Peter Michalík

Slovakia

Peter Michalík is a radio journalist, publisher and programme director of BRaK - Bratislava Book Festival. He studied philosophy and literature at the Comenius University in Bratislava, continuing with graduate studies on cities and urban memory, with study visits to universities in Krakow, Prague, Vienna and Lviv. Since September 2017 he has been working at the Information Centre for Literature, the Slovak state agency for promoting Slovak literature abroad, where he deals with translations and international projects and cooperation. In 2018 he established a publishing imprint Monokel, focused on visual and illustrated books from around the world.

Bratislava Book Festival was established in 2013 by a group of friends, who shared the passion for literature and book illustration. First ment as a platform for independent book publishers, BRaK has become the biggest and most significant international literary event in Slovakia. Peter Michalík, the festival's co-founder and program director, will present BRaK's story both as a festival platform and publishing imprint of the same name.

Aleksandr Neklessa

Political analyst, economist, author

Aleksandra Hnatiuk

Ukrainist, writer, translator

Alexandre Starinsky

Translator

Andrew Wilson

Historian, political scientist

Anne Applebaum

Writer, journalist

Aron Aji

Translator, director of MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, president of The American Literary Translators Association

Aušrinė Žilinskienė

Director of the Lithuanian Culture Institute

Bov Bjerg

Writer

Břetislav Rychlík

Documentary director, publicist, actor and scriptwriter

Caroline Keller

Leader of the program direction of E.A. Seemanns Bilderbande publishing house

Caroline Lamarche

Writer

Cathy Caruth

Professor in Humanities, author

Cezary Zbierzchowski

Writer

Charlotte Kerner

Writer

Dan Kinkead

Architect and urbanist

Dimitré Dinev

Writer, theatrical playwright, screenwriter

Dina Roll-Hansen

Senior Advisor, NORLA

Dmitrij Kapitelman

Writer, journalist and musician

Dorje Batuu

TSN correspondent in USA, author

Elcin Seferli

Writer

Elcin Seferli

Writer

Ellen Hinsey

Writer, essayist, poet

Emilia Dzióbak

Illustrator

Eva Susso

Children’s writer and journalist

Evelyn Arizpe

Children's literature researcher

Ewa Sułek

Historian of art, curator, researcher

Fadi Tamim

President of the Arab Cultural Club

Francesca Melandri

Writer

Galina Miklíková

Director, animated film artist and illustrator

Georgiy Kovalenko

Art and theater expert, artist

Grzegorz Gauden

Ex-director of the Polish Book Institute (Krakow)

Grzegorz Kasdepke

Writer of children’s books, script writer and journalist

Gudrun Skretting

Children’s book author

Imadeddin Raef

Writer, translator, journalist

Ioanna Bourazopoulou

Author of novels, theatrical works and stories

Izabella Chruślińska

Journalist, author

Jan Piekło

Journalist, author, diplomat

Jean-Claude Marcadé

Historian of literature and art

Jean-Guy Boin

Economist and sociologist

Jean-Paul Hirsch

P.O.L. Publishing in Paris

Jiří Padevět

Writer, bookseller and publisher

Johannes Czwalina

Theologian, author and business consultant

Joseph Tabbi

Writer, professor of English

Julius Wiedemann

Senior Editor at the UK art book publisher TASCHEN

Jyrki Vainonen

Writer, author of novels, essays and radio pieces, translator

Karol Piekarski

Programme director at Medialab Katowice

Katharina Raabe

Editor in Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin

Katja Brandis

Writer, journalist

Louis Sanders

Writer

Lucia Sorbera

Guest curator at the Salone del Libro di Torino

Luuk van Middelaar

Writer and historian

Małgorzata Barbara Kupiszewska

Cultural figure

Manolis Piblis

Director of the Thessaloniki International Book Fair

Maria Galina

Poet, prose and fantasy writer, critic and translator

Marie Darieussecq

Writer, psychotherapist

Marko Robert Stech

Prose writer, literary scholar and cultural scientist

Meir Shalev

Аuthor

Micha Elias Pichlkastner

Director, editor, designer and digital/media artist

Michal Hvorecký

Reporter, prose writer and screenwriter

Miljenko Jergović

Writer and journalist

Mladen Vesković

Senior adviser in the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Serbia

Myroslava M. Mudrak

Doctor of arts, author

Narine Abgarian

Writer, teacher of literary courses

Narisa Chakrabongse

Publisher, author

Niki Theron

Manager of International Projects, Frankfurter Book Fair

Norman Ohler

Writer, novelist and screenwriter

Nurlan Dulatbekov

Doctor of Law, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Odile Melnik-Ardin

Translator, editor

Oscar Brenifier

UNESCO expert and a director of the Institute of Practical Philosophy in Paris, specialists in child development.

Øystein Morten

Historian

Pascal Gielen

Researcher in sociology of culture

Peter Balko

Prose and poetry writer, screenwriter

Peter Michalík

Programme director of BRaK - Bratislava Book Festival

Piotr Ibrahim Kalwas

Polish reporter, prose writer and screenwriter

Radovan Auer

Director of the Svět knihy book fair

Robert M. Sonntag

Writer, journalist

Sabine Stöhr

Translator

Sara Kolster

Interactive director and designer

Sebastien Gober

Journalist, traveler, writer

Sjón / Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson

Writer

Slavenka Drakulić

Writer, journalist

Štefan Hríb

Journalist, moderator

Suzanne Kavanagh

Publishing marketing professional

Sylwia Chutnik

Writer, feminist activist, journalist, culturologist, gender expert and lecturer, urban researcher

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

novelist and short story writer

Tobias Voss

Vice-President of international affairs of Frankfurt Book Fair

Tomas Venclova

Poet, translator, literary critic, publicist, essayist

Wiesław Jan Wysocki

Professor of history, researcher

Wlodzimierz Suleja

Wojciech Górecki

Historian, journalist, reporter and analyst

Zoran Žmirić

Writer, musician, columnist

Zsuzsanna Szabó

Head of the Publishing Hungary Office