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
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-
Mike Shuttleworth is Program Manager of the Melbourne Writers Festival, which was founded in 1986 and hosted the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference in 2013. He studied Journalism at the Western Australian Institute of Technology and has been a dedicated mediator of literature in different positions, among others as a critic,
Milena Baisch was born in Bochum in 1976 and grew up in Wuppertal. From 1998 to 2000 she attended the Drehbuchakademie (Script Academy) of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (Germany Film and Television Academy) in Berlin. She has been active as an author since the mid-1990s and to date has
born in Recklinghausen, she studied English, Spanish, and French literature in Cologne. In Bonn, she completed her PhD with a dissertation on Gabriel García Márquez and the new Latin American novel. From 1974 to 2008, she was the head of the Spanish and Latin American literature section at Suhrkamp Verlag,
born in New York City in 1939. Michael S. Cullen studied Russian language and literature, philosophy, history and music at Brooklyn College and the FU Berlin. He has been an interpreter, translator, radio editor, and language teacher. Many publications give evidence of his extensive exploration of the history of the
