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Eduards Aivars (real name Aivars Eipurs) is a poet, short prose writer, essayist and a long-time literary mentor and consultant of young and aspiring... more

Rati Amaghlobeli was born in 1977 in Tbilisi. He graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University from the faculty of philosophy. Since... more

Subhro Bandopadhyay (1978, Calcutta, West Bengal, India) started publishing early. His first chap book dahankhata theke appeared in the 2000. Since... more

Nilanjan Banerjee (b.1974) was educated at Visva-Bharati of India and Reitaku University of Japan. He is a poet, painter, curator and exhibition... more

Maaz Bin Bilal (b. 1986) is a writer, translator, and academic, based in the national capital region of Delhi, India. A commitment to... more

Andrej Blatnik (b. 1963) holds a PhD in communication studies. After working as a fiction editor for the Cankarjeva publishing house, he now teaches... more

Tsead Bruinja (b. 1974) is a poet living in Amsterdam. He made his debut in 2000 with the Frisian language collection entitled De wizers yn it read... more

Hilari de Cara is one of the foremost writers in Catalan. He is not only a multi-award winning poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, editor and a... more

Yolanda Castaño (Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1977) has been publishing poetry for over twenty years.  Her six collections have been awarded a... more

Nguyen Bao Chan trained as a cinema scenarist at the Hanoi Cinema and Theatre University. She currently works for Vietnam Television as an Arts and... more

Irakli Charkviani (1961 – 2006), sometimes known under his pseudonym Mefe (‘The King’), was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and musician.... more

Tiziana Colusso is both a writer and a literary activist. For the past six years, she has served on the board of the European Writers Council. She is... more

Poet and architect Efe Duyan studied architecture and philosophy and currently teaches architecture in İstanbul at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts... more

Heike Fiedler (1963) is a Swiss author, multilingual poet, and sound and visual artist living in Geneva. She performs her poetry with laptop, paper... more

Ilke Froyen is general director of Passa Porta, the international house of literature in Brussels, and festival director of the Passa Porta Festival... more

Patrizia Gattaceca (1957, Corsica) is a versatile artist: a poet, musician, singer and songwriter and an actor from the Riacquistu cultural revival.... more

Ifor Ap Glyn was born and bred in London to Welsh parents. He works as a TV producer, after a period as a scriptwriter for theatre and TV, and has... more

Dan Gorman is the Executive Director of Shubbak Festival, London’s only citywide festival of contemporary Arab culture. He is also the co-founder... more

Eluned Gramich (1989) is a German-Welsh writer and translator. She lived in Japan and Germany for several years before returning to Wales to pursue... more

Kathryn Gray was born in Wales in 1973. Her first collection, The Never-Never, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the... more

Michelle Green has taken her award winning spoken word work all over the UK, performing solo as well as in collaboration with musicians and visual... more

David Greenslade teaches at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK.  A prize winning essayist he writes in Welsh and English and has many books... more

Kate Griffin is Associate Programme Director at Writers’ Centre Norwich, contributing to the development of WCN’s international activities.... more

Anna Gulczynska was born in Poland in 1977. She studied German and has spent a lot of time in Germany. She now lives in Frankfurt and writes poetry in... more

Richard Gwyn is a poet, novelist and translator. He grew up in Breconshire, Wales, and studied at the LSE and in countless bars, roadhouse cafés,... more

Based at the British Council in London, Katie Haines is Marketing and Communications Lead of Creative Europe Desk UK. She promotes awareness and... more

Golan Hajiis a Syrian-Kurdish poet and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He was born in 1977 in Amouda, a Kurdish town in the... more

Ted Hodgkinson is Senior Programmer for Literature and Spoken Word at Southbank Centre. Former online editor of Granta, he has written for a variety... more

James Hopkin has lived in Krakow, Berlin, Manchester and several other cities and countrysides in Europe. He gained a First Class honours degree in... more

Kristina Hočevar (1977) studied Slovenian Language and Literature and General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana and currently works as... more

Peggy Hughes is the director of Literary Dundee, a University of Dundee-led initiative which connects books, readers, writers and the brightest ideas... more

Shota Iatashvili is a poet, fiction writer, translator and art critic. From 1993-97 he worked as an editor at the Republic Centre of Literary Critics... more

Erica Jarnes runs the Writers in Translation programme at English PEN. She previously worked as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, a literary events... more

Doris Kareva (1958) graduated from Tartu University in 1983 in Roman-Germanic philology before going on to work in the cultural weekly Sirp from... more

Vishnu Khare is a poet, translator, literary and film critic, journalist and scriptwriter. Each of these he has pursued at the highest level. His work... more

Aurélia Lassaque (b. 1983) is an Occitan and French poet. She is keenly interested in the relationship between poetry and music and has collaborated... more

William Letford has received a New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust, An Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary, and has an MLitt in Creative... more

Dyfan was raised in Craic-cefn-parc, a village to the north of Swansea. He writes in a variety of mediums. Having won the essay prize at the National... more

Eva Luka is one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary Slovak poetry. She has published three books of poetry so far and has won a... more

Martín López-Vega (Poo de Llanes, Asturias, 1975) writes both in Spanish and Asturian. In Asturian, he has published four books of poems, gathered... more

Mazen Maarouf is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, translator and journalist. Born in 1978 to a Palestinian refugee family he lived, studied and worked... more

Nikola Madzirov is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. He was born into a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica,... more

Franca Mancinelli has published two books of poetry, Mala kruna (Manni, 2007) and Pasta madre (Nino Aragno, 2013). A preview of her second book of... more

Miguel Manso was born in Santarém in 1979 and lives in Lisbon. He has published eight books of poetry since his debut Contra a manha burra ... more

Canan Marasligil is a freelance writer, literary translator, editor and curator based in Amsterdam. She works internationally in English, French,... more

Robyn Marsack has been Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh since 2000, and has facilitated many poetry translation workshops in... more

Narlan Matos (Brazil/USA) was born in Itaquara, Bahia in 1975. At the age of 21, he published his first poetry book Ladies and Gentleman: the Dawn!,... more

Maurizio Mattiuzza was born near Zurich and returned to his father’s homeland, Friuli (a region in the Northeast of Italy next to the Slovenian... more

Anna Mattsson (born in 1966) is a Swedish poet, novelist and translator. Since her debut in 1988, she has published 10 books of her own and several... more

Dylan is a prolific commentator on the culture of Wales, leading policy work on media and democracy for the Institute of Welsh Affairs, for whom he... more

Grug Muse (1993) is a Welsh-language poet, editor, performer and researcher  from the Nantlle Valley in North Wales who lives in Machynlleth. She... more

Gaga Nakhutsvrishvili was born in 1971. He is a poet, fiction writer and translator. In 1993 he graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State... more

Samira Negrouche (1980)  is a Francophone Algerian-Amazigh poet and translator living in Algiers. She trained as medical doctor but has dedicated... more

MacGillivray is the Highland name of poet and musician Kirsten Norrie. Recently nominated for the New Scottish Performer of the Year Award, and... more

Alicia García Núñez is a journalist and poet. As a poet, she has performed in Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Alicante, Murcia,... more

Artis Ostups (1988) is a Latvian poet, translator and essayist. He is currently editor-in-chief of the online magazine Punctum, as well as an author... more

Morgan Owen (born 1994), is a poet and writer born and raised in Merthyr Tydfil and now lives in Cardiff. In 2019, he published a pamphlet of poems,... more

Tibor Hrs Pandur, was born in 1985 in Maribor, Slovenia, and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in... more

Kallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied Economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the... more

Marilena Papaioannou was born in 1982 in Athens, where she grew up. She studied Molecular Biology and Genetics in Alexandroupolis and wrote her... more

Avner Pariat, born 1986, is a Khasi-Jaintia writer from Shillong. He has contributed articles to a number of publications including Economic and... more

Koen Peeters (b. 1959) is the author of an increasingly impressive oeuvre, to which he has added seven novels since his debut in 1988 with... more

Ana Pepelnik is a poet and translator. Her first poetry collection, Ena od varijant kako ravnati s skrivnostjo (One Way to Treat a Secret; Prišleki,... more

Inga Pizāne (born 1986 in Krāslava) is a Latvian poet. Pizāne studied pedagogy in Latvia and Sweden, simultaneously attending lectures at the... more

Marko Pogačar was born in 1984. in Split, Yugoslavia. Poet, essayist, prose writer, literary critic. He is an editor of Quorum, a literary magazine,... more

Tom Pow is one of Scotland’s foremost poets, winner of a number of awards. He has also written young adult novels, picture books, radio plays... more

V. Ramaswamy (1960) is a non-fiction writer and translator based in Kolkata, India. As an activist working for the rights of the labouring poor,... more

Francesca Rhydderch’s short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, most recently in My Heart on My Sleeve, and broadcast on... more

Monique Roffey is a writer born in Trinidad and based in London. She owns two passports and likes to travel back home to Trinidad as often as... more

Gabriel Rosenstock lives in Dublin and writes in Irish Gaelic. He is a poet, essayist, haikuist and translator. He is committed to the periphery and... more

Sioned Puw Rowlands is the Director of Wales Literature Exchange and was responsible for establishing Translators’  House Wales with Sally... more

Charlotte Runcie was born in Edinburgh, has a degree in English from Cambridge University, and has written for newspapers and magazines... more

Jonathan Ruppin is the founder of the English PEN Translated Literature Book Club. He is currently Literary Director at digital publisher Orson &... more

Mamta Sagar is a Kannada poet, playwright and translator living in Bengaluru. She has four collections of poems and plays. Kaada Navilina Hejje... more

Lela Samniashvili was born in 1977. In 1994-1997, she studied at Tbilisi I. Chavchavadze University of Language and Culture, specialising in the... more

Maya Sarishvili was born in 1968 in Tbilisi. She is a poet and a primary school teacher. Her poetry collections include Covering Evident (2001),... more

Karl Schembri (born in 1978) is a Maltese writer and journalist. A sociology graduate from the University of Malta, he has written two novels, Taħt... more

Francesc Serés was born in Saidí, Baix Cinca, Catalonia in 1972. He taught History of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.... more

Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974. Brought up in London and Abergavenny, south Wales, he read English at New College, Oxford before gaining an M.A.... more

Fahredin Shehu was born in Rahovec in Kosovo, in 1972. He graduated from Prishtina University with a degree in Oriental Studies and then an M.A. in... more

Magnús Sigurðsson (b. 1984) was born in a small fishing village in Iceland. His books include two collections of poetry and a translation of Ezra... more

Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic novelist. He won the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize for his novel The Blue Fox (the... more

Zoë Skoulding has published four full-length collections of poetry, including The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 2013) which was shortlisted... more

Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year... more

Adham Smart  graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with BA in Linguistics and Georgian as well as taking... more

Kathrine Sowerby is a writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Her background is in fine art/textiles and she has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Her... more

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire... more

Graphic novelist, painter and illustrator Hamid Sulaiman was born in Damascus in 1986. He graduated in architecture and art from the University of... more

Matilda Södergran (b. 1987) was born in Korsnäs, Finland, but has lived in Malmö, Sweden, for several years. In 2006, she won the first prize in... more

Alina Talybova is one of the most active participants in literary life in Azerbaijan. She is active within the writers’ union, active as a... more

Katrin Thomaneck (born in 1977 in Germany) studied classical music before becoming interested in translation studies. She holds an MA in literary... more

Rebecca Thomas (born 1992) is a medieval historian at Cardiff University, specializing in the history, culture, and literature of medieval Wales. She... more

Nhã Thuyên writes, translates, edits books and sometimes organizes literary events. She has authored several books of poetry, short fiction and... more

Arvis Viguls (1987) is a Latvian poet, literary critic and translator from English, Spanish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. His first poetry collection... more

Sophie Wardell graduated in English Literature from Exeter University and started work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before moving to the Arts and... more

Jennifer (JL) Williams is a poet and programme manager at the Scottish Poetry Library. In both her curating and writing practises, she is interested... more

Ryan van Winkle is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s... more

Nermin Yıldırım was born in Bursa in 1980 and became interested in literature at a young age. Yıldırım wrote her first poems and stories during... more

Meike Ziervogel is a novelist and publisher. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press – a London based, award-winning independent publishing house... more

Henriks Eliass Zēgners (1995) is a poet, born in Jelgava, Latvia. His first collection of poems the elements (elementi) was published in 2013, and... more

Gökçenur Ç’s first collection, Handbook of Every Book, came out in 2006 and Rest of the Words in 2010, both from Yitik Ülke (Lost Land)... more

Gonca Özmen graduated from the English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul University in 2004, holds an M.A. and is now studying for a... more

Jana Šrámková (born in 1982) is a Czech writer. She graduated from Evangelical Theological Seminary in... more

The Latvian prose writer Inga Žolude (b. 1984) received a master’s degree in English from the University of Latvia. She studied English... more