Sebastian Meineck, born in Mainz in 1992, took General and Comparative Literary Studies in Frankfurt/Main. He was invited to the Treffen junger Autoren in 2006, 2008, and 2010, to the LiteraturLaborWolfenbüttel in 2010, and to open writing 2011. His prose has been included in numerous collections and radio programmes. He
The Kuwaiti novelist and journalist Saud Alsanousi was born in 1981. His motivation for writing is the chance this gives him to process and convey painful experiences in literary form: »I wanted to wound the reader; to replicate the same painful experience that I went through and to incite a
born in 1956 in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, left his home country in 1979. Nowadays Shimon lives in London. Shimon is a writer of short stories and poems as well as a publisher of anthologies. His debut novel »An Iraqi in Paris« (2005/2011) was highly praised by the critics. In the Arab
Safa Al Ahmad is an independent journalist and writer from Saudi Arabi. She lives in Istanbul today and works for print and TV media. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Roy Peck Prize for Independen Journalism. Her documentary film Al-Qaeda in Yemen has been nominated for the Emmy Award
Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels, »Grimus«, »Midnight’s Children« (which won the Booker Prize in 1981), »Shame«, »The Satanic Verses«, »Haroun and the Sea of Stories«, »The Moor’s Last Sigh«, »The Ground Beneath Her Feet«, »Fury«, »Shalimar the Clown«, »The Enchantress of Florence«, »Luka and the Fire
Sabine Scho was born in 1970 in Ochtrup, Westfalia. From 1990 to 1999 she studied German literature and philosophy at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster. She subsequently lived in Hamburg until she moved to São Paulo in 2006. Her first volume of poetry, »Album«, first appeared as »Thomas Kling
Ruta Sepetys was born in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She attended Hillsdale College to study opera, but then graduated with a BS in International Finance. Sepetys’ first novel »Between Shades of Gray« tells the story of 15-year-old Lina who is arrested in 1941 by the Russian secret services in
Ruth Klüger was born in Vienna in 1931 as the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Her childhood was affected by her experiences of anti-Semitism and the exclusion of Jewish people from public life in the city of her birth. Her father fled from the Nazis to France, but was unable
Roman Simić Bodrožić was born in 1972 in Zadar, Croatia. He holds a degree in Spanish Language and Literature as well as in Comparative Literature from the University of Zagreb. He worked as editor of one of Croatia’s most important literary magazines, Quorum. With his first book, »U trenutku kao
Ralhia Belle Sibylle Ntseket, alias Rahlia BS Solo, also known as Robinson Solo, was born in 1987 in Brazzaville, in the Republic of the Congo. She already discovered her passion for art early in life – first for painting, then for music and later for literature and poetry. She started
Robert Schindel was born in the Upper Austrian municipality of Bad Hall near Linz in 1944. As the son of a Jewish communist, he survived the Nazi regime living under a false name in a jewish children’s hospital in Vienna. His father was murdered in Dachau, while his mother survived
