Mary O’Neill
Irish poet and playwright
Irish poet and playwright
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Irish author
Following the communist coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia, as many as 100,000 people were prosecuted for ‘political crimes’, most of whom were sentenced to lengthy periods in penal institutions and forced labour camps, including Dagmar Šimková, who later produced a detailed autobiographical account of her experiences in prison, Byly jsme tam taky [“We were there too”].
Irish Holocaust survivor, dance teacher, choreographer and memoirist
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova used poetry to give voice to the struggles and deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the greatest of literary heroines.
Award-winning Russian journalist