Marina is an author whose first book, A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, sold over a million copies worldwide.
Gillian Slovo
Writing, for Gillian Slovo, is best described as a process of interrogation into what happens when individual lives are caught up in political events – her latter works explore her experience as the daughter of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa.
Hamid Ismailov
Hamid is a poet and author from Uzbekistan, and Writer in Residence at the BBC’s World Service.
