@europeanlitlondon
Exploring London through the eyes of Europe's writers, artists and intellectuals: Online map, travelling exhibition, writer in residence, curating conversations, engaging students & more 📚. Get in touch with ideas! www.europeanliterarylondon.org
Suggested by Dr Andrea Capovilla, Director of @ilcs.bsky.social
Read the full entry on the map: www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a724...
#EuropeanLiteraryLondon #EuropeanLiterature #Poetry #London
In Schneepart (1968–69), Paul Celan rebuilds language amid the upheavals of 1968 and Europe’s haunted past. After his parents’ deaths in labor camps, his reinvented German made this book - later called his “strongest and boldest” - an act of defiance and memory.
@franceculture.fr @britishlibrary.bsky.social @uclei.bsky.social
#EuropeanLiteraryLondon #London #Literature
As the weather begins to turn and spring approaches, it’s the perfect time to rediscover the city 🏙️
Explore London through all the seasons with the ELML!
📍 Our pop-up exhibition is on display at Düsseldorf Central Library until the end of the week!
www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/fad1...
We're no longer active on X, but really happy to see UKMis enjoyed having our brilliant students, too (and referencing our @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social map's alumni pop-up recently!). Huge thanks for the team's generosity.
A new floating park and floating lido have been proposed for east London (with some slightly eccentric mock-ups)
#VictorHugo #EuropeanLiteraryLondon #CityOfStories #Map
@britishlibrary.bsky.social @uclei.bsky.social @franceculture.fr
A question that lingers at every crossing, every threshold of the city 🏙️
The pop-up is currently in Düsseldorf with the until the end of February! Come and take a look!
Read the full European Literary Map of London entry: www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/3902...
So lovely to see #EuropeanLiteraryLondon again. It really did feel like running into an old friend, and it was a great conversation starter at the Brussels alumni reception.
#UCLEurope
The Lost & Found exhibition brought stories of the city to life at last week’s UCL alumni gathering in Brussels ✨
Our project celebrates London’s rich European connections and the power of storytelling across communities!
@ukstaiger.bsky.social @uclei.bsky.social
#EuropeanLiteraryLondon
Lost & Found is travelling to Düsseldorf next week!
Discover the full programme: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
A warm congratulations to Elif Shafak on her appointment as President of the @rsliterature.bsky.social
Elif is featured on the European Literary Map of London - @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
📖 Take a moment to read her entry - www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a82d...
A special issue on city writing we co-curated!
Includes interviews with Nisrine Mbarki (the Netherlands), Tone Schunnesson (Sweden) & Iryna Shuvalova (Ukraine) on the complex fabric of urban modernity, London, and literary practice.
swedishbookreview.org/2025-2
*Loved* co-curating this special issue of @swedishbookreview.bsky.social with its brilliant editor, literary translator Alex Fleming aftranslations.com.
New translations, superb interviews, and a short intro by yours truly - all on #CityWriting and all linked to @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social.
The fish is cheap, yet rents rise all around,
the butter’s salty and the water’s stale;
great distances here shrink by underground,
but I can’t nurse in peace my post-lunch ale.
(Theodor Kramer, From the first days in London, 1985)
www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/c016...
The vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-made might as if indifferent to heaven’s frowns and smiles.
Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), The Secret Agent, 1907
www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/6583...
How fitting to stumble across this on my way to the Globale Literaturfestival in Bremen / meeting UNESCO #CityofLiterature reps on @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social business.
Our next stop of our European tour is coming up:
Visit us at the globale° Festival for border-crossing literature in Bremen, 26 Oct-2 Nov!
@ukstaiger.bsky.social will give a talk on the project, in cooperation with the UNESCO #CityofLiterature network.
globale-literaturfestival.de/programmheft...
"What an enchanting life! I would have preferred the galleys a hundred times over."
Viscount Chateaubriand was not taken with all aspects of London life.
Entry suggested by EU ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social.
See more:
www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/5e43...
Go on, you know you want to listen in to this...
What happens when we see ourselves as others see us? This weekend I'll be @hayfestival.bsky.social in Segovia to talk writing, place & language with @martarebon.bsky.social, William Chislett & Deborah Christopher. Includes most picturesque setting yet for our @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social pop-up.
With thanks to the FCDO Soft Power team, the British Council and the British Embassy in Berlin.
@uclei.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
The European Literary Map of London is travelling!
The German-language version has just hit #Berlin - starting its run in the capital's iconic town hall: the Rote Rathaus.
Esther Kinsky, Jörg Fauser, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger among the German-language entries.
www.europeanliterarylondon.org
🚨 Calling all aspiring writers! 🚨
Don't miss out on the chance to hear from our Writer in Residence, Ciara Broderick!
Open to UCL students, she will be discussing how to make a career as a writer.
Registration still open: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
This is happening tonight, with writers from Ireland; the Netherlands; Lithuania & Ukraine.
At Europe House, with EUNIC London, the European Literature Network. To mark UCL’s 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence.
@europeanlitlondon.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
We’re so grateful to @uclalumni.bsky.social at Portico magazine for shining a light on the European Literary Map of London in their Spring 2025 issue. Thank you for helping us share the stories, places, and writers that connect Europe and London through literature. 📖🌍
Read all about it!
We're delighted to welcome writer Ciara Broderick as our European Writer in Residency for a month!
Passionate about representing the Irish language, Ciara will write a piece to be featured on the European Literary Map exploring migration.
Her work highlights that "for immigrants, all is fiction."
Hoy a las 19:30h en Madrid:
En el Ámbito Cultural de El Corte Inglés, con el apoyo de la Embajada Británica, celebramos la #NocheDeLosLibros con la inauguración de nuestra exposición sobre #EuropeanLiteraryLondon
Lecturas, poesía en vivo con Gonzalo Escarpa y mucho más
👉 Entrada libre
'sometimes I am as strange and alien to myself as all this which surrounds me.' (Luis Cernuda)
📖 Explore: bit.ly/4cLO6Um
📝 Submit: bit.ly/3zgon6T
