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础耻迟丑辞谤蝉听Ur拧u木a Kovalyk (Slovakia) & Dana Todorovi膰 (Serbia) join Lucy Popescu in conversation about contemporary fiction in Eastern Europe.听Come and join us in celebrating some of the best new fiction from Eastern Europe to be published in the UK.

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Dana Todorovi膰 is a novelist living in Belgrade. She is half-Serbian, half-American, and although she was educated mainly in the US and UK, she prefers to write in Serbian. Her debut novel, Tragi膷na sudbina Morica Tota (The Tragic Fate of Moritz Tot) was shortlisted for the Branko 膯opi膰 prize for best novel, awarded annually by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and was also listed as one of the top novels of the year by the听NIN听weekly and the daily听Politika. Her second novel Park Logovskoj was shortlisted for several major literary awards, including the prestigious NIN award. Both novels were also published in Germany. In addition, she is the author of two children's books, as well as several short stories that have appeared in various magazines and anthologies.听
She has extensive experience working as a translator, particularly in the field of theatre and film (translating plays and screenplays) and spent six years working as an interpreter for the UN.听
Dana comes from a family of actors. Having studied drama herself at university, she also had acting roles in a number of movies of the former Yugoslavia.

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Ur拧u木a Kovalyk is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and social worker. She was born in 1969 in Ko拧ice, eastern Slovakia and currently lives in the capital, Bratislava. She has worked for a women鈥檚 non-profit focusing on women鈥檚 rights and currently works for the NGO Against the Current, which helps homeless people. 听She is the director of the Theatre With No Home, which features homeless and disabled actors.
Ur拧u木a Kovalyk鈥檚 plays include听Vec听(The Thing, 2003),听Makov谩 panna听(The Poppy Seed Spinster, 2004),听Krvav媒 k木煤膷听(The Bloodied Key 2005),听Oktagon听听(Octagon, 2006),听Dia de muertos听(2008) and听Squat听(2009). She has published two collections of short stories,听Nevern茅 啪eny nezn谩拧aj煤 vaj铆膷ka听(Unfaithful Women Lay No Eggs, 2002) and听Travesty 拧ou听(Travesty Show 2004), and a novel,听沤ena zo sek谩膷a听(The Second-hand Woman 2008). Her latest novel,听Krasojazdky艌a听(The Equestrienne), published in 2013, was shortlisted for Slovakia鈥檚 most prestigious Anasoft Litera Award and received the Bibliot茅ka Prize for 2013.

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is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was Director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. She compiled and edited A Country of Refuge, an anthology of writing on asylum seekers by some of Britain and Ireland鈥檚 finest writers, published by Unbound in 2016.听Lucy听is a volunteer writing mentor for Write to Life, the creative writing group at Freedom from听Torture. She edited refugee writer Jade Jackson鈥檚 collection Moving a Country听and the Write to Life anthology,听Body Maps.听The Good Tourist, her book about human rights and ethical travel, was published by Arcadia Books. She co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books)听 featuring the work of writers that PEN has helped over the last 40 years.听 She was Granada鈥檚 youngest published author in 1982 with Pony Holiday Book.听 Lucy reviews books, theatre and film and contributes to various publications including TheIndependent, Independent on Sunday,The Financial Times,听TLS, The听Literary Review, New Humanist听and听Huffington Post. She has a particular interest in literary fiction in translation and free expression. She sat on the Spanish New Books Panel in 2013 and the 2016 judging panel for The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. She is the chair of the Authors鈥� Club Best First Novel Award.听Lucy currently teaches creative writing at the Working Men鈥檚 College in Camden, curates literary evenings at Waterstones Piccadilly and听is a Trustee of the JMK Award for Theatre Directors. 听She is currently crowdfunding for her next anthology,听,听focusing on the experiences of young refugees and featuring the work of some of our best loved children鈥檚 authors.

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The event is free but registration is essential.

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