Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Aaron Lansky is the founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work.
Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around …
Dan Stone was born in Lincoln and brought up in Birmingham. He studied at the University of Oxford and since 1999 has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dan is a historian of modern Europ…
Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski) was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later professor at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile…
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he w…
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one o…
Martin Pollack was an Austrian journalist, book author, translator, Slavist and historian. "One of Austria's most distinguished public intellectuals", Pollack propagated a fact-based truth and reconci…
Frank Westerman (Emmen, 1964) groeide op in Assen en studeerde Tropische Cultuurtechniek aan de Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen. In 1987 woonde hij een jaar in de Andes van Peru, waar hij de irrigatie…
Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her next book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in No…
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily…
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a s…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theo…
Susanne Jansson (1972) was born in Åmål, Sweden and later moved to Gothenburg to work in advertising and then to New York to study photography. After returning to Sweden, she worked as a freelance pho…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
Pavel Dvořák ml. vyštudoval sinológiu na Univerzite Palackého v Olomouci, od roku 2009 žije v Číne, kde sa aj oženil. Pracoval ako tlmočník čínštiny, tlmočil rôzne bilaterálne rokovania s čínskym prem…
Tomáš Hudák je slovenský stand-up komik, scenárista, moderátor, textár a bývalý novinár. Hudák začínal najprv ako novinár, už počas pôsobenia v denníku SME sa však snažil presadiť ako humorista a poli…
