-Philipp Sendker, born in Hamburg in 1960, and, longing to travel the world, became the American correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel, and since then, he has written 3 further novels, including a sequel to "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats", "A Well-Tempered Heart". In 2013, he received The indies Choice Honor Award in the category Adult Fiction for "The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. He lives in Potsdam with his family and is currently working on the third installment in his China-trilogy.
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Daniela Krien

Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.

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Sacha Guitry

Sacha Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.

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Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born on January 3, 1969. She was raised in a small village in the Basque Country.

While finishing her PhD in French Literature, she wrote her first novel, Truismes (Pig Tales) which was published in September 1996 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens (POL), who have published all her subsequent novels as well. After the success of Truismes, Darrieussecq decided to quit her teaching position at the University of Lille to concentrate on writing her novels. Her first husband was a mathematician, her second is an astrophysicist. She gave birth to a son in 2001 and to a daughter in 2004.

She endorsed Ségolène Royal's candidacy during the French Presidential Elections of 2007.

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Doris Knecht

Doris Knecht war stellvertretende Chefredakteurin des Wiener Stadtmagazins «Falter» und Kolumnistin des Schweizer «Tages-Anzeiger». Für den «Kurier» schreibt sie die tägliche Kolumne «Knecht», für den «Falter» wöchentlich eine Familienkolumne, in der Wiener «rhiz-bar» legt sie regelmäßig als Djane auf. «Gruber geht» (2011), ihr erster Roman, wurde ein Überraschungserfolg und stand auf der Longlist für den Deutschen Buchpreis. Doris Knecht lebt mit ihrer Familie in Wien und im Waldviertel.

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Isabel Bogdan

Isabel Bogdan studierte Anglistik und Japanologie in Heidelberg und Tokio. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg-Borgfelde. 2006 erhielt sie den Hamburger Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzung, 2011 den Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. 2013 war sie für einen Monat Artist in Residence an der Universität Nanjing.
Sie hat verschiedene Lesereihen mitorganisiert, unter anderem Kaffee.Satz.Lesen mit Stevan Paul und Tirili/Tristesse mit Maximilian Buddenbohm. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Gründungsmitglied des PEN Berlin und im Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer (VdÜ). Sie ist Vorsitzende des Vereins zur Rettung des „anderthalb“.

Bogdan übersetzt unter anderem Texte von Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, Megan Abbott, Tamar Yell

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Daniel Glattauer

Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.

Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).

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Saša Stanišić

And I am a writer, writer of fictions.

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Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.

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Martin Suter

Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.

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Isabel Bogdan

Isabel Bogdan studierte Anglistik und Japanologie in Heidelberg und Tokio. Heute lebt sie in Hamburg-Borgfelde. 2006 erhielt sie den Hamburger Förderpreis für literarische Übersetzung, 2011 den Hamburger Förderpreis für Literatur. 2013 war sie für einen Monat Artist in Residence an der Universität Nanjing.
Sie hat verschiedene Lesereihen mitorganisiert, unter anderem Kaffee.Satz.Lesen mit Stevan Paul und Tirili/Tristesse mit Maximilian Buddenbohm. Außerdem ist sie Mitglied im PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, Gründungsmitglied des PEN Berlin und im Verband deutschsprachiger Übersetzer (VdÜ). Sie ist Vorsitzende des Vereins zur Rettung des „anderthalb“.

Bogdan übersetzt unter anderem Texte von Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, Megan Abbott, Tamar Yell

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Daniel Glattauer

Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.

Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).

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Alina Bronsky

Alina Bronsky was born in Yekaterinburg, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia. She moved to Germany when she was thirteen. Her first novel, Broken Glass Park, was nominated for one of Europe’s most prestigious literary awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

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Tommie Goerz

Tommie Goerz is the pen name of German author Marius Kliesch.

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Daniela Krien

Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.

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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch, won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for best debut and is being translated into five languages.

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Kristine Bilkau

Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.

Kristine Bilkau, 1974 geboren, studierte Geschi

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Takis Würger

Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Tommie Goerz

Tommie Goerz is the pen name of German author Marius Kliesch.

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Kirsten Boie

Kirsten Boie was born in Hamburg in 1950. She studied German and English literature and wrote a doctoral thesis on a topic in the field of literary research. She worked as a secondary school teacher in Hamburg from 1978 until 1983. When she adopted a child she had to stop teaching and began to write. Her first book "Paule ist ein Glücksgriff" (1985) was very well received and won several awards.

Since then she has published more than 60 books for children and teens that have been translated into many languages. Special mention must be made of her novels for young adults that critically examine social issues and display literary innovation. In addition to the many awards she has won, her complete works have been nominated for the Hans Christi

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Daniel Speck

Daniel Speck is an award-winning screenwriter for film and TV and a bestselling novelist. He was born in 1969 in Munich and studied literature, film history, and screenwriting in Munich and Rome. A passionate traveler, lover of Mediterranean countries, and builder of bridges between cultures, he draws his inspirations for his films and novels from the personal stories of people he encounters. His debut novel, Anywhere But Home, originally published as Bella Germania and translated into seven languages, was on the Spiegel bestseller list for eighty-five weeks.

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Ulrike Sterblich

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Heinrich Breloer

Heinrich Breloer, German author and acclaimed film director who has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history.

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Golineh Atais

Deutsche Fernseh-Korrespondentin. Sie machte sich insbesondere als Russlandexpertin einen Namen.

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Jessica Bennett

Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and author who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times, where she has covered sexual assault on campus, profiled female pot entrepreneurs, and was the first journalist to profile Monica Lewinsky in a decade. She also writes a column on digital language called Command Z.

A former staff writer at Newsweek and columnist at Time, Jessica is the author of Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace (HarperCollins, 2016), which has been translated into seven languages. She was a founding editor of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In foundation, where she cofounded the Lean In Photography Collection, an initiative with Getty Images to change

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Lucie Faulerová

Lucie Faulerová (born 1989) is a Czech writer. She got a degree in Czech studies from Palacký University in Olomouc. Her debut novel Lapači prachu (Dust Catchers) was nominated for the 2017 Magnesia Litera Award and the Jiří Orten Award.
In 2020, Faulerová published the novel Smrtholka (Deathmaiden). It won the 2021 EU Prize for Literature and was nominated for the 2021 Magnesia Litera Award.

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Jörg Maurer

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1953 in Bayern, ganz in der Nähe Österreichs geboren, hielt es Jörg Maurer in Garmisch-Partenkirchen nicht lange aus und ging bald nach der Schulzeit nach München, wo er Germanistik, Anglistik, Theaterwissenschaften und Philosophie studierte. Es folgten einige Jahre als Englisch- und Deutschlehrer. Nebenbei verfasste Maurer seinen ersten Roman "Föhnlage", der 2009 erschien und mit dem er viele Leser begeisterte. Neben dem Schreiben gehört Maurers Leidenschaft dem Musikkabarett. Beide zusammen präsentiert er in seinen "musik-kabarettistischen Lesungen". Wiewohl er den Lehrerberuf mochte, so hat Jörg Maurer ihn doch zugunsten der Literatur und Musik aufgege

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Lucy Fricke

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