Writing, No Retreat

Narrator, dramatist and poet. Born in the Carinthia region of Austria, within a minority Slavic culture. She studied Drama Writing and German at the University of Vienna and taught in the Institute for Comparative Literature at the University of Klagenfurt,… Read More »Maja Haderlap

 Author of the books of poetry Dormir à la belle étoile (Amarante, 2019); La civilización no era esto (Espasa, 2021), winner of the 4th ESPASAesPOESÍA prize (finalist in the 1st “Ciudad de Churriana” poetry prize and special commendation in the… Read More »Aitana Monzón

2014 Castilla y León prize for letters awarded for his body of work, and the Community critics’ prize for La Gratitud, previously winner of the ‘Gil de Biedma’. The core of his lyrical work, around twenty books, several of them… Read More »Fermín Herrero

Born in Palestine, in 1974. She has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine in 2001 and in 2003. Her novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor… Read More »Adanía Shibli

She won the Critics’ Prize in 2001 and 2011 for her books of poetry El código de la piel and Espuma en las manos, as well as the National Poetry Prize in 2021 for Cómo guardar ceniza en el pecho,… Read More »Miren Agur Meabe

He is a poet, translator and publisher of poetry. As a poet he has published two dozen books, the most recent of these entitled Fragilitats. His poetry has been translated, primarily into French. In 1998 he set up the publisher… Read More »Antoni Clapés

She has published numerous books, among others: Exilium, Archivo Dickinson and Oratorio (poetry); El arte del error, La idea natural and Colección permanente (essays); and El corazón del daño (fiction). She has won Guggenheim, Fundación Octavio Paz and DAAD scholarships.… Read More »María Negroni

First and foremost a poet, he has published prose, diaries, translations, essays and literary criticism; he is emeritus professor at the University of Bucharest. Considered the most important Romanian author today, his writing continues to explore the continent of the… Read More »Mircea Cărtărescu

Marion Poschmann grew up in the Ruhr Area and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. She understands literature as a poetic process of discovery based on the premise that the nature of experience is not already known. Her work… Read More »Marion Poschmann