European Literature Night 2025
October 23 | 6 PM | Ukrainian Institute of America
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Join us for the 7th annual European Literature Night (ELN), a captivating evening of readings, performances, and dialogue with eleven award-winning authors from across Europe. This year’s edition, hosted at the Ukrainian Institute of America, brings together some of today’s most vital literary voices to celebrate their latest works in English translation.
ABOUT THE EVENING
European Literature Night 2025 sets out to explore three urgent themes that resonate across borders:
- The Past’s Presence – How seismic historical events shape characters’ present lives
- Authoritarianism / Writing War – The language of war and its moral, political, and social ramifications
- Ties That Bind – How love, desire, and community shape our stories
Through discussions, staged readings, and thought-provoking performances, ELN offers New York audiences the chance to experience the richness, diversity, and urgency of Europe’s contemporary literature.
THE AUSTRIAN PARTICIPANT: ALOIS HOTSCHNIG
Alois Hotschnig was born in 1959 in Carinthia and lives in Innsbruck. His books, celebrated for their stylistic virtuosity and precision of observation, have won major Austrian and international prizes including the Federal Chancellery of Austria’s Literature Prize, the Italo Svevo Prize, the Erich Fried Prize, the Anton Wildgans Prize, the inaugural 2011 Gert Jonke Prize, and the ORF Radio Play of the Year Award, among others. These awards reflect Hotschnig’s mastery in examining universal concerns through the prism of an acute focus on the local. Image: Mercedes Blaas.
Other featured Authors are: Marek Torčík, Czechia | Khuê Pham, Germany | Gabija Grusaite, Lithuania | Tobi Lakmaker, The Netherlands | Joanna Olczak-Ronikier, Poland | Katherine Vaz, Portugal | Liliana Corobca, Romania | Ariane Koch, Switzerland | Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sweden | Artem Chapeye, Ukraine