Paul Cleave is an award winning author who often divides his time between his home city of Christchurch, New Zealand, where his novels are set, and Europe, where none of his novels are set. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He’s won the Ngaio Marsh Award three times, the Saint-Maur book festival’s crime novel of the year award, and has been shortlisted for the Edgar and the Barry and the Ned Kelly. He’s thrown his Frisbee in seventy countries, plays tennis badly, golf even worse, and lives with the ghosts of his three cats.

Laura Walden lived and worked in Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island whilst completing her legal traineeship. She subsequently travelled throughout the country. Her love for New Zealand has become her calling. Her first New Zealand family saga was The Curse of the Māori Woman, published in 2008 by Lübbe, followed by In the Valley of the Great Geysers and The Secret of the Last Moa.

Find out more about the author at: www.laurawalden.de

Taufig Khalil - born in 1966 - is one of Germany’s most prominent sports journalists. For more than three decades, he has been reporting on national and international sporting events for radio and television. As a reporter, commentator, and host for Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD, he covers, among other things, FC Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga, the DFB Cup, the Champions League, and the Olympic Games. At the same time, he has made a name for himself as a bestselling author, host, keynote speaker, and public speaking coach.

Annika Fröhlich, born in 1998, lives in a small town near Fürth. She studied journalism in Ansbach and Oslo and now works as a social media editor for the sports magazine *kicker*. For several years, she has been a member of a literary writing workshop at the Kulturzentrum Nord in Nuremberg.
In her writing, she explores memory, speechlessness, and the subtle fissures in family relationships. Waldbeben is her debut novel.

Marinus Obermair was born in 2003 and grew up in a small village in Upper Bavaria. While in school, he became the Bavarian triathlon champion; he then completed an apprenticeship as a chef at the renowned Alpenrose on Samerberg. Immediately after passing his journeyman’s exam, he quit his job and decided to travel around the world without any financial savings. Hundreds of thousands of people follow his adventures on social media.

Kristina Hußmann, born in the Ruhr region in 1994, is a trained media designer and studied communication design. She worked for DIE ZEIT in Hamburg for three years before setting off with her husband in October 2022 to walk the length of New Zealand. Today, Kristina Hußmann lives and works as a freelance graphic designer in Essen, combining her creative passion with the freedom to spend a lot of time in nature and on the move.

Marlena Anders, born in 1994, lives in Wolfsburg and works as a project manager in the automotive software sector. In her spare time, surrounded by her personal library, she captures fantastic and emotional stories on paper. She prefers to start her day writing in the early hours of the morning.