Mikael Niemi is a Swedish author. He wrote the novel Populärmusik från Vittula (in English as Popular music from Vittula). It became a best-seller in Sweden and was subsequently translated into 30 lan…
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi, also know as Giovanni Guareschi, was a Italian journalist, writer, humorist. Along with Giovanni Mosca and Giaci Mondaini he founded the humorous magazine "Cand…
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,…
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Fir…
Markus Nummi is a Finnish director, scriptwriter, and novelist. He has studied cinema in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, and is a son of the poet Lassi Nummi.
Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relo…
Timo Miettinen (s. 26. maaliskuuta 1981) on eurooppalaiseen filosofiaan, politiikkaan ja aatehistoriaan erikoistunut akatemiatutkija ja Helsingin yliopiston dosentti.
Mikko "Hippo" Taatila (s. 1981 Loimaa) on suomalainen kirjailija ja toimittaja, joka työskentelee Suomen koripallomaajoukkueen Susijengin tiedottajana.
Taatila aloitti kirjallisen uransa koripalloaihei…
French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwa…
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…
