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

Benno Barnard

Benna Barnard is a Dutch poet and essayist. Although he has lived in Belgium since 1976, he is often as not in England. The matter of the identity of the post war European is the moving force behind his work in which he often uses 'the Belgian model' as an example. The backdrop to all this is Europe’s history and the role of Jewish philosophy in it. His most recent publications in book form include Een vage buitenlander (2009), a personal report of a lifelong fascination for England, a collection of poems entitled Krijg nou de lyriek (2011) and Een geschiedenis van België voor nieuwsgierige kinderen (en hun ouders) (2012), that he wrote together with Geert van Istendael.

Photo R. Bakker.  

 

 

 

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