Никола Михов е роден в София през 1982 г. През 2002 г. заминава за Париж, където започва да се занимава с фотография. Участва в редица международни изложби и фестивали, между който 13-то биенале за млади артисти от Европа и средиземноморието в Италия и фестивала за млада европейска фотография Menotrentuno в Сардиния. Носител е на наградата на международното фотографско биенале „Фодар“ през 2009 г. Номиниран за Еssl Art Award на музея за съвременно изкуство „Есл“ във Виена през 2011 г., както и за наградата на Салона на фотографията в Париж през 2012 г. Никола е съавтор на проекта „СОЦМУЗ“ – Виртуален музей на графичния дизайн от времето на социализма Проектът „Forget Your Past: монументалните паметници от времето на комунизма“ е осъществен в периода 2009-2012 г. Едноименната изложба е показвана по време на Месеца на фотографията в Лондон, Фестивала на спомените в село Бела речка, Sofia Architecture Week, в Българския културен институт в Берлин, Центъра за култура и дебат „Червената къща“, културния център Морско казино в Бургас и Аrtnewscafe в Пловдив.

From ithl.org: Leading Israeli novelist David Grossman (b. 1954, Jerusalem) studied philosophy and drama at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later worked as an editor and broadcaster at Israel Radio. Grossman has written seven novels, a play, a number of short stories and novellas, and a number of books for children and youth. He has also published several books of non-fiction, including interviews with Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. Among Grossmans many literary awards: the Valumbrosa Prize (Italy), the Eliette von Karajan Prize (Austria), the Nelly Sachs Prize (1991), the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zig-Zag Kid (Italy, 1996), the Vittorio de Sica Prize (Italy), the Juliet Club Prize, the Marsh Award for Childrens Literature in Translation (UK, 1998), the Buxtehude Bulle (Germany, 2001), the Sapir Prize for Someone to Run With (2001), the Bialik Prize (2004), the Koret Jewish Book Award (USA, 2006), the Premio per la Pace e lAzione Umanitaria 2006 (City of Rome/Italy), Onorificenza della Stella Solidarita Italiana 2007, Premio Ischia - International Award for Journalism 2007, the Geschwister Scholl Prize (Germany), the Emet Prize (Israel, 2007)and the Albatross Prize (Germany, 2009). He has also been awarded the Chevalier de lOrdre des Arts et Belles Lettres (France, 1998) and an Honorary Doctorate by Florence University (2008). In 2007, his novels The Book of Internal Grammar and See Under: Love were named among the ten most important books since the creation of the State of Israel. His books have been translated into over 25 languages. See also other authors with similar names.

Биография в П.Е.Н.. Биография в БГ-Фантастика. Писателка и преводачка на англоезична фантастика и сериозна белетристика. авършва английска филология във Великотърновския университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“ (1985). Автор на кратки разкази, публикувани в 30 страни от света, носител на национални и международни награди, представител на най-новата българска литература. Нейни романи са публикувани в България и САЩ. Секретар на българския ПЕН-клуб. Живее в Перник. С творбите си печели писателски стипендии за престой в литературни колонии и семинари в Швейцария, САЩ (двукратно) и Китай. Нейни разкази са публикувани в литературни списания и антологии в САЩ, Великобритания, Канада, Австралия, Франция, Германия, Япония, Китай, Русия, Аржентина, Норвегия, Словения, Иран, Румъния, Турция, Сърбия, Хърватска, Република Южна Африка, Виетнам, Гърция, Индия, Непал, Холандия, Австрия, Унгария, Полша, Нигерия, Чешката Република, Унгария, Словакия, нова Зеландия, Северна Ирландия, Албания, Македония.

Elizabeth Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer. Hardwick graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947. She was the author of three novels: The Ghostly Lover (1945), The Simple Truth (1955), and Sleepless Nights (1979). A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick, will be published in 2010. She also published four books of criticism: A View of My Own (1962), Seduction and Betrayal (1974), Bartleby in Manhattan (1983), and Sight-Readings (1998). In 1961 she edited The Selected Letters of William James and in 2000 she published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press' Penguin Lives series.. In 1959, Hardwick published in Harper's, "The Decline of Book Reviewing," a generally harsh and even scathing critique of book reviews published in American periodicals of the time. The 1962 New York City newspaper strike helped inspire Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Jason Epstein, Barbara Epstein, and Robert B. Silvers to establish The New York Review of Books, a publication that became as much a habit for many readers as The New York Times Book Review, which Hardwick had eviscerated in her 1959 essay. In the '70s and early '80s, Hardwick taught writing seminars at Barnard College and Columbia University's School of the Arts, Writing Division. She gave forthright critiques of student writing and was a mentor to students she considered promising. From 1949 to 1972 she was married to the poet Robert Lowell; their daughter is Harriet Lowell. In 2008, The Library of America selected Hardwick's account of the Caryl Chessman murders for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing.

Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Her awards include the Arthur C Clarke Award, the prestigious University of Johannesburg prize, the August Derleth Prize, the Strand Critics Choice Award and the RT Thriller of the Year. She’s been honoured in South Africa’s parliament and most recently won the Mbokondo Award from the Department of Arts and Culture, celebrating women in the arts for her work in the Creative Writing field. She is the author of Broken Monsters, about art, ambition, damaged people and not-quite-broken cities, The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer, the nature of violence, and how we are haunted by history, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical noir set in Johannesburg which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and Moxyland, a dystopian political thriller about a corporate apartheid state where people are controlled by their cell phones. Her first book was a feminist pop-history, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past, which has recently been reprinted. Her comics work includes Survivors' Club, an original Vertigo comic with Dale Halvorsen and Ryan Kelly, the New York Times-bestselling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda, and a Wonder Woman one-shot for kids, “The Trouble With Cats” in Sensation Comics, set in Mozambique and Soweto and drawn by Mike Maihack. Her film and TV work includes directing the documentary, Glitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant. The film won best LGBT film at the San Diego Black Film Festival. She was the showrunner on South Africa’s first full length animated TV series, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika which ran for 104 half hour episodes from 2006-2009 on SABC3. She’s also written for the Disney shows Mouk and Florrie’s Dragons and on the satirical political puppet show,ZANews and Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s South African Story. Before that she was a freelance journalist for eight years, writing about electricity cable thieves, TB, circumcision, telemedicine, great white sharks, homeless sex workers, Botswana’s first female high court judge, and Barbie as a feminist icon for magazines ranging from The Sunday Times Lifestyle to Nature Medicine, Colors, The Big Issue and Marie Claire. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her daughter. www.laurenbeukes.com Twitter.com/laurenbeukes Instagram.com/laurenbeukes Facebook.com/laurenbeukes Awards & Achievements 2015 South Africa’s Mbokondo Award for Women In The Arts: Creative Writing 2014 August Derleth Award for The Shining Girls 2014 Strand Critics Choice Award for The Shining Girls 2014 NPR Best Books of the Year Broken Monsters 2014 LA Times Best Books of the Year Broken Monsters 2013 University of Johannesburg Literature Prize for The Shining Girls 2013 RT Thriller of the Year for The Shining Girls 2013 WHSmith Richard & Judy BookClub Choice 2013 Exclusive Books’ Bookseller’s Choice for The Shining Girls 2013 Amazon Best Mysteries and Thrillers for The Shining Girls 2011 Kitschies Red Tentacle for Zoo City 2010 Arthur C Clarke Award for Zoo City

Richard Ford, born February 16, 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi, is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories. Comparisons have been drawn between Ford's work and the writings of John Updike, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Walker Percy. His novel Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996, also winning the PEN/Faulkner Award in the same year.

I moved to Russia in 1999, after growing up in mid-Wales and studying at Oxford University. I had no particular plan, beyond a desire to learn Russian, but got a job at a local magazine and realised I liked finding things out and writing about them. The next year I moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, then joined Reuters news agency, which sent me to Moscow. The first major story I reported on was the Moscow theatre siege of 2002, when a group of Chechens seized a theatre in the capital. It both horrified and fascinated me, and I resolved to find out as much as I could about Chechnya and the North Caucasus, to try to understand the roots of the conflict that had burst so unexpectedly into my life. I travelled extensively in the mountains that form Russia’s southern border, falling in love with the scenery, the food and above all the warm and welcoming people. When I left Russia in 2006, I was exhausted by it, however. I had seen too much misery and never wanted to write about Chechnya again. But I had promised to give a talk to a society in London. After the talk, I was asked if I would ever write a book about what I had seen. I wrote down a few thoughts, took them to a friend who knew about books, and she introduced me to a publisher. I travelled in a dozen countries to meet all the people I needed for the stories I wanted to tell, and wrote them down in Let Our Fame Be Great. Penguin published it in the UK in 2010. It won the Oxfam Emerging Writer Prize and was short-listed for the Orwell Prize, with prize judge James Naughtie calling it “an extraordinary book... a wonderful part-travelogue, part-history”. Basic Books published it in the United States, where the Overseas Press Club awarded it the Cornelius Ryan Award for “best nonfiction book on international affairs”. After it came out, though, a number of Russian friends objected that I had made the Russians into the villains. I don’t think I did, but their complaints chewed away at me a little. Perhaps some readers had been left feeling all Russians were complicit in the crimes of their leaders. The Russians after all suffered as much as anyone at the hands of the government in Moscow. That provoked me into writing my second book, The Last Man in Russia, which describes the struggle of a Russian to live in freedom and the efforts of Soviet officials to stop him. The life story of Father Dmitry, the Orthodox priest I chose as my central figure, seems to me to mirror the life of his whole nation, which is beset by depression and alcoholism. Travelling to meet the people I wanted to talk to and to see the places I wanted to describe took me to the far north of Russia, to rotting gulag towns; to the west of Russia, to half-abandoned villages; and to the Ural Mountains, where the communists locked up their doughtiest opponents; and to Moscow itself, that great fat spider in the centre of its web. I would like to write more books one day but, at the moment, I’m concentrating on my day job as Caucasus Editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting. I also write freelance articles and worry about the Welsh rugby team. http://www.oliverbullough.com/biograp...

Иван Ланджев (1986) е поет и есеист. Доктор по руска литература (СУ „Св. Климент Охридски“), преподавател. Носител на национални награди за поезията си. Участвал е в международни поетични фестивали, четения и научни конференции в САЩ, Русия, Германия, Австрия, Словения, Словакия, Унгария, Латвия. Негови стихове са преведени на 10 езика. Сред книгите му са стихосбирките „По вина на Боби Фишер“ (2010), „Ние според мансардата“ (2014)/„Wir Mansardenmenschen“ (Berlin, 2017) и „Ти, непрестанна новина“ (2018), както и „Поетика на себенадмогването. Наративни стратегии у късния Лев Толстой“ (2017).

Нева Мичева. Преводачка на книги. Почитателка на театъра, киното, пътеписите и културната журналистика. Literary translator from Italian, Spanish and Catalan into Bulgarian (and a tiny robot*). Proud Agony Aunt (хайде, пишете ми!). Bookscout and cultural journalist with a passion for cinema and a wishlist. ТУК - впечатления от книги. Впечатления от преводаческата професия и разни пристрастия: ТУК (разговор с Владимир Полеганов, 2013), ТУК (разговор с Ина Мирчева и сяо Стеф, 2014), ТУК (анкета на Капитал Light, 2016) и ТУК (заедно със Зори Христова и Стефан Русинов пред Ан Фам за Toest.bg, 2019). *

Георги Георгиев Лозанов е роден на 26 април 1958 г. в София. Завършил е специалност "Философия" в СУ "Св. Климент Охридски" през 1982 г. Завеждащ-отдел "Теория и критика на фотографията" в списание "Българско фото" - 1983-89 г. Редактор и заместник-главен редактор на вестник "Култура" от 1989 г. Доцент и професор във Факултета по журналистика и масови комуникации на СУ "Св. Климент Охридски" (от 1994 г.), преподава и в Нов български университет и НАТФИЗ "Кр. Сарафов". Член на Съюза на българските журналисти. Единственият член на медийния регулаторен орган в България от самото му учредяване: член от президентската квота на Националния съвет за радио и телевизия, НСРТ, от декември 1997 до 2001 (юли-ноември 2001 е председател на съвета) и член на Съвета за електронни медии, СЕМ, от ноември 2001 г. до началото на 2004 г. Носител на първата Годишна награда на Българската медийна коалиция за 2002 г., която се присъжда за цялостен принос към независимите медии и утвърждаване ценностите на гражданското общество. На 9 март 2004 е номиниран от Българския хелзинкски комитет и избран за председател на Управителния съвет на Българската медийна коалиция. Написал е над 100 научни студии и статии по проблемите на електронните и печатните медии, културологията, философията и естетиката и на повече от 200 статии в областта на критиката на медиите, литературната критика и изкуствознанието. Автор на осем телевизионни филма. Има над 100 участия в български и международни конференции, посветени на медиите и философията; участва в над 30 проекта в областта на медиите.

Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India. His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Dasgupta's second novel, Solo (2009) is an epic tale of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries told from the perspective of a one hundred-year old Bulgarian man. Having achieved little in his twentieth-century life, he settles into a long and prophetic daydream of the twenty-first century, where all the ideological experiments of the old century are over, and a collection of startling characters - demons and angels - live a life beyond utopia.

Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in Luanda in 1970 and teaches Theory of Science in Lisbon. Tavares has surprised his readers with the variety of books he has published since 2001. His work is being published in over 30 countries and it has been awarded an impressive amount of national and international literary prizes in a very short time. In 2005 he won the José Saramago Prize for young writers under 35. Jerusalém was also awarded the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa 2007 and the LER/Millenium Prize. His novel Aprender a rezar na Era de Técnica has received the prestigious Prize of the Best Foreign Book 2010 in France. This award has so far been given to authors like Salmon Rushdie, Elias Canetti, Robert Musil, Orhan Pamuk, John Updike, Philip Roth, Gabriel García Márquez and Colm Tóibín. Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica was also shortlisted for the renowned French literary awards Femina Étranger Prize and Médicis Prize and won the Special Price of the Jury of the Grand Prix Littéraire du Web Cultura 2010. In 2011, Tavares received the renowned Grande Prêmio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, as well as the prestigious Prémio Literário Fernando Namora 2011. The author was also nominated for the renowned Dutch Europese Literatuurprijs 2013 and was on the Longlist of the Best Translated Book Award Fiction 2013. Gonçalo M. Tavares nasceu em 1970. Os seus livros deram origem, em diferentes países, a peças de teatro, peças radiofónicas, curtas-metragens e objectos de artes plásticas, vídeos de arte, ópera, performances, projectos de arquitectura, teses académicas, etc. Estão em curso cerca de 160 traduções distribuídas por trinta e dois países. Jerusalém foi o romance mais escolhido pelos críticos do Público para «Livro da Década». Em Portugal recebeu vários prémios, entre os quais, o Prémio José Saramago (2005) e o Prémio LER/Millennium BCP (2004), com o romance Jerusalém (Caminho); o Grande Prémio de Conto da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores «Camilo Castelo Branco» (2007) com Água, Cão, Cavalo, Cabeça (Caminho). Recebeu, ainda, diversos prémios internacionais.