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• Vesna Acevska

  Children and Young Adults Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Vesna Acevska was born in 1952 in Skopje. In 2009, she received the most important Macedonian prize for poetry, the Miladinov Brothers Award. Macedonian literary critique adores her: Katica Kulavkova,...

• Theodor W. Adorno

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was born in 1903 in Frankfurt am Main. He studied Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and Music Theory and gained his Ph.D. in 1924 on Husserl’s phenomenology. In 1931...

• Mimoza Ahmeti

  Fiction Poetry Albanian Albania

  Born in 1963 as the daughter of a teacher in the North Albanian city Krujë. Even in the years before the collapse of the Communist system, she published poems, which...

• Robert Alagjozovski

  Fiction Non-Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Robert Alagjozovski, born in 1973, studied General and Comparative Literature in Skopje. He has worked as an editor at various Macedonian publishing companies and magazines. Since 2010 he has run...

• David Albahari

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  David Albahari, born in 1948 in Peć in the former Yugoslavia, studied English Literature and Language at the University of Belgrade. He has lived in Calgary, Canada since 1994. David...

• Dragan Aleksić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Dragan Aleksić was born in 1958 in Bela Crkva (Serbia). He studied Art History in Belgrade. In 1992 he made his debut with the novel Kjaroskuro [Chiaroscuro], which was followed...

• Götz Aly

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Götz Aly was born in 1947 in Heidelberg. He had visited the German School for Journalism in Munich before he studied history and political sciences in Berlin. He earned his...

• Jean Améry

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Jean Améry was born in 1912 in Vienna as Hans Mayer. After he finished school, he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then worked as a lecturer at the...

• Günther Anders

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Günther Anders was born as Günther Siegmund Stern in 1902 in Wrocław. He studied philosophy under Cassirer, Heidegger and Husserl. Faced with the atrocities of WWI, he became a pacifist...

• Venko Andonovski

  Drama Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Venko Andonovski was born in 1964 in Kumanovo, Macedonia, and studied philology in Skopje and Zagreb. He teaches at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Andonovski wrote several...

• Nikolina Andova Šopova

  Fiction Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Nikolina Andova Šopova, born in 1978 in Skopje, studied Macedonian and South Slavic Literature at the University of Skopje. Amongst her publications are the collections of poetry Влезот е од другата...

• Alexander Andreev

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria Germany

  Alexander Andreev, born in 1956 in Sofia, is writer, journalist, translator, and the head of the Bulgarian editorial team at the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (TV and online) in Bonn. He has...

• Ivo Andrić

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia

  Ivo Andrić was born in 1882 in Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He studied Slavonic Studies and History in Zagreb, Vienna, Krakow and Graz, where he received his doctorate in 1924....

• Lindita Arapi

  Fiction Poetry Albanian German Albania Germany

  Lindita Arapi was born in 1972 in Lushnjë, central Albanien. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a writer of the so called Albanian literary avant-garde circle that...

• Vladimir Arsenijević

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Vladimir Arsenijević was born in 1965 in Pula. He lives and works as a translator in Belgrade, and is one of the best-known spokespersons of the contemporary, alternative, progressive Serbian...

• Aleida Assmann

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Aleida Assmann, born in 1947 in Gadderbaum, studied English Language and Literature, and Egyptology in Heidelberg and Tübingen. She qualified as a professor in 1992 in Heidelberg and has been...

• Jan Assmann

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Jan Assmann, born in 1938 in Langelsheim, studied Archaeology, Egyptology and Greek in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris and Göttingen. Since 1976 he has been Professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg (guest professor...

• Selvedin Avdić

  Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Selvedin Avdić was born in 1969 in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives there and works as a writer and journalist. He is an editor at the online magazine zurnal.info...

• Esad Babačić

  Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Esad Babačić, writer and the singer of the legendary punk band Via ofenziva, is one of the best-known and most original representative of the Slovenian literary scene. He is author...

• Vladimir Babić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Vladimir Babić, born in 1982 in Ruma, studied German Language and Literature in Belgrade. As grant holder of the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD) he studied German Philology and Translation Science...

• Ingeborg Bachmann

  Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Ingeborg Bachmann, born in 1926 in Klagenfurt, is regarded as one of the most important German-speaking lyricists and writers of prose of the 20th century. In 1946, when she first...

• Anton Baev

  Fiction Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Anton Baev, born in 1963 in Plovdiv, studied literature. In 2009, he obtained his PhD from the Literary Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is author of numerous...

• Milena Baisch

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Milena Baisch was born in 1976 in Bochum. Since 1995, she has been writing children’s books, at first above all for reading beginners and small children. From 1998 to 2000,...

• Vladislav Bajac

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Vladislav Bajac, born in 1954, studied Yugoslavian Literary Science and World Literature in his native town of Belgrade. He founded the publishing company Geopoetika and is Vice-President of the Serbian...

• Renato Baretić

  Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Renato Baretić was born in Zagreb in 1963 and has worked as a journalist since 1983. He moved to Split in 1993, and is one of Croatia’s most important columnists...

• Lukas Bärfuss

  Drama Fiction German Switzerland

  Lukas Bärfuss, born in 1971 in Thun (Switzerland), is regarded  as one of the most successful contemporary dramatists. His plays are performed worldwide and played on the main stages in...

• Peter Bartl

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Prof. Dr. Peter Bartl was born in 1938 in Cottbus. He studied Slavic Studies, Turkish Studies and East European History in Göttingen and Munich. Since 1980 he has been Professor...

• Svetislav Basara

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Svetislav Basara, born in 1953 in Bajina Bašta close to the Bosnian border, is one of Serbia’s most renowned and successful authors abroad. He made his debut with his first...

• Jana Bauer

  Children and Young Adults Slovene Slovenia

  Jana Bauer was born in 1975 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studied at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television and completed here studies as a dramaturge in 2003. She...

• Muharem Bazdulj

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Muharem Bazdulj, born in 1977 in Travnik, studied English and Anglo-American studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo. He then went on to work as a...

• Hans Georg Beck

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hans Georg Beck was born in 1910 in Schneizlreuth. After ‘A’ Levels he became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Scheyern. From 1930 to 1937 he studied Philosophy, Catholic...

• Ulrich Beck

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Ulrich Beck, (1944-2015) was born in Stolp in Eastern Pommerania. He studied Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology and Political Science in Munich, where he obtained his Ph.D in 1972. Seven years later...

• Hans Belting

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hans Belting, born in 1935 in Andernach, studied Art History in Mainz and Rome. After obtaining his doctorate in Mainz he taught at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich as...

• Walter Benjamin

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Walter Benjamin, born in 1892 in Berlin, was an important philosopher, literary critic and translator. He studied Philosophy in Freiburg, Munich and Berlin as well as German Literature and Psychology....

• Wolfgang Benz

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Wolfgang Benz, born in 1941 in Ellwangen/Jagst, studied History, Political Science and Art History in Frankfurt, Kiel and Munich. Until 1990 he was a Research Assistant at the Institute for...

• Shaip Beqiri

  Poetry Albanian Kosovo Switzerland

  Shaip Beqiri was born in 1954 in Gllamnik, Kosovo. He studied Albanian language and literature at the University of Pristina and worked subsequently as a teacher and editor. Since 1995,...

• Sibylle Berg

  Drama Fiction German Germany

  Sibylle Berg, born in Weimar, is ever since her debut novel Ein paar Leute suchen das Glück und lachen sich tot [A Couple of People Seek Fortune and Die Laughing]...

• Thomas Bernhard

  Drama Fiction Poetry German Austria

  Thomas Bernhard, who was born in 1931 in Heerlen (Netherlands) and grew up in Southern Bavaria and in the Salzburg area, is one of the most important Austrian writers. His...

• Marcel Beyer

  Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Marcel Beyer, born in 1965 in Tailfingen, studied German, English Language and Literature and Literary Science in Siegen. He obtained his master’s degree in 1992 with a paper about Friederike...

• Peter Bieri

  Fiction Non-Fiction German Austria Switzerland

  Peter Bieri, born in 1944 in Bern, studied Indian and English studies, philosophy, and Greek language in London and in Heidelberg. After obtaining his doctorate in 1971 and after his...

• Boris Domagoj Biletić

  Magazines Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Boris Domagoj Biletić, born in 1957 in Pula, studied Croatian and Southern Slavic Philology in Zagreb. In the 1970s he published initially poems, literary reviews, meditations, studies and translations. His...

• Laslo Blašković

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Laslo Blašković, born in 1966, is a Serbian poet, novelist, translator and essayist. Up until now he has published five novels, four of which have been honoured – he received...

• Hans Blumenberg

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hans Blumenberg, born in 1920 in Lübeck, studied Philosophy, German philology and Classic philosophy in Paderborn, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, and Kiel. In 1947 he completed his PhD at the...

• Marica Bodrožić

  Fiction German Croatia Germany

  Marica Bodrožić was born in Dalmatia, now Croatia, in 1973. She has lived in Germany since 1983 and writes poetry, novels, short stories and essays. She has received numerous awards...

• Kirsten Boie

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Kirsten Boie, born in 1950 in Hamburg, is one of the best-known German authors of modern novels for children and young adults. She studied German and English and received her...

• Nicolas Bouvier

  Fiction Non-Fiction French Switzerland

  Nicolas Bouvier, born in 1929 in Lancy, was a Swiss writer, photographer, and journalist. His famous travel books made him one of the cult authors of the genre. He travelled,...

• Hristo Boytchev

  Drama Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Hristo Boytchev, born in 1950, is considered one of the most well-known playwrights in Bulgaria. A year after the opening of his first play, called Что-то [Something], in 1984, he...

• Michel Božiković

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Michel Božiković was born in 1971 in Zurich. He studied philosophy, political science and journalism in Konstanz and Zurich. Between 2000 and 2006, he had his own recording studio and...

• Jürgen Brater

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Dr. Jürgen Brater, born 1948 in Ostfriesland. He studied Medical Science and Dentistry at the University of Erlangen. In 1976 he opened his private practice in Aalen. Since 1987 he...

• Bertolt Brecht

  Drama German Germany

  Bertolt Brecht, born in 1898 in Augsburg, studied Natural Sciences, Medicine and Literature in Munich. He had to interrupt his studies in 1918, as he was employed as a Medical...

• Alida Bremer

  Fiction Poetry Croatian German Croatia Germany

  Alida Bremer, born in 1959 in Split, studied Comparative Literature, Romance studies, Slavic languages and German in Belgrade, Rome, Saarbrücken and Münster. After gaining her Ph.D. she worked for many...

• Thomas Bremer

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Thomas Bremer was born in 1957 in Essen. He studied Catholic theology, Slavic studies and classical philology in Munich, Münster and Belgrade. He did his PhD in theology in 1990....

• Irena Brežná

  Fiction Magazines German Switzerland

  Irena Brežná was born in 1950 in Bratislava, which was then in Czechoslovakia. Together with her parents she emigrated to Switzerland in 1968. She studied Slavic languages, philosophy and psychology...

• Hermann Broch

  Fiction German Austria

  Hermann Broch, born in 1886, grew up in Vienna. He was at the head of the textile factory belonging to his family for 20 years before he decided to live...

• Ulf Brunnbauer

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Ulf Brunnbauer, born in 1970 in Linz, studied History, Russian Philology, Sociology and Macroeconomics in Graz and Moscow. In 1999 he gained his Ph.D. at the University of Graz, where...

• Snežana Bukal

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Snežana Bukal was born in 1957 in Belgrade. Already at the age of 17, she received the October Prize of the City of Belgrade for her unpublished book of poems....

• Diana Burazer

  Poetry Croatian Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia

  Diana Burazer was born in Zagreb in 1953. She went to school in Pleternica (Slavonia) and Ljubuški (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied Mathematics in Zagreb and then lived in Mostar, Bosnia,...

• Adolf Burger

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Adolf Burger, born in 1917 in what is today Slovakia, is a skilled book printer and typesetter. In 1942, he and his wife were deported to Auschwitz, and two years...

• Ahmed Burić

  Fiction Bosnian Slovene Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Ahmed Burić, born in 1967 in Sarajevo, studied at the Faculty for Political Sciences, specialising in Journalism. He is a poet, translator, literary critic, editor, screenplay writer and journalist. His...

• Marie-Janine Calic

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Marie-Janine Calic was born in 1962 in Berlin. After earning her PhD in Eastern European History from the LMU Munich in 1992, she worked until 2004 as an academic consultant...

• Alex Capus

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Alex Capus was born in 1961 in Normandy and lives today in Olten in the Swiss canton of Solothurn. In 1994, he published his first volume of stories Diese verfluchte...

• Mircea Cărtărescu

  Fiction Magazines Poetry Romanian Romania

  Mircea Cărtărescu, born in 1956 in Bucharest, is one of the leading novelists and lyricists of Romania. From 1980 to 1989 he worked as a teacher of Romanian, and then...

• Dušan Čater

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Magazines Slovene Slovenia

  Dušan Čater, born in 1968 in Celje, is one of the most significant contemporary writers in Slovenia. He studied journalism and sociology at the University of Ljubljana. He worked as...

• Branko Čegec

  Non-Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Branko Čegec, born in 1957 in Kraljev Vrh, Vrbovec, studied Yugoslav languages and literatures and comparative literature in Zagreb. He is author of over 15 published books in genres such...

• Paul Celan

  Poetry German Romania

  Paul Celan was born in 1920, the son of German-speaking, Jewish parents in former Romanian Czernowitz. After ‘A’ Levels he began studying medicine in France, but after a year returned...

• Miro Cerar

  Non-Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Miro Cerar was born in 1963 in Ljubljana. He studied Law and completed his PhD in Law in 2000. He went on to become a professor at the Faculty of...

• Léa Cohen

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria Switzerland

  Léa Cohen, born in 1942 in Sofia, studied piano in her home town and the history of music in the Dutch city of Utrecht. She was pianist and director of...

• Velibor  Čolić

  Fiction Magazines Croatian French Croatia

  Velibor Čolić was born in 1964 in Odžak (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He spent his childhood and youth in Modriča. Before the outbreak of the war in 1992, he wrote for...

• Ivan Čolović

  Non-Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Ivan Čolović was born in 1938 in Belgrade. Ethnologist by profession, he was a coworker of the Ethnological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. Ivan Čolović wrote numerous works...

• Liliana Corobca

  Fiction Non-Fiction Romanian Romania

  Liliana Corobca was born in 1975 in Săseni-Călăraşi, Moldavia. She studied at the Faculty of Philology at the Moldavian State University in Chişinău, Moldavia. Between 1997 and 2001 she did...

• Miloš Crnjanski

  Drama Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Miloš Crnjanski was born in 1893 in Csongrád (Hungary). He studied Philosophy and Art History in Vienna, Belgrade and Paris. He was forced to become an imperial and royal officer...

• Primož Čučnik

  Magazines Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Primož Čučnik, born in 1971 in Ljubljana, studied cultural philosophy and sociology. He is one of the most important Slovenian poets of the younger generation. Until now he has published...

• Beqë Cufaj

  Fiction Magazines Poetry Albanian Kosovo

  Beqë Cufaj, born in 1970 in Deçan (Kosovo), studied Linguistics and Literature in Prishtina and went to Germany after completing his studies. When the Kosovan war began in 1999, he...

• Sara Danius

  Fiction Non-Fiction German

  Sara Danius is Literary scholar and Professor at Södertörn University College in Sweden. She has received numerous awards and was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin. Sara...

• Aleš Debeljak

  Non-Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Aleš Debeljak, born in 1961, studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature in Ljubljana and obtained his Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in New York. He is Professor for...

• Alexander Demandt

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Alexander Demandt, born in 1937 in Marburg, studied History and Latin Philology in Tübingen, Munich and Marburg. In 1963 he obtained his Ph.D. on the subject of “Contemporary issues and...

• Arif Demolli

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Magazines Albanian Kosovo

  Arif Demolli, born in 1949 in Murrizaja, is one of the most well-known Kosovan authors. He studied Albanian Language and Literature in Pristhina. He was arrested during the student protests...

• Peter Dentchev

  Drama Fiction Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Peter Dentchev, born in 1986 in Varna, is a writer and a theatre director. For his debut, the short story Малакоф, искам да остарея he won the “Ecstasy” 2006 competition of...

• Joël Dicker

  Fiction French Switzerland

  Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva. He finished law school and wrote two novels, Les Derniers Jours de nos Pères and La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Québert. The latter earned him...

• Jasna Dimitrijević

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Jasna Dimitrijević, born in 1979 in Negotin (Serbia), has a degree in literary studies. She writes literary critiques and short stories that are published in various magazines in the region....

• Lidija Dimkovska

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Lidija Dimkovska, born in 1971 in Skopje, studied Comparative Literature at Skopje University and received her doctorate on Nichita Stănescu at Bucharest University. She currently lives and works as a...

• Teodora Dimova

  Drama Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Teodora Dimova, born in 1960 in Sofia, writes novels and theatre plays. Her plays have been staged in Bulgaria as well as internationally. She was a fellow at the Royal...

• Dan Diner

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Dan Diner was born in 1946 in Munich. He is professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and...

• Ana Đokić

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Ana Đokić, also Ana Đokić Pongrašić, was born in 1965 in Belgrade, Serbia. She studied philosophy and is author of childrens’ books, radio plays, theatre plays, young adult fiction, novels...

• Hilde Domin

  Poetry German Germany

  Hilde Domin, born in 1909 in Cologne, is considered one of Germany’s most important poets of the post-war period. She studied law, philosophy and national economy. After Hitler’s rise to...

• Milena Dragićević Šešić

  Non-Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Milena Dragićević Šešić, born in 1954 in Trogir, Croatia, heads the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Cultural Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she is a...

• Sanjin Dragojević

  Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Sanjin Dragojević, born in 1961 in Zagreb, studied Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Computer Science in Zagreb. He now teaches the subjects “Sociology of Mass Communication” and “Sociology of Culture” at...

• Slavenka Drakulić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Slavenka Drakulić, born in 1949 in Rijeka, is one of the most famous and most translated authors in Croatia. She publishes essays, novels and non-fictional works and writes for several...

• Daša Drndić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Daša Drndić was born in 1946 in Zagreb. She studied in Belgrade, Illinois and Ohio. Between 1972 and 1992, she was working as a radio play editor at Radio Belgrade....

• Ferida Duraković

  Children and Young Adults Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Ferida Duraković was born in 1957 in Olovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied at the Faculty of Arts in Sarajevo and graduated in 1980. Her first book of poetry Bal po...

• Ilija Đurović

  Fiction Magazines Montenegrin Germany Montenegro

  Ilija Đurović, was born in 1990 in Podgorica. His first short story was published in 2009 in the literary magazine ARS. After that, he wrote many pieces for literary magazines and...

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt

  Drama Fiction German Switzerland

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt, born in 1921 in Konolfingen (Switzerland), studied philosophy in Bern and Zurich. He lived in Neuchâtel where he worked as a dramatist, storyteller, essayist, illustrator and artist. Friedrich...

• Karen Duve

  Fiction German Germany

  Karen Duve was born in 1961 in Hamburg. In 1983, she dropped out of university where she studied to become tax inspector. For the following 13 years, she was a...

• Michael Ende

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Michael Ende, born in 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, is one of the most well-known German writers. In addition to children’s books and books for young people he has written poetic texts...

• Jenny Erpenbeck

  Drama Fiction German Germany

  Jenny Erpenbeck, born in 1967 in East Berlin, studied Theatre Sciences and Music Theatre Management in Berlin. Since 1991 she has worked initially as an assistant producer and has staged...

• Christiane F.

  Fiction German Germany

  Christiane F. was born in 1962 in Hamburg as Vera Christiane Felscherinow. Her family moved to Berlin in 1968. She grew up in a high-rise building in Neukölln in socially...

• Urs Faes

  Fiction German Slovenia

  Urs Faes was born in  1947 in Aarau. He studied history with focus on colonialism, fascism and history of Switzerland, as well as German studies, philosophy and ethnology. He lived...

• Hans Fallada

  Fiction German Germany

  Rudolf Ditzen alias Hans Fallada was born in Greifswald in 1893. In 1920 he made ​​his debut as an author with the novel Der junge Goedeschal [The young Goedeschal]. The widely translated...

• Maurus Federspiel

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Maurus Federspiel was born in 1974 as the son of the writer Jürg Federspiel. He studied Creative Writing in New York and worked as a journalist. Today he lives as...

• Zoran Ferić

  Fiction Magazines Croatian Croatia

  Zoran Ferić, born in 1961 in Zagreb, studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and currently works at a grammar school as a Croatian teacher. His work has been published in...

• Fedia Filkova

  Fiction Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Fedia Filkova was born in 1950 in Jablanica. After completing her German Studies in Sofia she was from 1982 till 1992 an editor for the publishing house Narodna Kultura. She...

• Jörg Fisch

  Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Jörg Fisch was born in 1947 in Switzerland. He studied history and philosophy at the universities of Zurich, Basel, Vienna, Münster and Heidelberg. Since 1969, he had been a co-worker...

• Ernst Peter Fischer

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Ernst Peter Fischer, born in 1947 in Wuppertal, studied Mathematics, Physics and Biology. In 1977 he received his Ph.D. in Biology under Max Delbrück at the California Institute of Technology,...

• Joschka Fischer

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Joschka Fischer, born in 1948 in Gerabronn, was Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998 to 2005. He began his political career in 1982 with entry to...

• Erika Fischer-Lichte

  Drama Non-Fiction German Germany

  Erika Fischer-Lichte, born in 1943, studied Theatre Studies, Slavic, German Language and Literature, Philosophy, Psychology and Educational Science in Berlin and Hamburg. She was Professor at the Institute for German...

• Milena Michiko Flašar

  Fiction German Austria

  Milena Michiko Flašar was born in 1980 in St. Pölten to a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She studied Comparative Studies, German Studies, and Romance Studies in Vienna and...

• Julia Franck

  Fiction German Germany

  Julia Franck, born in 1970 in East Berlin, relocated in 1978 with her family to West Germany and lived in Schleswig-Holstein until 1983. At the age of thirteen she moved...

• Sigmund Freud

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Sigmund Freud, born in 1856 in Příbor (Moravia), studied medicine but turned his interest to psychopathology after a study fellowship in Paris. In his private practice, he dealt with hysteria...

• Max Frisch

  Drama Fiction Magazines German Switzerland

  Max Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich. In 1930 he began his German language and literature studies, which he had to abort after the death of his father due...

• Barbara Frischmuth

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Austria

  Barbara Frischmuth was born in 1941 in Altaussee (Steiermark). She studied Turkish and Hungarian and from 1964 to 1967 Oriental Studies in Vienna. Lives as a freelance writer and translator...

• Nada Gašić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Nada Gašić was born in 1950 in Maribor, Slovenia. Since 1952, she has been living in Zagreb. She studied sociology and Croatian language and literature at the University of Zagreb...

• Karl-Markus Gauß

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Austria

  Karl-Markus Gauß was born in 1954 in Salzburg, where he went on to study German and history and where he nowadays lives as an author and publisher of the magazine Literatur...

• Miro Gavran

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Miro Gavran, born in 1961 in Gornja Trnava, studied dramaturgy in Zagreb. He is regarded as the most well-known Croatian author of his generation. His works have now been translated...

• Arno Geiger

  Drama Fiction German Austria

  Arno Geiger received numerous prizes, including the German Book Prize in 2005, Friedrich Hölderlin advancement prize of the town of Bad Homburg in 2005 and 2011), Johann Peter Hebel Prize...

• Dagmar Geisler

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Dagmar Geisler, born in Siegen in 1958, studied graphic design in Wiesbaden, and today lives as a freelance author and illustrator near Munich. Numerous children’s books have been published with...

• Bogomil Gjuzel

  Drama Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Bogomil Gjuzel, born in 1939 in Čačak, Serbia, is a poet, prose writer, dramaturg, and translator. After he had finished his study of English language in 1963 in Skopje, he...

• Georgi Gospodinov

  Drama Fiction Magazines Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Georgi Gospodinov, born in 1968 in Jambol, studied Bulgarian philology in Sofia. He published lyrical poetry and prose, edited a literature journal, is a columnist of the daily newspaper Dnevnik and...

• Günter Grass

  Fiction German Germany

  Günter Grass was born in 1927 in Danzig. After being released as a prisoner of war by the USA he finished a stonemason apprenticeship and studied Graphic Arts and Sculpture...

• Andrea Grill

  Fiction Poetry German Austria

  Andrea Grill was born in in Bad Ischl (Austria) and studied in Salzburg, among other places. She obtained her doctorate from Amsterdam University, where she specialised in the evolution of...

• Olga Grjasnowa

  Fiction German Germany

  Olga Grjasnowa was born in 1984 in Baku (Azerbaijan), grew up in the Caucasus and lived many years in Poland, Russia and Israel. She has studied at the German Literary...

• Anne-Lise Grobéty

  Fiction French Switzerland

  Anne-Lise Grobéty was born in 1949 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. She studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Neuchâtel. She began to write early and received for...

• Valentin Groebner

  Non-Fiction German Austria Germany Switzerland

  Valentin Groebner was born in 1962 in Vienna. He studied in Vienna, Marburg and Hamburg, obtained his PhD in Bielefeld in 1991, and became professor in 1998 at the University...

• Tatjana Gromača

  Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Tatjana Gromača was born in 1971 in Sisak, and lives in central Istria near Pula. She studied comparative literature and philosophy in Zagreb (graduated in 1995) and had been a...

• Ioan Groşan

  Fiction Magazines Romanian Romania

  Ioan Groşan, writer, playwright and journalist, was born in 1954 in Satulung, Romania. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the Babeš Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and worked later...

• Meta Grosman

  Magazines Non-Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Meta Grosman is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of  Ljubljana. In 1987 and 1988 she was a Fulbright scholarship holder at the University of California in...

• Georgi Grozdev

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Georgi Grozdev, born in 1957 in Muglen near Burgas, studied journalism at the University of Sofia. In 1991, he founded the publishing house Balkani. He is well known for his...

• Norbert Gstrein

  Fiction German Austria

  Norbert Gstrein, born in 1961 in Mils in the Tirol, studied Mathematics and Philosophy of Language in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He now lives in Hamburg. In 1988 he published...

• Jürgen Habermas

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Jürgen Habermas was born on 18 June 1929 in Düsseldorf. From 1949 to 1954 he studied philosophy, history, psychology, German literature and economics in Göttingen, Zürich and Bonn . He...

• Katharina Hacker

  Fiction German Germany

  Katharina Hacker was born in 1967 in Frankfurt. She studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies in Freiburg and Jerusalem. She had worked many years in Israel before she moved to...

• Maja Haderlap

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry German Austria

  Maja Haderlap was born in 1961 in Bad Eisenkappel and lives in Klagenfurt. She studied theatre arts and German philology at the University of Vienna and was a dramaturgic and...

• Hadžem Hajdarević

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Hadžem Hajdarević, lyricist and prose author, was born in 1956 in Kruševo near Foča (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He studied Literature and Philology in Sarajevo, and worked as an academic staff-member...

• Senad Halilbašić

  Drama Fiction Bosnian Austria Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Senad Halilbašić was born in 1988 in Tuzla. After completing his Studies in Film, Theatre, and Media Sciences he now works as a screenwriter and co-ordinator for the intercultural screen-writing...

• Byung-Chul Han

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Byung-Chul Han was born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea. He studied philosophy, German literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg and Munich. He obtained his PhD in 1994 and habilitated...

• Peter Handke

  Drama Fiction German Austria

  Peter Handke was born in 1942 in Griffen (Austria) and studied law in Graz. Before his final exam, he abandoned the study and published his first novel Die Hornissen [The Hornets]....

• Marlen Haushofer

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Austria

  Marlen Haushofer was born in 1920 as Marie Helene Frauendorfer in Frauenstein in Upper Austria. She published her first text in 1946. Today, she is considered as one of the...

• Fadila Nura Haver

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Fadila Nura Haver was born in 1956 in Maglaj. She has been living in Sarajevo since 1998. She writes and publishes lyrics and poetry and works as a columnist and...

• Christoph Hein

  Drama Fiction German Germany

  Christoph Hein was born on 8th April 1944 in Heinzendorf/Silesia. After the end of the war the family moved to Bad Düben near Leipzig, where Hein grew up. In 1967...

• Volker Heins

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Volker Heins, born in 1957, has been Director of the “Interkultur” research unit at the Institute for Cultural Science, Essen, since April 2012. Heins was awarded a Ph.D. in Political...

• Monika Helfer

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Austria

  Monika Helfer was born in 1947 in Au. She is a writer living in the Austrian region of Voralrbeg with her family. She is an author of many novels, books...

• Wolfgang Herrndorf

  Fiction Magazines German Germany

  Wolfgang Herrndorf, born in Hamburg in 1965, studied painting and, amongst other things, made drawings for the “Titanic”. In 2002, his first novel In Plüschgewittern [In Plush Thunderstorms] was published, the volume...

• Wolfgang Hilbig

  Fiction German Germany

  Wolfgang Hilbig, born in 1941 in Meuselwitz near Leipzig, left East Germany in 1985 and moved to West Germany. He received numerous literary awards, including the Georg Büchner prize, the...

• Edgar Hilsenrath

  Fiction German Germany

  Edgar Hilsenrath was born in 1926 in Leipzig. In 1938, he escaped with her mother and younger brother to Romania. In 1941, his family came to a Jewish ghetto in Ukraine....

• Axel Honneth

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Axel Honneth, born in 1949 in Essen, studied Philosophy, Sociology, and German in Bonn and Bochum. He is considered to be one of  Jürgen Habermas’s most exposed students, and is...

• Felicitas Hoppe

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Germany

  Felicitas Hoppe, born 1960 in Hamelin, lives as an author in Berlin. Her debut novel Picknick der Friseure was published in 1996, since then she has published countless novels and stories. For...

• Max Horkheimer

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Max Horkheimer was born in 1895 in Zuffenhausen/Stuttgart. After studying Psychology and Philosophy and gaining his Ph.D. he qualified as a professor in 1926 with a paper about Kant. In...

• Rolf Hosfeld

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Rolf Hosfeld was born in 1948 in Berleburg. He studied German studies, political science and philosophy in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and earned his PhD with a work on...

• Stanka Hrastelj

  Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Stanka Hrastelj, born in 1975 in Brežice, lives as a poet and translator in Krško. She has published two books of poetry, in 2005 Nizki toni, for which she received the...

• Ivan Hristov

  Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Ivan Hristov was born in 1978 in the Bulgarian town of Borovo. He studied Bulgarian philology and completed his PhD on the topic of contemporary Bulgarian literature at the Bulgarian...

• Ahmet Hromadžić

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Ahmet Hromadžić was born in 1923 in Bjelaja kod Bosanskog Petrovca in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He published many stories and novels for adults and children alike and also worked as...

• Jurij Hudolin

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Jurij Hudolin, born in 1973 in Ljubljana, studied Comparative philology and Serbo-Croatian. He has worked as a freelance author and translator since 1995. He was the Editor of the literary...

• Angel Igov

  Fiction Non-Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Angel Igov (born 1981) is a Bulgarian writer, translator, and journalist living in Sofia. To date, he has published three novels as well as collections of stort-stories and essays. For...

• Olaf Ihlau

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Olaf Ihlau was born in 1942 in Kaliningrad. Journalist with a PhD in social sciences, he has been reporting for more than 30 years about the political situation in India...

• Saša Ilić

  Fiction Magazines Serbian Serbia

  Saša Ilić was born in 1972 in Jagodina/Serbia. In February 2005 he was a guest of the Literary Colloquium Berlin, and half a year later his novel Berlinsko okno [Berlin Window] was...

• Emir Imamović

  Fiction Magazines Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Emir Imamović, born in 1973 in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), was a war reporter  in Kosovo, Macedonia and Afghanistan and worked as a journalist for the BBC, ORF, RAI, Radio...

• Jasmin Imamović

  Fiction Non-Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Jasmin Imamović, born in 1957 in Brčko and raised in Tuzla, is a writer, lawyer, and politician. Since 2001 he is also the mayor of the city of Tuzla. He...

• Igor Isakovski

  Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Igor Isakovski, born in 1970 in Skopje, is a writer and translator. He studied General and Comparative Literature in Skopje and Gender and Culture Studies at the Central European University...

• Philippe Jaccottet

  Fiction Poetry French Switzerland

  Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925 in Moudon in Western Switzerland. He went to school to Lausanne and visited university there. After living briefly in Rome and Paris, he married...

• Drago Jančar

  Drama Fiction Non-Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Drago Jančar, born in 1948 in Maribor, is one of the most well known contemporary writers of Slovenia. He studied Law, firstly worked as a journalist and finally dedicated himself...

• Karl Jaspers

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Karl Jaspers was born in 1883 in Oldenburg and studied first law and then medicine. He got his doctorate in 1909 in Heidelberg. During his work as an assistant at...

• Miljenko Jergović

  Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction Poetry Bosnian Croatian Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia

  Miljenko Jergović, born in 1966 in Sarajevo, studied Philosophy and Sociology. In 1993 he left the beleaguered Sarajevo and since then has lived as a freelance writer in Zagreb. He...

• Uwe Johnson

  Fiction German Germany

  Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in Kammin in Pomerania, now Kamien Pomorski, and died in 1984 in Sheerness-on-Sea. In 1945, he fled with his mother and sister first to...

• Svjetlan Junaković

  Children and Young Adults Croatian Croatia

  Svjetlan Junaković, born in 1961 in Zagreb, studied at the Art Academy, Brera in Milan and works as a freelance artist, graphic designer, illustrator and children’s book author. He lives...

• Carl Gustav Jung

  Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland. He studied medicine and worked from 1900 to 1909 at the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zurich. He was...

• Marko Juvan

  Non-Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Marko Juvan, born in 1960 in Ljubljana, is a Slovene comparatist, literary theoretic, and literary historian. He works as a research advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovene Academy...

• Helena Kadare

  Fiction Albanian Albania

  Helena Kadare was born in 1943 in Fier. She studied Literature at Tirana University and was employed as a journalist in the publishing industry. In 1970, she was the first...

• Ismail Kadare

  Fiction Albanian Albania

  Ismail Kadare, born in 1936 in the South-Albanian city Gjirokastra, studied literature in Tirana and Moscow. He lived in Tirana until 1990, today he alternates between Tirana and Paris. He...

• Franz Kafka

  Fiction German Austria

  Franz Kafka was born on 3 Juli 1883 as the son of Jewish parents in Prague. After completing law school with a doctorate in 1906, Kafka joined the Worker’s Accident...

• Lejla Kalamujić

  Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Lejla Kalamujić, born in 1980 in Sarajevo, studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts in Sarajevo. She writes prose, essays, and critiques that are published in magazines and web portals...

• Walter Kappacher

  Fiction German Austria

  Walter Kappacher was born in 1938 in Salzburg and lives again in his home city as a writer. He received numerous awards for his novels Selina oder Das andere Leben (2005), Hellseher sind...

• Damir Karakaš

  Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Damir Karakaš, born in 1967 in Plašćica (Lika region, Croatia), studied Agronomy, Law and Journalism in Zagreb. He initially worked for the newspaper Večernji list, and later reported as a war...

• Zvonko Karanović

  Fiction Magazines Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Zvonko Karanović was born in 1959 in Niš, Serbia, and lives and works today as a poet and novelist in Belgrade. Karanović studied mechanical engineering and later on worked as...

• Enes Karić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Enes Karić was born in 1958 in Višnjevo near Travnik in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied Political and Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo and gained his Ph.D. at the University of...

• Marie Luise Kaschnitz

  Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in 1901 in Karlsruhe. She was raised in Potsdam and Berlin and trained as a bookseller after completing secondary school. She then worked for a...

• Dražen Katunarić

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Dražen Katunarić, born in 1954 in Zagreb, studied Philosophy at Strasbourg University. He composed prose, poetry, and essays, is the editor of the literary journal Europski glasnik, and the Head...

• Hans Keilson

  Fiction German Germany

  Hans Keilson was born in 1909 in Bad Freienwalde. A doctor and writer, he emigrated in the year 1936 to the Netherlands, where he lived until his death in 2011....

• Hans Kelsen

  Non-Fiction German Austria Germany Switzerland

  Hans Kelsen, born in 1881 in Prague and raised in Vienna, is one of the most important legal scholars of the 20th century. He studied law and public governance at...

• Navid Kermani

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Navid Kermani was born in 1967 and is a professor of Oriental studies. Until 2003, he was a long term Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin. He now lives as...

• Sarah Kirsch

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Sarah Kirsch was born as Ingrid Bernstein in 1935 in Limlingerode. In 1960 she married the poet Rainer Kirsch and began to publish lyrical texts under the pseudonym, Sarah. She...

• Danilo Kiš

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Danilo Kiš was born in 1935 in Subotica as the son of a Hungarian Jew and a Montenegrin. He spent his childhood in Novi Sad, until in 1942 he had...

• Zilhad Ključanin

  Drama Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Zilhad Ključanin, born in 1960 in Trnova by Sanski Most (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied Philosophy and Sociology at Sarajevo University and Literature at Zagreb University. He received his doctorate in...

• Marija Knežević

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Marija Knežević, born in 1963 in Belgrade, studied Comparative Literature. She completed her post-graduate studies at Michigan State University, where she also taught creative writing. Today, she lives and works...

• Michael Köhlmeier

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Poetry German Austria

  Michael Köhlmeier, born in 1949 in Hard on Lake Constance (Austria), studied German and politics in Marburg/Lahn, and philosophy and mathematics in Gießen. He lives and works as a freelance...

• Uwe Kolbe

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Uwe Kolbe, born in 1957 in Berlin, lives as a freelance writer in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His first volume of poems appeared in 1980 with Aufbau Verlag. In 1987 he moved to...

• Claudiu Komartin

  Poetry Romanian Romania

  Claudiu Komartin was born in 1983 in Bucharest where he now lives as a poet, literary critic and translator. At the age of 20, he published the poetry book Păpușarul...

• Gabi Köpp

  Fiction German Germany

  Gabi Köpp was born in 1929 in Piła, which was then Schneidemühl in West Prussia, and was a war refugee after WWII. She studied physics in Hamburg and became lecturer...

• Jasna Koteska

  Magazines Non-Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Jasna Koteska, born in 1970 in Skopje, is Professor of Literature, Theoretical Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the Philological Faculty of the University of Skopje. Her publications include more than...

• Mirko Kovač

  Fiction Montenegrin Montenegro

  Mirko Kovač, (1938-2013) was born in Petrovići by Nikšić (Montenegro). He studied dramaturgy at the Academy of Theatre, Film and Television in Belgrade. Towards the end of the 1980s, he...

• Siegfried Kracauer

  Fiction Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Siegfried Kracauer was born in 1889 in Frankfurt am Main. He has been the Editor of the “Frankfurter Zeitung” since 1921 and in this role became one of the most...

• Christian Kracht

  Fiction Magazines German Switzerland

  Christian Kracht, born in 1966 in Gstaad/Switzerland, grew up in the USA, Canada and south of France. His father was a chief representative of Axel Springer. Kracht worked as a...

• Alen Kristić

  Magazines Non-Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Alen Kristić was born in 1977 in Sarajevo. He holds a Master’s Degree in theology and is one of the founders of the theological magazine Concilium that covers Croatia and...

• Ágota Kristóf

  Drama Fiction Poetry French Switzerland

  Ágota Kristóf was born in 1935 in the Hungarian town of Csikvánd. After the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 by the Soviet Union powers she fled with her...

• Michael Krüger

  Fiction Magazines Poetry German Germany

  Michael Krüger was born in 1943 in Wittgendorf, Saxony. After graduation from a secondary school in Berlin, he took up vocational education to become book seller and book printer, but...

• Michael Kumpfmüller

  Fiction German Germany

  Michael Kumpfmüller was born in 1961 in Munich. He studied history and German philology in Tübingen, Vienna and Berlin. In 1986 he moved to Berlin and worked first as a...

• Ermis Lafazanovski

  Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Ermis Lafazanovski, born in 1961 in Cluj (Romania), studied at the Philological Faculty, Skopje. He is a member of the Macedonian Writers’ Association and PEN Centre and has published several...

• Feri Lainšček

  Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Franc (Feri) Lainšček, born in 1959 in the village Dolenci in the northeastern corner of Slovenia, studied Journalism at the University of Ljubljana. He has been a freelance writer since...

• Kathrin Lange

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Germany

  Kathrin Lange was born in Goslar am Harz in 1969. Today, she lives in a small village near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony with her husband and two sons. Since 2005...

• Katja Lange-Müller

  Fiction German Germany

  Katja Lange-Müller was born in 1951 in Berlin-Lichtenberg and studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature, and one year in the people’s republic of Mongolia. She moved to...

• Alma Lazarevska

  Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Alma Lazarevska was born in 1957 in Veles, Macedonia. Today she lives in Sarajevo, where she also grew up. She writes in Bosnian. She studied Comparative Literary Studies and Theatre...

• Radmila Lazić

  Fiction Magazines Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Radmila Lazić, born in 1949 in Kruševac, worked for 30 years in the medical profession and wrote poetry at the same time. Since 1974 she has published 13 volumes of...

• Auguste Lechner

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Auguste Lechner descended from the Austrian family of civil servants, Neuner von Breitenegg. She studied languages at Innsbruck University and later on wrote a series of folktales. After the Second...

• Arian Leka

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Magazines Poetry Albanian Albania

  Arian Leka, born in 1966, studied Music in his place of birth, Durrës and Albanian Language and Literature in Tirana. He writes poems, short stories, novels and children’s literature and...

• Jelena Lengold

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Jelena Lengold, poet, story writer and author of novels, was born in Kruševac in 1959. She published many volumes of poetry and volumes of stories as well as the novel...

• Siegfried Lenz

  Drama Fiction Non-Fiction German Germany

  Siegfried Lenz, born in 1926 in Lyck, East Prussia, is one of the most significant and most read writers in contemporary German literature. He has received numerous important prizes for...

• Wolf Lepenies

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Wolf Lepenies, born in 1941 in Deuthen, Allenstein (now Dajtki Olsztyn, Poland), studied Sociology and Philosophy in Münster and is Professor of Sociology at the FU Berlin. From 1986 to...

• Ljubomir Levčev

  Magazines Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Ljubomir Levčev was born in 1935 in Bulgarian Trojan. He was Chairman of the Bulgarian Writers’ Association, as well as the Deputy Minister of Culture of Bulgaria and acted as...

• Konrad Paul Liessmann

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Konrad Paul Liessmann, born 1953 in Villach, is professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna, essayist, literary critic and cultural journalist. In 2004 he received the...

• Nicol Ljubić

  Fiction Magazines German Croatia Germany

  Nicol Ljubić was born in 1971 in Zagreb. As a son of a aviation technician, he grew up in Sweden, Greece, Russia and Germany. He studied political science and worked...

• Luljeta Lleshanaku

  Poetry Albanian Albania

  Luljeta Lleshanaku, born in 1968 in Elbasan, studied Language and Literature in Tirana, where she now lives. She translates from American English and is employed by the newspaper Rlindja. During...

• Dea Loher

  Drama German Germany

  Dea Loher was born in 1964 in Traunstein. She studied philosophy and German language and literature in Munich and then moved to Brazil. After return from Brazil, Dea Loher moved...

• Mladen Lompar

  Magazines Non-Fiction Poetry Montenegrin Montenegro

  Mladen Lompar was born in 1944 in Cetinje, Montenegro, where he has been living and working up to this day. He studied at the Faculty of Arts in Belgrade. He...

• Sanja Lovrenčić

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Sanja Lovrenčić, born in 1961, is a Croatian writer and translator. She has already published numerous volumes of poetry, collections of short stories and novels. She is even known as...

• Karl Löwith

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Karl Löwith was born in Munich in 1897. He studied Philosophy and Biology in Munich and Freiburg, being a student of Edmund Husserl and his assistant Martin Heidegger, as well...

• Hermann Lübbe

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hermann Lübbe was born in 1926 in Aurich/East Frisia and is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at the University of Zurich. From 1966 to 1970 he was Secretary of...

• Niklas Luhmann

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Niklas Luhmann, born in 1927 in Lüneburg, is one of the most eminent proponents of sociological systems theory from German speaking countries. At 17, he was conscripted in the Luftwaffe...

• Dan Lungu

  Fiction Poetry Romanian Romania

  Dan Lungu, born in 1969 in Kreis Botoșani, is Lecturer in Sociology in Iași. He writes lyric poetry, short prose and novels and has received many awards for his works....

• Jonas Lüscher

  Fiction Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Jonas Lüscher was born in 1976 in Switzerland and grew up in Bern, where he trained to be a primary school teacher at the evangelical teacher’s seminar in Muristalden between...

• Paul Maar

  Children and Young Adults Drama German Germany

  Paul Maar, born in 1937 in Schweinfurt, lives in Bamberg. The former stage designer and art teacher is one of the most famous children’s writers. He has illustrated many of...

• Nikola Madžirov

  Non-Fiction Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Nikola Madžirov was born in 1973 in Strumica (Macedonia). He is one of the country‘s greatest lyricists, and has received numerous awards and grants, including the literature award Studentski zbor...

• Andreas Maier

  Fiction German Germany

  Andreas Maier was born in 1967 in Bad Nauheim (Hesse). He studied classical philology, German philology and philosophy in Frankfurt and holds a doctorate in philosophy in the field of...

• Thomas Maissen

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Thomas Maissen was born in 1962 in Zurich. From 1981 to 1989 he studied history, Latin and philosophy at the University of Basel, in Rome, and in Geneva. He did...

• Zvonko Maković

  Magazines Non-Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Zvonko Maković, poet and art historian, was born in 1947 in Osijek, Croatia. He studied art history and comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts oft he University of Zagreb,...

• Gašper Malej

  Magazines Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Gašper Malej was born in 1975 in Koper (Slovenia) and he continues to live there as a freelance writer and translator. He translates mostly from the contemporary Italian literature. He...

• Norman Manea

  Fiction Romanian Romania

  Norman Manea, born in 1936 in Suceava (Romania), was deported as a child to a concentration camp in the Ukraine and returned to Romania in 1945 with the survivors of...

• Thomas Mann

  Fiction German Germany

  Thomas Mann, born in 1875 in Lübeck, is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. With him the modern German novel became part of world literature. Mann’s...

• Norbert Mappes-Niediek

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Norbert Mappes-Niediek was born in 1953. Since 1992, he has been working as a freelance correspondent from Southeast Europe. In 1994 and 1995, he was the advisor of Yasushi Akashi,...

• Milena Marković

  Drama Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Milena Marković, born in 1974 in Belgrade, writes plays and screenplays, she is also known in Serbia as a lyric poet. She achieved her international break-through as a playwright with...

• Christoph Markschies

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Christoph Markschies was born in 1962 in Berlin. He studied Evangelic theology, classical philology and philosophy in Marburg, Jerusalem, Munich and Tübingen. He obtained his doctorate in 1991 and professorship...

• Michael Martens

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Michael Martens was born in 1973 in Hamburg. He worked for several north German regional newspaper while still in school and after finishing secondary school and after one year in...

• Walter Mayr

  Magazines Non-Fiction German Germany

  Walter Mayr was born in 1960 in Aichach. He has been working for the weekly magazine Spiegel since over two decades, his focal topics are the Balkans and Eastern Europe....

• Christoph Meckel

  Fiction Poetry German Germany

  Christoph Meckel was born in 1935 in Berlin, where he still lives today. He studied Graphics in Freiburg, Munich and Paris. In 1956 he published his first book of poems...

• Christian Meier

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Christian Meier, born in 1929 in Stolp, Pomerenia, is one of the most well known historians in Germany. He qualified as a professor in Frankfurt and taught as a professor...

• Pascal Mercier

  Fiction Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Pascal Mercier, born in 1944 in Bern as Peter Bieri, studied Indian languages, English, Philosophy and Greek in London and Heidelberg. After gaining his doctorate in 1971 and research residences...

• Clemens Meyer

  Fiction German Germany

  Clemens Meyer, born in 1977 in Halle, grew up in Leipzig and studied there at the German Literature Institute. He financed his studies as a security guard, removal man and...

• Miroslav Mićanović

  Fiction Magazines Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Miroslav Mićanović, born in 1960 in Brčko, studied at the University of Zagreb. He writes poems, stories, essays and reviews. His texts have been included in various anthologies and translated...

• Daim Miftari

  Magazines Poetry Albanian Albania

  Daim Miftari, born in 1979 in Gostivar, studied at the Faculty of Albanian Language and Literature and at the Philological Faculty in Skopje. He worked as a journalist, translator and...

• Geo Milev

  Magazines Poetry Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Geo Milev, born in 1895 in Radnevo, is regarded as one of the most important Expressionist poets and authors in Bulgaria. He has studied in Sofia and Leipzig. After the...

• Alice Miller

  Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Alice Miller, born in 1923 in Poland, studied Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology in Basle. After obtaining her Ph.D. she trained as a psychoanalyst in Zurich and practised this profession for...

• Damir Miloš

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Damir Miloš was born in 1954 in Opatija, Croatia. He studied phonetics in Zagreb. He worked first at the SUVAG polyclinic, later as an assistant professor at the Department of...

• Blaže Minevski

  Drama Fiction Magazines Macedonian North Macedonia

  Blaže Minevski, born in 1961 in Gevgelija, studied Journalism at the University of  Skopje. He is one of the most well known Macedonian writers and has been a member of...

• Snežana Minić

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Germany Serbia

  Snežana Minić, born in 1958 in Niš, studied German and Comparative Literature in Belgrade. She completed her studies with an extensive Master’s thesis about how Gottfried Benn’s poetry was received...

• Jernej Mlekuž

  Non-Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Jernej Mlekuž, born in 1974, studied Geography, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nova Gorica in the area of Intercultural Studies. He is...

• Vinko Möderndorfer

  Children and Young Adults Drama Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Vinko Möderndorfer, born in 1958 in Celje, Slovenia, is a writer, poet, playwright, and film and theatre director. He studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television in...

• Terézia Mora

  Fiction German Germany

  Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary. Since 1990, she has been living in Berlin. She is one of the most renowned translators from Hungarian. She made her...

• Erwin Moser

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Erwin Moser, born in Vienna in 1954, has published numerous picture and children’s books. Großvaters Geschichten oder Das Bett mit den fliegenden Bäumen [Grandfather’s stories or The Bed with the...

• Tanja Mravak

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Tanja Mravak, born in 1974 in Sinj in Croatia, works in a Centre for Autism in Split. She became known as a writer in Croatia when she made her literary...

• Heiner Müller

  Drama German Germany

  Heiner Müller was born in 1929 in Eppendorf. He settled in East Berlin in 1950, where he first worked as a journalist and since 1995 as a dramatist. Strongly influenced...

• Herfried Münkler

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Herfried Münkler, born 1951, is Professor for Political Sciences at the Humbolt University, Berlin and is a member of The Academy of Science, Brandenburg. With his many scientific works on...

• Jasmina Musabegović

  Fiction Non-Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Jasmina Musabegović, born in 1941 in Vogošća near Sarajevo, studied Southern Slavic literatures and French at the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo. Receiving a grant from the French government she spent...

• Adolf Muschg

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry German Switzerland

  Adolf Muschg was born in 1934 in Zollikon in the canton Zürich. He studied German studies, English studies and philosophy in Zürich and Cambridge and earned his doctoral degree in...

• Robert Musil

  Fiction German Austria

  Robert Musil was born in 1880 in Klagenfurt. He studied at the technical military academy in Vienna. After he had quit his military education, he worked as a mechanical engineer....

• Melinda Nadj Abonji

  Fiction German Serbian Switzerland

  Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in 1968 in Becsej, Serbia. Today, she lives as a writer and musician in Switzerland. She studied German philology and history in Zurich. In 2004,...

• Sönke Neitzel

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Sönke Neitzel was born in 1968 in Hamburg. He studied history, political science, and journalism in Mainz. In 1994 he obtained his PhD with a thesis on the Luftwaffe mission...

• Dobrilo Nenadić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Dobrilo Nenadić was born in 1940 in the Serbian town of Vigošte. He is one of the most successful and prolific contemporary novelists of today’s Serbia. His debut novel Dorotej...

• Alois Niederstätter

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Alois Niederstätter was born in 1955 in Bregenz. He studied history and German philology in Salzburg. He obtained his PhD in 1980 and later on became professor for auxiliary sciences...

• Jovan Nikolaidis

  Fiction Non-Fiction Montenegrin Montenegro

  Jovan Nikolaidis, born in 1950 in Ulcinj, worked from 1974 in Sarajevo for the daily newspaper, Oslobođenje. At the beginning of the 1990s he returned to his hometown of Ulcinj...

• Andrej Nikolaidis

  Fiction Magazines Montenegrin Montenegro

  Andrej Nikolaidis, born in 1974, grew up in a Montenegrin-Greek family in Sarajevo. He lives and works as a freelance writer and journalist in Montenegro. He is well known for...

• Jovan Nikolić

  Drama Fiction Serbian Germany Serbia

  Jovan Nikolić, born in 1955 in Belgrade, travelled as a child through the former Yugoslavia with his musical parents, his father a Roma and his mother a Serb. His first...

• Christine Nöstlinger

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Christine Nöstlinger, (1936-2018) was born in Vienna She had studied graphic arts before devoting herself entirely to writing. In 1970 she published her first children’s book, which was an immediate...

• Maja Novak

  Children and Young Adults Fiction Magazines Slovene Slovenia

  Maja Novak, born in 1960 in Jesenice and raised in Nova Gorica, studied Business Law in Ljubljana and initially worked as a business secretary in Jordan, before returning to Slovenia...

• Giorgio Orelli

  Poetry Italian Switzerland

  Giorgio Orelli, born in 1921 in Airolo, was a Swiss writer, poet, and translator. He studied at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland and was a student of the Italian...

• Haralampi G. Oroschakoff

  Fiction German Austria

  Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, born in 1955 in Sofia, comes from an old Russian family. He grew up in Vienna and Cannes and now lives, after many years in Munich, in...

• Tomislav Osmanli

  Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Tomislav Osmanli was born in 1956 in Bitola, Macedonia. He writes theatre plays, short stories, film scripts and novels that have been translated into many European languages. He received many...

• Josip Osti

  Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Josip Osti was born in 1945 in Sarajevo, which was then in Yugoslavia. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sarajevo. He worked as a reader...

• Žarko Paić

  Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Žarko Paić is a Croatian writer, philosopher, sociologist, critic, essayist and theoretic of the contemporary art and architecture. He was born in 1958 in Kutina and studied political sciences at...

• Zlatko Paković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Zlatko Paković, born in 1968, completed his studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He works as a writer and theatre director. In the 90s he worked as...

• Mihajlo Pantić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Mihajlo Pantić was born in 1957 in Belgrade. He studied at the Department of Philology of Belgrade University and is author, literature critic and editor of various literary magazines, as...

• Kathrin Passig

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Kathrin Passig, born in 1970 in Deggendorf, works as a writer and journalist. She is  the editor of the blog Riesenmaschine [Giant Machine] and was for many years the director...

• Miodrag Pavlović

  Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Miodrag Pavlović, born in 1928 in Novi Sad, was one of the most prominent contemporary Serbian poets. He grew up in Belgrade and studied medicine there. He worked for a...

• Borislav Pekić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Borislav Pekić, born in 1930 in Podgorica (Montenegro), is one of Serbia’s most important 20th century authors. In 1948, shortly before graduating from school in Belgrade, he was sentenced to...

• Maja Pelević

  Drama Serbian Serbia

  Maja Pelević, born in 1981 in Belgrade, studied Theatre Sciences and worked for three years as a Dramatic Adviser at Belgrade National Theatre. She is Editor of the theatrical journal...

• Leo Perutz

  Fiction German Germany

  Leo Perutz, born in 1882 in Prague, moved to Vienna in 1899 with his family, where he trained as an insurance actuary and attended the university and technical college as...

• Jens Petersen

  Fiction German Germany

  Jens Petersen, born in 1976 in Pinneberg, studied Medicine in Munich, Lima, New York, Florence and Buenos Aires. He has published numerous journalistic texts and stories in anthologies for children...

• Radoslav Petković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Radoslav Petković, born in 1953 in Belgrade, is one of the most well-known writers in Serbia. He has published many novels, stories and essays. His works have been translated into...

• Wolfgang Petritsch

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Wolfgang Petritsch, currently Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Austria to the OECD in Paris, was from 1999 to 2002 High Representative of the International Community for Bosnia and Herzegovina, he...

• Goran Petrović

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Goran Petrović, born in 1961 in Kraljevo, studied Yugoslavian and Serbian literature in Belgrade and works as a reader for publishers. He is one of the most significant and most...

• Carolin Philipps

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Carolin Philipps was born in 1954 in Meppen/Ems. Having studied History she published her first book for young people in 1990, Großvater und das Vierte Reich [Grandfather and the Fourth...

• Vladimir Pištalo

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Vladimir Pištalo, born in 1960 in Sarajevo, grew up in Mostar, Kraljevo and Belgrade. He studied Law and obtained his Ph.D. in American History at the University of New Hampshire...

• Thomas Pletzinger

  Fiction German Germany

  Thomas Pletzinger was born in 1975 in Münster, grew up in Hagen, and completed his American Studies in Hamburg. Both there and in New York he worked for various publishing...

• Marko Pogačar

  Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Marko Pogačar was born in 1984 in Split. He writes poems, essays and book reviews. He has published three volumes of poems Pijavice nad Santa Cruzom (2006, 2009), Poslanice običnim...

• Marius Daniel Popescu

  Fiction French Romania Switzerland

  Marius Daniel Popescu was born in 1963 in Craiova, Romania, and finished his studies at the Faculty for Forestry at the University of Braşov. After the fall of the Ceauşescu...

• Alek Popov

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Alek Popov, born in 1966 in Sofia, studied Bulgarian Philology and worked as the Cultural Attache of the Bulgarian consulate in Great Britain and North Ireland, among other things. He...

• Edo Popović

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Edo Popović, born in 1957 in Livno (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied at the Philosophical Faculty in Zagreb, where he has lived since 1968. His first book,  Ponoćni boogie, is regarded...

• Fabio Pusterla

  Poetry Italian Switzerland

  Fabio Pusterla was born in 1957 in Mendrisio, Switzerland. He lives in northern Italy and teaches Italian language and literature at the university and high school in Lugano. He published...

• Ilma Rakusa

  Poetry German Switzerland

  Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 as the daughter of a Slovenian and a Hungarian in Rimavská Sobota (Slovakia). She spent her early childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Triest, in...

• Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

  Fiction French Switzerland

  Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947) was a Swiss writer, poet and essayist and is regarded as the most important representative of the Swiss literature written in French. C. F. Ramuz was born...

• Christoph Ransmayr

  Fiction German Austria

  Christoph Ransmayr, born in 1954 in Wels, studied Philosophy and Ethnology and lives in Vienna. In addition to the novels Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (Title of English...

• Delimir Rešicki

  Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Delimir Rešicki was born in 1960 in Osijek. He continues to live there and is the editor of culture at the daily newspaper Glas Slavonije (Voice of Slavonia). He writes...

• Jutta Richter

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Jutta Richter was born in 1955. After her one-year’s stay in Detroit, she published her first book while she was still in high-school. She studied theology, German studies and journalism...

• Ana Ristović

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Ana Ristović was born in 1972 in Belgrade and studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Philology there. She published several volumes of poetry, for which she received important literary...

• Hartmut Rosa

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hartmut Rosa was born in 1965 in Lörrach. He is a professor for General and Theoretical Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and serves as the director of the...

• Antonio Rossi

  Poetry Italian Switzerland

  Antonio Rossi was born in Maroggia, Switzerland, and studied Italian literature in Freiburg and Florence. Until now, he published three books of poetry: Ricognizioni (1979), Diafonie (1995) und Sesterno (2005)....

• Klaus Roth

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Klaus Roth was born in 1939 in Hamburg. He was professor at the Institute of Folkloristics / European ethnology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and visiting professor at...

• Joseph Roth

  Fiction German Austria

  Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Schwabendorf near Brody in eastern Galicia and died on 27 May 1939 in Paris. Roth was a journalist based mostly in Berlin and...

• Eugen Ruge

  Fiction German Germany

  Eugen Ruge, born in 1954 in Sosva under the Ural Mountains, studied Mathematics in East Berlin and became a scientific collaborator of the Central Institute for the Physics of the...

• Rüdiger Safranski

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Rüdiger Safranski, born in 1945 in Rottweil, studied German, Philosophy, History and Art History. In 1976 he completed his dissertation in German and Philosophy. From 1972 to 1977 he worked...

• Ivana Sajko

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Ivana Sajko, born in 1975 in Zagreb, studied Dramaturgy at the Zagreb Academy for Dramatic Arts. She works as an author, dramatist and stage director and is an editorial member...

• Tomaž Šalamun

  Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Tomaž Šalamun, (1941-2014) was one of the best-known and most translated Slovenian poets. His volume of poetry Poker (1966) marked a new beginning in Slovenian poetry and was followed by...

• Goran Samardžić

  Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Goran Samardžić was born in 1961 in Sarajevo, where he studied Literature later on. He has published several volumes of poetry and prose and has received several awards for his...

• Olja Savičević

  Fiction Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Olja Savičević-Ivančević was born in 1974 in Split. She studied Language and Literature studies in Zadar and works as a columnist, literature critic and editor. She has published three volumes...

• Vinka Sazdova

  Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Vinka Sazdova, born in 1956, studied Psychology at the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. She worked as a journalist in arts and culture for daily newspapers and worked for several publishing...

• Hans Joachim Schädlich

  Fiction German Germany

  Hans Joachim Schädlich was born in 1935 in Reichenbach in Vogtland. He studied German Language and Literature in Berlin and Leipzig and worked at the Academy of Sciences in East...

• Judith Schalansky

  Fiction German Germany

  Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 in Greifswald. She studied art history and communication design and lives now in Berlin as a freelance writer and book designer. Two of her...

• Rafik Schami

  Children and Young Adults Fiction German Germany

  Rafik Schami, born in 1946 in Damascus, has been living in Germany since 1971. In 1979 he completed his PhD in Chemistry. Since 2002 he is a member of the...

• Hansjörg Schertenleib

  Fiction German

  Hansjörg Schertenleib, born in 1957 in Zürich, after training as a typesetter/typographer, attended the School of Applied Arts in Zürich. In 1981 he moved to the Boswil House of Artists...

• Frank Schirrmacher

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Frank Schirrmacher, (1959-2014), studied in Heidelberg and Cambridge and obtained his doctorate in Siegen. He had been one of the co-publishers of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2004, he declared...

• Wolfgang Schivelbusch

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Wolfgang Schivelbusch, publicist and historian, was born in 1941 in Berlin. He studied Literature, Sociology and Philosophy in Frankfurt on the Main. He has been living and working in Berlin...

• Eginald Schlattner

  Fiction German Germany Romania

  Eginald Schlattner, was born in 1933 in Arad (Romania) and grew up in Făgăraș at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. He studied theology in Cluj-Napoca but was expelled and...

• Bernhard Schlink

  Fiction German Germany

  Bernhard Schlink, born in 1944 near Bielefeld, is a retired judge and law professor and lives in Berlin and New York. He earned world fame with his novel Der Vorleser...

• Wolfgang Schmale

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Wolfgang Schmale, born in 1956 in Würzburg, studied History, French and educational accompanying subjects in Bochum and Bordeaux. He worked and carried out research at various universities in Germany, France...

• Oliver Jens Schmitt

  Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Oliver Jens Schmitt was born in 1973 in Basel. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 2000. He was a member of the Swiss Institute...

• Ana Schnabl

  Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Ana Schnabl (born 1985, Ljubljana) is a Slovene writer, editor and doctoral student. For her short-story collection Razvezani [Untangled] she received the Best Debut Prize in 2017 and the Croatian...

• Aleks Scholz

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Aleks Scholz was born in 1975 in Gera. He is an astronomer and a Schroedinger Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin. His main occupation is the research...

• Hagen Schulze

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Hagen Schulze, born in 1943 in Tangiers (Morocco), is Professor at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute (Contemporary German and European History) of the Free University Berlin and is one of the...

• Ingo Schulze

  Fiction German Germany

  Ingo Schulze, born in 1962 in Dresden, lives in Berlin. After his studies in Classical Philology in Jena, he worked as a dramaturg and newspaper editor. Already his first book,...

• Alfred Schütz

  Non-Fiction German Austria

  Alfred Schütz was born in 1899 in Vienna. He studied Law and Political Science and worked for various banks after completing his studies. In 1932 he published his monograph Der...

• Monique Schwitter

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Monique Schwitter was born in 1972 in Zurich and has been living in Hamburg since 2005. She studied acting and directing in Salzburg and went on to perform in Zurich,...

• W. G. Sebald

  Fiction German Germany

  W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Wertach. He studied German literature in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1966, he emigrated to...

• Faruk Šehić

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Faruk Šehić, born in 1970 in Bihać, studied literature after the Bosnian war. He lives and works as a freelance writer in Sarajevo and publishes poetry, prose, essays, newspaper articles...

• Bekim Sejranović

  Fiction Croatian Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Slovenia

  Bekim Sejranović, born in 1972 in Brčko, has lived in Rijeka since 1985 and studied Croatian Language and Literature there after finishing secondary school. Since 1993 he has lived in...

• Aleksander Sekulov

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

  Aleksander Sekulov, born in 1964 in Plovdiv, studied Bulgarian Language and Literature. His publications include several volumes of poetry, a collection of essays, stories, novels and a stage play. Besides...

• Meša Selimović

  Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Meša Selimović, born in 1910 in Tuzla, is one of the most important writers of the former Yugoslavia. In the 1930s he studied Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature in Belgrade....

• Clemens J. Setz

  Fiction German Austria

  Clemens J. Setz was born in 1982 in Graz. He studied Mathematics and German studies and worked as a Math tutor in the Proximity Awareness & Learning Center Helianau, and...

• Edi Shukriu

  Non-Fiction Poetry Albanian Kosovo

  Edi Shukriu, born in 1950 in Prizren, studied History and taught as a Professor for Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Prishtina. She is also Vice-President of the...

• Roman Simić

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Roman Simić, born in 1972 in Zadar, studied comparative literature and Spanish studies in Zagreb. He was the editor of an important Croatian literary magazine Quorum. He is the organizer...

• Ivana Simić Bodrožić

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Ivana Simić Bodrožić was born in 1982 in Vukovar. She studied Croatian Literature and Philosophy in Zagreb. She published her first volume of poetry in 2005; since then her poetry...

• Georg Simmel

  Non-Fiction German Bulgaria

  Georg Simmel, born in 1858 in Berlin, is recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century. He studied history, ethnopsychology, and philosophy in Berlin. His first...

• Marko Simsa

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Marko Simsa, born in 1965 in Vienna, is a theatre director and actor, who has produced classical concerts and plays for children for over twenty years. He has shown his productions...

• Peter Sloterdijk

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Peter Sloterdijk, born in 1947 in Karlsruhe, studied Philosophy, German and History in Munich and obtained his Ph.D. in 1975 in Hamburg with a thesis on the Philosophy and History...

• Goce Smilevski

  Fiction Macedonian North Macedonia

  Goce Smilevski, born in 1975, studied General and Comparative Literature in Skopje, Czech Language and Literature in Prague and Gender and Culture Studies at the Central European University in Budapest....

• Slobodan Šnajder

  Drama Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Slobodan Šnajder was born in Zagreb in 1948. He studied Philosophy and English at the University of Zagreb. Šnajder was the long-standing editor-in-chief of the Yugoslavian theatre magazine Prolog. Since...

• Damir Šodan 

  Poetry Croatian Croatia

  Damir Šodan was born in 1964 in Split. He studied English studies, history, and literature at the University of Zagreb. He has written three books of poetry, several theatre plays,...

• Ognjen Spahić

  Fiction Montenegrin Montenegro

  Ognjen Spahić, born in 1977 in Podgorica, is, together with Andrej Nikolaidis, part of the young author generation of Montenegro, whose texts are publicly discussed. He was the founder and...

• Biljana Srbljanović

  Drama Serbian Serbia

  Biljana Srbljanović, born in 1970 in Stockholm, has written plays since 1995 and has already had much success on the stage with  Beogradska trilogija [The Belgrade Trilogy] and Porodične priče...

• Peter Stamm

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Peter Stamm was born in 1963 in Scherzingen in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. He studied English studies, psychology and psychopathology for several semesters. After long stays in Paris, New...

• Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu

  Fiction Romanian Romania

  Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, born in 1979, is literary critic and writer. He studied Romanian literature and concluded his study with a PhD. He is an assistant lecturer at the University of...

• Saša Stanišić

  Fiction German Germany

  Saša Stanišić was born in 1978 in Višegrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina and came with his family in 1992 as a young war refugee to Germany. His debut novel How...

• Slavoljub Stanković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Slavoljub Stanković was born in 1968 in Smederevo. After studying Philosophy in Belgrade he specialised in advertising and since then, as an employee of one of the biggest advertising agencies,...

• Dragoljub Stanković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Dragoljub Stanković, born in 1971 in Jagodina, is a writer living in Belgrade. He writes poetry, prose, columns, satirical pieces and literary critique. He was a staff member of the...

• Ingo Starz

  Fiction German Germany

  Ingo Starz, born in 1969 in Heilbronn, studied History of Art and Classical Archaeology in Würzburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Basel. He was a scientific co-worker at the Academy of...

• Aleš Šteger

  Fiction Poetry Slovene Slovenia

  Aleš Šteger, born 1973 in Ptuj, is a Slovene poet, writer and editor. He wrote six books of poetry as well as several fiction works, the lates beeing the novel ...

• Benjamin Stein

  Fiction German Germany

  Benjamin Stein was born in 1970 in East Berlin. He has been writing poems and short prose since 1982. His first novel Das Alphabet des Juda Liva (1995) [The Alphabet...

• Andreas Steinhöfel

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Andreas Steinhöfel was born in 1962 in Battenberg, Germany. He works as a translator, reviewer and playwright – but first of all, he is the author of numerous and prize-winning...

• Jean-Lorin Sterian

  Fiction Romanian Romania

  Jean-Lorin Sterian, born in 1975 in Constanta, is a Romanian writer, director of documentaries and short films, artist, and performer. In 2008, he received the theatre prize DramAcum. In the...

• Igor Štiks

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Igor Štiks, born in 1977 in Sarajevo, studied comparative literature and philosophy in Zagreb and did his PhD in Paris and Chicago. He writes fiction, essays, literary critiques, amd newspaper...

• Mile Stojić

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Mile Stojić, born in 1955 in Dragičina, studied Yugoslavian Literature in Sarajevo. He was joint-editor of the literary magazines Lica and Odjeci and editor of the first post-Socialist Croatian magazine...

• Wolfgang Streeck

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Wolfgang Streeck, born in 1946 in Lengerich, is sociologist. From 1995 to 2014, he was director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. His fields...

• Tanja Stupar Trifunović

  Fiction Bosnian Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Tanja Stupar Trifunović, born in 1977 in Zadar, studied at the Faculty of Philology in Banja Luka. She has published four books of poetry, a novel and a collection of...

• Emir Suljagić

  Fiction Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Emir Suljagić, born in 1975 in Ljubovija (Serbia), along with thousands of fellow Bosnians, took refuge in Srebrenica in April 1992, where he experienced the siege of the UN safe...

• Alain Claude Sulzer

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Alain Claude Sulzer, born in 1953 in Riehen near Basel, is librarian by profession and lives as a freelance writer in Basel, Berlin and in Alsace. From 1977 to 1997...

• Holm Sundhaussen

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Holm Sundhaussen (1942-2015) studied in Munich and after finishing his postdoctoral lecture qualification in Göttingen he became a Professor for Southeastern European Studies at the Institute for Eastern Europe at...

• Veton Surroi

  Fiction Albanian Kosovo

  Veton Surroi was born in 1961 in Pristina, Kosovo. In the year 1982 he completed his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the National Autonomous University of...

• Martin Suter

  Fiction German Switzerland

  Martin Suter, born in Zürich in 1948, is a writer, columnist and script writer. Up to 1991 he also earned his living as an ad writer and Creative Director, until...

• Thomas Alexander Szlezák

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Thomas Alexander Szlezák was born in 1940 in Budapest. Until his retirement he taught at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen as Professor of Greek Philology, where he was also Director...

• Jacob Taubes

  Non-Fiction German Switzerland

  Dinko Telećan, born in 1974 in Zagreb, studied philosophy and English language and literature in his home city. Currently, he studies Chinese studies at the University of Zagreb. Excerpt from...

• Dinko Telećan

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Dinko Telećan, born in 1974 in Zagreb, studied philosophy and English language and literature in his home city. Currently, he studies Chinese studies at the University of Zagreb. Excerpt from...

• Uwe Tellkamp

  Fiction German Germany

  Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After he had served his military service in the National People’s Army of GDR, he was excluded from his study of medicine...

• Lucian Dan Teodorovici

  Fiction Romanian Romania

  Lucian Dan Teodorovici, born in 1975, is a Romanian writer, journalist and editor. Between 2002 and 2006, he was the editor in chief at Polirom publishing house. In the same...

• Srđan Tešin

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Srđan Tešin was born in 1971 in Mokrin (Serbia). He is a writer and journalist. His novels and stories have been translated into many languages; in 2004 he was awarded...

• Lisa Tetzner

  Children and Young Adults German Germany Switzerland

  Lisa Tetzner, born in 1894 in Zittau, was fairy-tale teller, director of children’s radio station and author of socially-engaged novels that have many young readers even today. Her books about...

• Uwe Timm

  Fiction German Germany

  Uwe Timm was born in 1940 in Hamburg. After primary school he trained as a furrier and attended the Braunschweigkolleg, an institute for adult education. He graduated from high school...

• Aleksandar Tišma

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Aleksandar Tišma was born in 1924 in Horgoš, Vojvodina. He studied English Philology and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He is author of numerous novels, stories, poetry...

• Ottó Tolnai

  Poetry Serbia

  Ottó Tolnai was born in 1940 in Kanizsa (Serbia), in the Hungarian part of Vojvodina, He studied Hungarian  and Philosophy at Novi Sad and Zagreb universities and now lives in...

• Bojan Tončić

  Magazines Serbian Serbia

  Bojan Tončić, born in 1967 in Leskovac, is a Serbian journalist. After having worked for years for the newspaper Danas, he is now commentator and regular contributor for Diskriminacija.ba (Sarajevo),...

• Stevan Tontić

  Fiction Poetry Bosnian Serbia

  Stevan Tontić, born in 1946 in Sanski Most (Bosnia and Herzegowina), studied philosophy and sociology in Sarajevo. He has published eleven volumes of poetry, one novel and two books of...

• Jutta Treiber

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Jutta Treiber, born 1949 in Oberpullendorf in Burgenland, studied German and English, and worked as a teacher of German and English. She has been a freelance author since 1988. She...

• Hans-Ulrich Treichel

  Fiction German Germany

  Hans-Ulrich Treichel, born in 1952 in Versmold/Westphalia, lives in Berlin and Leipzig. He studied German language at the Free University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1984 with a...

• Ilija Trojanow

  Fiction German Austria Germany

  Ilija Trojanow, born in 1965 in Sofia, grew up in Kenya and now lives in Vienna. He studied Law and Ethnology in Munich and in 1992 founded the Marino publishing...

• Marina Trumić

  Poetry Bosnian Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Marina Trumić was born in 1939 in Belgrade. However, she spent the most of her life and writing and translating career in Sarajevo, where she went to school, studied Slavic...

• Anja Tuckermann

  Children and Young Adults German Germany

  Anja Tuckermann was born in 1961 in Berlin. She still lives there, working as a freelance writer. She writes fiction books and plays as well as texts for films and...

• Ernst Tugendhat

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Ernst Tugendhat is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the philosophy of speech analysis in Germany. He was born in 1930 in Brünn/Brno (Czech Republic) as the...

• Dubravka Ugrešić

  Fiction Croatian Croatia

  Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in modern-day Croatia. She studied at the Department of Philosophy at Zagreb University and has worked there for over 20 years at the Institute...

• Sreten Ugričić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Sreten Ugričić, was born 1961 in Yugoslavia, in a country that doesn’t exist anymore. He is author of nine books of various genres: novels, short stories, essays and theoretical texts....

• Marie-Jeanne Urech

  Fiction French Switzerland

  Marie-Jeanne Urech was born in 1976 in Lausanne. She studied sociology and anthropology in Lausanne and graduated in 2001 from the London Film School. She is a film director and...

• Vlada Urošević

  Fiction Poetry Macedonian North Macedonia

  Vlada Urošević, born in 1934 in Skopje, is one of Macedonia’s best-known authors and poets. He studied literature at Skopje University, where he received his doctorate in 1987. In 1982,...

• Srđan Valjarević

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Srđan Valjarević, born in 1967 in Belgrade, has been one of the most observed young authors in Serbia since the beginning of the 1990s. In 1998 he was the Rockefeller...

• Lutz van Dijk

  Fiction German Germany

  Lutz van Dijk was born in 1955 in Berlin. He was a teacher in Hamburg and worked later at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Since 2001, he has been...

• László Végel

  Fiction Poetry Serbia

  László Végel, born in 1941 in Srbobran/Sentomaš, studied Hungarian Language and Literary Sciences in Novi Sad and Philosophy in Belgrade. With Danilo Kiš, Aleksandar Tišma or Ottó Tolnai he is...

• Dragan Velikić

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Dragan Velikić, born in 1953 in Belgrade, grew up in the Croatian city of Pula and studied literature in Belgrade. At the beginning of the 90s he was a staff...

• Janja Vidmar

  Children and Young Adults Slovene Slovenia

  Janja Vidmar was born in 1962 in Ptuj, Slovenia. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, but she broke her studies...

• Marko Vidojković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

  Marko Vidojković, born in 1975 in Belgrade, is one of the most exquisite Serbian authors. He studied law at the law school of Belgrade University. He began writing in 1998,...

• Goran Vojnović

  Fiction Slovene Slovenia

  Goran Vojnović was born in 1980 in Ljubljana. He graduated from the Academy for Film and Theatre in Ljubljana and is considered one of the most talented screenwriters and directors...

• Heimito von Doderer

  Fiction German Austria

  Heimito von Doderer was born in 1896 in Hadersdorf/Weidlingau near Vienna. After WWI, he studied history and psychology in Vienna and obtained his doctorate in 1925. He published his first...

• Varujan Vosganian

  Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Romanian Romania

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• Danica Vukićević

  Poetry Serbian Serbia

  Danica Vukićević was born in 1959 in Valjevo. She studied literary science in Belgrade and later women’s studies at the Faculty of political sciences. She writes poems, prose, essays and...

• Angel Wagenstein

  Fiction Bulgarian Bulgaria

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• Robert Walser

  Fiction German Switzerland

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• Martin Walser

  Fiction German Germany

  Martin Walser, born in 1927 in Wasserburg on Lake Constance, studied literature, history and philosophy at the Universities of Regensburg and Tübingen. He received his doctorate in literature for a...

• Andreas Weber

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Andreas Weber was born in 1967. He studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburg and Paris. As a freelance writer, journalist and editor, he has been since 1994 contributing...

• Frank Wedekind

  Drama German Germany

  Frank Wedekind was born in 1864 in Hanover. He moved to Munich and established the magazine Simplicissimus. Wedekind who fought relentlessly against the bourgeois pseudo-morality wrote in 1891 the socially...

• Benedict Wells

  Fiction German Germany

  Benedict Wells was born in 1984 in Munich. His school years were spent at three Bavarian boarding schools. After graduating in 2003 he moved to Berlin, where he decided against...

• Renate Welsh

  Children and Young Adults German Austria

  Renate Welsh was born in 1937 in Vienna. She studied English, Spanish and Public Governance and has been writing books for children, youths and adults since 1970. She received many...

• Harald Welzer

  Non-Fiction German Germany

  Harald Welzer was born in 1958 in Bissendorf near Hannover. Holding a PhD in sociology and social psychology, he is a professor for transformational design at the University of Flensburg...

• Markus Werner

  Fiction German Switzerland

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• Josef Winkler

  Fiction German Austria

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• Christa Wolf

  Fiction German Germany

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• Juli Zeh

  Fiction German Germany

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• Hanns Zischler

  Fiction German Germany

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• Miloš Živanović

  Fiction Poetry Serbian Serbia

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• Zoran Živković

  Fiction Serbian Serbia

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• Viktor Žmegač

  Non-Fiction Croatian Croatia

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• Aleksandar Zograf

  Graphic Novel Serbian Serbia

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• Uroš Zupan

  Poetry Slovene Slovenia

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