The arrival of the month of May can only mean one thing: European Literature Night! EUNIC and the European Writers’ Tour,…

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As European Literature Festival 2016 begins, we welcome back journalist and broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith to our blog as she introduces…
We’re always hearing how the UK publishes a shamefully small number of translations compared with other nations: 3 per cent?…
The Treaty of Amiens which ended the war between Britain, France, The Batavian Republic and Spain, prompted the Dutch to…
In his 2007 New Yorker essay, ‘Die Weltliteratur: European novelists and modernism’, Milan Kundera poses the question – would anyone…
It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are in the midst of an election campaign in the UK…