Extreme Narratives

Exploring the interwoven worlds we inhabit and the narratives that respond to them
This session brings together ELN writers Burhan Sӧnmez (Turkey), Gabriela Babnik (Slovenia) and Jaap Robben (Netherlands) and Fiona Doloughan, Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University. Travelling from an underground prison in Istanbul to an island somewhere between Scotland and Norway, to the dusty streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, it will consider extremes of both place and in the human psyche that our writers explore through their characters. To what extent do they see their writing as a kind of social activism? And what do they discover from their readers once out in the world?

This event is organised by Eunic London, Czech Centre and The British Library, in partnership with The Open University.
Part of The Stories We Tell: 2016 European Literature Festival, organised by EUNIC London, initiated and coordinated by the Czech Centre.