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Re-Book, a European E-book Project for Proposal
Social reading – Quiet reading time together/ Soziales Lesen – Stille Lektüre miteinander
Digitization boosts the literary selection at the libraries/ Digitaliseringen styrker de danske bibliotekers litteraturtilbud
Is the ebook boom already over?/ Ist der E-Book-Boom zu Ende?
How two young Dutch entrepreneurs are shaking things up in the media industry/ Wie zwei Endzwanziger die deutsche Medienbranche aufmischen
Is technology a help or a hindrance for writers?
TREND NO TRENDS
The E-Book Market: How English is Displacing Smaller Languages
Media Tax, Not TV Licence Fees/ Mediensteuer statt Fernsehabgabe
About Change and Digital Oblivion/ Változás – A frissítés mint felejtés
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 1
Book talk – yesterday and today/ Büchergespräche, gestern und heute
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 2
Provided they still exist, will tomorrow’s libraries resemble Apple Stores? / Si elles existent encore, les bibliothèques du futur ressembleront-elles à des Apple Stores?
Tim Krohn’s Human Emotions/ Tim Krohns menschliche Regungen
Digital Horizons I. – Print vs. Online Literary Journals
A Leaf Out of the Calendar Publishers’ Book/ Von Kalenderverlagen lernen
Writing in Space / Die Schrift im Raum / L’Ecriture dans l’espace
The Problem of E-Book Lending in Public Libraries
The paradox of digital transformation – the Hungarian case
Who’s afraid of the e-Comic?/ Wer hat Angst vor dem E-Comic?
Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?
Sweden and the ebook/ Schweden und das E-Book
Which books are hits on the web/ Welche Bücher das Web bewegen
Are you paying attention? How social networks are changing how we read
Blooming deserts in need/ Die Not der blühenden Wüsten
What we buy – what we read – and (perhaps) future writing style/ Was wir kaufen – was wir lesen– und wie (vielleicht) künftig geschrieben wird
CLICK AND READ: NEW MEDIA WRITING PRIZE
Quo vadis book market?/ Quo vadis Buchmarkt?
Focus: Innovations in the digital field/ Innovationen im digitalen Feld
Bestselling fiction across Europe in 2015
Non sequitur. News from today/ Kurz. Neuigkeiten von der Gegenwart
European Literature Trends 2015/ Europäische Literatur Trends 2015
Migrants in Hungarian literature II: Immigrants
Way Ahead of Politics: Literary Bridge between Belgrade and Pristina/ Daleko ispred politike: Književni most između Beograda i Prištine
“That’s our common enemy. Period. That’s it. End!” France’s Writers On the Terror in Paris/ Das ist unser gemeinsamer Feind. Punkt. Aus. Ende! Frankreichs Schriftsteller über den Terror in Paris
Islamists or Far-Right Extremists – Who Will be Hollande’s Successor?/ Islamisten oder Rechtsextremisten, wer wird Hollandes Nachfolger?
The Happy Well-Read Troll Tavern/ Gostilna Pri veselem načitanem trolu
Prix Goncourt 2015: Mathias Enard and/ und Boualem Sansal
Writers’ self-help/ Selbsthilfe von Autoren
“Googling” without Google/ „Googeln“ ohne Google
Yes, it does work! On the arte series “Writers of Europe”/ Und es geht doch! Über die arte-Serie „Europa und seine Schriftsteller“
Novels without fictions/ Romane ohne Fiktionen
The Hungarian Window in Vienna/ Das ungarische Fenster in Wien
Is The Political Making a Comeback?/ Kehrt das Politische zurück?
On the diary as a literary genre/ Über das Tagebuch als literarische Gattung
WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic: A sexed-up parable of modernity
Beautiful Book Award/ Auszeichnung für schönste Bücher
An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 1
An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 2
The consequence of history: European poetry as representation of the modern nation
What is Austrian about Austrian literature?/ Was ist österreichisch an der österreichischen Literatur?
Fahrenheit 451
Rainald Goetz: Reactions to the Georg Büchner Prize/ Reaktionen auf den Georg-Büchner-Preis
An inside view of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
‘The Annual Hay Party Conference?’ Hay-on-Wye Festival 2015
What do the results of the British general election mean for British and European support for the arts?
Understanding Austria: on literary criticism, Part 2/ Österreich verstehen: über die Literaturkritik, Teil 2
Understanding Austria: on literary criticism, Part 1/ Österreich verstehen: über die Literaturkritik, Teil 1
The future of our living literature: Europe as a continent of collaboration
BETON INTERNATIONAL NO. 2: A GAZE INTO THE FUTURE OF EUROPE/ POGLED U BUDUĆNOST EVROPE
The Epic Theater of Thomas Piketty/ Epski teater Thomasa Pikettyja
EURO STARS: The Rock Stars of European Literature
Literary criticism and the content of literature/ Die Literaturkritik und die Inhalte der Literatur
Hungarian Literature Online (blog in English and Hungarian)
Is poetry the winner?/ Lyrik gewinnt?
Žižek or the Spectacle of Everyday Life/ Žižek ali spektakularnost vsakdanjega
Anticipating the Leipzig Book Fair/ Vor der Leipziger Buchmesse
Sweet Reader’s Prejudices/ Sladki bralski predsodki
Angela Merkel and Paul Celan move (themselves in) Budapest/ Angela Merkel und Paul Celan bewegen (sich in) Budapest
Your Book Year Ahead
Focus: The Migrants/ Die Migranten
Exile as the inexhaustible creative source/ Das Exil als unerschöpfliche kreative Quelle/ المنفى كمكان لا ينضب للإبداع نجم والي
Homesickness for Future/ Heimweh nach Zukunft
Migrants in Hungarian literature I: emigrants
Immigrant Literature in the Mother Tongue/ الأم
Exile and the burden of home on us/ Das Exil und die Last der Heimat auf uns/ المنفى ووطأة الأوطان فينا نجم والي
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (3)
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (2)
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (1)
Anyone who doesn’t feel good should go/ Wer sich nicht wohlfühlt, soll gehen/ من لم يشعر بالراحة في مكانه فليغادر نجم والي
My experience of migration was prolonged/ Das Auswandern hat sich hingezogen
From migrant literature to migrant literature/ Von Migrantenliteratur zu Migrantenliteratur
An Attempt to Define Exile/ Ein Versuch, das Exil zu definieren/ محاولة في تعريف المنفى نجم والي
The Writers’ Protest at the Paris Salon du livre/ مسيرة الأدباء داخل معرض الكتاب في باريس
Writing in Transient Places/ الكتابة في أمكنة عابرة
Murderous Identities/ الهويات القاتلة
The Stuffed Barbarian/ Kitömött barbár
The Migrants/ Die Ausgewanderten
Absurdity of the translation world/ Absurdität der Übersetzungswelt
Slovenian bookmarket, English books and e-book piracy in Bulgaria/ Slowenischer Buchmarkt, englische Bücher und E-Book Piraterie in Bulgarien
The Editorial Department?! / Lektorat?!
Pen Atlas: Best Books
Recommended Books from 2014/ Meine Bücher 2014
My Best E-Books
The Angelus Award goes to Slovak writer Pavol Rankov
A Great European
The Inferno: A discussion
War On The Danube
Best European Fiction
12 SWISS BOOKS 2014
Ever Closer Unions
Im Sperrfeuer: Deutscher Buchpreis 2014
Quality of literature/ Qualität der Literatur
An Indian Summer For Book Lovers
‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business’. (Winston Churchill)
ENJOYING A EUROPEAN HEATWAVE
My Summer Reads (or ‘Life is Too Short to Read a Bad Book’!)
Title The Glastonbury of the Mind
BRAZIL or the BALKANS?
Europe’s Literature Festivals/ Europa und seine Literaturfestivals
INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2014
Literature and Political Commentary in the Czech Republic/ Literatur und politische Kritik in Tschechien
Lyric Poetry: the new weapon in the Hungarian struggle against self-imposed silence/ Das neue Gewicht der ungarischen Lyrik im Kampf gegen allgemeine Sprachlosigkeit
The NETWORK: European Literature Night (PART 4)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 3)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 2)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 1)
Sinnlose Debatten
Writers and the Middle-class/ Literaten und bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit
YOUR FAVOURITE EUROPEAN NOVELS
Steve Sem-Sandberg: Documentary fiction/ Dokumentarischer Roman
The ‘European Union Prize for Literature’ at London Book Fair 2014
Was brauchen innovative Verleger?
Rasende Lektüren!
Wie kapitalintensiv ist Lesen?
Chris Meade on the Future of Literature/ Chris Meade über die Zukunft der Literatur
Read on / Weiterlesen
All and None/ Alles und nichts
pius-knuesel-ueber-alles-und-nichts
On the Unpredictable/ Über das Unvorhersagbare
Francois Bon on the Unpredictable/ Francois Bon über das Unvorhersagbare
The Digital Graphic Novel
The angst of growth/ Die Angst vor dem Wachstum
Angoulême 2015 – Breath of nostalgia/ Windhauch der Nostalgie
Angoulême 2015 – Charlie Hebdo
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 3: Rutu Modan
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 2: Joe Sacco
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 1: Jacques Tardi
Graphic novel – Literature?/ Literatur?
ELit Dossier July to September/ Juli bis September 2015
ELit Dossier April to June/ April bis Juni 2015
ELit Dossier January to March/ Jänner bis März 2015
Focus: European Literature Days - daily blogs/ Europäische Literaturtage - Tagebuch
Third Day – The Digital “East” and “West”
The world must be romanticized/ Die Welt muss romantisiert werden
Trends, Bullshit and Recognition/ Trends, Bullshit und Erkenntnis
Day Two – Celebrating and Questioning the Concepts We Use
The awkward subject of commitment/ Die schwierige Sache mit dem Engagement.
Day One – Struggling with Parallel Worlds
With Iman Humaydan in Melk/ Mit Iman Humaydan in Melk
The Comic Discovers Its Heritage/ Der Comic entdeckt seine Geschichte
Innovations in the digital field 2015/ Innovationen im digitalen Feld 2015
Laurent Binet
Focus:Copyright Controversy/ Die Urheberrechtdebatte
Focus: The Colonizers/ Die Kolonisten
Focus: Trends in European Contemporary Literature/ Trends zeitgenössischer Europäischer Literatur
Migration, Identity and the Literary Imagination/ Migration, Identität und die literarische Imagination
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ELit 2014 – seized by literature
Reading Parlour/ Lesestube ELit 2014
Throw-away Books, a Cultural Wasteland and Archives/ Wegwerfbuch, Brachland und Archiv
WHY DO WE DO IT? CHAIRING EVENTS ON EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Durch die Abwehrreihen tänzeln
Rich versus Poor/ Reich versus arm
Building Bridges – the wrong moment?/ Brücken schlagen – unzeitgemäß?
Looking Ahead: European Literature 2014
Rosie On The Danube
Five Years On: the Idea for an Observatory/ Im fünften Jahr: die Idee eines Observatoriums
From London to the Wachau…/ Zwischen London und der Wachau
The Migrants/ (Die) Migranten
E-book Subscription models: What works for the readers drags down the business (Proved by Oyster and Scribd)
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Focus: Comics & Graphic Novels
Libraries Matter
Literary merit and contemporary themes: Best European Fiction 2016 & Essential New European Literature, Volume I
European Literature? /Europäische Literatur?
The Favourites Are Dying Out
Peter Vermeersch (BE): Night Travellers
Copyright laws in Austria/ Urheberrechtsgesetze in Österreich
Love at First Sight: British Crime Fiction and the Germans
How to prepare an e-book to be readable on all devices?
Shakespeare is English!
Variations on a Theme
A way out that is non-extant
Mediterranean Europe/ Das mediterrane Europa
What does Europe mean today?/ Was bedeutet Europa heute?
ELit blog‘s review
Peter Handke and His Reception in the German-speaking world / Über die Peter-Handke-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
ELit Blog‘s Review
ELit blog‘s review, 31 March 2016
Lovely Ljubljana
A conference on translation and cultural transfer
Copyright laws in France/ Urheberrechtsgesetze in Frankreich
ELit blog‘s review, 14 April 2016
The Hemon Project – How the UK receives the work of a US-Bosnian writer
Aleksandar Hemon: Former Yugoslavia's worldwide literary great
Create a new space
Literary Scene in Switzerland – Victory for Dada!/ Literaturszene Schweiz – Dada siegt!
The Future was Yesterday/ Die Zukunft war gestern
ELit blog‘s review, 28 April 2016
Drago Jančar – celebrated in Slovenia and all across ex-Yugoslavia
Drago Jančar in France/ Drago Jančar en France
Peter Handke. A Reception of a Literary Controversy/ Peter Handke. Recepcija jedne književne kontroverze
Print publishers and young readers: stages of a difficult relationship
Our May Acronym Heaven: EU, EL, EUPL, ELIT, ELF, ELN, ACE & BL
Ó Cadhain’s Gift
No to Clichés. On the German-speaking Reception of Drago Jančar’s Books. / Klischeeverweigerung. Über die Rezeption der Bücher Drago Jančars im deutschen Sprachraum.
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context/ Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reception in the French World / Über die Rezeption von Jenny Erpenbeck im französischen Sprachraum
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reception in the Anglo World / Über die Rezeption von Jenny Erpenbeck in der englischsprachigen Welt
Literature in the Smartphone age / Literatur in der Smartphone-Menschheit
Slovenian Authors and Publishers in Vienna – April 2016
Europe and the Man Booker International Prize
ELit blog‘s review, 26 May 2016
EUROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT 2016
World Book Day in Catalonia's Capital Barcelona – The Bookseller Event of the Year
ELit blog‘s review, 06 June 2016
Fascinating and Awkward Merits – the UK’s reception of Drago Jančar
ELit blog‘s review, 16 June 2016
Copyright in England and Wales
ELit blog‘s review, 23 June 2016
Ó Cadhain’s Gift – publishing two translations of Cré na Cille – an interview with John Donatich
On the Road with Urns
Peter Handke and His Reception in the French-speaking
Nuit-debout
Peter Handke and His Reception in the English-speaking
German publishers and journalists awaken to Slovenia's literature and diversity
German Humour: Are You joking?
The End of the World / Das Ende der Welt
A Farewell to Central Europe
BookTube and FanFiction
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context / Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Henning Mankell’s “The Antelopes”
A literature prize and reader’s tip for the holiday season
European Literature Days 2016: Review on Anton Kannemeyer
Copyright in Serbia
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Samantha Schweblin
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Birgit Weyhe
2016 German Book Prize: The Countdown Has Begun
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Copyright in Slovenia
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Robert Menasse
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus Project
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Gabriela Babnik
An interview with translator Don Bartlett
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Petina Gappah
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Najem Wali
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Hans Christoph Buch
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Jonas Lüscher
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Tim Parks
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Rasha Khayat
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Peeter Helme
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ulrike Guérot
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Mathias Enard
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 4.11.
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 5.11.
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 6.11.
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT / by Hans Christoph Buch
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Rafael Cardoso
In or Out of Europe?
Laurent Mauvignier
In search of the future age. Hungarian literature in transition
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Pankaj Mishra
Euro Stars: European Fiction in the UK: In or Out?
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2016
French Literature Prizes Go to Women
AmazonCrossing: Where fiction in translation is thriving
Double nationalité
Iceland Noir – Iceland’s Festival of Crime Fiction
Observatory for European Contemporary Literature 2017: Launch with A.L. Kennedy
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 1
This lack of art and this lack of humanity
Vote of No Confidence in Fiction
WRITERS VS. BARBARIANS - 90 years of Serbian PEN center and (self)censorship
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ondřej Buddeus
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 2
The Fight for Europe. State of Exception, reloaded
The Centre and the Periphery in Literary Translation
A nostalgic look back
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 3
ELit Book Tip: Olivier Bourdeaut’s surprise bestseller “Waiting for Bojangles”
Note to the Newer Slovenian Film Adaptations
Post-Yugoslav Literature and Fragile Communities
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse
ELit Book Tip: Fatma Aydemir’s debut novel “Ellbogen”
The Unhappy Children of Central Europe
ELit Book Tip: Guy Delisle‘s Bestseller Gracphiv Novel “Hostage”
ELit Book Tip: Karim Miské’s Graphiv Novel “N’appartenir”
ELit Book Tip: Juliana Kálnay’s strong debut “A House which is Deep in the Bones”
ELit Book Tip: Patrick Boucherons "Histoire mondiale de la France“
ELit Book Tip: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
ELit Book Tip: Róbert Milbacher’s The Virgin Mary’s Fiancé
Declaration on the Common Language
Dignity in Perilous Times: Arany is Worth His Weight in Gold
CrimeFest 2017 – an Editor’s view of the International Crime Fiction Convention
ELit Book Tip: Eric Lambé and Philippe de Pierpont "Paysage après la bataille"
A Form of Inner Exile: The poetry of Péter Závada
ELit Book Tip: Iris Wolff’s “So tun, als ob es regnet” – A Real Discovery
ELit Book Tip: OCTOBER: THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY CHINA MIÉVILLE
ELit Book Tip: Dominique Goblets Graphic Novel "Pretending is Lying"
Visuality, Non-Agency and Found Footage in heves: New Trends in contemporary Turkish Poetry (2003-2010)
ELit Book Tip: Lana Lux’s Novel "Kukolka"
ELit Book Tip: Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée
ELit Book Tip: Dóra Elekes, Mother and the Ginns
Enard and Karahasan Two Contrasting and Complementary Views
ELit Book Tip: Seed by Joanna Walsh
WRITER IN EXILE
Elif Shafak
Leif Randt and Jaroslav Rudiš - Designed Feelings, Abandoned Worlds
European Literature Days 2017 | Opening event
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 2
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 3
Fear
ELit Book Tip: Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Außer sich
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2017
Twelve Winning Authors 2017: European Union Prize for Literature
Camenisch and Grigorcea: Poetic Masterworks with Tantalizing Ruses
ELit Book Tip: Zsófia Bán, Night School
ELit Book Tip: Ulli Lust: “How I Tried to Be a Good Person”
ELit Book-Tip: An Old Man on the Moors
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Famous and unknown
Blitzlichter auf Europa
ELit Book Tip: Aude Picault: “Ideal Standard”
ELit Book-Tip: Jukuta Alikavazovic - Avancée de la nuit
ELit Book-Tip: Giorgio Straten: “In Search of Lost Books”
ELit Book-Tip: Liv Strömquist: “The Fruit of Knowledge”
ANTI-EUROPEAN ZONE - Strictly controlled identities in Serbia
ELit Book-Tip: Elizabeth Taylor: “Angel”
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Creative Criticism: Interview with Sophie Rabau
Literally Swiss – A Literary Cabaret
ELit Booktip: Marianne Jungmaier - Sonnenkönige
ELit Book-Tip: Aude Seigne: “Une toile large comme le monde”
ELit Book-Tip: Imre Oravecz: “A rög gyermekei (Die Kinder der Scholle)”
ILIYA TROYANOV – The Charming ‘Collector of Worlds’
ELit Book-Tip: Kristine Bilkau: “Eine Liebe, in Gedanken”
ELit Book-Tip: Katharina Greve: “Das Hochhaus. 102 Etagen Leben”
ELit Book-Tip: Robert Prosser: “Phantome”
ELit Book Tip: Joachim Scherf: “Cette nuit”
ELit Book-Tip: Simone Hirth: “Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft”
THE POET AT THE CONFLUENCE OF CAPITAL
ELit Book-Tip: David Lopez: FIEF
Family Affairs 1: Marie-Jeanne Urech
Family Affairs 2: Ilinca Florian
Family Affairs
ELit Book-Tip: Alice Zeniter: “L’art de perdre – The Art of Losing”
Only the Narrative is True 1
Only the Narrative is True 2
European Literature Days 2018 | Day 1
European Literature Days Day 02 – Back to school
European Literature Days 2018 | Day 3
European Literature Days 2018 | Day 4
Review of the European Literature Days 2018
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Re-Book, a European E-book Project for Proposal
Social reading – Quiet reading time together/ Soziales Lesen – Stille Lektüre miteinander
Digitization boosts the literary selection at the libraries/ Digitaliseringen styrker de danske bibliotekers litteraturtilbud
Is the ebook boom already over?/ Ist der E-Book-Boom zu Ende?
How two young Dutch entrepreneurs are shaking things up in the media industry/ Wie zwei Endzwanziger die deutsche Medienbranche aufmischen
Is technology a help or a hindrance for writers?
TREND NO TRENDS
The E-Book Market: How English is Displacing Smaller Languages
Media Tax, Not TV Licence Fees/ Mediensteuer statt Fernsehabgabe
About Change and Digital Oblivion/ Változás – A frissítés mint felejtés
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 1
Book talk – yesterday and today/ Büchergespräche, gestern und heute
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 2
Provided they still exist, will tomorrow’s libraries resemble Apple Stores? / Si elles existent encore, les bibliothèques du futur ressembleront-elles à des Apple Stores?
Tim Krohn’s Human Emotions/ Tim Krohns menschliche Regungen
Digital Horizons I. – Print vs. Online Literary Journals
A Leaf Out of the Calendar Publishers’ Book/ Von Kalenderverlagen lernen
Writing in Space / Die Schrift im Raum / L’Ecriture dans l’espace
The Problem of E-Book Lending in Public Libraries
The paradox of digital transformation – the Hungarian case
Who’s afraid of the e-Comic?/ Wer hat Angst vor dem E-Comic?
Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?
Sweden and the ebook/ Schweden und das E-Book
Which books are hits on the web/ Welche Bücher das Web bewegen
Are you paying attention? How social networks are changing how we read
Blooming deserts in need/ Die Not der blühenden Wüsten
What we buy – what we read – and (perhaps) future writing style/ Was wir kaufen – was wir lesen– und wie (vielleicht) künftig geschrieben wird
CLICK AND READ: NEW MEDIA WRITING PRIZE
Quo vadis book market?/ Quo vadis Buchmarkt?
Focus: Innovations in the digital field/ Innovationen im digitalen Feld
Bestselling fiction across Europe in 2015
Non sequitur. News from today/ Kurz. Neuigkeiten von der Gegenwart
European Literature Trends 2015/ Europäische Literatur Trends 2015
Migrants in Hungarian literature II: Immigrants
Way Ahead of Politics: Literary Bridge between Belgrade and Pristina/ Daleko ispred politike: Književni most između Beograda i Prištine
“That’s our common enemy. Period. That’s it. End!” France’s Writers On the Terror in Paris/ Das ist unser gemeinsamer Feind. Punkt. Aus. Ende! Frankreichs Schriftsteller über den Terror in Paris
Islamists or Far-Right Extremists – Who Will be Hollande’s Successor?/ Islamisten oder Rechtsextremisten, wer wird Hollandes Nachfolger?
The Happy Well-Read Troll Tavern/ Gostilna Pri veselem načitanem trolu
Prix Goncourt 2015: Mathias Enard and/ und Boualem Sansal
Writers’ self-help/ Selbsthilfe von Autoren
“Googling” without Google/ „Googeln“ ohne Google
Yes, it does work! On the arte series “Writers of Europe”/ Und es geht doch! Über die arte-Serie „Europa und seine Schriftsteller“
Novels without fictions/ Romane ohne Fiktionen
The Hungarian Window in Vienna/ Das ungarische Fenster in Wien
Is The Political Making a Comeback?/ Kehrt das Politische zurück?
On the diary as a literary genre/ Über das Tagebuch als literarische Gattung
WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic: A sexed-up parable of modernity
Beautiful Book Award/ Auszeichnung für schönste Bücher
An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 1
An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 2
The consequence of history: European poetry as representation of the modern nation
What is Austrian about Austrian literature?/ Was ist österreichisch an der österreichischen Literatur?
Fahrenheit 451
Rainald Goetz: Reactions to the Georg Büchner Prize/ Reaktionen auf den Georg-Büchner-Preis
An inside view of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
‘The Annual Hay Party Conference?’ Hay-on-Wye Festival 2015
What do the results of the British general election mean for British and European support for the arts?
Understanding Austria: on literary criticism, Part 2/ Österreich verstehen: über die Literaturkritik, Teil 2
Understanding Austria: on literary criticism, Part 1/ Österreich verstehen: über die Literaturkritik, Teil 1
The future of our living literature: Europe as a continent of collaboration
BETON INTERNATIONAL NO. 2: A GAZE INTO THE FUTURE OF EUROPE/ POGLED U BUDUĆNOST EVROPE
The Epic Theater of Thomas Piketty/ Epski teater Thomasa Pikettyja
EURO STARS: The Rock Stars of European Literature
Literary criticism and the content of literature/ Die Literaturkritik und die Inhalte der Literatur
Hungarian Literature Online (blog in English and Hungarian)
Is poetry the winner?/ Lyrik gewinnt?
Žižek or the Spectacle of Everyday Life/ Žižek ali spektakularnost vsakdanjega
Anticipating the Leipzig Book Fair/ Vor der Leipziger Buchmesse
Sweet Reader’s Prejudices/ Sladki bralski predsodki
Angela Merkel and Paul Celan move (themselves in) Budapest/ Angela Merkel und Paul Celan bewegen (sich in) Budapest
Your Book Year Ahead
Focus: The Migrants/ Die Migranten
Exile as the inexhaustible creative source/ Das Exil als unerschöpfliche kreative Quelle/ المنفى كمكان لا ينضب للإبداع نجم والي
Homesickness for Future/ Heimweh nach Zukunft
Migrants in Hungarian literature I: emigrants
Immigrant Literature in the Mother Tongue/ الأم
Exile and the burden of home on us/ Das Exil und die Last der Heimat auf uns/ المنفى ووطأة الأوطان فينا نجم والي
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (3)
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (2)
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (1)
Anyone who doesn’t feel good should go/ Wer sich nicht wohlfühlt, soll gehen/ من لم يشعر بالراحة في مكانه فليغادر نجم والي
My experience of migration was prolonged/ Das Auswandern hat sich hingezogen
From migrant literature to migrant literature/ Von Migrantenliteratur zu Migrantenliteratur
An Attempt to Define Exile/ Ein Versuch, das Exil zu definieren/ محاولة في تعريف المنفى نجم والي
The Writers’ Protest at the Paris Salon du livre/ مسيرة الأدباء داخل معرض الكتاب في باريس
Writing in Transient Places/ الكتابة في أمكنة عابرة
Murderous Identities/ الهويات القاتلة
The Stuffed Barbarian/ Kitömött barbár
The Migrants/ Die Ausgewanderten
Absurdity of the translation world/ Absurdität der Übersetzungswelt
Slovenian bookmarket, English books and e-book piracy in Bulgaria/ Slowenischer Buchmarkt, englische Bücher und E-Book Piraterie in Bulgarien
The Editorial Department?! / Lektorat?!
Pen Atlas: Best Books
Recommended Books from 2014/ Meine Bücher 2014
My Best E-Books
The Angelus Award goes to Slovak writer Pavol Rankov
A Great European
The Inferno: A discussion
War On The Danube
Best European Fiction
12 SWISS BOOKS 2014
Ever Closer Unions
Im Sperrfeuer: Deutscher Buchpreis 2014
Quality of literature/ Qualität der Literatur
An Indian Summer For Book Lovers
‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business’. (Winston Churchill)
ENJOYING A EUROPEAN HEATWAVE
My Summer Reads (or ‘Life is Too Short to Read a Bad Book’!)
Title The Glastonbury of the Mind
BRAZIL or the BALKANS?
Europe’s Literature Festivals/ Europa und seine Literaturfestivals
INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2014
Literature and Political Commentary in the Czech Republic/ Literatur und politische Kritik in Tschechien
Lyric Poetry: the new weapon in the Hungarian struggle against self-imposed silence/ Das neue Gewicht der ungarischen Lyrik im Kampf gegen allgemeine Sprachlosigkeit
The NETWORK: European Literature Night (PART 4)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 3)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 2)
European Literature Night 2014 (PART 1)
Sinnlose Debatten
Writers and the Middle-class/ Literaten und bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit
YOUR FAVOURITE EUROPEAN NOVELS
Steve Sem-Sandberg: Documentary fiction/ Dokumentarischer Roman
The ‘European Union Prize for Literature’ at London Book Fair 2014
Was brauchen innovative Verleger?
Rasende Lektüren!
Wie kapitalintensiv ist Lesen?
Chris Meade on the Future of Literature/ Chris Meade über die Zukunft der Literatur
Read on / Weiterlesen
All and None/ Alles und nichts
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On the Unpredictable/ Über das Unvorhersagbare
Francois Bon on the Unpredictable/ Francois Bon über das Unvorhersagbare
The Digital Graphic Novel
The angst of growth/ Die Angst vor dem Wachstum
Angoulême 2015 – Breath of nostalgia/ Windhauch der Nostalgie
Angoulême 2015 – Charlie Hebdo
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 3: Rutu Modan
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 2: Joe Sacco
War in Comic-books/ Der Krieg im Comic. Part/ Teil 1: Jacques Tardi
Graphic novel – Literature?/ Literatur?
ELit Dossier July to September/ Juli bis September 2015
ELit Dossier April to June/ April bis Juni 2015
ELit Dossier January to March/ Jänner bis März 2015
Focus: European Literature Days - daily blogs/ Europäische Literaturtage - Tagebuch
Third Day – The Digital “East” and “West”
The world must be romanticized/ Die Welt muss romantisiert werden
Trends, Bullshit and Recognition/ Trends, Bullshit und Erkenntnis
Day Two – Celebrating and Questioning the Concepts We Use
The awkward subject of commitment/ Die schwierige Sache mit dem Engagement.
Day One – Struggling with Parallel Worlds
With Iman Humaydan in Melk/ Mit Iman Humaydan in Melk
The Comic Discovers Its Heritage/ Der Comic entdeckt seine Geschichte
Innovations in the digital field 2015/ Innovationen im digitalen Feld 2015
Laurent Binet
Focus:Copyright Controversy/ Die Urheberrechtdebatte
Focus: The Colonizers/ Die Kolonisten
Focus: Trends in European Contemporary Literature/ Trends zeitgenössischer Europäischer Literatur
Migration, Identity and the Literary Imagination/ Migration, Identität und die literarische Imagination
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ELit 2014 – seized by literature
Reading Parlour/ Lesestube ELit 2014
Throw-away Books, a Cultural Wasteland and Archives/ Wegwerfbuch, Brachland und Archiv
WHY DO WE DO IT? CHAIRING EVENTS ON EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Durch die Abwehrreihen tänzeln
Rich versus Poor/ Reich versus arm
Building Bridges – the wrong moment?/ Brücken schlagen – unzeitgemäß?
Looking Ahead: European Literature 2014
Rosie On The Danube
Five Years On: the Idea for an Observatory/ Im fünften Jahr: die Idee eines Observatoriums
From London to the Wachau…/ Zwischen London und der Wachau
The Migrants/ (Die) Migranten
E-book Subscription models: What works for the readers drags down the business (Proved by Oyster and Scribd)
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Focus: Comics & Graphic Novels
Libraries Matter
Literary merit and contemporary themes: Best European Fiction 2016 & Essential New European Literature, Volume I
European Literature? /Europäische Literatur?
The Favourites Are Dying Out
Peter Vermeersch (BE): Night Travellers
Copyright laws in Austria/ Urheberrechtsgesetze in Österreich
Love at First Sight: British Crime Fiction and the Germans
How to prepare an e-book to be readable on all devices?
Shakespeare is English!
Variations on a Theme
A way out that is non-extant
Mediterranean Europe/ Das mediterrane Europa
What does Europe mean today?/ Was bedeutet Europa heute?
ELit blog‘s review
Peter Handke and His Reception in the German-speaking world / Über die Peter-Handke-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
ELit Blog‘s Review
ELit blog‘s review, 31 March 2016
Lovely Ljubljana
A conference on translation and cultural transfer
Copyright laws in France/ Urheberrechtsgesetze in Frankreich
ELit blog‘s review, 14 April 2016
The Hemon Project – How the UK receives the work of a US-Bosnian writer
Aleksandar Hemon: Former Yugoslavia's worldwide literary great
Create a new space
Literary Scene in Switzerland – Victory for Dada!/ Literaturszene Schweiz – Dada siegt!
The Future was Yesterday/ Die Zukunft war gestern
ELit blog‘s review, 28 April 2016
Drago Jančar – celebrated in Slovenia and all across ex-Yugoslavia
Drago Jančar in France/ Drago Jančar en France
Peter Handke. A Reception of a Literary Controversy/ Peter Handke. Recepcija jedne književne kontroverze
Print publishers and young readers: stages of a difficult relationship
Our May Acronym Heaven: EU, EL, EUPL, ELIT, ELF, ELN, ACE & BL
Ó Cadhain’s Gift
No to Clichés. On the German-speaking Reception of Drago Jančar’s Books. / Klischeeverweigerung. Über die Rezeption der Bücher Drago Jančars im deutschen Sprachraum.
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context/ Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reception in the French World / Über die Rezeption von Jenny Erpenbeck im französischen Sprachraum
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reception in the Anglo World / Über die Rezeption von Jenny Erpenbeck in der englischsprachigen Welt
Literature in the Smartphone age / Literatur in der Smartphone-Menschheit
Slovenian Authors and Publishers in Vienna – April 2016
Europe and the Man Booker International Prize
ELit blog‘s review, 26 May 2016
EUROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT 2016
World Book Day in Catalonia's Capital Barcelona – The Bookseller Event of the Year
ELit blog‘s review, 06 June 2016
Fascinating and Awkward Merits – the UK’s reception of Drago Jančar
ELit blog‘s review, 16 June 2016
Copyright in England and Wales
ELit blog‘s review, 23 June 2016
Ó Cadhain’s Gift – publishing two translations of Cré na Cille – an interview with John Donatich
On the Road with Urns
Peter Handke and His Reception in the French-speaking
Nuit-debout
Peter Handke and His Reception in the English-speaking
German publishers and journalists awaken to Slovenia's literature and diversity
German Humour: Are You joking?
The End of the World / Das Ende der Welt
A Farewell to Central Europe
BookTube and FanFiction
On Daniel Kehlmann’s Reception in the German-speaking Context / Über die Daniel-Kehlmann-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Henning Mankell’s “The Antelopes”
A literature prize and reader’s tip for the holiday season
European Literature Days 2016: Review on Anton Kannemeyer
Copyright in Serbia
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Samantha Schweblin
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Birgit Weyhe
2016 German Book Prize: The Countdown Has Begun
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Copyright in Slovenia
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Robert Menasse
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus Project
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Gabriela Babnik
An interview with translator Don Bartlett
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Petina Gappah
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Najem Wali
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Hans Christoph Buch
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Jonas Lüscher
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Tim Parks
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Rasha Khayat
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Peeter Helme
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ulrike Guérot
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Mathias Enard
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 4.11.
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 5.11.
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 6.11.
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT / by Hans Christoph Buch
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Rafael Cardoso
In or Out of Europe?
Laurent Mauvignier
In search of the future age. Hungarian literature in transition
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Pankaj Mishra
Euro Stars: European Fiction in the UK: In or Out?
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2016
French Literature Prizes Go to Women
AmazonCrossing: Where fiction in translation is thriving
Double nationalité
Iceland Noir – Iceland’s Festival of Crime Fiction
Observatory for European Contemporary Literature 2017: Launch with A.L. Kennedy
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 1
This lack of art and this lack of humanity
Vote of No Confidence in Fiction
WRITERS VS. BARBARIANS - 90 years of Serbian PEN center and (self)censorship
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ondřej Buddeus
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 2
The Fight for Europe. State of Exception, reloaded
The Centre and the Periphery in Literary Translation
A nostalgic look back
Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 – New French Literature 3
ELit Book Tip: Olivier Bourdeaut’s surprise bestseller “Waiting for Bojangles”
Note to the Newer Slovenian Film Adaptations
Post-Yugoslav Literature and Fragile Communities
France is this year’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Buchmesse
ELit Book Tip: Fatma Aydemir’s debut novel “Ellbogen”
The Unhappy Children of Central Europe
ELit Book Tip: Guy Delisle‘s Bestseller Gracphiv Novel “Hostage”
ELit Book Tip: Karim Miské’s Graphiv Novel “N’appartenir”
ELit Book Tip: Juliana Kálnay’s strong debut “A House which is Deep in the Bones”
ELit Book Tip: Patrick Boucherons "Histoire mondiale de la France“
ELit Book Tip: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
ELit Book Tip: Róbert Milbacher’s The Virgin Mary’s Fiancé
Declaration on the Common Language
Dignity in Perilous Times: Arany is Worth His Weight in Gold
CrimeFest 2017 – an Editor’s view of the International Crime Fiction Convention
ELit Book Tip: Eric Lambé and Philippe de Pierpont "Paysage après la bataille"
A Form of Inner Exile: The poetry of Péter Závada
ELit Book Tip: Iris Wolff’s “So tun, als ob es regnet” – A Real Discovery
ELit Book Tip: OCTOBER: THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY CHINA MIÉVILLE
ELit Book Tip: Dominique Goblets Graphic Novel "Pretending is Lying"
Visuality, Non-Agency and Found Footage in heves: New Trends in contemporary Turkish Poetry (2003-2010)
ELit Book Tip: Lana Lux’s Novel "Kukolka"
ELit Book Tip: Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée
ELit Book Tip: Dóra Elekes, Mother and the Ginns
Enard and Karahasan Two Contrasting and Complementary Views
ELit Book Tip: Seed by Joanna Walsh
WRITER IN EXILE
Elif Shafak
Leif Randt and Jaroslav Rudiš - Designed Feelings, Abandoned Worlds
European Literature Days 2017 | Opening event
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 2
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 3
Fear
ELit Book Tip: Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Außer sich
Literature House Europe: Literature Trends 2017
Twelve Winning Authors 2017: European Union Prize for Literature
Camenisch and Grigorcea: Poetic Masterworks with Tantalizing Ruses
ELit Book Tip: Zsófia Bán, Night School
ELit Book Tip: Ulli Lust: “How I Tried to Be a Good Person”
ELit Book-Tip: An Old Man on the Moors
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Famous and unknown
Blitzlichter auf Europa
ELit Book Tip: Aude Picault: “Ideal Standard”
ELit Book-Tip: Jukuta Alikavazovic - Avancée de la nuit
ELit Book-Tip: Giorgio Straten: “In Search of Lost Books”
ELit Book-Tip: Liv Strömquist: “The Fruit of Knowledge”
ANTI-EUROPEAN ZONE - Strictly controlled identities in Serbia
ELit Book-Tip: Elizabeth Taylor: “Angel”
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Creative Criticism: Interview with Sophie Rabau
Literally Swiss – A Literary Cabaret
ELit Booktip: Marianne Jungmaier - Sonnenkönige
ELit Book-Tip: Aude Seigne: “Une toile large comme le monde”
ELit Book-Tip: Imre Oravecz: “A rög gyermekei (Die Kinder der Scholle)”
ILIYA TROYANOV – The Charming ‘Collector of Worlds’
ELit Book-Tip: Kristine Bilkau: “Eine Liebe, in Gedanken”
ELit Book-Tip: Katharina Greve: “Das Hochhaus. 102 Etagen Leben”
ELit Book-Tip: Robert Prosser: “Phantome”
ELit Book Tip: Joachim Scherf: “Cette nuit”
ELit Book-Tip: Simone Hirth: “Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft”
THE POET AT THE CONFLUENCE OF CAPITAL
ELit Book-Tip: David Lopez: FIEF
Family Affairs 1: Marie-Jeanne Urech
Family Affairs 2: Ilinca Florian
Family Affairs
ELit Book-Tip: Alice Zeniter: “L’art de perdre – The Art of Losing”
Only the Narrative is True 1
Only the Narrative is True 2
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