OCTOBER 4th 2026 from 6.30 P.M. AT THE CANETTI HOUSE “HAUCH” (BREEZE) OR THE LETTER AGAINST THE DIGITAL SCREEN “Hauch” is an epistolary novel written at a time when postal services across Europe are struggling and clearly need support. In smaller towns, post-boxes are disappearing with increasing frequency or the post simply isn’t More...
OCTOBER 4th, 2026, FROM 5.30 P.M. AT THE CANETTI HOUSE SCHWIMMEN IN DER TINTE (SWIMMING IN THE INK) This is the fascinating title of Rumiana Ebert’s book, which we will be presenting on the 4th of October. She is a renowned Bulgarian and German poet, writer, essayist and translator who has been combining More...
3 October 2026 from 7.00 at the Canetti House A LETTER THAT IS NOT PRONOUNCED, BUT CONVEYS A LOT The second event on the first day of the festival features Jehona Kicaj. Kicaj was born in 1991 in Suharekë, Republic of Kosovo, and moved to Germany with her parents in the 1990s. More...
Official opening of the 19th ‘Voice of Reason’ International Literary Festival 3 October 2026 from 5.30 p.m. at the Canetti House Saturday 3 October 6.00 p.m., Canetti-House Immediately following the festival’s official opening, there will be an event at which the audience will have the opportunity to meet Elli Unruh and learn More...
Under this motto, the Ruse International Literature Festival is celebrating its 19th anniversary. The festival is the flagship event of the Cultural Centre of the International Elias Canetti Society and traditionally provides a platform for the diverse voices of artists from different generations to be heard. Each with their own theme and their own pain, 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...
12th October, 18:00 HOUSE CANETTI "Humanism and Capitalism. A posthumanist perspective on monsters" - in this topic, Vasil Mihalak from Romania will lead us tonight. He is the co-founder of Post/h/um magazine. for Posthumanist Studies, as well as its editor. He is the coordinator of various collections of critical theory and the author of articles More...
11.10. 2023, Canetti House 18:00 CORNELLIUS HELL, Austria He is a writer, translator and literary critic. He works for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk; he is a lecturer at various Austrian universities. He translates prose, poetry and drama from Lithuanian. "I am coming to the Literature Festival to present my "self-portrait with Elias Canetti" and some More...
Cornelius Hell is an Austrian writer, translator and literary critic. Especially for the Ruse Literary Festival he briefly answered a few questions before meeting the audience on 11.10. What will you present at the Literary Festival? Give us more information about the book we will be reading from, more about the idea and in More...
10th October Canetti House Start: 18:00 Perspectives on theatre from the point of view of two researchers is the focus of the tenth evening of the festival. Peter Denchev is up first with "The Use and Function of Space in Theatre Performance (1968 to the Present)". "I imagine it will be interesting for many because More...
