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

Michel Torrekens

Michel Torrekens was born in Gembloux in 1960. In 1982 he obtains a degree in roman philology at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve. Since 1990 he publishes articles and book critics for the newspaper Le Ligueur where, since 1996, he is assistant chief editor. He also is a member of the editorial committee of the magazine Indications, where he publishes several analysis of novels. He contributes at the magazine Le Carnet et les Instants, in which he launched in 2010 a new series untitled “My publisher and me”. He publishes regularly short stories in reviews as La Revue générale, Marginales, Europe, Le Spantole, Archipel, etc. He is the author of three books published by Belgian, Swiss and French publisher: L’herbe qui souffre (1997), Foetus fait la tête (2001), Le géranium de Monsieur Jean (2012).

Photo © Bea Uhart

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