Evgenia Kara-Murza
Evgenia Kara-Murza is an activist and campaigner and was named winner of the Trustees Award at the 2024 Freedom of Expression Awards
Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa is an author, editor and journalist, and was one of the first people to write about rap in the UK
Murong Xuecun
Murong Xuecun is one of China’s most celebrated dissident writers, and author of Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, Covid Ground Zero.
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin, AKA Grigory Chkhartshvili, is a Georgian-Russian writer. A prominent critic of Vladimir Putin, he was branded a terrorist by the Russian state, and his work has been banned from sale in Russia.