BOOK & FLY: The Book World Prague in The Gulliver Airship

6:30 PM

Sofi Oksanen & Adam Zagajewski

Leaving the USSR: exile or immigration?

Leaving allows for the possibility of return: at least, that’s how we usually think about it. But sometimes people know that return is out of the question – especially when politics is involved. An exile waits for return to be possible again; an immigrant gives up on the idea of return. Sofi Oksanen and Adam Zagajewski discuss this “choice” based on their own experience.

Moderated by: Ondrej Soukup

Interpreted: Czech, English

Organized by Book World Prague, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Polish Institute in Prague, and Embassy of Finland, Prague. Supported by FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange.

8:00 PM

Drago Jančar & António Lobo Antunes
Writing the shaking of the world

A writer always writes about the world around him, in other words about history, in simple terms at least. But some take history as material for their work. How does a writer settle his story in the stream of history? What kind of narrative can he use? Are the stream of consciousness and the stream of history different things

Moderated by: Petr Fischer

Interpreted: Czech, English

Organized by Book World Prague, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Embassy of Portugal, Prague, and Embassy of Slovenia, Prague.

TICKETS FOR INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS:

FREE ADMISSION
-  with a valid ticket to the Book World Prague literary festival 

-  members of the DOX Friends Club (Reservations recommended via form below.)

ADMISSION:

-  BASIC 60CZK

-  STUDENTS / SENIORS 40CZK

Tickets available to buy via form below or at the DOX Centre on the day of the event.