'Croatian Nights was born out of a shared fondness for hard drinking'

Tibor Fischer

A FESTIVAL OF ALTERNATIVE LITERATURE
April to May 2005

Croatian Nights is a new collection of contemporary short fiction by the most exciting and innovative writers from Britain and Croatia.

For the last six years, the playwright and novelist Borivoj Radaković has invited leading writers from the UK to Croatia, and more recently to Serbia, to perform to huge festival audiences alongside the very best authors from countries that make up former Yugoslavia. The Festival of Alternative Culture, FAK, is legendary in Croatia and Croatian Nights celebrates the networks it has created. Containing 18 new short stories set in Croatia, this anthology features nine UK authors and nine writers from the former Yugoslavia, most whom appear in English translation for the first time.

Join MATT THORNE, GORDAN NUHANOVIĆ, TONY WHITE, VLADIMIR ARSENIJEVIĆ, JELENA ČARIJA, ZORAN FERIĆ, BORIVOJ RADAKOVIĆ, EDO POPOVIĆ, TOBBY LITT, NIALL GRIFFITHS, BEN RICHARDS, NICHOLAS BLINCOE and SALENA SALVIA GODDEN to talk about the art of the short story, fiction in translation and the evolving literary scene in Croatia as it moves from its recent history of war, into a new future.

Wednesday 20 April	Bristol	Cube Cinema	7pm
Thursday 21 April	Cambridge	Babylon Gallery	7pm
Wednesday 4 May	Cardiff	Academi at Wales Millennium Centre	7pm
Friday 6 May	Swansea	Dylan Thomas Centre	7.30pm
Monday 9 May	Aberystwyth	Coopers Arms	7.30pm
Tuesday 10 May	Bangor	Tyler’s Academic Books	7.30pm
Wednesday 11 May	Caernarfon	Black Boy Inn	9pm
Tuesday 17 May	Newcastle	Arts Centre	7.30pm
Wednesday 18 May	Warwick	Warwick Arts Centre	7.15pm
Thursday 19 May	Brighton	Brighton Library	tbc
Thursday 26 May	London	South Bank Centre	7.30pm