International Literature Festival Odessa

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The International Literature Festival Odessa ( spelling : international literature festival odessa ) is a literature festival founded in 2015 by the German Ulrich Schreiber and the Swiss Hans Ruprecht and has been taking place annually since the end of September and the beginning of October in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa .

The festival is sponsored by the Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics . It is financially supported primarily by the German Foreign Office and the Swiss Jan Michalski Foundation.

Attendees

The 2015 festival was held primarily in Russian and English. Top representatives of the Ukrainian government stayed away from him. The participants included Eliot Weinberger from the USA, the Canadian John Ralston Saul , Lukas Bärfuss and Ilma Rakusa from Switzerland, Sema Kaygusuz from Turkey, the Russian Michail Schischkin and the Ukrainians Juri Andruchowytsch and Andrej Kurkow , who is also responsible for the organization was involved. The festival also has a program section for children's and youth literature. In this u. a. Melvin Burgess , Yves Grevet , Nils Mohl and Marcin Szczygielski .

In 2016, as in the previous year, the Moscow writer Viktor Erofejew was one of the most celebrated guests at the festival. In addition to writers, European architects also met at the event in the same year and discussed issues such as urban planning.

The approximately 60 participating writers at the third festival in 2017 included Jennifer Clement from Mexico, the Swiss-German author Nora Gomringer , Bachtyar Ali from Iraqi Kurdistan, Bora Ćosić from Serbia, Michael Krüger from Germany, Paata Shamugia from Georgia as well as Lyuba Yakimchuk and Serhij Schadan from Ukraine.

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Individual evidence

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