British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin 2019
- 24-26 January 2019
- Berlin
Cities in Contemporary UK Literature
How do we write about the cities that we live in? How does the urban environment inspire and influence contemporary British literature? #BritLitBerlin connected writers, academics and lovers of reading alike.
#BritLitBerlin was a chance to hear the latest writing from the UK and engage with the writers and their work first-hand.
Multiple award-winning poet and Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael Symmons Roberts, chaired the event. He said:
"More than half – and rising – of our world’s population lives in cities. They are engines of social and political change, crucibles of conflict and transformation. Our cities are as complex and diverse as we are, even more so if we take in the wider ‘urban’ constellation of towns and edgelands.
This Berlin seminar - as befits a city with so many novels and poems in its honour – will explore how British writers have shaped and reflected all kinds of cities – real and mythic, utopian and dystopian, concrete and virtual."
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