Janne Teller, born in 1964 in Copenhagen, is an acclaimed Danish novelist with Austrian and German roots. After graduating in political economy in 1988, and before focusing solely on her writing from 1995, she worked for United Nations and the European Union with conflict resolution, humanitarian assistance and development in
born 1963, has a doctorate as a Historian of Religion with a concentration on Islam. From 2005 to 2008 he worked at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute. He was head of the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Cairo and since 2008 has taught as a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and
Inger Christensen was born in Vejle, Denmark in 1935. She initially studied medicine but then trained to be a teacher, and from 1963 to 1964 she worked at the College for Arts in Holbæk. After that she opted for the life of a freelance writer. Although she has also written
Frank Langmack was born in 1976. The Danish beatbox poet tours with his literary performance all over Europe. In 2000 he founded the poetry collective Words on Wheels. In 2012 he represented the Danish Spoken Word scene at the Poetry Slam World Cup in Bobigny. Frank Langmack is an independent
born in Copenhagen in 1958. Rose was a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington, D.C., and became the head of the culture and entertainment section of the Danish daily »Jyllands-Posten« in 2004. In 2010 Rose published »Tyranny of Silence«, a collection of essays on the controversy resulting from the Mohamed
The well-known slam poet and spoken word activist has been performing at and hosting local events, especially in the Copenhagen slam scene, since the turn of the millennium. He initiated the organisation of Danish slam poets in teams in 2003. He also hopes, thanks to his contacts and cooperation with
