Beiträge
A nostalgic look back
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
From 26 to 29 January, the 44th Angoulême International Comics Festival was held in south-west France. This is the top event in the European comics world...
The Centre and the Periphery in Literary Translation
Veröffentlicht von Renata Zamida | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
The Diversity Report 2016, conducted once more by the Austrian Association for cultural transfers (www.culturaltransfers.org is also the web page where you can download the Report for free), is a ...
The Fight for Europe. State of Exception, reloaded
Veröffentlicht von Priya Basil | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
Words have been wielded aplenty to diagnose the EU’s poor state of health and write various prescriptions for treatment. But words have had little effect: the EU...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 2
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
She won the accolade of the Prix Goncourt in 2016: Leïla Slimani, aged 35, born and raised in Rabat, based since her eighteenth year in Paris where she works as a journalist and writer. She is the ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ondřej Buddeus
Veröffentlicht von Lena Gorelik | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
Some children’s books are not children’s books, because they are not intended as books for children. They’re books for bookworms and those who love everything...
WRITERS VS. BARBARIANS - 90 years of Serbian PEN center and (self)censorship
Veröffentlicht von Saša Ilić | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
Back in 1985, at the international conference in Budapest organised by the Federation for Human Rights, Danilo Kiš read his short, memorable essay on censorship. The author described it as a ...
Vote of No Confidence in Fiction
Veröffentlicht von Rainer Moritz | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
For several years, a notable trend has become evident in (West-)European literature for no-holds-barred autobiographical texts. Previously, in novels the point was often ...
This lack of art and this lack of humanity
Veröffentlicht von A.L.Kennedy | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2017
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 1
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
France is the 2017 Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Writers from the Francophone world are invited for the occasion, in particular those from the former colonies...
Observatory for European Contemporary Literature 2017: Launch with A.L. Kennedy
Veröffentlicht von Walter Grond | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016
