First Monday Blog: On Law, Literature and Narratives
In the first in our new series of blogs, coming on the first Monday of each month, Téa Braun of Human Dignity Trust explores the relationship between Literature and the Law.
These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.
In the first in our new series of blogs, coming on the first Monday of each month, Téa Braun of Human Dignity Trust explores the relationship between Literature and the Law.
A group of illustrators, musicians and story tellers from Scotland and Pakistan travelled from Edinburgh International Book Festival to the Outer Hebrides.
In partnership with the Karachi Literature Festival, we have supported a series of events coming up at this years' Manchester Literature Festival.
On Sunday 21 August the Edinburgh International Book Festival will host an exciting programme featuring writers from Pakistan.
Illustrator and comic creator Karrie Fransman talks about her 'Tragedy' illustration, commissioned for our Shakespeare Lives campaign, and shares before and after sketches of her work.
As part of our Shakespeare Lives campaign, we commissioned three illustrators to visually interpret Shakespearean themes.
After his recent trip to Moscow as part of the UK–Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016, writer Andrew Dickson reflects on Russia's relationship with Shakespeare.
Our Polish translators blog on the most challenging word(s) of the day, after taking part in A Great Feast of Languages workshop in Cologne.
Romanian translators taking part in A Great Feast of Languages workshop in Cologne blog on the most challenging word(s) of the day, when translating texts from Shakespeare's plays.
German translators blog collaboratively on the most challenging word(s) of the day, as they take part in A Great Feast of Languages workshop in Cologne.
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