Authors' Reading Month is the largest Central European literary festival running annually since 2000. The organiser is the Větrné mlýny Publishers, (

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, Czech Republic) and the festival takes place every July 1–31. Every day 2–3 readings take place performed by writers of the host country and writers from the festival guest country. As of 2016, the festival takes place in 5 cities simultaneously, spanning 4 countries: Brno and

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(Czech Republic),

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

(Poland),

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

(Slovakia), and

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(Ukraine). In 2020 the festival guest country was

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History

In the years 2000–2004 the main festival venue was the Kabinet múz (formerly HaDivadlo). Since 2005 the venue has been the Husa na provázku Theatre in

, Czech Republic. Since 2016 the festival runs parallel in 5 cities in 4 countries. The readings are also available online at the Publishers YouTube channel, and broadcast by radios. In the years 2000–2004 the festival was dedicated only to Czech writers, featuring one performing author per day. Since 2005 the festival has hosted a guest country every year, offering 2–3 readings every day, one by the homeland author and another by a foreign writer from the guest country. The guest countries of the past years are these: * 2005 Slovakia * 2006 Berlin (Germany) * 2007 Belarus * 2008 Canada * 2009 Austria and Stuttgart * 2010 France (since this year the festival has run a parallel venue in Ostrava) * 2011 Poland (since this year the festival has run parallel venues in Wrocław and Košice) * 2012 Slovenia * 2013 German-language authors * 2014 Scotland (10 TV documentaries of Scottish writers were made by the

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. * 2015 Ukraine (since this year the festival has run a parallel venue in Lviv; TV documentaries with Ukrainian writers were made by the Czech Television) * 2016 Spain * 2017 Georgia * 2018 Turkey * 2019 Romania * 2020 Hungary * 2022 Iceland * 2023 Norway * 2024 Taiwan

References

External links

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