María Elísabet Bragadóttir (b. 1993) holds a degree in philosophy and has served as a columnist for an Icelandic newspaper and the national radio station. Her debut book, a collection of short stories titled Room in Another World, garnered unanimous acclaim from both critics and readers. It was chosen as the "Discovery of the Year" by Iceland's leading newspaper, Morgunblaðið, and voted one of the three best works of fiction of the year by Icelandic booksellers.
Writer, journalist, born in 1987 in Győr. She lives in Budapest and works as the editor of the Hungarian online literary journal Revizor. She is the co-chairman of the Hungarian Theatre Critics Guild.
Todor P. Todorov (1977, Sofia) is a Bulgarian philosopher and fiction writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories and one novel: Tales for Melancholic Children (2010), Always the Night (2012), and Hagabula (2022). His short stories were translated and published in Germany by Groessenwahn Verlag (Frankfurt am Main). In 2011, he won the Rashko Sougarev Prize for best fiction short story for Van Gogh in Paris.
Rita Petro (Filipi) was born on March 13, 1962, in Tirana, Albania. She has graduated from the University of Tirana, Literature and Albanian Language (1980-1984) and specialized in Ancient Philosophy and Culture at the University of Athens (1993). She was an editor and didactic specialist (1985-2000) at the state-owned publishing house.
