Arts & Leisure
Michael Stein|16.05.2012

Czech Literature Night goes European

What began as a local Czech project called Literature Night has now spread from Prague across the continent, with Czech and European authors appearing and having their work read from London to Yerevan. The night is celebrated differently in different locations, whether it’s a showcase of emerging writers in London, Romani writers in Munich, or Czech actors reading from European writing in Prague.

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Arts & Leisure
Michael Stein|19.04.2012

Transatlantic literary ties at Kafka/Borges biennale

Literary festivals are usually devoted to individual writers or the writers from a particular language or country. That a festival can be devoted to a pair of writers — who never met one another and who come from such vastly different places as Central Europe and South America — is a testimony to the profound literary connection between Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges.

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