Herkunft: United Kingdom
Sabaa Tahir
was born in the Mojave Desert, California, into a family running an eighteen-room motel. Immersed in an environment of fantasy novels, comic books, and music, her affinity for literature took root early on. Her educational journey led her to a career as a newspaper editor where she worked night shifts,
Siamak Herawi
was born in 1968, in Herat. There he received his primary education at Amir Dost Mohammad Khan High School and continued at Habibie High School in Kabul. In 1984, Herawi started his higher education at the Faculty of Language and Literature of Kabul University. A scholarship led him to Stavropol
Katja Hoyer
born in 1985 in Guben, studied history at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. Hoyer is a Global Opinions columnist for »The Washington Post« and regularly contributes to British newspapers such as »The Spectator«,
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
was born in 1980 in Trinidad and Tobago, where she grew up. She published her literary debut novel »When We Were Birds« in 2023, which was honored as the winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. In addition to
