graduated in Comparative Literature and Slovene from Ljubljana University. He worked briefly as reporter and has been a free-lance writer since 1986. He has published two books for children and young readers, a collection of short stories and four novels, including VolÄŤije noÄŤi (Wolf Nights), which won the Kresnik award for the best Slovenian Novel in 1997 and was published in German translation by Drava Verlag.
was born in 1960 in Luck in the Ukraine and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Kiev. A poet, novelist and author of literary studies, she published four collections of poetry, Conductor of the Last Candle (1990) The Hoarfrost of May (1985) Hitchiking (1994) and A Kingdom of Fallen Statues (English version, Toronto, 1996). Her novel An Extraterrestial Woman was serialized in the Ukrainian journal The Present in 1992. Her novel An Outdoor Research of Ukrainian Sex (1996) will be shortly published in English and Czech. Oksana Zabuzhko lives in Kiev.
was born in Prague, studied in the USA, and has been living in Barcelona since the early 1980s. Writer, translator and critic, she has taught at the Universitat Autònoma, and writes for numerous papers and cultural magazines. She has translated more than forty books of Russian and Czech fiction and poetry into Spanish and Catalan - Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Babel, Hašek, Capek, Seifert, Havel, Škvorecký, Kundera and Hrabal – and has received several prestigious awards for her work as translator. Her biography of the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal V rajské zahrade trpkých plodu (The Bitter Fruit of the Garden of Delights, 1997) has so far been translated into seven languages. Her trilogy of novels was published in Czech as Grave cantabile in 2000 and in Catalan as La dona dels cent somriures (The Woman of a Hundred Smiles) in 2001.
was born in Budapest in 1970. Poet and prose writer, publisher and multi-media artist, his volume of poetry Lepel alatt ugrásra kész szobor (A Statue Under a White Sheet Ready to Jump) was published in 1993. His short stories draw on his travels from Sydney to New York, and from Cape Town to St. Petersburg, and his “dictionary novel” Az utolsó Ablak-Zsiráf (The Last Window Giraffe, 1998) is based on a Hungarian children’s picture primer and describes growing up in Hungary and eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s in a humorous, playful way, reflecting the previous regime’s oversimplifications and treatment of citizens as children. The novel was translated into 11 languages, adapted for the radio and made into a multimedia CD-ROM in four languages, which toured 25 countries.
was born in Lisbon in 1961 and obtained his doctorate in Literature from Nova University where he now lectures in Portuguese Studies. His first novel, Hotel Lusitano (1987) a story of two American “innocents” in Lisbon, became a cult book for the young generation of Portuguese. His scripts for street theatre performances and happenings, and especially his contributions to the satirical TV programme Viper Tongue, have won him considerable popularity as an agent provocateur. His other books include the “millennium” novel Apocalipse Nau, 1996, A Espera (The Wait, 1998) a novella about whaling set in the Azores, and the graphic novel A Arte Suprema (The Supreme Art, 1997). His latest novel O Supplente (The Substitute) was published in 2000.
(1944 - 2001 Riga) studied psychology and social sciences in Leningrad and Moscow. A poet, translator from English and Russian and literary critic, he worked in Latvian television, was editor of the literary weekly L&M and director of the Latvian National Museum of Literature, Music and Theatre. He published six books of poetry, a book for children, translations and numerous articles of literary criticism. His last collection Forbidden Psalms reflects the conflicts faced by his generation in a time of political turmoil of recent years. He was president of Nordic/Tapals Publishers, a press with a strong international and poetry list, from 1992 until 2001.