born in 1985 in New York, is a writer, literary critic, and scholar. She studied the history of religion at Harvard Divinity School. Her essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as »The New York Review of Books«, »Harper’s«, and the »New York Times«. Her volume »Accidental Gods« [2021]
Sarah M. Broom was born as the youngest of twelve siblings in New Orleans in 1979. She studied anthropology and mass communications at the University of North Texas and then completed a master’s degree in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She began her career as a newspaper journalist
is originally from Davis, California, and lives in Berlin. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches creative writing, most recently at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and at Bard College Berlin. She has received a work stipend for non-German literature from the Berlin Senate and was included in
was born in West Virginia in 1990. She studied English at Yale and subsequently worked in Berlin as a freelance editor. In 2015, she moved back to the USA to work for the now-defunct website »Broadly«, a vertical of Vice.com, which focused on gender and identity. Her essays and reviews
Zheng Chouyu was born in Jinan in Shandong Province in 1933 and grew up in Beijing. He is the son of a high-ranking military officer, a background that deeply influences his work which only on first sight seems to be of a purely lyrical nature; neither are his political leanings
Zakes Mda , full name Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda, was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948. His father, Ashby P. Mda, was an anti-Apartheid activist, a founding member and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. In the 1960’s, his father was imprisoned and the
born in Moscow in 1988, studied German philology and history in Berlin and earned her doctorate in Münster. She was awarded, among others, the Berlin Senate’s work stipend, the GWK Prize for Literature, as well as scholarships of the Brecht House, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the master class of the
The Chinese-American author Ying Chang Compestine was born in 1963 in Wuhan in the People’s Republic of China and grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Her family was considered »bourgeois«, a socio-economic class shunned by the new government, so the Red Guard seized her family’s belongings and jailed her
was born to a Swiss father and Tibetan mother in Bern in 1980. After studying at drama school there, she appeared in various roles in the theatre and television before making her Hollywood début in 2005. She is very involved in the movement to free Tibet. In her first work,
The Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi was born in 1989 in Mampong, a small town in the Ashanti region that functioned as the residence of the Kings of Ashanti in tandem with the city of Kumasi. Her family moved to the US in 1991 after Gyasi’s father received his doctorate from
Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, western Nigeria, in 1934. Following Literature and Drama Studies in Nigeria (Ibadan) and England (Leeds) he worked at the London Royal Court Theatre as an actor and dramatic advisor, where he also wrote his first plays. In 1960 he returned to Nigeria, where he
William Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1924. He grew up in Ohio and served in the Marines during World War II. In 1954 he completed his degree in Philosophy at Kenyon College and at Cornell University with a doctorate on metaphor. Ever since, language, style and the
