Read Europe Tour 17-20 June 2016

The "Reading Europe Tour Spring 2016" is a swiftly conceived and opportunistic response to the increased interest in our European neighbours resulting from the EU in/out referendum taking place on 23 June. This application seeks to gain support for the English part of a wider UK tour of English speaking authors and translators whose work appears on the Reading Europe list of 49 translated texts published by 17 independent publishers published initially by The Guardian at Easter. 

The tour will take place from 17-20 June in venues ranging from independent bookshops, libraries with strong and active reading groups to cultural venues such as the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester  and Free Word Centre in London. Each venue has been chosen because it has a significant mailing list which targets readers of literary fiction.

The Reading Europe Tour seeks to achieve increased exposure to literary fiction in translation and promote the often small independent UK publishers that produce the books.

In addition to Tour dates featuring a variety of European authors and translators, the Reading Eurpe will feature separate author-only and special country days with further suggestions for reading interesting texts in English published by UK Independent publishers. Today's Country Day features work from Germany.

All media enquiries should be directed to EuropeReadingTour@gmail.com