One night – many experiences: public readings of contemporary literature performed by well known personalities at attractive and unusual venues in cities across Europe.

 

European Literature Night builds on the concept of literature being a unique creative medium which embraces the voices of individuals along with the values of the society they live in. The umbrella project “European Literature Nights 2012 – 2014” aims to bring contemporary European literature to the general public in an innovative way through a series of public readings and accompanying events. Supported by a grant from the Culture Programme of the European Union, the project partners hope to deliver high level of impact to their audiences. Although it is Brno, Bucharest, Dublin, Lisbon, Vilnius, Prague and Wroclaw who are jointly co-organizing the project “ELN 2012 – 2014”, the other partner cities where Literature Night already took root are of no lesser importance for the event’s development.

partner cities

The highlighted cities are the main organizers of the project "European Literature Nights 2012 - 2014":

Amsterdam
Bratislava
Brussels

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Bogotá, 1953) is the author of three novels — Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana and El ruido de las cosas al caer, a volumen of literary essays El arte de la distorsión (2009) and numerous weekly columnist in the Colombian newspaper, El Espectador. His books have been translated to several languages, English, French and Dutch among them. Elected for Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelistst, he was Finalist of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (UK), and winner of the Spanis Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2011 and the French Roger Caillois Award 2012. 

writing

locations

readers

Burgas
Dortmund
Edinburgh
Florence
Gabrovo
Košice
London
Malmö
Munich
Paris
Pernik
Pleven
Plovdiv
Ruse
Sofia
Trenčín
Trnava
Varna
Veliko Tarnovo
Vienna
Žilina