Malu Halasa is an author, editor and journalist, and was one of the first people to write about rap in the UK

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, 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 ...