AUFKLÄRUNG IN ZEITEN DER VERDUNKELUNG 3–11 October 2026 · Canetti House · 12 Slavyanska Street · 7000 Ruse, Bulgaria ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL RUSE For almost two decades, the International Literature Festival Ruse has established itself as a cultural forum with a strong European and international presence. Bringing together contemporary literature and the More...
International Elias Canetti Society Funded by the Danube Rectors’ Conference The Canetti Artist Scholarship is aimed at artists from all over Europe. By also addressing artists from neighboring countries—particularly from the Western Balkans and Turkey—it seeks to foster international artistic exchange. The scholarship supports a wide range of artistic disciplines. Applications are welcome from More...
Literature Festival Ruse All events at a glance Jacques Canetti - Behind the scenes of French chanson - EXHIBITION October 5 at 6 p.m.,Canetti House, 12 Slavyanski Blvd. From Edith Piaf's first steps to those of Brigitte Fontaine, via Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Félix Leclerc, Georges Brassens, More...
FRIDAY, October 13th 20.00 at Canetti House Although not announced in the program, the finale of the festival is on the fatal for some Friday the 13th. But not for Vesna Kusleska from North Macedonia, who won this year's International "Elias Canetti" Society scholarship, arrived in Ruse and has already been working on her idea More...
Nikolai Terzijski is one of the nominees for the "Elias Canetti" National Award this year. "Guilty" for this is his novel "Stars under the Eyelids". The meeting with him will take place on October 6th at 20.00 in Canetti House. Read the interview with Nikolai about the theme of the festival, writing and publishing in More...
5th October, Thursday Start: 18.00 at Canetti House The evening begins with an exhibition of Polish posters, continues with the book "The East" by Andrzej Stasiuk and ends with the novel "The Butterfly Hunter" and its author Kostadin Kostadinov - one of this year's nominees for the Elias Canetti National Prize. The exhibition gathers posters More...
We continued writing the "ear witness" of Elias Canetti (2015-2018) The project to continue writing the “ear witness” of Elias Canetti (2015-2018) was carried out by the International Elias Canetti Society and supported by the “Ruse Free Spirit City” foundation and through private donations. The participants had the opportunity to develop their own characters, More...
Voices of Europe - Workshop on Democracy and Participation An essential focus of the International Elias Canetti Society is political education for young people and young adults. In view of the European elections, the IECG organized political workshops and lectures in order to highlight the responsibility of civil society as a corrective and to More...
Residency Scholarship “Sharing Future” Each year the International Elias Canetti Society, with the support of the Danube Rectors' Conference (DRC), offers the opportunity for a scholarship in Ruse. Bulgaria - Artist in Residence Scholarship “Sharing Future”. It is aimed at artists from all over Europe and thus promotes international dialogue, artistic exchange More...
