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

Os Paraísos do Caminho Vazio e outros contos

FINLAND

Rosa Liksom, who was awarded the prestigious "Finlandia" literary prize in 2011, is a unique phenomenon in Finnish literature.

She presents a ruthless view of society and its illusions, its comfort, misogyny and latent violence. Her writing reveals a world of couples hating each other, of urban bars and loneliness in endless landscapes of snow where nothing happens.

Following the rhythm of her travels, Rosa Liksom speaks of "paradises" found on paths where there is hate, sadism and insults, but where the intolerable is broken, at times, with a smile or  tenderness.

Os Paraísos do Caminho Vazio e outros contos, Relógio D'Água, 2004
translated by Merja Sinikka Nousia and Marta Duarte Daniel Dias
Original Title: Tyhjän tien paratiisit 

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław