Eleven talks in total from this year’s HeadRead festival are published on the free Jupiter platform of Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR), with ten already available for watching. It is the first time such a large share of the festival’s programme is broadcast. The eighth season of ERR’s programme Kirjanduse aeg (The Time of Literature) features … Continued
The fourteenth HeadRead is now done – thanks to our guests, volunteers and many-many people and organisations who provided invaluable help with organising this literary feast. International guests Jussi Adler-Olsen, Anna Auziņa, Annette Bjergfeldt, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Javier Cercas, Elin Cullhed, Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Oksana Drachkovska, Tommaí Fegan, Seamus Ó Flatharta, Eva Frantz, Semjon Hanin, … Continued
It’s a wrap for this year – you can find the gallery of day five on our Flickr site. However, in a way, the festival continues until 6 June in the Tammsaare Park, where you can admire Dmitri Kotjuh’s portraits of the people of the Estonian literary scene.
It is the time to make your way to our Flickr page once again to see the impressions from the fourth day of the festival by Dmitri Kotjuh.
Dmitri Kotjuh’s next batch of photos is up on our Flickr. Naturally, the recommendation to pop into Tammsaare Park for his exhibition still stands.
Once again, we are happy to have Dmitri Kotjuh cover our festival with his impeccable eye – the first and second day are now on the festival’s Flickr site. The portrait exhibition that grew out of previous festivals is open in the Tammsaare Park in Tallinn until 6 June.
From today until Sunday, the international HeadRead literary festival will be held in various venues in central Tallinn. Five days will offer 60 events with nearly 40 international and more than 50 Estonian writers, poets and musicians. Readers can meet Mikhail Shishkin, a Russian-born writer living in Switzerland, the popular Danish crime writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, … Continued
From 23 May, the Estonian Children’s Literature Centre hosts exhibitions by two artists as part of the HeadRead festival. Ukrainian illustrator Oksana Drachkovska will talk to Indrek Koff who joined her in publishing the bilingual book Who Wins?. The Estonian translation of the graphic novel The Treasure of the Black Swan by Spanish artist Paco … Continued
In the final stretch of presenting our international guests, we are proud to present Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv from Ukraine. Their children’s book How War Changed Rondo has won numerous awards, including the Paabeli Torn award for translated children’s literature in Estonia. Read more on their profile.
Greg Mosse’s fiction writing workshop is now full and registration is closed.
