-Crear and the Edinburgh Book Festival, Scotland
Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August,
Crear
and Edinburgh
This summer Word Express arrives in Scotland.
Literature Across Frontiers and the
Scottish Poetry Library are bringing poets and translators
Gokçenur Ç and
Efe Duyan (Turkey),
Katerina Iliopoulou and
Yannis Isidorou (Greece),
Marko Pogačar (Croatia),
Raman Mundair and
Ryan van Winkle (Scotland) together for a translation workshop
and performances at Crear and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The writers and translators will spend time together at Crear, a remote retreat on the beautiful and windswept Scottish coast, working together to develop their translation skills and open up opportunities for their writing to be read in several different languages.
You can catch the creation brought about by this unique collaboration in a performance at Crear or at the Edinburgh International Book Festival:
Word Express in Scotland
Performances
Saturday,
14th August,
6pm,
Crear,
Argyll
Sunday, 15th August,
8pm Corner Theatre,
Edinburgh International Book Festival,
Charlotte Gardens
The event is organised with support from the Creative Collaborations Programme
of the British Council and Creative Scotland.
News
Word Express writer Ognjen Spahić from Montenegro will be visiting London for events with his UK publisher, Istros Books, from the 15th - 18th of May. See the Istros Books website for more details.
This year's Prague Book Fair - Svet Knihy - is focusing on literature the Black Sea region. Word Express writers Ivan Hristov (Bulgaria), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia) and Pelin Özer (Turkey) will talk about their Balkan literary journey and read their work at the gala evening. Go to the Literature Across Frontiers website for more details.
Word Express interviews Georgian poet Zaza Koshkadze, and talks to Owen Martell and Milan Dobricic about translating and publishing Owen's novel into Serbian after meeting on the Word Express journey. All on the Travel Blog.