Maria Barnas (1973) is dichter, schrijver en beeldend kunstenaar. Zowel in haar geschreven als in haar beeldend werk onderzoekt ze hoe beschrijvingen de werkelijkheid vormen en vervormen. Barnas stude…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Esther 'Etty' Hillesum was a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation. They were published posthumously in 1981,…
She holds a Masters degree in German and Philosophy and attended the Berliner Journalistenschule, a highly selective professional academy for journalists. During this…
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on …
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller…
Willem Frederik Hermans is one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors. Before devoting his entire life to writing, Hermans had been teaching Physical Geography at the University of Groningen for many …
PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has…
Dick was born Kathleen Elsie Dick at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, England, UK, but was but raised in Switzerland by her mother, Kate Frances Dick, being educated in Geneva, as well as at the Ly…
Manon Uphoff was born in 1962 into a family of 13 children. She left home at 16, went on to study literary theory and is now an acclaimed artist and writer, whose novels have been shortlisted for nume…
Johannes Cornelis (Jan) Arends (1925-1974) wrote a small body of work that consists of prose and poetry. On the day his collection 'Lunchpauzegedichten' (Lunchbreakpoems) was published, he committed s…
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
Maarten van der Graaff (1987) debuteerde in 2013 met de bundel Vluchtautogedichten bij uitgeverij Atlas Contact. In 2014 werd deze bundel met de C. Buddingh’-prijs bekroond. Dood werk, zijn tweede bun…
Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness, On (Not) Reading Anne…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and …
Simone Atangana Bekono (1991) studeerde in 2016 af aan Creative Writing ArtEZ. Ze publiceerde op De Optimist, Samplekanon en in De Gids. Ze droeg voor op de Nacht van de Poëzie, Read My World, het Win…
Eva Baltasar is a Catalan poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including …
Lieselot Mariën is afgestudeerd filosoof en jurist. Ze werkte achtereenvolgens in het theater, in de keuken en als advocaat. Tegenwoordig maakt ze audiodrama en -documentaires. Als de dieren is haar d…
