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Kosmopolis. Continuous Programme 2016

Literary activities series

The Kosmopolis Continuous Programme is a programme of dialogues, workshops, lectures and concerts that over the course of the year and between the different editions keeps alive the spirit of the biennial festival Kosmopolis. The Amplified Literature Fest.

Post-Eurocon: Authors You Need to Know

Kosmopolis

Of the many authors who passed through the Eurocon, we’ve selected the ones-not-to-miss and propose a series of short interviews in which they introduce themselves and give a short tour of their work. 

Rhianna Pratchett

The Pixel Narrative

The author Rhianna Pratchett gives a British take on the way narrative models are constantly evolving in the fantasy worlds created by the booming videogame sector. 

Under the Skin of Albert Sánchez Piñol

Lecture in the frame of the science fiction convention «Eurocon 2016»

Cold Skin is a world-renowned work but what is under Albert Sánchez Piñol’s skin? Alicia Gilli take us through the present, past and future of one of the key figures of Catalan literature. 

Brandon Sanderson, the Master of Cosmere

Lecture in the frame of the science fiction convention «Eurocon 2016»

Cosmere is the name of the universe which is the setting for most of Brandon Sanderson’s stories. We travel with him through the constellation of planets that make up these books which he says are inspired by Moorcock and Asimov.

New Voices from Europe

Dialogue with Juana Adcock, Erika Fatland and Albert Forns

In collaboration with the platform’s members and within the context of Literary Europe Live, one of the projects in which Kosmopolis is actively participating, we will be hosting a series of dialogues and chats with emerging authors from different European countries.

An evening with Don DeLillo

Conversation between Don DeLillo and Antonio Lozano

This conversation is an exceptional opportunity to discover the work and career of Don DeLillo, one of the great English-language novelists of our time, who will be here presenting his latest novel Zero K (Seix Barral). Journalist Antonio Lozano will be talking with the author ...

Svetlana Alexievich

The Voices of History

We take a closer look at the life and literary career of Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 201, through a dialogue with writer Francesc Serés, who is well-versed in her work. 

John Irving and Enric González

The World According to Irving

We talk to John Irving about his work and his career. The acclaimed American writer visited the CCCB to mark the occasion of the publication of his novel Avenue of Mysteries[L’Avinguda dels Misteris (Edicions 62) / La Avenida de los Misterios (Tusquets Editores)]. Due to a recording ...

The Stomach of the Writers (4)

Dialogue with Anna Dot, Eduard Escoffet and Jordi Nopca

The Stomach of the Writers dialogues aim to go beyond the traditional and propose that we get closer to writers and artists with tools and resources typical of theatre and of journalism.

Kosmopolis Radio

A programme that we will be broadcasting live from the Sala Mirador which will be transformed for the occasion into a cafè-bar and will present, as the closing event, a concert by Sandra Sangiao and Clara Peya. Journalist and radio presenter Bruno Sokolowicz leads this programme which will feature, among other guests, Laura Huerga (publisher – Raig Verd ), Alejo Cuervo (publisher and bookseller – Gigamesh), Sol Solà (Greenpeace Spain), Clara Peya (composer and pianist) and Sandra Sangiao (singer – BGKO Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra). ...

Kosmopolis Radio: Literature of the change

Climate change is also a literary genre: climate fiction is a branch of fiction that now has its own genealogy, in which authors write on the future of the planet from dystopias and the Anthropocene. From J.G. Ballard to Susan Gaines, Margaret Atwood to Kim ...

Kosmopolis Radio: Radio and Literature

The relations between radio and literature have their own genealogy. From the historical vanguards to authors such as Bertolt BrechtSamuel BeckettDylan Thomas and Umberto Eco, radio has been an ...

Kosmopolis Radio: Svetlana Alexievich and the Voices of History

In this podcast we take a closer look at the figure of Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize in Literature 2015. The author of a powerful and committed oeuvre, between investigative journalism and fiction, Alexievich has profiled her own literary genre: the “novel of ...

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Kosmopolis Radio. Science Fiction: An Experimental Mythology

Novel of anticipation, novelised science, fantascience, speculative fiction… Many definitions have been given for science fiction, a form of literature that has given rise to an (experimental) mythology of our time. In this podcast we approach one of the richest and most complex ...