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

Fala-lhes de batalhas, de reis, e de elefantes

Mathias Enard tells the story of Michel Ange’s stay in Istanbul, when the Sultan Bayazid asked him to build a bridge on the Bosphorus to connect the two sides of the city which was first Christian and then become Muslim. What will be that political bridge between Asia and Europe through the painter's wanderings?

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Prague
Vilnius
Wrocław