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Night of European Literature 2017

2018-05-30 10:19:55

The Night of European Literature shows that in 2017 the 5.Th edition with the participation of 11 authors from 11 european countries. Between 18: 30-23: 30, staged readings, with a duration of 10 to 15 minutes, usually run on the half hour, to give the public the opportunity to visit the various spaces and attend all sessions.

Between the romance and non-fiction, passing by the theater and even by children's literature, this year's program runs through the dream and the fantasy, the journalism, the love and the football, the food, the countryside and the city, the adventure and the mathematics, family relationships and many other topics that do not fit in these lines.

Tomorrow there is more, of Tilman Rammstedt (Germany), is presented with great originality by a narrator who is not yet born. The story that tells is that of the parents, long before they get to know each other. The author Kathrin Röggla (Austria), whose literary work crosses a wide variety of techniques and levels of language, based on the reports the news about the 11 September 2001 for writing fake reports, showing precisely what happens when language fails and reality and fiction become blurred.

Cristina Peri Rossi (Spain) is one of the most important writers in the Spanish language. With love is a the drug lasts leads the reader in an experience of the text, of seduction and of the dilemmas caused by desire and passion. Arto Paasilinna (Finland) account with more than two dozen books, translated in several languages. The hare Vatanen is a novel of the cult in the nordic countries reporting a trip and a reunion with nature.

Waiting for the Bojangles, the first novel by Olivier Bourdeaut (France), seems to combine the optimism of the comedies of Frank Capra to the fantasy of the Foam of the days by Boris Vian, while The connections culinary Andreas Staikos (Greece), considered one of the most important dramatists of his country, unites the two neighbors with a love for cooking and for the same woman. Coffee bitter, multipremiada author Simonetta Agnello Hornby (Italy), crosses the story of a woman with the history of Sicily, the Fasci to the establishment of the regime of racial laws to the Second World War.

Double Dose of the author, illustrator and communication designer, Catarina Sobral (Portugal) with Achimpa and my grandfather, both recommended in the National Reading Plan for the 3.2nd and.Th years of schooling respectively. This year, the Night of European Literature is still a detour to the other side of the Atlantic with the book Soccer: Brazil in the field of Alex Bellos (Uk), columnist at the Guardian, which also published another of the works presented, Alex in the country of numbers: Journey through the wonderful world of mathematics.

Jirí Hájícek (Czech Republic) is one of the most successful writers in the Czech republic today. The novel Dick of rain, that full the free, “trilogy of rural unrest moral”, won the traditional contest Book of the Year, the newspaper Lidové noviny, conducted since 1928. Finally, Matéi Visniec (Romania), the author of the dramatic Romanian most represented in your country, and that he was awarded several prizes at european level, the Theater broken down, or The man-waste, a series of modules for rendering theatrical without defined order.

The excerpts of these works will be read by actors of the Portuguese in areas such as the Barracks of Carmo da GNR, the Circle Eça de Queirós, the Cloister of the Museum of S. Roque, the Room Extractions of the Lottery and the Theatre of the Trinity, among others.

The readings from Italy, Portugal, Uk, Czech Republic and Romania will count with the presence of the authors.

The Night of European Literature is an initiative of the EUNIC Portugal, with the support of the European Commission Representation in Portugal, and if done in the context of the Lisbon festival, in partnership with EGEAC.

Tilman Rammstedt – Germany
Work: Tomorrow there is more
Player: Ulises Supper
Location: the Barracks of Carmo da GNR

Kathrin Röggla – Austria
Work: fake reports
Readers: Daniela Gonçalves, Olinda Fava, Emanuel de Sousa
Location: Círculo Eça de Queiroz

Cristina Peri Rossi – Spain
Work: love is a drug lasts
Readers: John Wolf, Lauren Mendinueta
Location: the Academy of Music Amateurs

Arto Paasilinna - Finland
The work: The hare Vatanen
Reader: Cátia Sá
Location: Lisbon, Portugal-Person Hotel

Olivier Bourdeaut France
Work: waiting for the Bojangles
Reader: Ana Sofia Paiva
Location: Archaeological Museum of Carmo

Andreas Staikos - Greece
Work: links culinary
Player: Jose Ideas
Location: Cloister of the Museum of S. Roque (SCML)

Simonetta Agnello Hornby - Italy
Work: Coffee is bitter
Reader: Inês Lapa
Location the Room of the Coat of arms of the Museum of S. Roque (SCML)

Catarina Sobral, Portugal
Works: Achimpa; my grandfather
Player: Miguel Fragata
Location: Terreiro Mystic of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament

Alex Bellos - United Kingdom
Works: Soccer: Brazil in the field; and Alex in the country of the numbers
Player: Rogerio Martins
Location: Room Extractions of the National Lottery (SCML)

Jirí Hájícek – Czech Republic
Work: Dick rain
Player: Júlio Martín
Local: Livraria Solar System

Matei Visniec - Romania
Work: Theatre broken down, or The man-junk
Player: Nuno Pinheiro
Local: Teatro da Trindade

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