Zagreb
Sunday, May 26
15:00 h
FESS 2012: Informal Opening
Beware: Croatian Artists Cooking!
Z. Ferić, S. Karuza, R. Mlinarec, I.Prtenjača
20:00 h
Languages: Croatian, English
Reading and Conversation
Between Two Beautiful Fires: Stories and Novels
Owen Martell, Josip Novakovich, Keith Ridgway
Cortázar once said that the novel wins on points, while the short story has to do it by a knockout; Cheever said that the short story writer works with intuition, apprehension and dreams, while the novelist works with characters and plots (“and plot implies narrative and a lot of crap”). The problem, the workings, the ins and outs of the short story writers vs. novelists – who is Dr. Jekyll here and who is Mr. Hyde – are discussed by an ambivalent pair, the germ carriers, the inhabitants of both worlds: Martell! Novakovich! Ridgway!
Moderated by: M. Simić, R. Simić Bodrožić
Booksa, Martićeva 14 D
Monday, May 27
16:30 h
Languages,
Presentation (Spanish)
David Roas
Moderated by: G. Matić
Filozofski fakultet, Ivana Lučića 3, Aula Cervantes, A-117
15:30- 17:00 h
Presentation (Hungarian)
Ildikó Lovas
Moderated by: F. Ćurković Major
Filozofski fakultet, Ivana Lučića 3, A-217
16:00-17:00 h
Welsh Translation Workshop
Deborah Kay Davies
Moderated by: T. Raše i T. Kuzmanović
Filozofski fakultet, Ivana Lučića 3, A-123
17:00 h
WORKSHOP
The Golden Age of Visual Storytelling
Karrie Fransman
At this year’s edition of the FESS, Karrie Fransman, whose comics and comic serials have been published in leading British print media (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, Time Out…), plays a triple role: that of a host (to a comic books workshop in Booksa), a guest (whose work we introduce) and a host-guest (who will turn the writers’ stories and the atmosphere of the Festival into a comic strip). During Karrie’s workshop we will get to grips with the exciting medium of the graphic novel, explore the history of sequential art from the Bayeux tapestry to Grayson Perry’s own tapestries, debate the meaning of manga, graphic novels and sequential art, and discover why we are entering the golden age of visual storytelling.
Moderated by: M. Simić,
Booksa, Martićeva 14 D
18:00 h
Reading and Conversation
Adam Marek i Rachel Trezise
The United Kingdom sent to Croatia two mighty agents of short story! “Early McEwan meets David Cronenberg” (Marek) and “one of Britain’s most outstanding and original young writers” (Trezise) are going to talk about cruelty and kindness, music and silence, about where all they see the story and how they manage to touch our hearts with it. Uncovering (theirs) meets discovering (ours) – don’t miss it!
Moderated by: Ž. Černok
Booksa, Martićeva 14 D
18:30 h
Reading and Conversation
Edo Popović: 25 Years of Boogie and 36 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Edo Popović, Nenad Bartolčić i Branko Čegec
Ponoćni boogie, a cult book of the Croatian literature celebrates its 26th birthday and – thanks for asking! – it is as alluring as it was on the day of its publication. On the other hand, the first published story of its author, Edo Popović, was released 36 years ago – and if from that boogie Croatian literature ever rocked – it was rocked by him! The writer we love, two anniversaries we need to celebrate!
Moderated by: R. Simić Bodrožić
Knjižnica i čitaonica Bogdana Ogrizovića, Preradovićeva 5
19:00 h
Reading and Conversation
Philippe Claudel
Renowned around the world as a writer and director, he is known to the Croatian audience for his novels Les âmes grises (Gray Souls) and Le Rapport de Brodeck (Brodeck’s Report), which won him prestigious French and international awards – Prix Renaudot, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Martin Beck Award… The list of recognitions and awards does not end here: his film Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long) won the César Award for the Best Debut and the BAFTA Award for the Best Film Not in the English Language. In 2003, Les Petites mécaniques, his short story collection, won the Goncourt de la Nouvelle Prize. Ladies and gentlemen: Philippe Claudel!
Moderated by: M. Koščec
Medijateka francuskog instituta, Preradovićeva 5
20:30 h
Reading
Hassan Blasim (Irak/Finska), Rawi Hage (Kanada/Libanon), Deborah Kay Davies (Vels), Ildikó Lovas (Mađarska), Josip Novaković (Kanada), Edo Popović (Hrvatska)
Studentski centar, Polukružna dvorana &TD, Savska 25
Tuesday, May 28
17:o0 h
Presentation (France)
Philippe Claudel
Moderated by: M. Koščec, E. Lecalvé-Ivičević
Filozofski fakultet, Ivana Lučića 3, A-107
18:00 h
Book Launch
Alek Popov, Mitologija tranzicije
Moderira / Moderated by: M. Buljević, K. Banović
Booksa, Martićeva 14 D
18:00 h
Reading and Conversation
The Corpse Exhibition and Other Middle Eastern/Far Western Stories
Hassan Blasim
An Iraqi writer and director, since 2004 a refugee living in Finland, speaks about the Iraq from his stories, about the Arab Spring and Finnish winter, about living in his own and someone else’s language and literature… For The Iraqi Christ, his book of stories published by the British Comma Press and American Penguin Books in 2012, he won the Writers in Translation Award by the English PEN. The humor and the horror of these stories you will never forget.
Moderated by: M. Simić, J. Hinks
Café U Dvorištu, Žerjavićeva 7/2
19:00 h
Reading and Conversation
Adam Marek i Owen Martell
Moderated by: Ž. Černok
Café U Dvorištu, Žerjavićeva 7/2
19:00 h
A Short Introduction to the Contemporary Welsh Short Story
Jon Gower, Deborah Kay Davies, Owen Martell, Rachel Trezise
All of you whose first association was Tom Jones, try again!
From the dragon’s nest we welcome literature and authors worth changing our perspectives and priorities! The four of them are some of the best representatives of Welsh short story (as well as novels, and poetry!), they win awards, write and publish in Welsh and in English. What languages they dream in and how green is their valley? You’ll hear that at the Festival of the European Short Story, tonight, at Dvorište.
Goodbye, Mr. Jones!
Moderiraju / Moderated by: K. Brajdić, J. Gower
Café U Dvorištu, Žerjavićeva 7/2
19:00 h
Conversation
Rawi Hage
His plots sometimes make you hold your breath, sometimes they cause a cramp in your stomach; his fiction is as mesmerizing as the most rhythmical poetry, his sentences entwine into poetic whirlpools, but this still remains a tense narrative. A master storyteller and a fascinating poet in one and the same text, Rawi Hage writes about strange destinies of refugees, shady types, immigrants, lost souls, wounded people and their tormentors, sometimes through dark humor, sometimes with tragic bitterness, and sometimes even without mercy, either for his characters or for his readers. Rawi Hage will hardly lull you to sleep; you will wake up, richer for yet another nightmare, and don’t you worry, for only nightmares are so plentiful.
Moderated by: S. Serdarević
Medijateka, Preradovićeva 5
20:30h
Reading and the Welsh Translation Workshop Award Ceremony
Philippe Claudel (Francuska), Adam Marek (Velika Britanija), Filip David (Srbija), Rachel Trezise (Vels), Keith Ridgeway (Irska), Ivana Simić Bodrožić (Hrvatska)
Studentski centar, Polukružna dvorana &TD, Savska 25
Wednesday, May 29
18:00 h
Reading and Conversation
Paolo Giordano
At first he saw writing as a hobby, a respite from his first love – physics. He wrote short stories, and then, in 2008, with his first novel La solitudine dei numeri primi (The Solitude of Prime Numbers), he won it all: the audience, the critics, translations into more that forty languages, and the most important literary awards and prizes in Italy, including Premio Strega. At his first Croatian reading, he will talk about literature and science, love and solitude, about our modern wars and his new, recently published novel Il corpo umano.
Moderated by: T. Peruško
Italian Cultural Institute Zagreb, Preobraženska 4
19:00 h
Conversation
Filip David
Undoubtedly one of the best contemporary Serbian writers, Filip David, a screenwriter and a dramaturge, is going to talk about his stories, about their mystique and fantasy. David’s stories, collected in Princ vatre, nove i stare priče, reveal a master storyteller who draws both from the tradition of the Yiddish story and the contemporary world. With his stories, Filip David always manages to surprise us, leaving space for long reflection.
Moderated by: S. Serdarević
Medijateka, Preradovićeva 5
Friday, May 31
Reading and Conversation
Superheroes, Somewhat Unusual!
Paolo Giordano, Damir Karakaš, Alek Popov
The last evening of this year’s FESS brings practical answers to the question of how Archimedes, Beethoven and Derrida work in the short story, or more broadly: how the story deals with scientific and artistic practices! Physicists, literary historians, musicians during the day, when it gets tough and when the world needs it, they walk into a phone booth and become: Giordano! Popov! Karakaš!
Moderated by: K. Brajdić, M. Simić
The Beertija, Pavla Hatza 16
21:00 h
Party: FESS 2013 Closing Party