2019

Oana Doboşi-Potcoavă is the co-owner of the bookshop La Două Bufniţe in Timișoara.

Joelle Dufeuilly has been translating Hungarian literature since 1998. She translated authors such as László Krasznahorkai, György Dragomán, Sándor Jászberényi… She was awarded the SGDL translation prize for Krasznahorkai’s War and her overall work as a translator.

Annamaria Malato is CEO of Salerno Editrice Srl, president of the Rome Book Fair 'Più libri più liberi', member of the Committee of the Presidency and of the General Council, as well as deputy chairman for the Small Publishers Group of the AIE (Italian Publishers Association). She is also Board member of Caltagirone Editore.

Aki Järvinen is sales manager at the Academic Bookstore Helsinki.

David Szolláth, Ph. D. (1975) is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities in Budapest. He is a managing editor of Literatura, the theoretical journal of the Institute of Literary Studies, HAS, and author of "A kommunista aszketizmus esztétikája" [Aesthetics of Communist Ascetism] (2011). He was an editor at the literary review Kalligram (2006-2008) and Jelenkor (2008-2018).

Radoslav Passia is an author, editor, literary scholar and essayist.

Rūta Elijošaitytė-Kaikarė is a literary manager and managing director of the Lithuanian Publishers Association. Since 2005, she has been participating in various literary and literary management activities. She coordinates the Creative Europe project VERSOPOLIS in Lithuania. She is also a member of various literary work groups: Vilnius Book Fair organizational committee, Literature Council, Vilnius - World Capital of Books.

Eric Lafraise is the Market Manager for Literature and Knowledge of the Cultura bookshops chain. He has been working for Cultura for more than 17 years.

Nessa O'Mahony is a novelist and poet from Dublin. She has published four volumes of poems and a crime novel. A fifth volume of poetry has been published by Salmon in May 2019. 

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.