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France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse. However, the recognition is not only for France, but also the French language including Francophone writers and publishers...
Post-Yugoslav Literature and Fragile Communities
Veröffentlicht von Saša Ilić | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
Yugoslavia has disappeared, but its spirit continues to live in works of fiction being written in its former territories, spanning “from the River Vardar to the Triglav mountain”...
Note to the Newer Slovenian Film Adaptations
Veröffentlicht von Gorazd Trušnovec | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
A brief overview of statistics shows that over 40% of all films produced between the inception of Slovenian cinematography after World War II and 1991 were literary adaptations. After Slovenia’s ...
ELit Book Tip: Olivier Bourdeaut’s surprise bestseller “Waiting for Bojangles”
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
France is in crisis – a social, economic and political crisis. The terror attacks have particularly deprived the French of some of their renowned joie de vivre...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 3
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2017
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...
