Speakers

Sofi Oksanen

author and playwright

Marie NDiaye

author, playwright, and screenwriter

Paata Shamugia

poet, and essayist

Vratislav Maňák

writer, journalist, and literary historian

Pavel Talankin

teacher, documentary filmmaker, cinematographer

Marek Šindelka

writer, poet, and screenwriter

Alberto Manguel

writer, translator, essayist, and promoter of reading

Adam Borzič

poet, essayist, and psychotherapist

Marie Iljašenko

poet, writer, and translator

and others

Past speakers

Adania Shibli

author, essayist, and playwright

Alberto Manguel

writer, translator, essayist, and promoter of reading

The Quay Brothers

creative duo of artists/directors

Nina Špitálníková

journalist, author, and specialist in Korean studies

Badiucao

artist and activist

Gérard Biard

journalist and editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo

Marek Torčík

poet and prose writer

Ayat Najafi

film and theatre director, a multimedia artist

Radka Denemarková

novelist, screenwriter, literary historian, and translator

Nicolai Khalezin

director, playwright, co-founder and artistic director of Belarus Free Theatre

Melissa Chan

journalist and reporter

Chrystabell

singer, songwriter, and actress

Charms Kids

music project

Marie Iljašenko

poet, writer and translator

Enrique Juncosa

curator, cultural manager, and poet

Daniella Kaliada

artist and activist

Natalia Kaliada

co-founder and artistic director of Belarus Free Theatre, theatre-maker and writer

Adéla Knapová

writer and journalist

Dana Lédl

illustrator and visual artist

Jan Němec

writer, journalist, and publicist

Ilona Németh

visual artist, art professor, and curator

Patrik Ouředník

writer and translator

Bill Shipsey

Founder and Executive Director of Art for Human Rights

Petr Borkovec

poet, writer, and translator

Jemimah Steinfeld

journalist, author, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Index on Censorship