Mark Solborg The Danish-Argentinean musician Mark Solborg (b. 1972 Copenhagen, Denmark) is firmly established in the young Copenhagen jazz scene and has made a name for himself internationally as a jazz guitarist and composer. He studied in Copenhagen and New York. His own musical projects are diverse: Mark Solborg 4, moLd, Ventilator, Solborg/Eilertsen/Bruun and Revolver. In addition, he writes music for film and theatre and performs with various other musicians. His music is based on mutual, intuitive unde ... more
Karen Solie Karen Solie (*1966 in Moose Jaw, Canada) pursued many different activities before she turned to poetry as her main occupation, including newspaper reporting, musician, barkeeper and research assistant in the academic world. With clear linguistic expression, she sets out to cultivate a dark appreciation of humour, at the same time allowing a lasting sense of vulnerability to shine forth. Published works include: Short Haul Engine (2001), Modern and Normal (2005). Awards include: the Dorothy Lives ... more
Martin Solotruk Martin Solotruk (born 1970 in Bratislava, Slovakia) has published four books of verse in all and his poems have appeared in various anthologies (including New European Poets and Poesie in Europa). In 1997 his first collection Tiché vojny (Silent Wars) won him the Slovak Literary Fund Award. Solotruk is the poet of everyday things, of the conventional and unassuming. It is precisely in the microstructures that inaccessible truths are reflected that are hard to grasp. He has a doctorate in transla ... more
Piotr Sommer Piotr Sommer born 1948 in Wałbrzych, Poland) is a poet and translator of British and American poetry and Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal “Literatura na świecie” (Literature in the World). His works deal with the nitty-gritty of life, but without sententiousness. The apparent simplicity of his lines often reveals great depths. His work is dedicated without pathos to everyday life and in its form is almost like a conversation, a language game, frequently developing completely new lite ... more
Titilope Sonuga Titilope Sonuga (born in Lagos) is a Nigerian-Canadian poet, writer, actor and performance artist. She has taken the stage at festivals in Lagos, New York, Edmonton and Toronto among others. Her first collection of poems, Down To Earth, won the 2011 Emerging Writer Award of the Canadian Authors’ Association. Her Spoken Word album Mother Tongue was released in 2013. In 2015 she performed at the Inauguration of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.Publications:Abscess. Geko Publishing 2014Down To E ... more Titilope Sonuga (c) Eniola Abumere
Sorry Gilberto (de) Seit 2007 ziehen Anne von Keller und Jakob Dobers als Sorry Gilberto von Berlin aus durch die Clubs, Cafés, Theater, Wohnzimmer und Hinterhöfe von Europa und singen von Tapiren, Dächern, Meisterwerken, ausgedachten Akademien und von der Grausamkeit der Kunst. Das klingt immer wie gerade erst erfunden, doch ist jeder Ton, jede musikalische Haltung bewusst gewählt. Der Rolling Stone schreibt: „Schön, dass es auch hierzulande Musiker gibt, die wissen, dass man etwas Dilettantisches in etwas M ... more Sorry Gilberto Foto: Oliver Möst
Dariusz Sośnicki Dariusz Sośnicki, born in 1969 in Kalisz, Poland, lives in Poznań and is a poet and editor. Sośnicki’s poetry is a preceisely-observed journey through a country, the countryside and some curious landscapes which is constantly being continued with just short interludes at home. Freedom of movement in time and space gives the thoroughly reasonable lyrical I a counterweight which encounters unpredictable feelings and is driven by a language which keeps suddenly behaving in unforeseen ways.In 1994 S ... more Dariusz Sośnicki (c) Jakub Golis
Michael Speier Michael Speier, born in 1950 in Renchen, Baden, lives and works as a writer, translator and literary scholar in Berlin. He has published nine collections of poetry including welt / raum / reisen (2007) and HauptStadtStudio (2012), several poetry anthologies, including Berlin, du bist die Stadt (2011) and translations of contemporary poetry. He teaches Literature at universities in Germany and the USA. Michael Speier is the founder and editor of the literary magazine Park and edited eight edition ... more Michael Speier (c) Walter Brickmann
Božena Správcová Bozena Správcová (b. 1969 in Prague) is a poet and information scientist. From 1993 to 2002 Správcová worked for the literary magazine Tvar, after which she edited the web magazine Postmoderní revue, returning to Tvar in 2005 and staying there until 2012. As well as her literary and publishing work, she is a graphologist and plays the violin. She also paints and has illustrated her own books.Her poems are complex compositions that almost reach the form of prose. She consciously combines “unpoeti ... more Božena Správcová © privat
Kristi Stassinopoulou Kristi Stassinopoulou (born in 1956 in Athens, Greece) and Stathis Kalyviotis (born in 1965 in Athens, Greece) have been on the stage together for many years. Kristi Stassinopoulou is a singer and writes lyricism and her long-term partner Stathis Kalyviotis composes and arranges the music and is a multi-instrumentalist. Together they have released six albums which have done well in the world music charts.Kristi Stassinopoulou’s songs deal with being on the move and with life on remote Greek isla ... more Kristi Stathis c_Dionissis Stefanopoulos
Marie Šťastná Marie Šťastná (b. 1981 in Valašské Meziříčí) is one of the most important women poets to have emerged on to the Czech literary scene around 2000. From a female perspective looks critically and empathetically at inter-personal relationships. She has a degree in Art History and History of Culture from the University of Ostrava. She has published four volumes of poetry to date. Šťastná does not write a lot; when her new collection is published in 2019, nine years will have passed since the last one ... more Marie Šťastná © Ladislav Puršl
Michael Stauffer Michael Stauffer’s (born 1972 in Winterthur, Switzerland) first novel, I promise when the sun comes up – I promise, I’ll be true (2001)was awarded the Book Prize of the Canton of Berne and the Hermann Ganz Prize of the Swiss Writers’ Association. Stauffer’s work includes not only prose works but also poetry, plays, radio plays and Spoken Word performances. He currently lives in Biel (Bienne) and publishes internationally-acclaimed poetry, prose, radio plays, performances, plays, sings and improv ... more