Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others.
Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.
Luuk Johannes van Middelaar is a Dutch historian and political philosopher. From December 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the cabinet of Herman Van Rompuy, the first full-time President of the European Council. Van Middelaar is best known for his book The Passage to Europe.
Karl Dedecius was a Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature.
Irène Heidelberger-Leonard is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She was Professor of German Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she taught for nearly 30 years, before she moved to London in 2009. She was married to Dick Leonard, the British writer and journalist, and is the mother of Mark Leonard, an expert on foreign policy, and Miriam Leonard, a classical scholar.
Judith Schalansky is a German writer, book designer and publisher.
Lutz Seiler is a German poet and novelist. Considered one of the most important German poets living today, he is the author of numerous books of poetry, prose, and essays, and gained national attention for his debut novel Kruso. In 2023 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature. He has served as the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum since 1997.
Benedict Wells is a German-Swiss novelist.
The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize is a German literary award established in 2000 by the city of Braunschweig and the radio broadcaster Deutschlandradio. It is named after the 19th-century writer Wilhelm Raabe and is awarded for an individual work. The prize sum is €30,000, making it one of the most significant German literary awards after the Georg Büchner Prize and the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis.
Angelika Krebs is a German philosopher.
Jagoda Marinić is a prize-winning author, novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist from Germany. She has what is often called a "migrant background," a term she rejects; her parents emigrated from Dalmatia in Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to Germany in the 1970s. She herself was born in Germany, became a German citizen, and speaks and writes in prominent venues about identity, migration, citizenship, and integration. She lives in Heidelberg.
Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine.
Kehrer Verlag is an art book publisher based in Heidelberg, Germany, specializing in photography, fine art, and sound art. Its books are produced in cooperation with Kehrer Design, the affiliated office for design and image processing.
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will is a book by Judith Schalansky originally published in Germany in 2009 by Mare Verlag (ISBN 978-3866481176). The atlas contains maps of 50 islands chosen by the author with accompanying descriptions of their natural and human histories, often written in a subjective, impressionistic style. It was the winner of the prize for the most beautiful German book of the year in 2009, the German Design Award in 2011, and the Red Dot Design Award in 2011. The English translation by Christine Lo was published by Penguin Books in 2010 under this title (ISBN 978-0-14311820-6) or as Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will (ISBN 978-1-84614348-9).
The Strega European Prize is an annual literary award given to a novel in Italian translation by a European author who has received national recognition in their home country. Established in 2014, it is administered—like the prestigious Strega Prize for Italian literature—by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation.
Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist. They are a writer in residence at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin where they were artistic director of the studio theatre, Studio Я, from 2013 to 2015.
Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner. He grews up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Judith Zander is a German writer and translator.
Andreas Lechner is an Austrian architect, author and academic. In 2020, he was awarded with the Gold Medal in the Best Book Design from all over the World competition by the Stiftung Buchkunst for his book, Thinking Design – Blueprint for an architecture of typology.
