Martin Veiga is a Cork-based Galician poet and academic. He is a lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University College Cork, where he is also the director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies. In 2017 he was awarded the Pedrón de Honra Prize for his promotion of Galician culture abroad, especially in Ireland.
Continue readingAlbert Turpin was an accomplished artist, involved with the East London Group of artists in the twenties and thirties. In 1946, he became Mayor of Bethnal Green.
Continue reading(1952–1998) was a poet, feminist, political activist, essayist, translator and critic. Her collections of poetry include Cau de llunes (Den of Moons), which won the prestigious Carles Riba Prize for poetry in 1976, Bruixa de dol (The Mourning Witch), published in 1979, Sal oberta (Open Salt), Desglaç (Thawing) and Terra de Mai (The Neverland) published in 1982, which was the first description of lesbian love in Catalan literature.
Continue readingDavid Buckman has been a journalist and author for over 50 years, originally as a magazine staffer, but mainly as a freelance. He has written for numerous magazines and newspapers and made several hundred radio and television broadcasts.
Continue readingBorn and brought up near Camborne, Derek R. Williams has retained close links with his Cornish homeland, despite working in the Welsh Marches as a librarian for many years before his recent retirement.
Continue readingJulian Putkowski is a British university teacher, military historian, researcher, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I. Putkowski graduated from the University of Essex in 1976. He has since then been researching military discipline and dissent.
Continue readingNatalia Bukia-Peters is a freelance translator, interpreter and teacher of Georgian and Russian. She is a translator for the Poetry Translation Centre in London and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and translates a variety of literature, poetry and magazine articles.
Continue readingVictor Serge, born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, was a Russian revolutionary and writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator.
Continue readingAntonio Raúl. de Toro Santos is Professor of English and Irish Literature at the University of A Coruna (Spain) and was Director of the Amergin University Institute of Research in Irish Studies.
Continue readingStephen Pax Leonard is an ethnographer who has worked principally in the Scandinavian and Arctic region. He has been a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at ISCA and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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