The British Council library in Bucharest invites you to Literary Dialogues, an event dedicated to both literature and culture.
On Wednesday 29 October, at 2000, we invite you to a discussion about the importance of both literature in itself and its significance as a cultural binder. Together with our three guests, Fiona Sampson, Ioana Ieronim and Peter Salmon, we will enter into the universe of novels and poems which carry their reader not only through already known realms, but also towards new destinations.
Having beside us three authors of different nationalities, the whole evening will belong to the cultural dialogue.
Who are our guests?
Fiona Sampson
Born in London, UK, Fiona Sampson is the author of countless poetry and literary theory volumes. Her musical background, as well as the series of performances as a violin soloist greatly influenced her work. In all of her poetry collections, among which The Distance Between Us (2005), Rough Music (2010) or Coleshill (2013) there is a unique musicality, described by the author Ruth Padel as “controlled and lightly pitched”.
Fiona Sampson’s works were translated in numerous languages and won prestigious awards such as the Cholmondeley Award (2009) or the Zlaten Prsten for international writing (2003).
Ioana Ieronim
Born in Râșnov, Romania, Ioana Ieronim was brought up in a multicultural, bilingual environment which would later influence her entire work. Her narrative poetry volume The Triumph of the Water Witch, (2000), was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Prize. She has published a dozen further collections, and been translated into thirteen languages such as English, Russian, German, Spanish or Italian.
She has taken part in many international poetry events, and in multimedia performances in the USA, Romania and Greece, and directed the poetry programme of the International Literary Festival of the Romanian Writers’ Union, 2002-2012.
Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in England. His first novel, The Coffee Story (Sceptre, 2011), was published to wide critical acclaim and was a New Statesman Book of the Year. The Blue News, his satirical column about books and publishing, was subsequently collected and as Uncorrected Proof (2005).
He has received Writer’s Awards from the Arts Council of England and Victoria. He is also a Lecturer in creative writing, most recently at Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moores University.