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…
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 …
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
The dramatist, writer, lyricist, and publicist Heinrich von Kleist was born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1777. Upon his father's early death in 1788 when he was ten, he was sent to the house of the pre…
Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge,…
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 No…
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones—most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
Urodzony w 1975 we Wrocławiu, mieszka w Warszawie. Studiował filologię polską, potem pisał doktorat, ale zarzucił pracę naukową i poświęcił się wyłącznie twórczości literackiej. Debiutował zbiorem opow…
Wiesław Myśliwski was a Polish novelist. In his novels and plays Myśliwski concentrates on life in the Polish countryside. He was twice the winner of the Nike Award (Polish equivalent of the Booker Pr…
Antropolog kultury; stopień doktora nauk humanistycznych otrzymała w Instytucie Sztuki PAN w Warszawie. Zajmuje się antropologią współczesności (zwłaszcza problemami popularnej kultury audiowizualnej)…
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi. Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona. Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris). În 1996, iniţiază grupul li…
Born 1976, prose-writer, traveler, translator; he made his debut with the novel Uncool (2006), and then published another novel, The Miracle (2007), and a collection of impressions from his journeys a…
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989…
Martin M. Šimečka (1957) do roku 1989 patril do okruhu českého a slovenského disentu, pracoval ako kurič alebo ošetrovateľ v nemocnici a podieľal sa aj na vydávaní slovenského samizdatového časopisu F…
Rebecca Makkai is the author of 2023's New York Times bestselling I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, as well as the novels THE GREAT BELIEVERS, THE BORROWER and THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE, and the collection …
Claudia Durastanti è una scrittrice e traduttrice italiana. Si laurea in antropologia culturale all'Università La Sapienza di Roma, per poi proseguire gli studi alla De Montfort University di Leiceste…
The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics…
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych …
Vyštudoval polonistiku v Banskej Bystrici a dlho pracoval v reklamnej agentúre ako copywriter. Popritom blogoval na SME a písal články na mnohé iné portály. Odišiel do Denníka N, vrátil sa. Jeho život…
Kristína Böhmer je reportérkou Investigatívneho centra Jána Kuciaka, predtým pracovala v Denníku N. Je držiteľkou Novinárskej ceny 2025 v kategórii komentár. Jej novinársky štýl formovali skúsenosti z…
Slovak author and former journalist. He worked as an editor and reporter for Forbes and the daily newspaper Pravda. His work has been published in SME, Denník Šport, Historická revue, Babilon, Knižná …
Oliver Lovrenski (b. 2003) grew up in Norway and has a Croatian background. His literary debut, Back in the Day, is an intense, poetic and raw coming-of-age novel from contemporary city life.
Veronika Cosculluela je slovenská novinárka. Vyrastala v Podkoniciach pri Banskej Bystrici. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku v Bratislave a politické vedy v Grenobli a v Belehrade. Desať rokov bola hlavne pol…
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…
