Guests
List of guests who have confirmed their attendance at the 17th international literature festival (ilb):
Literatures of the World
- Bachtyar Ali [ Iraq, Germany ]
- Mariam al-Saedi [ United Arab Emirates ]
- Sergio Álvarez [ Colombia, Spain ]
- Mohammed Hasan Alwan [ Saudi-Arabia ]
- Chloe Aridjis [ Mexico, United Kingdom ]
- Nadeem Aslam [ Pakistan, United Kingdom ]
- Nadeem Aslam [ Pakistan, United Kingdom ]
- Catherine Banner [ United Kingdom ]
- Juan Gómez Bárcena [ Spain ]
- Alberto Barrera Tyszka [ Venezuela ]
- Priya Basil [ United Kingdom ]
- Azouz Begag [ France ]
- Nico Bleutge [ Germany ]
- Christophe Boltanski [ France ]
- Nora Bossong [ Germany ]
- Andrea Canobbio [ Italy ]
- Brian Castro [ China, Australia ]
- Amit Chaudhuri [ India ]
- Boris Chersonskij [ Ukraine ]
- Dietmar Dath [ Germany ]
- Veronika Dintinjana [ Slovenia ]
- Mátyás Dunajcsik [ Hungary ]
- Elena Ferrante [ Italy ]
- Elena Ferrante [ Italy ]
- Aris Fioretos [ Sweden ]
- Arturo Fontaine [ Chile ]
- Emad Fouad [ Egypt ]
- Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez [ Guatemala ]
- V. V. Ganeshananthan [ USA ]
- Petina Gappah [ Zimbabwe, Switzerland ]
- Jón Gnarr [ Island ]
- Namita Gokhale [ India ]
- Xiaolu Guo [ China, United Kingdom ]
- Yaa Gyasi [ Ghana, USA ]
- Mohsin Hamid [ Pakistan, United Kingdom ]
- Mohsin Hamid [ Pakistan, United Kingdom ]
- Mohammed Hanif [ Pakistan ]
- Mohammed Hanif [ Pakistan ]
- JoeAnn Hart [ USA ]
- Stefan Hertmans [ Belgium ]
- Stefan Hertmans [ Belgium ]
- Viktor Jerofejew [ Russia ]
- Ma Jian [ China, United Kingdom ]
- Erling Kagge [ Norway ]
- Khaled Khalifa [ Syria ]
- Artur Klinau [ Belarus ]
- Amanda Lee Koe [ Singapore, USA ]
- László Krasznahorkai [ Hungary, Italy ]
- Hari Kunzru [ United Kingdom ]
- Donna Leon [ USA, Italy ]
- Nicol Ljubić [ Germany ]
- Ma Jian [ China ]
- Okky Madasari [ Indonesia ]
- Robert Menasse [ Austria ]
- Maaza Mengiste [ Ethiopia, USA ]
- Lina Meruane [ Chile, USA ]
- Nadifa Mohamed [ Somalia, United Kingdom ]
- Ottessa Moshfegh [ USA ]
- Perumal Murugan [ India ]
- Marie NDiaye [ France, Germany ]
- Edna O'Brien [ Ireland ]
- Pola Oloixarac [ Argentina ]
- Tim Parks [ United Kingdom, Italy ]
- Valeria Parrella [ Italy ]
- Christoph Peters [ Germany ]
- Angelina Polonskaja [ Russia, Germany ]
- Dorit Rabinyan [ Israel ]
- Yasmina Reza [ France ]
- Arundhati Roy [ India ]
- Salman Rushdie [ India, USA ]
- Alberto Ruy Sánchez [ Mexico ]
- Sadaf Saaz [ Bangladesh ]
- Raoul Schrott [ Austria ]
- Elif Shafak [ Turkey, United Kingdom ]
- Eva Sichelschmidt [ Germany ]
- Volker Sielaff [ Germany ]
- Shumona Sinha [ India, France ]
- Goce Smilevski [ Macedonia ]
- Burhan Sönmez [ Turkey ]
- Lize Spit [ Belgium ]
- Felix Stephan [ Germany ]
- Yoko Tawada [ Japan, Germany ]
- Habib Tengour [ Algeria ]
- Madeleine Thien [ Canada ]
- Vicente Valero [ Spain ]
- Tomas Venclova [ USA, Lithuania ]
- Cécile Wajsbrot [ France ]
- Eliot Weinberger [ USA ]
- Frank Witzel [ Germany ]
- Ulrich Woelk [ Germany ]
- Charlotte Wood [ Australia ]
- Jeffrey Yang [ USA ]
- Amin Zaoui [ Algeria ]
- Jakob Ziguras [ Poland, Australia ]
International Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Julia Benner [ Germany ]
- Ada Bieber [ Germany ]
- Alina Bronsky [ Germany ]
- Christian Duda [ Germany ]
- Can Dündar [ Turkey, Germany ]
- Petina Gappah [ Zimbabwe, Switzerland ]
- Franz Hohler [ Switzerland ]
- Rambharos Jha [ India ]
- Sebastian Meschenmoser [ Germany ]
- Levi Pinfold [ United Kingdom, Australia ]
- Sabine Planka [ Germany ]
- Christian Robinson [ USA ]
- Jenny Robson [ South Africa ]
- Jan Paul Schutten [ The Netherlands ]
- Dave Shelton [ United Kingdom ]
- Catarina Sobral [ Portugal ]
- Angie Thomas [ USA ]
- Øyvind Torseter [ Norway ]
- Edward van de Vendel [ The Netherlands ]
- Jon Walter [ United Kingdom ]
- Judith Wassiltschenko [ Germany ]
- Anna Woltz [ The Netherlands ]
Reflections
- Felix Ackermann [ Germany, Poland ]
- Priya Basil [ United Kingdom ]
- Nora Bossong [ Germany ]
- Hans Christoph Buch [ Germany ]
- Étienne François [ France ]
- Masha Gessen [ Russia, USA ]
- Stephen Green [ United Kingdom ]
- Christopher Kloeble [ Germany, India ]
- Adam Krzemiński [ Poland ]
- Geert Mak [ The Netherlands ]
- Sönke Neitzel [ Germany ]
- Norman Ohler [ Germany ]
- Laurie Penny [ United Kingdom ]
- Iris Radisch [ Germany ]
- Ece Temelkuran [ Turkey, Croatia ]
- Thilo Thielke [ Germany ]
- Frank Witzel [ Germany ]
- Jürgen Zimmerer [ Germany ]
Memory, Speak
- René Böll [ Germany ]
- Jürgen Dormagen [ Germany ]
- Tanja Dückers [ Germany ]
- Markus Joch [ Germany, Japan ]
- Gabriele Leupold [ Germany ]
- Andrei Malaev-Babel [ USA ]
- Maaza Mengiste [ Ethiopia, USA ]
- Lothar Quinkenstein [ Germany ]
- Andreas Rostek [ Germany ]
- Uwe Schütte [ Germany ]
- Stefan Zweifel [ Switzerland ]
Specials
- Marwa Younes Almokbel [ Syria, Germany ]
- Rayk Anders [ Germany ]
- Priya Basil [ United Kingdom ]
- Nora Bossong [ Germany ]
- Christian Filips [ Germany ]
- Carsten Görig [ Germany ]
- Susanne Heinrich [ Germany ]
- Franz Hohler [ Switzerland ]
- Auke Hulst [ The Netherlands ]
- Elnathan John [ Nigeria ]
- Fady Jomar [ Syria, Germany ]
- Kenan Khadaj [ Syria ]
- Ryszard Krynicki [ Poland ]
- Maaza Mengiste [ Ethiopia, USA ]
- Omar Musa [ Australia ]
- Marina Naprushkina [ Belarus ]
- Andreas Platthaus [ Germany ]
- Peter Schneider [ Germany ]
- Armin Senser [ Switzerland, Germany ]
- Samuel Shimon [ Iraq, United Kingdom ]
- Valentina Tamer [ Germany ]
- Tomas Venclova [ Lithuania ]
Special: Graphic Novel Day
- Berliac [ Argentina, Germany ]
- Javier de Isusi [ Spain ]
- Elnathan John [ Nigeria ]
- Reinhard Kleist [ Germany ]
- Ulli Lust [ Germany ]
- Nicolas Mahler [ Austria ]
- Ahmed Mohammed Omer
- Amruta Patil [ India, France ]
- Romain Renard [ Belgium ]
- Inga Steinmetz [ Germany ]
- Hamid Sulaiman [ Syria, France ]
- Burcu Türker [ Germany ]
Science and the Humanities
- Detlev Arendt [ Germany ]
- Julia Benner [ Germany ]
- Agnes Blümer [ Germany ]
- Antje Boetius [ Germany ]
- Holger Brix [ Germany ]
- Thomas Bührke [ Germany ]
- Emily Callahan [ USA ]
- Tom Cooper [ USA ]
- Lucien Deprijck [ Germany ]
- Ulrich Dirnagl [ Germany ]
- Katrin Endres [ Germany ]
- Sabine Erbstößer [ Germany ]
- Josef Gaßner [ Germany ]
- Juliane Gröber [ Germany ]
- Miriam Noël Haidle [ Germany ]
- John-Dylan Haynes [ United Kingdom, Germany ]
- Anna-Katharina Hornidge [ Germany ]
- Amber Jackson [ USA ]
- Cormac James [ Ireland, France ]
- Marlene Klockmann [ Germany ]
- Michael Krings [ Germany ]
- Merle Kröger [ Germany ]
- Lukas Krönert [ Germany ]
- Tanja Kunz [ Germany ]
- Falko Löffler [ Germany ]
- Anna-Lena Markus [ Germany ]
- Thomas Martin [ Germany ]
- William Martin [ USA, Germany ]
- Antje Meyer [ Germany ]
- Lydia Millet [ USA ]
- Jochen Müller [ Germany ]
- Dirk Notz [ Germany ]
- Carola Pohlmann [ Germany ]
- Josef H. Reichholf [ Germany ]
- Joachim Reitner [ Germany ]
- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger [ Switzerland, Germany ]
- Monique Roffey [ United Kingdom ]
- Jacqueline E. Ross [ Germany ]
- Sebastian Schmideler [ Germany ]
- Sunke Schmidtko [ Germany ]
- Dietmar Schmitz [ Germany ]
- Helmut Weissert [ Switzerland ]
- Sonja Wild [ Germany ]
- Martina Wildner [ Germany ]
- Martin Zimmer [ Germany ]
