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ANNA AUZŅA (b. 1975) – writer, poet, literary scholar, winner of the Klāvs Elsbergs Prize (1995), the Oliveret Prize (2008), two Ojāras Vācietis Prizes (2011, 2017) and others. "Habitat" (Mājoklis; 2021) is her prose debut. A diptych of performances was...

Anne König, born in 1971, lives and works as an author, publisher and part of the management team of the publishing house “Spector Books” in Leipzig. Her work focuses on research projects and interventions in public space, in which she...

Anastasiia Leonova is a publisher, art manager, curator, and co-founder of IST Publishing based in Ukraine. Between 2014–20, she ran an independent art gallery in Kharkiv focused on contemporary art. With a background in Sociology and Art History, she specializes...

Arvis Viguls (1987, Jēkabpils, Latvia) is author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections and a book of short prose, he is also a translator from English, Spanish, and South Slavic languages, as well as an editor at the literary magazine...

Rein Raud (b. 1961) One of the most renowned contemporary Estonian writers and public intellectuals, cultural theorist, and translator. Debuting as a poet in 1981, he is now the author of eleven novels, five poetry collections, and numerous scholarly books...

J. C. Todd (1943, New York, USA) is author of six books of poetry, including Beyond Repair, a special selection for the Able Muse Poetry Book Award, and a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) collection, What Kept Me Awake?/Kas neleido užmigti. She is...

Į šių metų Vilniaus knygų mugę atvyksta didžiausio Lenkijos dienraščio „Gazeta Wyborcza“ vyriausiasis redaktorius, istorikas, eseistas, politikos publicistas – Adamas Michnikas. Vasario 28 d. 17 val. kviečiame į 15 MIN Forumą, kur vyks Adamo Michniko rinktinės „Chamai ir angelai“ pristatymas....

Kateryna Michalicyna – Ukrainian writer, translator, editor, and member of PEN Ukraine. She will present the project Young City Readings, carried out by the literary cities of Vilnius and Lviv. The author has written more than twenty children's books, for...

Jeļena Glazova is a poet and an artist from Riga, Latvia. She is the author of 4 collections of poems - Transfers (2013), Plasma (2014), Greed (2019) and Naivete (2021). Jelena is a co-founder and a curator of The Blood of a Poet international poetry festival...

Anete Melece (born 1983) is a Latvian author, illustrator, and animation filmmaker living with her family in Zürich, Switzerland. Her animated short films have been recognized at numerous international festivals. Her picture book The Kiosk (2019, Liels un mazs, LV), based on...

Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and was recommended...

Artis Ostups (born 1988) is a Latvian poet and scholar. He studied philosophy at the University of Latvia and attended Charles University in Prague. He is currently pursuing comparative literature at the University of Tartu and works at the Institute...

Katja Pantzar is a Helsinki-based writer and journalist who swims in the Baltic Sea year round. Raised in Canada, with stints in New Zealand and England, she is the author of The Finnish Way (Penguin Random House/2018), a bestselling non-fiction book about...

Narine Abgaryan was born in 1971 in Berd, Armenia, in the family of a doctor and a school teacher. She graduated from the State University of Linguistic Studies in Yerevan, with a diploma of a teacher of Russian language and...

NENAD VELIČKOVIČ (b. 1962) is a Bosnian writer and cultural commentator, considered to be one of the most interesting and relevant contemporary Bosnian writers. Born and raised in Sarajevo, he graduated in philology in Sarajevo. His work is extensive, includes...

Liudmyla Dolhonovska is a strategic communication expert, Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Presidential Service of the American University Kyiv and a visiting lecturer at various universities. From July 2021 to early March 2023 she was an advisor on Strategic...

Anna Brzezińska – a renowned writer and historian, three-time laureate of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award, the most prestigious Polish distinction in the field of fantasy, and an author of novels and short stories. The monumental and bestselling works Daughters...

Svetlana Alexievich is a Belarusian non-fiction writer, investigative journalist, and oral historian who writes in Russian and works in various literary genres, including short stories, essays, and reportage. She is the first writer from Belarus to receive the 2015 Nobel...

Tania Pjankova was born in 1985 in Vyhoda, an urban-type settlement in the Dolyna district of Ivano-Frankivsk region. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, specializing in Ukrainian language and literature. She is one...