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

Agnė Žagrakalytė

Agnė Žagrakalytė (1979) is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. Her first book Išteku (I'm getting married, 2003) is characterized by self-irony, reflections on intimacy. Her second book of poetry, Visa tiesa apie Alisą Meler (The truth about Alisa Meler, 2008) firmly established her mature yet playful poetic voice. Her poetry has been translated into seven languages, her collection of poems Artistic Cloning was translated in 2010 and published in the United States (translator Jonas Zdanys). She currently lives in Brussels where she works on a fiction book entitled Eigulio duktė (The Daughter of the forest-guard). It will be in all good bookstores in autumn of 2013. 

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