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​Serhiy ZHADAN
Serhiy Zhadan (1974) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast. He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1996, then spent three years as a graduate student of philology. He taught Ukrainianand world literature from 2000 to 2004, and thereafter retired from teaching. He lives and works in Kharkiv.
Zhadan has translated poetry from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian, from such poets as Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski. His own works have been translated into German, English, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Swedish and Czech.
In 2013, he participated in Euromaidan demonstrations in Kharkiv. In 2014, he was assaulted outside the administration building in Kharkiv.
Since 2008, Zhadan has collaborated with Kharkiv ska-band Sobaky v Kosmosi. They released three albums.
​Bernhard MOHR
Bernhard Mohr (Oslo) er litteraturviter, forlagsredaktør og musiker.
​Nataliya GUMENYUK
Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and commentator
specializing in foreign affairs. She is a co-founder of Hromadske.TV
and is Editor-In-Chief of Hromadske International. Since the start of
the revolution and later conflict in Ukraine she is reporting from the
field: Maidan, Crimea, Donbas. Previously, she served as Head of the
Foreign News Desk INTER, one of the most influential TV channels in
Ukraine. As an independent, international correspondent, she has
reported on major political and social events from nearly 50
countries. During the last few years, she has focused on post-Arab
Spring developments in the Arab world and has recently published a
book "Maidan Tahrir. In Search Of A Lost Revolution". Nataliya
cooperates with a
number of Ukrainian and international media.
Aage Storm BORCHGREVINK
Aage Storm Borchgrevink er en norsk forfatter og kritiker, med hovedfag i litteraturvitenskap fra Universitetet i Oslo. Til daglig arbeider han som seniorrådgiver for Helsingforskomiteen, hvor han har spesielt ansvar for landrådgivning tilknyttet Russland, Tsjetsjenia og
Geogia.
Som forfatter debuterte han med romanen "Arkivene" i 2000, hvor handlingen er lagt til Albania. Aage Borchgrevink har tidligere utgitt reiseskildringen Eurostories. Reiser i Øst-Europa (2003), novellesamlingen Folkevandringer, med handling lagt til Tsjetsjenia, Kosovo, Albania, Hellas, Asker og Long Island (2004) og romanen Den usynlige krigen: Reiser i Tsjetsjenia, Ingusjetia og Dagestan (2007).
I 2012 fikk ha Kritikerprisen for dokumentarboken En norsk tragedie: Anders Behring Breivik og veiene til Utøya.