Halyna Matveeva

Halyna Matveeva was born in Kharkiv. She graduated from the O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy with a degree in power engineering. She worked as an engineer, furniture designer, hairdresser, beauty manager, janitor, wedding chauffeur, theatrical costume restorer, website editor, and compiler of children's literature collections.

David Uclés

David Uclés (Úbeda, 1990), a translation and Interpreting graduate, is an author, musician, illustrator, and translator. He has worked as a Spanish, German, French and English teacher in various countries.

Lukáš Cabala

Lukáš Cabala lives, writes and works in Trenčín. He runs the online second-hand bookshop Čierne na bielom (Black on White). To date he has published three books of prose: Satori v Trenčíne (Satori in Trenčín), Jar v Jekaterinburgu (Spring in Ekaterinburg), and Spomenieš si na Trenčín? (Willl You Remember Trenčín? as well as children’s book Jeseň v lese (Autumn in the Forest).

Bogdan Creţu

Bogdan Crețu is a novelist, literary critic, and Professor of Romanian Literature at „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania, he was Director of the Institute of Romanian Philology, Romanian Academy, Iasi (2013-2022). He published 8 books of criticism, including Negative Utopia in Romanian Literature (2008) and The Unicorn at the Eastern Worldʼs Gates: D.

Maria Kjos Fonn

Maria Kjos Fonn (b. 1990) is one of the most powerful young literary voices in Norway. Her first novel Kinderwhore was nominated for the Norwegian Book Prize (the Brage Prize). Her first children’s book, Memoria, was published in 2022.

Kotryna Zylė

Kotryna Zylė is a writer, illustrator, designer, and author of seven books. She has received multiple awards for her books and is well known to readers of Lithuanian children’s and young adults and adults literature. A distinctive feature of her creative work is her incorporation of Lithuanian folklore and mythology within modern life.

Nicoletta Verna

Nicoletta Verna is from Romagna but lives in Florence, where she is a fiction editor at the publisher Giunti. She has taught communication theory and technique at various Italian universities and institutes. Her debut novel, Il valore affettivo, which received a special mention by the Italo Calvino award jury, the Opera Prima Severino Cesari prize and the Massarosa prize, has reaped great success with critics and readers.

Sheila Armstrong

Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the north-west of Ireland. She is the author of How To Gut A Fish, a collection of short stories, and Falling Animals, a novel. She has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards, the Society of Authors Awards, the Kate O’Brien Award, the Edge Hill Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She was chosen as an Arts Council Next Generation Artist and an An Post Best New Irish Writer. She is working on her second novel.

Makis Malafekas

Makis Malafekas was born in Athens in 1977. He studied art history and social anthropology. He has presented seminars on the history of European comics at the Sorbonne and has worked at the Paris School of Fine Arts. His articles have been published in “9” (Eleftherotypia), Libération, Mediapart, Lifo, and other magazines and newspapers. Deepfake is his latest out of six books (novels, poetry, essay, biography), and his third neo-noir novel.

Tea Topuria

Born in 1977 in the city of Sokhumi, Abkhazia (now occupied territory by Russia), Tea Topuria is a contemporary Georgian writer and poet. She graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University with a degree in journalism. She has worked and still works for a variety of media outlets and non-governmental organizations, is currently the journalist at Radio Liberty. Her works are printed in literary periodicals, with her short stories and poems being included in prose or poetry collections of Georgian authors.
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