- Georgia
- 2019
Beqa Adamashvili
Famous Georgian blogger and advertising copywriter Beqa Adamashvili graduated from Caucasus University, faculty of journalism and social science. He made his literary debut in 2009 with short stories...
- Lithuania
- 2019
Daina Opolskaitė
Daina Opolskaitė Kovalčikienė was born in 1979 in Vilkaviškis. She graduated from Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (former Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas), where she studied...
- Italy
- 2019
Giovanni Dozzini
Giovanni Dozzini was born in Perugia (1978) where he still lives today. He works as both a journalist and an interpreter. His articles have been published in several internationally acclaimed...
- Ukraine
- 2019
Haska Shyyan
A writer, translator, blogger, photographer. Born in 1980 in Lviv. Studied classical philology at Lviv University. Being a co-owner of a bookshop in Lviv, she actively campaigns for elimination of...
- Slovakia
- 2019
Ivana Dobrakovová
Ivana Dobrakovová is a Slovak writer and translator based in Turin. Her literary debut, a collection of short stories entitled Prvá smrť v rodine / First Death in the Family (2009), was shortlisted...
- Ireland
- 2019
Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears was published by Liberties Press in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short...
- Austria
- 2019
Laura Freudenthaler
Laura Freudenthaler, born 1984 in Salzburg. She studied German language and literature studies, Philosophy and Gender Studies. She lives in Vienna. Her stories Der Schädel der Madeleine were...
- Poland
- 2019
Marta Dzido
MARTA DZIDO - born in 1981; writer, documentary filmmaker and film editor. Graduated at the Polish Film School in Łódź. Author of three novels: "A Mark Left by Mom" (2003), "The Clam"; (2005),...
- the United Kingdom
- 2019
Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison is the author of the novels Clay and At Hawthorn Time, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize, and one work of non-fiction,...
- Greece
- 2019
Nikos Chryssos
Born in 1972 in Athens, Nikos Chryssos (Νίκος Χρυσός) studied at the Department of Biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Department of Film Direction at the School...
- Finland
- 2019
Piia Leino
Piia Leino was born in 1977. She lives in Helsinki with her family, and has worked as a journalist at the Finnish News Agency, STT, for almost two decades. She got her Master’s degree in social...
- Hungary
- 2019
Réka Mán-Várhegyi
Réka Mán-Várhegyi (1979) spent her childhood in Târgu Mureș, Romania, she moved to Hungary after the fall of the communist regime in 1990. She has been a Hungarian citizen since 1992. Currently she...
- France
- 2019
Sophie Daull
Sophie Daull is an actress and writer born in Eastern France in 1965. It was her studies in music at the National Conservatory of Strasbourg that encouraged her early on to pursue her...
- Romania
- 2019
Tatiana Țîbuleac
Tatiana Țîbuleac was born in 1978 in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, and has Moldovan and Romanian nationality. She studied at the Faculty of Journalism and Communications of the Moldova State...