European Literature Night
November 22, 2021
from 6 PM to 11 PM
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd Street, New York
Worlds meet at multicultural European literature night: showcasing 11 authors from 10 European countries through readings and discussion. This one-night-only special event is open to the public.
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European Literature Night returns to New York presenting some of the brightest literary talents from ten EU countries to New York audiences, celebrating the cultural diversity of Europe with an exciting selection of fiction, poetry, and short stories. Authors, translators, and actors representing ten EU countries will read from new releases and beloved classics and participate in a panel discussion.
Opening the series of readings: Italian actor and producer Edoardo Ballerini with: Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies: An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present. A collection of poems and essays that aims at providing an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II; by Luigi Ballerini.
PROGRAM
- 6 PM – Opening remarks
- 6:10 PM – 7:50 PM: Live readings, questions and conversations featuring:
Edoardo Ballerini (Italy): Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies: An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present
Stefan Kutzenberger (Austria): Jokerman
Megan Tomas (Poland): The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Sean Gasper Bye (Poland): The King of Warsaw by Szczepan Twardoch
Véronique Firkusny and Elena Sokol (Czech Republic): City of Torment by Daniela Hodrová
Sándor Halmosi (Hungary): Decameron57, Everness80, The Dual Nature of Silence, Apocrypha, Meltdown.
- 8 PM – 9 PM: Panel discussion “European Regions: Progress in Literary Culture” moderated by Andrew Singer
- 9:15 PM- 11 PM: Live readings, questions and conversations featuring:
Alek Popov (Bulgaria): Mission Turan
Kirmen Uribe (Spain): Bilbao-New York-Bilbao
Katarina Vizina (Slovakia): The Bloody Sonnets by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Alta Ifland (Romania): The Wife Who Wasn’t
Hugo dos Santos (Portugal): A Child in Ruins by José Luís Peixoto.
The evening will be moderated by Andrew Singer, Director and Editor in Chief of Trafika Europe, a literary radio station.
For those who can’t make it in person, an edited presentation of the evening will be available on Trafika Europe Radio www.trafikaeurope.org.
Hosted by the Czech Center New York and organized with the collaboration of partnering cultural institutions and consulates: Austrian Cultural Forum, Camōes Institute, Consulate General of Portugal in New York, Consulate General of Slovakia in New York, Consulate General of Spain in New York, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Liszt Institute-Hungarian Cultural Center New York, Polish Cultural Institute in New York, Romanian Cultural Institute, and the support of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations.
EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture – is the European network of organizations working in 90 countries worldwide through a network of 125 clusters and acting as a platform for promoting European values, sharing knowledge, building capacity amongst its members and partners, and engaging local partners in dialogue and common cultural projects. Created in 2007, the New York cluster of EUNIC, bringing together around 40 cultural missions from the European Union, is working in partnership to strengthen the transatlantic dialogue and cultural cooperation and showcase European values and creativity.