Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
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Two of Poland’s best-loved cartoon characters, Kajko i Kokosz, are getting their own show. Animation lovers will soon get a new treat courtesy of Netflix, when the...
Just in time for your Christmas shopping, we highlight six Nobel Prize winning authors (and six essential books – one by each author) from emerging Europe. Here’s...
The British media love Poland, says Jo Harper, but have been misreading it. He offers a few tips on how to put this right. I have spent the last 18 months studying...
Recalling the exploits of the Czechoslovak Legion, Dreams of a Great Small Nation is a riveting narrative telling of a history long suppressed by Soviet authorities...
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was until recently the last leading opposition figure in Belarus to be both free and still in the country. Two weeks ago, however, the...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Since 1997, the Nike Award, or Nagroda Literacka Nike, has been showcasing the best of Polish literature, with an annual prize pool of 100,000 zloty and a statue...
Mother Teresa’s life and the history of Albania – especially its people’s relationship with Roman Catholicism – are intertwined, with the humanitarian icon...
Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel Prize Lecture has been named Emerging Europe’s Artistic Achievement 2020. The Polish writer won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature for...
Hungary is a country which suffered far more than its fair share of tragedy in the 20th century. The 1956 Revolution and subsequent Soviet invasion which quashed that...
Travelling north from the Bulgarian capital Sofia many years ago, researching a travel guide to the Balkan country, the name of a small town through which I passed on...
