Oya Baydar was born in 1940 in Istanbul, Turkey. She went to Notre Dame de Sion, a French private school in Istanbul. Inspired by French writer Françoise Sagan, she published her first novel while still a student in school. She attended Istanbul University and graduated in 1964 with a degree
born in East Berlin in 1965, OL was trained as an offset printer and worked as copper printer with the National Art Trade of the GDR. Since 1990 he has produced numerous matchstick man cartoons for »Kowalski«, »Die Zeit«, »zitty«, »Tip«, »Berliner Zeitung«, »Jungle World«, and other media. He also
Norbert Scheuer was born in 1951 in Prüm, which is located in the Westeifel area of the region of Rhineland-Palatinate. While attending evening school, he completed an apprenticeship as an electrician. After that, he studied Physical Engineering in Iserlohn. At the University of Dusseldorf, he completed a second course of
born in Berlin in 1986, is a comic artist and illustrator who studied at the University of Art and Design in Halle an der Salle. Their graphic novel debut »Im Land der Frühaufsteher« (tr: In the Land of the Early Risers) focuses on the living conditions of refugees in Saxony-Anhalt.
Nils Fabian Brunschede, born in Bochum in 1991, is living in Frankfurt/Main, where he is taking General and Comparative Literary Studies. In 2006 he was the winner at the Treffen junger Autoren, and at the Junges Literaturforum Hessen-Thuringia. This year he has published prose and poetry in the literary journals
Nina Verheyen studied modern and ancient history as well as sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin. During her Erasmus scholarship at the University of Rome III, she took a course in film studies. Her Master’s thesis »Burghers as fathers. On the presentation of
Nicolas Mahler was born in Vienna in 1969 and has made a name for himself as teh creator of satirical comics and cartoons, and as an illustrator. Since the late 1990s he has produced around 30 books in German, which have also been published in France, North America, among other
Nemonie Craven Roderick is a literary agent in London and the co-editor of the PEN Award winning anthology Writing Revolution – The Voices from Tunis to Damascus (2013). She has written for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory and other publications.
Mohsin Hamid was born in Lahore in 1971. He spent part of his childhood in the USA, where his father worked at Stanford University. After the family returned to Pakistan, he attended Lahore American School, afterwards studying at Princeton University, where Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, among others, were
Mirjam Pressler was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1940 and grew up with foster parents and in children’s homes. After studying visual arts and languages in Frankfurt and Munich she spent a year in Israel on a kibbutz. Back in Germany, she worked at different jobs. She did not start
Mohamed Mesrati was born in Tripoli, Libya, in 1990. Due to political activities, his parents had to leave the country, when he was a child. He has lived in London ever since. Mesrati is a writer and an activist. Excerpts from his novel Mama Pizza have been published by Banipal-
