We cordially invite you to the first European Night of Literature organized in Israel. It is a joint project of 13 European countries that presents European literature to wide Israeli audiences and readers. The first edition of the European Night of Literature is focused on the Science Fiction genre and will present contemporary European authors, combined with older stories.
The event will take place on 13th -15th December 2022 in following venues: The HaSimta Theater, Liebling Haus, and Beit Ariela Library. Each text will be presented by a professional actor from the Theater HaSimta Ensemble.
The European Night of Literature will also offer further program such as an exhibition of children’s Artwork on the Theme ‘Israel in 2300’ created by the local schools in Tel Aviv, or several screenings of short animated movies, and discussions with Israeli authors.
Free entrance
Language of the event: Hebrew
Moderators: Benny Ziffer and Ofri Ilany
Actors reading: Irit Frank, Revital Tamir, Irit Suki, Yaniv Winogradsky
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Program
13.12. 7 pm at HaSimta Theater
Stories from: Romania, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, and Portugal
Zoe Polanski concert
Romanian animated movie Space Mission Delta
14.12. 7 pm at Liebling Haus
Stories from: Greece, Austria, Belgium, and France
Ice Hokku concert.
Animated movies from the LEM Bezalel Animation Contest: Bringing Solaris to Jerusalem
15.12. 7 pm at Beit Ariela
Stories from: Finland, Poland, Italy, and Slovakia
Czech animated movie Pandas
Discussion table - Israeli authors Shimon Adaf, Mayan Rogel, and Slovak author Michal Hvorecký.
Exhibition "Israel in 2300".
The Czech republic will be represented by Pavel Bareš and his superhero thriller 'Meta'.
Annotation:
Superhumans exist. But none of them are superheroes. No one in the early twenty-first century needs spandex-clad, raincoat-wearing zealots chasing crime at night. On the other hand, after representatives of this show business, people can beat themselves up. In a world where Meta people endowed with superpowers are global celebrities — or preemptively prosecuted enemies of the state — Lenka Křížová does not want to be any of those things. In short, she is a girl who wants to go to college, spend alimony, and sometimes help her friend with her exam with her mime skills. She never asked for fame or crowds of fans. And yet she seems to have one.
Pavel Bareš
Pavel Bareš was born 1994. By day he is an English teacher, by night an avid video game player and comic book reader, traveler, yachtsman, and lover of narrative RPGs. He doesn't sing in a band, but he used to be in one.
Foto © Josefína Rašilovová
He used to get the worst marks in school for avoiding the topic. Today, his editors chastise him for them. In 2017, he debuted with the novel Projekt Kronos, which he followed up with the second work, Kronovy děti (2019). He stepped outside the successful series with the enthusiastically received superhero thriller Meta (2020).
The Czech writer of science fiction and urban fantasy novels Pavel Bareš wanted to be a writer, as he says, already at the age of three. This later came true for him, but only after his studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.
European authors whose short stories will be presented:
Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber was born in 1968 in Vienna and lives in Lower Austria. He has studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and has worked for more than 20 years as a financial controller before becoming a bestseller author in the genres thriller, horror, mystery and science fiction. His work has been translated in numerous languages, among them French, Japanese, Italian and Russian. He is the initiator of the only Austrian Crime Festival and was awarded national and international literary awards.
“To me, being an author means that I can invent interesting characters without ending up in a psychiatric hospital and murder people in original ways without ending up in prison. But apart from that I am a nice guy.”
Short story for the event: Eighteen Thousand Gigabyte
Foto (c) Barbara Wirl
Anne-Sophie Devriese
Anne-Sophie Devriese* was born in March 1981 in France, between a cow and an apple tree. Her rebel gene mutated soon into studying literature. Already prone to the imagination, she preferred modern letters and went to Spain to write a memoir on ogres and giants in fairytales. After a stopover in Jersey, she left for a weekend in Belgium... from which she never returned. There she married her Prince Charming. They live happily in a house full of walkways and doors where their 4 kids make a happy mess.
As soon as she can steal a moment, Anne-Sophie writes stories that explore contemporary themes that are close to her heart through fiction.
Short story for the event: The Biotanists
Foto (c) Juillet Lara Herbinia
Emmi Itäranta
Emmi Itäranta (b. 1976) is a Finnish author who writes fiction in Finnish and English. Her novels have been characterized as lyrical dystopias with strong ecological undercurrents. Itäranta’s award-winning debut novel Memory of Water (2014) has been translated into more than 20 languages and a film adaptation, The Guardian of Water, is in production. The awards won by her books include Kalevi Jäntti Prize for young authors, Young Aleksis Kivi Prize, HelMet Readers’ Choice Award, Kuvastaja Award for the best Finnish fantasy book, Tampere City Literary Award and Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction book published in Finland.
Itäranta lived in the United Kingdom for 14 years before relocating back to Finland in 2021. She now lives in Tampere, Finland, and continues to write in two languages.
Short story for the event: Memory of Water
Foto (c) Liisa Takala
Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier is a writer, journalist, mathematician, and teacher. He has published fifteen books of stories, essays, and novels, including Enough About Love (Other Press, 2011), The Sextine Chapel (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), and A Thousand Pearls (Dalkey Archive Press, 2011). He won the Goncourt Prize in 2021 for The Anomaly.
Short story for the event: The Anomaly
Foto (c) Francesca Mantovani
Michelle Stern
Michelle Stern, born Stefanie Rafflenbeul in 1978 in Frankfurt/Germany, has been a full-time writer since the end of her studies in German studies, psychology, and art history - mainly in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. The author, now called Stefanie Jahnke, chose the pseudonym Michelle Stern for her fantasy novels. In 2013 she joined the PERRY RHODAN team: the world's biggest sci-fi series, out weekly since 1961.
A highlight of her writing career was the novel »Zeitriss«, which appeared as Volume 2800 of the PERRY RHODAN series. It was the first-anniversary volume to be written by a woman – previous volumes of this type have all been written by men. Michelle Stern was also the youngest author to dare this adventure.
Short story for the event: Perry Rhodan 3112: A Castellan for Apsuhol
(c) Michelle Stern
Nikos Mantis
Nikos A. Mandis was born in Athens in 1973. He has written six novels and one book of stories, as well as four collections of poetry and pieces for the theatre. He also worked quite extensively as a translator of books from English. His work is a mix of themes and styles, combining elements of realism with speculative fiction as well as the political, the postmodern, and the paranoia. Some of his writing heroes are Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaňo, Orhan Pamuk, and Don Delillo.
Short story for the event: Wild Acropolis
Primo Levi
Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish writer, was born on 31 July 1019 in Turin. A survivor of Hitler’s concentration camps, he is remembered primarily as a witness of Nazi deportations. He graduated in chemistry at the University of Turin, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by Mussolini's racial laws. In 1942 he found a position with a Swiss drug company in Milan. With the German occupation of northern and central Italy Levi joined a partisan group in Aosta Valley in the Alps, but was arrested in December 1943 and deported to Auschwitz. The terrible experience of captivity in the camp is described in detail in one of his most famous works: "If This Is a Man", published in 1947. In 1963 Primo Levi published his second book "The Truce", a chronicle of the return home after liberation (the sequel to If This Is a Man). For this work he was awarded the Campiello Prize
Primo Levi committed suicide on April 11, 1987, in his hometown, Turin.
Short story for the event: “In fronte scritto” (in Vizio di forma, Einaudi 1971, 1987)
Krystyna Chodorowska
Kristyna Chodorowska – Is an established translator of science fiction from English to Polish. In that capacity, she oversaw the introduction of the Polish reader to works by Roger Zelazny (The Books of Amber) and China Miéville (Perdido Street Station) among others.
An established writer in her own right, she was nominated for the Maciej Parowski (Polish science fiction translator and critic) award, and her work is included in the recently published anthology Another Heaven [Inne Niebo] which is a homage to the great Polish fantasy painter Jakub Rozalski.
She is an active member of the Hardej Hordy group [https://www.hardahorda.org/] a collection of current female Polish writers of science fiction and fantasy.
This is her first work in Hebrew.
Short story for the event: The Lying Weather Report
Mario Henrique Leiria
Mario-Henrique Leiria (1923-1980) is one of the most important names in Portuguese literature, and one of the greatest "worship" writers of the twentieth century. Leiria, a prominent surrealist artist, created alternative literature both as a writer - always experimental and brilliant - and as a translator of innovative genres and styles (science fiction and psychological detective fiction). Although not extensive, Mario-Enrique Leirier's work includes a huge variety of genres and forms; In addition to the famous story files "Gin and Tonic Stories" and "New Gin and Tonic Stories" he produced poetry, collages, a novel, letter suits, translations, introductions and articles. As a "ritual" creator, he is undoubtedly one of the original and extraordinary voices of the last century. In addition to his work as a writer and editor (in Brazil, to which he was exiled), he was also a painter and theater director.
Short story for the event: Aliance
Marian Coman
Marian Coman is a Romanian writer of comic books, novels, and short stories. He is the winner of several national awards for SF & F literature and a prize of the European Science-Fiction Convention. He is also editor-in-chief of Armada, the main Romanian science-fiction and fantasy publisher. He is a member of PEN Club Romania and SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association of America).
Short story for the event: Unwired
Michal Hvorecký
Michal Hvorecky, born in 1976, is an author and translator of the German language. Author of short stories and novels. In 2018, his dystopic novel "Troll" was about fake news and the hybrid war in Eastern Europe. The novel was published in German by Tropen/Klett-Cotta to a huge media response. His books have been translated into twelve languages. He works at Goethe Institute. He lives with his family in Bratislava.
Short story for the event: The Seventh Continent
Laura Chivite
Laura Chivite was born in Pamplona in 1995. When she was 16, she moved to LA, where she studied some cinema courses. She studied Comparative Literature at the University of Granada and she specialized in the conection between cinema and literature. She has published some short stories in underground fanzines and her first novel, Gente que ríe, was published in Caballo de Troya. She's a Literature teacher at a public high school and she tries to write during her free time.
Short story for the event: R.A.L.A 2060
Animation screening
Pandas
After millions of generations they have a good chance of becoming another extinct species. But one day, an all too active primate called the human being found them and they became a pawn in man's game.
Matúš Vizár was born in Slovakia in 1985. He studied animation at The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, followed by the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. Beside being a film maker, Vizár is also an illustration artist and political cartoonist.
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