In September, 23th to 25th 2011 the native town of Elias Canetti will become a meeting place for international authors and the Danube will unite different countries from the region. Great evening events in Ruse will give the start to the literary cruise Literature in Flux. From September 23th to October 26th writers, poets, translators, journalists and bloggers from ten different countries will set together on a cruise to Vienna. Ruse is the first port of the literary cruise, which will later pass through Cetate (Romania), Belgard and Novi Sad (Serbia), Vukovar (Croatia), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Vienna (Austria).

Literature in Flux will initiate a cross-border dialogue in the Danube region, unite the histories and people and enrich the intercultural diversity. The Danube river is a symbol of common history and culture, of a boundary which has been overcome at the end of East-West conflict. This autumn the Danube will be a stage for contemporary international literature. As part of the project new translation of literary text will be made in order to increase the popularity of the writers from the West Balkans and Turkey in the region and in Europe and to trigger cultural exchange. The translation workshops in June in Sremski Karlovci (Serbia) and in September in Vienna (Austria) have encouraged the collaboration between the authors and their translators and thus improved the quality of the translations.

In 2012 the second part of the project Literature in Flux – via Mare will take place, including literary readings and events in Croatia, Albania and Turkey. On this occasion a publication on the topics and experiences from the literary cruise will be presented.