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WRITERS VS. BARBARIANS - 90 years of Serbian PEN center and (self)censorship
Posted by Saša Ilić | Permalink | filed under: 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
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: 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 ...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 1
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: 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
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2016
Iceland Noir – Iceland’s Festival of Crime Fiction
Posted by West Camel | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Iceland has no dialects. This – for a native English-speaker like myself – is the surprising fact that emerges from one of the final panel discussions at 2016’s Iceland Noir The nominees for the ...
Double nationalité
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The subject of national identity is a slow-burner in France. It came to light again during the Republicans’ primaries when François Fillon was chosen as the right-wing candidate for the 2017...
AmazonCrossing: Where fiction in translation is thriving
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 has just finished. At the event a year ago, Amazon pledged $10 million of funding for one of its trade imprints, AmazonCrossing, which commissions and publishes novels...
French Literature Prizes Go to Women
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
This year a breath of fresh air circulated around the award of literature prizes in France. The good news: the accolades went to a high number of young female writers. The bad news: small publishers ...
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2016
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
For the second time, the Literaturhaus Europe presents a nuanced and entertaining summary of the annual activities of the Observatory for European Contemporary Literature...
