Evenings with Polish Reporters III: Margo Rejmer’s Edge of Europe
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: May 12, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
Meeting with the writer Margo Rejmer, who has spent the last number of years in Romania and Albania and is the author of Bucharest: Dust and Blood, literary reportage on a Romania buffeted between the legacy of the Ceausescu era and a dream of the “West”. The book, translated into Czech by Jarmila Horáková, was issued last year by publishers Dokořán – Jaroslava Jiskrová Máj.
To discuss romantic stereotypes, present-day realities and the growing appeal of Southeast Europe, Rejmer will be joined by René Kubášek, former director of the Czech Centre in Bucharest.
Lucie Zakopalová will moderate.
Third meeting in a series jointly organised by the Polish Institute in Prague and the Václav Havel Library introducing the phenomenon of the Polish school of literary reportage and its most distinctive present-day representatives.