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

No Último Azul

SPAIN

A magnificent historical fresco of life and death of the Majorcan Crypto-Jews during the seventeenth century. The historical events took place in Majorca between 1687 and 1691. On March 7, 1687, a group of Jewish converts, who were afraid of being arrested by the Inquisition, decided to embark in search of a land of freedom. Bad weather frustrated their escape, and they were arrested. Four Autos-da-fé eventually condemned thirty-seven of them to be burned. The novel tells their story within a broad mosaic of events.

No último azul, Teorema, 2007
Original Tite: En el último azul

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław