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Takis Würger

Takis Würger is a reporter working for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Named one of Medium's 'Top 30 Journalists under 30,' alongside other accolades, Würger's work as a journalist has taken him to Afghanistan, Libya, Mexico, and Ukraine. His first novel, The Club, won the lit.Cologne debut prize in Germany.

Liesl Schillinger is a literary critic, writer, and translator, and teaches journalism and criticism at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts of the New School for Social Research in New York City. She has translated works by Alexandre Dumas fils, Nataša Dragnić, and Jean Echenoz, and is the author of Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century. In 2017 she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France