Alexander Nabert

Alexander Nabert was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Death Weapons: Inside a Teenage Terrorist Network.

Alexander Nabert is an investigative reporter focusing on national security, intelligence, and terrorism. He works for the public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD in Germany. 

Kateryna Botanova

Kateryna Botanova was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Defined by silence.

Kateryna Botanova is a Basel-based cultural critic, curator, and writer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She writes on decoloniality, solidarity, and care with a special focus on artistic practices and societal dynamics in the Global South, Eastern Europe, and Ukraine, in particular. She is a co-curator of multidisciplinary biennial Culturescapes (Basel, Switzerland) and an editor of its anthologies. Between 2010 and 2015 she was a director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, as well as a founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Korydor. She is a member of PEN-Ukraine.

Her essays were included in Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021. Ibidem, 2021; Future We Are Longing For. Tempora, 2020; Bridges Not Walls: What Unites Ukrainians. VSL, 2020.