(Morocco, 1975) is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright and curator. His 1996 debut, Bruiloft aan zee (Wedding By the Sea), was an immediate success. His second novel, De langverwachte (The Long-awaited) won him the prestigious 2003 Libris Literature Award. Benali's subjects vary, but sports and the migrant who never really feels at home are recurring themes. He has written novels about his great passion of running, about his travels, and about migrants' cultural identity (Bad Boy). His work has been published internationally. Recent books include the novel Paradijsvogel boven Hoge Woerd (Bird of Paradise over Hoge Woerd, 2022) and Het andere verhaal (The Other Story, 2022), an essay about his research into 75 years of modern Moroccan art.

The young philosopher Alicja Gescinska became known with De verovering van de vrijheid, that was awarded by DeMens.nu as the best non-fiction book of 2010 and 2011. Since then, Gescinska has written essays, opinions and
reviews regularly. In 2016 her debut novel, Een soort van liefde, was published and Gescinska decided to stop her academic career in New York and return to Belgium. Since the autumn of 2016 she is the host of the tv-series Wanderlust. In this she talks with internationally renowned philosophers, writers, scientists and artists, such as Roger Scruton, Connie Palmen and Krzysztof Zanussi.