Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic come…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester). She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fa…
Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter l…
Angie Sage (born 1952) is the author of the Septimus Heap series which includes Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, Syren, Darke and Fyre. She also wrote the Todhunter Moon series, and the Magykal Papers, a…
Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television, and theater actor and producer, writer, and activist. She lives in London with her daughter and two sons.
Jeff Kinney is an author of children's books including Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. Jeff was born in College Park, Maryland, in 1971 where he created a comic strip called "Igdoof."He also created…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Lincoln Peirce is a cartoon artist from Portland, Maine. He lives with his wife and two children, and occasionally gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. Peirce writes the comic strip "Big…
Sophie Passmann, geboren 1994, lebt in Baden-Württemberg, vor allem aber auf Bühnen in ganz Deutschland. Mit 15 Jahren nahm sie an ihrem ersten Poetry Slam teil, danach kamen Auftritte in Deutschland,…
Kristina Pfister wurde 1987 in Bamberg geboren und verbrachte schon als Kind zahlreiche schöne Ferientage auf den Campingplätzen Europas. Der Sommer ist für sie am schönsten mit den Füßen im Wasser. D…
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book "This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor" was a Sunday Times n…
Caroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a co…
Seyda Kurt, geboren 1992 in Köln, studierte Philosophie, Romanistik und Kulturjournalismus in Köln, Bordeaux und Berlin und ist Journalistin und Moderatorin. Sie schreibt unter anderem für taz. Die Ta…
Toxische Pommes heißt im wahren Leben Irina und arbeitet als Juristin in Wien. Sie hat Hunderttausende Follower auf TikTok und Instagram und spielt ihr Kabarettprogramm "Ketchup, Mayo & Ajvar - Die si…
Tahsim Durgun begeistert auf Social Media Hunderttausende Follower mit seinen Videos über die deutsche Gesellschaft und das postmigrantische Leben. In Tahsims Interview Format (Funk) ist Zynismus das …
