"Now This Is a Wall"
Literary Talks Autumn 2024
The last edition of this year's Literary Talks will be held under the motto “Now This Is a Wall”, a quote from Boris Hristov's poem “The Wall”. The focus will be placed on the artistic and sharp analytical insight of contemporary writers and poets who will talk to us about the walls we raise and those we manage to break down, the war as the main dividing line, the laws and the states, the emigration, the virtual walls, the propaganda and the hybrid war, the death. The participants in the three-day program are: the Russian journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar, the Bulgarian writers Georgi Gospodinov and Nadezhda Radulova, the Kyiv-born writer Katja Petrowskaja, who has lived in Berlin for 25 years, the German writer and journalist Jackie Thomae, as well as a selection of contemporary Bulgarian poets and writers: Joanna Elmy, Stefan Ivanov, Emmy Barouh, Zdravka Evtimova, Ilko Dimitrov, Mirela Ivanova, Olya Stoyanova, Petar Tchouhov, Plamen Doynov. Moderators will be Dimitar Kenarov, Ani Burova, Tony Nikolov, Violeta Vicheva.
Free entry // Seating is limited and people will be admitted until all places are filled ‼️
The autumn edition of Literary Talks is directly linked to the theme of the Festival for European Solidarity - Walls, organized by the Cultural Centre of Sofia University and the Centre for Reading and Culture. Its first edition is dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The autumn edition of Literary Talks is part of the festival's solid program, which includes a series of diverse cultural, artistic, discussion-based, and academic events.
More about the program of the European Solidarity Festival - Walls can be found HERE.
Literary Talks are organized by the Reading Sofia Foundation.
The event is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sofia Municipality. The Literary Talks Autumn 2024 is being realized in collaboration with the Cultural Centre of Sofia University and the support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation.
Program
14.11.2024 | 6:30p.m.
14.11.2024 | 8:00p.m.
15.11.2024 | 7:00p.m.
16.11.2024 | 5:00p.m.
16.11.2024 | 6:30p.m.
About us
EDITIONS OF LITERARY TALKS SOFIA
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Literary Talks is the title of the latest series of events by the Reading Sofia Foundation. They are held several times a year with different guests, highlights, and in a variety of formats.
The first edition was in June 2022 at the Toplocentrala Centre for Contemporary Arts. The guest of honour was the Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk in 2018. She met with the Bulgarian audience together with the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov. Since then, eight editions of Literary Talks have been completed within three years.
The Reading Sofia Foundation is permanently engaged in discovering and exploring different literary contexts and interesting interactions. Literary Talks are a follow-up to the same trend. A significant part of the Foundation's work is devoted to the relationship between literature and the other arts and sciences, as well as how we can experience literature in person and what literary events can look like.
Part of the Literary Talks until 2024 were: Olga Tokarczuk, Georgi Gospodinov, Dimiter Kenarov, Maria Nalbantova, Tanya Mincheva, Mariy Rosen, Martin Karov, Zhana Rasheva, Alexander Mitrev, Sapromat (Boris Dalchev and Mihaela Dobreva), Kamelia Spasova, Alexander Popov, Boyan Manchev, Vladiya Mihaylova, Yordanka Beleva, Nadezhda Radulova, Bogomil Peshev, Vladimir Poleganov, Mihaela Beluhova, Nasko Stamenov, Spas Konstantinov, Spartak Yordanov, Ilko Dimitrov, Radoslav Chichev, Tsveta Sofronieva, Elena Dimitrova, Tsvetan Alexiev, Juliana Sayska, Lubomir Brashnenkov, Angel Dodov, Joanna Elmy, Lilia Trifonova, Martin K. Iliev, Bilyana Kurtasheva, Vladimir Arsenievich, Vladimir Yankovski, Kate Griffin, Hanna Komar, Yana Genova, Gergana Galabova, Stefan Prohorov, Dragomir Simeonov, Svetoslav Todorov, Zahari Karabashliev, Justine Toms, Borislav Valov, Yordan Slaveykov, Augustina-Kalina Petkova, Galina Borisova, Radoslav Bimbalov, KAKE? GROUP, Alek Popov, Tony Nikolov, Daniel Nenchev, Emmy Barouh, Kristin Dimitrova, Antoaneta Koleva, Nikolay Terziyski, Victoria Draganova, Ivan Dimitrov, Konstantin Georgiev, Bathsheba Demuth, Darin Tenev, Vasil Popov, Elena Telbis, Boryana Zafirova, Ekaterina Minkova, Anna Bagriana, Maria Chereseva, Georgi Milkov, Manol Peykov, Irina Nedeva, Silsila Mahbub, Yordan Eftimov, Albena Stambolova, Petar Denchev, Petya Kokudeva, Todor P. Todorov, Nadezhda Moskovska, Owen Matthews, Anna Lazarova, Georgi Gavrilov, Preslava Videnova, Valeria Valcheva, Alexander Tonev, Ines Simeonova, Ani Burova, Valentin Kalinov, Martin Kasabov, Sava Slavchev, Yana Bukova, Valentin Kalinov, Polly Mukanova, Ekaterina Grigorova, Silvia Choleva, Elena Aleksieva, Todora Radeva, Dimitar Stoyanovich, Nikolay Kolev, Alexandra Mancheva, Miroslava Zahova, Andreea Răsuceanu, Teodora Dimova, Lora Nenkovska, Ina Ivanova, Violeta Kuneva, Vladislav Hristov, Ivan Bregov, Hristo Muhtanov, Antoniya Apostolova, Emanuil Vidinski, Kamelia Panayotova, Goran Vojnović, Boyko Vassilev, Magdalena Maleeva, Vasil Terziev, Boyko Penchev, Chris Cleave, Palmi Ranchev, Ivan Landzhev, Temz Arabadzhieva, Zornitsa Hristova, Miroslav Hristov, Boryana Angelova-Igova, Ivo Ivanov, Kamen Alipiev-Kedara, Vasil Lozanov and others.
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