Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari

Fatemeh Ekhtesari is the current City of Refuge writer in Lillehammer. She is an iranien poet, midwife and activist and influencer. She has marked herself as one of persians most inovative voices. She has published several books and poetry collections (Transfer 2020,...
Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra has a MA in English Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Mishra writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, the New Yorker, London Review of Books, Bloomberg View, among...
Lana Estemirova

Lana Estemirova

Daughter of a human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, a former Memorial board member murdered in Chechnya for her human rights work in 2009. Lana Estemirova is a graduate in international relations from the London School of Economics and is the presenter of the...
Koleka Putuma

Koleka Putuma

Koleka Putuma is an award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and poet. She is the Founder and Director of Manyano Media, a multidisciplinary creative company that empowers and produces stories and works by black queer women.