-Ryan van Winkle and Faruk Šehić in Skopje
27th October, 2010
MKC, Skopje
7pm
Poets
Ryan van Winkle (Scotland/USA) and
Faruk Šehić (Bosnia) travelling direct from events
in
Belgrade will join hosts
Xhabir Deralla and
Kalina B Isakovska and local writers
Jovica Ivanovski,
Aleksandra Dimitrova, and
Elizabeta Bakovska for an evening of poetry and debate. The writers
will then be travelling on to Istanbul for Word Express's anniversary events.
You can read some of the Macedonian writers' work in English, French and German translation in the current issue of Transcript, Literature Across Frontiers's online magazine.
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.