The arrival of the month of May can only mean one thing: European Literature Night! EUNIC and the European Writers’ Tour, with additional support from the Czech Centre and Fla
As European Literature Festival 2016 begins, we welcome back journalist and broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith to our blog as she introduces the events and gives a hint of what to look fo
We’re always hearing how the UK publishes a shamefully small number of translations compared with other nations: 3 per cent? This is probably true of new bestsellers, but is it t
The Treaty of Amiens which ended the war between Britain, France, The Batavian Republic and Spain, prompted the Dutch to attempt to reclaim, amongst others, the Cape Colony in Sout
In his 2007 New Yorker essay, ‘Die Weltliteratur: European novelists and modernism’, Milan Kundera poses the question – would anyone today know the work of Kafka if he ha
It will hardly have escaped your notice that we are in the midst of an election campaign in the UK and that one of the key platforms is European literature: do we allow it in to th
