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...
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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...
When most people think Eastern European literature, they think Russian classics. And while there’s every reason in the world to read them, there is also a whole realm of...
The Western Balkans still haven’t forgotten their bloody and violent conflicts of the 1990s. Reconciliation, understanding, trust, and overcoming past trauma still seem...
There’s just one problem with Paul Knott’s utterly fascinating and at times hilarious look back at his colourful career as a British diplomat: it comes to an end...
While most adults across the world understand the gravity of the current situation, the implications of Covid-19 and the need to stay at home can often prove to be...
At the very moment I read earlier this week that Romanian historian and author Lucian Boia had been awarded the Order of Merit by Hungary’s president János Áder...
Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp speaks to Michał Rusinek, the co-author of a new book, Good Change, Or How to Govern the World With Words, which examines how...