Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philol…
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 19…
Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, a…
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He is best known for being on the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Sw…
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1…
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,…
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he w…
Dutch historian mostly known for his documentary series 'In Europa' (In Europe) and book of the same name. Nowadays he gives lectures about the Netherlands in the USA.
Annejet van der Zijl is a Dutch writer. Born in 1962, she studied mass communication at the UVA in Amsterdam and did a MA International Journalism at City University in London. She worked in magazine …
Carlo Masala is a German political scientist, lecturer and researcher. He is currently professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, an…
Andreas Kinneging holds the Chair in Legal Philosophy at the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden. He is the editor of a new, three-volume English edition of Nicolai Hartmann's Ethics, and most rec…
Joris van Casteren (1976) publiceerde In de schaduw van de Parnassus, gesprekken met vergeten dichters (2002) en Zeg mijn lezers dat ik doorschrijf, portretten van vergeten schrijvers (2006). In 2003 …
Remieg Aerts (1957) is hoogleraar Nederlandse geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en Politieke geschiedenis aan de Radboud Universiteit. Hij schreef eerder het viermaal bekroonde De letterh…
Lieke Marsman (1990-2026) debuteerde als dichter in Tirade. Voor de bundel Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud werd Marsman bekroond met de Lucy B en C.W van der Hoogtprijs, de Liegend Konijn Debuutprijs 20…
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…
Esther Maria Magnis, a German writer, was born in 1980. She studied comparative religion and history in Germany and Italy and has worked as a journalist. She now lives and works in southwestern German…
Aimée de Jongh (b. 1988) is a comic author, animator and illustrator from the Netherlands, with a large variety of drawing styles. Aimée received her degree in Animation at the Willem de Kooning Acade…
Stephan Steinmetz (born 1956) is an author and former journalist, administrator, and civil servant. From 1990 to 1998, he was chairman of the Amsterdam district of Zeeburg. His publications include Sc…
Roxane van Iperen (1976) is auteur en jurist. In 2016 verscheen haar debuutroman Schuim der aarde, waarmee ze de Hebban Debuutprijs won. In 2018 volgde 't Hooge Nest, waarvan tot op heden meer dan 275…
Michelle van Tongerloo werkt als huisarts in Rotterdam-Zuid en als straatarts in de Pauluskerk. Voor De Correspondent, LINDA en Medisch Contact schrijft ze over de zorg, overheid en samenleving.
