On the 10th of April, The Romanian Cultural Institute held a collective book launch as part of its series of events for the 2018 London Book Fair, at Gower Street Waterstones in the heart of London’s university quarter. The event was largely centered on Romanian Literature as World Literature, an
This is the latest in a series of Translating Europe workshops organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation. This workshop was organised in close cooperation with the Centre for Translation Studies (CenTranS) and University College London. This event will take t
10 May 2018, 7pm-8:15pm, British Library, 19:00 – 20:15 More info here. With poet Sylva Fischerova of the Czech Republic, Belgian novelist and winner of the European Union Prize for Literature Peter Terrin and German novelist and publisher Meike Ziervogel, chaired by Scott Pack. Join us f
A novel entitled That Summer in Puglia, with all its suggestiveness, might first appear too attention-seeking. Its opening pages suffice to show you it has much greater depth. This is a story of great quality, captivating you with the world it magnificently recreates. The title is a bridge between t
How much tragedy can one person endure? Benedict Wells invites us to explore the harsh emotional landscape of his main protagonist and narrator, Jules, in a novel where he explores the forces of life and death, in prose that is austere and gloomy. It is a bitter-sweet tale with many dramas, twists a
One morning, at the turn of the millennium, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany and disappears into a forest. The following month, 80 kilometres from Berlin, a fuel tanker jack-knives and explodes causing a long tailback. The rescue attempts are hampered by snow. Stuck in his car, T
