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…
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.
Nick Bradley holds a PhD from UEA focussing on the figure of the cat in Japanese literature. He lived in Japan for many years where he worked as a translator, and currently teaches on the Creative Wri…
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 …
Ben Coates is the best-selling author of the books ‘The Invention of Amsterdam: A History of Europe’s Greatest City in Ten Walks’, ‘Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the …
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…
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 …
'Yukito Ayatsuji' is the original creator of Another. He is a famous writer of mystery and Japanese detective fiction. He is also one of the writers that demands restoration of the cl…
After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. He wrote a manuscript, he sold all his possessions in Sweden and moved to a s…
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…
