Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fasc…
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and a pivotal figure in 20th-century modernist literature, renowned for his highly experimental approach to language and narrative structure, particularly his …
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 …
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and…
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and one of the most distinctive contemporary writers in English. Born in Toronto in 1950, she studied Classics at the University of To…
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitat…
She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion…
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…
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European …
Profesor Jan Rychlík je český historik, odborník na moderní dějiny slovanských národů. Badatelsky se specializuje na moderní české a slovenské dějiny a na problematiku vývoje balkánských národů. Mezi …
Niviaq Korneliussen was born in 1990 in Nuuk and grew up in Nanortalik, a small town in Southern Greenland. She participated in 2012 in the short story competition Allatta! (let us write!) for young u…
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد) Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian A…
Constance Debré is the daughter of journalist François Debré (1942-2020) and former model Maylis Ybarnégaray (1942-1988), granddaughter of Michel Debré (1912-1996), former Prime Minister of General de…
Anton Jäger is een Belgisch historicus en publicist. Zijn werk handelt over ideeëngeschiedenis, meer bepaald de verhouding tussen kapitalisme en democratie. Jäger studeerde aan de universiteiten van E…
Český sociolog. V období 2009–2018 působil v agentuře Median, od roku 2019 vede vlastní výzkumnou organizaci PAQ Research. Původně se věnoval průzkumům veřejného mínění, v současnosti se zaměřuje se n…
Miřenka Čechová je současná česká představitelka tanečního a fyzického divadla, režisérka, spisovatelka a pedagožka. Absolvovala Taneční konzervatoř v Praze (obor klasický balet), DAMU (obor Alternati…
"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 oth…
Jakub Stanjura je český spisovatel. Vystudoval anglistiku a bohemistiku na Univerzitě Karlově, několik měsíců také strávil studiem aplikované lingvistiky v Southamptonu. Jeho románový debut Srpny (202…
Miroslav Hlaučo (1967) vystudoval klinickou farmacii v Bratislavě, po ní také režii na DAMU a filmovou vědu na Filozofické fakultě v Praze. Po krátkém období, ve kterém se živil uměním, pracuje už řad…
