7:30 p.m. NAIM-BAS Yu Hua, China
April 26, 20257:30 p.m. NAIM-BAS Yu Hua, China
April 26, 2025
April 26th 2025 | 7:30 p.m.
Start:
National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Finish:
Traveller’s Club
Literary Reading in Motion
Participants: Albena Todorova, Miroslav Hristov, Nikola Petrov, Ninko Kirilov, Reneta Bakalova
The city holds an important place in the work of the Reading Sofia Foundation. The attempt to share literature openly and freely, the mixing of literary and urban memory is part of the multi-year programme of another initiative of the Foundation – Literary Walks. In a similar way, the final event of the Literary Talks 2025 programme will be a reading of writers and poets in an Evening Walk. In the city spaces of memory and collective history we will hear the contemplative, personal, intimate literature of Albena Todorova, Miroslav Hristov, Nikola Petrov, Ninko Kirilov and Reneta Bakalova.
The character of a work of literature is a part of the memory of the universe, a fragment of historical time that carries the knowledge, but also the fears, the lovings, the versatilities, the urgency of their time. It is precisely this inner creative life that shows a different optic to the “Archaeology of Memory”, in which authors are in fact the narrators of the present day through their work.
Literary Talks 2025 is organized by the Reading Sofia Foundation.
The festival is realized with the financial support of the National Culture Fund; Ministry of Culture and Sofia Municipality.
The visual identity of Literary Talks is designed by Kostadin Kokalanov from Studio FRANK.
The event is held in partnership with the Next Page Foundation, Literature and Translation House, Connecting Emerging Literary Artists - CELA, European Commission, Sapromat, Regional History Museum - Sofia, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Shtrak and Swimming Pool.
The guest appearance of Anastasia Levkova, Nikola Lekić and Tülin Erkan is an initiative of the Next Page Foundation and is part of the Connecting Emerging Literary Artists - CELA project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the National Culture Fund.