European Literature Night 2015 — Celebrating Literature from Across the Continent

Kateřina Tučková, Jan Němec and Xavier Baumaxa will be featured at the events.

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European Literature Night (ELN) returns to London – this time for a month-long celebration of the best European literature in translation. Now in its 7th year, ELN will take you on an exciting literary tour of Europe with great readings, translation pitches and debates. You can hear poetry and spoken word, fiction and short stories, from some superlative writers and translators, both emerging and established.

Czech writers will appear at the following events:

 

ELN: In Spoken Word

13 May 2015, 19.00 British Library, Entrance Hall

Admission: £10 (£8 over 60s, £7 concs)

Booking: www.bl.uk/whats-on, 01937 546 546

In Spoken Word tells the stories of the continent through the universal rhythm of poetry; a host of Europe’s most vibrant poets and spoken word artists gather together to share their work. Wide-ranging in the theme and style, criss-crossing the local and the global, the personal and the public, there is something for everyone to enjoy, as well as the underlying music of the words which connects us all. WITH Baloji (Belgium), Xavier Baumaxa (Czech Republic), Christodoulos Makris (Cyprus), Joelle Taylor (UK) and Karlis Verdins (Latvia). Hosted by comedian Ava Vidal (UK).

 

ELN: The Translation Pitch – New Literary Voices

4 June 2015, 19.00, Free Word Centre

Admission: £5 (£3 concessions)

Booking: www.freewordcentre.com, 020 7324 2570

Eight enthralling books by contemporary European writers which have not yet been translated into English will be pitched live to an audience and expert jury consisting of Max Porter (Granta Books), Kerry Glencorse (Susanna Lee Associates) and Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories Publishing). With just three minutes per pitch, and complemented by extracts read by actors, this whirlwind journey of discovery will uncover brilliant new European literary gems. Featuring Jan Nemec’s A History of Light (Czech Republic) by Melvyn Clarke, Vonne von der Meer´s Take 7 (Netherlands) by Laura Vroomen, Pierre Autin-Grenier´s That´s Just How (France) by Andrea Reece, Jan Van Loy´s Scraps (Flanders) by Anna Asbury, Vladimir Zarev´s Ruin (Bulgaria) by Angela Rodel, Krisztina Tóth´s Pixel (Hungary) by Owen Good, Verena Rossbacher´s Small Talk and Slaughter (Germany) by Anne Posten and Jesper Wung-Sung´s Proper Fractions (Denmark) by Lindy Falk van Rooyen. Hosted by Chris Gribble (Writers Centre Norwich).

 

Liars’League: Near & Far

9 June 2015, 19.30, The Phoenix

Admission: £5 (on the door)

Info: 07808 939 535

Writers write, actors read, audience listens, everybody wins. That’s the motto of Liars’ League, the award-winning, globe-straddling short story night which has been running in London since 2007. This showcase of European literature in translation celebrates fresh talent from Lithuania (Sigitas Parulskis), Poland (Jan Krasnowolski), Germany (Nora Bossong), Slovenia (Tadej Golob) and the Czech Republic (Katerina Tuckova).

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