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

Lojze Kovačič

Lojze Kovačič was born in 1928 in Basel to a Slovenian father and a German mother. In 1938 the family was deported from Switzerland to present-day Slovenia. Kovačič had a very difficult, poverty-stricken childhood, and in his young adulthood he often came into conflict with authorities because of his writing. His works are largely autobiographical and constantly deal with existential topics like life and death, displacement and exile, dream and reality. Kovačič received a number of literary awards, including the highest Slovenian national recognition in the field of artistic creation, the Prešeren Award. He died in Ljubljana in 2004.

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