Anna Kiedrzynek

Anna Kiedrzynek was selected as runner-up for the 2022 European Press Prize Distinguished Reporting Award for One in every five Polish vets has considered suicide: “I broke down on December 23rd when I had to put down nine animals in one day.”

Anna Kiedrzynek is a Polish freelance reporter and long-form writer. Her stories were published in Newsweek, Gazeta Wyborcza, Tygodnik Powszechny and Pismo. Magazyn Opinii. She has reported from abroad as a participant of the Gabriel García Márquez Fellowship in Cultural Journalism in Colombia and the Transatlantic Media Fellowship programme (sponsored by Heinrich Böll Foundation) in New York and Washington DC. She has also been a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. During her residency, she worked on her first non-fiction book which will have its premiere in 2023. As a journalist, she focuses on social exclusion, mental health, psychiatry and human rights issues.

Carlos Serrano

Carlos Serrano was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist with The Age of the Wolf. 

After studying History, Carlos moved to Madrid to study for a master’s degree in Medieval Studies. There he realized that the capital was not for him. As he needed inspiration, he returned to Cantabria, his native land, where he decided never to stray too far from the sea and the mountains. He is the author of the novel El Foramontano, and will publish a historical novel again next year with Editorial Pamiés. He currently writes about travel for Condé Nast Traveler and is a Geography and History teacher at a school in Santander.