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 Belarussian writer and journalist, recipient of the 2015 Nobel prize for literature “for her polyphonic writings, which are a monument to suffering...

is a Norwegian anthropologist and writer. He is currently professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. He focuses on issues of ethnicity,...

is a distinguished British investigative journalist, author and historian, based in London. As the Central Europe Correspondent, first for the Guardian and...

is a German writer, former professor of public law and the philosophy of law at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He was a judge of the Constitutional...

is a Polish poet, essayist and journalist. She studied Polish Studies and Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, where she now lectures in the Gender...

is a French writer. His burst onto the literary scene with his first book, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (The End of Eddy), an unvarnished account of...

is a Bulgarian political scientist, based in Sofia where he chairs the Centre for Liberal Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian edition of...

is an American historian, associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly...

is an American historian. He is a Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, a Committee on Conscience member at the US Holocaust Memorial...

is a Maltese economic historian and political scientist. He lives in London and heads Quantitative Research in the Prosperity Index team at the Legatum...

is a French journalist based in London. In 2014 she joined The Guardian’s senior editorial team and has since served as the newspaper’s columnist, leader...

is a Hungarian writer, poet, literary critic and translator. He lives in Budapest, where he is professor at the Hungarian Literary History Institute of...

is a Romanian poet, scholar and translator. He teaches literature at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and is an editor of the Poesis...

is studying for a PhD in social psychology at Masaryk University in Brno and a researcher at the Institute of Population Studies in the university’s...

is a writer. He graduated in screenwriting from the Film and Television Faculty at Bratislava’s Academy of Performing Arts. In 2012 he won first prize...

is a Norwegian student, a survivor of the Utøya massacre of 22 July 2011, in which the right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 and injured...

is a Czech student of philosophy and Czech language and literature, as well as protestant theology at Prague’s Charles University. His main focus is...

is a Polish intellectual and commentator. He is the founder and leader of Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique), a group of left-wing Polish intellectuals,...

is a civic activist, director and co-founder of Alliance Fairplay, a Slovak non-profit watchdog that scrutinizes the financing of political parties,...

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 theologian and writer. He lives in Bratislava. He studied Protestant theology in Strasbourg and political theology at the École pratique des hautes...

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...

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je humorista, dramatik, prozaik, textár, moderátor, herec, spevák a režisér. Vyše štyridsať rokov vystupoval s Júliusom Satinským...

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je veľvyslanec Spojených štátov v Slovenskej republike. Žije v Bratislave. Vyštudoval Harvardovu univerzitu, pracoval pre starostu mesta...

(Slovensky)

je český spisovateľ, vrchný zemský a bývalý vrchný pražský rabín. Po podpísaní Charty 77 v roku 1978 ako 35-ročný konvertoval...

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je český novinár. Šéfredaktor týždenníka Respekt. Žije v Prahe Roku 2003 dostal za komentáre cenu Novinářská křepelka pre...

(Slovensky)

je historik. Žije v Bratislave. Roku 2003 absolvoval odbor história-politológia na Filozofickej fakulte UK v Bratislave. Od roku 2007 pôsobí...

is an art photographer based in Paris. Along with other graduates of the Prague film academy, FAMU, he is considered part of the new wave of Slovak...

is a Swedish writer and journalist, who is based in Stockholm and Copenhagen. She is the president of the Swedish Centre of PEN International and currently...

is a Dutch writer, one of the most highly awarded writers of his generation. He was born in Morocco and his family moved to the Netherlands when he was four...

is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s foremost experts on the...

is director of the Open Society Foundation in Slovakia. He has been active in the non-profit sector for over 20 years, volunteering, promoting NGO...