-Word Express at the Frankfurt Book Fair
1pm, 13th October 2011, Weltempfang Salon, Frankfurt Buchmesse
Literature Across Frontiers is bringing together writers from Word Express to talk to an audience at the world's largest gathering of literary and book professionals: the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Gokçenur Çelebioğlu (Turkey), poet, translator and Word Express project coordinator, Siân Mellangel Dafydd (Wales), author and editor of Welsh-language magazine Taliesin and Roman Simić Bodrožić (Croatia), author, editor and director of the European Festival of the Short Story will join Literature Across Frontiers's Alexandra Buchler to talk about their physical and literary journeys.
Join us in the Weltempfang on October 13th at 1pm to hear more about the unique literary exchange of Word Express.
To celebrate 10 years of making literature travel, Literature Across Frontiers is holding a stand at this year's fair. They will be presenting their activities and latest research on literary exchange in the Euro-Mediterrranean. Find them at D962 in Hall 5.0 next to the Weltempfang.
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.