Between February 22nd – 25th, Bucharest will host the 9th edition of the International Literature Festival Odesa. The University of Bucharest is media partner for this event, which will take place at the Goethe-Institut in Bucharest (no. 32, Calea Dorobanți), where literature passionates will have the chance to encounter important names in contemporary international literature.
Initiated in 2015, the International Literature Festival Odesa has become, in the last two years, because of the war, an itinerary project: in 2023 it was held in Batumi, Georgia, and this year it will be hosted by Bucharest.
The program reunites 19 events which will take place in the physical presence of the writers, as well as their online presence. Among the subjects approached for this year’s edition of the festival are the future of Europe, the freedom of the writer, writing and the power of words to fight against barbarity, the literary relations between the countries in the Black Sea region. Ukrainian literature will be the subject of a world-wide lecture on February 24th, marking two years since the war began. On this occasion, poems by Ukrainian writers Viktoria Amelina and Maksîm Krîvțov, who both disappeared during the war, will be recited.
During the 5 days of the festival, participants will have the chance to listen to Ukrainian writers Iia Kiva, Yuri Vînnîciuk and Vasîl Mahno, Philip Sands from Great Britain, Olivier Guez from France, Daniel Kehlmann and Norman Ohler from Germany, Karl-Markus Gauss from Austria, Ariane von Graffenried and Jonas Lüscher from Switzerland, Ilaria Gaspari from Italy. They will be joined by remarkable writers in contemporary Romanian literature, such as Nora Iuga, Dan Sociu, Nichita Danilov and Radu Vancu.
I am very pleased that we can host in Bucharest the 9th edition of the International Literature Festival Odesa, to demonstrate our solidarity with Ukraine, including by means of the world-wide lecture on February 24th, and to support literary relations in the Black Sea Region. As in the previous years, we have managed to bring remarkable writers on our guest list. I am excited for the debut of the event, particularly Radu Vancu’s opening speech, who will talk about the importance of literature, especially at times of war. I would like to thank the Jan Michalski Foundation and the other partner cultural institutes, more specifically the Goethe Institute in Bucharest, the host of the event, said Ulrich Schreiber, co-founder and co-director of the Odesa International Literature Festival along with Hans Ruprecht.
Lecture and debates during the festival will take place in English, Ukrainian and Romanian, with translators. Entry is free for the public. The full program of the event is available here.
Founded in 2015, the International Literature Festival Odesa aims to underline the cultural effervescence and the international character of the city and to contribute to consolidating its connections with other cultural metropolis in Europe and other continents. The program of each edition expresses this desire, manifested both by the selection of the writers invited, as well as the themes established. A particular importance in the architecture of the festival’s program is the panoramic of the cultural space from the East European area and the Black Sea region.
Until now, almost 300 writers have participated to the events occasioned by the Odesa Festival. Hans Ruprecht and Ulrich Schreiber are running the festival since its founding.
The festival has the support of the Jan Michalski Foundation, EUNIC Romania, PRO HELVETIA, Goethe-Institut Bucharest, Culture of Solidarity Fund | European Cultural Foundation, Pro Helvetia.
Partners: The University of Bucharest, The Italian Institute of Culture in Bucharest, Cărturești, the National Museum of Romanian Literature.
Media partners: Radio România Cultural, Agerpres, Observator cultural, Scena9, IQads, LiterNet, Bookhub, Filme și cărți, Suplimentul de cultură, La Punkt, Agenția de carte
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