Twenty-five writers, literary translators, publishers, editors, organisers of literary festivals and representatives of literature organisations from 16 European countries will meet in Malta next week to discuss the international promotion of literature with their Maltese counterparts and with the Maltese public.

The event will take place at St James Cavalier, Valletta on Friday from 2 to 8.30 p.m. and next Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7.45 p.m. Entrance is free of charge.

There will also be a programme of three reading events with the participation of visiting and local writers at St James Cavalier on Friday at 7.30 p.m., at Casa Rocca Piccola in Republic Street, Valletta next Saturday at 6.45 p.m. and during a tour of Malta on November 6.

The event is entitled Re-Visions - Literary Exchange in an Enlarged Europe - Literature Across Frontiers. It is being organised by Literature Across Frontiers and Inizjamed with support from the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union.

It will include Basque writer and academic Mari José Olaziregi, Scottish writer and cultural activist Laura Hird, the poet, translator, and editor Krzysztof Czyzewski from Poland, writer Tristan Hughes and editor Gwen Davies from Wales, prose writer Nora Ikstena from Latvia, the Chilean-born essayist, poet and short story writer Rubén Palma from Denmark, and Ewa Wojciechowska from the Book Institute in Poland.

The keynote speeches will be delivered by Ned Thomas, academic director of the Mercator Centre at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, which runs LAF, and Adrian Grima, poet, academic and coordinator of Inizjamed.

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