Polish writer and playwright. She was 19 when her first best-seller novel, Snow white and Russian Red was published. Highly controversial, translated to over 20 languages, it won her critics acclaim and Paszport Polityki prize. Second novel brought her Nike...

　　Born in Turin (Italy) in 1984, where he currently lives. His first novel, Il grande animale, was published in 2016 by the publishing house Nottetempo (Premio Volponi Opera Prima). In 2018 his second book, A Personal Essay about Broken Hearts in literature, was published by Einaudi.

Novelist, poet and short story writer, and Professor of Fiction at Bath Spa University, UK. He studied fine art at Falmouth School of Art, and Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, later carrying out postgraduate research in the same subject at Manchester University.

Actress, singer and director for the theatre and author. In parallel with her work with directors, she writes her own theatre works. Her show, La Tranche, received the Belgian Press Prize in 2007. In 2006, she published her first novel. Her second novel has been finalist of the Belgian Rossel Prize and received the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013...

She lives in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of two collections of poetry The Damp In Things and The Way Home. She is a fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, 2009 and an awardee of the Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 2010.

Playwright, director, translator, essayist and teacher. Professionally active since 2001, Morales Muñoz has collected several awards for his work, like the 2015 Altair Tejeda de Tamez National Playwriting Award. He has attended artistic residencies in London, New York, San Diego, Buenos Aires and Bogotá, supported by the Lark Play Development Center New York...

Writer, playwright, screenwriter and cultural press collaborator. His stories were adapted as a movie, winning the Milano Film Festival in 2008. His works have been awarded numerous renowned prizes, such as: Winner of the 2006 Myriam Muniz National Theatre Prize .

Novelist，poet. Winner of the SEA Write Award in 2004 for a collection of poems, Reminiscence of the River. Between 2005 and 2008, Rewat Panpipat was poetry editor of the Khom Chat Luek daily newspaper. He occasionally serves as a judging panel member at some local literary contests.

Novelist and short stories writer. Graduated Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis and University of Psychotherapy and Neuropsychology. Since 2010 to 2017 worked in rehabilitation center for drug abused teenagers. In 2015 graduated Moscow Literature Institute and later graduated Master program “Creative Writing” in HSE University, Moscow.

Novelist. She earned an MA in East Asian philosophies at the University of London. Acclaimed by Garzanti Dictionary as “one of the most representative writers of the decade”, she was the youngest writer to be awarded the prestigious Campiello Opera Prima Award. Her debut book Settanta acrilico trenta lana was also awarded the Rapallo Carige Award, it was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and for the Strega Award and it was a bestseller in both Italy and in the US.

Novelist and literary editor. His first novel On the Occasion of Life was longlisted for The Arabic Booker Prize 2008 and his second novel The Book of Safety won the Sawiris Award for the best novel of an established writer. The novel was translated into English and won The Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize 2017. He is currently the managing editor of Akhbar al-Adab literary newspaper. He also worked as the managing director of a couple of cultural magazines.