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

Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wolfgang Herrndorf was born in 1965 in Hamburg. He studied painting and has illustrated for Titanic magazine, among other publications. Since his 2002 debut, In Plüschgewittern, he has been awarded the Deutscher Erzählerpreis (German Narrator Prize), the Brentano Prize, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize), the Hans Fallada Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, among others. In 2011 he won the National Prize of the German Youth Literature with the novel Goodbye Berlin (Tschick).

Photo: (c) Mathias Mainholz

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław