The second annual reading and discussion on November 1 of this year brought together writers from across Europe: Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and the Czech Republic. This year’s event featured Phillipe Claudel, Quim Monzo, Iva Pekarkova, Matthias Politycki, and Domenico Starnone, followed by a roundtable discussion led by Esther Allen.

In December of 2004, Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, Petra Hůlová, Camille Laurens, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and John von Düffel read their work, with a discussion moderated by Phillip Boehm.

Both events, the 2005 “Roots or Wings? Writing Within and Without Borders” and 2004’s “New Literature from Europe,” were made possible by the Goethe-Institut New York, Instituto Cervantes, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and the Czech Center of New York, in collaboration with Institut Ramon Llull.

Look for more works from “New Literature from Europe” in forthcoming issues of Words Without Borders.