The daughter of a Welsh mother and an Egyptian father grew up in Canada and studied Immunology. She was a scientific journalist for the »Economist« und al Jazeera, and Deputy Chairperson of the UN Global Commission on HIV. Her first book »Sex and the Citadel« was published in 2013. It
Shusha Guppy was born in Tehran into a traditional family. Her father was Iran’s foremost philopher and pr ofessor of Philosophy at the University of Teheran. At 17 she went to Paris to study Oriental languages and philosophy, and also trained as a singer. In her memoirs “A Girl in
The British writer and journalist, Sharon Dodua Otoo, was born in 1972 in London to Ghanaian parents. She studied German and Management Studies at the Royal Holloway College, University of London until 1997. In 2006 she relocated to Germany. In 2012 she published her first novella, titled »the things i
Sarah Crossan was born 1981 in Dublin and grew up in Ireland and England. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature from the University of Warwick in 1999, and trained as an English and Drama teacher at Cambridge University. Crossan subsequently taught at a small private school near
born in 1956 in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, left his home country in 1979. Nowadays Shimon lives in London. Shimon is a writer of short stories and poems as well as a publisher of anthologies. His debut novel »An Iraqi in Paris« (2005/2011) was highly praised by the critics. In the Arab
Salena Godden from London is a poet, radio announcer, performer and the singer of the ska-punk band »Saltpeter«. She has toured Australia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and the United States where she also worked with homeless children. She founded a radio poetry show called »saltpeter radio« and worked for the BBC
Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England in 1983. After school, she worked in a hospital in Japan and travelled around Australia and New Zealand. She then studied literature and philosophy at Warwick before moving to Bath. She wrote her debut novel »Ways to Live Forever« (2008) in a writing
Ruth Sophia Padel was born in London in 1946. She earned her doctorate in Greek at Oxford and then taught there from 1974 to 1984. Birkbeck College and Princeton were additional academic stations of this descendant of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Her first poetic work »Alibi« was followed by nine
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Romesh Gunesekera was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1954, where he also spent his early childhood. He grew up bilingual speaking English and Singhalese, the official language of Sri Lanka. His family moved from Sri Lanka to the Philippines before settling in London in 1972. Gunesekera studied English Literature
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born in 1938, is a former diplomat, development banker, and capital market development consultant. In 1958, he was stationed as an army officer in Hong Kong. He later served twice in the British Embassy in Beijing. He is the author of two books on China.
