The EBRD is pleased to announce the launch of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019, in partnership with the British Council. The Prize will recognise the extraordinary richness and variety of cultures and history in the EBRD region – a region stretching across central and eastern Europe, Central A
On 29th November 1918, two weeks after the Polish flag was hoisted above the skies of Warsaw for the first time since 1795, the Pod Picadorem café, designed to be the first poets’ café in the new Poland, was planning its grand opening. The paint on its walls was still drying in the rush to [&hel
The European Literature Network is delighted to be collaborating with Creative Multilingualism – a large-scale research project led by the University of Oxford, which studies the interconnection between linguistic diversity and creativity. In our new series of blogs entitled Languages & Cr
To accompany our issue Trafika Europe 13 – Russian Ballet, we’re pleased to present a series of Trafika Europe Corner columns featuring poetry from several Russians that didn’t make it into our journal. Our first is Andrey Gritsman, a Moscow native who emigrated to the US in 1981. He is a phys
Last year I spent a month at Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat near Edinburgh. Fellows (as the participants are called) come from all round the world, half a dozen at a time, to spend four weeks writing in an internetless castle. It can be quite an intense experience, and you have no idea
It’s not often that you pick up a book that grabs you from the very first page, holds you in its thrall to the last, and leaves you with haunting images of the extremes of human experience. Small Country, a bestseller and award-winner when it was published in France in 2016, is such a book: [&hell
