Trafika Europe Radio is launching its fifth season with an exceptional literary line-up, featuring:
– Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanow on his ecological novel, The Lamentations of Zeno, and some implications for the world
Our latest journal issue -> TE22 Potpourri <- contains new European literature by Michèle Rakotoson (French-Malagasy), Jacek Gutorow (Polish), Kathrin Schmidt (German), Lilja Sigurðardóttir (Icelandic), Manuel Baixauli (Catalan), Isabelle Baladine Howald (French), Andrea Lundgren (Swedish), Lada Vukić (Croatian), Heidi Amsinck (Norwegian), Antonella Lattanzi (Italian), Ángelo Néstore (Spanish), and Lejla Kalamujić (Bosnian).
Worlds meet at multicultural European Literature Night: a presentation of 11 books from 10 European countries!
Trafika Europe is an exciting and innovative project showcasing new literature in English translation, from across the 47 countries of Council of Europe. • The project includes our acclaimed online literary journal, literary events calendar, online bookshop, literary animated videos, local events, print publications… and Trafika Europe Radio – Europe’s literary radio station, free online! • We are affiliated with The Pennsylvania State University and are a registered US educational nonprofit foundation, with virtual working locations.
We warmly welcome you to our first-ever livestreaming video concert!
We’re offering two ways to engage:
Trafika Europe 21: Serbian Moments is free online! Featuring new Serbian literature from Dejan Tiago Stanković, Marija Kneževic, Darko Tuševljaković, Ana Ristović, & Nikola Lekić, plus writing from Kristin Dimitrova (Bulgaria), Nikola Tutek (Croatia), Andrea Scrima (Am.-Germany), Nana Ekvtimishvili (Georgia), & M. Caterina Mortillaro (Italy), with stunning artwork all through this issue (and on the cover) from Olga Spiegel
Welcome to Trafika Europe Radio season 4 – the start of our second year!
We’ve got a spectacular lineup, starting Sunday 12 September 2021 – with about 6 hours of new literary episodes from across Europe each Sunday!
Thanks so much – Trafika Europe Radio has completed its first year!
As perhaps the world’s first “literary radio station”, we’ve curated more than 175 literary podcast episodes in our first year, and our livestream continues 24/7 with hundreds of tracks of “literary music” from across Europe, and more – dip in anytime and you may find Armenian choral music, Greek polyphonic women’s choir, Welsh punk and Romansch post-punk, poetry/sound experiments from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Spain (including Galician and Catalan), French, Yiddish, and English folk, Roma (gypsy) music, Swiss avant-garde – and so on and on and on and on and on. It’s a great soundtrack to your day:
Announcing Trafika Europe Radio Theater — a new mini-series bi-weekly in April and May, 2021, featuring European plays translated into English and adapted for radio!
“European Regions: Progress in Literary Culture” (41-minute panel discussion)
In the light of recent political and economic trends counter to a more unified Europe, panelists assess progress culturally and consider new approaches and understandings of European literary cultures and regions. Aiming for a new infrastructure for European literature, our project, including the Trafika Europe Radio initiative, seeks to foster greater openness and mutual regard among European literary communities toward a more shared European identity.
Announcing season three of Trafika Europe Radio!
Starting from Sunday 07 February 2021, we’re adding three new audio series to our weekly lineup:
Trafika Europe 19 – Iberian Adventure highlights new fiction and poetry in fresh English translation from Spain and Portugal, featuring José Luís Peixoto, Albert Bonjoch, Patrícia Portela, Sara Mesa, Yolanda Castaño, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, Gonçalo M.Tavares, John Hartley, Manuel Astur, and Rosa Oliveira, plus work from elsewhere in Europe. You can read it free online right here.