All posts in Participants 2012

Born nameless

Baptized: Claus Beck-Nielsen

Declared dead in 2001

2002-2011: CEO of the trans-national corporation Das Beckwerk producing a.o. walks, serial photography, video

Michael Stiller, lives in Vienna, co-founders and employees of the House of Literature north, the cultural festival Literature & Wine and the edition Aramo. Recently published: Welter

Boris Khersonsky was born in 1950 in Chernovtsy, Ukraine. He graduated from the Odessa Medical Institute and works now as a Department Chairman in Odessa National

Jacek Podsiadlo (born 1964 in Szewna) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and feuilletonist. Sometimes he uses a pen name Jac Po. He is one of

Ivan Malkovych is a noted Ukrainian poet and publisher.He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions

Photo by Heribert

Anastasia Afanasieva (b. 1982) lives in Kharkov, where she works as a physician at a psychiatric ward.

She has published in the journals: «The air»,

Tomasz Różycki was born in Opole, Upper Silesia in 1970. He was already singled out for his poetry at school, with an early poem was

Oksana Zabuzhko (born 19 September 1960) is a contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist.

Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kiev

Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator and playwright.

Born in 1964 in the town of Chortkiv, he studied at the pedagogical institute

Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50 years, publishing over 40 books of poetry, essays and translations.

Just out

Joseph Schmidt (March 4, 1904 – November 16, 1942) was a Romanian Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: Davydivka) village of Storozhynets

Qarpa (formerly known as Faktychno Sami) is a Ukrainian band from Kyiv who are often praised as being among the most creative musical groups of

Andrea Drumbl, born in the year 1976, childhood and youth in Carinthia (Kötschach-Mauthen). German language and literature studies in Vienna.

Living and loving and writing

A member of the PEN Club, Hans-Michael Speier is a poet, translator, and literary scholar living in Berlin. He taught at Dartmouth as the Max

Julian Heun (1989) is a young German spoken word artist. He also writes journalistic articles, poems for operas and just finished his first novel. Julian Heun

Christian Uetz, born 1963 in Egnach TG, is a philosophical poet. He lives in Zurich. Since 1993 he has published several volumes of poetry and prose by Suhrkamp

Karl Lubomirski, a lyric poet, born in 1939 in Hall, Austria. Has been living since 1962 in Italy (Torino, Milan, Rome, Brugherio), where he worked for

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

The Quay Brothers (Timothy & Stephen) were born near Philadelphia where they studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later in London at the Royal

Nora Gomringer, born 1980, owns a Swiss and a German passport. Her writing life has travelled between page-bound-poetry and spoken word performances. She was awarded

Born in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) in 1956, lives in Vienna (Austria). Studies of German and French Literature. Thesis on the German translations of Charles Baudelaire’s "Fleurs du

poet, essayist, critic

moderator of “Walking with poets”, “Stage of young poets” and books presentations

Ukraine

Andriy Liubka was born in 1987.

He is the author of the

poetess, translator, photoartist

moderator of books presentations

Got higher education at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and at the department of Geography at the Chernivtsi National Yuri

poet, translator, critic, essayist

Ukraine