Literature Projects in Prospect from February 2007.

BRAZIL
Community Outreach Seminar
For teachers and community workers to develop skills in ELT and creativity in the classroom.
(tbc)
Where: Parati
When: April 2007

CANADA
Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival
UK authors, including Suhayl Saadi and John Burnside,will be speaking
Where: Delta Centre-Ville, Montreal
When: 25-29 April 2007

CZECH REPUBLIC
Kostelec Literature Seminar
The sixth Kostelec Literature Seminar will focus on literature from Northern Ireland and will be chaired by Glenn Patterson. Guests include Ronan Bennett, Leontia Flynn, Owen McCafferty and Eve Patten.
When: 15-17 March 2007

FRANCE
Ian McEwan
Where:Théatre de la Colline, Paris
When:March 2007 (tbc)

Tash Aw, Diana Evans
The authors will give readings and discuss their work
Where:Villa Gillet, Lyon
When:15 March 2007

Graham Swift
Where: Sorbonne Paris IV
When: 16-17 March 2007

Festival Quai du Polar
John Harvey, Ken Bruen, Mark Billingham, Graham Hurley, Anne Perry, Jonathan Trigell, Bill James and Mo Hayder.
Where:Lyon
When:29 March-2 April 2007

Reality and the Novel
Five days of forums, debates, round tables, readings, etc. AS Byatt, James Flint, Tobias Hill, James Meek will participate, Where: Les Subsistances, Lyon.
When: 30 May-3 June 2007

Marathon des Mots
Celebration of London Writers
Where:Toulouse
When:13-17 June 2007

Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie, Paris, Namur: 30th anniversary with special events in Paris and Belgium (13/6/2007-24/6/2007)

GERMANY
Bamberg Artist Residencies
Kevin MacNeil, Luke Fowler, Stuart MacRae, Alwynne Pritchard, David Sherry and Louise Welsh will undertake artist residencies at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg. The 2006-2007 artist residencies will be predominantly from the UK, with MacNeil (literature), Fowler (multi-media/visual art), MacRae (composer), Pritchard (composer), Sherry (visual art) and Welsh (literature).
Where: Bamberg
When: From 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007

Ian McEwan
Conversations: Ian McEwan and John Schellnhuber.
When 22 March 2007

GREECE
European Literary Translation Award 2007
Deadline for applications:  31 January 2007

HUNGARY
Filmclub
Series of film screenings as part of the Reading the City project; the joint topic of each film will be 'The City'.
Where: Toldi cinema, Budapest
When: 14, 28 February, 14, 28 March, 25 April, 9, 23 May, 6, 20 June 2007

Gery Miller (teacher)
Closing event on creative writing competition for secondary school students
Where: Miskolc (tbc)
When: End of March 2007 (tbc)

Rachel van Riel (trainer)
Librarians training
Where: Budapest
When: 30-31 March 2007

Poetica Sacra Festival
Matthew Hollis, Clare Pollard, Anthony Dunn to attend
Where: Ráday Bookshop, Budapest Raday street
When: 30 March - 2 April 2007

INDIA
Riyaz
Session for young writers who want to read and critique each other's work as well as share and discuss other literature.
Where: British Council, Delhi
When: Ongoing: every first and third Monday of the month

Helen Cross
Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mumbai
Where: Mumbai
When: January - February 2007

Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah will perform in various cities during a tour of India and Sri Lanka.
Where: Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Chennai, Bangalore, Colombo
When: 6-24 March 2007

Buzz
Spoken Word Tour
Where. Throughout India
When:
November 2006: Malika Booker
December 2006: Roger Robinson
January 2007:Patience Agabi, Lemn Sissay
February 2007:Aoife Mannix, Heather Taylor
March 2007:Benjamin Zephania

ITALY
Patrick McGuinness
Where:Piccolo Teatro in Milan, then at the Keats Museum in Rome
When:26-27 February 2007

LEBANON
Mal Peet
Workshop on Creative Writing for teenagers.
Where: (tbc)
When: (tbc)

LITHUANIA
The Best Quick Read of the Year
Where: British Council Information Centre, Vilnius
When: 2006-2007
What: Reading Group meetings once per month
More info: http://www.britishcouncil.org/lithuania-arts-and-culture-creative-industries-qread.htm Title:

MALAYSIA
Benjamin Zephaniah
Public reading and discussions as part of the Kuala Lumpur Literary Festival
Where: Kuala Lumpur and Selangor
When: 28–31 March 2007

Jacob Sam La Rose
Poetry performances and workshops with young poets and teachers
Where:Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya
When: 6-10 March

NETHERLANDS
Creative Writing
Twelve next generation writers from the Netherlands and the UK work together to produce new prose writing in their original language and in translation into Dutch/English.
Where: London, The Hague & Amsterdam
When: June 2007 – April 2008

NEW ZEALAND
Aukland Writers and Readers Festival
Ricahrd E Grant,Matthew Collings and Paul Broks to take part (tbc)
Where:ASB Theatre, Aukland
When:24-27 May 2007

PAKISTAN
Literature VC session (title tbc)
Representatives from the Uk, Pakistan, Egypt and Tunisia will participate
Where: British Council conference room
When 19 March 2007.

I Belong website chosen by British Library
The 'I Belong' website has been chosen by the British Library to participate in a two year pilot project to determine the long-term feasibility of archiving the selected website. Both Urdu and English components of the 'I Belong' website will then be taken up  by an American University for linguistic research.
When: November 2006

POLAND
Tash Aw
The author will be promoting his debut novel  The Harmony Silk Factory in Polish edition.
Where: Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Szczecin
When: 2-7 March 2007

Neil Gaiman
Public readings and promotion of the latest  Polish edition of ‘Sandman’
Where: Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk
When: 23-30 March 2007

RUSSIA
St Petersburg Reader Development Seminar
Where: St Petersburg
When: February 2007

Writer / Practitioner Matt Whyman, Jamila Gavin
Creative writing workshops with students, teachers and librarians, meeting with reading groups, Q&A sessions in 4 Russian cities Ekat – Samara – Rostov – Sochi.
Where:  BC offices
When: dates 20 February – 1 March 2007 (tbc)

SOUTHERN AFRICA
Power in the Voice
Residencies by performance poets, creative writing workshops, rap/performance poetry competitions in schools, Voice Fairs, book exhibitions, production of DVDs, radio and TV performances.
Where: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana, Mauritius
When: ongoing

SLOVENIA
Malika Booker
Creative writing workshops for teenagers and public readings
Where:Kranj, Maribor, Ljubljana
When:13-15 March 2007

Reading group for teenagers
As part of the Animating literature regional project   
Where: Kranj Library, Kranj
When: Monthly from Nov 2006 - Feb 2007

Reading group for teenagers
Where:Maribor Public Library, Maribor
When: November 2006 -February 2007

SPAIN
Alan Spence
Will present his latest work, The Pure Land
Where: British Council, Madrid
When:10 March 2007

Books 4 Schools project
Where:Bangkok, Yala, Chiang Mai
When:Ongoing

I ♥ Reading campaign (part of Books 4 Schools project)
Poster campaign featuring 3 Thai celebrities
Where:Bangkok, Yala, Chiang Mai
When: February (date tbc)

UK
The 22nd Oxford Conference: Reading lives: the literature of life and the life of literature in intercultural education
The conference will blend author readings and conversations, round-table discussions, workshops and reading groups. With its emphasis on dialogue and participation, the event offers a lively and informal environment for exploration of these themes. The Netherlands is financially supporting the Head of Modern Literature of the Groningen University to attend this conference.
Where: Oxford
When: 30 March-5 April 2007

UKRAINE
Modern British literature in Ukrainian translations
Launch of a popular science series Why Can’t I..? by Sally Hewitt. The book will be published under a joint project between the British Council and the Renaissance Foundation through which the Ukrainian translations of the best of British fiction and non-fiction of the last decade are made widely available for Ukrainian readers.
When: April 2007

USA
Courttia Newland
UK Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University.
Where:  Georgetown University, Washington, DC
When:  March 10 – April 4 2007

Nii Parkes
UK Writer-in-Residence at California State University, Los Angeles, teaching classes, giving readings and contributing to academic and cultural life. The UK Writer-in-Residence programme is an ongoing initiative in the USA: http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa-arts-literature-uk-writer-in-residence-program.htm.
Where: California State University, Los Angeles
When: March 26 - 20 April 2007

Andrew Motion
The Poet Laureate will take part in a conference at the University of California.
Where: Los Angeles
When: 11 April 2007

Bernardine Evaristo
Writer in residence at Norfolk state university
Where: Los Angeles
When:14 April - 7 May 2007

PUBLICATIONS
New Writing anthology
The quality of the UK’s writing is recognised throughout the world. The New Writing anthology is the British Council’s annual showcase of new work by emerging and established authors from the UK and Commonwealth countries. The anthology has been published annually since 1992 and each year introduces some of the best new writing in prose and poetry to a wide audience in the UK and overseas. New Writing is published by Granta with support from Arts Council England.

New Writing 15, edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Maggie Gee will be published by Granta in June 2007.