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Frane Milčinski – Ježek, born in Ljubljana in 1914, was a Slovenian satirist, children’s author, actor, poet, and singer. His most famous work is the children’s book Zvezdica Zaspanka, which...
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,...
Gabriela Adameşteanu, born in Târgu Ocna, Romania, in 1942, is, alongside Norman Manea and Mircea Cărtărescu, one of Romania’s most important literary voices of the 20th century. She studied Romanian...
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...
Prisca Agustoni, born in Lugano in 1975, has been living between Switzerland and Brazil since 2003. In Brazil she teaches Comparative Literature and Italian at a university. She writes poetry...
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...
Ilse Aichinger, born 1921 in Vienna, published her novel The Greater Hope about the war in the city in 1948, and her first famous poems. For her novel, poems, radio...
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, 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...
Fabiano Alborghetti, born in Milano in 1970, lives and works in Tessin. Alborghetti first rose to prominence as a poet; he has published a string of poetry collections, including Verso...
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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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...
Petre M. Andreevski (1934–2006) was born in the town of Sloeštica, near Demir Hisar, in the southwest of Macedonia. In the 60s, he started making a name for himelf as...
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 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, born in 1965 in Pula, is an award-winning and renowned Serbian writer and cultural worker. He won the 1994 NIN Award for his first novel In the Hold...
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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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...
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, 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 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, 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 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, (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...
Jurek Becker (born probably in September 30) was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two...
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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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...
Mirko Bonné, born in Tegernsee in 1965, lives as a writer and translator in Hamburg. His diverse oeuvre includes not only widely acclaimed novels, but also several volumes of poetry,...
Nicolas Born, was born in Duisburg in 1937 under the name Klaus-Jürgen Born. Born published his first novel in 1965, titled Der Zweite Tag. 1967 saw the publication of his...
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, 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 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...
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, 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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...
Rumena Bužarovska, born in 1981 in Skopje, is the author of three short story collections, a booklet of flash fiction, and a study on humour in contemporary American and Macedonian...
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...
Stefan Çapaliku, born in Shkodër in 1965, studied Albanian language and literature in Tirana. Additionally, he also spent some time in Italy, England, and the Czech Republic. In 1996, he...
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, 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, 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, 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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...
Branko Cvetkoski, born in 1954 in Slatino, studied Philology in Skopje. He has worked as a journalist, editor and chief editor for various journals and publishing companies in Macedonia, was...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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...
Slobodan Despot, born in Sremska Mitrovica (today part of Serbia) in 1967. He has been living in Switzerland since his childhood. For over fifteen years he worked together with the...
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, 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....
Kristin Dimitrova, born in Sofia in 1963, is one of Bulgaria’s most exciting contemporary writers. Her multi-award-winning work includes a novel and several volumes of short stories and poetry that...
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, 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 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...
Marko Dinić, born in Vienna in 1988, spent his childhood and youth in Belgrade. He studied German and Jewish Cultural History in Salzburg. Die guten Tage , his debut novel,...
Neagu Djuvara, born in 1916, was a Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, and diplomat. Djuvara descended from an old Romanian or Aromanian linage of boyars. During communism, he studied and...
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, 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...
Elvira Dones, born in Durrës, Albania, is a Swiss-American writer, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. After seven novels in her mother tongue, she has written the two most recent ones in...
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, 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, 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 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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...
Eugène, born in Bucharest in 1969, came to Switzerland at the age of seven and grew up near Geneva. Since completing his humanities studies, he has been working as a...
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 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...
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 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...
Anna Felder, born in Lugano in 1937, studied literature in Zürich and Paris. After completing her studies she worked as an Italian teacher in Aarau, where she still lives today....
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 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 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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 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 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...
Zsuzsanna Gahse was born in 1946 in Budapest. She lives in Müllheim in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and is a writer and translator. She has translated to German works...
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...
Aleksandar Gatalica, born in Belgrade in 1964, is a Serbian author, literary critic, and translator. He studied Literature and Ancient Greek. His translations include works by Sophocles and Euripides. As...
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, 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 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, 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...
Marianna Georgieva was born in 1986 in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, in the Russian Federation. She studied law, creative writing as well as artistic psycho-social practices and psychodrama. She made...
Massimo Gezzi, born in Marken in 1976, is one of the most renowned Italian-language poets of his generation. In 2004, he published his first poetry collection, Il mare a destra....
Radu Pavel Gheo, born in 1969, is a Romanian writer, essayist and translator. He graduated from West University of Timișoara (1994) and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. After graduation,...
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...
Polona Glavan was born in 1974 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated in comparative literature and English at the University of Ljubljana in 2000 and has worked as a translator for...
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...
Friederike Gösweiner, born in Rum in Austria in 1980, studied German and Political Science in Innsbruck. Between 2007 and 2009 she did research on a project as part of the...
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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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...
Jean-François Haas, born in 1952, used to work as a teacher. In 2007, the French-speaking Swiss turned to writing. For his debut novel, Dans la gueule de la baleine guerre,...
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 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 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, 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 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 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 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]....
Iris Hanika was born in 1962 in Würzburg and moved to Berlin in 1979. She studied general and comparative literature in Berlin and she continues to live there. Her first...
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 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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 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 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, 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 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 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, 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 (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 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 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, 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, 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, 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...
Jovica Ivanovski, born 1961 in Skopje, is the author of more than 10 poetry collections. His latest was published in 2019 and was awarded the Prize of the Struga Poetry...
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, 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...
Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna in 1925, studied German and English and worked for many years as a high school teacher. From 1954 onward, he befriended and collaborated with Friederike...
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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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...
Dževad Karahasan, born in 1953 in Duvno, writes prose, theatre plays and essays. He wrote about the siege of Sarajevo in his Diary of an Exodus (Dnevnik selidbe), translated into...
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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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 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...
Robert Kleindienst, born in Salzburg in 1975, studierd German, Pedagogy and Political Science. In 2007 he was the resident writer of Kitzbühel. Kleindienst has received several accolades, including the Georg...
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, 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...
Wolfgang Koeppen was born in 1906 in Greifswald and died in 1996 in Munich. After living in East Prussia for 11 years, he returned to Greifswald in 1919. He couldn’t...
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, 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 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 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...
Julia Korbik was born in the Ruhr area in 1988 and now lives as a freelance journalist and author in Berlin. She mainly writes about pop culture and politics from...
Tomaž Kosmač, born 1965, lives between Idrija and Godovič in a region of West Slovenia that is also the setting of the majority of his stories. His first short stories...
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, (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 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, 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...
Dinko Kreho was born in Sarajevo in 1986 and studied Comparative Literature in Zagreb, Bihać, Sarajevo, Paris, and Rennes. He lives and works as literary critic, essayist and author in...
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 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...
Alfred Kubin, born in Leitmeritz, Bohemia, in 1877, was an Austrian graphic artist, writer, and book illustrator. His publications include the novel The Other Side. In 1951, he received the...
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...
Meral Kureyshi, born 1983 in Prizren in the former Yugoslavia, arrived in Bern in 1992. After completing her studies at the Swiss Institute for Literature in Biel she founded the...
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...
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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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...
Mariana Leky, born in Cologne in 1973, currently lives in Berlin. She studied Cultural Journalism at Hildesheim University. Her publications include her collection Liebesperlen (2010) as well as the novels...
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, 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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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...
Gert Loschütz, born in Genthin in 1946, is the author of several novels, short-story collections, poetry books as well as radio and theatre plays and film scripts. Gert Loschütz is...
Catherine Lovey, born in Lavais in 1967, is a Swiss author and journalist. In 2005, she received the grant prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation.
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 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 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, 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, 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 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, 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 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...
Mitko Madžunkov, born 1943 in Strumica (North Macedonia), studied world literature and literary theory in Belgrade. His career as a writer began in 1965 with the short story Uskrsnuće. His...
Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, works as a comic artist and illustrator in Vienna. His comics and cartoons have appeared in several magazines and newspapers, including Die Zeit, NZZ am...
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 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, 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 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, 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...
Klaus Mann, born in Munich in 1906, was Thomas and Katja Mann’s eldest son; he wrote his first novellas at the age of 15. Together with his sister Erika, Pamela...
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 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,...
Arnaud Maret was born in 1986 in Bagnes, Switzerland. He studied history and law. He made his debut with the collection of poetry titled Terres orphelines (2009). His first novel,...
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 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 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...
Petar Matović, born in Požega in 1978, studied Serbian Literature and Philology. His latest publications include the poetry collection Odakle dolaze dabrovi. His poems have appeared in several anthologies and...
Ingeborg Maus, born in Wiesbaden in 1937, is professor emeritus for political theory and the history of ideas at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
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 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...
Semezdin Mehmedinović, born in Kiseljak in 1960, is a Bosnian author and editor. After the war in Bosnia he emigrated and left for the US. His novel, Sarajevo Blues, also...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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...
Dragana Mladenović, born in 1977 in Frankenberg, studied Serbian literature and Comparative Literature and is currently working on a dissertation at the Philological Faculty of the University of Belgrade. Since...
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, 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 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, 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, 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...
Herta Müller was born in 1953 in the Romanian town of Nitzkydorf. Between 1973-76 she studied German and Romanian Philology in Timișoara. She arrived in Germany in 1987. From 1989...
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, 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, 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 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...
Manica Musil was born in Ptuj (SLO). After studying architecture, she established herself as a graphic designer, designing eleven Slovenian postage stamps among others. Since she had children, the artist...
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 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 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 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 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, 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, 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, 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, (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, 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...
Boris A. Novak, born in Belgrade in 1953, is a Slovenian poet, dramaturge and editor. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. His publications include numerous...
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, 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 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 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...
Damir Ovčina, born 1973 in Sarajevo, studied Literature Studies. He is the director of a school for blind and partially blind children and publishes on his website impruva.ba. His first...
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, 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 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...
Viktor Paskov, born in Sofia in 1949, was a Bulgarian author and musician. He studied music and theatre in Leipzig. After completing his studies in 1976 he remained another four...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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...
Jože Pirjevec, born in Trieste in 1940, received his PhD in History from Ljubljana University in 1977. He has done research and taught at the Universities of Pisa, Trieste, and...
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 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 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 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, 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, 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...
Marion Poschmann, born in Essen in 1969, studied German and Slavonic and now lives in Berlin. She has received numerous accolades for her prose and poetry. She has received the...
Uroš Prah, born in 1988, studied comparative literature and philosophy in Ljubljana. His debut, the poetry book Čezse polzeči, was published in 2012. His second book of poetry Tišima was...
Aleksandar Prokopiev, born in 1953 in Skopje, studied in Belgrade at the Faculty of Philology, the Department of General and Comparative Literature, and obtained his Ph.D. in the subject of...
Marijan Pušavec, born in 1962, studied comparative literature and Slovenian literature and works among other things as a journalist, editor, playwright and writer. His work as an author includes short...
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 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 (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, 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...
Manfried Rauchsteiner, born in Villach in 1942, is a historian, university professor and author of numerous books and articles. His publications include Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonarchie...
Liviu Rebreanu, born in 1885 in Târlișua, was a Romanian writer, playwright, and journalist. His novel, Pădurea spânzuraților, was published in 1922 and got widely translated into many different languages....
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
Ralf Rothmann was born in 1953 in Schleswig and grew up in the Ruhr valley. He has received numerous awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize...
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, 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, 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, (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 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...
Isak Samokovlija was born in 1889 in Goražde. The town, as well as the whole Bosnia and Herzegovina was under Austrian-Hungarian rule at that time. His family, Sephardi Jewish, moved...
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, 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 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 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, 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, 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, (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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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 (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 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...
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,...
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...
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 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 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...
Mihail Sebastian was born in Brăila (Romania) in 1907. His real name was Iosif Hechter. He wrote numerous theatre plays, an extensive diary and several novels. He wrote his first...
Robert Seethaler, born in Vienna in 1966, is a multi-award winning author of fiction books and film scripts. His novels Der Trafikant (The Tobacconist) and Ein ganzes Leben (A Whole...
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 (1972-2020) was a writer and translator born in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied Croatian Language and Literature in Rijeka. He moved to Norway in 1993, where he...
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, 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 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...
Elisa Shua Dusapin, born in France in 1992, was raised in Paris, Seoul, and Porrentruy, Switzerland. She obtained her degree in literary studies from the Swiss Literature Institute in Bienne...
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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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....
Zoran Smiljanić, born in Postojna, Slovenia, in 1961, works among others as a comic author and illustrator. In the 1980s he also published his provocative comics under the pseudonym Vittorio...
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 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,...
Ivan Šopov studied General and Comparative Literature in Skopje. Since 2012, he has been working as an editor for the publisher Templum and the website okno.mk. His publications include the...
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, 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 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, 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 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 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, 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...
Luan Starova, born in Pogradec, Albania, in 1941, graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Zagreb. He...
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, 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 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 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, 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...
Cyrill Stieger, born in Oberriet, Switzerland, in 1950, studied Slavic Philology and Eastern European History in Zurich and Zagreb. He then went on to work at the Swiss embassy in...
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...
Gencho Stoev, born in 1925 in Charmanli, was a renowned Bulgarian novelist and journalist. He studied philosophy in Sofia and was active member of the antifascist resistance. His first book,...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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 (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 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, 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 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...
José-Flore Tappy, born in Lausanne in 1954, is a Swiss poet. She has written several volumes of poetry that have drawn increasing critical attention to her work. Her first collection,...
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, 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 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, 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 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, 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 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 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...
Ernst Toller was a German playwright, one of the most important ones of the era of the Weimar Republic, and also served as a politician. He was born in 1893...
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...
Marko Tomaš, born in Ljubljana in 1978, grew up in Mostar and Kljajićevo/Sombor. He is one of today’s most popular poets from the former Yugoslavia. He has published several volumes...
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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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 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...
Radu Țuculescu, born in Târgu Mures in 1949, is a novelist, dramaturge and translator from German. He is one of the most important contemporary authors in his country. His books...
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 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, 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 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, 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, 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 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...
Zlatko Vasić is a Serbian writer and author of books for young adults.
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, 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 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, 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 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...
Vladislava Vojnović, born in Bela Crkva in 1965, studied dramaturgy at Belgrade University. She has published novels, poetry collections, plays as well as children’s books. In addition, she works as...
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 was born in 1958 in Craiova. He spent his childhood and youth in Foçsani. He is an economic expert, politician, writer and the president of the Association of...
Irena Vrkljan, born in Belgrade in 1930, is a Croatian-German writer and translator. Vrkljan grew up in Zagreb. In 1966 she began her studies at the West Berlin film school....
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, born in 1922 as the son of a Jewish craftsman family in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, spent his childhood in France. During World War II, he barely escaped death as...
Jan Wagner, born in Hamburg in 1971, is a German poet, essayist and translator, and the recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (2017) and Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2015). He...
Robert Walser was born on 15 April 1878 in Biel. He died on 25 December 1956 during a walk in the snow. After his schooldays, he completed a bank apprenticeship...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
Albert Wendt has been living in a village near Leipzig since his childhood. There he sits under the apple tree, in bad weather in a house next to it, and...
Markus Werner, born in 1944 in Eschlikon, studied German, Philosophy and Psychology in Zurich, where he also gained his Ph.D. with a paper on Max Frisch. In 1984 he published...
Urs Widmer, born in Basel in 1938, studied German, Romance languages and history in Basel, Montpellier, and Paris. He then worked as a publishing editor at Walter Verlag, Olten, and...
Katharina Winkler, born in Vienna in 1979, studied German and Theatre Studies. Blauschmuck, published by Suhrkamp in 2016, is her widely-praised debut novel. The novel has been to date translated...
Heinrich August Winkler, born in Königsberg in 1938, studied History, Philosophy and Law in Tübingen, Münster, and Heidelberg. He did his post-doc in 1970 at the Free University of Berlin....
Josef Winkler was born in 1953 in Kamering near Paternion in Corinthia, Austria. After primary school he spent three years at the business school in Villach. After spending some time...
Christa Wolf was born in 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe. After finishing high school in Bad Frankenhausen, she joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1949. From...
Juli Zeh, born in 1974 in Bonn, studied Law in Passau and Leipzig. From 1996 to 2000 she studied in Leipzig at the German Literary Institute. Her works have been...
Dita Zipfel, born in 1981, writes screenplays, theatre pieces, scripts, and novels.
Hanns Zischler, born in 1947 in Nürnberg, studied Philosophy, Ethnology, Musicology and German Language and Literature in Munich and Berlin. He has worked as an editor, translator and dramatic adviser....
Miloš Živanović was born in 1976 in Belgrade. He is a member of the editorial board of the critical Serbian magazine BETON. He wrote two books of poetry (Ignore The...
Zoran Živković, born in 1948, studied Literature at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade and received his Ph.D. in 1982 with a work about Science Fiction. He...
Viktor Žmegač was born in 1929 in Slatina, Croatia. He studied German and Croatian languages and literatures, and musical studies and was for many years professor at the University of...
Aleksandar Zograf (actually Saša Rakezić), born in Pančevo in 1963, is a Serbian comic artist. His works are translated into over 15 languages, for example English and French, and have...
Uroš Zupan, born in 1963 in Trbovlje, is one of the best-known Slovenian poets. He studied Comparative Literature in Ljubljana, where he lives and works today as an author and...
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