Six translators go head-to-head, pitching their ‘must-acquire’ European books to a live audience and a jury of top publishing experts: Max Porter (Granta/Portobello), Meike Ziervogel (Peirene Press) and Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories). This whirlwind tour of contemporary European writing will uncover brilliant books from Italy (Ilva Fabiani’s The Long Night of Anna Alrutz), the Netherlands (Kristien Dieltiens’ Cellar Child), Spain (Antonio Orejudo’s A Brief Respite), Germany (Ulrike Almut Sandig’s Thick of It), Turkey (Ahmet Yorulmaz’s Children of War) and France (Catherine Dufour’s A Taste for Immortality) which have not yet been translated into English.
With translators Antoinette Fawcett, Paula Darwish, Karen Leeder, Emma Mandley, Sam Nagele and James Womack
Organised by EUNIC London and the Czech Centre, in partnership with English PEN and Free Word, as part of the 2016 European Literature Festival.
Picture: Max Porter. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian
