The writer, screenwriter and playwright Patrícia Melo was born in Assis in the Brazilian state of São Paulo in 1962. She moved to the capital in 1978 and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She then worked as a scriptwriter for various
born in Paris in 1948, is a novelist and essayist. He studied philosophy at a number of institutions, including the Sorbonne, and earned his doctorate under Roland Barthes. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Académie Goncourt, which annually awards France’s most important literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a doctorate in cultural studies, a master’s degree in ethics, and a bachelor’s degrees in feminist studies and law. Her research interests include black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, gender and sexual violence, and philosophy
Finnish-Kosovar writer Pajtim Statovci was born in 1990. He was two years old when his family emigrated from Kosovo to Finland to avoid political unrest. Statovci studied comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, where he is pursuing his doctorate, as well as dramatic writing at the Aalto School of
Ottessa Moshfegh was born in Boston in 1981, the daughter of an Iranian violinist and a Croatian violist and grew up in Newton. She studied English and creative writing at Barnard College from 1998 to 2002, and completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Brown University from 2009 to
Oriol Canosa was born in Tarragona, Catalonia in 1975. He is a bookseller and children’s book author, which are, according to his own statement »two very lucrative occupations that have enabled him to amass a small fortune that makes him one of the ten richest people on his landing.« His
Olivier Guez, born in Strasbourg in 1974, is a French writer. He graduated from Sciences Po Strasbourg and earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and the Collège dʼEurope in Bruges. As a journalist, he has written for »Le Monde«, »Le Point«, »FAZ«, »New York Times«, and
Olga Ravn, born 1986 in Copenhagen, studied at the Copenhagen Writers Academy Forfatterskolen and is now a novelist, poet, editor, and a translator for various authors, including Joan Didion.Beginning in 2008, Ravn’s poems began appearing in various Danish literary journals. In 2012, she published her debut, the poetry collection »Jeg
is a Philosopher and a Professor at European College of Liberal Arts in Belarus (ECLAB). Her latest book ’The Face of the Revolution is Female’ was published recently.
Nora Bossong was born in Bremen in 1982. She studied cultural studies, philosophy, and literature in Leipzig and Potsdam, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at La Sapienza in Rome. She completed her studies with a master’s thesis on the element of evil in David Lynch’s works.Her début novel »Gegend«
born in 1999. raised in a small village called Mauern (literally translates to „brick-laying“), which actually does have a small wall in it. After that, she spent a year studying Ethnology in Leipzig and took part in some public readings. She also worked for the local radio station Mephisto 97.6.
born in Glasgow in 1964, holds a doctorate in history. After studying at Oxford University, he taught there, at New York University, and at Harvard University. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior faculty fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
