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Montreal international poetry prize 'for poets by poets'

('Kris Anderson',) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:32:49 -0000

Poetry is enduring, if not a deep freeze, at least a hard frost. Austerity measures across Europe and Canada have led to severe cuts in arts funding. Amidst the scrabble to fund prizes whose state subsidies have been slashed, a brand new award has emerged on a different funding model, with the winner to scoop 50, 000 Canadian dollars on 15 December

Croatian writer Olja Savicevic: 'We have never lived in a normal society'

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:21:40 -0000

The writer from Split, 36, recently published her debut novel 'Goodbye Cowboys' in German. Her award-winning short stories and poetry have been translated in over ten languages. We talk war, youth and why she one day hopes to speak about the 'tragedy' of her family 'more openly'

cafebabel.com Brussels at second EU prize for literature event

('English language version of cafebabel.com',) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:19:32 -0000

Judging literature is difficult, but comparing writers of different languages, cultures and backgrounds is a fruitless task.On November 11, Europe’s literary elite gathered in Brussels to award some of today’s most up-and-coming fiction writers

'The Constitution in Verse': Brussels 'city poets' slam EU

('Sarah Truesdale',) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:15:00 -0000

'So the European Union doesn’t have a political constitution? Let’s at least give it a poetic one!' 50 authors have spent months putting the finishing touches to new articles in the form of alternative and critical citizens’ verse. Close-up on an initiative from Brussels which began in January 2008

Gonçalo M. Tavares: 'I hate the idea that everything you do is new'

('Kristina Bozic',) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:45:00 -0000

The Luanda-born epistemology professor at Lisbon University, 38, talks his award-winning novel 'Jerusalem', and why it took him so long to get published already

Obituary: alphabets, butterflies and Inger Christensen

('Lass\xc3\xab Jensen',) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:35:47 -0000

Why learn Welsh? They all speak English anyway. Why learn unpronounceable Flemish, impossible Finnish, self-assertive Catalan or miniscule Danish? But when the Danish experimental poet died on 2 January 2009 in Copenhagen, a loser language lost its most beautiful voice

Slaves to 'ciao'

('Sarah Turpin',) — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Written as 'ciao', pronounced as 'tchao'. In Europe, the use of the warm, melodious Italian greeting has been 'a la mode' for many centuries, often replacing more formal greetings

“The audience has a role to play in the future of journalism”

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:00:00 -0000

Thanks to blogs, today everyone is a journalist. But will this uncontrolled media hurt the overall quality of the press? Dan Gillmor, author of 'We the Media', claims this new journalism will ultimately be profitable for everyone