born in 1964 in Berlin, wrote her doctoral thesis on contemporary Latin American and German authors. Was a visiting lecturer at Tübingen and Bogotá. Has translated the works of García Lorca, Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, Marías, Cervantes, and others, since 1992. Is the recipient of the Spanish Embassy Translation Prize (2005),
born in 1959, has been the district administrator of Dahme-Spreewald since 2008. After apprenticing as a railway technician, Loge completed a distance learning course with the Ingenieurschule für Transportbetriebstechnologie. Since 2008, Loge has been a member of the Bundes-SGK (Federal Executive Board of the Social-Democratic Association for Communal Politics) and
Stella Gaitano was born in Khartoum, Sudan in 1979. Her family comes from South Sudan. She studied pharmacy at Khartoum University. She has said that she started writing stories while she was still at primary school. Among the authors who have influenced her, Gaitano cites the Sudanese At-Tayyib Salih, as
born in 1987, studied literature at the Sorbonne, and was the spokeswoman for a feminist initiative. Travels to Myanmar, Bangladesh and Afghanistan inspired Chalvon to write and work as a freelance journalist in places such as Kabul and Abidjan, where she lived until recently. In April 2015 she joined the
Simon van der Geest was born in Gouda, the Netherlands, in 1978 and completed a degree in Theater at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnheim. While at university, he directed and acted in plays, and also discovered just how much fun it was to write for the theater.
born in Hamburg in 1950, is a literary and cultural science scholar. She held academic posts in Hamburg, Essen, Zurich, Potsdam, Princeton and was the director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin from 1999 to 2015. She has published on authors such as Heine, Freud, Warburg,
born in 1973, studied literature and media studies at the University of Iceland. Besides working as a poet and writer, she also wrote for a major daily newspaper for many years. Thrastardóttir’s first collection of poems »Blálogaland« (tr. The land of blue flames) appeared in 1999. Since then she has
born in 1988 in Hermeskeil, Germany, studied creative writing and arts journalism in Hildesheim. Her debut »Nachts ist es leise in Teheran« (2016; tr. At night it’s quiet in Tehran), tells the story of an Iranian family and their emigration to Germany. Bazyar works as an educational visor for young
Shumona Sinha, born in Calcutta in 1973, grew up in a family of academics and literary enthusiasts. She began writing while still in her teens and was named Best Young Poet in Bengal in 1990. In 2001, she moved to Paris to study literature at the Sorbonne, and also worked
The British writer and journalist, Sharon Dodua Otoo, was born in 1972 in London to Ghanaian parents. She studied German and Management Studies at the Royal Holloway College, University of London until 1997. In 2006 she relocated to Germany. In 2012 she published her first novella, titled »the things i
born in 1965, is an Austrian writer, arts and cultural manager, communications coach, and behavioral trainer. To date, he has published five volumes of poetry and one novel. Since 2000, Insayif has worked with musicians, dancers and visual artists on a range of different interdisciplinary art performance projects, and also
born in 1984 in Sri Lanka, studied philosophy, Protestant theology and cultural studies in Marburg, Berlin and London. His debut novel »Von der Zunahme der Zeichen« (tr. The accretion of signs), published in spring 2016, is a fictitious facebook conversation between two students, who were not born in Germany. Varatharajah
