Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili (Georgian: ნინო ხარატიშვილი) is a Georgian-born German novelist, playwright, and theater director.
Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended the seventh and the eighth grade of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again in order to attend drama school in Hamburg. She became a German citizen in 2012.
Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg.
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Napisał rownież kilkanaście opowiadań ogłoszonych w prasie i w antologiach. Przełożył z języka angielskiego wiele pozycji, między innymi Brudne wojny Jeremy’ego Scahilla, Paryż wyzwolony Antony’ego Beevora, Moją prawdę Mike’a Tysona i zbiór korespondencji pod tytułem Listy niezapomniane. Publikował w „Newsweeku”, „Polityce”, Angorze”, „Znaku”, „Nowej Fantastyce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”.
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Anni Kytömäki
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Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York City.
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Marcel Möring was born in 1957 in Enschede, an industrial town near the Dutch-German border, where he attended a Montessori primary school. In the late sixties his family moved north, to Assen, a small town moderately famous for its annual TT motor races. He finished secondary school and studied Dutch literature for two years, then went from one odd job to another. Since he had already decided to become a writer at the age of thirteen, he saw no point in further education. He wrote several plays in those years, producing and directing two of them, and moved to Rotterdam, the second biggest city in the Netherlands. Möring published his first novel, Mendels Erfenis, in 1990, to almost unanimous critical acclaim. His second novel, Het Grote Ve
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Gabriele Tergit
Gabriele Tergit had already pioneered as a female court reporter for major Berlin newspapers when she became famous overnight for her socially critical novel about the late Weimar Republic, Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (Käsebier Conquers the Kurfürstendamm, 1931). Her literary career in Germany was cut short by Hitler, however, and, like Irmgard Keun, she was largely forgotten after the war. But in spite of her lack of success in the early Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the exiled author never stopped writing and also worked tirelessly for the last 25 years of her life as the honorary secretary of the London PEN-Center of expatriate German-speaking authors. With the growing interest in women writers in the late 1970’s Tergit’s wr
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Heike Faller
Heike Faller grew up in a small village in the Black Forest always wanting to become a children’s book author. She became a staff writer at the Germany weekly Die Zeit, specializing in essays and feature stories. She has won journalism awards and written a bestseller on the financial crisis. With “Hundert” she finally made her dream come true and wrote an illustrated book for children and people of all ages.
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Martijn Kitzen
Martijn Kitzen is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda.
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Judith Vanistendael
Judith Vanistendael studeerde na de middelbare school een jaar in Berlijn aan de Hochschule der Künste. Vervolgens volgde ze Kunstwetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Gent en deed ze de opleiding Beeldverhaal aan de Hogeschool Sint Lukas. Ze illustreerde onder andere voor Querido en Malmberg en publiceerde korte verhalen in de striptijdschriften Ink, Demo en Zone 5300.
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Catherine Shaw
CATHERINE SHAW is a pseudonym used by Leila Schneps. She is a mathematician and academic and writer of murder mysteries. She lives in Paris, France.
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After taking an undergraduate degree in pure mathematics at Harvard University, Leila Schneps moved to France definitively in 1983, where shortly after obtaining her Ph.D., she was hired by the French National Scienctific Research Centre as a researcher in mathematics. Over twenty years of doing maths, teaching, and mentoring graduate students, her interests have widened far beyond the horizons of pure algebra to aspects of mathematics - such as probability and statistics- that play a more visible role in the world around us, and to the way in which people absorb, reject or react to mathematics. -
Mieko Kawakami
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.
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She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
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Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l -
Chris De Stoop
Chris De Stoop is een Vlaamse schrijver en journalist. Zijn debuut over een bende vrouwenhandelaars, 'Ze zijn zo lief, meneer', was een bestseller en werd door BBC bewerkt tot een documentaire.
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In 2004 won hij de Gouden Uil Prijs van de Lezer met zijn vertelling 'Ze kwamen uit het Oosten'. Zijn boek 'Het complot van België', over de genocide in Rwanda, werd in 2008 genomineerd voor de AKO Literatuurprijs
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Jelle Brandt Corstius
Brandt Corstius volgde van 1990 tot 1996 het VWO aan het Amsterdams Lyceum en ging daarna voor een jaar naar het Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Van 1997 tot 2003 studeerde hij geschiedenis en journalistiek aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. In Groningen was hij lid van A.S.V. Dizkartes.
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Brandt Corstius was van 2002 tot 2005 redacteur voor Barend & Van Dorp. Hij woonde van 2005 tot 2010 in Moskou, waar hij correspondent was voor Trouw, De Standaard en mensenrechtenmagazine Wordt Vervolgd.
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Ivan Klíma (born 14 September 1931, Prague, born as Ivan Kauders) is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera Award and the Franz Kafka Prize, among other honors.
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Klíma's early childhood in Prague was happy and uneventful, but this all changed with the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, after the Munich Agreement. He had been unaware that both his parents had Jewish ancestry; neither were observant Jews, but this was immaterial to the Germans.
In November 1941, first his father Vilém Klíma, and then in December, he and his mother and brother were ordered to leave for the concentration camp at Theriesenstadt (Terezín), where he was to remain until liberation by the Russian Liberation Army in May, 1945. Both -
Amanda Hodgkinson
Amanda Hodgkinson is an award-winning British novelist. Her debut novel 22 Britannia Road was an international bestseller, an Amazon.com book of the year 2011, a Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee and was published in over sixteen languages. Spilt Milk is her critically acclaimed second novel published in 2014. (Spilt Milk is a refracted version of real life, that impossible mess we inherit and muddle through, yet transmuted here into something shining and meaningful, told in beautiful prose. THE FINANCIAL TIMES.)
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In July 2014, Berkeley (Penguin Books) published a novella TIN TOWN by Amanda in Grand Central. Ten bestselling novelists have put together this collection of original stories of postwar love and reunion.
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Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی - Širin Ebâdi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On October 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She was the first ever Iranian to have received the prize.Ebadi was born in Hamadan, Iran. Her father, Mohammad Ali Ebadi, was the city's chief notary public and professor of commercial law. The family moved to Tehran in 1948.
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Ebadi was admitted to the law department University of Tehran in 1965 and upon graduation in 1969 passed the qualification exams to become a judge. After a six-m -
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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Steffie Van Neste
Steffie Van Neste (1994) studeerde taal-en letterkunde en behaalde in 2022 haar doctoraat in negentiende-eeuwse Franse literatuur aan de Universiteit Gent. Ze doceert Frans en kan niet zwijgen over boeken: ze is redacteur bij De Reactor, begeleidt een leesgroep in Bibliotheek De Krook en schrijft en spreekt regelmatig over literatuur. In 2017 werd ze geselecteerd voor de Parijse schrijfresidentie van deBuren en in 2018 voor Eenzame Avonturen, een talentontwikkelingstraject voor literaire non-fictie van De Gids en deBuren.
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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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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
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He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa -
Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor’s Last Island, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.
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Forugh Karimi
Forugh Karimi (1971, Kabul) kwam als 25-jarige op de vlucht voor de oorlog in Afghanistan in Nederland terecht. Ze vervolgde hier haar studie geneeskunde en heeft inmiddels een eigen praktijk als psychiater en psychotherapeut. Ze is daarnaast hoofdredacteur van De Psychiater (het tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie) en maakt deel uit van de Raad voor de Nederlandse Taal en Letteren.
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In 2022 debuteerde Karimi met De moeders van Mahipar – bekroond met de Hebban Debuutprijs – waarna in 2023 de novelle Nargis verscheen. Met In mijn ogen draag ik wolken laat ze opnieuw zien een unieke bijdrage te leveren aan het Nederlandse literaire landschap. -
John Pomfret
John Pomfret is an American journalist and writer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in New York. He attended Stanford University, receiving his B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies. In 1980, he was one of the first American students to go to China and study at Nanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar, researching the Cambodian conflict.
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He started his journalistic career at the Stanford Daily as a photographer, from where he was fired. After that he worked at a newspaper in Riverside County, California, and after a year was hired by Associated Press to work in New York, covering the graveyard shift.
After two years with the AP in New York, in 198 -
Anne Broeksma
Anne Broeksma (1987) is a Dutch poet, prose writer and journalist. In 2014 she made her literary debut with poetry collection “Regen kosmos kamerplant”, for which she received the C.C.S. Crone Stipend. “Vesper” followed in 2021, and was nominated for the J.C. Bloem Poetry Prize and the Herman de Coninck Prize. Broeksma wrote many short stories as part of the Shortreads Collective and is coordinator of De Eenzame Uitvaart, an initiative that provides funeral ceremonies with a poem for those who passed away without relatives, and the Silent Poetry Lab in Utrecht, an open space where one can write poetry in silence. She also works as a freelance fundraiser for museums and nature organizations.
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Her nonfiction debut “Een verhaal met schubben”, a -
Oliver Bullough
I moved to Russia in 1999, after growing up in mid-Wales and studying at Oxford University. I had no particular plan, beyond a desire to learn Russian, but got a job at a local magazine and realised I liked finding things out and writing about them.
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The next year I moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, then joined Reuters news agency, which sent me to Moscow. The first major story I reported on was the Moscow theatre siege of 2002, when a group of Chechens seized a theatre in the capital.
It both horrified and fascinated me, and I resolved to find out as much as I could about Chechnya and the North Caucasus, to try to understand the roots of the conflict that had burst so unexpectedly into my life. I travelled extensively in the mountains that form -
Herbjørg Wassmo
Herbjørg Wassmo (born Vesterålen, December 6, 1942) is a Norwegian author. She worked as a teacher in northern Norway until her debut as an author. Her debut work was a collection of poems, "Vingeslag" ("Beating of Wings"). Her major breakthrough was her first novel, "Huset med den blinde glassveranda" ("The House with the Blind Glass Porch") in 1981.
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Her best known book is Dinas bok (Dina's Book) from 1989. This novel was made into a film with the title "I Am Dina" in 2002, starring Maria Bonnevie and Gérard Depardieu. -
Bert Natter
Bert Natter (1968) debuteerde in 2008 met de roman Begeerte heeft ons aangeraakt, die werd bekroond met de Selexyz Debuutprijs en de Lucy B. en C.W. van der Hoogtprijs. In 2015 verschenen Remington (longlist Libris Literatuur Prijs) en Goldberg (shortlist ECI Literatuurprijs), in 2018 gevolgd door Ze zullen denken dat we engelen zijn. In 2022 publiceerde hij het literaire non-fictieboek Leven met Lidewij.
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Olav H. Hauge
Olav Håkonson Hauge was a Norwegian poet. He was born in Ulvik and lived his whole life there, working as a gardener in his own orchard.
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Aside from writing his own poems, he was internationally oriented, and translated poems by Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Bertolt Brecht and Robert Bly to Norwegian.
He was also inspired by classical Chinese poetry, e.g. in his poem "T`ao Ch`ien" in the collection Spør vinden (Ask the wind).
Hauge's first poems were published in 1946, all in a traditional form. He later wrote modernist poetry and in particular concrete poetry that inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vo -
Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye, Arabic: واريس ديري) (born in 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.
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In 1997, Waris abandoned her modeling career to focus on her work against female circumcision. That same year, she was appointed UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM). -
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.
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Although Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.
Die Wand (The Wall) can be seen as her -
Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He grew up working in his fathers tailor shop. He himself became a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete high school and university, where he studied art history.
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In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He li -
Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev (Hebrew: מאיר שלו) was one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists. He received many awards for his work, including the National Jewish Book Award and Israel’s Brenner Prize, both for A Pigeon and a Boy.
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A columnist for the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Shalev lived in Jerusalem and in northern Israel with his wife and children. -
Ralf Rothmann
Ralf Rothmann wurde am 10.05.1953 in Schleswig geboren und wuchs im Ruhrgebiet auf. Nach der Volksschule (und einem kurzen Besuch der Handelsschule) machte er eine Maurerlehre, arbeitete mehrere Jahre auf dem Bau und danach in verschiedenen Berufen (unter anderem als Drucker, Krankenpfleger und Koch). Er lebt seit 1976 in Berlin.
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Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche, born Mazo Louise Roche, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.
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The Jalna series consists of sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954, although each of the novels can also be enjoyed as an independent story. In the world of the Whiteoaks, as in real life, people live and die, find success and fall to ruin. For the Whiteoaks, there remains something solid and unchanging in the midst of life's transience--the manor house and its rich surrounding farmland known as "Jalna." The author, Mazo de la Roche, gave the members of her fictitious family names from gravestones in Ontario's New Market cemetery, and the story itself balances somewh -
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
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Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a -
Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Satmar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her marriage was arranged at the age of 17, and her son was born two years later.
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At the age of 25 she published the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster, 2012)
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Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director.
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His most famous work to date is the novel " Les Âmes Grises " - " Grey Souls ", which won the prix Renaudot award in France, was shortlisted for the American Gumshoe Award, and won Sweden's Martin Beck Award. In addition to his writing, Philippe Claudel is a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy. -
Koen Schoors
Koen Schoors is professor aan de Universiteit Gent. Hij richt zich in zijn onderzoek voornamelijk op het bank-en financiewezen, de bedrijfsfinanciering en buitenlandse directe investeringen. In zijn opleiding en carrière stond de Russische economie vaak centraal. Zo is hij momenteel directeur van CERISE (Centrum voor Russische Internationale Socio-politieke en Economische studies).
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Op vlak van economische crisissen is Koen Schoors specialist. Hij geeft regelmatig lezingen over dit onderwerp en wordt ook vaak als commentator in de media gevraagd om actuele socio-economische gebeurtenissen toe te lichten. -
Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner (the pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author whose focus was the history of the German Reich (1871-1945). His books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler.
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In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, hardly able to speak English but becoming rapidly proficient in the language. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family back in Germany would not be endangered by his writing.
Haffner wrote for the London Sunday newspaper, The Observer, and then became its editor-in-chief. In 1954, he became its German correspondent in Berlin, a position w -
Sergio del Molino
Sergio del Molino (Madrid, 1979) es autor de La hora violeta, novela por la que recibió el Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa 2013 y el Premio Tigre Juan 2013, entre otros, y que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas. Desde su debut literario, en 2009, ha publicado la colección de relatos Malas influencias (2009), el ensayo literario Soldados en el jardín de la paz (2009), una antología de sus textos periodísticos más personales, El restaurante favorito de Nina Hagen (2011), la que fue su primera novela No habrá más enemigo (2012) y Lo que a nadie le importa (2014), que anticipa en clave narrativa algunos temas que aparecen en La España vacía, su primer gran ensayo.
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Arthur Goemans
Arthur Goemans (1995) is onderzoeker bij denktanks RAND en het Centre for Governance of AI, waar hij zich richt op het beheer en de regulering van artificiële intelligentie. Hij behaalde een diploma in de rechten aan de KU Leuven, studeerde internationale betrekkingen aan het Europacollege en volgde beleidswetenschappen aan de universiteit van Cambridge. Daarnaast voltooide hij een opleiding Creatief Schrijven aan de SchrijversAcademie in Antwerpen. Arthur woont en werkt in Londen.
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Marcelo Figueras
Marcelo Figueras (born 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and a screenwriter.
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Pascal Mercier
Pascal Mercier is the pseudonym of Peter Bieri, a Swiss writer and philosopher.
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Jan Brokken
A well-known journalist, Jan Brokken made his debut as a writer in 1984 with the largely autobiographical novel De provincie (The Province), the story of a youth spent in the countryside, which was made into a successful film. He has published gripping travel books about, among others, Africa, Indonesia and Curaçao, and is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling novels De blinde passagiers (The Blind Passengers, 1996), De droevige kampioen (The Sad Champion, 1998) and Jungle Rudy (2006). His work, which has been translated into several languages, has been compared in the international press to that of Graham Greene and Bruce Chatwin.
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Barbara Wysoczańska
Urodziła się w Nowej Soli w 1980 roku, obecnie mieszkanka Zielonej Góry. Absolwentka historii na Uniwersytecie Zielonogórskim.
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Polska autorka i matka dwóch córek. Historyk z pasji i wykształcenia, miłośniczka dobrej literatury, muzyki i kina. Wrażliwiec kochający ludzi i życie.
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Slobodan Šnajder
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Slobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist. He studied Philosophy and English at the University of Zagreb. Šnajder was the long-standing editor-in-chief of the Yugoslavian theatre magazine Prolog. Since 1994 he has been working as a columnist for the daily newspaper Novi List. Between 2001 and 2004 he was the director of the Zagreb Youth Theatre. He has been working as a writer since 1966, publishing prose and essays, but mostly focusing on theatre plays. His most renowned play internationally, Hrvatski Faust [The Croatian Faust], was staged at the Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim in 1982 and at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1993. Many of his other plays have been published and put on stage in German-language countries. Between 2005 a -
Maria Paszyńska
Polska pisarka, felietonistka, varsavianistka, prawniczka i orientalistka. Ukończyła autorską klasę humanistyczną z rozwiniętym programem wychowania estetycznego w VII LO im. Juliusza Słowackiego w Warszawie, a następnie prawo na Uczelni Łazarskiego oraz iranistykę na Wydziale Orientalistycznym Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. By nauczyć się języka tureckiego, dwa lata studiowała turkologię. Przez kilka lat pracowała jako prawnik oraz przewodnik miejski po Warszawie. Znana z serii wakacyjnych spacerów po Warszawie, które współtworzyła dla Wirtualnej Polski, programu telewizyjnego Poszlafirujemy po Pragie oraz felietonów. Choć urodziła się na Dolnym Śląsku, mówi o sobie, że jest adopcyjnym dzieckiem Warszawy. Zadebiutowała w 2015 roku powieścią "
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Zyta Rudzka
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989 ogłosiła tomik wierszy Ruchoma rzeczywistość, z czasem objawiła się jako prozatorka, wydając – bardzo dobrze przyjętą przez krytykę – powieść Białe klisze (1993). Już wówczas doszedł do głosu charakterystyczny dla Rudzkiej styl narracji powieściowej – silnie zmetaforyzowany, zorganizowany wokół archetypów i symboli, zrodzony zapewne z inspiracji psychoanalitycznych. Pisarka chętnie umieszcza swej opowieści w umownych realiach, lubi wszelkiego typu uniwersalizacje, zwłaszcza te, które mówią o spotkaniu kobiety i mężczyzny, do jakiego dochodzi j
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Giorgio Scerbanenco
Vladimir Giorgio Šerbanenko was an Italian journalist and writer of Ukranian origin.
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He was born in Kiev, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 28 July 1911. At an early age, his family immigrated to Rome (Scerbanenco's father was Ukrainian, his mother was Italian), and then he moved to Milan when he was 18 years old.
He found work as a freelance writer for many Italian magazines, chief among them Anna Bella before becoming a novelist. His first fiction books were detective novels set in USA and clearly inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace and S.S. Van Dine signed with an English-sounding pen name. While Scerbanenco wrote in several genres, he is famous in Italy for his crime and detective novels, many of which have been dramatized in Ita -
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Emeran Mayer
Emeran Mayer was born in a small town in Bavaria where his family ran a Confectionary business since 1873. After an agonizing decision against taking over the family business, he finished Medical School at the Ludwig Maximilian’s University in Munich, completed his residency training at the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, Canada before moving to Los Angeles.
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There he worked under the late John H. Walsh to study the role of gut brain interactions and with James Meyer on the role of stomach emptying at the prestigious Center for Ulcer Research and Education and completed his specialty training in Gastroenterology at UCLA.
Mayer has had a passion for adventures, moutaineering and documentary film making throughout his life starting in h -
Pavel Florensky
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P.A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij, Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr, sometimes compared by his followers to Leonardo da Vinci.
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Philip Hensher
Hensher was born in South London, although he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton School.[2] He did his undergraduate degree at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford before attending Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD for work on 18th century painting and satire. Early in his career he worked as a clerk in the House of Commons, from which he was fired over the content of an interview he gave to a gay magazine.[1] He has published a number of novels, is a regular contributor, columnist and book reviewer for newspapers and weeklies such as The Guardian, The Spectator , The Mail on Sunday and The Independent.
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The Bedroom of the Mister’s Wife (1999) brings together 14 of his stories, including ‘Dead Languag -
Goran Vojnović
Goran Vojnović (rojen leta 1980 v Ljubljani) je filmski in televizijski režiser in scenarist. režiral je tri kratke filme (Fužine zakon, Sezona 90/91, Moj sin, seksualni manijak), z Markom Šantićem pa napisal scenarij za film Sretan put Nedine, ki je osvojil nagrado Srce Sarajeva in bil nominiran za nagrado evropske filmske akademije.
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Kot filmski publicist sodeluje s številnimi filmskimi revijami in časopisom Dnevnik, kolumne pa objavlja na literarnem spletnem portalu beletrina.si in v študentski reviji Element. Leta 1998 je v samozaložbi izdal pesniško zbirko Lep je ta svet. Čefurji raus! je njegov prozni prvenec. -
Maarten van der Graaff
Maarten van der Graaff (1987) debuteerde in 2013 met de bundel Vluchtautogedichten bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact. In 2014 werd deze bundel met de C. Buddingh’-prijs bekroond. Dood werk, zijn tweede bundel, verscheen in 2015 en werd twee jaar later bekroond met de J.C. Bloem-poëzieprijs. In 2017 verscheen zijn debuutroman Wormen en engelen, die werd genomineerd voor de Anton Wachterprijs. In 2020 publiceerde hij de dichtbundel Nederland in stukken bij uitgeverij Pluim. Hij is redacteur en medeoprichter van het online literair tijdschrift Samplekanon.
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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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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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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych konkursach na Historyczną Książkę Roku (im. K. Moczarskiego i O. Haleckiego), cenionej biografii Kazimiery Iłłakowiczówny Iłła (Marginesy 2017), nominowanej do Nagrody im. Józefa Łukaszewicza, oraz bestsellerowej książki Służące do wszystkiego (Marginesy 2018), która znalazła się na liście dziesięciu najważniejszych książek 2018 roku dwumiesięcznika "Książki. Magazyn do Czytania" i dostała nominację do Nagrody Historycznej "Polityki" oraz Nagrody "Newsweeka" im. T. Torańskiej. Jej najnowsza książka Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Marginesy
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Rebecca West
Cicely Isabel Fairfield, known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer. She was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she attended George Watson's Ladies College.
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A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, -
Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is a cultural historian, journalist, playwright and novelist. He is the coauthor of the forthcoming novel DISTURBING THE BONES with filmmaker Andrew Davis, and author of numerous nonfiction works, including IN SARDINIA: An Unexpected Journey in Italy (Melville House), TRIALS OF A SCOLD (St. Martin's), longlisted for the PEN Bograd Weld Award. Recipient of the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, Biggers has worked as a freelance journalist, radio correspondent, playwright, historian and educator across the US, Europe, Mexico and India. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, Salon, The Nation and on Nation
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Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
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Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t
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Mario Giordano
MARIO GIORDANO, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Munich. He is the author of 1,000 Feelings for Which There Are No Names; he has also written thrillers, books for children, and screenplays. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions is his first novel translated into English. He lives in Cologne.
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Peter Römer
Peter Römer begon zijn carrière als acteur voor toneel en televisie. Daarnaast werkte hij jarenlang als televisieproducent, scenarioschrijver en regisseur. In 2012 verscheen van zijn hand Chantage, de eerste moord roman met rechercheur Hanna Vermeer. Chantage werd genomineerd voor de Schaduwprijs /Gouden Strop. Zijn tweede moordroman is getiteld Bedrog.
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Joanna Szczerbaty
Psycholog, terapeuta uzależnień, wykładowca akademicki, nauczyciel, autor. Od lat pomaga osobom wychodzącym z domów dysfunkcyjnych.
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Sylwia Czubkowska
– uznana dziennikarka, która od lat bada chińskie wpływy w Europie – prowadzi pierwsze takie śledztwo dotyczące sposobu, w jaki Chiny przejmują naszą część świata, w tym Polskę. Ujawnia nieznane fakty, analizuje metody działań Państwa Środka, obnaża korupcję i demaskuje olbrzymią machinę dezinformacyjną.
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml
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Ziemowit Szczerek
Dziennikarz portalu Interia.pl, współpracuje z „Nową Europą Wschodnią”, autor opowiadań publikowanych m.in. w „Lampie”, „Studium”, „Opowiadaniach” i E-splocie oraz współautor wydanej w 2010 r. książki pt. Paczka radomskich. Pisze doktorat z politologii, zajmuje się wschodem Europy i dziwactwami geopolitycznymi, historycznymi i kulturowymi. Jeździ po dziwnych miejscach i o tym pisze. Ostatnio najbardziej inspiruje go gonzo i literatura / dziennikarstwo podróżnicze. Laureat Paszportu „Polityki” 2013 za książkę Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli tajna historia Słowian.
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Tamta Melashvili
Tamta Melashvili was born in Ambrolauri (in the northern part of central Georgia) in 1979. After completing her secondary education she moved to the capital, Tbilisi, where she started a course in international relations. However, she broke off her studies and spent a year living in Germany, where she started to write. In 2008 she completed a degree in gender studies at the Central European University in Budapest. She now lives in Georgia, where she works on gender issues. She has written about female migration, for example in Georgian Women in Germany - Empowerment through Migration? Empowering Aspects of Female Migration (Saarbrucken 2009). She published her first stories online; some have subsequently appeared in anthologies. Her debut w
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Charles Lewinsky
Lewinsky studierte Germanistik und Theaterwissenschaft in Zürich und Berlin (ohne Abschluss). Danach arbeitete er als Regieassistent bei Fritz Kortner und anschliessend als Dramaturg und Regisseur an verschiedenen Bühnen sowie als Redakteur und Ressortleiter der Sendung Wort-Unterhaltung des Schweizer Fernsehens. 1984 veröffentlichte er zusammen mit Doris Morf sein erstes Buch Hitler auf dem Rütli. Es folgten weitere Bücher und Produktionen beim Schweizer Fernsehen, ARD und ZDF. In der Schweizer Öffentlichkeit wurde Lewinsky Mitte der 90er Jahre als Autor der Sitcom Fascht e Familie bekannt; später folgte Fertig Lustig. 2001 erhielt er den Schillerpreis der Zürcher Kantonalbank für seinen Roman Johannistag. Weitere Anerkennung als Schriftst
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Paweł Sołtys
Paweł Sołtys – muzyk, autor piosenek. Jako Pablopavo wydał kilkanaście płyt, zagrał około tysiąca koncertów. Studiował rusycystykę, ale studiów nie ukończył. Jego opowiadania ukazywały się w „Lampie”, „Ricie Baum”, „Studium”. Jego prozatorski debiut Mikrotyki otrzymał nominację do Paszportów Polityki 2017.
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Bettina Stangneth
Bettina Stangneth is a German philosopher. Known for her work on antisemitism and National Socialism, she is the author of several books, including Eichmann Before Jerusalem (2014), which won an NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis (non-fiction book award) in 2011 when it was first published in German.[
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Stangneth was awarded her PhD by the University of Hamburg in 1997 for a thesis on Immanuel Kant.