Nina Polak is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Haarlem and studied Dutch, literary theory and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam and the New School in New York. As an editor she is affiliated with the online journalistic platform "De Correspondent". She also writes…

Mercedes Lauenstein was born in 1988 in Kappeln an der Schlei. She works as a freelance author, writing essays and articles for various newspapers and magazines. She lives in Munich. Her first book is entitled "Nachts".…

Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, a small village on the South Wales coast.  She holds a BA Hons in English with Creative Writing (1st class) and an MA in Creative Writing (distinction) from Swansea University. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.  In …

Ilaria Gaspari was born in Milan in 1986. At 18 she moved to Pisa to study philosophy at the Scuola Normale. She stayed in Pisa for five years, writing her BA dissertation on pantheism in German philosophy, and her MA on imagination in Spinoza. After that she moved to Paris where she wrote her docto…

Llŷr hails originally from Caernarfon in north-west Wales, and is now a lecturer in Welsh at Cardiff University. His research focuses on the poetry of the early twentieth century, and the works of T. Gwynn Jones and W. B. Yeats in particular.  He has won a number of poetry competit…

Marco Parlato was born in Vico Equense (Naples) in 1986. His first novel, "Tiroide", was published by Gorilla Sapiens Edizioni in 2014. He lives and writes in Rome, but swears he could do it elsewhere too . …

Elske Rahill grew up in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College. She is the author of two plays, "After Opium" and "How to be Loved". Her first novel "Between Dog and Wolf" was published by The Lilliput Press and her second novel is due to be published by them later this year.  She now live…

Born in Graz in 1989. She has published two novels as well as several pieces for literary magazines and radio. She has also produced texts for the theatre and for film. Numerous awards and literary scholarships, most recently a government scholarship awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Educ…

Florian Kessler was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1981, and now lives in Berlin. He studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim, where he later gained a doctorate in literary studies. As a freelance journalist, he writes for Die Zeit, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesspiege…

Jemma L King is a poet based in West Wales. She won the Terry Hetherington Young Writer of the Year Award in 2011 and her creative and academic work has been published internationally. King’s debut collection, The Shape of a Forest (Parthian), was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 201…

Luca Giordano was born in Moncalieri (Turin) in 1985. He received a diploma in Screenplay and Script Writing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. He is the author of various short films presented at festivals in Italy and abroad; these include "Hai in mano il …

 Laura Fidaleo was born in Formia in 1980. She has a degree in Italian literature and an MA in Drama. Tu non sai volare e io ti guardo, Edizioni Il Foglio, 2006 (poetry) Dammi un posto tra gli agnelli, Edizioni Nottetempo, 2012 (novel)…

Maarten Inghels is a poet, writer and coordinator of the Eenzame Uitvaart in Antwerp, a project in which poets compose verses for people who are buried alone, without family or friends. His debut collection Tumult appeared in 2008 as the seventeenth part of the Sandwich series, edited by Gerrit Kom…

Meirion Jordan grew up in Cwmllynfell in Wales and studied Mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford. He took the MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is in the process of completing a PhD there. His first collection of poetry, Moonrise, was published by Seren i…

  Felix Stephan was born in Berlin in 1983 and has studied Journalism and   Literature in Leipzig, Zurich und Hong Kong. His first novel Ach, Lorenz appeared   in 2010, published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag. Since 2011 he has been living in   Berlin, where he works as a free…

Francesca Scotti was born in 1981 in Milan, where she took a Law degree. She also graduated from the music conservatory and plays the cello. She is interested in Eastern culture and is currently living in Japan. In 2011 her collection of short stories Qualcosa di simile, which won the Renato Fucini …

Born in Cardiff, his family moved to Llangynog, near Carmarthen, when he was six years old. He taught himself the art of cynghanedd when he was thirteen with the aid of Myrddin ap Dafydd’s Clywed Cynghanedd. He has won awards in many Eisteddfods, from several Youth Chairs and the Literature Pr…

Antonia Baum was born in 1984 in Borken and has a degree in Literary Studies and History. At present she is doing a Master’s in Cultural Journalism at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has published a number of short stories (“Der Freitag” and “Zeit Online”). Vo…

Andrea Lundgren was born in 1986 in the town of Boden in northern Sweden, and she grew up in the nearby village of Vittjärv. During her school years her main interests were animals, making music, and having top marks in all her subjects. After upper secondary school she moved to Stockholm and j…

Susanne Heinrich was born in Leipzig in 1985. While still at school she founded her first band, did theatre work and took part in writing workshops. In 2004/2005 she studied at the German Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has received various awards for her literature and, among other things, …

Anna Lewis was born in 1984. She studied Archaeology at the University of Manchester and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. In 2010 she won the Orange/Harper’s Bazaar short story competition, and was highly commended in the Commonwealth short story competition. She has won sev…

Paolo Piccirillo was born in 1987 at Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the province of Caserta. After secondary school, he moved to Florence and later to Rome to study screenwriting.He was picked for Rai TV’s specialization course for scriptwriters (“XIII corso di perfezionamento per sceneggia…

Kallia Papadaki was born in Dideimoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied economics in the United States at Bard College and Brandeis University. Her short story collection The Back-Lot Sound (Polis Publishers, 2009), attracted warm critical reviews and won the New Writers Award fro…

Dora Albanese was born on 1st September 1985 in Matera, Lucania. After completing Secondary school in 2004 she moved to Rome where she studied Anthropology at La Sapienza University. She has written short stories and articles for magazines and newspapers both on paper and online. In 2009 Non dire…

Catrin Dafydd is a freelance writer. Her first novel Pili Pala (Gomer, 2006), reached the long list for the Welsh Book of the Year, 2006. Her first novel in English, entitled Random Deaths and Custard (Gomer, 2007), was short-listed for the ‘Books to talk about 2009’ award. She has recen…

I was born in Graz in 1982. I attended a scientific Gymnasium and after taking my Matura did voluntary work at an institute for the blind and visually impaired. In 2001, I began to write for various journals (including "Lichtungen" and "Manuskripte") and for Austrian public radio, at first mainly po…

Stefania Mihalache, born 15 August 1978, in Brashov, Romania: I graduated from the Literature Faculty of Brashov University with a Degree in Romanian and English. I made my literary debut with poems published in the Errata student magazine. I continued to publish poetry in literary and cultural mag…

Paul Brodowsky was born in Kielin 1980 and now lives in Berlin. He studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the Universityof Hildesheimand was the co-founder and, up to 2004, editor of the literary journal “BELLA triste”. Co-founder of the literature festival “PROSANOVA&…

Gabriele Dadati was born in Piacenza, Italy, in 1982. He published a book of short stories (Sorvegliato dai fantasmi, peQuod Editore, 2006; Barbera, 2008) which won the Dante Graziosi prize and was shortlisted as Book of the Year by the Radio 3 Rai Programme Fahrenheit. He also published two novels:…

Owen Martell was born in Exeter in 1976. After studying at Aberystwyth and Oxford Universities, he spent some time working as a reporter with the BBC. His first novel, Cadw dy ffydd, brawd, was Welsh Book of the Year in 2001. His second, Dyn yr Eiliad, was short-listed for the same prize in 200…

Céline Robinet was born in France in 1977. She has published two collections of short stories and among the many collective volumes featuring her work is an anthology of slam poetry in France. A writer, journalist, translator and spoken word performer, Céline Robinet struggles to give …

Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales in 1975, where he now lives and works. His first novel The Long Dry (Parthian, 2006) won a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors, and saw him nominated as the Hay Festival Scritture Giovani in 2008. The Long Dry has since been translated i…

Giovanni Montanaro, born in Venice in 1983, is a lawyer and a writer. He published his first novel in 2007, “La croce Honninfjord” (Marsilio), and won many awards including the Vittorini Award for debut novel. In 2009 he published his second novel, “Le conseguenze” (Marsilio)…

Thomas von Steinaecker was born in Traunstein (Bavaria) in 1977. He studied German, English and American Literature in Munich and Cincinnati. In 2006 he took his doctorate with a thesis on “Literary Photo-texts. On the Function of Photographs in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Alexander Kluge and W.G…

She was born in Bursa in 1984, raised in Istanbul. She went to Oruçgazi Elementary School and Pertevniyal Anatolian Highschool. In 2007, she graduated from the Journalism Department of Istanbul University, School of Communication. In 2003, she began working at the Aylık Paldır Kült&uum…

Eirik Ingebrigtsen, born in 1975, has studied at the writers' academy, Skrivekunstakademiet i Hordaland, and Literary Composition, Poetry and Prose at Gothenburg University. He also took Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. His first novel, Vesen, was published in 2001. This was …

Caryl Lewis was born in West Wales and received her education at Durham and Aberystwyth Universities. She is a full-time author and writes for children and adults. Her short novel Iawn Boi? won ‘Best Welsh Children’s Fiction’ in 2004 and her novel for adults Martha Jac a Sianco won…

Thorsten Palzhoff was born in Wickede in 1974 and now lives in Berlin. Before he received a scholarship from the Authors’ Workshop of the Berlin Literary Colloquium in 2005 he had not taken part in any writing workshops or published in any magazines. In 2006 his debut work “Tasmon”…

Chiara Valerio Formia winter 1978, since when I’ve been reading everything including other people’s shopping receipts, with bewilderment and a head full of washing up powder. And ensuing bubbles. Which I love but not in water. I wander, it’s my speciality, digress, take off, look e…

David Machado was born in Lisbon in 1978. In 2001 he was awarded a degree in Economics by the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão but after three years working with figures, he gave up to dedicate himself to writing on a full-time basis. He began by publishing short stories in the DN Jove…

Kirsten Fuchs was born inKarl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in 1977 and grew up inEast Berlin. After attending courses put on by the Writers’ Workshop – where she herself now teaches –  she studied German for several semesters and completed her training as a joiner. Two years after wi…

Gaute Heivoll, born in 1978, studied law, psychology and literature at university. He made his debut in 2002 with a collection of prose writings entitled Liten dansende gutt. The year after, the novel Omars siste dager appeared. Heivoll has received a number of scholarships and was awarded the Tiden…

Aneirin Karadog was born in Llanelwy (St Asaph) and raised in the valleys ofSouth Wales.  His Father hails fromWalesand his mother fromBrittany, and this has given him a great love for languages and literature.  Aneirin speaks five languages -  Welsh, Breton, French, Spanish as well a…

Ana Prieto Nadal was born in Barcelona in 1976. She obtained a degree in Classical Philology from the University of Barcelona in 1999 and subsequently undertook doctoral studies in Hispanic Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid. Her novel La matriz y la sombra, awarded the ‘Ojo Cr…

Cristiano Cavina was born in 1974 at Casola Valsenio, province of Ravenna. He grew up with his mother and maternal grandparents in “a meagre flat” on a housing estate. He dressed up as a pirate at carnival, wore himself out on the football pitch and pedalled kilometres and kilometres on …

Marco Archetti was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1976.From 2001 to 2003 he lived in Havana, where he wrote one of the three press reports that were published on the literary magazine "Nuovi Argomenti".After participating, with a short story, to the anthology Gli intemperanti (Meridiano zero, 2003), he …

Fflur Dafydd is a novelist from Carmarthen who publishes in both Welsh and English. Since publishing her first novel, Lliwiau Liw Nos in 2005, she has published 6 fiction volumes. Two of her Welsh-language novels, Atyniad (Y Lolfa, 2006) and Y Llyfrgell (Y Lolfa, 2009) have been awarded the major fi…

Gunnhild Øyehaug, born 1975, had her literary debut in 1998 with a collection of poems Slaven av blåbæret. Her second book, Knutar, a collection of short stories, appeared to massive critical acclaim in 2004; it was also nominated for the Brage prize (The Norwegian Publisher&rsquo…

Born 1974 in Potsdam, Antje Rávic Strubel majored in American and German literature at Potsdam University and New York University.  While in New York, she worked as a lighting technician at the Wings Theater.  She lives and works as an author and free-lance journalist in Berlin. She…

(b. 1974) – writer and journalist. He is the author of the stories Glass works (2005) as well as the novels The Street (2001), Sawmill (2003), Don’t Let It Be A Dream (2008) and Chronicle of the Death (2010). His texts are included in contemporary literature anthologies. Odija’s bo…

Ingeborg Arvola was born in Nordkapp county in 1974. She grew up in Tromsø, but has lived in Oslo in recent years. She is working on her MA in literature, is married to the illustrator Vidar Høyvang, and has a stepson who lives in Narvik.  Ingeborg Arvola’s literary debut w…

Valeria Parrella made her debut in 2003 with a collection of short stories, “Mosca più balena” (Minimum Fax), which won the First Work Campiello Prize.In 2005 she published another collection of short stories, “Per grazia ricevuta” (Minimum Fax), which was among t…

Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author and scriptwriter. He has published two poetry collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill which won a Somerset Maugham Award. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries, a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. Owen’s first nov…

Wolfram Gernot was born in 1975 in Zittau/Saxony. He studied German Philology and Communication Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. He works and lives as author and journalist in Berlin and Kufstein (Austria), where he is also a lecturer for Cultural Studies at the Kufstein University. He…

Bjarte Breiteig was born in Kristiansand, Norway, 1974. He studied physics at NTNU in Trondheim, but dropped out after two years to study literature at the same place. He has studied at the Skrivekunstakademiet and the University of Bergen. He now resides in Oslo.Published in 1998, Bjarte Breiteig's…

Richard John Evans lives and works in Cardiff. His first novel, Entertainment (Seren, 2000) was set in his hometown, Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley, and was described in Time Out as "tender, moving and funny." After five years working as a journalist on a numvber of Welsh newspapers, Evans is now wo…

Born in Bethel near Caernarfon, she attended Brynrefail High School in Llanrug before graduating in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.  She went on to research into aspects of recent Welsh prose for her doctorate before spending periods lecturing at the University of Wales, Swansea a…

Born in Bielefeld (Germany) in 1975. He studied Philosophy and Comparative  Literature in Edinburgh, Tübingen and Berlin. Song-writer and occasionally also musician with the group Fön, he is a member of the literature collective Visch&Ferse and in 2001 was a prize-winner at the 9t…

Flavio Soriga was born in Uta, a village in the province of Cagliari (Sardinia) in 1975.  Over the past few years he has lived in Naples, Bologna and London. He lives in Rome now. He graduated in journalism and media technology. Novels:Diavoli di Nuraiò (Il Maestrale , 2000, I…

Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in 1974 in Lancashire, and originates from Southern India. He is a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge Universities with degrees in Philosophy and Economics. He has had short stories published in a variety of anthologies, including New Writing 12. Whilst at Cambridge, he…

Davide Longo was born in Carmagnola, close to Turin.In 2001 he published with Marcos y Marcos the novel Un mattino a Irgalem, winter of the Grinzane First Novel Award and the Via Po Award. During that year he also published a children’s book, Il laboratorio di Pinot.In 2004 his second novel ca…

Marco Mancassola was born in November 1973 in Vicenza, North-Eastern Italy. Working class family. He currently lives in England.He has written and published: ‘Il mondo senza di me’, editions Pequod 2001 and Mondadori 2003.‘Qualcuno ha mentito’, Mondadori 2004 (in France, publ…

Ingo Niermann, born 1969 in Bielefeld, is a novelist, writer, and artist. Niermann studied Philosophy in Berlin and had his literary debut in 2001 with the novel Der Effekt. In 2003 Minusvisionen was published, a chronicle of company foundations, followed in 2006 by Umbauland. The latter contains te…

Silke Scheuermann was born in 1973 in Karlsruhe. She studied Literature and theatre in Frankfurt, Leipzig and Paris. Currently she lives in Offenbach. Her poetry and prose has been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. She gave her debut with the book of poems Der Tag an dem die …

Rachel Trezise is the author of the story collection Fresh Apples and the novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl. She was selected as one of 21 writers for the 21st Century by the Orange Prize for Fiction, was voted new face of literature by Harpers & Queen magazine in 2003, and was the inaugural…