Bernardine Evaristo is the Anglo-Nigerian award-winning author of several books of fiction and verse fiction that explore aspects of the African diaspora: past, present, real, imagined. Her novel Girl…
Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe p…
She holds a Masters degree in German and Philosophy and attended the Berliner Journalistenschule, a highly selective professional academy for journalists. During this…
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…
Seishi Yokomizo (横溝 正史) was a novelist in Shōwa period Japan. Yokomizo was born in the city of Kobe, Hyōgo (兵庫県 神戸市). He read detective stories as a boy and in 1921, while employed by the Daiichi Bank,…
Eveline Hasler wurde in Glarus geboren, studierte Psychologie und Geschichte in Fribourg und Paris und war einige Zeit als Lehrerin tätig. Heute lebt sie im Tessin. Sie schreibt vor allem historische …
Uwe Wittstock (b. 1955) is a literary critic and writer, he was editor of "Focus", he has worked as literary editor for the FAZ, as editor at S. Fischer and as deputy head of feature pages and cultura…
Anne Berest is the bestselling co-author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Françoise Sagan. With her sister Claire, …
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, a…
Dana Vowinckel wurde 1996 in Berlin geboren und studierte Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft in Berlin, Toulouse und Cambridge. Beim Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerb 2021 wurde sie für einen Auszug aus …
