Word Express
Starting from Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sarajevo, a group of adventurous authors and translators from Armenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Croatia, Greece, Israel Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania and United Kingdom travelled through the Balkans to Istanbul, Turkey.
The Word Express writers arrived in Istanbul on 30th October and spent five days giving public readings of their work and met other writers at the newly launched Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival and the annual Istanbul Book Fair.
Word Express is a project for literary exchange in South-East Europe. In a region marked with past and present conflicts, Word Express aims to cross cultural and linguistic boundaries and bring new literary voices of the region to the fore
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Found in Translation: Adisa Bašić's poetry Censorship, Barış Müstecaplıoğlu's fiction extract: Brother's Blood
"They left me in the forest" - Hunger by Netalie Braun
"Understand the language of the night" - Blues Phone booth II by Igor Isakovski
Video: readings from Netalie Braun and Adisa Bašić, here