Lars Gustafsson was born in Västerås, central Sweden, in 1936. He completed his philosophy studies at the University of Uppsala and Magdalen College, Oxford, with a dissertation in 1978 on »three extremists in the philosophy of language« (incl. Friedrich Nietzsche). From 1960 Gustafsson worked as editor, and from 1965 to
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He studied law in Szeged and Hungarian language and literature in Budapest. In 1985 his début novel »Sátántangó« (Eng. »Satantango«, 2012) appeared, which was later adapted by Krasznahorkai for Béla Tarr’s film of the same name (1994). The collaboration between the
Krzysztof Niewrzeda, poet, novelist, essayist and political and social commentator, was born in 1964 in the Polish town of Szczecin, where he studied at the Technical University in the eighties. In that time, his first poems were published in the periodical ‘Morze i Ziemia’ (1985). He also played music with
Júlio Emílio Braz was born in 1959 in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. At the age of five, he moved with his parents to Rio de Janeiro where he grew up in favelas. From a very early age, reading and writing played a central role in his life. Always eager
Julio Llamazares was born in Vegamián, a small village in the region of León. At the age of twelve he left the mountain area, attended a boarding school in Madrid and then studied law. Today Llamazares works as a writer, journalist and scriptwriter. After two poetry volumes which were published
Jorge Volpi was born in Mexico City in 1968, where he benefited by a classical, humanistic education. The readings of the great Mexican authors such as Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz encouraged him to dedicate himself to literature despite his original aim of becoming a philosopher. He studied
Jorge Luis Arzola was born in 1966 in Jatibonico, Cuba. Unlike those authors who have up to now shaped the image of Cuban literature, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Miguel Barnet, Jesús Díaz and Reinaldo Arenas, Arzola belongs to a new generation of writers, the so-called „novísimos“. This generation is on the
Joke van Leeuwen was born in The Hague in 1952 and studied, art, graphic design and history in Brussels and Antwerp. She toured with her own cabaret show until 1985. Her first book was »De Appelmoesstraat is anders« (1978; tr. The Applesauce Street is Different). To date there have been
John Tranter was born in Cooma, Australia, in 1943 and grew up on his parents’ farm on the south coast of New South Wales. In the 1960s he started writing poetry and his work was published in different magazines before his first poetry volume ‘Parallax’ appeared in 1970. From the
Johano Strasser was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, in 1939. He studied at the Foreign and Interpreter Institute of Mainz University. In 1967 he did his PhD in philosophy, in 1977 followed his post doctoral thesis in politics at the Freie Universität in Berlin. From 1980-1988 he was co-publisher and editor
Jesús Ferrero was born in 1952 in the Spanish province of Zamora. After completing his secondary education he studied literature in Zaragoza for a while and then moved to Paris to study ancient Greek history at the Sorbonne. Since 1995 he has been living in Madrid where he teaches literature. Jesús Ferrero,
Jean Ziegler was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1934. He studied law, sociology and political sciences and lectured in sociology at the University of Geneva. His numerous publications are commonly dedicated to the economic and political situation of third world (»Wie kommt der Hunger in die Welt?«, 2002), but also
