As far as I know, LitLink festival is unique. Each year it takes a group of writers and publishers to three Croatian cities – Pula, Rijeka, and Zagreb – for a series of evening readings. Along the way there are coach journeys on winding roads, stunning vistas of deep green fields and icy mountai
The curation of a festival of literature naturally entails the “curation” of its participants. Lit Link excelled in this regard – the authors invited from the UK represented a very fine, accomplished tranche of contemporary British writing, and the publishers, for the most part, represented a
The festival begins in Zagreb, on a rooftop terrace, where a waiter brings out platters of fish, meat and bread. Everything is delicious. You are introduced to Robert Perišić, the author who leads the festival. He writes and speaks beautifully. Another organiser, writer and publisher, Ivan Sršen,
Poetry is a form of inner exile, the poet Péter Závada recently told me. We were talking about his first two collections of poems, Ahol Megszakad [“Where it Breaks”] and Mész [“Limestone”], and his third, upcoming volume. Péter is one of the generation of young Hungarian
It’s not surprising, but then it’s totally surprising that Paysage après la bataille was awarded the best comic of the year prize in 2016 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. It’s not surprising, as both Belgian artists – illustrator, Eric Lambé and author, Philippe de Pierpon
Founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010, our translation mentoring programme aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation. The scheme matches up experienced translators with emer
