is a Dutch writer, journalist, teacher and moderator based in Amsterdam. He grew up in Baghdad and Jakarta. After settling in Amsterdam, he founded the...

is a writer, blogger, columnist and translator. He lives in Bratislava, where he is head of the Goethe-Institut Library. He has published several novels,...

is a writer and journalist based in Bratislava. Before 1989 he could publish only in samizdat; later he co-founded the Archa Publishing House, and edited the...

is a Czech sociologist and writer, author of many research articles and books. She lives in Prague. Following the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in...

is a Croatian writer and journalist. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University of Zagreb. From 1982 to 1992 she was a staff...

is a Polish writer and journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He lives in Warsaw and has been visiting professor at...

is a Hungarian author, journalist, human rights activist and diplomat. He studied philosophy and literature at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest,...

is an author and documentary producer. He was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in the UK. He is project chair for the Information Warfare Initiative at the...

is a German journalist with Franco-German roots based in Berlin. After studying music theory, he worked as staff writer for the German daily taz and later as...

is a Polish sociologist and philosopher, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds and at the University of Warsaw. Professor Bauman is one...

is a Ukrainian writer. She was born in Lutsk in the Volhynia region in 1960 and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Kiev. She made her poetry debut at the...

is a French philosopher based in Paris. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Lunes de fiel (Evil Angels, made by Roman Polanski into a...

is a Lithuanian philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas and political commentator, known as a staunch defender of human rights and civil...

is an Austrian writer and philosopher based in Vienna. He studied German, philosophy and political science in Vienna and Salzburg. An acclaimed author...

is a distinguished Hungarian novelist and essayist based in Budapest. He was a dissident under the communist regime and one of the earliest to be published...

is a Slovak visual artist based in Prague and Bratislava. In the 1980s, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, she moved to Moscow,...

is a Czech journalist based in Prague. He studied journalism and law at the Charles University in Prague. Before graduating he worked for the weekly Mladý...

is a Slovak social anthropologist based in Bratislava. His research at the Institute of Social Anthropology in the Social and Economic Department of the...

is a Serbian writer, translator, editor and columnist. He was born in Pula and lives in Belgrade. His debut novel U potpalublju (In the Hold) – the first...

is a Czech art historian, a specialist in medieval art and culture, the methodology of art history, and museum and visual studies. She a professor at the...

is a literary scholar and politician. He teaches Central European literature at Charles University in Prague, is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal...

is a Slovak editor, writer, journalist and translator from the German, and co-founder of the feminist cultural magazine Aspekt as well as its publishing and...

is a German author and professor of political science, based in Heidelberg. Her research has primarily focused on freedom, a leitmotif of her intellectual...

is a Hungarian economist and Member of the European Parliament. He holds a PhD from the Budapest University of Economics. He was director of the State...

is a photo and video artist based in Vienna and Karlsruhe. She grew up in Leningrad but left the Soviet Union in 1989, after being persecuted for her...

he has written for the Times Literary Supplement, n+1, Bookforum, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. He lives in New York. He has worked at Google and Microsoft....

is a Hungarian journalist and historian, based in Budapest. She has worked for several periodicals, Beszélő and Nappali ház, where she was...

is a French philosopher based in Paris. He graduated in philosophy and classics from the Sorbonne, writing his PhD on Hegel as the foreigner. Ogilvie is the...

is a Czech philosopher and academic, based in Prague. In 1989, he was one of the founders of the Civic Forum during the Velvet Revolution with his brother...

is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist based in Ljubljana. In the mid-1970s, in the relatively liberal Yugoslavia, he was imprisoned on a charge of...

is an Italian journalist, based in Sicily. He is the director of Radio Rmc 101 and author of the book Matteo Messina Denaro. L’invisibile, on a Sicilian...

is a Czech writer, dramaturge, translator of German fiction and literary historian. She lives in Prague. After studying German and Czech language and...

is a Spanish social activist based in Barcelona. He has worked as a political adviser to international organisations, including the International Maritime...

is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and Hebrew, and after graduating from Brown University she...

is a Polish novelist, travel writer and essayist. In the 1980s he joined the pacifist movement and after deserting from the army spent a year and a half in a...

is a Danish writer and recipient of numerous awards including the Danish Arts Foundation Lifetime Grant, the Adam Oehlenschläger Prize for Literature, and...

is a Czech journalist, poet and novelist based in Prague. He was one of the founders of the samizdat literary journal Revolver revue, worked on the weekly...

is a Slovak writer, translator and psychiatrist based in Prague. She studied medicine in Bratislava and psychology in Vienna, and currently works in...