Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981 while Somalia was falling deeper into dictatorship. In 1986 she moved to London with her family in what she thought was a temporary move but a couple of years later it became permanent as war broke out in Somalia. She was educated
Moon Chung-hee was born in Posŏng in 1947 and grew up in Seoul. Even as a schoolgirl, she won several prizes for her poems, which she already began publishing as a child. She was the first woman in Korea to publish her poetry independently. In addition, she received lessons from
Moa Romanova, born in 1992 and raised in Ångermanland, is a Swedish musician, artist, and comic author. She studied classical painting at the University of Fine Arts in Gothenburg and completed a training program at the Comic Art School in Malmö. For years, Romanova maintained a blog in which she
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,
Michael Wildenhain was born in West Berlin in 1958. He began studying industrial engineering in 1977, switched to philosophy in 1981, and then decided to pursue a degree in computer science in 1985. He has been a freelancer since his 1987 internship at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. His wide-ranging
Michael Maar was born in Stuttgart in 1960. He studied German and psychology at the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg and wrote his dissertation on Thomas Mann, which he published in 1996 as »Geister und Kunst. Nachrichten aus dem Zauberberg« (tr: Spirits and Art: News from the Magic Mountain) and for which
The Indian writer Meena Kandasamy was born in Tamil Nadu in 1984. She received her doctorate in sociolinguistics from Anna University, Chennai.She wrote her first poems at the age of 17 and published her first volume of poetry in 2006 under the title »Touch«. Even here, she tackled the themes
The Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, translator, and journalist Mazen Maarouf was born in Beirut in 1978 to Palestinian refugees who had fled Tel al-Zaatar at the start of the Lebanese civil war. He studied chemistry at the Lebanese University, after which he worked as a chemistry and physics teacher for several
born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal/Saxony in 1971, has been editor-in-chief of »Sinn und Form« since 2013. He has contributed to the »FAZ«, published the poems of Nelly Sachs (2010), and wrote »Peter Huchel. Leben in Bildern« (2018; tr: Peter Huchel: A Life in Pictures) and »Der verschwundene Zeuge. Das Kurze Leben des
Margus Lattik was born in Tallinn in 1973. He studied English Philology at the University of Tartu. During his stay in India from 2000 to 2003, he continued his education at the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education, which is located near the city of Mathura – from which he took
Norwegian writer and artist Matias Faldbakken was born in Hobro, Denmark, in 1973 and grew up in Hamar, Norway. Faldbakken studied at the Vestlandets Art Academy in Bergen between 1994 and 1998, including a year with Thomas Bayrle at the State University of Fine Arts – Städelschule in Frankfurt am
born in 1959, has been the director the strategic communications unit at Save the Children since 2016. The award-winning filmmaker, communications expert, and Africa expert has directed more than fifty reports and documentaries for public television and has subsequently held leading positions with Greenpeace and Welthungerhilfe. To commemorate the centenary
