born in 1951 in Solingen, is a doctor of romance studies. She leads seminars at different universities on Spanish and Latin American literature as well as on literary translation with a focus on poetry. For several years she has worked as a freelance translator of Spanish and Latin American literature.
Petina Gappah is a writer and lawyer who was born in Zambia and raised in Zimbabwe. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe and at Cambridge, and completed her doctorate at the University of Graz. An international lawyer specializing in the World Trade Organization, most recently, she worked for
born in Würzburg in 1974; studied political science in Belfast and Berlin. He received a PhD in war studies from King’s College London, where he is currently professor of security studies and where he was the director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization from 2008 until 2018.
born in 1954, is an economist, and professor of economics at the University of Würzburg. He studied economics at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in 1984 on monetary competition and qualified as a professor in 1990. Bofinger has been a member of the
Paul McVeigh was born in the Northern Irish capital of Belfast. He studied theater and was a cofounder of an award-winning theater troupe for which he both wrote and directed plays. After moving to London McVeigh wrote comedy shows, which were staged at the Edinburgh Festival and in London’s West
Patrick Kingsley, born 1989, is an international correspondent for The New York Times, based in Berlin. He previously covered migration and the Middle East for The Guardian. He was named Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year at the 2015 British Journalism Awards, and is the author of two books: »How
Pankaj Mishra was born in the northern Indian town of Jhansi in 1969. After studying commerce at the University of Allahabad, he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He began to write reviews for newspapers such as »The Indian
Özge Samanci was born in Izmir, Turkey. She started drawing comics at a young age and soon went on to publish comics for a weekly Turkish satirical magazine. After studying film and television at Istanbul Bilgi University, she travelled to the United States to earn a master’s degree in communication
Olivia Vieweg was born in Jena, Germany, in 1987 and created her first short comics as part of the »Germangaka« scene, a German comic-book style heavily influenced by Japanese manga. While studying visual communications at Bauhaus University Weimar, she indulged her passion for drawing (cartoons of) Persian cats, which resulted
Noura Al-Khoori was born in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1982. Even before she could read, she enjoyed listening to stories told by her parents. Indeed, the passing on of fables and tales is an integral part of the culture in many Arab countries, and Al-Khoori’s family was no
born in 1948 in Bochum, Germany. He is a Christian Democratic Union politician, and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1980 and the president of the German Bundestag since 2005. He studied political science, sociology, modern history and social economics in Oxford and Bochum, where he has
Nir Baram was born in Jerusalem in 1976. His father held two different ministerial roles under Yitzhak Rabin, which meant that Baram grew up in a liberal, left-wing political environment. He studied Hebrew literature at the University of Tel Aviv and today works as a publisher and editor at the
