Azille Coetzee is a postdoctoral researcher in gender and decolonisation at the Centre for Historical Trauma and Transformation, Stellenbosch University. She has a PhD in philosophy from the Free Univ…
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Thin…
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received…
George Saunders was born December 2, 1958 and raised on the south side of Chicago. In 1981 he received a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He worked at…
Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his c…
Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Tim…
Jenny Offill is an American author born in Massachusetts. Her first novel Last Things was published in 1999 was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award.
Krog grew up on a farm, attending primary and secondary school in Kroonstad. In 1973 she earned a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of the Orange Free State, and an MA in Afrikaans from …
Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, was a New York Times bestseller and was named …
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, H…
Etienne Roché van Heerden grew up in a dual medium household. After matriculating he decided to join the navy, but since he is blind in the right eye, was not called up for combat duty. Instead he ser…
Deon Meyer was born in the South African town of Paarl in the winelands of the Western Cape in 1958, and grew up in Klerksdorp, in the gold mining region of Northwest Province.
Elsa (Elsa) Antoinette Murray Joubert was the author of several (travel) books that concern themselves with life in Africa, the relationships between people and the conflicts between cultures.
Pieter Georg du Plessis is op 14 Julie 1934 op Boshof in die Vrystaat gebore. Sy pa was vir veertig jaar onderwyser in Engels in die Vrystaat. Pieter, soos hy verkies om genoem te word, gaan skool op …
Elsie Katie Maria Dido is in 1951 op Tsomo in die Transkei gebore as die oudste dogter en die derde oudste van twaalf kinders. Haar moedertaal is Afrikaans, maar as kind leer sy ook Xhosa en Engels vl…
Zirk van den Berg is a bilingual author (English and Afrikaans) who writes across different genres. He has won four significant literary awards in Afrikaans: His crime novel 'n Ander Mens won the inau…
Charlie Macksey was born during a snowy winter in Northumberland. He has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis…
Philip Hampson Knight, whose nickname is "Buck", is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and current chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and previously served as chairman and …
Asako Yuzuki (柚木 麻子, Yuzuki Asako) is a Japanese writer. She won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Asako has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and…
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Page…
Erns Grundling is a TV presenter (kykNET Elders: Die Camino, Die Ware Naarheid) and multi-award-winning journalist (previously for Weg, LitNet, Insig and Huisgenoot). He lives in Cape Town. His 2017 t…
Johannes de Villiers is ’n skrywer en meditasie-instrukteur. Hy bedryf ’n jogaskool in Bloemfontein. Hy lei landwyd slypskole en naweekkursusse oor meditasie en mindfulness. Johannes was jare lank joe…
Raven's debut novel, Luster, is forthcoming from FSG August 2020. Her work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Narrative, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England R…
