Amanda Michalopoulou is one of Greece's most successful and productive young writers. She has published six novels, two short story collections, a collection of e-mail correspondence and many children books.

The entire panoply of post-modernism is present in her prose; intertextual references, narrators who introduce and comment on other narratives, the inclusion of other texts purportedly taken from articles and stories within stories. Her novels explore the role of the writer, the influence of the past, the reliability of the text. Despite unconventional structures and her penchant for the surreal her books address the traditional subject matter of the novel, that is the arena of the heart.

Michalopoulou has received the literary award of Revmata magazine for her short story «Life is colourful out there» (1994) and the Diavazo literary award for her highly acclaimed novel «Wishbone memories»(1996). Prominent critics describe her books as «ingenious, kaleidoscopic delightful novels writen with fervor and technique» and «colorful iridescent literary games». Her novels have been published in English, German, Italian, Swedish, her short stories also in English, French, Serbian, Russian, Spanish, Katalan, Korean and Czech.

Michalopoulou won the International Literature Prize by National Endowment for the Arts, USA, for the American translation of her book "I'd like". Her last novel, ""How to Hide" was published in 2010.

In 2004 she was a DAAD Fellow in Berlin, Germany. She has been in various writers residencies such as Solitude in Germany, La Napoule in France, Edward Albee Foundation, Blue Mountain Center and Djerassi in USA.

Zac O' Yeah is a Swedish writer born in Finland, and currently living in India. His fiction and nonfiction – which includes the genres of detective and thriller fiction, cultural travelogues, history and biography – draws deeply on his cross-cultural influences and his travels across the globe.

Zac started out working at an avant-garde theatre in Gothenburg – the harbor town setting for his futuristic cult detective novel Once Upon A Time in Scandinavistan (Hachette India 2010; originally published as Tandooriälgen in 2006). He also toured in Europe with a pop group, until he retired early at the age of 25 and went to India.

He has taught creative writing, published literary criticism in major Swedish and Indian newspapers, and translated and introduced Indian writers such as Pankaj Mishra and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee to Swedish readers. He has traveled widely – from Iceland to southern Africa, San Francisco to Sydney. He has slept in caves in the Himalayas, lectured in Zimbabwe and caught pneumonia in Bethlehem.

Zac O'Yeah has written twelve books in Swedish, many of them important bestsellers – such as the Gandhi biography Mahatma! which was short-listed for the prestigious August Prize 2008 for best nonfiction book of the year.

Forthcoming in the winter of 2012/2013 is the exotic new thriller Mr. Majestic! (Swedish title: Operation Sandalwood), the first in a quartet set in India. He is also involved as a screenwriter in a vegetarian horror movie project.

Books by Zac O'Yeah have been published in translation in English, Danish and Norwegian. Over the years, he's been awarded several stipends and fellowships by the Swedish Authors' Fund, and the Swedish Artists' Fund. He was most recently Writer-in-Residence at the Artur Lundkvist House (Sweden), and this year he is part of the Shanghai Writers' Program, China. He is married to the Indian novelist and poet Anjum Hasan.

Zarko Milenic was born on January 14th 1961 on Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated Economy college (Foreign Trade) in Belgrade on 1987th. After it he moved to Osijek in Croatia and worked as free lancer journalist. Since beginning of 1999th he lived in Rijeka (Croatia) and worked as free lancer journalist and editor in literary magazine "Knjizevna Rijeka" (Literary Rijeka) and editor for books of foreign authors in Croatian Writers Society in Rijeka. From 2006 he lives in Brcko and Scelkovo (near Moscow) in Russia. He is novelist, dramatist, critic and poet. He is main editor of the literary magazine "Rijec" (Word) from Brcko. He is member of Bosnian and Croatian Writers Association. As writer and translator he was participant of festivals, congresses and literary readings in Moscow, Erevan, Berlin, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tetovo (Macedonia) etc.

Svetla Georgieva. graduated from the Sofia Arts Academy specializing in Graphic Arts, she is now a memeber of Bulgarian Writers' Association, Bulgarian Artists' Association and European Cultural Council. She published three collections of poems, respectively in 1997, 2001, and 2005; meanwhile, she also published her short stories in newspapers. She published a collection of short stories Letters from Africa in 2007, a collection of poem Stelle e Malerbe in 2009, which was translated into Italian, and a collection of short stories The Fan in 2011, which was translated into English. She will publish a new collection of short stories in 2012. Svetla Georgieva composes and performs songs based on her own poems. Ms. Georgieva has worked in the area of graphic arts and graphic design; she is an author of several frescoes, mosaics, book layouts and designs. Her pieces are owned by numerous art galleries – the National Fine Art Gallery in Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery, most of the regional city galleries in Bulgaria and are a part of numerous private collections in Bulgaria and abroad.

Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria in 1959 where she lives and works as literary translator from English, French and German. She has lived and worked a literary translator in Köln, Germany and in Brussels, Belgium. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in France, Germany, Japan, Canada, UK, USA, Australia, Slovenia, Argentina, Iran, Russia, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, South African Republic, Vietnam, Norway, India, Nepal, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Nigeria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, New Zeeland, Northern Ireland, Albania, and Macedonia, altogether 30 countries in the world. Zdravka Evtimova's short story "Vassil" was one of the 10 award winning stories in the BBC world-wide short story competition 2005. In was broadcast by Radio BBC UK in February 2006； Short story "It Is Your Turn" was one of the ten award winning story, which after a world-wide competition was included in the anthology "Dix auteurs du monde entier" (Ten Writers from All over the world' In Nantes, France, 2005. Zdravka Evtimova has translated more than 20 novels by American, English and Australian authors – whose work has won major literary prizes -into Bulgarian including the Nebula prize winning science fiction novels "Red Mars" by K.S. Robinson, etc.

Petter Lidbeck is a Swedish writer who began his writing career after adopting a Chinese girl, has written over 40 books, mostly for children, but recently also for adults. The latest one is translated to English and has been published in Taiwan this year.

Mirko Bonné, Germany writer, He not only translated the poetry of such poets as Edward Easterlin Cummings, William Butler Yeats and Robert Creeley, but also published his own novels Young Ford（1999）， A Slow Fall,（2002），The Icy Sky（2006），How We Disappeared （2009）and four collections of poems, among which the latest one is The Republic of Silver Culter fish（2008）. Awards won include Wolfgang-Weyrauch Prize (2001), Ernst-Willner Prize (2002), Förderungspreis zum Kunstpreis Berlin (2004), Prix Relay du roman d'Evasion (2008), Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik (2008). He won New York Scholarship of the German Literature Fund in 2007.