Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet

Jürgen Habermas

German philosopher

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist

Svetlana Alexievich

Belarusian journalist

Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss poet

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Former President of India

Dave Grossman

American author

Theodor Heuss

Former President of Germany

Octavio Paz

Mexican poet

Susan Sontag

American writer

Nelly Sachs

German-Swedish poet

Martin Buber

Austrian-Israeli philosopher

Anselm Kiefer

German painter

Thornton Wilder

American playwright

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist

Yaşar Kemal

Writer

Gunnar Myrdal

Swedish economist

Albert Schweitzer

Polymath

Saul Friedländer

Historian

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

German physicist

Yehudi Menuhin

Violinist

David Grossman

Israeli author

Amos Oz

Israeli writer

Karl Jaspers

German-Swiss psychiatrist

Assia Djebar

Algerian novelist

Boualem Sansal

Algerian author

Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher

Romano Guardini

German priest

Max Frisch

Swiss playwright

Alva Myrdal

Swedish sociologist

Antwood

Musical artist

Péter Esterházy

Hungarian writer

Leszek Kołakowski

Polish philosopher

Václav Havel

Former President of the Czech Republic

Claudio Magris

Italian translator

Ernst von Weizsäcker

Former Secretary of State at the Foreign Office of Germany

Jorge Semprún

Former Minister of Culture of Spain

Navid Kermani

German writer

Jan Assmann

German egyptologist

Wolf Lepenies

German sociologist

Fritz Stern

American historian

Carolin Emcke

German author

Hesse

Brother Roger

Swiss prior

Teddy Kollek

Former Mayor of Jerusalem

George F. Kennan

Former United States Director of Policy Planning

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan priest