25 – 30 January 2016
Poetica II
Festival of World Literature “Blue Notes: Living in Sentences, Dancing in Verse”
The Slovenian poet, storyteller and publisher Aleš Šteger is the curator of Poetica II. The following authors have been invited: Juri Andruchowytsch (Ukraine), Bernado Atxaga (Spain), Georgi Gospodinow (Bulgaria), Lavinia Greenlaw (Great Britain), Durs Grünbein (Germany), Paul Muldoon (USA), Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland), Ana Ristović (Serbia) and Sjón (Iceland).
At the end of the festival they will meet new poets and novelists selected by the German Academy for Language and Literature: Heinrich Detering, Michael Krüger, Navid Kermani, Martin Mosebach and Monika Rinck.
The Festival for World Literature is organised by the International College Morphomata and the German Academy for Language and Literature.