Participants

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Gary Younge columnist for The Guardian, author of No Place Like Home	Michael March poet, director of the Prague Writers' Festival
Joan Acocella staff writer for The New Yorker, author of Rediscovering Joseph Roth	Jiří Gruša poet, essayist, president of the International PEN Club
Gerfried Sperl editor-in-chief of the Viennese daily Der Standard	Jim Naughton translator, professor of Czech language and literature in Oxford
Stavros Petsopoulos founder and publisher of Agra Publications, Athens	Peter Mayer editor of Joseph Roth, president of The Overlook Press, New York
Robert Weil editor of Joseph Roth, vice-president of W.W.Norton & Co., New York	Alexander Tomský managing director of Academia, publisher to the Czech Academy of Sciences
Robert Menasse Austrian novelist, essayist, humanist	Alan Levy editor-in-chief of The Prague Post
Karel Schwarzenberg patron of the Prague Writers' Festival in Vienna	Spiros Vergos Greek poet, essayist, diplomat