Monika Czernin Author

Monika Czernin is an internationally renowned author and filmmaker. She has a special interest in the key figures and turning points of European history, and her most recent book, Anna Sacher and Her Hotel, spent many weeks on the bestseller lists.

Dominic Lieven is currently a visiting professor in the Department of International History at LSE, London. His most recent book is Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia.

Jamie Bulloch is a historian and has worked as a professional translator from German since 2001. He has been shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from the German six times, winning in 2014 for Birgit Vanderbeke’s The Mussel Feast and in 2023 for Arno Geiger’s Hinterland.