Dec 8, 2022
Trafika Europe is an exciting and innovative project showcasing new literature in English translation, from across the 46 countries of Council of Europe and related. • 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. read more
Sep 2, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Trafika Europe Radio’s sixth season, free online, with some great literary guests in September! read more
Aug 20, 2022
In the month of August 2009, right on schedule, the plane in which I was travelling landed in Lviv. The snowy white of the airport bedazzled me. read more
Feb 15, 2022
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 read more
Dec 5, 2021
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). read more
Dec 4, 2021
Worlds meet at multicultural European Literature Night: a presentation of 11 books from 10 European countries! read more
Nov 18, 2021
We warmly welcome you to our first-ever livestreaming video concert!
The Brothers Gillespie
Sunday 12 December 2021
We’re offering two ways to engage: read more
Sep 16, 2021
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 read more
Aug 30, 2021
Welcome to Trafika Europe Radio season 4 – the start of our second year!
Schedule
We’ve got a spectacular lineup, starting Sunday 12 September 2021 – with about 6 hours of new literary episodes from across Europe each Sunday! read more
May 26, 2021
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: read more
Apr 6, 2021
Mar 3, 2021
“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. read more
