A special issue on city writing we co-curated! Includes interviews with Nisrine Mbarki (the Netherlands), Tone Schunnesson (Sweden) & Iryna Shuvalova (Ukraine) on the complex fabric of urban modernity, London, and literary practice. swedishbookreview.org/2025-2

*Loved* co-curating this special issue of @swedishbookreview.bsky.social with its brilliant editor, literary translator Alex Fleming aftranslations.com. New translations, superb interviews, and a short intro by yours truly - all on #CityWriting and all linked to @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social.

The fish is cheap, yet rents rise all around, the butter’s salty and the water’s stale; great distances here shrink by underground, but I can’t nurse in peace my post-lunch ale. (Theodor Kramer, From the first days in London, 1985) www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/c016...

The vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-made might as if indifferent to heaven’s frowns and smiles. Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), The Secret Agent, 1907 www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/6583...

How fitting to stumble across this on my way to the Globale Literaturfestival in Bremen / meeting UNESCO #CityofLiterature reps on @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social business.

Our next stop of our European tour is coming up: Visit us at the globale° Festival for border-crossing literature in Bremen, 26 Oct-2 Nov! @ukstaiger.bsky.social will give a talk on the project, in cooperation with the UNESCO #CityofLiterature network. globale-literaturfestival.de/programmheft...

"What an enchanting life! I would have preferred the galleys a hundred times over." Viscount Chateaubriand was not taken with all aspects of London life. Entry suggested by EU ambassador Pedro Serrano @eudelegationuk.bsky.social. See more: www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/5e43...

Go on, you know you want to listen in to this...

What happens when we see ourselves as others see us? This weekend I'll be @hayfestival.bsky.social in Segovia to talk writing, place & language with @martarebon.bsky.social, William Chislett & Deborah Christopher. Includes most picturesque setting yet for our @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social pop-up.

The European Literary Map of London is travelling! The German-language version has just hit #Berlin - starting its run in the capital's iconic town hall: the Rote Rathaus. Esther Kinsky, Jörg Fauser, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger among the German-language entries. www.europeanliterarylondon.org

🚨 Calling all aspiring writers! 🚨 Don't miss out on the chance to hear from our Writer in Residence, Ciara Broderick! Open to UCL students, she will be discussing how to make a career as a writer. Registration still open: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

This is happening tonight, with writers from Ireland; the Netherlands; Lithuania & Ukraine. At Europe House, with EUNIC London, the European Literature Network. To mark UCL’s 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence. @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

We’re so grateful to @uclalumni.bsky.social at Portico magazine for shining a light on the European Literary Map of London in their Spring 2025 issue. Thank you for helping us share the stories, places, and writers that connect Europe and London through literature. 📖🌍 Read all about it!

We're delighted to welcome writer Ciara Broderick as our European Writer in Residency for a month! Passionate about representing the Irish language, Ciara will write a piece to be featured on the European Literary Map exploring migration. Her work highlights that "for immigrants, all is fiction."

Hoy a las 19:30h en Madrid: En el Ámbito Cultural de El Corte Inglés, con el apoyo de la Embajada Británica, celebramos la #NocheDeLosLibros con la inauguración de nuestra exposición sobre #EuropeanLiteraryLondon Lecturas, poesía en vivo con Gonzalo Escarpa y mucho más 👉 Entrada libre

'sometimes I am as strange and alien to myself as all this which surrounds me.' (Luis Cernuda) 📖 Explore: bit.ly/4cLO6Um 📝 Submit: bit.ly/3zgon6T

Wrote this a while ago, critically toying with ideas of literature & urban space, memory & mapping, polyphony & cartography. Riffing off our European Literary Map of London @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social. For @ucl-ias.bsky.social & @uclei.bsky.social. thinkpieces-review.co.uk/2025/02/21/o...

“For the first time, I felt truly foreign…I was mortally insignificant to the world.” Geijer’s 1834 letters trace his journey from Swedish outsider to London's admirer. 🚨 Last day in Valencia! #LostAndFound then heads to Madrid (23 Apr–11 May). 📖 Explore: bit.ly/3XXaBQ7 📝 Submit: bit.ly/3zgon6T

“she...looked at gold rings. Wanted to so much. Just the once, just once. For mum.” Alakoski’s Londonflickan explores immigrant mothers & daughters in postwar London. Catch this entry in our exhibition at El Corte Inglés Valencia until 13th April! Read more: bit.ly/3FVIN8M Submit: bit.ly/3Dr6zbD

We were here!

The event was associated to our European Literary Map of London's Grand European Tour. The UK Mission to the EU lent Passa Porta the displays - now superbly exhibited at Muntpunt, the public library just next to La Monnaie Opera House. Go see it! muntpunt.be www.europeanliterarylondon.org

Loved being at the Passa Porta Literature Festival, talking to authors David Nicholls & Peter Terrin about space, place & their writing. Wonderfully rich: Island fiction. Heterotopias. Beckett, Stevenson, Melville. Yorkshire, Monte Carlo & abandoned basements. And lots of maps. www.passaporta.be

The ELML comes to Brussels! Find us at Passa Porta, Benelux’s largest multilingual literary festival (28-30 Mar, Muntpunt). Discover how writers like Hans Christian Andersen captured London. More info: passaporta.be Submit your ideas: bit.ly/3zgon6T #europeanliterarylondon Image: Miguel Navarro

“Todo o Soho é malsán…” Catch @marilaraleixandre.bsky.social’s tale of Marx & Darwin in 19th-c Soho. Recently featured in our ELM exhibition @ El Corte Inglés in Santiago de Compostela. 📍Next stop on our Spain tour: Valencia 28/3-13/4. ➡️ www.europeanliterarylondon.org #EuropeanLiteraryLondon

TODAY!

One for the textual map enthusiasts over at @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social & @uclei.bsky.social.

Just been to Abney Park cemetery, which Irene Solà described as “filled with crooked narrow grey tombstones piled over each other and covered in moss, [...] with rain and lichens, with anise flowers, trees, stinging nettles and mud.” And spring, today. www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/0064...

🌟Delighted to have met with @uclalumni.bsky.social in Stockholm on Monday, as part of a bigger delegation visiting @kthuniversity.bsky.social, @ki.se, and @stockholmuni.bsky.social 🇸🇪, while showcasing the European Literary Map of London @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social in its Swedish incarnation.

Irish poet Ciara Broderick will be the @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social UCL 2025 European Literary Map of London Writer in Residence. Galway-based Broderick will spend her residency at @ucl.ac.uk writing and engaging with staff & students and attending events. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

Our European Literary Map of London continues to travel far and wide - follow its progress on @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social!

Together with UCL Arts & Humanities, partnering with EUNIC London, Goethe-Institut London and the European Literature Network, we are pleased to announce Ciara Broderick as our @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social Writer in Residence this spring. ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins... @ucl-global.bsky.social

"The Institute has been shaping the way UCL interacts with the wider European continent since 2010" Thank you to UCL Pi Media for taking the time to sit down with our Executive Director Uta Staiger and delve into our activities. ➡️ Read more here: uclpimedia.com/online/ucl-e...

Delighted to see HMA Alex Ellis open the @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social display @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social, made possible through a @ucl.ac.uk partnership with the British Embassy in Spain, Ámbito Cultural and @elcorteingles.bsky.social.

See you in Sweden on Monday! Join us at the @uclalumni.bsky.social Stockholm Reception—register below👇 The event will also feature a pop-up of @uclei.bsky.social's Lost & Found exhibition, showcasing the European Literary Map of London and its rich cultural connections. #UCLEurope bit.ly/40Rgyi0