Boris Korkmazov, ICORN Guest Writer in Brussels, has this spring visited universities to meet with students of Russian translation. Yesterday the Russian author held a seminar at the Hogeschool Gent to a number of students keen to hear his stories about Russian language and culture.
This Friday Xavier Luffin will interview two young and talented African writers, Vamba Sherif (Netherlands/Liberia) and Suleiman Addonia (UK/Eritrea), during an international conference in Brussels. The event is a collaboration between Shahrazad, Passa Porta and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
In 2009 deBuren and Passa Porta launched the first edition of The Balkans and Europe, a series of cultural debates hosted by the Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic (Time). Together with writers from the former Yugoslavia, Anastasijevic looks into several aspects of the European and Balkan culture.
The European Constitution in Verse, written by over fifty European and non-European poets and coordinated by the Brussels Poetry Collective, has been nominated for the 3rd Europe Book Prize!
On December 8, Lucas Catherine will be discussing his book Rijstpap, Tulpen en Jihad (Pudding, Tulips and Jihad) at Passa Porta house of literature. Rijstpap, Tulpen en Jihad is a vibrant book about the Arab and Turkish influence on the European history.
On December 19, Dejan Anastasijevic hosted a successful second edition of ‘The Balkans and Europe'.
