Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around …
John Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" or "the Ovid of Ossining." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, th…
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walkin…
Raja Shehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer. He is the author of Strangers in the House (2002), described by The Economist as “distinctive and truly imp…
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on …
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph…
Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the So…
Polska dramatopisarka, pisarka, poetka, publicystka, autorka scenariuszy filmów dokumentalnych, psychoterapeutka wyspecjalizowana w poradnictwie z zakresu seksuologii. Zaczynała jako poetka. W r. 1989…
Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Ka…
Filip Springer (ur. 1982) — reporter i fotograf współpracujący z największymi polskimi tytułami prasowymi. Stypendysta Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego (2010) oraz programu Młoda Polska Narod…
Paweł Sołtys – muzyk, autor piosenek. Jako Pablopavo wydał kilkanaście płyt, zagrał około tysiąca koncertów. Studiował rusycystykę, ale studiów nie ukończył. Jego opowiadania ukazywały się w „Lampie”,…
Kelby Losack is the author of Texas Tea, God Is Wearing Black, Mercy, Letting Out the Devils, and several other books. Co-host of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne and Nicholas Rall. He works …
Serhiy Zhadan (23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk region, Ukraine) is a contemporary Ukrainian novelist, writer, essayist, poet, translator, musician and public figure. Among his most notable works…
Absolwentka Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. Laureatka Gdyńskiej Nagrody Dramaturgicznej 2015 za Feinweinblein. Za debiutancki zbiór opowiadań Uprawa roślin południowych metodą M…
reporter, redaktor, specjalizuje się w problematyce Europy Wschodniej i Górnego Śląska. Autor książek reporterskich Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku (wyróżnionej Nagrodą Literacką Nike oraz Nike czyteln…
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with t…
Ayşegül Savaş grew up in London, Copenhagen, and Istanbul. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta, among others. She lives in Paris.
