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European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ondřej Buddeus
Posted by Lena Gorelik | Permalink | filed under: 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...
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...
Euro Stars: European Fiction in the UK: In or Out?
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
On a Wednesday evening at the end of September, I joined Rosie Goldsmith, four brilliant writers and an assortment of interested Londoners for a lively discussion on the future of European fiction in ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Pankaj Mishra
Posted by West Camel | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
In the 1970s there was a classic French intellectual dispute between, on the one hand, the historian Fernand Braudel, who studied history from the point of view of the longue durée – developments ...
In search of the future age. Hungarian literature in transition
Posted by Wilhelm Droste | Permalink | filed under: 2016
Hungarian society has been in a deep, bitter and narcissistic crisis for years; the nation is...
