Welcome to November’s Riveting Reviews. To celebrate this month’s Romania Rocks 2 – the Romanian Cultural Institute’s Romanian-British literary festival, organised in cooperation with the European Literature Network – our reviews this month are all of books from and about Romania. An
Start of the 13th European Literature Days from 18.11. to 21.11.2021 Festival opens with the Iraqi writer Najem Wali at the Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche Reading and discussion with Navid Kermani and presentation to the author of the Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and
Monday, 8 November 2021, 7pm, Romanian Cultural Institute in London (1 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8PH) and online (livestream on RCI London’s Facebook page and recorded on YouTube channel) Book your free ticket to attend the event at the RCI here. If you want to have a book signe
Elizabeth Duval is a Spanish writer and philosopher. I came across her work fairly recently and was immediately interested by her writing, as like myself, she has close connections with both Spanish and French culture. Born in Spain, Duval lives in Paris where she studied Philosophy. At the age of o
This month I am ON THE TOWN! Sadly without Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett and Ann Miller, but still very much in person, in London, and definitely with a spring in my step and a song in my heart. It’s a joy to be back meeting and greeting friends and colleagues after so many […]
This month, it is my pleasure to invite into the Italianist’s chair my talented fellow translator Lori Hetherington, who presents a powerful book that I, for one, definitely want to read. Lori has recently published an outstanding translation of Emma Perodi’s Tuscan Tales. Last August, she
