| August Making the World Legible Writing from 5 years of English PEN's Writers in Translation programme, edited and with an introduction by Julian Evans, published free online download  "Rich in courage, eloquence and powerful indictment, a vibrant border-crossing revelation of contemporary international literature and an act of dialogue in itself, Making the World Legible is what writing is all about" Ali Smith "Open this anthology and you will meet many of the most gifted, perceptive and courageous writers at work today. Their contributions, from every part of the globe and every kind of society, show that one ideal does unite the world's authors. In the republic of letters, the freedom and dignity of writers is inseparable from that of their readers – and their subjects. This book is your passport to that place" Boyd Tonkin download 5 October In conversation with Ismail Kadare at FLOW, the Free Word Festival, 6.30pm, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA forthcoming "Hooking Reality: Creative non-fiction" A new course for writers at Miller's Writers' Retreat, Glencot House, Somerset, 10–14 January 2011, taught by Julian Evans. See www.millerswritersretreat.co.uk for details of all courses and to book Julian is Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at the University of Bristol in 2010–11 |
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August 2010
José Saramago: a Life of Resistance,
BBC Four film
Making the World Legible,
a new translation anthology free online
see Events and download
"Hooking Reality: Creative non-fiction",
a new course for writers at Glencot House, Somerset, 10–14 January 2011. See Miller's Writers' Retreat for the new season of courses and to book
recent articles
The master of small things, Prospect
Pole positions, Times Literary Supplement
Letter from Odessa, Prospect
Illuminating the human heart, Prospect
Small wonder, Traveller
An eye on the world's absurdity, Guardian
Almost a British Balzac, Prospect
Mysteries afloat, Times Literary Supplement
Damned by his brain, Times Literary Supplement
also download radio features on
Robert Louis Stevenson
F Scott Fitzgerald
Anton Chekhov
Alexander Pushkin
François Rabelais
and listen to the 20-part BBC Radio 3 series on the rise of the European novel The Romantic Road, with interviews with
Henning Mankell
José Saramago
Javier Marías
Michel Houellebecq
Ismail Kadare
Camilo José Cela
Michel Tournier
Dubravka Ugresic
Marcel Möring
Cees Nooteboom
Marie Darrieusecq
Antonio Muńoz Molina
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Claudio Magris
Michel Déon
Harry Mulisch
Ivan Klíma
Dacia Maraini
Antonio Tabucchi
Friederike Mayröcker
Peter Pist'anek
Ludvík Vaculík
Pawel Huelle
Tadeusz Konwicki
Magda Szabó
Péter Esterházy
Andrei Bitov
Julia Latynina
Yuri Andrukhovych
Fatos Kongoli
Ólafur Gunnarsson
Einar Mar Gudmundsson
Per Olov Enquist
Sara Lidman
Slavenka Drakulic
Torgny Lindgren
Jaan Kross
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