V. V. Ganeshananthan grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the M.A. program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in arts and culture journalism. She writes short stories, essays, poems, and novels. She is the author of »Love
Valentina Tamer is a game designer, writer and artist from Hamburg-based video game developer Daedalic Entertainment. She is assistant creative lead as well as game designer and co-author for the adaptation of Ken Follett’s medieval world-bestseller “The Pillars of the Earth”. She received a Bachelor of Science in game design
Valeria Parrella was born in 1974 in Torre del Greco. After studying languages at the University of Naples and going on to obtain a PhD in linguistics from that same institution, she specialized in sign language interpreting until difficult labor market conditions resulted in her becoming unemployed. She then started
born in 1967, studied German Literature, English Literature and History in Munich. He went to the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1992, completing his PhD in 1997 supervised by W. G. Sebald on »Die Archive des Schweigens« (tr. The archives of silence) by Austrian author Gerhard Roth. Schütte
is a German neuroscientist and his research focuses are stroke, cerebral blood flow regulation and brain imaging. Since 1999, he is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the Charité in Berlin and founding director of the QUEST Center (Center for Transforming Biomedical Research) of the Berlin Institute of Health. He is
Ulrich Woelk was born in 1960 in Bonn and grew up in Cologne. From 1980 to 1987 he studied physics and philosophy in Tübingen, earned his PhD in 1991 with a dissertation on »White Dwarfs in Close Binary Star Systems«, and worked until 1995 as an astrophysicist at TU Berlin
Tom Cooper was born in 1974 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His short stories have appeared in »Oxford American« magazine, the »Mid-American Review« and »Gulf Coast«, among other publications, and have been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. His first novel »The Marauders« (2015) steers the reader through the labyrinth
Tomas Venclova was born in the Lithuanian harbour city of Klaipéda (formerly Memel) in 1937. He studied Lithuanian Language and Literature and Russian Literature in Vilnius. During longer abodes in Moscow (1961–1965) and Leningrad (1969–1972) he met other writers and dissidents, and became an activist in the civil rights movement.
Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since, teaching literary translation at the University of Milan. Parks has published over fifteen novels, numerous essays, short stories and academic
born in 1960 in Darmstadt, is a German paleontologist and vice-president of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft. He studied geology and paleontology in Mainz and Tübingen, and completed his doctorate in 1991 in Bonn with a thesis on the enamel microstructure of fossil rodents. From 1992 to 1993 he was a postdoctoral
born in 1956, is a German science journalist and astrophysicist. He studied physics in Göttingen and Heidelberg, where he completed his doctoral degree at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in 1986. In 1990, he started to work as a free author and science journalist, among others for the »Süddeutsche Zeitung«, the
born in 1968, is a German author and journalist. From 1990-1996, Thielke worked for »Spiegel TV« and then switched to »Spiegel«, where he worked in different departments for a while before moving to Nairobi as a reporter in 2003. Subsequently, he became a correspondent in Bangkok. Since 2013, he and
