European Literature Night VII: Liars’ League - Near & Far: New European Writing

Writers write, actors read, audience listens, everybody wins. That’s the motto of Liars’ League, the award-winning, globe-straddling short story night which has been running in London since 2007. This showcase of European literature in translation celebrates fresh talent from Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

Actors will read stories from some of the most exciting European authors, featuring extraordinary characters like Sigitas Parulskis’s World War II photographer and Jan Krasnowolski ’s drug-smuggler turned refugee-babysitter. From Kateřina Tučková’s Czech witches via Nora Bossong’s bereaved businesswoman to Tadej Golob’s struggling comic-book writer, these fictions will take you far from home, bringing the foreign into focus and turning the familiar strange.

Part of the European Literature Night VII
13 May – 9 June 2015
#eln2015
European Literature Night (ELN) is the annual literary showcase bringing the best of the continent’s authors to the UK. Now moving into its seventh year, the ELN 2015 is a series of events, including four events at the British Library and the ELN Translation Pitch at the Free Word Centre. European Literature Night is presented in partnership with EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) London, the European Commission Representation in the UK, the British Library, the Czech Centre London and Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions.