Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitat…
Sergei Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a gua…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Nina Bouraoui (born on 31 July 1967) is a French writer born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, of an Algerian father and a French mother. She spent the first fourteen years of her life in Algiers, then Züri…
Conceição Evaristo was born in a slum in the south of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais / Brazil. She had to reconcile her studies with work as a domestic worker, until she completed her first years of stu…
Pavol Rankov is a writer of prose fiction, essayist, journalist, information scientist and university pedagogue, after completing his secondary schooling in Bratislava studied library science at the P…
Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December 1963) is an Icelandic author. Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his high school diploma. From 1975–1982 he spent a goo…
Martin M. Šimečka (1957) do roku 1989 patril do okruhu českého a slovenského disentu, pracoval ako kurič alebo ošetrovateľ v nemocnici a podieľal sa aj na vydávaní slovenského samizdatového časopisu F…
Rebecca Makkai is the author of 2023's New York Times bestselling I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, as well as the novels THE GREAT BELIEVERS, THE BORROWER and THE HUNDRED-YEAR HOUSE, and the collection …
Jean-Michel Guenassia est un écrivain français, né en 1950 à Alger. Son roman Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes a obtenu le Prix Goncourt des lycéens en novembre 2009.
Marek Vadas je absolventom FF UK, žije v Bratislave. Vydal zbierky poviedok: Malý román (1994, Prémia Literárneho fondu), Univerzita (1996, spoluautor Eman Erdélyi), Diabol pod čapicou (2002, spoluaut…
Rutger Bregman (born April 26, 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. His books Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2017) were both Sunday Ti…
Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak – dziennikarka, absolwentka polonistyki na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim. Autorka biografii Słonimski. Heretyk na ambonie (Wydawnictwo W.A.B. 2012), nominowanej w najważniejszych …
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut …
Daisy Buchanan is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. Her books include the novels Insatiable (longlisted for the CWIP prize), Careering (as heard on BBC Sounds), Limelight and Pity P…
Jeferson Tenório was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1977. Based in Porto Alegre, he is a doctoral student in Literary Theory at PUCRS and a lecturer in literature.
Michal Tallo (1993) je spisovateľ, prekladateľ a publicista. Vydal básnické zbierky Antimita (2016, Drewo a srd), Δ (2018, Drewo a srd) a Kniha tmy (2022, Literárna bašta). V roku 2024 mu vyšla prozai…
Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii fest…
Mgr. Dušan Martinčok známy aj ako Dušo Martinčok je slovenský spisovateľ, právnik-prekladateľ a zakladateľ občianskeho združenia Zrejme, ktoré sa venuje téme medzigeneračného dialógu.
Elena Kostyuchenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1987. She began working as a journalist when she was fourteen, and spent seventeen years reporting for Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s last major independen…
Tomáš Hudák je slovenský stand-up komik, scenárista, moderátor, textár a bývalý novinár. Hudák začínal najprv ako novinár, už počas pôsobenia v denníku SME sa však snažil presadiť ako humorista a poli…
