Huugo Kalervo ”Kalle” Palsa, sarjakuvien nimiölehdellä myös Porno-Kalle ja markiisi de Palsa oli suomalainen kuvataiteilija. Palsan taide on luokiteltu milloin surrealismiksi, naivismiksi tai primitiv…
Tim Harford is a member of the Financial Times editorial board. His column, “The Undercover Economist”, which reveals the economic ideas behind everyday experiences, is published in the Financial Time…
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. The most famous of his novels are Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whi…
Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portl…
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer is a poet and writer. Distinguished in nearly every genre imaginable, he is one of the most celebrated authors of the Dutch language and is recognized as one of the most compell…
Iida Rauma on turkulainen kirjailija. Rauma valmistui valtiotieteiden maisteriksi Turun yliopistosta, missä hän opiskeli poliittista historiaa, valtio-oppia, sukupuolentutkimusta ja luovaa kirjoittami…
Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literar…
(s. 1980 Kokemäki) on suomalainen Jyväskylässä asuva kirjailija ja kääntäjä. Hän on julkaissut useita runokokoelmia, esseeteoksia, romaaneja ja tietokirjoja, ja suomentanut runoja, esseitä ja proosaa.…
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…
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer. Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow. Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State P…
Chi Ta-wei was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1972. He attended National Taiwan University, graduating from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, and received a degree in Comparative Literat…
Paul B. Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. A professor of Political History of the Body, Gender Theory, and History of Performance at Paris VIII, he …
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentia…
