What are your favourite Polish books? To celebrate London Book Fair 2017’s Polish Market Focus, the European Literature Network is publishing a special one-off magazine, The Riveter, focussing on Polish literature. Guest-edited by best-selling author Deborah Levy, it will showcase Polish writing i
Peirene puts on her dark shades and retrieves a big sunhat from underneath her desk. ‘Where are you’re going?’ The rain is pelting down on the sky-lights of our new office, so I’m curious to know what the Nymph is up to. ‘Nowhere special.’ She pulls the hat over the left side of her face
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 12th woman to be awarded this prize in its 113-year history. “That at least raises the quota to [&he
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 about them: not just a narrated story, not merely the characters, but the pages. Each picture, each illustration, every word, even the
Mon 13 Feb 2017, 6:45pm – 9:00pm, Free Word Centre, book here. We welcome acclaimed author Steven Uhly and his British translator Jamie Bulloch for the UK launch of Kingdom of Twilight. A ground-breaking thriller that explores identity and home in traumatised post-war world.Kingdom of Twilig
‘You know, I have become an activist Nymph.’ Peirene is standing on a ladder putting books back into their shelves after they’ve been redecorated. It is not a job she enjoys. ‘I know you are,’ I hand her another pile while I keep my ears pricked to hear the door bell. I’m waiting for the
