Chris Gribble
Chris Gribble is the Chief Executive of the Forum in Norwich. He was Chief Executive of the National Centre for Writing and helped Norwich achieve its UNESCO City of Literature designation.
Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short fiction collection Four New Messages; and the non-fiction collection Attention. Called ‘a major American writer’ by the New York Times, ‘maybe America’s greatest living writer’ by the Washington Post, and ‘an extraordinary […]
Patrycja Dolowy
Patrycja Dołowy is a Polish Jewish writer, multimedia artist, activist, and promoter of science and art. She teaches at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, works in POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and is the head of Miszpucha Foundation, based in Warsaw. Her work engages with difficult memories […]
Flora Cassen
Flora Cassen is the Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness at Brandeis University, and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, she earned a BA from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, MA from […]
Max Olesker
Max Olesker is a multi-award-winning comedian, a Contributing Editor at Esquire, and was once Britain’s youngest professional wrestler. He is one half of globally acclaimed comedy double-act Max & Ivan, who have created sitcoms for TV and radio and have performed their intricate multi-character live shows at SXSW. Image © John Hunter
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson’s non-fiction books include So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures with Extremists, Lost at Sea and The Men Who Stare At Goats. They have all been international and/or New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Most recently, Jon made two series of the acclaimed […]
Maïa Hruska
Maïa Hruska was born to a Czech-French family, raised in Germany and now lives in London, working as a lawyer, like Kafka. A graduate of University of Cambridge and Kings College London, Hruska is fluent in Czech, French, German, and English. Kafkaesque is her first book.
Amotz Asa-El
Amotz Asa-El, The Jerusalem Post’s senior commentator and former executive editor, is a research fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute. Winner of the Bnai Brith Journalism Award for his essays on the Jewish people’s future, Asa-El has been quoted, published and interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The […]
Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator, and the author of Rasputin, Former People (a Sunday Times bestseller) and The City Without Jews. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in […]
Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson was awarded his PhD in History from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, following earlier studies at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton. After his PhD he held the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United […]
Asaf Hanuka
Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli cartoonist and illustrator and co-creator of The Day Everything Changed: Ten Stories from October 7th. His work includes The Realist and I’m Still Alive, and he also contributed to the graphic novel Waltz with Bashir.
Omri Rose
Omri Rose is an award-winning Israeli writer, actor and voice actor whose work spans film, television, podcasts, video games and graphic novels. He is co-creator, with Ami Adan, of Echoes of October.