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Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 2
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: 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
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...
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...
