Yassin Adnan (Morocco)
Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Iraq)
Khaled Al-Khamissi (Egypt)
Raja Alem (Saudi-Arabia)
Nujoom Alghanem (UAE)
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed (Saudi-Arabia)
Ali Al-Muqri (Yemen)
Taleb Al-Refai (Kuwait)
Badria Al-Shihi (Oman)
Sinan Antoon (Iraq/USA)Ali Bader (Iraq)
Rehab Bassam (Egypt)
Mahi Binebine (Morocco)
Inam Bioud (Algeria)
Rachid Boudjedra (Algeria)
Mansoura Ez Eldin (Egypt)
Joumana Haddad (Lebanon)
Ala Hlehel (Palestine)
Jabbar Yassin Hussein (Iraq)
Abed Ismail (Syria)
Randa Jarrar (Kuweit)
Khaled Khalifa (Syria)
Moncef Mezghanni (Tunisia)
Hala Mohammad (Syria)
Fatima Naoot (Egypt)
Amjad Nasser (Jordan/UK)
Arwa Abduh Othman (Yemen)
Mekkawi Said (Egypt)
Girgis Shoukry (Egypt)
Mahmoud Shukair (Palestine)
Alawiyya Sobh (Lebanon)
Dalia Taha (Palestine)
Samar Yazbek (Syria)
Ghassan Zaqtan (Palestine)
Youssef Zeidan (Egypt)

Literatures of the World

Youssef Bazzi (Lebanon)
Maïssa Bey (Algeria)
Marie Darrieussecq (France)
Youssuf Amine Elalamy (Morocco)
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal)
Aleksandar Hemon (Bosnia/USA)
Anaya Jaber (Lebanon)
Joy Harjo (USA)
Yvon Le Men (France)
Christine Montalbetti (France)
Erasmus Schöfer (Germany)
Leila Sebbar (France/France)
Göran Sonnevi (Sweden)

Kaleidoskop

Monica Ali (UK)
Kjell Askildsen (Norway)
Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
Coral Bracho (Mexico)
Hans Christoph Buch (Germany)
Nico Bleutge (Germany)
Coral Bracho (Mexico)
Mircea Cartarescu (Romania)
Philippe Djian (France)
Mathias Enard (France)
Gerhard Falkner (Germany)
Aris Fioretos (Sweden/Germany)
Robert Gray (Australia)
Michael Greenberg (USA)
Andrew Sean Greer (USA)
Norbert Gstrein (Austria)
Katharina Hacker (Germany)
Jakob Hein (Germany)
Judith Hermann (Germany)
Thomas Hettche (Germany)
Alban Nikolai Herbst (Germany)
Judith Hermann (Germany)
Thomas Hettche (Germany)
Susan Howe (USA)
Otto de Kat (Netherlands)
Helmut Krausser (Germany)
Luis Leante (Spain)
Siegfried Lenz (Germany)
Robert Littell (USA)
Monika Maron (Germany)
Colum McCann (Ireland/ USA)
Pankaj Mishra (India/UK)
Peter Nádas (Hungary)
Gasham Najafzadeh (Azerbaijan)
Emmanuelle Pagano (France)
Tim Parks (UK/Italy)
Atiq Rahimi (Afghanistan)
Isaac Rosa (Spain)
Arundhati Roy (India)
Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan)
Piotr Sommer (Poland)
Biljana Srbljanović (Serbia/France)
Edward St. Aubyn (UK)
George Szirtes (Hungary/UK)
Colm Tóibín (Ireland)
Kevin Vennemann (Germany)
Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya/USA)
Eliot Weinberger (USA)
John Wray (USA/Austria)
David Wroblewski (USA)
Feridun Zaimoglu (Germany)

Guests of the DAAD

Amir Hassan Cheheltan (Iran)
Nora Iuga (Romania)
Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Sweden/Tunisia)
Wojciech Kuczok (Poland)
Dorota Maslowska (Poland)
Pablo Ramos (Argentina)

International Children's and Youth Literature

Martin Baltscheit (Germany)
Jutta Bauer (Germany)
Jeanne Birdsall (USA)
Émile Bravo (France)
Wally de Doncker (Belgium)
Lennart Eng (Sweden)
Rosana Faría (Venezuela)
Graham Gardner (UK)
Svjetlan Junaković (Croatia)
Klaus Kordon (Germany)
Suzy Lee (ROK/Singapore)
Marjaleena Lembcke (Finland/Germany)
Maritgen Matter (Netherlands)
Octavio Monaco (Italy)
Naomi Shihab Nye (USA/Palestine)
Timo Parvela (Finland)
Nadine Touma (Lebanon)
Valérie Zenatti (Israel/France)

Scritture Giovani

Paul Brodowski (Germany)
Gabriele Dadati (Italy)
Owen Martell (UK)
Céline Robinet (France)

Reflections

Azouz Begag (Algeria/France)
Raffaele Cantone (Italy)
Hartmut Fähndrich (Switzerland)
Rolf Hosfeld (Germany)
Adel Karasholi (Syria)
Necla Kelek (Germany)
Margareth Obank (Iraq/UK)
Günther Orth (Germany)
Samuel Shimon (Iraq/UK)
Stefan Weidner (Germany)
François Zabbal (France)

Specials

Wolf Biermann (Germany)
Yangzom Brauen (Switzerland)
Veit Heinichen (Germany

Oulipo:
Hervé Le Tellier (France)
Jacques Roubaud (France)
Ian Monk (UK/France)
Frédéric Forte (France)
Michelle Grangaud (Algeria/France)
Olivier Salon (France)
Marcel Bénabou (France)
Host: Jürgen Ritte