Volker Sielaff was born in 1966 in Großröhrsdorf (Lausitz). Since 1990 he has published poetry, essays and reviews in literary magazines, anthologies and daily newspapers, including »manuskripte«, »Diwan«, »Sprache im technischen Zeitalter« and »Der Tagesspiegel«. His poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Arabic.
Vincenzo Consolo was born in Sant’Agata di Militello, near Messina, Sicily, in 1933. At the age of thirty, he published his first novel and achieved recognition as an author. In addition to novels, he has also written short stories, poems and travelogues. Today, Consolo is one of the most wellknown
born in 1957, completed a degree in business, and, after a short period of employ ment in the car industry, worked in the book trade. This led him to the field of publishing, where he was employed by various highly regarded firms both in Germany and abroad. In 1994 Heinichen,
Valérie Zenatti was born in Nice in 1970 and, at the age of thirteen, moved with her family to Israel, where they settled in Beersheba in the Negev desert. When she was eighteen she did the military service which is required of young men and women alike and shortly afterwards
Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since, teaching literary translation at the University of Milan. Parks has published over fifteen novels, numerous essays, short stories and academic
Timo Parvela was born in Finland in 1964. The former primary school teacher has been working as a freelance writer since 1996. Alongside many books for children and young adults, he has written several television scripts for children and adults, textbooks for learning Finnish and contributions to Finnish radio. In
Thomas Hettche was born in Treis, near Giessen, Germany, in 1964. He studied philosophy and German in Frankfurt. While still a student, he published his first novel, earning himself an invitation to compete for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt. He became a member of the jury for the said
Taleb Al-Refai was born in Kuwait in 1958. He studied engineering science at university in his home town. He began writing short stories while a student in the 1970s, publishing them in Kuwaiti newspapers. Later, his literary essays, columns and short stories appeared in various Arabic-language magazines and newspapers. Up
Susanne Stemmler, born in 1968, is a specialist in Romance studies and is director of the departments of literature, science, and society at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. She graduated with a study of the European perspective on the Arab world (tr: The Topography of Vision.
Suzy Lee was born in Seoul in 1974 and studied painting and book arts at the Seoul National University in Korea and at the Camberwell College of Arts in the U.K. The specific appeal of her usually wordless picture books lies in the reduced narrative concept and the combination of
Svjetlan Junaković was born in Zagreb in 1961. Due to an interest in the different modes of artistic expression, he chose to study at the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he graduated in 1985. Since then has been working as a freelance painter, sculptor, illustrator,
Susanne Heinrich was born in Leipzig in 1985, she studied at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig and has published numerous short stories in various anthologies, magazines and her own publications, followed in 2007 and 2009 by two novels. She has received various awards (Ingeborg Bachmann competition, residencies at
