Ernesto Aloia
Leonardo Araneo
Kae Bahar
Ivan Baio
Dimitar Bashevski
Stefano Bon
Alex Boschetti
Roberto Brunelli
Gheula Nemni Canarutto
Shay Charka
Emanuele Coco
Lauretta Colonnelli
Marco De Angelis
Giorgio Dell'Arti
Laura Freudenthaler
Fabio Geda *
Roberto Giardina
Pier Francesco Grasselli
Daniel Haber
Iris Hanika
Ivan Demitrius Kafallo
Abdullah Khan
Gertraud Klemm
Oshrat Kotler
Yigal Leykin
Matthew Licht
Raphael Luzon
Emanuela Mascherini
Goenawan Mohamad
Alda Monico
Gianluca Morozzi
Gharbi M. Mustafa
Sacha Naspini
Yinon Nir
Enrico Pandiani
Paola Presciuttini
Aleksandar Prokopiev
Idanna Pucci
Vanni Puccioni
Riccardo Raccis
Marco Rovelli
Wolf Schäfer
Monique Schwitter *
Francesca Riario Sforza
David Tarbay
Elio Toaff
Mohammed Umar
Terence Ward
Georgij Zotov
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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. -
Leonardo Araneo
Leonardo Araneo after having been working for 10 years on some of the most important Italian Tv series like Elisa di Rivombrosa, RIS, Incantesimo and many others, produced and directed his first feature film Back from Hell distributed in USA and UK. With his own The Talking Tree he both produces and distributes internationally, TV series and documentaries. Gaia is his first novel. -
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. -
Ivan Baio
Ivan Baio writes for L’Unità, Stilos and other newspapers. He has written several essays and short story collections and the novel Cosa vuoi fare dal grande? (Del Vecchio). He is the inventor, under the pen name Ben Apfel, of the blovel (a novel published through a blog) with farefuorilamedusa, which has had 150.000 so far. -
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. -
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. -
Gheula Nemni Canarutto
Gheula Nemni Canarutto was born in Milan, Italy. She has a B.A degree in Business Administration and a Master Degree in Business Administration and Finance. She has been teaching in Bocconi University for seven years, she got married at the age of 19 and has seven kids. Gheula is also a speaker about Judaism, business ethics, values and women issues. She is one of the promoters of Milan Jewish Center, a project by Daniel Libeskind, which aims to open Jewish culture to everybody. She is a blogger followed by thousands of people and she writes for Jewish and non Jewish magazines. You Can(‘t) Have it All was published by Mondadori in 2015. -
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). -
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. -
Fabio Geda *
Fabio Geda, 34, works for a social cooperative and with the Gruppo Abele. Per il resto del viaggio ho sparato agli indiani, now at the fourth edition, was shortlisted at the Premio Strega 2007, won the Premio via Po “Esordiente”, and the Premio esordio dell’anno on Fahrenheit (Rai 3). L’esatta sequenza dei gesti won one of Italy’s major literary prizes, the Premio Grinzane Cavour. He has also written La bellezza nonostante (Transeuropa) and Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli (Dalai Editore), translated in 24 languages. -
Roberto Giardina
Roberto Giardina lives in Germany since 1986 and is a corrispondent for Quotidiano Nazionale (La Nazione, Il Resto del Carlino, Il Giorno) and has won several prizes for his articles, reportages and foreign reports. He is author of fiction and non-fiction translated in German, French and Spanish, among which Guida per amare i tedeschi, Biografia del Deutsche Mark, Complotto Reale, L´Altra Europa, L´Europa e le vie del Mediterraneo, Itinerari erotici, Lola Montez and Fra´Diavolo’s biographies, and the novels Parlami con amore, La lingua del Paradiso, Pizza con crauti, Pizza con gelsomino, Il mare dei soldati e delle spose. In Germany he has published Hundert Zeilen (Arena Verlag), Anleitung die Deutschen zu lieben, Lob der Rothaarigen, (Argon Verlag), and Königliche Verschwörung (Bertelsmann). Berlin liegt am Mittelmeer was published in 2014 by Avinus Verlag. -
Pier Francesco Grasselli
Pier §Francesco Grasselli ha 33 anni ed è già autore dei romanzi "Ho scaricato miss Italia", "Fanculo amore" e della trilogia "maledetta: "L'ultimo cuba libre", "All'inferno ci vado in Porsche" e "Vivere da morire". I libri sono editi da Mursia. -
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. -
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. -
Abdullah Khan
Abdullah Khan was born in a village near Motihari, Bihar, India, and he was initially educated in Madarsa (Islamic Seminary) and Urdu medium schools. His writings (Short stories, essays, memoir, book reviews etc.) have also appeared in Brooklyn Rail (New York), Wasafiri (London), The Hindu (India), Friday Times (Pakistan) and The Daily Star (Bangladesh) among others. Patna Blues is his first novel. -
Gertraud Klemm
Gertraud Klemm was born in Vienna in 1971, and studied biology at the University of Vienna. She has won several scholarships and prizes, including the Public’s Choice Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2014. In 2015, her novel Aberland was longlisted for the German Book Prize. Klemm’s eye is merciless, vicious and comical at the same time. In her books she deals particularly with the situation of the modern woman, and the gap between the emancipation of women in general and the life of the individual. -
Oshrat Kotler
Oshrat Kotler is an Israeli journalist, top news anchor and author. His latest novel Ija Mia was a bestseller in Israel. -
Yigal Leykin
Yigal Leykin was born in Lviv (USSR). At the age of 9 he moved with his parents to Poland, and from there, at 12, to Israel. In 1978 he got an MD at Bologna University (Italy), then mastering in Sciences at the University of Tel Aviv. He has worked in several hospitals in Italy and abroad. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications. -
Matthew Licht
Matthew Licht His short story collection The Moose Show (Salt Pubs) was nominated for the Frank O’Connor Award. The novel WestWays was published by Christoph Keller Verlag. Two books in Italian, SogniLandia (Ed. Otto Luogo dell’Arte) and Blues x Adulti (Ed. Blue Joint) have recently appeared. His first e-book The Niglu (Stanza 251) was published in English and in Italian (author’s own translation). A new collection of short stories, Justine, Joe & the Zen Garbageman, is due out soon (Salt Pubs). His stories have appeared in Ambit, Reality, Litro, Slake and Osmos magazines. -
Raphael Luzon
Raphael Luzon was born in Bengasi in 1954. He graduated in Political Sciences in Rome. He was a foreign correspondent for several Israeli newspapers and producer for the Italian TV (Rai) in Israel. He has lived in Bengasi, Rome, and Tel Aviv. Today he lives in London. -
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). -
Alda Monico
Alda Monico, a Venetian by birth, now lives in Rome. She has worked as a linguist with Tullio De Mauro. She is also the author of Maria della laguna and La mela carpenedola, both published by Corbaccio. -
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. -
Vanni Puccioni
Vanni Puccioni grew up in the Middle East and Africa where he began a career in international cooperation that saw him serving the UN, and the European Union.Later he started his own business in international consulting and TV documentaries. He is the author of many publications on topics of international cooperation, environment, disaster preparedness, and the executive producer and director of documentaries broadcast for an international audience, including BBC, RAI, and broadcasters in the Arab world. -
Riccardo Raccis
Riccardo Raccis was born in Florence in 1979. A Physicist by trade, in 2004 he published his first novel, Il Paradosso di Plazzi. He writes for Rolling Stone Magazine and lives in Germany. -
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. -
David Tarbay
David Tarbay was born in Hungary in 1977 and immigrated to Israel at the age of 15. His first book, Adonis, was bublished in 2001. His second book, Stalker, was relased by the prestigious Am Oved Publishing House, receiving critical acclaim and the Presidential Award for Literature. His third book, The Emperors’ Dream, published by Keter, immediately made the bestseller list. David also translates works of some of the most prominent and respected Hungarian writers, including Tibor Déry, Sándor Márai, Magda Szabó, Péter Nádas, and Gyorgy Spiro. -
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. -
Georgij Zotov
Georgij Zotov was born in Moscow (then USSR) in 1971. He studied the Bible and Roman and Byzantine history. As a journalist he worked for Izvestia and now for “Arguments and Facts”, as a correspondent from war conflict regions – Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria (recently), Lebanon, ex- Yugoslavia. He has written many novels which have also been published abroad: Element of Blood, Minus Angel, Seal of the Moon, Demon +, Republic of the Night, Judgement Day 3D, Skull of Saturday, Hell & Heaven.
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