ELit Network News
New independent publisher Shortwave Books
Shortwave Books is an independent, not-for-profit publisher and crowdfunding platform. Their aim is to broaden awareness of world literature by publishing new and exciting translations in English.
High Impact – Literature from the Low Countries: Dutch Delights
To celebrate #HighImpactAllStars – our evening of literature from the Low Countries – this January, we at the European Literature Network are going Dutch...
VERSOPOLIS CONFESSION eBOOK - Interviews with Great Authors on How They Write
What do Margaret Atwood, Ma Jian, Will Self, Maya Angelou and Gillian Flynn have in common?
Guest Editor Judith Vonberg welcomes you to ‘German month’ on the European Literature Network
ELNet Director Rosie Goldsmith and I are thrilled to present ELNet’s first month-long exploration of the best German literature, in this case, from three countries – Germany, Austria and Switzerland...
The Diversity Report 2016 is mapping literary translations across book markets in Europe
The Diversity Report 2016 brings data and analysis on how stories travel across borders...
Euro Stars Salon: Magdalena Tulli, Julia Fiedorczuk and Deborah Levy
With writer and translator MAGDALENA TULLI (Poland), novelist, poet and translator JULIA FIEDORCZUK (Poland) & playwright, novelist and poet DEBORAH LEVY (UK)
ELN European Literature Network Reviews
On the 15th of each month we publish a major professional review ...
Eljub Think Tank Exchange Meeting in Ulm (15.–17.4.2016)
Discussions about a European Catalogue of Basic Values, Remembering the Scholl Siblings.
European Literature Festival 2016 Programme Announced
Staged in London each year as part of more than 40 simultaneous events across European capitals, European Literature Night returns with an expanded programme under the rebranded European Literature Festival.
Publishers’ Forum, 28 & 29 April 2016 in Berlin
All that Publishing! How the business of books is expanding, converging and fragmenting – all at the same time. At the moment, the book business is plagued by uncertainties. Informed orientation and solid fundamental information are the key to successfully managing the transformation of the publishing industry. Strategic correlations and their condensation into everyday publishing practice will be broached at the Publishers’ Forum 2016.
Festival Fabula 2016 in Ljubljana, City of Literature
The thirteenth edition of the Literatures of the World – Fabula 2016 Festival beckons you to visit the City of Literature, as Ljubljana can proudly be called from this year onward (we have become part of the UNESCO Creative City Network), between February 27 and March 7, 2016; this year’s edition of the festival, with the Focus theme The Newcomers, trains the spotlight on the current issue of refugees and presents a variety of their stories, from the completely fictional to those written by life itself.
The Enemies Project Spring Programme
The Enemies Project Spring Programme 2016 includes Icelandic, Argentinian and Georgian Enemies projects, Camarade events in Essex and St.Andrews, the return of Kakania in London and Berlin, a collaborative exhibition in Newport, a collaborative event involving five Universities and a one day festival celebrating English PEN and their writers-at-risk project.
Euro Stars: Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their “intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and...