(1957) is a self-willed word artist. She was born in the North-Moroccan Farkhana, a village near Nador. In 1998 she published her collection Yesremd - ayi wawar (Educated by language). The collection was written in the Tarafit language. With these poems she established her reputation as a poet, as they were received with much praise. Well-known artistst from the Rif, like Khalid Izri, Ithran, Mimoun Rafroua en Irizam use some of her poems as texts for their songs. Her poems are emancipatory: she wants to break taboos around women and the Amazigh language. Fadma El Ouariachi works as a researcher at the IRCAM, the Royal Institute of the Amazigh culture.

(Leidschendam, 1973) is a poet, translator and lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He made his debut in 2000 with the poetry collection Zijn opkomst in de voorstad (His Rise in the Suburb). Over the years, his poetry collections were often awarded or nominated for several important prizes, and translations appeared in English, Afrikaans, French, Chinese, Indonesian, Swedish and other languages. For the collection Kooi he received the Jan Campert Prize and the Ida Gerhardt Poetry Prize in 2008. His work is sometimes humorous, sometimes matter-of-fact and at the same time full of absurd inventions. In 2014, he published his, again critically acclaimed collection Mens Dier Ding. In 2021, he published the personal collection Wie was ik?, for which he received the Herman De Coninck Prize. That same year, Alfred Schaffer was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize, the largest annual oeuvre prize in Dutch literature.

(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.

(Amsterdam, 1979) is an Amazight of Moroccan descent, living in Amsterdam Noord. She studies philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is highly committed socially. Khadija is on the board of the women's committee Buya in Utrecht, founed two years ago. It devotes itself to the cause of Moroccan women. She was a guest at various debates, serving on the panel. Although born in the Netherlands, he hasn't forgotten her roots. For her writing poems in Thmazight (Berber) is an enriching experience.