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European Literary London
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Exploring London through the eyes of Europe's writers, artists and intellectuals:

Online map, travelling exhibition, writer in residence, curating conversations, engaging students & more 📚. Get in touch with ideas!

www.europeanliterarylondon.org
A special issue on city writing we co-curated!

Includes interviews with Nisrine Mbarki (the Netherlands), Tone Schunnesson (Sweden) & Iryna Shuvalova (Ukraine) on the complex fabric of urban modernity, London, and literary practice.

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2025:2 | Swedish Book Review
A special issue on city writing, featuring works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, Uta Staiger, Hjalmar Söderberg, Elisabeth Åsbrink and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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*Loved* co-curating this special issue of @swedishbookreview.bsky.social with its brilliant editor, literary translator Alex Fleming aftranslations.com.

New translations, superb interviews, and a short intro by yours truly - all on #CityWriting and all linked to @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social.
We’re delighted to have co-curated the latest issue of the Swedish Book Review! 📚

This special issue on city writing features works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, @ukstaiger.bsky.social and more.

swedishbookreview.org/2025-2

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2025:2 | Swedish Book Review
A special issue on city writing, featuring works by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Aris Fioretos, Maxim Grigoriev, Gabriella Håkansson, Uta Staiger, Hjalmar Söderberg, Elisabeth Åsbrink and more.
swedishbookreview.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The fish is cheap, yet rents rise all around,
the butter’s salty and the water’s stale;
great distances here shrink by underground,
but I can’t nurse in peace my post-lunch ale.

(Theodor Kramer, From the first days in London, 1985)

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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-made might as if indifferent to heaven’s frowns and smiles.

Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), The Secret Agent, 1907

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November 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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How fitting to stumble across this on my way to the Globale Literaturfestival in Bremen / meeting UNESCO #CityofLiterature reps on @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social business.
October 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Our next stop of our European tour is coming up:

Visit us at the globale° Festival for border-crossing literature in Bremen, 26 Oct-2 Nov!

@ukstaiger.bsky.social will give a talk on the project, in cooperation with the UNESCO #CityofLiterature network.

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October 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"What an enchanting life! I would have preferred the galleys a hundred times over."

Viscount Chateaubriand was not taken with all aspects of London life.

Entry suggested by EU ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social.

See more:
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September 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Go on, you know you want to listen in to this...
Listen to the latest episode of Talking Europe where Dr Uta Staiger discussed the European Literary Map of London and wider relationship of London and European Literature with European authors Ciara Broderick, Nisrine Mbarki, Domas Raibys and Iryna Shuvalova and her UCL colleague, Lucy Shackleton.
Talking Europe | Finding Europe on London’s Streets: understanding the enduring ties between London and the European Literary imagination
This episode of Talking Europe focuses on a unique literary project that underscores the enduring cultural ties between the UK and the rest of the European continent: the interactive, online European
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September 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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What happens when we see ourselves as others see us? This weekend I'll be @hayfestival.bsky.social in Segovia to talk writing, place & language with @martarebon.bsky.social, William Chislett & Deborah Christopher. Includes most picturesque setting yet for our @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social pop-up.
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The European Literary Map of London is travelling!

The German-language version has just hit #Berlin - starting its run in the capital's iconic town hall: the Rote Rathaus.

Esther Kinsky, Jörg Fauser, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger among the German-language entries.

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July 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨 Calling all aspiring writers! 🚨

Don't miss out on the chance to hear from our Writer in Residence, Ciara Broderick!

Open to UCL students, she will be discussing how to make a career as a writer.

Registration still open: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
Student Workshop with EI Writer in Residence Ciara Broderick
Join UCL’s new European Writer-in-Residence, Ciara Broderick, for a workshop dedicated to making a career as a writer.
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May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This is happening tonight, with writers from Ireland; the Netherlands; Lithuania & Ukraine.

At Europe House, with EUNIC London, the European Literature Network. To mark UCL’s 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence.

@europeanlitlondon.bsky.social

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Mapping the City – European Writers in London
A special event celebrating the 2025 UCL European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence, featuring four exceptional writers: Ireland’s Ciara Broderick; Nisrine Mbarki from the Netherlands; Domas ...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We’re so grateful to @uclalumni.bsky.social at Portico magazine for shining a light on the European Literary Map of London in their Spring 2025 issue. Thank you for helping us share the stories, places, and writers that connect Europe and London through literature. 📖🌍

Read all about it!
Spotlight: European Literary Map of London | Portico Magazine | UCL
Dr Uta Staiger and Lucy Shackleton guide us through a lockdown-born online map and physical exhibition revealing London’s dichotomies through a literary lens.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We're delighted to welcome writer Ciara Broderick as our European Writer in Residency for a month!

Passionate about representing the Irish language, Ciara will write a piece to be featured on the European Literary Map exploring migration.

Her work highlights that "for immigrants, all is fiction."
April 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hoy a las 19:30h en Madrid:

En el Ámbito Cultural de El Corte Inglés, con el apoyo de la Embajada Británica, celebramos la #NocheDeLosLibros con la inauguración de nuestra exposición sobre #EuropeanLiteraryLondon

Lecturas, poesía en vivo con Gonzalo Escarpa y mucho más
👉 Entrada libre
April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
'sometimes I am as strange and alien to myself as all this which surrounds me.' (Luis Cernuda)

📖 Explore: bit.ly/4cLO6Um
📝 Submit: bit.ly/3zgon6T
April 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Wrote this a while ago, critically toying with ideas of literature & urban space, memory & mapping, polyphony & cartography.

Riffing off our European Literary Map of London @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social.

For @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclei.bsky.social.

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Of Media, Multiplicities and Monsters - Think Pieces
How do we map a city's multiplicities? Not in cartographic terms, from above, but from the ground up - walking, thinking, writing it?
thinkpieces-review.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“For the first time, I felt truly foreign…I was mortally insignificant to the world.” Geijer’s 1834 letters trace his journey from Swedish outsider to London's admirer.

🚨 Last day in Valencia! #LostAndFound then heads to Madrid (23 Apr–11 May).

📖 Explore: bit.ly/3XXaBQ7
📝 Submit: bit.ly/3zgon6T
April 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
“she...looked at gold rings. Wanted to so much. Just the once, just once. For mum.” Alakoski’s Londonflickan explores immigrant mothers & daughters in postwar London.

Catch this entry in our exhibition at El Corte Inglés Valencia until 13th April!

Read more: bit.ly/3FVIN8M
Submit: bit.ly/3Dr6zbD
April 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The event was associated to our European Literary Map of London's Grand European Tour.

The UK Mission to the EU lent Passa Porta the displays - now superbly exhibited at Muntpunt, the public library just next to La Monnaie Opera House.

Go see it!

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March 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Loved being at the Passa Porta Literature Festival, talking to authors David Nicholls & Peter Terrin about space, place & their writing. Wonderfully rich: Island fiction. Heterotopias. Beckett, Stevenson, Melville. Yorkshire, Monte Carlo & abandoned basements. And lots of maps.

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March 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The ELML comes to Brussels! Find us at Passa Porta, Benelux’s largest multilingual literary festival (28-30 Mar, Muntpunt). Discover how writers like Hans Christian Andersen captured London.
More info: passaporta.be

Submit your ideas: bit.ly/3zgon6T
#europeanliterarylondon

Image: Miguel Navarro
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Todo o Soho é malsán…”

Catch @marilaraleixandre.bsky.social’s tale of Marx & Darwin in 19th-c Soho.

Recently featured in our ELM exhibition @ El Corte Inglés in Santiago de Compostela.

📍Next stop on our Spain tour: Valencia 28/3-13/4.

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#EuropeanLiteraryLondon
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM