Word Express
October 2009. Three epic train journeys took place from three corners of South East Europe.
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 the United Kingdom travelled through the Balkans to Istanbul, Turkey.
The Word Express writers arrived in Istanbul on 30th October and spent five days giving readings and meeting 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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Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair,
Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar,
Found in Translation
"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's
The Third Thing
"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among
wobbegong dorsal fins."
three poems from Radu Vancu