Thirty years after the publication of his book The European Tribe, Caryl Phillips finds himself travelling again in Europe and remembers – or imagines – one evocative night, and encounter, in Venice. ...

With: Inua Ellams, Bernardine Evaristo, Amina Jama, Catherine Johnson, Nick Makoha & Roger Robinson. Special guest: Linton Kwesi Johnson. Host: Elisabeth Severino Fernandes aka Miss Elli From the o...

Zadie Smith described the novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint as “the reason why it is worth continuing to read fiction". Words that say a great deal about the reputation of this Belgian writer who is r...

Carsten Jensen has travelled to Afghanistan on several occasions over the past forty years. His experiences fed into the monumental war novel The First Stone about a group of Danish soldiers in a mili...

Seven actors perform poetry and prose from 1914-1918. They represent seven languages, seven soldiers and seven nations or powers. Two MCs recount the war in Dutch and French. What went on beforehand?...

Two writers who experienced first-hand the harshness of life in former Eastern bloc countries do not shy away from confronting the secrets of the past. How does this hidden past impact on life today? ...

Arno Geiger won the prestigious Deutscher Buchpreis and the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis in 2005 for his novel We Are Doing Fine [Es geht uns gut]. In his latest book Beneath Drachenwand Mountain [Unter ...

Two young writers who were growing up just before the fall of the Iron Curtain; their countries shared a common history for a part of the 20th century but are today committed to their own identity and...