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Peter Vermeersch (BE): Night Travellers
Posted by Peter Vermeersch | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: opening lectures, The Migrants, 2016
Most of the time you don’t notice them, also not when you’re leaving on another trip, even though you damn well know they’re there. They too are on the move.
Prix Goncourt 2015: Mathias Enard and/ und Boualem Sansal
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: 2015, European Literature Days: opening lectures, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
It’s literary awards time – this week is France’s most important season for literary accolades. The Prix Goncourt goes to Mathias Enard for his novel Boussole and not to Algerian writer, Boualem ...
The Migrants/ (Die) Migranten
Posted by A.L. Kennedy | Permalink | filed under: 2015, European Literature Days: opening lectures
When I first wrote this lecture a summary of my argument could have been – when art fails, there is cruelty, because cruelty in humans is caused by a lack of imagination. There are not enough human ...
