• -Word Express at the Frankfurt Book Fair
• -A Word Express multimedia performance, Istanbul
• -Readings at the Nazim Hikmet cultural centre
• -Istanbul Book Fair - TUYAP 2010
• -Sha'ar Festival, Tel Aviv
• -Reading at the Parobrod, Belgrade
• -Ryan van Winkle and Faruk Šehić in Skopje
• -Poetry in Bratislava
• -Sofia Poetics
• -Crear and the Edinburgh Book Festival, Scotland
• -Translation Workshop, Turkey
• -Days and Nights of Literature in Mangalia
• -4th Belgrade Book and Poetry Festival
• Translation Workshop, Ty Newydd, Wales
• Athens International Literature Festival
• Sarajevo, 2009
• Ljubljana, 2009
• Bucharest, 2009
• Zagreb, 2009
• Belgrade 2009
• Thessaloniki, 2009
• Skopje 2009
• Istanbul 2009

-Readings at the Nazim Hikmet cultural centre

Sunday 31st October
5pm - 8pm
Nazim Hikmet Cultural Centre
7 Ali Suavi Sokak
Kadikoy, Istanbul
www.nazimhikmetkulturmerkezi.org/

25 Word Express writers from all over South East Europe and the UK will arrive in Istanbul this weekend for three days of literary performance and cultural exchange. They will be performing their poetry, prose and visual art and talk about their experiences of translation alongside their Turkish hosts at the historic Nazim Hikmet cultural centre. Join us for a literary journey across borders and languages.

Elizabeta Bakovska (Macedonia), Augustin Cupsa(Romania), Christos Chrissopoulos (Greece), Sian Melagell Dafydd (UK/Wales), Milan Dobričić (Serbia), Jasmina Topić (Serbia),  Kamelia Spassova (Bulgaria), Katerina Iliopoulou (Greece), Yiannis Isidorou(Greece),  Jovica Ivanovski (Macedonia), Harut Kbeyan(Armenia), Sladan Lipovec (Croatia), Roman Simi ć (Croatia), Alex Epstein (Israel),  Faruk Šehić (Bosnia), Zaza Koshkadze (Georgia),   Ryan van Winkle (US/Scotland), Radu Vancu (Romania), Anat Zecharia Ursula Sterle (Slovenia)

These authors and translators will be joining their Turkish hosts, writers: Gokçenur Ç,  Nurduran Duman, Efe Duyan, Barış Müstecaplıoğlu, Yaprak Öz, Önur Caymaz Mehmet Altun, Onur Behramoğluand Barış Agir.

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