Ever since reading T.S.Eliot’s 1955 essay on Goethe, I have had at the back of my mind the faint aspiration to be considered a ‘European’ author. It’s not something I have really acted upon, although I must have started writing poetry seriously at about the same time as I discovered that rat
We are pleased to announce the fourteen laureates of the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature: Laura Freudenthaler (Austria), Piia Leino (Finland), Sophie Daull (France), Réka Mán-Várhegyi (Hungary), Beqa Adamashvili (Georgia), Nikos Chryssos (Greece), Jan Carson (Ireland), Giovanni Dozzini
European Book Fair for young people looking for British authors and illustrators of children’s books
From 26 to 29 September 2019 the 19th European Book Fair for young people once again welcomes children’s and youth book authors and illustrators from several European countries to Saarbrücken, Germany. This year’s thematic focus will be “Discover!”, which is deliberately a broad
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 Lan
I have to confess that I was a little unsure at first how my meeting with Leonardo Padura might go. The writer, neatly bearded and casually dressed, initially seemed a little ill at ease, suggesting with a frown that our meeting might have been better with an interpreter present. This proved to be v
Filiberto Garcia is a worried man. He has successfully maintained his reputation as a ruthless assassin for many years, but age is beginning to take its toll. He begins to doubt that he can pull off his most difficult assignment: he is to stop a whispered Mongolian scheme to murder the President of
