Fernando Valls is an accredited professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He is the author of several books, editions of texts and articles on the current Spanish narrative. He has directed the literary magazine Quimera and two collections by the publisher Menoscuarto dedicated to the short narrative and the literary essay. He has obtained the Comillas Prize from the Tusquets publishing house, along with Juan Luis Panero. He curates current literary criticism in the literary supplement Los diablos azul, from the newspaper infoLibre.

Marju Kirsipuu is development manager for the Apollo bookstore in Estonia.

Author of several books, including a thesis on love in the Arab-Islamic tradition, Raja Ben Slama is a professor at the University of Manouba and a psychoanalyst. She is director-general of the National Library of Tunisia since 2015. Her latest book, in French, is Gender Orders / Disorders : Cross-Readings on Violence and Love (Tunis, 2020).

Vladimír Opatrný (born 1978) is a bookseller. He completed his studies at the Institute of Information Science and Librarianship in Prague in 2006. For several years he worked in university libraries as a specialist in electronic information resources. He started his business with an e-commerce focused on professional literature and opened a shop in the center of Jablonec nad Nisou in 2012. He organizes meetings in the bookstore focused not only on literature and he considers the store as a place in the city center where people meet, not only for buying books.

Rachelle Deguara has been working in the book industry for the last three years building close relations with authors, promoting their work and contributing to the National Book Festival (Malta). Her work in the literacy field started when she had the role of public relations officer in the voluntary organisation Għaqda tal-Malti Universitá which is the university association that strives to promote emerging authors and make sure that the pioneers of Maltese literature are not forgotten.

Ana Geršak (1983) has been working as a literary critic and editor for a number of years. She is a contributor to various literary journals, newspapers, web portals and the national radio. She was on the organisational team for the international critics’ symposium coordinated by the Slovene Literary Critics’ Association. In 2011, she received the Stritar Award, which is presented annually by the Slovene Writers’ Association to the most promising literary critic.

Giorgos Moleskis was born in 1946. He studied at the Nicosia English College and the Moscow State University – Lomonosov. He has an M.A. degree in Russian Language and Literature and a Ph.D. degree in Literature. He worked at the Cultural Services Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus, in the position of Senior Cultural Officer and us the Executive Adviser of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation. 

Osman Gashi (Prishtina, 1962) is Professor of World Literature, Comparative Literature and Mythology at the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Philology (Department of Albanian Literature).
His books and scholarly articles cover a wide range of studies on Albanian and world literature, treatises in the field of Comparative Literature and Intertextuality as well as analysis on myths and mythology.
He has published the following volumes of studies:
Interliterary Studies, Rozafa, Prishtina, 2001
European Myth and Romanticism, Pen Center of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2005

Dolors Udina is a literary translator and has been Associated Professor of Translation in the Barcelona Autonomous University since 1998. She has translated into Catalan more than a hundred books of writers such as Jean Rhys, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee y Toni Morrison. She’s won a number of awards for her translations of books like Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (2014), and Aldous Huxley’s The Demons of Loudun (2017). In 2019 she was awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture the National Translation Prize to the work of a life.

Ilvi Liive built up the Estonian Literature Centre in 2001, and has been running it since then. She studied Estonian and German languages and literature at Tartu University, and Dutch language, literature and history of Dutch art at Groningen University. She has been working as publisher and literary translator from Dutch and German.