Per Nilsson was born in Malmö, Sweden in 1954 and is one of Sweden’s leading authors of young people’s literature. After completing his degree, he began working as a mathematics and music teacher at a secondary school before making writing his only profession in 1999. Today he writes for all those
Oskar Pastior was born in Sibiu in the Transylvanian region of Romania in 1927. A member of the minority ethnic German community, he spent five years in a Soviet forced-labour camp after the Second World War before being allowed to return home. From 1955 he studied German Language and Literature
Ottó Tolnai was born in Kanjiza in the Hungarian speaking region Vojvodina, now a part of Serbia, in 1940. He studied Hungarian Literature, Linguistics and Philosophy in Novi Sad and Zagreb. In 1956 Tolnai’s first contributions to journals and magazines were published. His first volume of poetry, ‘Homorú versek’ (Engl:
Owen Sheers was born on the Fiji islands in 1974 and grew up in Abergavenny, South Wales and in London. He finished his studies at New College, Oxford, and at the University of East Anglia. Alongside his literary activities Sheers is also a freelance journalist, television host, and actor. His
Nicole Krauss was born in New York, USA, in 1974. She studied English Literature at Stanford University in California and at Oxford University in the UK, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She then went on to study at London’s Courtauld Institute, where she wrote her Master’s thesis on Rembrandt.
Natan Sznaider was born near Mannheim, Germany, in 1954, and has lived in Israel since 1974. He is Professor of Sociology at the Academic College in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. In ‘Erinnerung im globalen Zeitalter: Der Holocaust’ (2001) he pursues the question, together with the sociologist Daniel Levy, as to what extent
Navid Kermani was born in Siegen, Germany, in 1967 into a family of Iranian migrants. He studied Drama, Philosophy, and Oriental Studies in Cologne, Cairo, and Bonn, and received the doctoral and post-doctoral degree. From 2000 to 2003 he was a Long Term Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin /
Nasrin Siegewas born in Iran in 1950 and came to Germany when she was nine years old. She grew up in Hamburg and Flensburg, studied Psychology and Pedagogics in Kiel and worked as a psychotherapist in a hospital for drug addicts in Friedrichdorf, Taunus. Since 1983 Nasrin Siege has lived
Nabil Naoum was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1944. He studied Engineering in Cairo and then went to the United States, where he worked as an engineer in New York for ten years. During this time he wrote his first short stories, some of which were published in Egyptian literary
Mohammad Reza Yousefi was born in Hamadan, Iran, in 1953. With over one hundred and fifty titles to his name, he is one of the most prolific authors of children’s and young adult books in Iran. His childhood in a large family of herdsmen and cattle breeders living on the
Mihran Dabag was born in 1944, studied Philosophy, History, Sociology and Political Science in Bonn and Bochum. He is Director of the Institute for the Research in Diaspora and Genocide at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum and co-editor of numerous books about globalisation, violence, genocide and colonialism, as well as the
Michel Friedman was born in Paris in 1956 and moved with his family to Mainz, where he studied Law. He got involved in politics and in public life, among others in the Federal Executive Board of the Christdemocrats and as vice-president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. He
