Being dedicated to the topic of “the migrant,” yesterday the various literary programs at the European Literature Day in Spitz revealed a rich collection of valuable insights and reflections on the questions of identity, language, nation, homeland, exile, and the pervasive sense of otherness and
Dedalus Books, the Embassy of the Slovak Republic and the Centre for Information on Literature in Bratislava will celebrate the publication of The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature on Wednesday 25 November at 6:30 pm at the Slovak Embassy at 25 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY. The event wil
All over the world (at least I think so) people enjoy talking about the weather. They mainly do so because grumbling about the weather is a constant, and there is no fear of any consequences. In any case the weather does what it will whether you like it or not. That’s why it’s ideal for [&hellip
Poetry Translation Centre’s new season of poetry translation workshops is in full swing and they have three more scheduled to take place this year focusing on Spanish, Arabic and Pashto. Next up on the 4th of November we welcome a new Spanish translator Serafina Vick who will be leading a ses
I managed to arrive to Austria from Budapest quite uneventfully, the trains were on time, running smoothly, passengers around me chatting in several languages, as if nothing could ever disturb the calm and quiet normalcy of a borderless Europe. Yet if the European Literature Days in 2015 would have
Mon 9 November 2015, 6:45 p.m. Free Word Lecture Theatre Gabriela Babnik’s novel, Dry Season (translated by Rawley Grau), breaks the mould of what we usually expect from a writer from a small, Central European nation. Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013, Dry Season offers a t
