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Angelo Tijssens

Angelo Tijssens (b. 1986) is a scriptwriter, theatre maker, actor and writer. He co-wrote the films Girl (Caméra d’Or, Cannes 2018) and Close (Grand Prix, Cannes 2022), amongst others. He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

His semi-autobiographical debut novel ‘De randen’ harnesses vulnerable emotions to reflect on growing up in an environment that’s not fit for purpose, that’s ‘on the edge’. The book is nominated for the Bronzen Uil 2023 and won the jury prize at the 'Prix du Roman Gay'.

'De randen' has been translated in Spanish ('Los bordes' - Dos Bigotes), French ('Au bord' - Julliard), German ('An Rändern' - Rowohlt) and English ('The Edges' - Daunt).

His second novel, 'Het einde van de straat' was published in July 2024.

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Ole Nymoen

Ole Nymoen studiert Soziologie und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Jena und arbeitet als freier Journalist. Mit Wolfgang M. Schmitt spricht er in ihrem gemeinsamen Podcast Wohlstand für alle über Geld sowie ökonomische Ideengeschichte und politische Ökonomie.

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Emma Holten

Emma Holten (born 1991) is a Danish-Swedish feminist debater, online humans rights activist and editor of the Danish magazine Friktion. Holten graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a master's degree in literary science.

Holten became famous in Denmark in 2014 when she took a stand against revenge porn. In 2011 Holten had naked pictures stolen from her and distributed over the internet without her consent. The harassment led her to becoming an activist for the right to privacy on the internet and a prominent voice in the Danish feminist debate. Holten contacted Danish photographer Cecilie Bødker to have new naked pictures taken of her, but this time with her consent. The project titled "Consent" was published in the Danish online m

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Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with the start of the war on terror, and over the following decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific N

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Lara Pawson

Lara Pawson lives in London. She is the author of three books.

Spent Light (January 2024) is a hybrid text, a work of prose fiction, combining fiction, memoir and history. It has received superb reviews in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, The Idler, and the Daily Mail.

This Is the Place to Be (CB editions, 2016) is a fragmentary memoir. In 2017, it was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize, and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. It has been translated into French as Là où tout se passe (Les Éditions de l’Observatoire, 2018) and into Spanish as Este es el lugar (LOM Ediciones, 2021).

In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Mass

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Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.

From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.

The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection

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Lieke Marsman

Lieke Marsman (1990) debuteerde als dichter in Tirade. Voor de bundel Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud werd Marsman bekroond met de Lucy B en C.W van der Hoogtprijs, de Liegend Konijn Debuutprijs 2011 en de Buddingh'-prijs 2011. De eerste letter is haar tweede bundel.

In 2017 verscheen haar debuutroman Het tegenovergestelde van een mens bij Atlas Contact. De verzamelbundel Man met hoed bevat bundels 1 & 2, aslook nieuw werk en een selectie vertalingen.

2018: De volgende scan duurt 5 minuten / The following scan will last 5 minutes

In de Volkskrant schreef Arjan Peters over haar debuut: 'Ze kan het, geen misverstand daarover.'

'Het gaat daar telkens over in de werkelijk wervelende roman Het tegenovergestelde van een mens: over het vermogen om je te

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Steffen Mau

Steffen Mau is a German sociologist and Professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Bjørn Rasmussen

Bjørn Rasmussen (1983) er uddannet fra Dramatikeruddannelsen og Forfatterskolen. Han debuterede som dramatiker i 2004 med audioguide-dramaet Myg marcherer i sødt blod. Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet er hans første bog.

Kilde: Gyldendal

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Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.

Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he moved to Germany in the 1980s to study Philosophy, German Literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He received his doctoral degree at Freiburg with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger in 1994.

In 2000, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he completed his Habilitation. In 2010 he became a faculty member at the HfG Karlsruhe, where his areas of interest were philosophy of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, ethics, social philosophy, phenomenology, cult

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Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken and brother of film director Stefan Faldbakken. [wikipedia]

His first three books were published under the pseudonym Abo Rasul.

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Giuliano da Empoli

Giuliano da Empoli è un saggista e consigliere politico italiano e svizzero che vive a Parigi, dove insegna politica comparata a Sciences-Po. Nato in Francia, è cresciuto in diversi paesi europei, si è laureato in Giurisprudenza all'Università La Sapienza di Roma e ottenuto il master in Scienze Politiche all'Institut d'études politiques di Parigi. E'presidente del think tank Volta.

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Simon Clarke

Simon Clarke is a British sociologist specialising in social theory, political economy, labour relations, and the history of sociology. He has a particular interest in employment relations in China, Vietnam, and the former-Soviet nations. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

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Tom Lanoye

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Tom Lanoye (his name is pronounced the French way: /lanwa/) was born August 27, 1958 in the Belgian city Sint Niklaas. He is a novelist, poet, columnist, screenwriter and playwright. His literary work has been published and/or performed in over fifteen languages. Lanoye lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Cape Town (South Africa).

Lanoye is not only a writer, but also an entrepreneur. As the youngest son of a butcher, he self-published his first work. In his own words, 'Just like all the punk bands did in those days: out of dissatisfaction with the existing structures, and to learn the trade from

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Andreas Malm

Andreas Malm teaches Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author, with Shora Esmailian, of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War and of Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

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Wendy Brown

Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is Class of 1963 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jon Fosse

Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.

He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف; alternate spelling Amin Maluf) is a Lebanese journalist and novelist. He writes and publishes primarily in French.

Most of Maalouf's books have a historical setting, and like Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Maalouf mixes fascinating historical facts with fantasy and philosophical ideas. In an interview Maalouf has said that his role as a writer is to create "positive myths". Maalouf's works, written with the skill of a master storyteller, offer a sensitive view of the values and attitudes of different cultures in the Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean world.

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Among his most famous works are Beware of Pity, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. He and his second wife committed suicide in 1942.
Zweig studied in Austria, France, and Germany before settling in Salzburg in 1913. In 1934, driven into exile by the Nazis, he emigrated to England and then, in 1940, to Brazil by way of New York. Finding only growing loneliness and disillusionment in their new surroundings, he and his second wife committed suicide.
Zweig's interest in psychology and the teachings of Sigmund Freu

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Knut Hamsun

Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.

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Eric R. Kandel

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
Kandel was from 1984 to 2022 a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was in 1975 the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research F

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Richard Bourke

Richard Bourke took his first degree at University College Dublin and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is currently Professor in the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary College, University of London.

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Götz Aly

Götz Haydar Aly is a German journalist, historian and social scientist.

After attending the German School of Journalists, Aly studied history and political science in Berlin. As a journalist, he worked for the taz, the Berliner Zeitung and the FAZ. Presently, from 2004 to 2005, he is a visiting professor for interdisciplinary Holocaust research at the Fritz Bauer Institut in Frankfurt am Main.

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Steffen Mau

Steffen Mau is a German sociologist and Professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Peter Mair

Peter Mair (March 3, 1951 – August 15, 2011) was an Irish political scientist. He was professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence.

Career

Peter Mair was born in Rosses Point, county Sligo, Ireland, and studied history and politics at University College Dublin. He continued to work as assistant professor at the University of Limerick, Strathclyde, Manchester and the European University Institute in Florence during the 1980s. In 1987 at Leiden University he gained a doctorate, which as The changing Irish party system became a standard work on the Irish party system. In 1990, he co-authored the book Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability with Stefano Bartolini. It was awarded the ISSC/Unesco Stein

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Chantal Mouffe

Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist. She holds a professorship at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom. She is best known as co-author of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy with Ernesto Laclau. Their thoughts are usually described as post-Marxism as they were both politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s including working class and new social movements (notably second-wave feminism in Mouffe's case). They rejected Marxist economic determinism and the notion of class struggle being the single crucial antagonism in society. Instead they urged for radical democracy of agonistic pluralism where all antagonisms could be expressed. In their opinion, ‘...there is no possibility of society without a

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Sibylle Lewitscharoff

Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German author. Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013.

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Micah Uetricht

Micah Uetricht is the managing editor of Jacobin magazine and the host of the Jacobin Radio podcast The Vast Majority. He is the author of two books: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity and, with Meagan Day, Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism . He is currently at work on a collection of oral histories of radicals from the New Left era who "industrialized," getting jobs in industries like steel and auto in order to organize.

His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Intercept, the Wall Street Journal opinion page, the Nation, the Chicago Reader, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is a former labor organizer and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in Chicago.

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Simon Clarke

Simon Clarke is a British sociologist specialising in social theory, political economy, labour relations, and the history of sociology. He has a particular interest in employment relations in China, Vietnam, and the former-Soviet nations. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

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Andreas Reckwitz

Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

Reckwitz studied sociology, Political science and philosophy in Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge. He graduated 1994 in Cambridge, overseen by Anthony Giddens. He achieved his Dr. phil. in 1999 at Hamburg University. From 2001 to 2005 he worked there as assistant professor at the sociological faculty. In 2005 he became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Konstanz University, 2010 professor for sociology of culture at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder). In 2020 Reckwitz became professor for sociology and sociology of culture at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Reckwitz is a

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Dea Trier Mørch

Dea Trier Mørch was a Danish artist, novelist, and socialist.

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Megan Erickson

Megan Erickson is an editor at Jacobin magazine and the assistant director of a youth services program. She was formerly an editor and blogger at Big Think, and has taught in both public and private schools in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn.

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