Ernesto Aloia
Kae Bahar
Dimitar Bashevski
Itzchak Belfer
Stefano Bon
Alex Boschetti
Roberto Brunelli
Federica Cappelletti
Shay Charka
Emanuele Coco
Lauretta Colonnelli
Marco De Angelis
Giorgio Dell'Arti
Aminata Fofana
Laura Freudenthaler
Tomer Gardi
Daniel Haber
Iris Hanika
Mela Hartwig
Ivan Demitrius Kafallo
Ally Klein
Oshrat Kotler
Emanuela Mascherini
Goenawan Mohamad
Gianluca Morozzi
Gharbi M. Mustafa
Sacha Naspini
Yinon Nir
Enrico Pandiani
Paola Presciuttini
Aleksandar Prokopiev
Idanna Pucci
Marco Rovelli
Wolf Schäfer
Monique Schwitter *
Francesca Riario Sforza
Thomas Stangl
Ariel Toaff
Elio Toaff
Mohammed Umar
Terence Ward
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Ernesto Aloia
Ernesto Aloia was born in Belluno in 1965, but has always lived and worked in Turin. For Minimum Fax he has published two short story anthologies: Chi si ricorda di Peter Szoke? (2003) and Sacra fame dell’oro (2006). For Rizzoli, he has published Icompagni di fuoco and for Minimum Fax Paesaggio con Incendio. The disenchanted mood of some descriptions and the widespread sense of disillusion could evoke the name of the French Michel Houellebecq, as well as Jonathan Franzen’s and Don DeLillo’s works. -
Kae Bahar
Kae Bahar After working as an actor with Teatro Avogaria for more than five years and touring many countries around the world, Kae left Italy for England in 1993. With a multilingual background, (Italian, English, Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish) he immediately started working in London, appearing in many stage productions, diverse TV dramas and several films. His favourite stage work to date is The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende. Kae’s love for writing resulted in completing three feature film screenplays, entitled SAFE HAVEN, SONG OF FREEDOM and BLINDFOLD SHOES as well as many treatments. In 2005. after living in exile for 25 years, Kae travelled back to Kirkuk three times and as a result he produced and directed his 90 minutes feature length documentary film; RETURN TO KIRKUK/ A YEAR IN THE FIRE. He has also reported and produced several films for Channel 4, BBC, More 4 News and Al Jazeera International. I Am Sami, his first professional fiction short film, was completed at the end of May 2014, and to this date the film had over 150 screenings, winning 53 awards in various International Film Festivals, including 28 times for Best Film and Audience Choice Awards and twice as Best Director. Kae’s next film, A Special Guest was shot in February 2016, ahead of his directorial debut with the feature film, Blindfold Shoes, (www.blindfoldshoes.com), to be the first Kurdish film in English Language targeting the mainstream cinema. No Friends But The Mountains, is his latest feature length documentary film distributed by Journeyman Pictures in 2017. Kae divides his time between Bath and London. He is married with three children. LETTERS from a KURD is his first novel. -
Dimitar Bashevski
Dimitar BaŠevski (1943) was director and editor-in-chief of Kultura Publishing House in Skopje. Currently he is editor-in-chief of Slovo Publishing House. From 2001 to 2006 he was president and now is hon. president of the Macedonian PEN Centre. Author of the following books: Stranger, novel, 1969; Return, novel, 1972; Splinter, novel, 1974; While the Bell tolls there is no death, novel, 1980; A year in the life of Ivan Plevnesh, novel, 1985; The House of Life, poetry, 1987; The Sarajanovo Carnation, novel, 1990; 1998; The Well, novel, 2001, The Brother, novel, 2007, The Windows, novel, 2010, , The Windows, new version, 2013 and The Master, short stories, 2013. His books have been translated and published in English, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Albanian, Turkish and Montenegreen. For his works, he has received the highest Macedonian literature awards - 11 October, Racin Award, Pechalbarska povelba Award, Vancho Nikoleski Award and Novel of the Year Award for the novel The Well, also short listed for the International Balkanika Award. -
Itzchak Belfer
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Stefano Bon
Stefano Bon has played in a rock a band as a singer for several years, then he worked as a Music Editor for local and national newspapers and magazines. He is a cinema and theatre playwright, he directed two short movies and several theatrical pièce and he also organises cultural and literary events. In 2006 Elliot published his first novel Il giorno in cui sono stata uccisa é stato il più bello della mia vita. -
Alex Boschetti
Alex Boschetti (1977) has written scripts for graphic novels, La strage di Bologna (Becco Giallo, 2006) e La scomparsa di Emanuela Orlandi (Becco Giallo/Fandango 2013). Mani Pulite (Becco Giallo, 2017). He has written also several short stories published in anthologies. Un interminabile inverno is his first novel. -
Roberto Brunelli
Roberto Brunelli, born and raised in Germany, worked at L’Unità for seventeen years, where he was, in turn, internal affairs, culture and foreign affairs editor-in-chief. Among other things, he was in charge of the special edition for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He spent the last two years at the international news desk of the Italian daily La Repubblica. And, between Wagner and Frank Zappa he prefers the latter. -
Federica Cappelletti
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Shay Charka
Shay Charka has published and still is publishing weekly cartoons, caricatures and illustrations in Makor Rishon Israel Hebrew magazine. His comics series have also been published on a regular basis for twenty years the children Hebrew magazine Otiot. Till now Shay Charka has published 15 comics books (two of which have been translated into English and published abroad) The comics albums are mainly inspired from Judaism and Jewish sources : the Bible, the Mishna, Talmudic stories, Agnon and more as well as from daily life in Israel while also studying the philosophical and Jewish approaches regarding Cartoons and Comics. -
Emanuele Coco
Emanuele Coco is a writer and science historian. Among his recent works: Ospiti ingrati (Nottetempo 2002) Egoisti, malvagi e generosi (Bruno Mondadori, 2008), Breve storia delle scienze naturali (De Agostini, 2009), Consigli pratici per evoluzionisti spaesati (Hukapan 2008) with Elio e le Storie Tese . -
Lauretta Colonnelli
Colonnelli was born in Pitigliano (Grosseto) but resides in Rome since 1969. She graduated in Philosophy at La Sapienza University. From1979 she was a journalist at the European Union and from 1996 to date she is a Cultural Correspondent of Corriere della Sera. Recent publications: the essay on "The Unrepeatable 60's in Rome" (ed. Skira, 2011) and the book "Do you know Rome?" (ed. Clichy, 2013): a walk through the secrets of the Eternal City in 450 questions and answers. -
Marco De Angelis
Marco De Angelis completes his university studies at The University of Naples and in 1995 he graduates in Germany at the renown Hegel-Archiv in Bochum, then world center of Hegelian studies. He is currently lecturer/professor at the Universities of Urbino (Italy) and Lüneburg (Germany). Besides numerous scientific articles, De Angelis authored also the following books: Die Rolle des Einflusses von J.J.Rousseau auf die Herausbildung von Hegels Jugendideal: Ein Versuch, die ‘dunklen Jahren’ (1789-1792) der Jugendentwicklung Hegels zu erhellen, 1995, Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main and Hegels Philosophie als Weisheitslehre (1995, Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main) and with Aldo Masullo La potenza della scissione (ESI, Neapel, 1997). -
Giorgio Dell'Arti
Dell’Arti is a columnist for La Stampa and was the finalist ( shortlisted) of the Viareggio Prize with The day before 68. He currently also writes for Vanity Fair, Il Sole 24 Ore, conducts the online magazine "Voce Arancio" and "Cinquantamila", the site for Italian History linked to Corriere della Sera. He is the author of the Catalog of the Living (Marsilio Editori). -
Aminata Fofana
Aminata Fofana was born in Guinea. She spent her childhood immersed in tribal life amongst many brothers, sisters, stepmothers and cousins, warriors, fishermen and witch doctors, listening to the sounds of the immense forest which surrounded her. When still a teenager, she with her family left the unpolluted life of their village and moved to the outskirts of Conakry, Guinea’s capital. Soon she left everything behind and went to Europe. In Rome she worked as a model. In London she began to write songs and soon recorded her first album The Greatest Dream, released worldwide by Mercury. While working on this album, she collaborated with famous artists like Massive Attack, Wyclef Jean (Fugees) and Craig Armstrong. During 2007/2009 she worked as a communication consultant for the Italian Ministry of the Environment, She also wrote for main Italian newspapers, such as La Repubblica, L’Unità and took part in various TV programs as a guest author. La luna che mi seguiva is her first novel. Rights sold Italy Einaudi TEA -
Laura Freudenthaler
Laura Freudenthaler was born in 1984 in Salzburg. She studied German language and literature studies, Philosophy and Gender Studies. She lives in Vienna. Her stories Der Schädel der Madeleine were published in 2014. -
Tomer Gardi
Tomer Gardi born in 1974 in Kibbuz Dan in Galiläa, studied literature and educational science in Tel Aviv and Berlin. He was editor of the journal «Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba», a project of the Isreali-Jewish initiative Zochrot that aims to make the memory of the expulsion of the Palestinians part of public debate. Tomer Gardi’s literary essay Stein, Papier was published in 2011. Broken German is Tomer Gardis first novel written in German. Otherwise You’ll Get Your Money Back is his second novel, published in 2019. -
Daniel Haber
Ph. D in Economics; MBA, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris Graduate from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, President France Pacific Consultants, consulting company specialized in assisting corporations in their international development in Asia, since 1986. He is Professor at SIMBA (Shanghai International MBA) of the University of Tongji and Professor at the MBA of the University of Haifa, Israel, as well as Professor at the Global MBA of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlya, Israel. His research efforts include co-writing the Report to the Prime Minister by the French Economic and Social Council on "The European and French Policies towards Japan” and research for the "Institut du Pacifique" on the common features and the relationships among the countries part of the Asia-Pacific region. He is the Author of 12 books on the economy of Japan, China and Israel, most of which published by L’Harmattan. -
Iris Hanika
Iris Hanika, born in Wurzburg in 1962, has lived in Berlin since 1979. She was a staff writer for the Berlin section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and contributed a chronicle to Merkur magazine (summer 2000 – summer 2008). Publications: Katharina oder die Existenzverpflichtung (Katharina; or The obligation to exist, story, 1992). Das Loch im Brot (The hole in the bread, chronicle , 2003), Musik für Flughäfen (Music for airports , short prose, 2005). Die Wette auf das Unbewußte oder Was Sie schon immer über Psychoanalyse wissen wollten (The bet on the unconscious or what you always wanted to know about psychoanalysis , with Edith Seifert, 2006), Berlin im Licht. 24 Stunden Webcam (Berlin in the light. 24-hour webcam, ed. With Stefanie Flamm, 2003). In 2006, Iris Hanika was awarded the Hans Fallada Prize, 2008 nominated on the shortlist of the German Book Prize, 2010 she won the European Union Prize for Literature und 2011 the prize of LiteraTourNord. -
Mela Hartwig
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Ivan Demitrius Kafallo
Ivan Demitrius Kafallo who is Bulgarian-born writing exclusively in English is also the author of the critically acclaimed novels Profane Chronicles and The Darkly Glamorous Menace. His other works include two novellas, a stage play, short story collection, a book of essays, and a volume of poetry. He has also written for the film industry. He resides in Los Angeles. -
Ally Klein
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Oshrat Kotler
Oshrat Kotler is an Israeli journalist, top news anchor and author. His latest novel Ija Mia was a bestseller in Israel. -
Emanuela Mascherini
Emanuela Mascherini is an actress, writer, and director. She has earned a diploma in acting from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and in directing from the New York Film Academy, and has a university degree in Film Sociology. She has written, among others: the essay Glass Ceiling. Oltre il soffitto di vetro (Edimond, 2009; Premio Città di Castello and Premio Pari Opportunità 2009), the novel Memorie del cuscino (Castelvecchi, 2009; Premio Afrodite and Premio Livio Paoli 2010 per la Narrativa edita), the handbook Non ci casco più. Donne che amano troppo, poco e male (Kowalski – Feltrinelli, 2012). -
Goenawan Mohamad
Goenawan Mohamad is an acclaimed Indonesian writer and man of letters. He has twice received the International Editor of the Year Award from the World Press Review, and is also the recipient of a CPJ International Press Free- dom Award and a Dan David Prize. Mohamad is one of the cofounders of the Lontar Founda- tion, a cultural nonprofit tasked with preserving and supporting Indonesian literary culture. He lives in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mohamad's early writings include Potret Seorang Penyair Muda Sebagai Si Malin Kundang (The Portrait of A Young Poet as Malin Kundang) (1972) and Seks, Sastra, Kita (Sex, Literature, Us) (1980),'"Kesusastraan dan Kekuasaan' (LIterature and Power) (1993)'Setelah Revolusi Tak Ada Lagi (Once the Revolution No Longer Exists) (2001), Kata, Waktu (Word, Time) (2001), 'Eksotopi' (Exotopia) (2003), 'Tuhan dan Hal-hal Yang Tak Selesai' (God and other Unfinished Things) (2007). -
Gianluca Morozzi
Gianluca Morozzi lives in Bologna as a full time writer. His novel Blackout (published in Italy, Germany, UK, US, and turned into a US/UK/Italian production movie), and Colui che gli dei vogliono distruggere (which will soon be a North American production movie, with the cooperation of the Berlinale) have been extremely successful in Italy and abroad. His latest novels, all published by Guanda (Maurispagnol) are Cicatrici, Chi non muore and Radiomorte, to name a few. -
Gharbi M. Mustafa
Gharbi M. Mustafa lis professor of English at the University of Dohuk in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. He has personally interviewed Yazidi women who escaped ISIS. He is also the author of When Mountains Weep, about childhood in Kurdistan. -
Sacha Naspini
Sacha Naspini, born in Grosseto in 1976, lives between Tuscany and Paris. He has published many novels, among others I sassi (Il Foglio), Never Alone (Voras), I Cariolanti (Ellio), Le nostre assenze (Elliot) and Il Gran Diavolo (Rizzoli, 2014). He is also a screenwriter. -
Yinon Nir
Yinon Nir was born in Kefar Saba in 1975; author of three novels and a short story collection, all of which received highly praised. In addition Yinon has an extensive and diverse professional background having worked as a senior investment manager, head of fixed income and as proprietary trader in various Israeli banks and investment firms as well as a software engineer in an artificial intelligence start up, a business director and as an analyst in a venture capital firm. He holds a Masters Degree in history and philosophy of ideas and sciences from Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude) and a bachelor degree in Business administration from the interdisciplinary Center. His works include: The Last Soldier (Modan publishing house/ Aryeh Nir Publishers, 2015), Unraveled Tales (Aryeh Nir Publishers, 2012), The Blue Period (Keter publishing house, 2003), Berth Was Buried Twice (Modan publishing house, 1998). -
Enrico Pandiani
Enrico Pandiani lives in Turin and is a book designer. His novel Les Italiens won the Premio Giallo Belgioioso. With Instar Libri he published the next two books in this series, Troppo piombo and Lezioni di Tenebra. -
Paola Presciuttini
Paola Presciuttini has written several novels: Occhi di grano with a forward by Dacia Maraini, Non dire il mio nome, Comparse (winner of the San Pellegrino Award) and Il ragazzo orchidea. Trotula is her latest novel. Some of her short stories have been published in anthologies by Fischer Verlag. -
Aleksandar Prokopiev
Aleksandar Prokopiev, born in 1953 in Skopje, is a Macedonian writer, essasyst and a former member of the eminent Yugoslavo Rock Ban Idoli. He has worked for several domestic and foreign magazines and has written screenplays for film, theatre, tv shows, radio dramas and comic books. He is author of several short stories collections and two novels, The Peeper (which won the Macedonian literature prize Prozni majstori) and Homunkulus, awarded with international award Balkanika. -
Idanna Pucci
Since leaving her Italian ancestral home in Florence, Idanna pursued her interest in diverse cultures through farflung travels. First she worked in New York for her uncle, Emilio Pucci, when his designs ushered vibrant colors into fashion. She later settled in Indonesia and began her studies of Balinese culture. Various writing assignments for the Hong-Kong based Asia Magazine enabled her to travel throughout the Indonesian Archipelago, South East Asia, Japan and across the Soviet Union on the last steam engine of the Trans- Siberian railway. She returned to New York to pursue her degree in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. After she obtained the International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance in Geneva, she served in the UN Mission to East Timor as an electoral officer during the referendum for independence in 1999. Later, she collaborated with the Burma Project (Open Society Foundations) on a special mission to Myanmar. She is also a board member of La Scuola di Eco-Narrativa in Anghiari, Tuscany. Aside from Italian, she speaks fluent English and French, and Bahasa Indonesia. She resides between Florence and New York. She is also the author of: The Epic of Life: A Balinese Journey of the Soul; The Prince and the Pauper: Two Balinese Portraits; Against All Odds: The Strange Destiny of a Balinese Prince; Brazza in Congo: A Life and Legacy. She produced also many documentaries. -
Marco Rovelli
Marco Rovelli 1969, writer and musician, he has published several books and novels: Lager italiani, (Bur, 2006), Servi (Feltrinelli, 2009), Il contro in testa, Laterza, 2013) and La guerriera dagli occhi verdi (Giunti, 2016). -
Wolf Schäfer
Wolf Schäfer is a Professor of Technology and Society and of History at Stony Brook University. He received his higher education in Marburg, Bonn, Kings College London, Munich, and Bremen, earned an MA in History, International Politics, and Philosophy and a PhD in History of Science and Technology and Social History. Dr. Schäfer has worked at a Max-Planck- Institute with C. F. von Weizsäcker and Jürgen Habermas, became a professor in Darmstadt,and moved to the United States in 1989. He pioneered global history as an alternative to world history, founded the Center for Global & Local History and the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, which he heads. The author of over eighty articles and ten books, Schäfer is currently researching the management of big science projects in the US and Germany during World War II. -
Monique Schwitter *
Monique Schwitter was born in 1972 in Zurich and lives and works since 2005 in Hamburg. She studied acting and directing in Salzburg and went on to perform in Zurich, Frankfurt, Graz and Hamburg. In 2004 she was awarded the Hermann-Lenz- tipendium. For her first volume of short stories, Wenn‘s schneit beim Krokodil (When It Snows at the Crocodile‘s), she was awarded the 2006 Robert Walser Prize for the best literary debut of the year and the promotional award of the Swiss Schillerstiftung In 2008 she published her novel Ohren haben keine Lider (Ears Have No Lids) and the play Himmels-W, in 2011 Goldfischgedächtnis, a collection of short stories (Goldfish Memory, published at Parthian 2015) and in 2015 her successful novel Eins im Andern. After having won last october the Swiss Book Prize now Schwitter was awarded also with the Swiss Literature Prize!!! -
Francesca Riario Sforza
Francesca Riario Sforza from 1996 to 2001 she was the author of many TV programs. Since 2000 she has been working with TV and film scripts as scriptwriter and script director. She teaches Scriptwriting at the Master LUISS Writing School. -
Thomas Stangl
Thomas Stangl was born in 1966 in Vienna where he studied Spanish and Philosophy and still lives, writing essays, reviews and prose. His first novel, Der einzige Ort (The single place, 2004), earned him the aspekte Prize for the best German debut. In the following years Stangl published further books at Droschl which have been very well received and conferred with awards, e. g. the Erich Fried Prize. -
Ariel Toaff
ARIEL TOAFF is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Among his works are The Jews in Medieval Assisi 1305-1487: A social and economic history of a small Jewish community (1979); Il vino e la carne. Una comunità ebraica nel Medioevo (Wine and Meat. A Jewish Community in the Middle Ages, 1989); Mostri giudei. L’immaginario ebraico dal Medioevo alla prima età moderna(“Jewish Monsters. The Jewish Imaginary from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era”, 1996); and Mangiare alla giudia. La cucina ebraica in Italia dal Rinascimento all’età moderna (Eating Jewish style. Jewish Cooking in Italy from the Renaissance to the Modern Age, 2000), many translated into various languages. The Renegade is his first work of fiction. -
Elio Toaff
After graduated from Law School in Livorno, and in Law in Pisa. Elio Toaff was named rabbi of Ancona from 1941 to 1943. He took part in the Resistance against Fascism and after Liberation he was named Rabbi of Venice but in 1951 he was called to Rome where he remained the spiritual leader of his community for 50 years, until 2001. Apart from guiding the Roman community, he had many national appointments: he was President of the Italian Rabbinical Consulate, the Director of the Italian Rabbinical College and the Higher Institute of Jewish Studies. As for Europe, he has long been a member of the Executive of the European Rabbis Conference. -
Mohammed Umar
MOHAMMED UMAR was born in Azare in Nigeria’s Bauchi State. He studied journalism and political economy and lives in London. Mohammed Umar served as a judge for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009 and he was the winner of the Muslim News Award for Excellence in Arts in 2010. His first novel Amina (2005) has been published in over thirty languages. His second novel, The Adventures of Jamil (2012) has been published in five languages. -
Terence Ward
Terence Ward is a writer, documentary producer and crosscultural consultant who grew up in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt. Graduating from UC Berkeley, he worked for 10 years for Middle East Industrial Relations Counselors consulting with clients across the Gulf. Author of Searching for Hassan and The Guardian of Mercy, he serves as international trustee for World Conference of Religions for Peace. He is a member of the noted Middle Eastern Institute (ISMEO) in Rome and divides his time between Florence and New York.
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