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
Ricardo Aleixo was born in 1960 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Being specially recognized for his visual and social poetry, permeated with ironies, he is considered one of the most innovating Brazilian contemporary poets. His production mixes several artistic languages, revealing connections with concretism and ethno-poetry. His first contact with
is the co-editor and co-author of the book »Transnational Organized Crime. Analyses of a Challenge for Democracy« (2013). For many decades she has explored the Amazon region. Her approach with respect to the spreading of organized crime has, thus, been influenced by the criminalization of informal life worlds as a
Reinaldo Moraes was born in São Paulo in 1950. Graduated in Management, he is a writer, translator and screenwriter. His debut in literature took place in 1981, when he published »Tanto faz« (tr: Whatever), which today is considered an 80’s classic. »I think it (that finding him in these days)
Raquel J. Palacio is a pseudonym for the American graphic artist, publisher and author Raquel Jaramillo, which to date has only been used for the publication of her first novel, »Wonder« (2012). Palacio studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro and raised in the USA, is a Brazilian writer and art historian. Two of his works deal with the life story of his great-grandfather Hugo Simon, which also led him to Berlin, where he has lived since 2012. Other works deal with the
Péter Farkas was born in 1955 in Budapest. He studied literature, history and teaching at the Pedagogical Academy there. However, in an autobiographical retrospective, he later spoke of what he learned there as »suppressed, distorted and paternalistic-fascist«. His ambition to become a writer was just as ingrained as his mistrust
Pepe Ribas was born in 1952 in Barcelona, where he also studied law later. In 1974 he founded the independent journal “ajoblanco” (“white garlic”), one of the most influential cultural magazines in the Spanish-speaking world. It was a legendary publication in the times of the “transición”. Young democrats had to
Per Olov Enquist was born in the northern Swedish town of Hjoggböle in 1934. He went on to study literature at Uppsala University. During his studies, he wrote for numerous newspapers as a literary and theatre critic. He later worked as a columnist, moderator and reporter. He made his own
born in Berlin in 1963 in Berlin, »Auge« (tr.: The eye) has written and produced comics since 1987. He is an integral part of the comic industry in Berlin. In 1991 he was a co-founder of Germany’s unique comic library »Renate«. His works have appeared in numerous journals and independent
Paulo Scott was born in Porto Alegre in 1966. He grew up in a working class neighbourhood and started to write poetry in 1979. As a young adult he got involved in movements in the defence of human rights. At university, Scott was an active member of the student political
Patrick Deville was born in 1957 in Saint-Brévin. He studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Nantes. After finishing his studies he became a cultural attaché in the Persian Gulf and two years later he travelled for longer periods of time to Algeria, Nigeria, Marocco, Cuba, Uruguay and
