These three novels – from Georgia, Poland and Romania - reflect a range of languages, cultures and styles and tell us stories about lived experiences in the past and present. Read what Toby Lichtig and his fellow judges Ana Aslanyan, Julian Evans and Kirsty Lang have written about these three shortlisted novels for the EBRD Literature Prize 2021.
The Pear Field
Toby Lichtig (Chair of Judges): In an isolated “residential school for the intellectually disabled” on the outskirts of Tbilisi, a group of children – from the very young to the almost adult – traverse a world of abandonment, neglect and abuse. Looking out for one another, while remaining acutely alert to the necessity of individual self-preservation, they run riot, fantasize, scrap and play, while attempting to negotiate the callous adult world. Narrated in a clear, fluid prose – brilliantly captured by Elizabeth Heighway – Nana Ekvtimishvili’s novel is vicious, funny, totally enchanting and te
Booth, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall online review - contemporary music programme lacks diversity | reviews, news & interviews Booth, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall online review - contemporary music programme lacks diversity
Booth, Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall online review - contemporary music programme lacks diversity
Excellent playing and singing can’t disguise the absence of variety
by Bernard HughesWednesday, 28 April 2021
The Nash Ensemble with soprano Claire Booth
Wigmore Hall does not dish up a great deal of contemporary music, preferring a menu of mainstream chamber music.
Wigmore Hall does not dish up a great deal of contemporary music, preferring a menu of mainstream chamber music. But this programme by the Nash Ensemble offered a different kind of mainstream: within the world of contemporary music this was a middle-of-the-road offering. A roster of composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Simon Holt and Mark-Antony Turnage, all at one time
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Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps | reviews, news & interviews Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps
Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps
How the first female anthropologists found freedom far from home
by Boyd TonkinTuesday, 02 March 2021
To the ends of the earth: Frances LarsonGemma Clarke
Beatrice Blackwood had lived in a clifftop village between surf and jungle on Bougainville Island, part of the Solomon archipelago in the South Pacific. She hunted, fished and grew crops with local people as she studied their social and sexual lives; she joined the men on risky forays into other communities “that had never seen a white person before, but she never recorded any animosity from them”. Later, in 1936, she relocated to the remote interior of New Guinea.
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An online festival of Georgian writers from the Caucasus, with food and song, inspired by the café culture of the first democratic republic of 1918-21
This is an online festival. Booking is required for each session, and ticket holders will be sent links by email.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 25 February 18.00 – 19.10
Festival Launch featuring Katie Melua plus From the Blue Horn Poets to the Red Century: Nino Haratischvili in conversation with Maya Jaggi.
Thursday 25 February 19.20 – 20.40
Liberty’s Feast and Hangover: with Dato Turashvili and Aka Morchiladze
Saturday 27 February 14.00 – 14.45
In the Tbilisi Cafe Kitchen: with Luka Nachkebia
Saturday 27 February 15.15 – 16.35
Medea’s Daughters: Georgia’s pioneering women in the arts. With Nana Ekvtimishvili and Tamta Melashvili