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.
Facilitator Jennifer Williams blogs about her trip to Russia in September with Scottish and Russian poets who have collaborated to produce new work. Read the blog and watch the films at the bottom of the page.
The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) - a major cultural festival happening each year in Pakistan - will travel to London for the first time on October 29, 2016 at the British Museum.
British Literature Today: the inaugural British Council Literature Seminar took place 15 – 18 September at Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula in Russia.
Jonathan Davidson, Chief Executive of Writing West Midlands, shares an exciting new exchange programme for emerging British and Ukrainian writers.
Poet and writer John Burnside makes the case for literature in translation and recommends contemporary literature in French and German that UK publishers have, so far, neglected.
Chinese translators participating in A Great Feast of Languages - Singapore, our chain translation conferences focusing on Shakespeare, blog about their Word of the Day after translating Hamlet's most famous soliloquy.
What does the future hold for reading culture and publishing? Watch Naomi Alderman and James Bridle's talks from the Future of the Word Forum at the Strelka Institute in Moscow.
Anne Fine, the former Children's Laureate, gives her tips for writers young and old to inspire entries to the Commonwealth Class Story Writing Competition.
Our second British Council International Writer-in-Residence at Small Wonder festival at Charleston is Kagiso Lesego Molope. Kagiso, who lives in Canada but comes from South Africa, is an award-winning writer of young adult fiction.
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.
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