Petar Denchev in a special interview for the festival Petar Denchev - writer, director and, it turns out, an interesting amateur photographer, is a name known to Ruse connoisseurs, but not only to literature and theater. The productions of "Medea", "Twelfth Night" and "Chorus" on the Ruse stage are unforgettable, and his latest novel "Rotation" More...
October 9th CANETTI HOUSE IMPORTANT!!! START IS FROM 19:30 On the ninth evening of the festival, there will be theater, but not quite in its traditional sense. The performance "SCENES AT DAWN" is the first part of the trilogy "Final Countdown - the human at the time of implosion". The authors define it as a More...
October 8th, Sunday 18:00, Canetti House On the eighth day of the festival, guests are two women nominated for the Elias Canetti National Literary Award. The program is opened at 18.00 by Joanna Elmi. "Made of Guilt" - the novel that won her the nomination, will be presented for the first time in Ruse. “… More...
Joanna Elmi will be a guest at the Literary Festival to present "Made of Guilt", the book for which she was nominated for the "Elias Canetti" Award. The live meeting with her is on October 8th, and the answers she gave to the questions in the special interview are an opportunity to get an insight More...
Saturday 07 October 2023 START: 18:00 CANETTI HOUSE Zdravka Evtimova and Kristin Dimitrova set the beginning from their position as authors, but also as translators. At the very beginning of the festival we talked about Bulgarian literature in foreign languages, today this conversation continues along the lines of "Is Bulgarian literature global?". How a quality More...
October 6th, Friday Start: 18:00 Canetti House On the sixth day, the festival begins with the opening of the "Natural Space" exhibition. Nature as a place of yearning for a biblically pristine, paradisiacal state and at the same time a place of danger and extreme challenges is her focus. The exhibition is a continuation of 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...
WEDNESDAY 18.00, CANETTI HOUSE The evening will begin with "Thomas Mann's Coat". If Goethe shows the relationship between the scientist eager for a great political career and the devil, and Mann the price of genius of a great composer, then from this book we can understand that the price of a tailored coat can also More...
18.00, Sava Ognqanov Theatre foyer 19.00, Austrian Library On the third day of the International Literary Festival of Ruse we celebrate the national holiday of Germany with the exhibition Reading through Socialism: the GDR and the NRB. It will be opened at 18.00 in the foyer of the Sava Ognqanov State Theatre and, like every More...
