An inquisitive Englishman, Sam Baldwin is the author of two books (published in 3 languages), a writer of hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines, and websites; a contributor to one anthology a…
Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. His last work of fiction, 419, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He has won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour a record-tying three times…
John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department s…
Alan Booth was born in London in 1946 and traveled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theater. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his death from cancer in 1993.
Noah Charney holds degrees in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and Cambridge University. He is the founding director of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA), the …
Agnes Imhof was born in 1973 in Munich. She studied Islamic studies, philosophy and comparative religion at London, Tübingen and Bamberg. Today, Dr. Agnes Imhof lives with her husband and her daughter…
Drago Jančar je končal Višjo pravno šolo v Mariboru. Med študijem je bil kulturni, glavni in odgovorni urednik študentskega lista Katedra. Po študiju je bil najprej zaposlen kot novinar pri dnevniku V…
Irena Svetek (1975) je doktorirala na Oddelku za primerjalno književnost in literarno teorijo na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Za prvi roman Od blizu je leta 2004 prejela nagrado Slovenskega knjiž…
I'm the author of North American Lake Monsters: stories, coming from Small Beer Press in July 2013. I'm currently at work on my first novel and several more short stories. I live with my daughter in A…
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993 and low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest since 2017--and is unlikely to ever achieve satori. That's okay. He's considered one of the …
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…
Joe Palermo grew up in Addison, Illinois. Upon graduation from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he moved to Japan to accept a position with the Japanese government as a Mombusho English Fellow (…
Chris Broad is a British filmmaker and founder of the Abroad in Japan YouTube channel, one of the largest foreign YouTube channels in Japan with over 2.5 million subscribers and 400 million views. Ove…
Georgina Stewart studied History at the University of Cambridge, specialising in medieval Europe. After resigning from her job, she spent a year living on the Slovenian coast, where she wrote the firs…
