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Residents of Literature and Translation House
Presenting all present, future and past participants in our residency program
Residents
Anna Matilda Brück (Finland)
20.01.2025 - 27.01.2025
Bio note Anna Matilda Brück is a Finnish nonfiction writer and cultural producer. She has ov...
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Boris Kenov (Switzerland)
26.11.2024 - 24.12.2024
Bio note Boris Kenov was born in Basel in 1993 to a Bulgarian father and a Swiss mother. After co...
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Livia-Maria Nistor (Romania)
04.11.2024 - 25.11.2024
Bio note Livia-Maria Nistor is a translator and teacher based in Bucharest, Romania. She has grad...
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Hanna Sandborgh (Sweden)
15.10.2024 - 03.11.2024
Bio note Hanna Sandborg is a translator, teacher and researcher born in Stockholm in 1990. She ho...
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Elvira Bormann (Germany)
23.09.2024 - 15.10.2024
Bio note Elvira Bormann was born in Dresden and has graduated Translation with Bulgarian and Russ...
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Hanna Karpinska (Poland)
23.09.2024 - 15.10.2024
Bio note Hanna Karpinska was born and lives in Warsaw. She graduated in Slavic philology at the J...
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Marco Vidal González (Spain)
01.07.2024 - 31.07.2024
Bio note Marco Vidal González (Sanlucar de Barameda, Spain, 1995) graduated in Slavic Phil...
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Giorgia Spadoni (Italy)
30.06.2024 - 30.07.2024
Bio note Giorgia Spadoni (1996) is a translator, teacher and editor from Jesi, Italy. She has a M...
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Yana Ellis (UK/France)
23.06.2024 - 21.07.2024
Bio note Yana Ellis is a translator from Bulgarian and German into English, editor and modern for...
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Jan Machej (Czech Republic)
09.05.2024 - 30.05.2024
Bio note Jan Machej (1976) is a translator and publisher from Poděbrady, Czechia. He completed a...
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Michel De Dobbeleer (Belgium)
29.03.2024 - 03.04.2024
Bio note Michel De Dobbeleer was born in Aalst, Belgium in 1978. He is a Slavist - with knowledge...
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Jasna Jasna Žmak (Croatia)
06.11.2023 - 19.11.2023
Bio note Jasna Jasna Žmak is a writer, dramaturg and researcher from Zagreb, Croatia, working in...
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Ilya Leutin (Russia)
01.10.2023 - 31.10.2023
Bio note Ilya Leutin was born in Siberia in 1986. He is a screenwriter and a columnist for a numb...
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Alina Nelega (Romania)
06.09.2023 - 09.09.2023
Bio note Alina Nelega writes novels and theater plays. Her works have been translated, performed,...
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Jan Paul Hinrichs (Netherlands)
01.09.2023 - 30.09.2023
Bio note Jan Paul Hinrichs was born in The Hague (Netherlands) in 1956. He studied Slavic languag...
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Jasmina Jovanović (Serbia)
09.08.2023 - 31.08.2023
Bio note Jasmina Jovanović is a native of Belgrade, Serbia. She obtained her Bachelor's degre...
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Hanna Sandborgh (Sweden)
19.06.2023 - 20.07.2023
Bio note Hanna Sandborgh is a translator, teacher and researcher born in Stockholm in 1990. She h...
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Dushko Krstevski (North Macedoncia)
18.06.2023 - 18.07.2023
Bio note Dusko Krastevski (1981) has graduated in South Slavic literature at the Faculty of Philo...
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Eugenio López Arriazu (Argentina)
01.06.2023 - 14.06.2023
Bio note Eugenio López Arriazu (Buenos Aires, 1967) is a PhD in Literature (University of...
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Ivan Herceg (Croatia)
02.05.2023 - 17.05.2023
Bio note Ivan Herceg (1970) finished his studies in Croatian language and literature and South-Sl...
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Jörg Plath (Germany)
02.05.2023 - 31.05.2023
Bio note Jörg Plath works as an editor, responsible for literature features at the nationwid...
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Dens Dimiņš (Latvia)
16.04.2023 - 30.05.2023
Bio note Dens Dimiņš was born in Riga, Latvia. He studied Latin, Ancient Greek and French...
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María Vútova (Spain/Bulgaria)
03.04.2023 - 29.04.2023
Bio note Maria Vutova graduated in Spanish Philology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, wh...
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Stefan Çapaliku (Albania)
02.03.2023 - 05.03.2023
Bio note Stefan Çapaliku was born in Shkodra, in 1965. He majored in Albanian language and...
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Miha Mazzini (Slovenia)
28.02.2023 - 14.03.2023
Bio note Miha Mazzini (1961) is a Slovenian writer with more than 30 books published in Slovenia...
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Nejra Sehagic, Kieran Van Overwaele (Belgium)
05.02.2023 - 11.02.2023
Bio note Nejra Sehagic (2000) was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina and has immigrated to Bel...
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Borjana Dodova (Czech Republic)
15.01.2023 - 29.01.2023
Bio note Borjana Dodova (1983) is a Czech writer, programmer, and lecturer. She studied script wr...
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Ekaterina Derisheva (Ukraine)
18.12.2022 - 10.03.2023
Bio note Ekaterina Derisheva was born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. In 2014, she graduated from...
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Jędrzej Morawiecki (Poland)
01.12.2022 - 31.12.2022
Bio note Jędrzej Morawiecki is author of 12 non-fiction and academic books, works at the Institut...
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Elias Fragakis (Greece)
17.11.2022 - 18.12.2022
Bio note Elias Fragakis is а director, screenwriter, writer, poet and translator. He studied Soci...
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Hanna Komar (Belarus)
01.11.2022 - 30.11.2022
Bio Hanna Komar is a translator, writer and an award-winning poet. Currently, she is taking an M...
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Giorgia Spadoni (Italy)
01.10.2022 - 31.10.2022
Bio Giorgia Spadoni is a translator, editor and teacher from Jesi, Italy. She has a degree in Li...
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James Appleby (Scotland)
22.09.2022 - 28.09.2022
Bio note James Appleby is a poet, translator, and the editor of Interpret, Scotland’s magaz...
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Ksenija Banovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia)
13.09.2022 - 19.09.2022
Bio note Ksenija Banovic has graduated with specialty Croatian Literature, holds a Master in Libr...
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Marta Dzido (Poland)
10.08.2022 - 08.09.2022
Bio Marta Dzido made her literary debut at the age of 16 with poetry and prose published in maga...
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Radmila Petrović (Serbia)
01.08.2022 - 31.08.2022
Bio note Radmila Petrović is born in 1996 in Užice, Serbia and is one of the most sought-after po...
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Katerina Sedlakova (Slovakia)
01.07.2022 - 31.07.2022
Bio Katerina Sedlakova is a translator and an author of literary texts. She graduates Slovak Phi...
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Azem Deliu (Kosovo)
01.07.2022 - 31.07.2022
Bio note Azem Deliu, born 1996 in Skënderaj, Kosovo, graduated Albanian Literature at the Un...
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Pankhuri Sinha (India)
01.06.2022 - 30.06.2022
Bio Pankhuri Sinha is a bilingual poet, story writer and translator from India. She has studied...
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Laura Liubinavičiute (Litva)
15.05.2022 - 22.05.2022
Bio Laura Liubinavičiute is a Polish and Spanish language literature translator. Her most recent...
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Mariya Lappo (Belarus)
01.05.2022 - 31.05.2022
Bio Maryia Lappo is an editor, writer, journalist and a researcher of the novels of the famous B...
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Blagorodna Filevska (Greece/Bulgaria)
01.05.2022 - 31.05.2022
Bio Blagorodna (Roni) Filevska is a historian and ethnologist, journalist and а freelance transla...
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Katica Acevska (North Macedonia)
13.10.2021 - 13.11.2021
Bio Katica Acevska is freelance literary translator, editor and journalist. She translates from...
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Francesca Cosi, Alessandra Repossi (Italy)
23.09.2021 - 14.10.2021
Bio Francesca Cosi and Alessandra Repossi have 25 years experience in translating novels, short...
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Yana Skalkina (Russia)
02.09.2021 - 19.09.2021
Bio Yana Skalkina (1985) is a translator, teacher of Bulgarian language for foreigners. She also...
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Velina Minkoff (France/Bulgaria)
16.08.2021 - 30.08.2021
Bio Velina Minkoff is a writer and translator. She has a degree in English (track Creative Writi...
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Danilo Manera (Italy)
01.08.2021 - 31.08.2021
Bio Danilo Manera is a professor of Spanish literature in the Milano University (Italy), writer,...
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Giada Fratini (Italy)
01.08.2021 - 14.08.2021
Bio Giada Fratini (1995) is a translator and a teacher from Macerata, Italy. She has graduated t...
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Peggy Hamann (France/Germany), Violeta Troanska (Germany/Bulgaria)
21.07.2021 - 10.08.2021
Bio note Peggy Hamann (1977) is a french literary translator and script consultant based in Saarb...
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Anja Kapunkt (Germany)
15.07.2021 - 30.07.2021
Bio Anja Kapunkt was born and raised in Northern Germany. She has lived and studied in Berlin, P...
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Hellen Kooijman (The Netherlands)
01.06.2021 - 30.06.2021
Bio Hellen Kooijman lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She has been visiting Bulgaria since 1991...
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Eireene Nealand (USA)
01.06.2021 - 14.07.2021
Bio Eireene Nealand lives in Half Moon Bay, California. Her stories, poems, and translations fro...
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Dana von Suffrin (Germany)
10.05.2021 - 30.05.2021
Bio Dana is a writer and helds a PhD in history. In 2019, her debut novel 'Otto' was pub...
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Neva Mitcheva (Bulgaria)
21.08.2020 - 31.08.2020
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Muharem Bazdulj (Serbia)
01.07.2020 - 31.07.2020
Bio Note Muharem Bazdulj (1977) is a Bosnia-born writer currently residing in Belgrade. His essay...
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Claudiu Komartin (Romania)
01.07.2020 - 01.08.2020
Bio Komartin is born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1983. Since 2003, he has published six books of po...
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Frosina Parmakovska (North Macedonia)
02.03.2020 - 31.03.2020
Bio Frosina Parmakovska was born in Skopje in 1985. She graduated from the Department of Comparat...
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Borjana Dodova (Czech Republic)
01.03.2020 - 15.04.2020
Bio Note Borjana Dodova (1983) is a Czech writer and programmer. She studied at the Film and TV S...
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Ivan Šopov (North Macedonia)
01.02.2020 - 29.02.2020
Bio note Ivan Shopov is a Macedonian writer and editor. He studied General and Comparative Litera...
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Pierre Astier and Laure Pécher (France)
10.12.2019 - 15.12.2019
Bio note Astier-Pécher International Literary & Film Agency is based in Paris (France)...
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Ana Marija Grbić (Serbia)
01.11.2019 - 30.11.2019
Bio Ana Marija Grbić was born in Belgrade where she is currently on the last year of her PHD stud...
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Eugenio López Arriazu (Argentina)
01.10.2019 - 30.10.2019
Bio note Eugenio López Arriazu (1967) is a Ph. D. in Literature from University of Buenos...
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Olia Khokhlova (Russia)
01.10.2019 - 30.10.2019
Bio note Olia Khokhlova (1977) is the director of the Children’s Theatre “Kukli" and...
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Andreas Tretner (Germany)
01.09.2019 - 17.09.2019
Bio note Andreas Tretner is a translator of prose and poetry from Bulgarian, Russian and Czech in...
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Farid Ghadami (Iran)
30.07.2019 - 27.08.2019
Bio note Farid Ghadami (1985) is a writer, critic, university lecturer and translator from Englis...
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Milena Selimi (Albania)
01.07.2019 - 30.07.2019
Bio note Milena Selimi translates from Bulgarian, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian and i...
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Dinko Telećan (Croatia)
05.06.2019 - 30.06.2019
Bio note Dinko Telećan was born in 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1999 he graduated in Philosophy an...
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Thomas McGonigle (USA)
26.05.2019 - 06.07.2019
Bio note Thomas McGonigle (1944) is a writer, literary and art critic, university professor and j...
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Dennis Maloney (USA)
24.05.2019 - 28.05.2019
Bio note Dennis Maloney is a poet and translator. A number of volumes of his own poetry have been...
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Leonie Hodkevitch (Austria)
05.05.2019 - 05.06.2019
Bio note Leonie Hodkevitch is a writer, cultural producer, journalist and university lecturer. He...
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Thomas Framm (Germany)
01.12.2018 - 30.12.2018
Bio note Томас Фрам е преводач на българска литература и писател. Превел е на немски език книги н...
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Andreas Tretner (Germany)
01.10.2018 - 30.10.2018
Bio note Andreas Tretner is a translator of prose and poetry from Bulgarian, Russian and Czech in...
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Leander Steinkopf (Germany)
01.09.2018 - 30.09.2018
Bio note Leander Steinkopf is a writer and journalist, with a PhD in Psychology. He has been a fr...
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Will Buckingham, Hannah Stevens
18.08.2018 - 25.08.2018
Bio note Hannah Stevens is a short story writer. She has a PhD in creative writing from the Unive...
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Stefan Çapaliku (Albania)
01.07.2018 - 30.07.2018
Bio note Stefan Çapaliku was born in Shkodra, in 1965. He majored in Albanian language and...
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Jan Paul Hinrichs (Netherlands)
27.04.2018 - 02.05.2018
Bio note Jan Paul Hinrichs was born in The Hague (Netherlands) in 1956. He studied Slavic languag...
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Stevan Tontić (Serbia)
15.04.2018 - 22.04.2018
Bio note Stevan Tontić was born in 1946 near Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He graduated from t...
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Andrea Iván (Hungary)
05.12.2017 - 18.12.2017
Bio note Andrea Iván is a literary translator from Bulgarian, Danish and Norwegian into Hu...
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Dalibor Plečić (Serbia)
01.11.2017 - 30.11.2017
Bio note Dalibor Plečić is a writer, translator and a literary critic holding an MA degree in Phi...
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Ivan Shopov (Macedonia)
01.10.2017 - 30.10.2017
Bio note Ivan Shopov is a Macedonian writer and editor. He studied General and Comparative Litera...
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Miodrag Kojadinović (Serbia)
02.08.2017 - 31.08.2017
Bio note Miodrag Kojadinović is a writer and a photographer. He was born just across the border f...
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Andreas Tretner (Germany)
19.07.2017 - 31.07.2017
Bio note Andreas Tretner is a translator of prose and poetry from Bulgarian, Russian and Czech in...
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Peter Krasztev (Bulgaria/Hungary)
01.07.2017 - 15.07.2017
Bio note Peter Krasztev (1965) is a cultural anthropologist, a literary scientist, a docent at th...
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Khaled Raouf (Egypt)
01.06.2017 - 11.06.2017
Bio note Khaled Raouf, PhD translates modern Greek literature Into Arabic. He has translated 16 b...
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Hayri Hamdan (Palestine/Bulgaria)
01.06.2017 - 11.06.2017
Bio note Hayri Hamdan translates into and from Arabic/Bulgarian. He is also a published writer an...
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Srpko Leštarić (Serbia)
01.06.2017 - 11.06.2017
Bio note Srpko Leštarić is a professional translator from Arabic into Serbian. So far, he...
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Ashraf Rady (Egypt)
01.06.2017 - 11.06.2017
Bio note Ashraf Rady is an Egyptian journalist, political scientist and translator. He translates...
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Ahmed Mourad (Egypt)
01.06.2017 - 11.06.2017
Bio note Ahmed Mourad, PhD is a lecturer of Turkish literature and translation at Ain-Shams Unive...
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Hakan Özkan (Turkey/Germany)
30.05.2017 - 06.06.2017
Bio note Hakan Özkan, PhD is a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Münster a...
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Barbara Skubič (Slovenia)
30.05.2017 - 06.06.2017
Bio note Barbara Skubič is a literary translator from Arabic into Slovene. She has translated aut...
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Juris Zvirgzdiņš (Latvia)
01.05.2017 - 15.05.2017
Bio note Juris Zvirgzdiņš is known for being one of the most productive writers of highly...
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Josip Novakovich (Croatia/Canada)
20.02.2017 - 10.04.2017
Bio note Josip Novakovich is a writer and academic. He was born in Yugoslavia and grew up in the...
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Еlena Кalashnikova (Russia)
10.10.2016
Bio note Elena Kalashnikova is a freelance journalist, scholar, curator and organiser of series o...
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Garth Greenwell (USA)
12.09.2016 - 10.10.2016
Bio note Garth Greenwell is a poet, author, literary critic and educator. His poetry was publishe...
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Ostap Slyvynsky (Ukraine)
04.08.2016 - 22.08.2016
Bio note Ostap Slyvynsky is a poet, essayist, translator, expert in Slavic studies, PhD in Humani...
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Tom Phillips (UK)
01.08.2016 - 31.08.2016
Bio note Tom Phillips is a poet, translator, playwright and teacher. His poems have been publishe...
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Linda France (UK)
04.07.2016 - 01.08.2016
Bio note Linda France's work includes seven poetry collections (published with Bloodaxe, Smok...
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Magdalena Pytlak (Poland)
05.02.2016 - 03.03.2016
Bio note Magdalena Pytlak is an expert in Bulgarian and Slavic studies, translator, doctor of lit...
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Pierre Mejlak (Malta)
09.05.2015 - 13.12.2015
Bio note Maltese writer Pierre Mejlak writes novels, short stories, books for children, has been...
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