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Abbas Khider
Abbas Khider, a political prisoner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, got a German...
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Abdourahman A. Waberi
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a prize-winning novelist, essayist, and poet. He is...
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Abul Bashar
Abul Bashar was born in 1951 in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, and has...
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Adrian McNeil
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Adrian McNeil received intensive training on sarod from...
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Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire was born on 25 June 1913, in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, a French...
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Ajanta Sircar
Ajanta Sircar is professor of English at the Vellore Institute of Technology in...
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Akram Alkatreb
Akram Alkatreb is a Syrian poet, residing in New Jersey. He attended...
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Akram Musallam
Akram Musallam was born in Talfit near Nablus in the West Bank...
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Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou is considered one of francophone Africa’s most prolific contemporary writers....
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Alawiya Sobh
Alawiya Sobh is writer, journalist and chief editor of the bestselling women's magazine Al-...
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Alberto Asor Rosa
Alberto Asor Rosa (b. 1933) is a writer, literary critic and professor...
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Albie Sachs
Albie Sachs is an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional...
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Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma was a South African novelist and leader of the...
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Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the...
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Alice Attie
Alice Attie is an artist and a writer. Her works on paper...
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Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig was born in 1959 in Carinthia and lives in Innsbruck. His...
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen (b. 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since...
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Ananda Breed
Ananda Breed is professor in theatre at the University of Lincoln. She...
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Andrea Cavalletti
Andrea Cavalletti is a professor of aesthetics and contemporary literature at the...
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Andrea Tompa
Andrea Tompa is a Hungarian writer born in Romania in 1971. She...
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Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrey Tarkovsky (1932–86) was an award-winning Soviet filmmaker, writer, film editor, film...
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Angela Marino
Angela Marino is assistant professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance...
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Angelo Del Boca
Angelo Del Boca (1925–2021) was a foundational historian of Italian colonialism, whose...
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Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is the multi-million copy and New York Times bestselling author...
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Ann Murphy
Ann Murphy is associate professor and chair of the Dance Department at...
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–42) was a writer, journalist, photographer and queer icon who worked periodically...
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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work comprising of painting,...
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Anthony Rudolf
Anthony Rudolf is an autobiographer, poet, literary critic, editor and translator. He has...
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Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog is a poet, writer, journalist, and professor at the University of...
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Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) was a French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist,...
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Antony Lerman
Antony Lerman is a British writer who specialises in the study of...
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Anuradha Kapur
Anuradha Kapur is a theatre director and professor of drama. She taught...
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Anurima Banerji
Trained as a classical dancer, Anurima Banerji is an associate professor in the Department...
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Ariel Magnus
Ariel Magnus is a writer and literary translator. He has published numerous...
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Arwa Salih
Arwa Salih (1953–97) was a scholar who was active in Egyptian revolutionary politics...
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Arzu Öztürkmen
Trained in folklore studies, Arzu Öztürkmen is a professor at Boƒüaziçi University...
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Ashit Paul
Ashit Paul is a Calcutta-based artist with numerous solo shows to his...
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Avishek Ganguly
Avishek Ganguly is Associate Professor in the Department of Literary Arts and...
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Badal Sircar
Born in 1925, Badal Sircar has been the recipient of several national awards and...
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Beatriz Schiller
Beatriz Schiller is a photographer-journalist and visual artist. She has photographed and/or...
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Benedict Anderson
Benedict Anderson is profesor emeritus of international studies and politics and government studies...
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Benjamin Noys
Benjamin Noys is professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester. He...
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) is one of the most important and legendary German playwrights...
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Bhaskar Chakrabarti
Bhaskar Chakrabarti was a major Bengali poet who rose to prominence in the...
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Bhuwaneshwar
Born in 1910 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, Bhuwaneshwar spent a childhood...
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894–1950) is considered one of the most iconic writers of modern...
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Bill Nasson
Bill Nasson is a professor in the History Department at the University...
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Bishan Samaddar
Bishan Samaddar is a Calcutta-based editor and Instagrammer. He is co-editor of...
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Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist and sociologist who has been a...
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Brian Klug
Brian Klug is senior research fellow and tutor in philosophy at St...
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Brigitte Reimann
Brigitte Reimann (1933–73) was a German teacher and writer. Her novel Ankunft...
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Brinda Bose
Brinda Bose is associate professor at the Centre of English Studies, Jawaharlal...
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Bryan Hurt
Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner...
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C. S. Lakshmi
C. S. Lakshmi, or Ambai, as she is widely known, is a...
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Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich is recipient of the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, 2012...
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Carla Lonzi
Born in Florence in 1931, Carla Lonzi was an Italian art critic...
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Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is professor emeritus at Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy, and the University of California,...
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Carol Martin
Carol Martin is professor of drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New...
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Caspar Melville
Caspar Melville is lecturer in global creative and cultural industries at the School...
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Catherine Clément
Catherine Clément, prominent French feminist, has published over 40 works: essays on...
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Catherine Colomb
Catherine Colomb (1892–1965) has long been considered one of the most original francophone...
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Catherine Filloux
Catherine Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights...
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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933) is a Dutch author known for his novels,...
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Chandrasekhar Kambar
Chandrasekhar Kambar, a highly acclaimed dramatist, poet, cultural critic and fiction writer...
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Chandrima Shaha
Dr. Chandrima Shaha is an Indian biologist and the current President of the...
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) was one of the most influential nineteenth-century French poets. His works...
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Charles Capwell
Charles Capwell was on the faculty of the School of Music at...
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Chiori Miyagawa
Chiori Miyagawa is a Japanese-born American playwright, poet, dramaturg and fiction writer...
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Chitra Viraraghavan
Chitra Viraraghavan was educated in Hyderabad, Kodaikanal, Chennai and Boston. She has...
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Chitvan Gill
Chitvan Gill is a writer, independent filmmaker and documentary photographer based in...
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Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (1929–2011) was a German novelist, essayist and screenwriter whose works...
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Christine Becker
Christine Becker grew up in a notable German publishing family and studied German...
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Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr is an award-winning Austrian author whose books have been translated...
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Christopher J. Lee
Christopher J. Lee is associate professor of history at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania....
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Clara Magnani
Clara Magnani lives in Brussels. Bliss is her first novel.
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Clarence Boulay
Clarence Boulay, born in 1984 in Brittany, is a visual artist and...
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Clément Rosset
Clément Rosset was educated at L’École normale supérieure, Paris. He taught philosophy at...
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Cyril Wong
Singaporean born in 1977, Cyril Wong is his country’s leading confessional poet. He received...
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Cécile Wajsbrot
Born in Paris in 1954 to Polish Jews, Cécile Wajsbrot has written 17 novels,...
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Dana Grigorcea
Dana Grigorcea was born in 1979 in Bucharest. After studying in Belgium, Germany...
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Danish Sheikh
Danish Sheikh is a playwright, activist lawyer and legal researcher. He is...
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Dariusz Kosinski
Dariusz Kosiński is professor at the Institute of Polish Language and Culture Abroad...
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David Peimer
David Peimer is professor of theatre and performance studies at Edge Hill...
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Debanuj Dasgupta
Debanuj Dasgupta is an assistant professor in Geography and Women’s, Gender, Sexuality...
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Debraj Bhattacharya
Debraj Bhattacharya received his academic training in history from Presidency College, Calcutta,...
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Deepa Sreenivas
Deepa Sreenivas is a professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University...
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Diane Meur
Diane Meur, a Belgian-born writer and translator, has lived in Paris for...
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Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath is former editor of the rock magazine Spex and cultural editor of the...
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Dina Mehta
Dina Mehta is a playwright, novelist and editor based in Mumbai. She...
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Dominika Laster
Dominika Laster is an associate professor of theatre and performance studies at the...
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Dominique Eddé
Dominique Eddé is a Lebanese novelist and essayist, whose works include Kite (2012),...
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Dominique Noguez
Dominique Noguez (1942–2019) was a prolific writer of essays, novels, and criticism...
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Dorothee Elmiger
Dorothee Elmiger is a Berlin-based Swiss writer. Her debut novel Invitation to the...
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Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and now lives in...
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Dušan Mitana
Dušan Mitana (1946–2019) worked for two of the most prominent literary journals in...
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Easterine Kire
Easterine Kire is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist, and writer of children’s...
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Eero Laine
Eero Laine is the director of graduate studies and assistant professor in...
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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek was born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, and grew up in...
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Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante is internationally acclaimed for her novels La storia(History, 1974) and L’isola di Arturo (Arturo’s...
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Elvio Fachinelli
Elvio Fachinelli (1928–1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst. He published several books and...
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Emily Apter
Emily Apter is Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New...
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Esther Dischereit
Esther Dischereit has published fiction, poetry and essays, and is a prolific writer...
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Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky is a novelist, poet, and literary translator from the Polish,...
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Eva Menasse
Born in Vienna in 1970, Eva Menasse is the prizewinning author of...
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Fabienne Kanor
Born in France to Caribbean parents, Fabienne Kanor is an award-winning writer...
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Ferenc Barnás
Ferenc Barnás is the author of four novels in his native Hungarian,...
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Florence Noiville
Florence Noiville is an author and journalist, is a long time staff...
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Francesco Pecoraro
Francesco Pecoraro's first book, published in 2007, was a collection of short...
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Franco Farinelli
Franco Farinelli is an Italian geographer who researches the intersections of cartography,...
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Franco Fortini
Franco Fortini (1917–94) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, Marxist intellectual and translator....
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Franz Fühmann
Franz Fühmann (1922–84) was one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and...
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François Jullien
Philosopher and sinologist François Jullien is a professor at Université Paris Diderot, a member...
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François Morin
François Morin is professor emeritus in economic science at the University of Toulouse-I....
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Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021) who was among the most influential and decorated German-language...
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Friedrich Ani
Friedrich Ani is an award-winning German writer of novels, poetry, young adult fiction,...
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) was a Swiss author and playwright who explored the...
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Frédéric Gros
Frédéric Gros is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris XII...
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Furio Jesi
Furio Jesi (1941–80) was an Italian writer, translator, mythologist, and Germanist. A correspondent...
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Gary M. English
Gary M. English is distinguished professor of drama at the University of Connecticut....
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Gautam Patel
Gautam S. Patel is a judge in the Bombay High Court.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and...
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Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz is one of the world’s most significant painters, sculptors and...
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Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was an Austrian-German expressionist poet, and is perhaps best...
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Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a French thinker, writer, and critic. Among his most...
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Georges Perros
Initially an actor, Georges Perros (real name: Georges Poulot) began his literary career by...
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is one of the most respected visual artists of Germany, and...
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Gert Loschütz
Gert Loschütz is a prolific German writer who has to his credit highly-praised...
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Ghassan Zaqtan
Born near Bethlehem, Palestinian poet, novelist and editor Ghassan Zaqtan has lived...
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Gianni Carchia
Gianni Carchia (1947–2000) was one of the most important and original Italian...
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Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben is one of Italy’s foremost contemporary thinkers. He recently brought...
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Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi (b. 1945) is an Indian politician and a former diplomat...
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Gordon Van Gelder
Gordon Van Gelder is the publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy and...
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in...
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Gunther Geltinger
was born in 1974 in Erlenbach am Main and lives in Cologne....
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Gustave Roud
Gustave Roud (1897–1976) was a major Swiss poet and photographer whose neoromantic...
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Gábor Schein
Gábor Schein is one of the most important writers to emerge in...
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Gábor Vida
Gábor Vida (born 1968) is a Hungarian writer from Romania, currently editor-in-chief of...
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Gérard Mairet
Gérard Mairet is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University...
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H. S. Shiva Prakash
H. S. Shiva Prakash is a leading poet and playwright writing in...
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Habib Tanvir
Habib Tanvir (1923–2009) was a pioneering Indian playwright, theatre director, poet and...
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Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg was a German philospher and intellectual historian. He was a member...
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, often considered Germany’s most important living poet, is also...
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Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (b. 1939) has published over two dozen books and...
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Haytham El Wardany
Haytham El Wardany is an Egyptian writer of short stories and experimental prose...
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Heather Levi
Heather Levi is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Temple University...
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Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (1929–95) was a stage director, playwright and poet who lived...
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Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg is a French-Algerian journalist and Director of Alger républicain newspaper. Alleg is also...
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Henrietta Moore
Henrietta Moore is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge,...
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Herta Müller
Herta Müller was born in a German-speaking community in western Romania in 1953....
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Himanshu Burte
Himanshu Burte (b.1967) is an architect and writer based in Goa. He...
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Hubertus Von Amelunxen
Hubertus von Amelunxen is a cultural theorist, historian, and curator. He is the...
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Hugo Loetscher
Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), widely known as the most cosmopolitan Swiss writer, worked as...
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Hussein Barghouthi
Hussein Barghouthi (1954–2002) was a Palestinian poet, writer, essayist, critic, lyricist, playwright...
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Hédi Kaddour
Hédi Kaddour is a professor of French literature at the New York...
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Hélène Cixous
Hélène Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, and is emeritus professor of literature...
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Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was an Austrian poet and prose writer whose work, often...
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Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész (1929--2016), born of Jewish descent in Budapest, was deported to Auschwitz...
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Indira Parthasarathy
Widely acknowledged as one of those who have revolutionized modern Tamil drama,...
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann is the author of Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg...
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Ingvild H. Rishøi
Ingvild H. Rishøi made her literary debut in 2007 with a short-story...
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Inka Parei
Inka Parei lives in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, with her son, writing and tutoring...
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Irena Brežná
Irena Bre≈æná is a Slovak-born Swiss writer and journalist. Following the Soviet-led invasion...
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Irena Maryniak
Irena Maryniak is a specialist on religion and Eastern Europe. She has written...
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Irfan Habib
Irfan Habib is professor emeritus at the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim...
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Irwin Allan Sealy
I. Allan Sealy was born in Allahabad in North India in 1951 and...
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István Vörös
Writer, poet, professor of literature and creative writing, István Vörös has published...
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Iván Mándy
Iván Mándy (1918–1995) was one of the most widely read Hungarian writers...
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J. M. G. Le Clézio
J. M. G. Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in...
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Jabbour Douaihy
Jabbour Douaihy (1949–2020) was a professor of French Literature at the Lebanese University....
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Jacob Isräel de Haan
Jacob Israël de Haan (1881–1924) was born into an Orthodox Jewish family...
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Jael Silliman
Jael Silliman, born into the Baghdadi Jewish community of Calcutta, was educated...
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Jaime M. Grant
Jaime M. Grant is the Project Director for the National LGBTQ+ Women's...
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James Reidel
James Reidel is a poet, translator, and biographer. In addition to collections of...
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James Thompson
James Thompson is professor of applied and social theatre and associate vice...
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Jan Brandt
Jan Brandt, born in Leer (East Frisia) in 1974, studied History and...
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Jana Bodnárová
Jana Bodnárová was born in 1950 in Jakubovany in what was then...
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Janaki Nair
Janaki Nair is a former professor of modern Indian history at the...
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Jean-Baptiste Phou
Jean-Baptiste Phou was born in 1981 in Paris to Chinese-Cambodian parents. In...
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Jean-Luc Benoziglio
Jean-Luc Benoziglio (1941–2013) studied law and political science at the University of Lausanne....
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Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher and the Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a French novelist, playwright, and biographer who is widely...
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Jenny Hughes
Jenny Hughes is senior lecturer in drama and a member of the...
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Joachim Sartorius
Joachim Sartorius is a German poet, translator, diplomat, festival organizer and lawyer. was...
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Joanna Klass
Joanna Klass is a senior theater expert at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in...
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Joanna Krakowska
Born in 1964, Joanna Krakowska is an editor, publisher, translator, essayist and contemporary...
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John Spurling
John Spurling, born in Kenya to English parents, is a playwright, novelist...
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John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson is an English poet living in Chicago, where he has been...
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges, the famous Argentine short-story writer, poet and philosopher, began...
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Joseph Tonda
Joseph Tonda is professor of sociology at Omar Bongo University, Libreville, Gabon,...
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Joseph Vogl
Joseph Vogl is professor of modern German literature, media and cultural studies...
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José Luis Serrano
José Luis Serrano was born in Ciudad Real, Spain, in 1967, and...
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Judith Keller
Judith Keller studied German language and literature in Zurich as well as...
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Judith Kuckart
Judith Kuckart is an award-winning writer, choreographer, dancer and director. She is...
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Julien Delmaire
Born in 1977 in France, Julien Delmaire is an Afropean novelist and...
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Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (1937–1997) was a Holocaust survivor and one of the few novelists...
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Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker is a German poet, novelist and author of radio plays....
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K. G. Subramanyan
Born in 1924 in rural Kerala, K. G. Subramanyan played a pivotal...
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Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels, including Burnt Shadows which...
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Karl-Markus Gauß
The foremost literary cartographer of a vanishing Europe, Karl-Markus Gauß has written more than...
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Katarína Kucbelová
One of the most acclaimed contemporary Slovak poets, Katarína Kucbelová has published...
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Katharina Winkler
Katharina Winkler was born in Vienna in 1979 and studied German philology...
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Katja Lange-Müller
Born in East Berlin in 1951, Katja Lange-Müller is one of the most idiosyncratic...
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Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad (2010) was shortlisted for shortlisted for...
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Ketu H. Katrak
Ketu H. Katrak is a professor emerita of drama at the University of...
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Khal Torabully
Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet, essayist, film director and semiologist who has authored over...
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Klaus Dermutz
Klaus Dermutz is a Berlin-based writer and theologian. He has published several...
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Klaus Hoffer
Klaus Hoffer lives in Graz, where he has born in 1942. He...
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Klaus Merz
" is one of the most prominent, prolific and versatile contemporary Swiss writers....
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Ko-hua Chen
Ko-hua Chen (1961– ) is a prolific and multi-award-winning Taiwanese writer. He...
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Kossi Efoui
Kossi Efoui is a Togolese novelist and playwright, whose novels include La Polka (1997), La Fabrique...
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Krishna Kumar
Krishna Kumar is an Indian intellectual and academic, noted for his writings...
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Krisztina Tóth
Krisztina Tóth is one of Hungary’s most highly acclaimed poets and writers. She has...
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Krystyna Duniec
Krystyna Duniec is professor in the Theatre Department of the Institute of...
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Krzysztof Siwczyk
Krzysztof Siwczyk is an award-winning poet, critic, and essayist from Poland. He...
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Laurence Madeline
Laurence Madeline is the chief curator at Musée Picasso in Paris, and custodian of...
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Lea Melandri
Lea Melandri is a leading Italian feminist thinker. She was a founding...
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Lee Breuer
Lee Breuer (1937–2021), a MacArthur Fellow and a Chevalier Ordre des Arts...
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Leonhard Emmerling
Leonhard Emmerling is an art historian with a PhD from Heidelberg University....
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Levi Thompson
Levi Thompson is assistant professor of Persian and Arabic literature at the University of...
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Linda Hess
Linda Hess is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at...
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Lisa Peschel
Dr Lisa Peschel is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in theater at...
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Lola Lafon
Lola Lafon is a French composer, singer and writer. Her books include...
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Lszl Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is a celebrated Hungarian novelist and winner of the 2015...
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Luca Rastello
Luca Rastello (1961–2015) was a groundbreaking Italian writer and reporter. He was the...
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Luigi Di Ruscio
Luigi Di Ruscio (1930–2011) was an Italian poet and writer, who lived...
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Luigi Pintor
Luigi Pintor (1925–2003) was co-founder and later editor-in-chief of the independent communist...
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Luis Tapia Mealla
Luis Tapia Mealla is a philosopher, teacher, and researcher. He is the director...
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Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler is widely acknowledged as one of the major German poets of...
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László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is a celebrated Hungarian novelist and winner of the 2015 Man...
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Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano was born in 1973 in Doula, Cameroon. She is the...
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Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) was one of India’s foremost literary figures from the...
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Mahesh Elkunchwar
Mahesh Elkunchwar is a veteran Marathi playwright, whose plays have been performed in...
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Makenzy Orcel
Makenzy Orcel is an award-winning novelist and poet and a Chevalier des...
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Malini Bhattacharya
Malini Bhattacharya is an author, scholar, translator, playwright and activist in the...
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Manjula Padmanabhan
Manjula Padmanabhan (born 1953) is an Indian playwright, journalist, comic-strip artist, and children’s...
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Manoj Mitra
Playwright-director-actor Manoj Mitra has written about 70 plays and filmscripts and is...
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Marco Belpoliti
Marco Belpoliti is an essayist and writer. He edited Primo Levi’s complete...
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Marco De Marinis
Marco de Marinis is a professor at the Institute of Communications and...
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Marek Vadas
Marek Vadas (b. 1971) studied aesthetics and Slovak language and literature at...
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras (1914–96) was a French novelist, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright and film director,...
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Marie Bronsard
Marie Bronsard lives and works in a village in southern France. She...
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Mario Tronti
Mario Tronti (b. 1931) is best known for his ground-breaking book Workers...
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Markand Sathe
Markand Sathe is a Marathi playwright and theatre director.
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Martin Mosebach
Martin Mosebach is a novelist and winner of the 2007 Georg Büchner Prize,...
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Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson is a writer and cartoonist. His work appears frequently in the...
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Maryse Cond
"Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe, a French territory of the Caribbean. She...
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Massimo Cacciari
Massimo Cacciari (1944) is one of Italy’s foremost philosophers and has been...
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Matt Cornish
Matt Cornish, author of Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after...
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Matéi Visniec
Matéi Visniec is a multi-award-winning Romanian-born novelist, playwright, poet, and journalist. He...
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Maureen Robertson
Maureen Robertson is Director Emerita of the MFA in Literary Translation at...
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Maurizio Torchio
Maurizio Torchio and Italian author based in Milan. He has published a...
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Mauro Pala
Mauro Pala is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cagliari...
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Max Frisch
Swiss writer Max Frisch (1911–91) was one of the giants of twentieth-century literature,...
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Max Neumann
Max Neumann is a German artist whose works are part of numerous public...
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Meera Mukherjee
Meera Mukherjee was one of India's leading sculptors, a pioneer who mined tribal...
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Meiling Cheng
Meiling Cheng is professor of dramatic arts in critical studies at the...
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Melinda Nadj Abonji
Melinda Nadj Abonji lives as an author and musician in Zurich. Fly Away, Pigeon is her...
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Meng Jinghui
Born in 1965 in Changhun, Meng Jinghui studied direction at the Central Academy of...
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Mercy Vungthianmuang Guite
Mercy V. Guite is an assistant professor at the Centre of German...
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Michael Balfour
Michael Balfour is the head of the School of Arts and Media at University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the...
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Michael Krüger
Michael Krüger is a German writer, publisher, and translator. From 1968 Krüger...
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Michael S. Koyama
Michael S. Koyama is the nom de plume of an economist with...
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Michał Witkowski
Michał Witkowski has published more than eight novels and two collections of...
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Michel Layaz
Michel Layaz was born in Fribourg in 1963. His 12 works of...
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Michel Leiris
Michel Leiris (1901–90) was one of the most influential French intellectuals and...
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Michèle Lesbre
Michèle Lesbre is a French writer living in Paris. The French original...
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Milind Brahme
Milind Brahme is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology...
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Milla Cozart Riggio
Milla Cozart Riggio is James J. Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College,...
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Mireille Best
Mireille Best (pseudonym of Mireille Lemarchand, 1943–2005) was born and raised in...
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Moinul Ahsan Saber
Moinul Ahsan Saber is one of Bangladesh’s leading fiction writers, with a literary...
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Molissa Fenley
Molissa Fenly grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria, and, after coming to the...
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Monica Cantieni
Monica Cantieni is head of multimedia in the Culture Department of Swiss Radio...
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Monika Kompaníková
Monika Kompaníková is considered one of the most outstanding writers of contemporary...
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Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (1923–2018) directed over 30 feature films, documentaries and telefilms over...
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Myriam Tadessé
Born in 1965 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Myriam Tadessé has lived in...
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Nabarun Bhattacharya
Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948–2014) was born into a family of writers, filmmakers, artists and...
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Nancy Naomi Carlson
Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet and translator whose translation of Khal...
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Nanni Balestrini
Nanni Balestrini (1935–2019) was an Italian poet, experimental writer, visual artist and...
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Nathalie Etoke
Nathalie Etoke is an associate professor of francophone and Africana studies at...
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Naveen Kishore
Naveen Kishore is a publisher, photographer, lighting designer. He established Seagull Books...
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Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani is a German writer and Orientalist. He is the author...
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Nayanjot Lahiri
Nayanjot Lahiri is Professor, History Department, Delhi University. She is the author...
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Neha Singh
Neha Singh is a Mumbai-based author, theatre practitioner and activist. She writes poetry,...
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Nell Haynes
Nell Haynes is an anthropologist focusing on popular culture in Latin America, paying...
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Nicolas Mahler
Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives in Vienna where he works as...
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Niharika Banerjea
Niharika Banerjea is an associate professor of sociology at Ambedkar University, Delhi....
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Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Bukharin was a leading critic of Stalinism beginning in the late 1920s....
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Nina Tecklenburg
Nina Tecklenburg is a professor of theatre and performance at Bard College...
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Ninar Esber
Ninar Esber is an artist and a writer. She lives and works...
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Noe Montez
Noe Montez is associate professor of theatre, dance, and performance studies at...
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Nora Bossong
Nora Bossong was born in Bremen in 1982. She studied creative writing at...
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Noëlle Revaz
Noëlle Revaz was born in Switzerland in 1968 and lives in Lausanne....
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Oriza Hirata
Oriza Hirata is artistic director of the Seinendan Theatre Company, which he...
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, webmaster of the blogs Lunes de post-Revolución and the photoblog Boring...
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Osvaldo Ferrari
Osvaldo Ferrari, is a poet, essayist and university teacher. His poetry includes Poemas...
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Pallavi Aiyar
Pallavi Aiyar has worked as a foreign correspondent for over fifteen years, reporting...
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Paolo Vignolo
Paolo Vignolo is associate professor at the Center of Social Studies of the...
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Paolo Virno
Paolo Virno teaches philosophy of language at the University of Rome. His...
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Paolo Volponi
Paolo Volponi (1924–1994) was one of Italy’s leading novelists and poets during...
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Pascal Quignard
Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty titles and is...
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Pascale Casanova
Pascale Casanova is the author of A Study of Samuel Beckett, which won the...
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Patrick Rambaud
Patrick Rambaud is a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt, France’s...
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Patrick Roth
Patrick Roth is a German writer. The author of more than a...
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Paul Allain
Paul Allain is professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of...
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Paul Bailey
Paul Bailey published his first novel At the Jerusalem in 1967. His other works of...
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Paul Celan
Paul Celan was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Romania; he...
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Pawan Dhall
Pawan Dhall has been engaged in activism and writing on queer rights...
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Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez debuted with the poetry collection Helter (Heroes) in 1997 and...
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Pedro Meyer
Photographer Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers of contemporary photography and...
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Pegge Vissicaro
Pegge Vissicaro is director of the Office for Global Dance Research and Creative...
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke was born in Austria in 1942. His works include the novels Short...
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Peter J. Chelkowski
Peter J. Chelkowski is professor emeritus of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at...
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Peter Macsovszky
Peter Macsovszky writes in Slovak and Hungarian. He made his debut in...
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Peter Pannke
Peter Pannke is a musician, singer, writer, radio journalist and producer. His...
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Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss (1916–82) was a German playwright, novelist, filmmaker and painter, best...
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Petra Hardt
Petra Hardt born in Frankfurt am Main in 1954, lives in Berlin and...
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Philippe Jaccottet
Born in Switzerland and a long-time resident of France, Philippe Jaccottet (1925–2021)...
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Pierre Chappuis
Pierre Chappuis was born in Tavennes, Switzerland in 1930 and has published numerous...
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Piotr Kloczowski
Piotr Kloczowski is a Polish essayist and editor and a professor at the...
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Poile Sengupta
Poile Sengupta, based in Bangalore, has been a teacher, writer for children,...
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Prabuddha Dasgupta
Prabuddha Dasgupta (1956–2012) was a self-taught photographer. He studied to be a...
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Prasanta Chakravarty
Prasanta Chakravarty is the cofounder of Marg Humanities and associate professor of...
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Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja teaches writing in prisons and in universities in the UK, and...
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Primo Moroni
Primo Moroni (1936–1998) was an Italian writer, activist and archivist. Founder of...
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Priya Sebastian
Priya Sebastian completed a master's degree in illustration from Queensland College of Art,...
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Pál Závada
Pál Závada was born in a Hungarian Slovak family in 1954 in...
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R. Siva Kumar
R. Siva Kumar is an art historian and curator. He has authored...
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Rachel Bowditch
Rachel Bowditch is a theatre director and an associate professor at the School...
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Rachel Shihor
Rachel Shihor has written several works on philosophy and a bilingual Hebrew–English collection...
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, née Levin (1771–1833) was a German-Jewish conversationalist who...
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Rainer Brambach
Rainer Brambach (1917–1983) grew up in Basel and left school at the...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is considered one of the most important German-language...
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Rainer Rochlitz
Rainer Rochlitz (1946–2002) was a French translator and art historian. A specialist in aesthetics, Rochlitz contributed a...
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Rajeev Bhargava
Rajeev Bhargava is a professor at the Centre for the Study of...
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Rajkamal Chaudhary
Rajkamal Chaudhary (1929–1967), born in the Indian state of Bihar, was a...
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Ralf Rothmann
Born in 1953 in Schleswig, Ralf Rothmann grew up in the Ruhrgebiet,...
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Ralph Dutli
Ralph Dutli is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction,...
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Ramdas Bhatkal
Ramdas Bhatkal has published books in English, Hindi, and Marathi. The author of Mohanmaya,...
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Ramy Al-Asheq
Ramy Al-Asheq is a Berlin-based Syrian-Palestinian poet, journalist and curator. He has...
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Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote began writing art criticism while still a student at Elphinstone...
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Raoul Schrott
Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic and translator, who was...
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Rebekah Maggor
Rebekah Maggor is assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts...
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Reinhard Jirgl
Reinhard Jirgl was born in Berlin, GDR in 1953. While his writing...
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René Zavaleta Mercado
René Zavaleta Mercado (1937–1984) was Bolivia’s foremost social and political theorist. Born in...
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Richard Gott
Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the Guardian....
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Richard Khuptong
Richard Khuptong is a graphic designer with experience of more than a...
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Richard Schechner
Richard Schechner is a theatre director, author and teacher. He founded The...
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Rizia Rahman
Rizia Rahman (1939–2019) was a prolific Bangladeshi writer whose work received several...
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Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer who produced as many as...
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Rohit K. Dasgupta
Rohit K. Dasgupta is a lecturer in the institute for media and...
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Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes, French philosopher, critic, linguist and semiotician, had a profound influence...
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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,...
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Romina Paula
Romina Paula is an Argentine writer, actor, and director of theater and film....
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Rosalind C. Morris
Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is...
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Rosinka Chaudhuri
Rosinka Chaudhuri is a scholar of literary criticism and history from Oxford, who...
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Rossana Rossanda
Rossana Rossanda (1924–2020) was one of the leading communist intellectuals in post-war...
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Rossella Ferrari
Rossella Ferrari is a reader in Chinese and Theatre Studies at the...
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Rustom Bharucha
Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic, and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India....
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Ruth Lillegraven
Ruth Lillegraven has published a series of books for children and adults,...
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Sabda Armandio
Sabda Armandio is an Indonesian novelist and short story writer. He is...
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Sahar Khalifeh
Sahar Khalifeh is one of the most prominent Palestinian writers of our time....
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Saibal Das
As a staff photographer of India Today, Saibal Das spent considerable time covering the United...
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Salah Al Hamdani
Salah Al Hamdani was born in Baghdad in 1951. He is the...
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Salil Tripathi
Salil Tripathi is a contributing editor at Mint and Caravan in India. He is...
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Salim Barakat
Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian writer who is considered one of the...
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Samer Al-Saber
Samer Al-Saber is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Stanford University....
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Samira Negrouche
Critically acclaimed Samira Negrouche was born in Algiers where she continues to...
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Samuel Buggeln
Samuel Buggeln is a theatre director, translator, and the founding Artistic Director...
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Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna’s first collection of poetry appeared in 1939. In 1957 he...
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Santanu Biswas
Santanu Biswas is associate professor of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, where he...
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Santiago Loza
Santiago Loza is an Argentine playwright, filmmaker, and novelist. He is the...
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Sanya Rushdi
Sanya Rushdi was born in Bangladesh, in 1977. She received her primary...
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Satish Alekar
Satish Alekar is a Marathi playwright, actor and theatre director. A founder...
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) was a writer, illustrator, and one of the greatest...
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Saviana Stanescu
Saviana Stanescu is a poet and playwright, based in New York. Among her...
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Serap Erincin
Serap Erincin is a theater director, performer and writer and has a...
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a leading film director and theorist of the...
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Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–95) was a critically acclaimed and popular Bengali writer and poet...
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Shambhu Shaha
Shambhu Shaha (1905-1988) was one of India's pioneering and best-known photographers. Shaha's most...
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Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is an Indian writer, translator, journalist and theatre critic. She...
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Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and academic...
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Sharon Mazer
Sharon Mazer is professor of theatre and performance studies in Te Ara...
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Sherko Fatah
Sherko Fatah was born in East Berlin and grew up there before...
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Shmuel T. Meyer
Shmuel T. Meyer was born in Paris in 1957. After a nomadic...
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Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (b. 1954) was formerly Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University,...
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff is the author of several novels, including 36 Gerechte (1994),...
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Silke Scheuermann
Silke Schuermann has won numerous awards for her poetry, short stories and novels...
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Simon Gikandi
Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English at Princeton...
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Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator based in New...
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Sofonia Machabe Mofokeng
Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng (1923–1957) was the first scholar in South Africa to...
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Somnath Gupt
Somnath Gupt was a reputed academic who wrote over a dozen books...
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Somnath Hore
Somnath Hore (1921–2006) was a Bengali sculptor and printmaker. His sketches, sculptures and...
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Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim is one of Egypt’s best-loved contemporary novelists. He spent five...
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor of philosophy and the chair of the Department...
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Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu has published numerous books in the United States, France, Belgium...
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Stephen Frosh
Stephen Frosh is pro-vice-master for learning and teaching and incoming head of the...
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Subhabrata Bhattacharyya
Subhabrata Bhattacharyya is Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication,...
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Sudipto Pal
Sudipto Pal is a writer, statistician, and data scientist. He regularly writes on...
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Sumanta Banerjee
Sumanta Banerjee is an historian, journalist and cultural theorist. He has been a...
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Sunandini Banerjee
Sunandini Banerjee lives in Calcutta and works as an editor and graphic designer...
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Sundar Sarukkai
Sundar Sarukkai primarily works in the philosophy of the natural and the...
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Supriya Chaudhuri
Supriya Chaudhuri is professor of English at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
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Surya Parekh
Surya Parekh is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Binghamton...
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Suzanne Dracius
Author and playwright Suzanne Dracius was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and grew up in...
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Svenja Leiber
Svenja Leiber's collection of short stories Büchsenlicht (Hunting Hours) was published in 2005 and...
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Syed Shamsul Haq
Syed Shamsul Haq (1935–2016) was a Bangladeshi writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary...
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Sylvain Lazarus
Sylvain Lazarus is a French sociologist, anthropologist and political theorist, and a...
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Szilárd Borbély
Szilárd Borbély (1963–2014) was born in Fehérgyarmat in northeastern Hungary and studied...
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Tadashi Uchino
Tadashi Uchino is professor of performance studies at the Department of Interdisciplinary...
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Takeshi Kawamura
Takeshi Kawamura is one of Japan’s leading playwrights and a professor of Performing...
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Tanya Gupta
Tanya Gupta is a graphic designer and an illustrator based in Gurugram,...
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Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Tapati Guha-Thakurta is the Director and Professor in History at Centre for Studies...
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Tathagata Bhattacharya
Tathagata Bhattacharya is a journalist and sustainability expert who divides his time...
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Teresa Präauer
Teresa Präauer is an author and visual artist based in Vienna. She...
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Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Lancaster, England,...
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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) was a renowned German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist and...
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Theresa Smalec
Theresa Smalec is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts...
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Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) grew up in Salzburg and Vienna, where he studied...
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Thomas Lehr
Thomas Lehr has received a number of literary honours, including the Wolfgang-Koeppen-Preis...
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Thorvald Steen
Thorvald Steen has published a wide range of novels, plays, collections of...
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Tiffany Tavernier
Tiffany Tavernier is a novelist and screenwriter. Born in 1967, she is...
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Tilman Rammstedt
Tilman Rammstedt was born in Bielefeld in 1975 and lives in Berlin....
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Tobie Nathan
Professor emeritus of psychology at Université–Paris VIII, Tobie Nathan is the author...
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Tomas Espedal
Tomas Espedal debuted as a writer in 1988. In 1991, he won awards...
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Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay
Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919) was a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance. He was...
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Tripurari Sharma
Playwright and women’s theatre activist Tripurari Sharma teaches at the National School of Drama...
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Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (1939–2017) was a philosopher, literary theorist, and historian of ideas. He...
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Ulrike Almut Sandig
Ulrike Almut Sandig, born in former East Germany in 1979, has written...
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Urs Widmer
Urs Widmer (1938 – 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, essayist and a...
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Usha Ganguli
Usha Ganguli (1945–2020) was an Indian theatre director-actor and activist, best known...
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Utpal Dutt
Utpal Dutt (1929–93), playwright, director and actor, is an inspiration and role model...
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Valeriu Nicolae
Valeriu Nicolae is a senior consultant for the Open Society Institute and advocacy...
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Vesna Main
Vesna Main was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She is a graduate of...
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Victor Menza
Raised in Buffalo, New York, Victor Menza (1944–2013) attended the University at...
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Vijay Tendulkar
Vijay Tendulkar (1928–2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer,...
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Vijaya Mulay
Vijaya Mulay has been closely involved with the growth of cinema in...
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Vimala Devi
Vimala Devi is the penname of Teresa da Piedade de Baptista Almeida. Born...
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Volker Braun
Volker Braun is the author of numerous plays, works of fiction, volumes...
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Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, resident in France since...
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Wanda Swiatkowska
Wanda ≈öwiƒÖtkowska is assistant professor of theatre and drama of the Jagiellonian University,...
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Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ
Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ is the author of the novel The Fall of...
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Wendy Guerra
Critically acclaimed Cuban poet and novelist Wendy Guerra received the Carbet des...
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Werner Bräunig
Werner Bräunig (1934–76) was regarded as the great hope of East German...
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William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland in 1965, and brought up on...
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William Kentridge
One of the most prominent contemporary artists today, William Kentridge is best...
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Willy Gianinazzi
Willy Gianinazzi is a Swiss-born French historian who specializes in the study of...
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Wim J. Simons
Wim J. Simons (1926–2005) was a Dutch writer, journalist and publisher, who...
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Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007) was a German writer who was awarded the Georg Büchner...
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Yasmine Beverly Rana
Yasmine Beverly Rana received a 2015 Fellowship from the New Jersey State...
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Yasser Abdellatif
Yasser Abdellatif is an award-winning Egyptian poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and novelist. In...
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Yousuf Saeed
Yousuf Saeed is a filmmaker, author and archivist of random ephemera based...
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Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was one of France’s greatest poets. He received many...
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Zsolt Láng
Zsolt Láng is a Hungarian author, essayist, playwright, and editor from Transylvania, Romania....
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Zuska Kepplová
Slovak author Zuska Kepplová(b. 1982) studied dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Academy...
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Zuzana Cigánová
Zuzana Cigánová is an actress and a writer. She studied acting at...
