Alicia Borinsky, is a US-based Argentine novelist, poet and literary critic. Alicia Borinsky is professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature and Director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University.

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.

David Dabydeen FRSL is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic. He was formerly Guyana’s Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010, and was the youngest Member of the UNESCO Executive Board, elected by the General Council of all Member States of UNESCO.

Savigneau was born in Châtellerault, France. She became editor-in-chief of Le Monde des Livres, editorial subdivision of Le Monde (2005).

She has written three biographies – on Marguerite Yourcenar, Carson McCullers, and Juliette Gréco – as well as an auto-biography.

Suzi Feay is the former literary editor of the Independent and hosts a YouTube channel of author interviews, Suzi’s Book Bag.