Lecture of Pierre Alféri (Paris). The keynote lecture of the International Literature Festival Erich Fried 2015 on the theme of “Facts and Fiction. Literary Reportages”.

I am a very proud member of English PEN; I am also a huge supporter of PEN Atlas. So I’d like to devote my final Blog before Christmas and New Year – a time when we reflect on what’s good and bad ...

If you read a lot – you forget a lot. And so, with Christmas approaching, if you think about the books you can remember from the past year, which plots you haven’t immediately forgotten, those that ...

It’s that ‘Best Books Of The Year’ time again. Everyone who is Anyone in the Literary World is revealing their favorite reads of 2014. These lists are both exciting and depressing: all those books ...

Martin Šmaus and Jáchym Topol took part in a discussion with other finalists of the Polish award.

This morning (October 25th, Europan Literature Days 2014) began with the tricky topic of War in World Literature. Sigrid Löffler delivered a lecture lambasting German-speaking authors for sticking ...

The reason we create and consume literature is to feel suddenly seized by story. It’s never a given. But during the evening’s reading and discussion on 24th of October 2014 (with Marica Bodrožić and ...

In three most productive days the European Literature Days 2014 came up with a remarkable European cocktail of insights, discussions, thoughts, ideas and new perspectives.

For a few weeks in the year Spitz an der Donau is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The autumnal vines turn the hills into carpets of green and yellow; the October sun warms the Wachauer ...

‘Best European Fiction’, or ‘BEF’, is both the title of an inspirational annual anthology of European short fiction, and an aspiration – for more of it!