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.
She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
She is fluent in five languages and lives in Norway.
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Ramita Navai
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Among her many honors, Dr. Ahmed has served as Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Diplomat of the American Board of Pulmonary Medicine, and Diplomat of the American Board of Critical Care Medicine. She was also named a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.
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Abid Raja
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Zana Muhsen
Zana Muhsen is a British author who has written about the experiences that she and her sister, Nadia (born 1966), went through when they were sent from their birthplace in Birmingham, England to Yemen in 1980 on a purported holiday to meet the paternal side of their family, but sold unaware into marriage in by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.
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Šimon A. Đarmati
Dr Šimon A. Đarmati, profesor u penziji, rođen je 1952. godine u Zrenjaninu. Živi i stvara u Beogradu. Autor je i koautor velikog broja univerzitetskih udžbenika, monografija, naučnih i stručnih radova, feljtona, članaka i učesnik mnogih televizijskih ostvarenja. Najpoznatije knjige su mu: A u srcu Banat (2003), Tajna poslednjeg gutljaja – Otrovi, trovači i otrovani (2004), Razorne sile (2004), Starinski zidni sat u ulici Uroša Predića (2005), Otrovni Šekspir – Šekspirovi otrovi (2006), Marijaš, poslednji banatski razbojnik (2007), Trovanja u Torku (2008), Vračare, nadrilekari, vampiri i zli dusi u Srbiji (2009), Hajdučka vremena u Srbiji (2009). Osim za odrasle piše i za decu i najpoznatiji njegovi naslovi su: Ekokolologija (2003) i Imate
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Tomáš Forró
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Tomáš Forró
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Erika Fatland
Erika Fatland is a Norwegian anthropologist and writer who has written multiple critically-acclaimed books, including Sovietistan and The Border. Fatland was born in Haugesund, Norway, in 1983, and studied at the University of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen.
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Fatland is best known for her travel writing and has written several books: Her first travel book Sovietistan, published in 2015, was an account of her travels through five post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been translated into 12 languages. This was followed by The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latv -
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Tidligere har hun vært korrespondent for Aftenposten og den svenske avisen Dagens Nyheter i Afghanistan, Pakistan og India. Hun har bodd i Kairo og dekket Midtøsten.
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Helga Flatland
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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.
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Simon Stranger
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Nina Lykke
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Niels Fredrik Dahl
Niels Fredrik Dahl er en norsk forfatter og dramatiker.
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Romanene "På vei til en venn" og "I fjor sommer" har fått god mottakelse både hos kritikere og publikum, og er oversatt til dansk, svensk, tysk og nederlandsk. "På vei til en venn" ble belønnet med Brageprisen i 2002. Dahl har også skrevet manus til flere TV-serier, blant annet Hotel Cæsar og Soria Moria. Han er gift med Linn Ullmann.
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Tore Renberg
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Erlend Loe
Erlend Loe is a Norwegian novelist. He worked at a psychiatric clinic, and was later a freelance journalist for Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen. Loe now lives and works in Oslo where in 1998 he co-founded Screenwriters Oslo - an office community for screenwriters.
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Christina Lamb
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She has won numerous other awards starting with Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988; was part of the News Reporter of the year for BCCI; and won the Foreign Press Association award for reporting on Zimbabwean teachers forced into prostitution, and Amnesty International award for the plight of street children in Ri -
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Philip Caputo
American author and journalist. Author of 18 books, including the upcoming MEMORY AND DESIRE (Sept. 2023). Best known for A Rumor of War, a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Website: PhilipCaputo.com
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins began his career in journalism at the age of sixteen when he started writing jazz criticism for the Daily Telegraph. Since then he has written for numerous newspapers and magazines in Britain, Europe and the USA.
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The Empress of Ireland won the Saga Award for wit, along with exceptional critical acclaim. In Search of Kazakhstan was short-listed for the Authors’ Club Best Travel Book Award 2008 in the UK and (under the title Apples Are From Kazakhstan) for the Best Travel Books of 2008 in the US. Air America, a worldwide bestseller when it was originally published, was made into a film starring Mel Gibson. -
Kajsa Ingemarsson
Kajsa Ingemarsson is one of Sweden’s bestselling novelists, already beloved throughout Europe. Her novels are warm and compassionate, where the reader finds people, settings, and events that are current, compelling, and relatable. Her writing style is entertaining and stylish, put forth in a conversational tone that is, at same time, smart and expertly developed to lead the reader through the personal development that is the foundation of her stories.
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In the same tradition as Nora Roberts, Mitch Albom and Julie Powell, Kajsa Ingemarsson represents a new generation of contemporary fiction. With almost a million readers in Sweden alone, she is one of Sweden’s greatest bestsellers of all times.
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Maria Àngels Anglada
Maria Àngels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Catalonia, in 1930. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. Her first novel, Les closes, won the Josep Pla Prize. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma (Sandals of foam) won the Lletra d'Or prize. She died in 1999.
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Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (formerly Montague Burton Professor), and honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written, co-authored or edited over twenty books, written or co-authored more than one hundred and thirty articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries. Among his books are: People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in International Relations (1983, revised 2nd edition 1991); The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (1993, with Charles Jones and Richard Little); Security: A New Framework for Ana
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Jacky Trevane
Jacky Trevane is the pseudonym of Jennifer Anne, a British woman who ran away from her Egyptian husband in 1992.With the help of ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow she published the book Fatwa: Living with a Death Threat, describing her version of her life with her Egyptian Muslim husband Maged (in her book called Omar). Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Separated from Dave in a bustling street, she fell and twisted her ankle, only to be swept up by a young handsome, chivalrous Egyptian. It was, she says in her book, love at first sight. She married him, converted to Islam and lived with him in a poor suburb of Cairo. The couple bore two daughters. Their marriage, however, turned sour and Jen
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Angelika Kuźniak
Angelika Kuźniak ukończyła kulturoznawstwo na Uniwersytecie Europejskim we Frankfurcie nad Odrą (studiowała także lingwistykę na Universita degli Studi di Macerata we Włoszech). Od 2000 roku współpracuje z „Gazetą Wyborczą”. Dwukrotnie uhonorowana nagrodą Grand Press (2004: za Mój warszawski szał z Włodzimierzem Nowakiem; 2008: za Zabijali we mnie Heidi).
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Współautorka dwóch reportaży: Noc w Wildenhagen i Mój warszawski szał, zamieszczonych w nominowanym do Nagrody Literackiej NIKE 2008 tomie Włodzimierza Nowaka Obwód głowy (współpracowała z Nowakiem także przy powstaniu tytułowego reportażu).
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Veronika Cosculluela
Veronika Cosculluela je slovenská novinárka. Vyrastala v Podkoniciach pri Banskej Bystrici. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku v Bratislave a politické vedy v Grenobli a v Belehrade. Desať rokov bola hlavne politickou redaktorkou pre rôzne slovenské médiá, naposledy v Plus 7 dní. Vždy, keď bola možnosť, namiesto rozhovorov s politikmi ju to ťahalo k reportážam. Tak sa dostala aj k téme väzenstva v čase, keď sa na Slovensku začalo počas covidovej pandémie veľa rozprávať o podmienkach ľudí vo väzniciach. Zaujímalo ju, ako rozmýšľajú o tejto téme ľudia, ktorí tento uzavretý systém tvoria. Scvrknutý svet (Absynt 2025) je jej debutovou knihou.
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Jan Trachta
MUDr. Jan Trachta, je český lékař - dětský chirurg. Pracoval na klinice dětské chirurgie v pražské nemocnici Motol, od roku 2008 zároveň spolupracoval s mezinárodní humanitární a zdravotnickou organizací Lékaři bez hranic. Pod její hlavičkou již působil na sedmi misích v krizových oblastech, zejména v Africe.
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Lukáš Cabala
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Lukáš Cabala (1986) sa narodil v Trenčíne. V roku 2011 spolu s rodičmi založil internetový antikvariát Čierne na bielom a dodnes ho vedie.
Je čitateľom súčasnej a modernej svetovej prózy. Žije na severnej periférii mesta a vo voľnom čase sa venuje písaniu. V tvorbe ho priťahuje magický realizmus, vlnenie skutočnosti, ale i postupy realistického rozprávačského románu. Intímna novela Satori v Trenčíne je jeho prozaický debut. Knižka bola nominovaná na Anasoft litera, získala Cenu čitateľov Knižnej revue v kategórii Debut roka a Cenu knižných blogerov v Panta rhei awards.
V roku 2021 vyšla druhá kniha s názvom Jar v Jekaterinburgu a v roku 2023 novela Spomenieš si na Trenčín? S touto knihou bol nominov -
Thomas Seltzer
Thomas Seltzer (født 1969) har sine amerikanske røtter i Texas og Kansas og tilbrakte tidlig barndom i det såkalte Rustbeltet i Wisconsin. Han er musiker og programleder, kjent som bassist i Turbonegro og som programleder i NRKs Trygdekontoret. I 2016 laget han dokumentarfilmen I Donald og Hillarys bakgård for NRK, og UXA – Thomas Seltzers Amerika fra 2020 er en av de mest sette norske TV-dokumentarene noensinne – hver episode hadde over én million seere, og i en spørreundersøkelse i regi av Kampanje ble han kåret til den stemmen nordmenn flest stoler på når det gjelder USA. Amerikansk karmageddon. Tanker om mitt fordømte fedreland er Thomas Seltzers første bok.
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Georges Arnaud
Henri Girard (16 July 1917 – 4 March 1987) was a French author who used the pseudonym Georges Arnaud. He was born in Montpellier. He was the author of the novel The Wages of Fear (French: Le Salaire de la peur).
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Georges Arnaud was a writer, investigative journalist and political activist. -
Jan Grue
Author and academic.
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My work deals first of all with embodiment - with what it means to be a body in an endlessly complex world. I've worked in various genres, combining literary exploration and elements of science fiction and speculative fiction, publishing five short story collections, a novel, and several children's books.
My book of autobiographical non-fiction, I Live a Life Like Yours, was first published in Norwegian in 2018. “The book will, in all likelihood, linger as a mile stone signifying that a new maturity is reaching autobiographical literature in Norwegian non-fiction,” wrote Morgenbladet’s Ane Farsethås. Dagbladet’s reviewer called the book ”a literary masterpiece that I recommend in the strongest terms!”, giving the book fi -
Rod Nordland
Rod Nordland was an American journalist and writer. He was a war correspondent for Newsweek, The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Paweł Smoleński
Reporter, publicysta, od 1989 roku dziennikarz „Gazety Wyborczej”, wcześniej współpracownik pism drugiego obiegu. Napisał m.in.: Pokolenie kryzysu, „Gazeta Wyborcza” — lustro demokracji, Salon patriotów, Pochówek dla rezuna, Irak. Piekło w raju, Izrael już nie frunie, Bedzies wisioł za cosik. Godki podhalańskie (wraz z Bartłomiejem Kurasiem), Balagan. Alfabet izraelski, Oczy zasypane piaskiem oraz Szcze ne wmerła i nie umrze - wywiad rzekę z Jurijem Andruchowyczem oraz Zielone migdały czyli po co światu Kurdowie. Kilkanaście jego reportaży opublikowała paryska „Kultura”. Laureat Nagrody Pojednania Polsko-Ukraińskiego w 2003 roku za książkę Pochówek dla rezuna i Nagrody im. Kurta Schorka za teksty poświęcone Irakowi. W 2006 roku otrzymał Nag
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Else Kåss Furuseth
Else Kåss Furuseth is a Norwegian standup comedian, actress, reporter, and television presenter.
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Some of her best known work includes the tv comedy show Torsdag kveld fra Nydalen (2009 - 2014) and the theatre performance Kondolerer (2011), in which she tells the story of her mother’s and brother’s suicides. Her performance in Kondolerer were nominated to four Komiprisen awards. -
Paulina Wilk
Pisarka i publisystka. Jej pierwsza książka Lalki w ogniu. Opowieści z Indii (Carta Blanca, 2011) została uznana za jeden z najważniejszych debiutów reporterskich ostatnich lat.
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Paulina Wilk od roku 2000 publikuje teksty prasowe. Współpracuje z „Tygodnikiem Powszechnym”, „Polityką” i magazynem reporterów „Kontynenty”, a także TVP Kultura i Polskim Radiem. Od 2003 do 2011 roku pracowała w dziale kultury „Rzeczpospolitej”.
Jest współzałożycielką Fundacji „Kultura nie boli” działającej na rzecz edukacji kulturalnej i promocji literatury, a także współorganizatorką Big Book Festival – międzynarodowego festiwalu książki, który od 2013 roku odbywa się w Warszawie. -
Sophie Elise Isachsen
Sophie Elise Isachsen is a Norwegian blogger, influencer, DJ and author. She lives in Oslo.
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Jean Hatzfeld
Jean Hatzfeld is a journalist. He worked for many years as a war correspondent for Libération, a French newspaper, before leaving to focus on reporting the Rwandan genocide.
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Arnhild Lauveng
Arnhild Lauveng is a Norwegian psychologist educated at the University of Oslo, who previously was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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She workes as a PhD candidate at Akershus University Hospital (AHUS), at the department for mental health.
She has written two autobiographies dealing with her diagnosis of schizophrenia.
In 2004 she won the "Prisen til fremme av ytringsfriheten innen psykisk helsevern" (The Award for the promotion of freedom of expression within mental health care).
In 2008 she was awarded the Fritt Ord Honorary Award, and in 2010 the Åpenhetsprisen, an award for people who has made a special effort speaking openly about and highlighting mental health in public space.
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Arkan Asaad
Arkan Assad kom till Sverige 1983 tillsammans med sin familj och växte upp i Eskilstuna och Stockholm. Som 19-åring förverkliga sin dröm som filmregissör. Han började studera Regissörs linjen på Stockholm Filmskola.
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Han är flerfaldig svensk mästare i Taekwondo och innehar 4:e svarta bältet (4DAN).
Arkan Asaad har också och arbetat med radioprogrammet Underlandet som sänts i P3. Även deltog som sommarpratare 2015 i ett väldigt uppskattat program.
Hans första roman, "Stjärnlösa nätter", publicerades 2011.
Hans andra roman "Blod rödare än rött" publicerades 2014
Arkan Asaad fick för sin bok ta emot Stiftelsen Teskedsordens bokpris 2011 med motiveringen:
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Jan Urban
Journalist and pedagogue.
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Siri Helle
Siri Helle (b. 1991) is an award-winning psychologist and bestselling author. With a background as a clinical therapist, she has worked with CBT-treatment for depression, stress, and anxiety. She is now an appreciated expert in business and media, popularizing psychological knowledge.
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Helle is the spokesperson for the policy campaign 'Mental Health on the Curriculum', a coalition of 30 non-governmental organisations such as UNICEF Sweden, to improve mental health education in schools.
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Martin M. Šimečka
Martin M. Šimečka (1957) do roku 1989 patril do okruhu českého a slovenského disentu, pracoval ako kurič alebo ošetrovateľ v nemocnici a podieľal sa aj na vydávaní slovenského samizdatového časopisu Fragment K. V novembri 1989 bol členom vedenia hnutia Verejnosť proti násiliu, v roku 1990 založil vydavateľstvo Archa, kde pôsobil ako šéfredaktor do roku 1997, keď sa stal šéfredaktorom týždenníka Domino fórum. Neskôr bol šéfredaktorom denníka SME, šéfredaktorom a členom redakcie českého týždenníka Respekt a od novembra 2016 je komentátorom Denníka N.
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Je autorom románu Džin, ktorý vyšiel aj v USA a vo Francúzsku, posledné slovenské vydanie vyšlo vo vydavateľstve Artforum v roku 2015. Kniha Světelná znamení vyšla v roku 1991 vo vydavateľstve Ar -
Michal Pastier
Michal je inovátor, spoluzakladatel a kreativní ředitel agentur Darwin & theMachines a GoBigname. Byl zařazen mezi Top 100 evropských inovátorů podle Google a Financial Times. Dostal se i na titulku magazínu Forbes Slovensko a byl zařazen do žebříčku Forbes 30pod30. Patří mezi nejmladší držitele prestižního ocenění FILIP za výjimečný přínos do slovenské reklamy a s více než 200 kreativními oceněními patří mezi nejoceňovanější reklamní tvůrce v regionu. V roce 2021 založil novou hybridní agenturu Darwin and the Machines, jejímž cílem je místo jednorázových kampaní tvořit dlouhodobou a konzistentní komunikaci značek. Darwin je přímo napojen na branding studio GoBigname, které má za sebou již přes 250 projektů nových značek přes název, identit
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991.
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Gorbachev's attempts at reform—perestroika and glasnost—as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan, contributed to the end of the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. At the time of his death Gorbachev served as the leader of the Union of Social-Democrats, a political party founded after the official dissolution of the Social Democratic Party o -
Suzana Tratnik
Suzana Tratnik se je rodila leta 1963 v Murski Soboti. Diplomirala je iz sociologije na Fakulteti za družbene vede in magistrirala iz antropologije spolov na Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Fakulteti za podiplomski študij. Živi in dela v Ljubljani kot pisateljica, prevajalka in publicistka. Objavila je šest kratkroproznih zbirk: Pod ničlo (1997), Na svojem dvorišču (2003), Vzporednice (2005), Česa nisem nikoli razumela na vlaku (2008), Dva svetova (2010) in Rezervat (2012); dva romana: Ime mi je Damjan (2001) in Tretji svet (2007), otroško slikanico Zafuškana Ganca (2010), napisala pa je še monodramo Ime mi je Damjan (2002), radijsko igro Lepo dan še naprej (2011) in dve strokovni deli o lezbičnem gibanju v Sloveniji in o lezbični litera
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Haddy Jatou N'jie
Haddy Jatou Njie (formerly N'jie; born 25 June 1979[1] in Oslo) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, writer and journalist. Her father is Gambian and her mother is Norwegian. She grew up in Kolbotn near Oslo and is the eldest of five siblings. Her younger sister is illustrator and picture book writer Lisa Aisato.
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Odd Karsten Tveit
Norwegian journalist, writer and economist. His speciality is the Middle East, a subject on which he has written several books. Tveit has been a foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in the Middle East through three periods, from 1979 to 1983, from 1990 to 1994, and from 2003 to 2007.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt
Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist, lecturer and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.
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Gréta Čandová
Gréta Čandová (1991) študovala žurnalistiku na Univerzite Komenského v Bratislave a v rámci študijného pobytu aj na Varšavskej Univerzite. Pracovala ako sprievodkyňa v Centre polárnej žiary na Islande, vypomáhala ako dobrovoľníčka v Nepále pri stavbe školy a v rodných Košiciach sa venovala práci s rodinami bez domova a prístupu sociálneho bývania Housing First
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Kristin Solberg
Kristin Elisabeth Solberg er en norsk journalist som fra februar 2015 er NRK-korrespondent med base i Istanbul.
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Tidligere har hun vært korrespondent for Aftenposten og den svenske avisen Dagens Nyheter i Afghanistan, Pakistan og India. Hun har bodd i Kairo og dekket Midtøsten.
Hun har bachelor i journalistikk og master i internasjonale relasjoner ved London School of Economics.
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Magdaléna Rojo
Magdaléna Rojo (rod. Vaculčiaková) je slovenská reportérka na voľnej nohe zaoberajúca sa predovšetkým globálnymi problémami ako sú migrácia či klimatická kríza a témami porušovania ľudských práv vo svete, predovšetkým práv žien a pôvodných obyvateľov. Svoje reportáže publikovala vo väčšine relevantných slovenských médií ako denník SME či Denník N, no spolupracuje aj so zahraničnými redakciami ako Deutsche Welle, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Mongabay, The New Humanitarian, Outriders, Southeast Asia Globe či iné.
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Venuje sa pomalej žurnalistike, čo znamená, že v krajinách, o ktorých píše, dlhodobo žije, aby porozumela kontextu, v ktorom sa odohrávajú životy miestnych a zároveň si získala ich dôveru. Priniesla reportáže o tom, ako sa Mjanmarsko p -
Arpád Soltész
Arpád Soltész (1969) sa narodil v komunistickom Československu ako syn emigranta a vnuk veľkostatkára. Po skončení strednej školy emigroval do Nemecka, kde si vyskúšal aj povestné umývanie tanierov v reštaurácii. Po roku 1989 sa vrátil a začal študovať prekladateľstvo, v druhej polovici deväťdesiatych rokov, v ére mečiarizmu, si našiel prácu v novinách. Pracoval vo viacerých regionálnych aj celoslovenských denníkoch i týždenníkoch a v televízii JOJ. Pôvodne sa špecializoval na investigatívnu žurnalistiku, v súčasnosti pôsobí ako politický komentátor a spisovateľ na voľnej nohe.
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Arpád Soltész je autorom bestsellerov Mäso – Vtedy na východe a Sviňa, podľa ktorého vznikol aj rovnomenný film Mariany Čengel Solčanskej a Rudolfa Biermanna. Oba rom -
Ján Kalinčiak
Slovenský spisovateľ a básnik.
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Pochádzal zo sedliackej rodiny v Hornom Záturčí, kde jeho otec bol evanjelickým kňazom a matka zemankou. Študoval v Záturčí, Necpaloch, Gemeri, neskôr v Levoči a od roku 1839 v Bratislave. O niekoľko rokov neskôr študoval i v nemeckom Halle. Pôsobil ako vychovávateľ a od roku 1846 pôsobil (vďaka Štúrovej intervencii) ako učiteľ filozofie a rektor na gymnáziu v Modre. Od roku 1858 (do 1869) bol riaditeľom na gymnáziu v Sliezskom Tešíne, kde sa stretával s M. M. Hodžom. Po odchode do penzie sa presťahoval do Martina, a stal sa redaktorom mesačníka Orol. Pochovaný je na Národnom cintoríne v Martine.
Svojou tvorbou sa Kalinčiak radí do obdobia slovenskej romantickej literatúry. Najväčší vplyv na vývoj Kalinčiakove o -
Goce Smilevski
Goce Smilevski (b.1975) was born in Skopje, Macedonia. He was educated at the Sts Kiril and Metodij University in Skopje, at Charles University in Prague and at the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of the novels The Planet of Inexperience, Conversation with Spinoza and Sigmund Freud’s Sister. He won Macedonian Novel of the Year Award in 2003 for Conversation with Spinoza. In 2006, he was also awarded the Central European Initiative Fellowship for young European authors.
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Joanna Czeczott
Joanna Czeczott – politolożka i reporterka. Ukończyła stosunki międzynarodowe na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, studiowała też na Państwowym Uniwersytecie w Petersburgu i w Warszawskiej Szkole Filmowej. Pracowała w Przekroju. Jest jedną z twórczyń i założycielek pisma reporterskiego dla dzieci Kosmos dla Dziewczynek, którym kierowała pięć lat. Debiutowała książką Macierzyństwo non-fiction. Relacja z przewrotu domowego (jako Joanna Woźniczko-Czeczott), która była ważnym głosem w debacie o nowej roli matki Polki. Jej książka Petersburg. Miasto snu zdobyła nagrodę Warszawskiej Premiery Literackiej oraz Nagrodę Fundacji im. Kościelskich, a także znalazła się w finale Nagrody im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego.
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