Ljubljana, a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015, offers two one-month residencies for writers at the newly restored Švicarija/Swisshouse Creative Centre, which is part of the International Centre of Graphic Arts. When September and November, 2018 (one month per residency/applicant). Who The residency is aimed at foreign published writers with a palpable, factual relation with
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Georgina Wilding Georgina is a poet born and bred in Notthingham. She grew up in a working-class family with Irish Catholic roots. She has a first class degree in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Nottingham, and began her career in poetry working within the spoken word collective, Mouthy Poets. Her current work in poetry has a focus on
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Download 2018 World Poetry Day programme. On March 21, 2017, Granada City Council’s Department for the Arts, in partnership with the Granada UNESCO City of Literature programme, and with the collaboration of the Asociación del Diente de Oro, joined in celebrating World Poetry Day for the first time. The event consisted of a big public
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2018-03-17 To mark this year’s World Poetry Day, UNESCO Cities of Literature are linking up to hold simultaneous literary events in 13 Cities of Literature: Granada, Dublin, Edinburgh, Krakow, Barcelona, Heidelberg, Iowa City, Notthingham, Praga, Óbidos, Tartu, Baghdad and Rejkjavik. The cities will also connect their respective celebrations with each other through social networks and a
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Here you can see information about cultural life in Granada: Agenda de Granada – Guía Kul Música en Granada Hey Ho, Let’s Go – Granada City of Rock Music Guía Click – Arte y cultura Agenda Cultural del Ayuntamiento de Granada Agenda de cultura, ocio y eventos de Granada – Guía Cool Agenda de actividades
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Granada UNESCO City of Literature and Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature are jointly hosting two events at Reykjavík in November 2017 with writers, translators and book-store owners from both cities. On Wednesday, November 1 at 5 pm, poet José Miguel Gómez Acosta (Almería, 1975) and Elías Knörr (aka Elias Portela) will introduce José Miguel’s book El Gran
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In early 2015 we invited writers, playwrights, artists, musicians, booksellers, publishers, teachers, journalists, translators, printers, cultural managers, members of literature associations and foundations and personalities from the arts world to take part in a documentary on Granada’s recent appointment as a City of Literature within the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). Sponsored by EEA Grants
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Sjón means “vision” and is the pen name chosen by Sigurjón Birgir Sigurdsson (b. Reykjavik, 1962). He is one of Iceland’s most significant contemporary artists and intellectuals. His books of poetry, novels and children’s stories have enjoyed great success among both critics and the public. In 2005 he won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for The
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