Between other awards he has been granted: -Pinos Nuevos to the book El hombre que vendió el mundo (The man who sold the world, 2000); -Luis Rogelio Nogueras to the book Bronceado de luna (Moon tan, 2002); -Félix Pita Rodríguez to Días de lluvia (Rainy days, 2003); -Calendario of fiction to the book Rayo de luz (Ray of light, 2003); -Calendario of science-fiction to La carne luminosa de los gigantes (The luminous flesh of giants, 2007); -José Antonio Echevarría to the book La noche de un duro día (A hard day?s night, 2004);

Benny Barbash was born in Beersheva, Israel, in 1951, and currently lives in Tel Aviv. He served in the IDF for 11 years and sustained serious injuries in the Yom Kippur War. Barbash holds a BA in history from Tel Aviv University.To date, he has published three novels. He has also written plays and screenplays, including the script for Beyond the Walls, a landmark in Israeli cinema which won several international prizes. Barbash has received the ADAI-WIZO Prize (Italy, 2006) and the "Public`s Favorite" Prize for My First Sony (Paris, 2008).

Tina Uebel, writer, freelance journalist, literary activist and impressario, poetry slam MC and ex-publisher, has been a major protagonist of the young Hamburg literary scene since 1993. Born in 1969, she has studied illustration/graphic design at the College of Applied Arts. 1993 she founded together with a small group of friends the no-budget press "Edition 406", which in 1998 received the annual Prize for Ambitious Publications by the Cultural Department of the City of Hamburg.

Writer, literary critic and university professor. Her specialty has been Latin American and Caribbean Literatures. She graduated in 1974 with a Degree in Hispanic Languages and Literature at the University of Havana. She completed her Ph.D. in Literary Science in 1992. She is currently Senior Professor of the Department of Cuban Studies at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana. She has taught at various foreign universities, among them: the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; the International University Menendez y Pelayo, Spain; La Sapienza University in Rome; the University of Verona, Italy; the University Blaise Pascal, France

Klil Zisapel , Born 1976, Zisapel is part of a new generation of authors that have begun to publish in the nineties. Egli Zeha va Dema , a novella, was published on Ha Me-orer (Autumn, 1998). It was later published by Keter Publishing house on its own, and in Russian translation as part of anthology of Hebrew stories by the Institution for translation of Hebrew Literature, (2002) compromising works by authors beginning from the pre-statehood of Israel and up till nowadays. the first novel, Malhach Basar Va Dam,(Keter Publishing house, 1998)

Attila Bartis was born in Marosvásárhely (Tirgu Mures, Transsylvania, Romania) in 1968. He has written 4 books and 2 plays. The novel "Tranquility" has been translated into Chinese in 2010. He has won many scholarships including Zsigmond Móricz literary stipendiary (1995), Soros literary stipendiary(1996), National Cultural Fund literary stipendiary (1997, 1999, 2003), József Pécsi photographic stipendiary (1998, 1999, 2001), Péter Hajnóczy literary stipendiary (2000), István Örkény stipendiary for playwrighting (2002), Szigligeti Theatre (Szolnok) stipendiary for playwrighting (2005)

Birgitta Lindqvist studied at the university of Uppsala and Stockholm and finished her Master of Arts in 1969 in Scandinavian and English litterature. Her first book in 1986 was a collection of Poetry called "Indivisibility" . Then came "The third power" also a collection of Poetry. After that she wrote three children´s books: "Emilia and the chicken" , "Emilia and love" , "Emilia and the sea". Her most important an well known works in Sweden are her five collections of short stories: "Fireproof bowl" 1990, "Chinese box" 1997, "Through the gate" 2000, "Dancer of tango" 2002.