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Yoko Tawada lives in Berlin and is the author of several novels, poems, plays and essays in both Japanese and German. She is the author of the story collections Where Europe Begins and Facing the Bridge, as well as the novels The Naked Eye, The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Emissary. Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel is forthcoming in 2024.
Rosmarie Waldrop is a poet and translator living in Providence, Rhode Island. She has translated French authors such as Edmond Jabès and Jacques Roubaud, and German writers including Friederike Mayröcker and Ulf Stolterfoht. Her latest book of poems is The Nick of Time.
Eyal Weizman is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture, general secretary of Forensis e.V., and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include Hollow Land, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline and Forensic Architecture.
Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist based in London. She writes regularly for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Times and Slate. Her first novel, Deep Down, was published in March 2023.
Shaun Whiteside is a translator from the German, French, Italian and Dutch. Most recently his translation of Aftermath by Harald Jähner was shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Jan Wilm is a writer and translator based in Frankfurt. He is the author of The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee, the critical memoir Ror.Wolf.Lesen., as well as short stories and essays. He has translated works by Maggie Nelson, Isabel Wilkerson, Frank B. Wilderson III and Adam Thirlwell, among others.
Nell Zink is the author of six novels, most recently Avalon. She has taught at the Vienna Poetry School and the University of Bern. She first visited Germany in 1983 and has lived there since 2000.
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