Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole was born in Dublin in 1958 and has been a columnist with The Irish Times since 1988. He has been drama critic of The Sunday Tribune, The Irish Times and the New York Daily News. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Review of Books. He is the author of 16 books on culture, politics and history. Awards include the PEN Martha Albrand Award, the AT Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism, and TV3 Journalist of the Year. 

Fintan O’Toole was nominated for the European Press Prize shortlist in 2016 and he won the 2017 European Press Prize Commentator Award with ‘Columns on the Brexit’

Dialika Neufeld

Dialika Neufeld, born 1982, is a German Journalist and staff writer for Der SPIEGEL magazine. Before joining Der SPIEGEL in 2009, she attended the Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism and wrote as a freelancer for several German newspapers. Her works often focus on the marginalized members of society, such as unaccompanied refugee minors, transgender people, victims of violence or prisoners. Neufeld’s reports were nominated for major German prizes in journalism.

Dialika Neufeld won the 2017 European Press Prize Distinguished Writing Award with ‘Step-uncle Sam’