Monday 9 November 2020, 7pm – 9pm, free On 9 November, The Poetry Society hosts a Europe-wide Zoom reading by five great European poets. We’ll connect Charlotte Van den Broeck (Belgium), Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Julia Fiedorczuk (Poland), Mária Ferenčuhová (Slovakia) and Anton
Celebrated poet, novelist and essayist, Ben Okri, meets the Grand Old Man of Romanian Letters Norman Manea. Hosted by Rosie Goldsmith. Friday 6 November 2020, 6:30pm, online | Livestream on RCI London’s Facebook page and recorded on YouTube channel from Sat 7 Nov Norman Manea is a Jew
Two wonderful women, both novelists and poets, both with a great sense of humour, meet and talk for the first time. Hosted by Rosie Goldsmith. Thursday 5 November 2020, 6:30pm, online, on RCI London’s Facebook page and on YouTube channel AL Kennedy is a Scottish writer, academic, broadcast
In Romania, crime fiction was initially regarded as an imported and frequently mediocre genre. It was introduced in the late nineteenth century, under the direct influence of French sensationalist novels such as Eugene Sue’s The Mysteries of Paris. With a few exceptions, the Romanian versions were
Two of Romania’s foremost literary figures, poets and authors Ruxandra Cesereanu (Cluj, Romania) and Andrei Codrescu (NY, USA), defy space and time through readings and conversations for lucid dreamers. Hosted by Gabriela Mocan. 3 November, 6:30pm, online | Livestream on RCI London’s Facebo
It’s hard, but we can do it. We can counter the dark forces of Covid, Brexit and everything else (the list is currently very long) with fun, fiction, focused fury, food, fashion (obviously, anything beginning with F) and by channelling your inner European – which I do regularly, usually after I
