Reading Europe Tour London Weekend 17-19 June

The Cultural Case for Europe. Friday 17th June 7pm
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Rd, London, EC1R 3GA
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe.

Featuring Diego Marani, Dimitri Verhulst and Kirsten Thorup

£5/ £3 concessions Tickets available via https://www.freewordcentre.com/whats-on/reading-europe-tour

Breakfast Briefing. Saturday 18th June 12.30 pm
London Review of Books Shop, 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Authors and translators reading their favourite passages from novels on the Reading Europe List.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free and no tickets required

Lewisham Garden Party. Saturday 18th June 6pm
Halcyon Books, 266 Lee High Road, London, SE13 5PL
Thoughts, gluten-free beer and readings from the ‘Other Europe’.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free and no tickets required

Continental Breakfast. Sunday 19th 12 noon
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD
Observations on the notion of breakfast on the European continent.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free but contact Waterstones via https://www.waterstones.com/events/the-reading-europe-tour-breakfast/london-piccadilly


Happy Manchester 

Reading Europe Manchester. Monday 20 June. 7pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe.

Featuring Diego Marani and guests

Free but registration required via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-europe-tour-manchester-tickets-25715689319


Reading Europe: Remembering Gary Pulsifer on Wednesday 22nd June, 7pm
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD

Gary Pulsifer acted as an advisor to Reading Europe and the promotion includes 6 of the books he published while at Arcadia. Gary died from cancer 2 months ago and Reading Europe wants to celebrate his contribution to European literature in translation. He was an independent publisher who made a difference. There will be readings by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkins,Karen Sullivan and Sian Williams, from books translated from Dutch, French, Hungarian and Latvian included in the promotion and published by Gary,

Tickets are £5 and all monies raised will be donated to the Book Trade Charity who provided a home for Gary at The Retreat in Kings Langley available via https://www.waterstones.com/events/reading-europe-remembering-gary-pulisfer/london-piccadilly

Reading Europe Tour dates 17-22 June

The Cultural Case for Europe. Friday 17th June 7pm
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Rd, London, EC1R 3GA
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe. Featuring:

Diego Marani, 
Dimitri Verhulst,
and Kirsten Thorup

£5/ £3 concessions Tickets available via https://www.freewordcentre.com/whats-on/reading-europe-tour

Breakfast Briefing. Saturday 18th June 12.30 pm
London Review of Books Shop, 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Authors and translators reading their favourite passages from novels on the Reading Europe List.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free and no tickets required

Lewisham Garden Party. Saturday 18th June 6pm
Halcyon Books, 266 Lee High Road, London, SE13 5PL
Thoughts, gluten-free beer and readings from the ‘Other Europe’.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free and no tickets required

Continental Breakfast. Sunday 19th 12 noon
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD
Observations on the notion of breakfast on the European continent.

Featuring Diego Marani and Kirsten Thorup

Free but contact Waterstones via https://www.waterstones.com/events/the-reading-europe-tour-breakfast/london-piccadilly


Happy Manchester 

Reading Europe Manchester. Monday 20 June. 7pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe.

Featuring Diego Marani and guests

Free but registration required via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-europe-tour-manchester-tickets-25715689319


Reading Europe: Remembering Gary Pulsifer on Wednesday 22nd June, 7pm
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD

Gary Pulsifer acted as an advisor to Reading Europe and the promotion includes 6 of the books he published while at Arcadia. Gary died from cancer 2 months ago and Reading Europe wants to celebrate his contribution to European literature in translation. He was an independent publisher who made a difference. There will be readings by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin,Karen Sullivan and Sian Williams, from books translated from Dutch, French, Hungarian and Latvian included in the promotion and published by Gary,

Tickets are £5 and all monies raised will be donated to the Book Trade Charity who provided a home for Gary at The Retreat in Kings Langley available via https://www.waterstones.com/events/reading-europe-remembering-gary-pulisfer/london-piccadilly

Reading Europe Tour - 5 dates before Referendum Day

The Reading Europe Tour has five dates so far:

London Weekend 

The Cultural Case for Europe. Friday 17th June 7pm
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Rd, London, EC1R 3GA
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe.

Breakfast Briefing. Saturday 18th June 12.30 pm
London Review of Books Shop, 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
Authors and translators reading their favourite passages from novels on the Reading Europe List.

Lewisham Garden Party. Saturday 18th June 6pm
Halcyon Books, 266 Lee High Road, London, SE13 5PL
Thoughts, gluten-free beer and readings from the ‘Other Europe’.

Continental Breakfast. Sunday 19th 12 noon
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9HD
Observations on the notion of breakfast on the European continent.


Happy Manchester 

Reading Europe Manchester. Monday 20 June. 7pm
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY
Conversation, questions and answers on the peculiar and changing perceptions of the same novel in different languages providing the cultural case for Europe.

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Kirsten Thorup confirms London Weekend events

Kirsten Thorup, whose novel God of Chance (Norvik), appears on the Reading Europe list, has confirmed she will feature in the London Weekend events taking place on 17 and 18 June.

Kirsten Thorup (b. 1942) has established herself over the past forty years as one of the most widely-read and wide-ranging of modern Danish authors. She has written poetry, plays and novels, often focusing on the fates of outsiders, those who are marginalized because of social, class or ethnic disparities. Much of her material is rooted in her own experiences. The central character of her four novels about Jonna, Little Jonna (1977), The Long Summer (1979), Heaven and Hell (1982) and The Outer Limit (1987), comes as she does from the island of Funen and struggles to adapt to big-city life. In Bonsai (2000) she draws on her own unhappiness in the story of a wife watching her husband dying of Aids, and in No Man’s Land (2003) she depicts the dilemmas faced by a family coping with a fiercely independent but failing elderly parent. The God of Chance (2011) is a story about the bad conscience of Europeans in the face of global inequality, and the problematic results of our well-meaning efforts to make a difference. Trying to play God can lead to unforseen tragedy for donor and recipient alike.