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Crossroads of European Literature

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Project Type
Literature
Title
Crossroads of European Literature
Irish Partner
Slovene Writers’ Association (Slovenia)
Co-Partners

Galway Arts Centre / Cúirt Festival (Ireland); Pordenonelegge – Pordenone (Italy).

Funding Strand
Strand 1.2.1. Cooperation projects
Year Funded
2012

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Amount awarded: €199,656 (50% of the budget)
Project start date: Sept 2012
Project end date: May 2014

These issues will be addressed at three renowned literary festivals in different parts of Europe that have a long tradition of exchanging ideas, literary works and artists on a European and global level: Vilenica Festival (Slovenia), Pordenonelegge (Italy) and Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Ireland). A number of literary readings, gala events, authors’ exchange, discussions, meetings between cultural mediators and authors, and workshops will be organised.

A series of workshops for professionals and residencies for authors will be organised at partners’ festivals. Workshops will bring together European publishers, translators, critics and authors for lively presentations and exchange of texts. Literary critics will present and argue their selection of works to be translated in foreign languages. Festivals will provide sample translations and a possibility for literary professionals to meet the authors. Publishers will be given information about possible ways of co-financing from different sources, national and international.

Partner festivals will present themselves at each other’s events by means of short residencies for authors. Writers will be invited to come and write in a foreign environment and thus bring foreign influence to their literature. In this way we will directly stimulate a creation of transnational works of art.

IRISH ORGANISATION PROFILE

Cúirt is an international literary event that takes place annually in the west of Ireland. Cúirt will be 29 years old in 2014 and continues to grow and develop toward its 30th anniversary. The Cúirt festival programme comprises six days of readings, book launches, discussion events, youth events, music, spoken word, theatre and outreach.

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