Ostap Slyvynsky

Ostap Slyvynsky is a poet, translator, essayist and literary critic. He has published five collections of poetry. He is a member of the expert commission on translation at the Ukrainian Book Institute. He was also the laureate of the Hubert Burda Prize for young Eastern European poets.

Laimantas Jonušys

Laimantas Jonušys is a translator and literary critic. He has translated about 30 books from English into Lithuanian. He has also published numerous articles and essays on literature, culture, politics; and published three books himself.

Renata Zamida

Renata Zamida has been working in the publishing sector since 15 years, mostly in international cooperation, copyright (buying and selling rights), marketing and eBooks. Between 2013 and 2016, she was the Artistic Director of the Fabula International Literary Festival, taking place in Slovenia, as well as board member of the Slovenian Book Fair in Ljubljana, responsible for internationalization, up until 2018.

Evelyne Noygues

Evelyne Noygues is a literary translatress. In 2008, she graduated from the National Eastern Languages and Civilisations Institute (Inalco) in Paris, France, with a Master 2 in "European Studies". After a double qualification in Albanian language and History, she goes from university translation to literary translation. In 2011, she joined the European Theatre Translation Network Eurodram where she translated several Albanian-speaking drama writers from Albania and Kosovo.

Tinatin Beriashvili

Tinatin Beriashvili, born in 1987, is the director of the Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association since 2014. The Association’s main priority is to promote and develop the publishing sector and raise the level of literacy in the country. The Association carries out important projects, such as organizing the Tbilisi International Book Festival and holding Georgian National desks at various international book fairs.

Bora Babić

Bora Babić is editrix-in-chief and directress of the publishing house Akademska knjiga. She is also the co-founder and vice-president of the UPIS-Association of Serbian Professional Publishers. She began her professional career working in the publishing department for both Matica srpska Novi Sad and Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića.

Paata Shamugia

Paata Shamugia is a contemporary Georgian poet born in 1983 in Georgia. Since 2018, he is a president of the Georgian Pen Center. In 2015, he became the first Georgian poet to get the most prestigious SABA literary prize twice.