A European Literature Brainstorming meeting is being held on 25 January in London involving publishers, editors and critics from the UK books industry who took part in the EU trip to Brussels I reported on earlier this month, to take forward the ideas and needs that were generated. The idea is to get more people in different countries able to read other nations' best books.
Booksellers, publishers, poets, critics, festival directors, literary editors and librarians were among the group who want to discuss generating more liaison between them and other European countries’ books industries. The state of book translation between languages is virtually non-existent, and the new EU Prize for Literature has been set up to help a dozen books each year get a funding start to be published elsewhere. In 2011 the UK is one of the 12 favoured countries for the prize, which rotates annually to a new set of countries each year.
- To find out more about the meeting, on 25 January at Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London, contact Rosie Goldsmith rosiegold@tiscali.co.uk