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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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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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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"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.

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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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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

'sometimes I am as strange and alien to myself as all this which surrounds me.' (Luis Cernuda)

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“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).

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“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!

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“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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