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Jeļena Glazova
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Aleksijevič
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
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...