GEORGE FRAGOS

George Frangos is a journalist, poet and literary critic. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Writers' Union for two decades, and in his last two terms he served as the General Secretary of the Organization. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee of the State Literature Awards for one term. Since 2016 he has been elected President of the Cyprus Editors' Union, now serving his fourth term as the leader of the union. He has published six poetry collections and three books of literary criticism. His poems have been translated into English, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian.

AHMET YIKIK

Dr. Ahmet Yıkık is Assistant Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Literature at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on Turkish Cypriot and Turkish literature, post-Ottoman cultural paths, literary translation and the sociology of literature. Through an interdisciplinary approach that connects literature with sociology, he studies issues of identity, migration, gender, social mobility and cultural memory. He is an author and editor of books on Turkish Cypriot literature and the cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean, while also working as a translator of Greek Cypriot literature, a literary critic and an editor.