Nurit Zarchi Nurit Zarchi (born in Jerusalem in 1941) studied Psychology, Literature and Philosophy in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. She is one of Israel’s best known authors of children’s books, and as well as working as a journalist and essayist she writes prose and poetry. Nurit Zarchi’s poems tell stories and fables in strongly associative language which always incorporates several layers of meaning. She has received all the important prizes for children’s literature and has been awarded the Prime Minister’s P ... more Nurit Zarchi
Péter Závada Even as a teenager, Péter Závada, who was born in Budapest in 1982, achieved success with the rap and slam formation ‘Sons of the Beginning’. They initially wrote their witty and provocative texts in English, but subsequently in Hungarian. One of their song lyrics was even introduced as the subject of an oral examination for the Abitur school leaving certificate in a gymnasium in Pécs in 2012. Since 2009, Závada has been publishing poems in the main Hungarian literary journals such as Holmi and ... more
Anat Zecharia Anat Zecharia (born in 1974 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a prizewinning poet, dance critic, writer and editor. She studied photography in Haifa and Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. Since 2009 she has been dance critic for the magazine Yedioth Aharonot. She was an active member of the Artists' Greenhouse for Social Activism, a group at the Musrara School of Photography & Media in Jerusalem. Her poems have been translated into several languages including Albanian, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese and English. Z ... more Anat Zecharia c_Asa Goldfrid
Serhiy Zhadan Serhij Zhadan (b. 1974 in Starobilsk, Ukraine) studied German Studies at the Pedagogic University of Charkiv before gaining a doctorate with a thesis on Ukrainian Futurism. He is the enfant terrible of contemporary Ukrainian literature. He is an explosive talent popular with the younger generation of readers who came to prominence while still relatively young with his ability to make rapid shifts between poetic techniques. He wrote texts, mainly poetry, while still a student, and later turned to ... more
Serhij Zhadan Serhiy Zhadan (*1974, Starobilsk, Urkaine) is one of the most important Ukrainian writers of the younger generation, and has been described by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as “Ukraine’s most audacious voice on politics and life at the edge of Europe...”. He began writing during his studies, first poetry, later prose as well. He made his debut in 1995 with the anthology Zytatnyk, which was followed by numerous publications. Since then various translations of his poetry and prose have appeared, in Ger ... more Serhij Zhadan Foto: gezett
Érica Zíngano Érica Zíngano (born in 1980 in Fortaleza) engages in humorous reflection on her own poetic work in the library, at home and on the street. She currently does this in Lisbon, where she is working on a doctoral thesis on Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol. In her own poems and video works, Érica Zíngano emphasises the everyday with a strong rhythm, using apparently banal imagery to reveal tensions within language, interrogating without any false modesty the literary tradition - Camões, Madam ... more
Érica Zíngano (de) Érica Zíngano (geb.1980 in Fortaleza, Brasilien) reflektiert in der Bibliothek, zu Hause und auf dem Bürgersteig mit Humor über das eigene poetische Schaffen. In ihren Gedichten und anderen visuellen Arbeiten unterstreicht Érica Zíngano das Alltägliche mit einer betonten Rhythmik, wobei scheinbar banale Bilder genutzt werden, um Spannungen innerhalb der Sprache aufzudecken. Ohne falsche Scheu befragt sie dabei die literarische Tradition: Camões, Madame Bovary, aber auch das Guinness Buch d ... more Érica Zíngano
Érica Zíngano Érica Zíngano (b.1980 in Fortaleza, Brazil) reflects with humour in the library, at home and in the pavement on her own poetic creation. In her poems and other visual works Érica Zíngano underlines the everyday with a marked rhythmicality, using apparently banal images in order to uncover the tensions within language. Without false modesty she interrogates the literary tradition – Camões, Madame Bovary, but also the Guinness Book of Records as well as Google become sources for her ambiguous poem ... more Érica Zíngano
Vit Zouhar Vít Zouhar (*1966, Czech Republic) is a composer, musicologist and university lecturer. He studied in Brünn and Graz, became a doctor of musicology and qualified as a professor at the University of Ostrava in the musical education department. From 1992 to 2004, he was an assistant lecturer at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz. Since 1992, he has been teaching at the Palacký University in Olomouc. Zouhar has composed more than 50 orchestral, chamber and electronic works, as ... more
Raúl Zurita Raúl Zurita (b. 1950 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) is one of the most striking contemporary Latin American poets. His poetry expresses, like almost no other, in a precise and powerful torrent of words the tension between the suffering subject and anger towards history.Zurita was arrested after the military coup in 1973 and incarcerated with nearly 100 other people in the hull of a ship. After his release he founded the radical artists' group CADA, in which he made a mark above all with his provoc ... more