Europe
- &Now Festival of New Writing, Paris, June
- AngloMockBa, Moscow (see Pablo Ganguli)
- Arty Malta Festival, Valletta (see Pablo Ganguli)
- Asia House Festival of Asian Literature, Asia House, London, May
- Bridport Literary Festival, November 11 - 18
- Cheltenham Literature Festival, October 6-15
- Chester Literature Festival, October
- Correntes d'Escritas, Póvoa de Varzim, Second half of February (the largest literary festival in Portugal, gathers writers from the Portuguese and Spanish speaking world (Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and Africa)
- Dublin Writers Festival, June 4-10
- Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 13-29, coinciding with the general Edinburgh Festival
- FestivalandCo, Shakespeare themed literary festival held in Paris, France at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore
- Festivaletteratura, held in Mantova, Italy, at the beginning of September
- Folkestone Literary Festival, September 20-25
- The Hay Festival, May 27-June 5
- International Istanbul Poetry Festival, May 11-16
- International Literature Festival Berlin
- Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival, held in Istanbul, Turkey, at the beginning of November
- Jewel of Russia, St Petersburg(see Pablo Ganguli)
- Kosmopolis. Amplified Literature Festival. Center of Contemporary Culture. Barcelona. Spain. March, 21-23rd, 2013.
- Krokodil, Belgrade, Knjizevno Regionalno Okupljanje Koje Otklanja Dosadu I Letargiju
- Linton Children's Book Festival, held every other year in May, since 2006. 5-12 May 2012
- Norwegian Festival of Literature, Lillehammer, Norway, is the largest literature festival in the Scandinavian countries since 1996
- Oxford Literary Festival, April 10-17
- Peak Literary Festival, October 25 -Nov 5 /May 25 -June6
- Prague Writers Festival, June 3-10
- Rencontres aubrac, France, Aveyron
- Reykjavík International Literary Festival, (Bókmenntahátíd), since 2000
- Runnymede International Literary Festival, since 2006
- Tartu Literature Festival Prima Vista, Estonia, since 2004
- Venice Incroci di Civiltà: Incontri internazionali di letteratura a Venezia / Crossings of Civilizations: Literary Meetings in Venice April 13-16, 2011
- Word About Town, Hastings, November 15-20
- Wordfringe, Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
Read more about this topic: Literary Festival
Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze
Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze
Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom;
An epitaph of glory for the tomb
Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made,
Great People! as the sands shalt thou become;
Thy growth is swift as morn, when night must fade;
The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)