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My Summer Reads (or ‘Life is Too Short to Read a Bad Book’!)
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
My summer reading is so precious that I start gathering my pile of holiday books as early as Christmas. And I look forward to it like a child at Christmas too, knowing that summer – as it is for many ...
Slovenian bookmarket, English books and e-book piracy in Bulgaria/ Slowenischer Buchmarkt, englische Bücher und E-Book Piraterie in Bulgarien
Posted by Vea Kaiser | Permalink | filed under: 2014, Innovations in the Digital Field
As writers, we tend to be preoccupied with the production of text. We rely on someone else doing the right thing with our material and being successful at marketing. If this doesn’t happen, we’re ...
Title The Glastonbury of the Mind
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
President Bill Clinton famously described the UK’s Hay-on-Wye literature festival as ‘the Woodstock of the Mind’. But for me ‘Woodstock’ doesn’t quite convey the quintessential British nature of 2 of ...
All and None/ Alles und nichts
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2014, Innovations in the Digital Field
Pius Knüsel, Director of Volkshochschule Zürich [Community College of the Canton of Zurich. For series of events „Workshopping the Future: Book_Text“ at the Solothurner Literaturtage he wrote the ...
Francois Bon on the Unpredictable/ Francois Bon über das Unvorhersagbare
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2014, Innovations in the Digital Field
The “Studio on the Future of Book and Text” at the Solothurner Literaturtage 2014 featured a series of lectures and discussions on the future of the book, which will be collected in the “Observatory ...
On the Unpredictable/ Über das Unvorhersagbare
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2014, Innovations in the Digital Field
BRAZIL or the BALKANS?
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
On a hot sunny Friday in June 2014 a group of us were engaged in heated battle. No, it wasn’t over whether England would win (!) at the World Cup in Brazil but over the Balkans. The UK has a pretty ...
Durch die Abwehrreihen tänzeln
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: 2014, History
Nicht nur die Literatur ist schön … Fußball auch.
Europe’s Literature Festivals/ Europa und seine Literaturfestivals
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
On the last weekend in May, the 36th Solothurner Literaturtage and Pro Helvetia (the Swiss Arts Council) invited several organisers of literature festivals to take part in an exchange of ideas. ...
