Tanja Beljanski Photo: Gordana Nejgebauer @nejgebauer Born in Novi Sad in 1975. She is the editor of the fashion magazine L’Officiel Arabia. Her short stories have been published in the literary journals Dometi (Sombor), Koraci (Kragujevac), Fantom slobode (Zagreb), and…

Karin Tidbeck Photo: Patrik Åkervinda Karin Tidbeck is based in Malmö, Sweden, where they write speculative fiction in Swedish and English. Their English debut, the 2012 collection Jagannath, received the Crawford Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award.…

Li Ang Li Ang (real name Shih Shu-tuan, born in 1952 in Lukang, Taiwan) is one of the most prolific and innovative writers in contemporary Chinese-language literature. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Chinese Culture in Taipei, she…

Stig Mass Andersen Stig Mass Andersen is a writer, musician and journalist. As he started his career as a songwriter, he tries to enrich his literary expression with musical undertones. Besides being the title of the book, Bipolar Superstar is…

Jelena Anđelovska Jelena Anđelovska graduated in dramaturgy from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She has so far published two poetry books and co-edited two poetry anthologies, Transporters (Forum Publishing Institute, Mračna komora, Novi Sad 2021) and Ovo nije…

Danijel Apro A journalist from Novi Sad. The author of the novels Telepathy and Gari and the short-story collection Reborneo. Awarded at the Nušićijada for the story “The Game of Spherical Shapes” and with Dositej’s Golden Quill for the travelogue…

Lindita Arapi Lindita Arapi was born in Lushnjë (Republic of Albania). She lives between Germany and Albania and works as a journalist for Deutsche Welle. She began publishing literary works in the late 1980s. Lindita Arapi’s poems have been translated…

Guillermo Arriaga Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico City, 1958) is a Mexican screenwriter and writer. He’s written four novels (The Guillotine Squad, A Sweet Scent of Death, Night Buffalo and The Savage) and a short-story collection (Retorno 201). Arriaga’s prose has been translated into…

Joanis Arvanitas / Jovan Nikolaidis A writer, publisher, journalist, persistent in the affirmation of Montenegrin multiculturalism. He sees the Balkans as a zone of tolerance and peaceful co-existence. He’s the founder of the first newspaper in the Albanian language in…

Bernardo Atxaga Photo credit: Xabier Idoate Bernardo Atxaga (Asteasu, Basque Country, 1951) is considered to be a top representative of Basque prose. His first short-story collection Obabakoak (1988), more precisely, a hybrid form between a novel and a short-story collection,…