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🇺🇬 Author and filmmaker UPDATE 5/4/2023: Unfortunately Dilman Dila was unable to obtain a visa for his trip to Germany. However, he will send us video statements so that his voice and contributions can still be heard. Dilman Dila is a writer, filmmaker, and all-around artist who lives in his home country, Uganda. He is …

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🇩🇪 Author, editor, translator Erik Simon, born in 1950, physicist, contributed significantly to the publication of foreign science fiction in the GDR as an editor and publisher; he himself translated books by A. and B. Strugatzki, Andrzej Sapkowski, Vernor Vinge, and the popular science part of Terry Pratchett’s “Science of Discworld”. His debut volume as …

🇩🇪 Translator, Editor, Publisher Photo © John Clute Hannes Riffel is a translator, editor, and publisher. He co-founded the Berlin bookstore Otherland and founded Golkonda Verlag in 2010, where he was director until 2017. From 2015 to 2021, he headed the science fiction/fantasy program area at S. Fischer (FISCHER Tor). For translations of John Clute, …

🇩🇪 publisher, editor Hardy Kettlitz was a co-founder and contributor to the SF magazine ALIEN CONTACT, for which he was editor-in-chief for 15 years. Since 1994 he has edited the SF PERSONALITY book series (28 volumes to date). He worked intensively for a decade at Golkonda Publishing, where he edited the MEMORANDA book series since …

🇩🇪 Translator, editor and author author photo © Notburga Reisener Karen Nölle is a translator, editor and author. She translates fiction, primarily by women authors, from the English of various continents, conducts seminars on text work, is co-founder of the BücherFrauen Summer Academy, and as a freelance editor, edits translations from English, French, Dutch, Swedish, …

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