In 1954, the literary critic terrible Leslie Fiedler called Cesare Pavese ‘the best of recent Italian novelists … and the most poetic’. Although Natalia Ginzburg and Primo Le
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy is simultaneously beautiful and disconcerting. Heavily autobiographical, it tells a story of a 15-year-old girl’s infatuation with her bo
Dreams of Rivers and Seas A central image in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is the echo experienced in the Marabar Caves. The acoustics of these spaces turn any noise made wit
Euro Stars: European Fiction in the UK: In or Out? With Tim Parks, Joanna Walsh, Antoine Laurain and Claudiu Florian 28th September 2016 Waterstones, Piccadilly ‘Tonight, me,
‘EUROPEAN FICTION IN THE UK: IN OR OUT?’ A Euro Stars event Curated and chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, Director of the European Literature Network September 28th 2016, Waterston
Antoine Laurain lives in Paris. His novels include The President’s Hat, The Red Notebook and French Rhapsody. The President’s Hat was a Waterstones Book Club and ABA Indies
Tim Parks is the author of fourteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Painting Death, all of them
Claudiu M. Florian was born in 1969 in Rupea, Braşov County. He received a degree in German Studies at Bucharest University in 1994, an MA in ‘Humanistic Interdisciplinary S
Joanna Walsh is the author of Vertigo, Hotel, Grow a Pair, and Fractals. Her writing has also been published by Granta Magazine, The Dalkey Archive Best European Ficti
