Shimon Adaf Shimon Adaf (*1972, Sderot, Israel) lives in Tel Aviv where he works as an author, musician and editor. He was already “condemned to write poetry” as a child. Adaf published his first texts during his national service. He won the Israeli Ministry of Education’s prize for his debut work. He was the songwriter and guitarist for the rock band "Ha’atzula" (The Aristocracy). The band released its first album in 1996. The album “Soon There will be Summer”, featuring seven songs that he composed and re ... more
Ondřej Adámek Ondřej Adámek (born 1979 in Prague, Czech Republic) studied composition at the Prague Music Academy and at the Paris Conservatoire. Adámek is currently (2010-2011) a guest of the Berlin Artists‘ Programme of the DAAD and it also composing a new work for the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), which will be premièred in 2013. In 2002 he was awarded a UNESCO grant for the production ‘Abila’, which was created in collaboration with the Gaara dance company in Nairobi. He has been commissioned to cre ... more
Juana Adcock Juana Adcock (born in 1982 in Monterrey, Mexico) is a writer and translator of English and Spanish who has lived in Scotland since 2009. She has published widely in magazines and anthologies and her first collection of poems, Manca, appeared in 2014 from Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro. In it she explores the anatomy of violence in Mexico, often shifting between her two languages. The influential Mexican critic Sergio González Rodríguez has called Manca one of the best poetry collections of 2014. ... more Juana Adcock c_privat
Yassin Adnan Yassin Adnan (born in 1970 in Safi, Morocco) studied English Literature and Education at the University of Marrakesh and the Mohammad V University in Rabat and subsequently worked as an English teacher. Today he is known for his weekly cultural programme Macharif on the Moroccan TVM television channel, which was voted Best Cultural Programme in 2007 and 2008. He also works for Moroccan radio, as a correspondent for the Lebanese daily newspaper al-Akhbar and the magazine Dubai al-thaqafiya, and i ... more Yassin Adnan c_privat
Prof. Giorgio Agamben Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942 in Rome) studied Literature and Philosophy on the side while studying Law in Rome. What actually made him decide in favour of Philosophy were two seminars with Martin Heidegger in the summers of 1966 and 1968 after he graduated in Law. As well as Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin were important points of reference in Agamben’s thinking. As editor of the Italian edition of Walter Benjamin’s writings he found a series of his manuscripts that wer ... more Prof. Giorgio Agamben © privat
Henning Ahrens Henning Ahrens (born 1964 in Peine, Germany) is a writer and literary translator. He studied English, History and Art History in Göttingen, London and Kiel. In 1995 he gained his doctorate at the University of Kiel. In his poems he looks for the “right words”, finding which should enable him to describe situations and feelings as he actually sees and experiences them, regardless of social or artistic patterns or models. Prizes/distinctions:Wolfgang Weyrauch Promotion Prize (1999), Promotion Priz ... more
Zeynep Altıok Akatlı Zeynep Altıok Akatlı (born 1968, Ankara, Turkey) studied Social Anthropology at Istanbul University. After graduation, she worked for many years in advertising, and has worked as a Communication Consultant for politicians and artists since 2013. Alongside this career, Altıok Akatlı holds the position of Acting Party Chairperson for Culture and Art for the Republican People's Party (CHP). Zeynep Altıok is primarily engaged with projects that support the cultural and artistic activities of women. ... more
Gülten Akin Gülten Akin (born 1933, Turkey) is a pioneering poet in contemporary Turkish poetry. She studied law, and worked for many years as a lawyer and teacher as well as a literary critic and essayist. She is the founder and leader of a human rights organization. Writing poetry is synonymous for her with assuming social responsibility. In the course of the last 50 years Gülten Akin has presented a traditional, patriarchal society’s key themes from a female perspective. Her poetry deals with questions ... more
Ali Al-Jallawi Ali Al-Jallawi (born 1975 in Manama, Bahrain) is a poet and writer. At just seventeen years of age he was arrested because of a poem in which he criticised the regime in Bahrain. In his collection Al-Medina al-akhira (The Last City), Al-Jallawi dreams of a perfect city, a city of poets, in which everyone is free to express her thoughts. The work is dedicated to his friend Isa, who, condemned to death, was in prison with Al-Jallawi. As well as seven books of verse, Ali Al-Jallawi has published wo ... more
Mohamad Alaaedin Abdul Moula Mohamad Alaaedin Abdul Moula (born in 1965 in Homs, Syria) is a poet and critic. In his texts about politics, religion and the dignity of the human body he speaks out against his country’s taboos. He published his first critical verse and prose texts in the early 1980s. He worked for 18 years in the Archaeological Museum in his home city. From 2011 to 2015 he lived in Mexico at the invitation of a Mexican foundation in co-operation with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), subsequ ... more Alaaedin Abdul Moula c_privat
Jalal Alahmady Jalal Al-Aḥmady (born in Saudi Arabia in 1987) is a post-modern poet from Yemen. His poetry is known beyond his country’s borders throughout the Arabic-speaking world for its innovative, vital and polemical imagery and language. In his poems he confronts tradition and religion in a forthright and critical way, which finds particular favour with the Facebook generation. Since 2010 he has published four collections of poetry and has won several prizes, including the 2014 Abdulaziz-al-Maqalih Prize ... more Jalal Alahmady (c) Kenan Khaddaj
Jörg Albrecht Jörg Albrecht (born in 1981 in Bonn), grew up in Dortmund and now lives in Berlin. He studied Comparative Literature, German and History in Bochum and Vienna (2001-2006), and Scenic Writing in the Forum Text of uniT Graz (2008-2010). Albrecht writes prose, essays, radio plays and texts for theatre and performance. His most recent publications are the novels Anarchie in Ruhrstadt (Wallstein Verlag 2014) and Der Kotti (Be.bra-Verlag 2015). http://www.fotofixautomat.de ... more Jörg Albrecht c_gezett