Feature: Article Books

Elizabeth George’s “Write Away” – an approach to fiction and the writing life

Elizabeth George is not the writing’s spoilsport: she just shunts a focal point along the writing’s shortcomings when somebody might want to quit this inner urge of creating for lack of method. Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen ...

Feature: Article Events

Meet Bogdan Tiganov
Cultural event in London

A new cultural event organised in London by Diana Varbanescu would like to invite you to meet a young and talented Romanian writer and artist born in Braila, Romania in 1981. Bogdan Tiganov Tiganov has studied arts at Nicolaie Balcescu School of music where he ...

Feature: Article Culture

Up the Line
a night of poetry and reflection

11th of November, 2009 7.30 PM A drizzly cold night...I pulled over by Brockley and Ladywell cemetery and for a split second I said to myself: ‘I could have been home, by the fireplace with a book in my hand’. But I looked to my left and smiled: ‘Gunsel is ...

Feature: Article Society

Astonished Eye Facing the Mirror

“How could I cast a glance with a round and absent eye, alike a life belt unto the basin of mirrors, where, the virgins laying within the gondola between thighs bite a shore by alabaster from my compunction itself?” (Ştefan Roll – The Golden Feast) How ...

Feature: Article Press

Romanian-born Novelist Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Romanian-born German novelist, essayist and poet Herta Müller has been named winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was praised by the judges for depicting the “landscape of the dispossessed” with “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose”. ...