Cezar Paul Badescu, Romania
Born in 1968.
Lives in Bucharest. Studied at the Faculty of Philology of Bucharest (Romanian language-French language section) and received a Master’s from the same faculty. After completing studies, worked at a magazine for political analysis in Bucharest (ZZ magazine), and currently works for a cultural magazine in Bucharest (Dilema magazine).
Published a story in Tablou De Familie, Bucharest 1995, and a collection of contemporary Romanian prose. Participant of Pontes 99.

Muharem Bazdulj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Born in 1977.
Lives in Travnik.
Published two collections of short stories: One like a song, (1999) and Druga knjiga (The Other Book) (2000), both with the publishing house Bosanska knjiga. The collection Druga knjiga won the award of the Soros Foundation – Open Society BiH for the best short-story collection in 1999.
I write for Dani, Reporter and Lica magazines, and have also published one text at the Croatian weekly Feral Tribune. I’m one exam from graduation at the Faculty of Philosophy at Sarajevo, at the English Language and Literature Chair. Participant of Pontes 00.

Milena Benini Getz, Croatia
Born in 1966.
Lives in Zagreb.
Milena started writing when she was 12, and first got published at 14, which was a long time ago. Graduated in Comparative literature from St. George University, Oxford. Her fiction appeared in a number of Croatian and American magazines, and her novel Children of Chaos and Eternity won the 1999 SFera award.
When she’s not writing, she translates, mostly in the sff-field, including works by G.G. Kay, Tad Williams, and Lois McMaster Bujold. She is also editor of the bilingual Croatian literary e-zine Net Pens—Pera na mreži, and editor-in-chief of Croatian Weekly Economic Bulletin, a weekly overview of economic events in Croatia. Sometimes she also gets all serious and edits books and web site at Školska Knjiga, Croatia’s largest publishing house. She lives in Zagreb, Croatia, with her family. Participant of Pontes 99 and Pontes 00.

Zvonimir Bulaja, Croatia
Born in Split in 1971.
Lives in Zagreb.
Studied Philosophy, Comparative literature and Computer science at Zagreb University; from 1994 worked as a writer and later editor in several Croatian computer and Internet magazines. In 1998, together with his wife Helena Bulaja, started a family business: company "ALT F4", specialised in publishing CD-ROM titles with literary texts.
The company has so far published two CD-ROMs, one with the works of Croatian literary classics (Classics of Croatian Literature I - Epics, Novels, Stories), the other with works of Croatian poets (Classics of Croatian Literature II - Poetry). For both titles Zvonimir Bulaja is editor in chief. The team in ALT F4 is currently developing a number of new CD-ROM titles: with Croatian dramatists, Croatian travel writers, world classics in Croatian translations, and literature for children. They also have some plans for CD-ROM titles for international market, especially neighbouring countries. Participant of Pontes 00.

Roberto Carvelli, Italy
Born in Rome in 1968.
Lives in Rome.
Literary degree in contemporary italian literature (Tonino Guerra was the object of my end work) max votes
Criticisms in Adige, Rendiconti (review directed by Roberto Roversi)
Prose in Maltese Narrazioni, Delitti Di Carta, Fernandel, Tratti, Rendiconti, Storie...
Italian teacher in high school
Some articles about cinema and television (Il Giorno, La Nazione, Il Resto Del Carlino)
Participating the Pontes 00

Lidija Dimkovska, Macedonia
Born in 1971 in Skopje.
Lives in Skopje
Poet, essayist, literary theoretician, translator.
She graduated in Universal and Comparative Literature at the University of Spoke, Macedonia. She took her Ph.D. degree in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. At the moment, she works as the Lecturer of Macedonian language and literature at the Faculty of Foreign languages, University of Bucharest, Romania.
She is a member of Macedonian Writers’ Association. Books of poetry: The Offspring of the east (1992, together with Boris Cavkoski, literary award for debut), The fire of Letters (1994), Bitten Nails (1998), 20.young.m@c.poets.00 (an anthology of young Macedonian poetry - in print) and Meta-hanging on meta-lime (book of poetry in Romanian - in print).
Her poems are included in the following anthologies: The Song beyond Songs (1997, bilingual edition: Macedonian-English) and The End of the Century (1999, bilingual edition: Macedonian-English). In 1998 she received the prize Struška lira at the Struga Poetry Festival for Best Young Poet Participant. Her poems are translated in English, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Russian. She is editor of poetry department for cultural electronic magazine Shine (Blesok): www.blesok.com.mk. Participant of Pontes 00.

Ivan Dodovski, Macedonia
Born in 1974 in Bitola.
Lives in Skopje.
He graduated high school in the USA and attended literature studies at the University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia; graduated at the Department of general and comparative literature with American studies (1996); finished postgraduate studies at the Department of Macedonian literature (1999). Currently, he works on his postgraduate thesis Narrative Strategies in the Psychological Novel.
He has published three poetry books: Sedenka so likot (Party with the Image, 1991), Luda luna (Mad moon, 1995), Sveta ludost (Holly Madness, 1999). His poems have been translated into English, Croatian, and Romanian. Also, he has published about 20 literary critiques and essays in several Macedonian magazines (Kulturen zivot, Stremez, Lik…). Since 1994, he permanently writes theatre critiques.
He was a selector of the Macedonian Theatre Festival Vojdan Cernodrinski in Prilep (1998), a mediator of its round table forum (1997, 1999), and a member of the Festival’s jury (2000). He mediated the round table forum of the Macedonian Chamber Theatre Festival Risto Siskov in Strumica (1999). He was a president of the jury of the International Theatre Festival MESS in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999). He participated in the International Forum of Theatre Critics in Zagreb, Croatia, organised by the Croatian centre of the International Theatre Institute – UNESCO (2000) and published an article on contemporary Macedonian theatre in the year 2000 issue of The World of Theatre. Twice he participated in the Meetings of Young European Writers Pontes (1998, 1999). Also, he took part in several Macedonian symposiums and festivals: Ratzin Meetings (1998), Struga Poetry Evenings (1995), MTF Vojdan Cernodrinski symposium (1998, 1999, 2000).
Until June 2000 he has worked as an editor of culture in the Macedonian students’ magazine Studentski zbor and as a freelance critic and poet. Currently, he works as an arts & culture program coordinator in the Foundation Open Society Institute – Macedonia.
Participant of Pontes 99 and Pontes 00.

Poets der Epibreren
Bart fm Droog, Netherlands
Born in the small Dutch town of Emmen in 1966.
He’s a poet, works on an encyclopedia about Dutch poets in the 20th Century and takes care of a weekly poetry column in the Dutch newspaper Het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. He started performing in 1981, as supporting act for a punk band. With Tjitse Hofman, founding member of The Poets from Epibreren.
His first poetry book was published in 1988, his latest will be published in November 2000. In May 2000 he read his poetry in Armenia.

Tjitse Hofman, Netherlands
Born in the small Dutch town of Assen in 1974.
He is a poet, father of a two-year old daughter and a bartender. He was one of the founding members of The Poets from Epibreren.
Some ingredients of his work are death, loss of love, city-life and late nights, which is, according to some readers, romantic. In his poetry book TV 2000 (Passage, 1999) he describes the fast way of living, with strict rhythm and lyrical language, which draws a sinister atmosphere.

Jan klug, Germany
Born in the German town of Aachen in 1971
Grew up in North-East Germany and studied at the Groningen School of Music. He’s the inventor of the pataphone and is - when not on tour with The Poets from Epibreren, working on the Epibreren website or performing with other musicians. This summer he’s touring through America, Canada, Denmark and Japan with the Dutch formation Arling & Cameron. He’s a specialist in the field of soundscapes.
Poets der Epibreren are participants of Pontes 00.

Serge van Duijnhoven, Netherlands
Born 1970 in Oss, in the south of the Netherlands.
Lives in Brussels, Belgium.
Serge is a performing poet, novelist and art-editor. He is the author of four books of poems: The Palace of Sleep (1993), Copycat (1996), End of the Line: Phantom City (1997), Obiit in Orbit; at the other end of the night (1998). All of these books are published in Dutch, by recognised publishing houses.
In the last two books cd’s are included. Since 1995 Serge performs his poetry with electronic music and video-projections.
Also wrote two books of prose: Poets don't dance (1995) and The Other Side & Happiness (1995), and a minibiography on the late emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (1993).
He was the winner of the Nova Macedonia Poetry Award at the Poetry Festival of Struga 1995, and the Initiator of MillenniuM; the periodical ‘time-book’ of the Art Group of the Lowlands.
In the fall of 1999 his latest book was presented: We call them Roses, a collection of non-fiction stories and personal impressions gathered during five years of travelling through the Balkan region.
In the summer of 2000 he participated in the Literaturexpress. Participant of Pontes 99.

Ferran Folch i Bot, catalonia
Born in 1972.
Lives in Barcelona.
He studied film-making and scriptwriting at ESCAC, the Film School of Catalonia, at the University of Barcelona.
He works as a script reader for a film company and as a script writer (feature films, TV movies, TV-series) for several companies. Occasionally, he writes short stories. Participant of Pontes 99.

Wehwalt Koslovsky, germany
Born in 1972 in Düsseldorf.
Author, performance poet, stage-actor, play-wright & director.
Beside that student of Philosophy, English, and Media Science at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany.
Co-editor of MAULTROMMEL - Magazine for Literature and Arts in Düsseldorf (1995-1998).
Roaming around the German slam scene ever since its beginnings in 1996.
German National Slam Champion with Team Studio 672 from Cologne in Munich, 1998; runner-up with Team Düsseldorf in the following year plus 3rd in the individual competition during the National Slam in Weimar hosted by Bastian Böttcher.
Up to this day he has participated in more than 60 Slams in Germany and the U.S. Also represented Germany in the 1998 US-National Slam in Chicago.
Co-Host of the German National Slam 2000 in Düsseldorf.
Co-Founder of the regular Düsseldorf Poetry Slam Maulgetrommel (since 1996).
Host of the literary Late Night Show Café Koslovsky.
Coach of the writing-group of the Theater-Salon, a cooperation between the Heinrich-Heine-University and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (city theater).
In 2000 he has played and co-directed in ACHT MALE glückseligkeit, a cooperation (written by several members of the Theater-Salon) between the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the Theatre Universitaire de Nantes, France, and played in another German-French production of Oliver Bukowski's Gäste.
Recently he's finishing the work on his first novel which will, hopefully, be published in late 2001. Also working on a new play spot-lighting the German baroque age.
Other appearances in 2000: Stichting Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Lyrik am Lech-Festival, Landsberg, Germany. Participant of Pontes 00.

Wilhelm Kuehs, Austria
Born in 1972 in Wolfsberg/Carinthia/Austria.
Studied German philology and comparative literature in Klagenfurt/Austria. 1998 M.A. in German philology with a work about mythological structures in post-modern writing. He works as a journalist for austrian newspapers and magazines since 1990.
Since 1999 he works as language assistant at the University of Osijek/Croatia, were he lives most of the time.
Books: Die Thrud, novel, 1993, Gefallene Engel (Fallen Angels), story with lithographics by Walter Melcher, 1994, Das schreibende Tal (ed.) (The writing valley), anthology , 1995, Das malende Tal (ed.) (The painting valley), anthology 1998, Die gläserenen Ringe des Satans, (Satans rings of glass), novel, 1999. Participant of Pontes 00.

Igor Marković, Croatia
Born in 1968.
Lives in Zagreb.
Journalist and publicist. Currently works as a free-lance journalist and theoretician, with main interests in intersection between culture, gender, media and technology.
Member of Croatian Journalist Society, International Federation of Journalists, associate member of Croatian Philosophical Society, and Croatian Association of Theatre Critics.
Editor of Cyberfeminism, collection of essays, co-editor (with Aleksandar Bošković) of Cyber-theory, collection of essays, co-founder (with Aljoša Pužar) of Limen – journal for theory and practice of liminal phenomena and Croatian Society for Post-colonial and Liminal Studies.
Author of ~800 journalist and theoretical articles. Translated into several European languages and Japanese.
Literary works – none. Participant of Pontes 99 and Pontes 00.
Single, but hopeful. ;)

Sergi Martín i Lamata, Catalonia
Born in Barcelona in 1976.
Lives in Barcelona.
I studied cinema at the University of Cinema and TV of Catalonia (ESCAC-Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya). Luckily I started scriptwriting professionally even before I have finished my studies at the University.
Since then I have worked in a about ten documentaries and more than fifty TV programmes as scriptwriter.
Also, I've written 3 short films and with one of them, Endora, we got a nomination for an Oscar in Foreign Language (Cinema Schools) in 1999.
And here we are, doing in what I want to do. Scriptwriting, writing. At the end of the day, trying to be happy. Participant of Pontes 99.

Katarina Mažuran Jurešić, Croatia
Born in 1972.
Lives in Zagreb.
Graduate of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Published two books of poetry, which won prizes in 1992 and 1997. Has published literary critiques and interviews in magazines, radio stations and for television. Editor of The 90 Degrees Imprint. Founder of the Pontes institution. Mother of a daughter.

Bistra Nikiforova, Bulgaria
Born in late seventies.
Lives in Sophia.
After Secondary school in Sophia, she finished Journalism and Mass Communications. At the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Institute of Sociology, Ph.D. thesis on the Sociology of Everyday Life: Visual Colonising of the Everyday Life.
Bistra participated in projects Creation of Visual Archives: Weekly Newsreels, Weekly Newsreels: toward the Historical Sociology of Socialism, Creation and Deconstruction of the Symbolic World of Communism.
She is a first guest of Pontes from Bulgaria. Participant of Pontes 00.

Denis Peričić, Croatia
Born in 1968.
Lives in Varaždin.
Graduated Croatian and South Slavic Philologies and finished MA in Literature, both at the University of Zagreb. Also finished the postgraduate programme on CEU in Budapest. One of 14 Nick Cave’s students at Schule für Dichtung in Vienna. Student of Miro Gavran at his Playwriting School. Acquired UNESCO-AICT’s certificate for young theatre critics. Participant of many conferences, workshops and literary events.
Published 9 books (poems, plays, literary theory, non-fiction). Won 23 literary awards (two of which at Pontes, ’98 & ’99). Does it make him rich and famous? Denis answers: “I still can’t understand why I’m not one of the best known Croatian writers!”
Works as a journalist and editor at Varaždin News. Happily married. Participant of Pontes 99.

Marco Pontoni, Italy
Born in Bolzano, in the italian border-zone province of South Tyrol, in 1965.
Lives in Trento.
Graduated in political sciences at the University of Bologna, he worked in the past five years as a technical editor in a research centre, and actually he is a journalist. He writes short stories, some of them are published in review. In 1997 his first novel, Fluid Machine was mentioned in the Calvino Award, the main italian prize for beginners. He is editor of a literary yearbook. Participant of Pontes 99.

Aljoša Pužar, Croatia
Born in 1974.
Lives in Rijeka.
BA in Croatian language and literature (University of Rijeka) /City of Rijeka scholarship/; Postgraduate course in Comparative literature (University of Zagreb) /Foundation open society institute scholarship/.
He published over two dozen articles, research articles, reviews, essays and conference papers including topics such as Italian literature of eastern Adriatic coast, methodological position of comparative literature, cultural anthropology and sociolinguistic development of border areas, national integration in Central Europe - rise of minority discourse etc.
A.P. is collaborator, member and/or board member of several national and international societies, professional associations, NGO-s and institutions, including Pontes. Founder and coeditor of LIMEN (journal for theory and practice of liminal phenomena).
His books: Gino Brazzoduro: Straniero/Stranac, 1996.; Citta di carta/Papirnati grad (La letteratura italiana di Fiume nell'Ottocento e nel Novecento, 1999.
Participant of all Pontes festivals.

Nenad Veličković, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Born in Sarajevo in 1962.
Lives in Sarajevo.
Graduated from Mathematics High School and Faculty of Philosophy, Yugoslavian Literature Department, where he works today as Assistant for Serbian Literature. Previously earned his living as high-school teacher and youth newspaper editor.
Wrote two novels, Konačari (Inn-keepers) and Otac moje kćeri (My daughter’s father), a collection of short stories Đavo u Sarajevu (Devil in Sarajevo).
Also, two books of entertaining prose: Sarajevski gastronauti (Sarajevo Gastronauts) and Sexikon/Sexpresionizam (Sexicon/Sexpressionism).
Author of several radio plays broadcast at Radio Sarajevo and Radio Belgrade.
Occasionally he writes for the Bosnian magazines Dani and Slobodna Bosna.
Owner of Omnibus, a publishing house specialising in younger authors.
Has just returned from the Literaturexpress Europa 2000 trip.
Participant of Pontes 99 and Pontes 00.