Ljuba Arnautović, born in 1954 in Kursk (Soviet Union), is an Austrian writer, translator and journalist. Her second novel Junischnee (June Snow) relates the story of her father, who was in a generation of Austrian Schutzbund children; he arrived in Moscow from Vienna and only returned decades later. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, he was sent to the Gulag. Recently published: Junischnee, 2021.

Konrad Bogusław Bach, born 1984, is a Polish writer. He studied theatre arts and Catholictheology, classical philology and film writing in Berlin, Krakow and Rome. He lives in the Polish–German border town of Gubin/ Guben. Recently published in German: Der Wisent, 2022

Mircea Cărtărescu, born 1956, is a Romanian writer. He spent numerous sojourns abroad, including in Berlin, Vienna and Florence. His literary works have won multiple awards, among others, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Thomas Mann Prize and Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Recently published in German: Melancolia, 2022.

Theresia Enzensberger, born 1986, is a German writer. She studied film and film arts at Bard College in New York and is a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Monopol, ZEIT Online and ZEIT. In 2014 she founded BLOCK Magazine, which won Best Newcomer Magazine at the 2016 Lead Awards. Recently published: Auf See, 2022.

Ivana Gibová, born 1985, is a Slovakian writer. She has published novels and one graphic novel. Published in German: Barbora, Gott & Katharsis, 2021.

Miljenko Jergović, born 1966 in Sarajevo, is a Bosnian/Herzegovinian and Croatian writer, poet and essayist. He studied philosophy and sociology in Sarajevo and is co-founder of Group 99. Jergović reported for the Zagreb weekly newspaper Nedeljna Dalmacija from besieged Sarajevo, where he was also a television editor. He has lived in Zagreb since 1993 and is a political columnist for various Croatian and international newspapers. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have won numerous awards, recently (together with his German translator Brigitte Döbert) the Georg Dehio Book Prize 2018. Recently published in German: Der rote Jaguar, 2021

Hervé Le Tellier, born 1957, is a French writer. He is a member of the international literary group OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), to which writers like Georges Perec, Italo Calvino and Oskar Pastior have belonged. He writes columns for Le Monde. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Anomaly. Recently published in German: Ich verliebe mich so leicht, 2022 (translated by Romy and Jürgen Ritte).

Johanna Lier, born 1962, is a Swiss writer, artist and actress. In 2018 and 2019, she spent several months on the island of Lesbos, researched at Moria refugee camp and wrote a book about this experience. Recently published: Amori. Die Inseln, 2021.

Baret Magarian is a British–Armenian writer, and lives in Florence. As a freelance journalist he writes, among others, for The Times and The Guardian. He has worked as a lecturer, theatre director, translator, musician and nude model. Published in German: Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit, (transl. from the English by Catherine Hornung), 2022.

Barbi Marković, born 1980, is a Serbian writer
who lives in Vienna. Her novels have won numerous
awards, including the Promotional Prize of the
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and the Priessnitz
Award. Recently published: Die verschissene Zeit,
2021.

Paavo Matsin, born 1970, is an Estonian writer and literary critic. He is legendary for his readings and has won numerous awards, including the European Union Literature Prize and the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award. Published in German: Gogols Disko, 2021.

Yara Nakahanda Monteiro
Born 1979, in an Angola writer and artist living in Portugal.
Monteiro poetry book Memories, Aparições e Arritmias won the international literary prize Glória de Sant’Anna 2022
Her first novel, Schwerkraft der Tränen (2021) is also translated in Spanish, Italian and Chinese.

Pascale Osterwalder, born 1979, is a Swiss illustrator,
animator and visual designer. She studied
visual communication at the Zurich University of
the Arts and currently lives in Vienna. Her soap
dispenser illustrations are currently published
weekly in Falter magazine. Recently published:
Daily Soap, 2021.

Ivana Sajko, born 1975, is a Croatian writer and theatre director. Many of her works are at the intersection of literature, performance and music. Her novels have won many accolades, including the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the International Literature Prize of the House of World Cultures. Recently published: Every Departure is a Little Death, 2022.

Natalka Sniadanko, born 1973, is a Ukrainian writer, translator and journalist. She translates Germanspeaking and Polish literature into Ukrainian. She is a contributor, among others, to the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Her novels are set in Lviv. Recently published in German: Der Erzherzog, der den Schwarzmarkt regierte, Matrosen liebte und mein Großvater wurde, 2021.

Alenka Zupančič, born 1966, is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is a researcher a the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is a member of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. Recently published in German: Der Geist der Komödie, 2014

Dana von Suffrin, born 1985, is a German writer and historian. She studied in Munich, Naples and Jerusalem. Her debut novel Otto has won numerous awards. Recently published: Otto, 2019