Dom omladine Beograda (Belgrade Youth Center) and Arhipelag publishing company are organizing 6th Belgrade Festival of European Literature that takes place from 27th June to 30th June. Visitors can expect exciting literary, film and fine art presentations. Writers that will mark this year`s literature gathering from Europe are: a German writer Thomas Meinecke, one of the most famous Slovenian writers Feri Lainscek, an Israeli poet Amir Or, an Italian writer Claudio Margis, a Croation poet and essayist Branko Cegec and popular narrator from Serbia Mihajlo Pantic. Guest will be also Literatur Cafe of Goethe Institute Belgrade.
Belgrade Festival of European Literature is an open and multi-medial event where the literature is presented through different forms - from books and public readings, conversations with contestants, to exhibitions, retrospective of modern feature and documentary films based on literature, and video presentations and other events. What is interesting about this festival is the fact that all the artists are in a way multimedia artists. Beside literary career, most of the artists have successful music careers as well as noticeable work in artistic photography. This is an event that gathers very diverse audience, as far as age is concerned, because target group is much wider than usual for audience of literary manifestations.
At the 6th festival, visitors will have the opportunity to listen to seven readings of foreign and local writers. On the programme are four film screenings within the retrospective "Literature on film", panel on populism in contemporary culture, society and politics. Yuko Shimizu, world famous artist and illustrator will open the festival with the exhibition "Wild Swan" based on book by Michael Cunningham. The festival takes place at Great Hall of Dom omladine Beograda. During festival, every day at 19:00 and at 20:00, there will be readings of local and foreign writers at Great Hall of Dom omladine. At 21:00, there will be free film screenings from the festival programme "Literature on film".
