Can Dündar
Can Dündar is an award-winning Turkish journalist, documentary filmmaker and author. He was arrested in 2015 for his work and now lives in exile in Germany.
Andrei Soldatov
Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, author and Russian security services expert. He is the co-founder and editor of the Agentura.ru website, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities.
Victoria Amelina
Victoria Amelina was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes investigator. She authored two novels and a children’s book as well as winning the Joseph Conrad Literary Award prior to her death in a Russian missile attack in Ukraine in 2023.
Alhierd Bacharevič
Alhierd Bacharevič is a Belarusian writer and translator, who previously worked as a teacher of Belarusian and a journalist. His first texts were published in 1993 and his books have been translated into German, French, Polish and Russian.