Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied literature and humanities at the university there before leaving his home country in 2007. In 2009/2010 he was City Writer of Graz, where he has lived ever since. He works at the
Barbi Marković, born in 1980 in Belgrade, studied German Studies in Belgrade and Vienna. In Belgrade, she worked as an editor at Rende Publishing House. She has been living in Vienna since 2006, and in 2011/2012, she was the city writer in Graz. In 2009, she made a splash with
Gerald Knaus, born in Austria in 1970, is an expert in international politics, having studied in Oxford, Brussels, and Bologna. He has held a lectureship in economics at the State University of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and is a regular lecturer on Southeast Europe at the NATO Defence College in Rome. He
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born in 1982 to a farming family in Kirchdorf an der Krems and grew up in Eberstalzell, Upper Austria. He studied agriculture, history, and international development in Vienna. He made his debut with the novel »Der lange Gang über die Stationen« [tr: The Stations of the Long
born in Graz in 1989. She has published two novels as well as several pieces for literary magazines and radio. She has also produced texts for the theatre and for film. Numerous awards and literary scholarships, most recently a government scholarship awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the
Thomas Macho, born in Vienna in 1952, is a cultural scholar and philosopher. In 1984, he completed his postdoctoral lecturer thesis »On the Metaphors of Death« at the Universität Klagenfurt. He was Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 1993 to 2016. Since 2016, he runs the
was born in 1983, lives in Innsbruck. Writes short stories and prose as well as slam poetry and art reviews. His texts have been published in several literary journals (e.g. DUM, Kolik, Lichtungen, The Gap). He won the Austrian National Poetry Slam (Ö-Slam) in 2008 and is one of the
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
Sarah Michaela Orlovský was born in Linz in 1984 and has been publishing picture, read-aloud, beginners, children’s, and young adult books since 2012.Her first book, the young adult novel »Status: Karibik«, co-authored with Elisabeth Etz, was published in 2012. Her debut novel »Tomaten mögen keinen Regen« (2013; tr: Tomatoes Don’t
Sabine Gruber, the daughter of German-speaking parents, was born in 1963 in Meran, South Tyrol and grew up in Lana. She published her first literary texts while still studying German literature, history and political science in Vienna and Innsbruck. The author’s multifaceted oeuvre, which has won many prizes, now comprises
Ruth Klüger was born in Vienna in 1931 as the daughter of a Jewish doctor. Her childhood was affected by her experiences of anti-Semitism and the exclusion of Jewish people from public life in the city of her birth. Her father fled from the Nazis to France, but was unable
Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. His Jewish father was one of the last child refugees evacuated to England in 1938, and returned to Vienna after the war. Menasse studied German, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and completed his doctorate in 1980 with a
