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Urszula Kozioł

Urszula Kozioł (1931–2025) was a Polish poet and writer. She was a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award (2011) and the Nike Award (2024).

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Tanja Stupar Trifunović rođena je u Zadru 1977. godine. Diplomirala je na Filološkom fakultetu, Odsjek za srpski jezik i književnost u Banjaluci.

Dosad je objavila knjige poezije Kuća od slova (Zadužbina "Petar Kočić", Banjaluka-Beograd, 1999), Uspostavljanje ravnoteže (KOV, Vršac, 2002), O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju (Zoro, Sarajevo-Zagreb, 2008) i izbor iz kolumni Adornova svraka (Zalihica, Sarajevo 2007).

Poezija joj je nagrađivana i prevođena na engleski, njemački, poljski, slovenački, makedonski, mađarski, danski, francuski i malajalam jezik.

Knjiga O čemu misle varvari dok doručkuju, kao najbolja knjiga poezije objavljena u BiH u 2007/08, nominovana je za Književnu nagradu za Istočnu i Jugoistočnu Evropu (CEE Literature Award), gdj

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Radek Rak

Polski pisarz fantastyki oraz lekarz weterynarii. Zdobywca Nagrody Literackiej „Nike” w roku 2020.

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Marcin Wicha

Marcin Wicha was a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist.

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Filip Springer

Filip Springer (ur. 1982) — reporter i fotograf współpracujący z największymi polskimi tytułami prasowymi. Stypendysta Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego (2010) oraz programu Młoda Polska Narodowego Centrum Kultury (2012). Swoje prace prezentował na wystawach w Poznaniu, Warszawie, Łodzi, Gdyni, Lublinie i Jeleniej Górze. Jego reporterski debiut – książka Miedzianka. Historia znikania – znalazł się w finale Nagrody im. R. Kapuścińskiego za reportaż literacki 2011 i był nominowany do Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia 2012. Jest także finalistą Nagrody Literackiej Nike 2012 i laureatem trzeciej edycji konkursu stypendialnego dla młodych dziennikarzy im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego. 13 pięter to jego czwarta książka. Wcześniej ukazały się: Źle uro

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Antoni Libera

He is a Polish writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director. He graduated from Warsaw University and received his Ph. D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Pen Club, the Polish Writers Association, and the American Samuel Beckett Society.

Libera is best known for his translations and productions of Samuel Beckett's plays. He has translated all Beckett’s dramatic works into Polish, as well as some of his other works. He has also directed many of Beckett’s plays in Poland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the U.S. Many famous Polish actors have appeared in those plays, including Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska, Adam Ferency, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Andrzej Seweryn, along with actors fr

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Andrzej Stasiuk

Andrzej Stasiuk is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West.

After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out also from a vocational school and drifted aimlessly, became active in the Polish pacifist movement and spent one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - as legend has it, in a tank. His experiences in prison provided him with the material for the stories in his literary debut in 1992. Titled Mury Hebronu ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent. After a col

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Gregor von Rezzori

Gregor von Rezzori was born in 1914 in Chernivtsi in the Bukovina, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of Ukraine. In an extraordinarily peripatetic life von Rezzori was succesively an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Soviet citizen and then, following a period of being stateless, an Austrian citizen.

The great theme of his work was the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual world in which he grew up and which the wars and ideologies of the twentieth century destroyed. His major works include The Death of My Brother Abel, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and his autobiographical masterpiece The Snows of Yesteryear.

He died in his home in Donnini, Italy in 1998.

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Dipo Faloyin

"Dipo Faloyin is a Senior Editor at VICE, where he focuses on race, culture, and identity around the world. His writing has also appeared in Dazed, Prospect, Huffington Post, and Refinery 29 among other publications. Born in Chicago, raised in Nigeria, he currently lives in London." -- Library of Congress Authorities

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Maria Halber

Maria Halber is a Polish poet, editor and writer.

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Magdalena Genow

Autorka powieści "Złodziejka matek" i książki non fiction "Bułgaria. Złoto i rakija". Matka założycielka wydawnictwa Czwarta Strona. Przez ponad 10 lat pracowała jako wydawczyni. Obecnie prowadzi warsztaty storytellingowe i pomaga w inkubacji książek. Pracuje jako redaktorka i mentorka pisania. Pisze o poznańskich osobliwościach do magazynu kulturalnego „Dynks”. Lubi czytać w pociągu.

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Urszula Honek

Urszula Honek, born in 1987, is the author of four poetry books and one short story collection. Her work has been featured in both print and online journals, newspapers, magazines and literary publications.

She is the winner of the Grand Prix of the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition, the Kraków UNESCO City of Literature Award, the Adam Włodek Award and the Stanisław Barańczak Award, as part of the Poznań Literary Prize. For White Nights, she was nominated for the International Grand Continent 2022 Award, the Witold Gombrowicz Literary Award and Polityka’s Passport Award. The English edition, translated by Kate Webster, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. In 2023, she won both the Conrad Award and the Kościelski Award,

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Zbigniew Rokita

reporter, redaktor, specjalizuje się w problematyce Europy Wschodniej i Górnego Śląska. Autor książek reporterskich Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku (wyróżnionej Nagrodą Literacką Nike oraz Nike czytelników, nominowanej do Literackiej Nagrody Europy Środkowej Angelus, nagrody Ambasador Nowej Europy i Międzynarodowej Nagrody im. Witolda Pileckiego, a także przełożonej na język śląski) oraz Królowie strzelców. Piłka w cieniu imperium (książka została przełożona na język ukraiński, a spektakl na jej podstawie wystawiono w Teatrze Nowym w Zabrzu). Autor sztuk teatralnych Nikaj (Teatr Zagłębia, reż. Robert Talarczyk) i Weltmajstry (Teatr Korez, reż. Robert Talarczyk). Pochodzi z Gliwic, mieszka w Katowicach.

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Małgorzata Halber

Kontrowersyjna prezenterka i dziennikarka, polska Charlotte Roche, felietonistka i rysowniczka, autorka komiksu „Bohater” i wielu interwencji internetowych. Ukończyła filozofię na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. O sobie mówi, że najchętniej byłaby patrzeniem i słuchaniem.

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Brian Hare

Brian Hare is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center. His research on 'dognition' has been published in the leading journals. With his wife Vanessa Woods, he cofounded the new dog intelligence testing and training company Canines Inc. To find out more, visit the Dognition website.

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Gabriel Krauze

Gabriel Krauze grew up in London in a Polish family and was drawn to a life of crime and gangs from an early age. Now in his thirties he has left that world behind and is recapturing his life through writing. He has published short stories in Vice. Who They Was is his first novel.

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Mikołaj Grynberg

Mikołaj Grynberg (ur. 1966) – fotograf i pisarz, z wykształcenia psycholog. Jego zdjęcia były prezentowane niemal na całym świecie. Autor albumów Dużo kobiet (2009), Auschwitz – co ja tu robię? (2010) oraz Ocaleni z XX wieku (2012). Wydał zbiór rozmów Oskarżam Auschwitz. Opowieści rodzinne (2014), tom opowiadań Rejwach (2016) oraz wspomnienia żydowskich emigrantów 1968 Księga wyjścia (2018). Od lat zajmuje się problematyką i historią polskich Żydów w XX wieku. W całej swojej twórczości przyjmuje szczególną perspektywę dialogu, koncentrując się na spotkaniu z innymi, otwarciu na ich osobiste przeżycia i historie.

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Wojciech Tochman

Reporter, non-fiction writer. He has twice been shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Prize and has won the Polish Book Publishers Association Award.

He began his career as a reporter at the youth weekly Na przełaj before leaving school, and soon after he joined the first reporting team at "Gazeta Wyborcza". His reports from this period were published in a book, Stairs Don’t Burn (2000, 2006). Before he got his masters degree at Warsaw University he went to Bosnia with a convoy organised by humanitarian aid worker Janina Ochojska. He then went back to the Balkans repeatedly for many years, and the book Like Eating A Stone is the result of those journeys. His next book was Dear Daughter (2005), the moving account of his efforts to find out what h

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Ryū Murakami

Ryū Murakami (村上龍) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his bles

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Monica Isakstuen

Monica Isakstuen was born in Oslo and raised in Asker.
She made her literary debut in 2009 with the novel Avstand² and published a book of poems, Alltid nyheter, in 2011.
She works and lives in Fredrikstad.

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Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the American Mind (written with Greg Lukianoff). He writes the After Babel Substack.

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Wojciech Dutka

Wojciech Dutka (born April 28, 1979, in Bielsko-Biała) is a Polish novelist, historian, and teacher. He graduated in history from the Catholic University of Lublin, where he also completed postgraduate studies in journalism. In 2014 he defended his PhD in modern history at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He has worked as a radio journalist, consultant for European research programs, and history teacher at a bilingual high school. He has also published academic articles in journals such as Kwartalnik Historyczny, Przegląd Historyczny, and Kwartalnik Historii Żydów.
(Jewish History Quarterly)

He made his literary debut with Krew faraonów (2005). Subsequent novels – including Taniec szarańczy (2007), Bractwo Mandylionu (2009), Czerń i purpur

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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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Jaume Cabré

Jaume Cabré i Fabré (Barcelona, 1947) is a philologist and Catalan writer.

Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

During many years he has combined literary writing with teaching. He has also worked in the television and cinematographic scripting. With Joaquim Maria Puyal he was the creator and scriptwriter of the first Catalan television series: La Granja (1989-1992), after which followed other titles like Estació d'Enllaç (1994-1998), Crims (2000) and the tvmovies La dama blanca (1987), Nines russes (2003) and Sara (2003). He has also written, together with Jaume Fu

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Joanna Wojsiat

(Formerly Asia Podgórska)

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Małgorzata Rejmer

Małgorzata (Margo) Rejmer, born in 1985 in Warsaw, is an award-winning Polish novelist, reporter, and writer of short stories. Her books, which have been translated into eight languages, include the novel Toximia (2009) and two works of nonfiction: Bucharest: Dust and Blood (2013), which won the Newsweek Award for best book of 2014, the Gryfia Literary Award, and the TVP Kultura Award, and Mud Sweeter than Honey (2018), for which she was was awarded the Polityka Passport, the most prestigious prize in Poland for emerging artists, as well as the Arkady Fiedler Award. She holds the title of the Young Ambassador of the Polish Language. She lives in Warsaw and Tirana.

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Mariusz Szczygieł

Mariusz Adam Szczygieł is a Polish journalist and writer.

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Dorota Masłowska

Masłowska was born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, and grew up there. She applied for the University of Gdańsk's faculty of psychology and was accepted, but left the studies for Warsaw, where she joined the culture studies at the Warsaw University. She first appeared in the mass-media when her debut book Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną (translated to English as either White and Red in the UK or Snow White and Russian Red in the US) was published. Largely controversial, mostly because of the language seen by many as vulgar, cynical and simple, the book was praised by many intellectuals as innovative and fresh. Among the most active supporters of Masłowska were Marcin Świetlicki and Polityka weekly staff, most notably renowned writer J

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Tomasz S. Markiewka

See: Tomasz Szymon Markiewka

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J.M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere prose and profound moral and philosophical depth, explore themes of colonialism, identity, power, and human suffering. Born and raised in South Africa, he later became an Australian citizen and has lived in Adelaide since 2002.
Coetzee’s breakthrough novel, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), established him as a major literary voice, while Life & Times of Michael K (1983) won him the first of his two Booker Prizes. His best-known work, Disgrace (1999), a stark and unsettling examination of post-apartheid South Africa, secured his second Booker Pri

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Szczepan Twardoch

Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Katowicach.
Mieszka w Pilchowicach na Górnym Śląsku.

W listopadzie 2012 roku nakładem Wydawnictwa Literackiego ukazała się powieść p.t. Morfina, nominowana do Paszportu Polityki 2012.

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Bruno Jasieński

Bruno Jasienski, born Wiktor Zysman, was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union.
He was born to a Polish family of Zysmans with Jewish and German roots, but from his mother's side he was a descendant of nobility. His father, Jakub Zysman, was a local doctor and a social worker, member of the local intelligentsia.
In 1929 Jasienski moved to the USSR and settled in Leningrad, where he accepted Soviet citizenship, and was quickly promoted by the authorities. In 1932 he transferred from the Polish division of the French Communist Party to the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and soon became a prominent member of that organization. He migrated to Moscow.

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Witold Gombrowicz

Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to Warsaw. After completing his education at Saint Stanislaus Kostka's Gymnasium in 1922, he studied law at Warsaw University (in 1927 he obtained a master’s degree in law.) Gombrowicz spent a year in Paris where he studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales; although he was less than diligent in his studies his time in France brought him in constant contact with other young intellectuals. He also visited the Mediterranean.

When he returned to Poland he began applying for legal positions with little success. In the 1920s he started wr

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Tom Shone

Tom Shone was born in Horsham, England, in 1967. From 1994 to 1999 he was the film critic of the London Sunday Times and has since written for a number of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, the London Daily Telegraph, and Vogue. He lives in Brooklyn, New York."

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Janina Bąk

Janina, autorka bloga janinadaily.com, to zjawiskowo atrakcyjna a zarazem inteligentna i zabawna kobieta. Obecnie mieszka we Wrocławiu ale od 2012 roku wykładała na Trinity College w Dublinie, w którym też mieszkała do 2019 roku. Kocha foki, ma kota Piksela o pięknym pyszczku i takiego męża Wojtka, co to jak ma 37.6°C prosi by ona przyniosła mu kota, by mógł się z nim pożegnać.

Janina założyła absolutnie przefantastyczną grupę na facebooku pod nazwą Statystyczne świry "o badaniach naukowych, statystykach i wszystkim, co się liczy." Jest też na instagramie pod nickiem: janina.daily i na YouTubie i Facebooku jako Janina Daily. #DrużynaJanina

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Rachel Feder

Rachel Feder is an assistant professor of English and literary arts at the University of Denver. Her scholarly and creative work has appeared in a range of publications including ELH, Studies in Romanticism, and a poetry chapbook from dancing girl press.

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Jadwiga Korczakowska

Polska pisarka, autorka wierszy, opowiadań i książek dla dzieci. Należy do klasyków gatunku. Wydała blisko 50 pozycji książkowych (w tym zbiory opowiadań, wiersze). Jest także autorką utworów scenicznych, scenariuszy i słuchowisk. Pisywała do wszystkich czasopism dziecięcych.
Jej najbardziej znana książka to "Bułeczka" (I wyd. 1957, ekranizacja 1973) - opowieść o losach pyzatej wiejskiej dziewczynki Bronki przezwanej Bułeczką, która trafia do domu zamożnych wujostwa w mieście. Dziewczynka została niezbyt chętnie przyjęta przez krewnych z powodu swojej nieporadności w zderzeniu z miejską rzeczywistością i stała się obiektem docinków i złośliwości, szczególnie ze strony swojej ciotecznej siostry - Dziuni. Bułeczka wprowadziła wiele pozytywnego

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Tomasz Pindel

Tomasz Pindel (ur. 1976) – polski tłumacz literatury hiszpańskojęzycznej, pracownik naukowy Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego (Katedra Ameryki Łacińskiej w Instytucie Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych). Razem z Szymonem Kloską prowadzi program Piątka z literatury w RMF Classic. Został nagrodzony przez polski oddział Instytutu Cervantesa za Tłumaczenie Literackie za przekład "Noc jest dziewicą" Jaime Bayly'ego. Nagroda ta jest przyznawana każdego roku za najlepsze tłumaczenie literatury hiszpańskojęzycznej.

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John Hooper

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John Hooper is currently the Rome correspondent for the Economist and the Guardian. Born in 1950, Hooper was educated at St Benedict’s Abbey in London and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. At the age of eighteen, he travelled to Biafra during the Nigerian civil war to make a television documentary. Since then, he has spent more than 20 years as a foreign correspondent, working for - among others - the Economist, the Guardian, the Observer, BBC, NBC and Reuters. For several years in London, he was a presenter of BBC World Service’s ‘Twenty Four Hours’ current affairs programme.

For three years, he covered Spain’s eventful transformation from a dictatorship

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Hermann Broch

Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately. He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college. Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna.

In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer. This marriage dured until 1923.

He started as a full-time writer when he was 40. When "The Sleepwalkers," his first novel, was published, he was 45. The year was 1931.

In 1938, when the Nazis annexed Austria, he emigrated to Britain

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Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green is an award-winning author and investigative journalist specializing in narrative non-fiction.

Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood and Betrayal tells the story of the infamous Bronx gang through inside access to gangsters and the federal agents, police officers and prosecutors who took them down. It was an Edgar finalist by Mystery Writers of America and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

His first book, Murder in the High Himalaya, won the coveted Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category and the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere. It was translated into Polish

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Juan Emar

Escritor, crítico de arte y pintor chileno, máximo exponente local de la vanguardia literaria de las décadas de 1920 y 1930 en el género narrativo, e integrante del colectivo de artistas plásticos Grupo Montparnasse

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Vinciane Despret

Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher of science, associate professor, at the University of Liège, Belgium.
First graduated in philosophy, she studied psychology and graduated in 1991. She is most known for having provided a reflexive account on ethologists, observing babblers in the Negev desert and the way they would interpret those birds' complex dance moves.
She is considered to be a foundational thinker in what has now become the field of animal studies. More generally, at the heart of her work lies the question of the relationship between observers and the observed during the conduct of scientific research.
Despret affiliates herself to such critical thinkers in philosophy and anthropology of science as Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraw

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Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys.

At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For

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David Szalay

David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is an English writer.

He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.

He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011).

He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40 and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.

A fourth novel All That Man Is was longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2016.

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Agata Przybyłek

Absolwentka psychologii na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim, w przeszłości dziennikarka portalu rodzicielskiego. Debiutowała w 2015 roku, gdy tworzenie fabuły pełnej miłosnych perypetii i zaskakujących żartów potraktowała jako autoterapię. Od tamtej pory ukazało się ponad dwadzieścia książek jej autorstwa, a kolejne humorystyczne serie podbiły serca (i półki!) polskich czytelniczek.

Pisze głównie powieści obyczajowe oraz komedie romantyczne. Z tymi pierwszymi trafia szczególnie do tych czytelniczek, które – podobnie jak sama autorka – uwielbiają prozę Nicholasa Sparksa. Z jednej strony Agata Przybyłek uwielbia bawić i sprawiać, by jej książki pomagały oderwać się od problemów dnia codziennego, a z drugiej chętnie porusza tematy społeczne i przemyca do

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Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Believer. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.

Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize

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Julia Fiedorczuk

Poetka, tłumaczka. Debiutowała w roku 2000 tomem poetyckim "Listopad nad Narwią", za który otrzymała nagrodę Polskiego Towarzystwa Wydawców Książek. Autorka kilku zbiorów wierszy: "Bio" (2004), "Planeta rzeczy zagubionych" (2006), "Tlen" (2009) i "tuż-tuż" (2012), a także zbioru opowiadań "Poranek Marii" (2010) oraz powieści "Biała Ofelia" (2012). Laureatka wielu nagród, w tym austriackiej nagrody Huberta Burdy (2005). Adiunkt w Instytucie Anglistyki na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Jej utwory zostały przełożone na 17 języków, w tym walijski, japoński i islandzki. Mieszka w Warszawie.

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Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technolog

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Stanisław Barańczak

Stanisław Barańczak was a Polish poet, literary critic, translator, scholar, editor and lecturer. His book, "Chirurgiczna Precyzja" ("Surgical Precision"), won the 1999 Nike Award.

He was the brother of the popular children's book writer Małgorzata Musierowicz.

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Ewa Winnicka

Polska dziennikarka, reporterka, do 2014 roku związana z tygodnikiem „Polityka”.

Studiowała dziennikarstwo i amerykanistykę, ale zanim ją skończyła – trafiła do działu reportażu „Gazety Wyborczej”. W latach 1999–2014 pracowała w „Polityce”. Zajmowała się sprawami społecznymi, zwłaszcza polityką wobec dysfunkcyjnych rodzin i ochroną dzieci. Pisała także reportaże zagraniczne, m.in. o ataku na WTC, o palestyńskiej Intifadzie i gwałtownym kryzysie w londyńskim City.

Trzykrotna laureatka nagrody Grand Press: w 2005, 2008 i w 2018 roku. Jej książka reporterska pt. Londyńczycy, wydana w 2011 przez Wydawnictwo Czarne, została finalistką Nagrody Literackiej dla Autorki Gryfia. Za reportaż Angole (2014) została nominowana do Nagrody Literackiej „Nike”

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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".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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Charlie LeDuff

Charlie LeDuff is a writer, filmmaker and a multimedia reporter for The Detroit News. He is a former national correspondent for The New York Times.

He covered the war in Iraq, crossed the desert with a group of migrant Mexicans and worked inside a North Carolina slaughterhouse as part of The Times series “How Race Is Lived in America,” which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

In 2005 LeDuff was host and writer of “Only In America” – a 10-part television show of participatory journalism for the Discovery Times Channel. Among other things he brawled at a fight party held by an Oakland motorcycle gang, rode a bull at a gay rodeo, became a trapeze clown in a traveling circus of immigrants.

LeDuff also hosted and co-produce

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Fernanda Melchor

Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.

I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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Krzysztof Środa

Pisarz, tłumacz, historyk filozofii. Pracował w Instytucie Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, obronił pracę doktorską o fenomenologii Edmunda Husserla, przełożył kilkanaście książek – większość na temat spekulacji giełdowej. Autor Niejasnej sytuacji na kontynencie (2003), Projektu handlu kabardyńskimi końmi (2006) oraz Podróży do Armenii i innych krajów (2012), laureat Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia w kategorii eseistyki.

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Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the

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Luigi Nacci

Luigi Nacci vive a Trieste. Ha ideato e diretto molte rassegne culturali, tra cui il Festival della Viandanza, parola che ha messo al centro della sua ricerca di uomo e autore. Cammina da solo, oppure con i Rolling Claps, gruppo che ha fondato per riscoprire le antiche vie, e la Compagnia dei Cammini.
Ha pubblicato saggi e poesie.

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Joanna Bator

Joanna Bator is a Polish novelist, journalist and academic.
She has written a number of books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her titles such as "The Japanese Fan" and "Sandy Mountain" have received wide acclaim in her native Poland. In 2010, she was nominated for the Gdynia Literary Prize for her book "Sandy Mountain". In 2013 her novel "Dark, Almost Night" has earned the Nike Award.

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Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2014 to 2022.

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Judith Schalansky

Judith Schalansky studied Art History at the FU Berlin and Communication Design at the Fachhochschule Potsdam. After finishing her studies in 2007 she taught Typographic Basics at the Fachhochschule Potsdam until 2009.
Her first publication was the typographic compendium Fraktur mon Amour. From then she switched more to writing books for which she also did the graphical design. In 2008 she debuted with the novel Blau steht dir nicht.

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Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura "Sunny" Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books Ecofeminism, Defiant Daughters, Occupy!, Stay Solid, and Infinite City. Taylor and Judith Butler’s conversation is featured in the film Examined Life and the book of the same name, published by The New Press.

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Ananda Devi

Ananda Devi is a Mauritian writer. Her novel, Eve de ses décombres, won the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie in 2006, as well as several other prizes. It was adapted for the cinema by Sharvan Anenden and Harrikrisna Anenden. In 2007, Devi received the Certificat d'Honneur Maurice Cagnon du Conseil International d'Études Francophones.[1] She has since won other literary prizes, including the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature française of the Académie française. During 2010 she was bestowed with Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.

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Dagmar Geisler

Dagmar Geisler wurde 1958 in Siegen geboren und studierte bis 1984 Graphik-Design an der FH Wiesbaden. Nach dem Studium arbeitete Sie als Zeichnerin beim ZDF, als Layouterin in einem Trickfilmstudio und als Gerichtszeichnerin für die Frankfurter Rundschau.
Sie hat eine Vielzahl an Kinderbüchern mit ihren Illustrationen veröffentlicht, aber auch eigene Geschichten verfasst. Ihre bekannte Wanda-Reihe erscheint im dtv und wurde 2007 mit dem Penzberger Urmel ausgezeichnet.
Heute lebt sie mit ihrer Familie als freie Autorin und Illustratorin in der Nähe von München.

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Israel J. Singer

Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. His granddaughter is the novelist, Brett Singer.

Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916. In 1921, after Abraham Cahan noticed his story Pearls, Singer became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward. His short story Liuk appeared in 1924, illuminating the ideological confusion of the Bolshevik Revolution. He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. He died of a he

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Joanna Fabicka

pisarka i felietonistka z wykształceniem filmoznawcy oraz doświadczeniem montażystki. Łodzianka. Pracując w łódzkiej Filmówce, montowała m.in. nominowaną do Oscara „Męską sprawę” w reżyserii Sławomira Fabickiego (męża).

Debiutowała w 1993 roku tomikiem poezji "Bardziej cierpki smak". Jest autorką bestsellerowego cyklu książek o dojrzewaniu nastoletniego Rudolfa Gąbczaka i jego dysfunkcyjnej rodzinie, wydanych nakładem W.A.B.: Szalone życie Rudolfa (2002), Świńskim truchtem (2004), Seks i inne przykrości (2005) i Tango ortodonto (2006). W 2006 r. ukazał się przekład rosyjski pierwszej części cyklu, a w 2008 r. charytatywne wydanie książki w formie audiobooka, przeznaczone dla osób niewidomych i słabowidzących. Obecnie pracuje nad książeczką d

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Anne Applebaum

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a Polish-American journalist and writer. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post.

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Anita Robertson

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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Anna Ciarkowska

Absolwentka I Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Łodzi. W latach 2005–2010 studiowała filologię romańską na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim, uzyskując tytuł zawodowy magistra. Jednocześnie odbyła studia licencjackie z kulturoznawstwa w specjalności kultura literacka. W 2009 studiowała na Université de Paris VII Diderot w ramach stypendium Socrates Erasmus.

W latach 2012–2016 odbyła studia doktoranckie na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim. W 2017 uzyskała stopień doktora nauk humanistycznych w specjalności literaturoznawstwo na podstawie rozprawy doktorskiej Francuskojęzyczna literatura świadectwa pisarzy o polsko-żydowskich korzeniach: Anna Langfus i Piotr Rawicz przygotowanej pod kierunkiem prof. dr. hab. Grzegorza Gazdy.

Od 2018 pracuje na stanow

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Grace Paley

Grace Paley was an American short story writer, poet, and political activist whose work won a number of awards.

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Denton Welch

Maurice Denton Welch was an English-American writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.

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Esther Kinsky

Esther Kinsky, geboren 1956, hat Slawistik und Anglistik in Bonn und Toronto studiert. Sie arbeitet als Übersetzerin aus dem Polnischen, Englischen und Russischen. Ihr übersetzerisches Oeuvre umfasst u. a. Werke von Ida Fink, Hanna Krall, Ryszard Krysnicki, Aleksander Wat, Joseph O'Connor und Jane Smiley.

Kinksy lebt in Berlin. 2009 wurde sie mit dem Paul-Celan-Preis ausgezeichnet und 2011 erhielt sie den Karl-Dedecius-Preis.

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Renee Engeln

Dr. Renee Engeln is a professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches about psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social psychology, and the psychology of human beauty. She is an award-winning professor, having amassed over a dozen teaching awards at both Loyola University and Northwestern.

Engeln is regularly interviewed by media outlets, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Today.com, The Huffington Post, Think Progress, numerous local/regional newspapers, and college student publications.

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Tadeusz Konwicki

Prose writer, screenwriter and film director. Founder of the 'cinema d'auteur' in Poland and author of 20 books. Born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, near Vilnius (today Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania), died on January 7th in Warsaw at 88 years old.

Konwicki was educated at the Universities of Cracow and Warsaw and began writing for newspapers and periodicals. He served on the editorial boards of leading literary magazines and followed the official Communist Party line. His first work, Przy budowie (1950; “At the Construction Site”), won the State Prize for Literature. He began a career as a filmmaker and scriptwriter in 1956; his film Ostatni dzień lata (“The Last Day of Summer”) won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix in 1958. By the late 1960s he had

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Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. He was also a member of the Polish resistance movement. Herbert is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers, and has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in literature.

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Hanna Krall

Urodziła się w Warszawie w rodzinie żydowskiej. Podczas II wojny światowej zginęło wielu członków jej najbliższej rodziny. Wojnę przeżyła tylko dlatego, że była ukrywana przed Niemcami. Cudem została ocalona w czasie transportu do getta. Holocaust i losy Żydów polskich z czasem stały się głównym tematem jej twórczości.

Od 1955 r. pracowała w redakcji "Życia Warszawy", od 1966 r. w "Polityce", której korespondentem w ZSRR była w latach 1966-1969. Reportaże z ZSRR wydała w tomie Na wschód od Arbatu.W latach 1982-1987 była zastępcą kierownika literackiego Zespołu Filmowego "Tor". Na początku lat 90. związała się z Gazetą Wyborczą.

Światową sławę przyniósł jej oryginalny w formie wywiad z Markiem Edelmanem Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem (1977). Ostatn

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Andrea Bajani

Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
Nel 2011 vince il Premio Bagutta con il romanzo Ogni promessa.

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Peter Hessler

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.

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Maria Wirtemberska

Maria Wirtemberska, właśc. Maria Anna z Czartoryskich księżna von Würtemberg-Montbéliard, inne formy nazwiska: de Wirtemberg; Wirtembergska; Würtemberska; von Württemberg, pseud.: La Princesse W*** – arystokratka polska, powieściopisarka, komediopisarka, poetka i filantropka.

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Halldór Laxness

Born Halldór Guðjónsson, he adopted the surname Laxness in honour of Laxnes in Mosfellssveit where he grew up, his family having moved from Reyjavík in 1905. He published his first novel at the age of only 17, the beginning of a long literary career of more than 60 books, including novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. Confirmed a Catholic in 1923, he later moved away from religion and for a long time was sympathetic to Communist politics, which is evident in his novels World Light and Independent People. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Yōko Tawada

Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 Tawada Yōko, born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German.

Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.

Tawada's Missing Heels received the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1991, and The Bridegroom Was a Dog r

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Peter Conradi

See also philosopher Peter J. Conradi

Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times & author of The King's Speech and of Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War, updated and out now in paperback

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Jakub Małecki

Pisarz, autor książek: Błędy (2008), Przemytnik cudu (2008), Zaksięgowani (2009), Dżozef (2011), W odbiciu (2011), Odwrotniak (2013) i Dygot (2015).

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”.

Laureat nagrody Śląkfa w kategorii „Twórca roku”, dwukrotnie nominowany do Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla. Za przekład książki Listy niezapomniane na język polski zdobył Nagrodę Literacką Miesięcznika KSIĄŻKI. Za

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Santiago Roncagliolo

Santiago Roncagliolo ha vivido en México, Perú y España. Su libro Abril rojo (Alfaguara, 2006) lo convirtió en el ganador más joven del Premio Alfaguara de Novela. y está en vías de traducción a más de diez idiomas. Su novela Pudor (Alfaguara, 2004) ha sido llevada al cine. Además, ha publicado El príncipe de los caimanes y los cuentos de Crecer es un oficio triste.

También ha escrito guiones de cine y televisión, traducciones literarias y libros para niños. En la actualidad, reside en Barcelona y colabora con el diario El País de España y varios medios latinoamericanos.

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Monika Helfer

Monika Helfer (1947), vormals Monika Helfer-Friedrich, ist eine österreichische Schriftstellerin.
Thema ihrer Bücher sind oft schwierige Familienbeziehungen, wobei sie einen besonderen Fokus auf die Kinderperspektive legt. „Die Figuren in Monika Helfers Büchern haben Mut, Überlebenswillen und den gesunden Trotz eines Kindes, nämlich den Trotz, sich von gesellschaftlichen Wertvorstellungen und Kategorisierungen nicht beirren zu lassen“, so Dorothea Zanon in ihrer Laudatio anlässlich der Verleihung des Österreichischen Ehrenkreuzes für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse.

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Kacper Pobłocki

Kacper Pobłocki (ur. 11 czerwca 1980 w Bydgoszczy) – polski antropolog i społecznik. W 2010 wykładowca na Uniwersytecie w Utrechcie, od 2011 adiunkt w Instytucie Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu..

Jest absolwentem University College Utrecht (2000-2003) i Central European University (2004-2010). W latach 2008/2009 przebywał jako stażysta (visiting fellow) w Center for Place, Culture and Politics przy Uniwersytecie Miejskim (CUNY) w Nowym Jorku, kierowanego przez prof. Davida Harveya. Jego praca doktorska pt. „The Cunning of Class: Urbanization of Inequality in Post-War Poland” została w 2011 r. wyróżniona nagrodą Prezesa Rady Ministrów.

Autor szeregu publikacji z zakresu antropologii i socjologi

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Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.

Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).

Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His inten

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Julian Kornhauser

Julian Kornhauser (born 20 September 1946 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish poet and literary critic.

He was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Jakub and Małgorzata Kornhauser. He is an author of poems, novels and literary sketches. He also published translations of Serbian and Croatian poetry. At present, he works as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the poetic New Wave of the 1970s and a co-founder of the literary group "Teraz".

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Carolyn Steedman

Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA (born 20 March 1947) is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood. Since 2013, she has been Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a Professor of History since 1999.

Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in 1968, and then completed a master's degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1974. She was a teacher from then until 1982, when she joined the Institute of Education in the University of London as a researcher; for the 1983–84 year, she was a Fellow there, before lecturing at the University o

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Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser is a writer, editor, critic, and translator who was born in Houston in 1976 and lives in the Netherlands. After attending high school in Texas and France, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in History. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht.

He worked at Foreign Affairs magazine and Alfred A. Knopf in New York before becoming an editor at the Harvill Press in London. He was the New Books columnist for Harper's Magazine before becoming a Contributing Editor on visual art and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including Condé Nast Traveler, Newsweek, and The American Scholar.

His first book, Why This

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Barbara J. King

Barbara J. King
The College of William and Mary
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at The College of William and Mary. Professor King received her B.A. in anthropology from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

Professor King’s research interests concern the social communication of the great apes, the closest living relatives to humans. She has studied ape and monkey behavior in Gabon, Kenya, and at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she has published three books on anthropology, including The Information Continuum: Social Information

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Florian Klenk

Florian Rudolf Klenk ist ein österreichischer Journalist, Autor und Jurist. Seit Anfang Juni 2012 ist er Chefredakteur und seit Dezember 2020 Mitgesellschafter der österreichischen Wochenzeitung Falter.

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Clemens J. Setz

Clemens J. Setz wurde 1982 in Graz geboren, wo er Mathematik sowie Germanistik studierte und heute als Übersetzer und freier Schriftsteller lebt. 2011 wurde er für seinen Erzählband Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse ausgezeichnet. Sein Roman Indigo stand auf der Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises 2012 und wurde mit dem Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft 2013 ausgezeichnet. 2014 erschien sein erster Gedichtband Die Vogelstraußtrompete.

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Jakub Jarno

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Aleksandra Zbroja

Historyczka sztuki bez muzealnego happy endu, absolwentka Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu. Od lat związana z Wysokimi Obcasami i z Dużym Formatem, dla którego prowadzi transmisje i podcasty. Autorka reportaży, wywiadów oraz felietonów, a ostatnio scenariuszy słuchowisk.

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Agata Romaniuk

Socjolożka z doktoratem z Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Absolwentka Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu i założycielka Grupy Reporterskiej Głośniej. W 2017 zainicjowała projekt badawczo-reporterski Światła Małego Miasta, który opisywał życie Polaków w najmniejszych miasteczkach. Publikuje teksty w Dużym Formacie, Przekroju, Piśmie i magazynie Non/Fiction. W maju 2019 ukazała się jej książka reporterska „Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu”. Jest autorką dwujęzycznej książki dla dzieci pt. „Bal u lamorożca. Polsko-ukraińskie bajki o przyjaźni” wydanej przez Zygzaki.

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Mira Marcinów

Studiowała na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, gdzie obroniła doktorat z psychologii. Pracuje w Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Warszawie. Publikowała m.in. w „Znaku”, „Tygodniku Powszechnym” i francuskim piśmie o poezji „Orpheus”.

Finalistka Nagrody Naukowej „Polityki” (2019) i laureatka Nagrody Prezesa Rady Ministrów (2015).

Za prozatorski debiut Bezmatek otrzymała Paszport Polityki, a także nominację do nagrody Odkrycia Empiku oraz do nagrody O!Lśnienia.

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Mikołaj Grynberg

Mikołaj Grynberg (ur. 1966) – fotograf i pisarz, z wykształcenia psycholog. Jego zdjęcia były prezentowane niemal na całym świecie. Autor albumów Dużo kobiet (2009), Auschwitz – co ja tu robię? (2010) oraz Ocaleni z XX wieku (2012). Wydał zbiór rozmów Oskarżam Auschwitz. Opowieści rodzinne (2014), tom opowiadań Rejwach (2016) oraz wspomnienia żydowskich emigrantów 1968 Księga wyjścia (2018). Od lat zajmuje się problematyką i historią polskich Żydów w XX wieku. W całej swojej twórczości przyjmuje szczególną perspektywę dialogu, koncentrując się na spotkaniu z innymi, otwarciu na ich osobiste przeżycia i historie.

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Marcin Wicha

Marcin Wicha was a Polish graphic designer, children's author, and essayist.

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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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Zyta Rudzka

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