WALTIC 2010

WALTIC 2010 äger rum på Bilgiuniversitetet i Istanbul, Turkiet, 2-5 september 2010

First Announcement (pdf)

Ordens värde åter i centrum när WALTIC byter stad (Författaren 3/10)

Läs mera på www.waltic.com !

Resa till WALTIC? Det går att söka resebidrag från Sveriges författarfond, www.svff.se.

Om WALTIC 2008:

“For me WALTIC was that kind of island where nobody was an island - not only was there a possibility to raise difficult questions about what literature can be, there was also the possibility to hear the echoes of these questions resonate. For a couple of days literature was actually carried by people."

Abdelkader Benali, Netherlands

“I consider WALTIC to be this year’s most important event, not only for the city of Stockholm, but for the World"

Gamal al-Ghitani, Egypt

"I am glad to participate in the WALTIC congress because it is  devoted to democracy, and the act of reading is a very good example of pure democracy in action."
    
Philip Pullman

“WALTIC truly is a unique event that needs to become part of the writing world's - or the democratic republic of words' - calendar.  For me what was particularly unique and rewarding about the event was the concentration on the writers, their works and their processes.

I think this focus came from the fact that the event was conceived and organised by writers, rather than the publishers (the commercial side) or universities (the academic side). I think the fact that it was organised by writers gave it a truly inclusive appeal,representing writers literally from across the world."

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe

“The active networks of writers exchanging works through an engagement with translation is the most important counterweight to nations, states, and transnational corporations. The Internet makes possible an unprecedented scale, depth, and quality of exchange; but these possibilities will only be realized through complex organization and editorial imagination. In this brave new world, literacy is necessary but not sufficient. We have also to consider the role of activist literary writing and translation in our post-literate world, where readers and writers need both cultural and technological literacy to be fully enfranchised in the global and local polis. These are some of the themes I expect to see addressed at WALTIC 2008."

Charles Bernstein, USA

“I am impressed by the wide spectre of issues that are going to be discussed at this first WALTIC congress. There are many questions which provoke me, confuse me and can’t be easily answered: namely a new status of literature in modern globalized and digitalized world; the problem of literary values and literary evaluation; the question of canon (which canon? whose canon?); the power of cultural market (which establishes its own values); the question of cultural domination; the new problems of old literary theory; the problem of expansion of literacy and illiteracy, all at the same time. I hope that the upcoming WALTIC congress will give us, the citizens of the global republic of letters, some answers."

Dubravka Ugresic, Croatia