Source: Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 | European Literature Network Jenny Erpenbeck wins the International Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 By EuroLitNetwork • May 28, 2015 • No comments Independent Foreign Fiction Prize celebrates 25 years with first German winner since Sebald! ‘The End of Days’ by Jenny Erpenbeck (published by Portobello)…
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The work of destruction: Krasznahorkai’s Booker Prize – hlo.hu
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He is among our most Hungarian and most universal writers at the same time: he made the Great Hungarian Plain a metaphor of the world, in order to demonstrate that the whole Creation resides behind God’s back now―where it has possibly been from the very start. Source: The work of destruction: Krasznahorkai’s Booker Prize –…
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From ‘Jelgava ’94’ by Jānis Joņevs | European Literature Network
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Source: From ‘Jelgava ’94’ by Jānis Joņevs | European Literature Network From ‘Jelgava ’94’ by Jānis Joņevs By EuroLitNetwork • Apr 21, 2015 • No comments /../ Incredible, I know, but he found that shirt in a used clothing shop. A real miracle. The rest of us rushed to dig through the piles. I even…
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Istros Conversations: Interview with ELNight’s Evald Flisar | European Literature Network
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Source: Istros Conversations: Interview with ELNight’s Evald Flisar | European Literature Network Istros Conversations: Interview with ELNight’s Evald Flisar By EuroLitNetwork • May 14, 2015 • No comments After a succssful day of events at the British Library yesterday as part of European Literature Night 2015, Istros Books has published audio interviews with two…
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“World Literature” and “World Languages” by Susan Curtis-Kojakovic | European Literature Network
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Source: “World Literature” and “World Languages” by Susan Curtis-Kojakovic | European Literature Network “World Literature” and “World Languages” by Susan Curtis-Kojakovic By EuroLitNetwork • May 8, 2015 • No comments In his 2007 New Yorker essay, ‘Die Weltliteratur: European novelists and modernism’, Milan Kundera poses the question – would anyone today know the work of…
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European Literature round-up: Troubling tales and exceptional translations. Rosie Goldsmith writes in The Independent | European Literature Network
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Source: European Literature round-up: Troubling tales and exceptional translations. Rosie Goldsmith writes in The Independent | European Literature Network European Literature round-up: Troubling tales and exceptional translations. Rosie Goldsmith writes in The Independent By EuroLitNetwork • May 16, 2015 • No comments The Independent has published Rosie Goldsmith‘s text on this year European Literature Night…
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ELNight 2015 Yasmina Khadra blogs on Culturetheque | European Literature Network
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Source: ELNight 2015 Yasmina Khadra blogs on Culturetheque | European Literature Network Culturetheque has published a blog by one of European Literature Night 2015 authors Yasmina Khadra, ‘The Migrants’ Here is how it starts: “Darkness hangs over their faces, and their eyes are white with sleeplessness; and if they seem to embody all the world’s miseries,…
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International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School | European Literature Network
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Source: International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School | European Literature Network International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School By EuroLitNetwork • May 13, 2015 • No comments 26 July – 1 August 2015 British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich Bringing together…
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Woman in Green by Naja Marie Aidt | European Literature Network
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Source: Woman in Green by Naja Marie Aidt | European Literature Network Woman in Green by Naja Marie Aidt By EuroLitNetwork • May 9, 2015 • No comments In late February I walked the streets of Manhattan and came across a small shop. A beautiful green jacket hanging in the window caught my eye. I…
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European Literature Night: a vote for Europe? by Rosie Goldsmith | European Literature Network
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Source: European Literature Night: a vote for Europe? by Rosie Goldsmith | European Literature Network European Literature Night: a vote for Europe? by Rosie Goldsmith By EuroLitNetwork • May 7, 2015 • No comments It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are in the midst of an election campaign in the UK…