The HeadRead literary festival is sad to announce that due to urgent professional engagement, Norwegian writer, film critic and screenwriter Erlend Loe will not attend the festival this year. He hopes to meet our audiences in the coming years. On the other hand, the festival is happy to announce that Finnish author and literary scholar … Continued
This year, the international literary festival HeadRead, taking place from 29 May to 2 June in Tallinn, will host nearly 30 international guests, including writers, illustrators and curators of other literary festivals. Tallinn can look forward to historian and chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley, best known to Estonian audiences as a television … Continued
For the second time, Estonia celebrates the national Estonian Literature Day with events across the country. For nonnative speakers, here are some resources for getting to know Estonian literature. Best Estonian books in translation in 2023 Estonian Literature Centre – extensive information on Estonian authors with profiles, translated excerpts and more. Estonian Literary Magazine – … Continued
Krista Kaer On Thursday 16 November, Antonia Susan Byatt, a writer and literary critic, died aged 87. She visited the HeadRead festival in Tallinn in 2014. Her most famous novel Possession, which won the Booker Prize in 1990, has been translated into Estonian. Byatt’s knowledge of literature was admired by all her contemporaries, she was … Continued
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.
