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
Brno
Bucharest
Dublin
Lisbon

Massimo Gramellini

Massimo Gramellini is a writer, journalist and deputy director of the newspaper La Stampa of Turin, in which he analyzes an event of the day under the by-line Buongiorno. He is the permanent guest of channel Rai Tre's programme Che tempo che fa, discussing the characters of the week with Fabio Fazio.

He has published Colpo Grosso (1994), Compagni d'Italia (1996), Buongiorno (2002), Granata da legare (2006), Ci salveranno gli ingenui (2007), Cuori allo specchio (2008). He has also published two novels: L'ultima riga delle favole (2010) and, in 2012, Fai bei sogni, which was the best-selling Italian book of the year. It has been published in Portuguese under the title Tem bons sonhos by Bertrand Editora.

Photo: (c) Mauro Vallinotto

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław