The voices of the writer and the writer have always been able to resonate across barriers and boundaries. This year we especially appreciate this freedom of voice and together with them we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the festival! – anniversary Prose readings the writer of the organizer Inga Žolude is applying.
Prose readings 2020 will take place in person: from 1 to 6 December, it will be possible to watch it live www. prozaslasijumi.lv and on the page of the festival’s cooperation partners Delfi and the online magazine Satori www.satori.lv, part of the readings will be heard in the form of audio recordings in cooperation with Latvian Radio, as well as in the official festival Spotify account, the texts of the Baltic authors will be published on the website www.prozaslasijumi.lv, as well as a cooperation partner CONTEXT Viewers / readers / listeners will also be invited to participate in various interactive activities on the festival’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
So young and alive
The festival program offers a diverse program of events. On December 1, the festival will be opened with a short film by Ināra Kolmane Prose readings 25. Watch if you are ready for such a strong nostalgia concentrate. All so young and … alive! Regīna Ezera reads her story by the Christmas tree, Normunds Naumanis together with Guntis Berelis wraps another reader – Nora Iksten, in a smoky hair. Paul Bankovsky – the latest Prose reading the soul, smiling his sphinx smile, drinks tea from the novelty of the 90s – “French glass” cups. Stop, stop the frame! Could you ever ever sit squeezed so close together ?! Ģirts Krūmiņš and Maija Apine play scenes of naive mimes. Berel reads stories “inspired by Andris Skele’s speeches on television”.
Ināra Kolmane’s short film is not a retrospective review of everyone Prose reading For 25 years, it has been a detail and close-up dense PL “memory serpentine” from the very beginning. The film uses footage from the film director’s personal archive.
In 25 years, from a short reading evening to commemorate Andrejs Upītis’ birthday (also immortalized in Kolmane’s short film), the festival has turned into a multi-day prose festival, during which Latvian writers and guest authors of different generations perform various events.
Awkward topics
On December 2, there will be a discussion Freedom of Expression – Myths and Reality, chaired by Lolita Tomsone, with the participation of Rihards Bargais, Inga Gaile, Haralds Matulis and Ieva Kolmane. On December 3, there will be a live video opportunity to listen to the competition Awkward topics winning readings. About one of the five award-winning works – the story of Linda Curika Kurzeme radio, jury spokesman Arno Jundze says: “One you want to read to the end, not to edit and change the order of words. The story of Ilze Strazda Tanks in the mother’s kitchen Ilmārs Šlāpins describes it as follows: “Ilze Strazda’s work touches on the relationship between an adult son and mother, the inability to talk and understand what many face on a daily basis – sometimes dialogue sounds like something we would like to agree or oppose, but continue the conversation and pronounce it to the end. we cannot and do not want to. ” The work of August Brant was also awarded Until the blood, The Story of Iveta Pavziniuka Under the woodpecker on the side of the highway and Mārtiņš Pommera Zhang.
On December 4, there will be an evening of Baltic stories, with the participation of authors from all the Baltic States, in English. December 5 at The future writers who participated in the literary camp will read their works The call. At 18 future writers from the vocational education program will read their works Literary Academy. In the evening at 22 readings Late night party with writers organizes an online journal Satori. Andris Kuprišs, Anete Konste, Andris Kalnozols, Alise Redviņa will read their works.
With a grenade in hand
December 6, the closing day of the festival, will be Prose breakfast – Traditional Sunday morning readings. Inga Gaile, Viesturs Ķerus, Rudīte Kalpiņa, Arno Jundze, Andra Manfelde will read their works at the breakfast table. The event will be hosted by Toms Treibergs. This will be followed by an online conversation with Ukrainian writer Tamar Horih Zern, a novel Girl (Diary, 2020) authors.
The novel takes place in the spring and summer of 2014 in Donetsk. It is there that the heroine loses her family, home, work, illusions, and it is there that she gathers new fragments of life together, finds a new meaning and a new foundation under her feet. In two years, the writer has traveled hundreds of times to the front line, leading the Ukrainian soldiers the most necessary. She also kept a handbook in her pocket, knowing that if the separatists stopped, it would be easiest to go out of life and not be taken prisoner. He was motivated to write a book in spite of stories that could not be told. Tamara Horih Zern’s debut novel is called the best book on the Ukrainian-Russian war in Donbass today. It has received the most important Ukrainian literary prize – the BBC Ukrainian Editorial Prize Yearbook.
Inga Ābele, Rvīns Varde, Gundega Repše, Arvis Viguls will read their works at the closing event of the festival and presentation of the award.
The festival invites you to visit the memorial bench for writers Andras Neiburga and Paul Bankovskis, created by Mikēlis Mūrnieks and Henrik Elias Zēgners, to take a picture or film yourself, reading a book by Neiburgs, Bankovskis or another Latvian author, and publish it on social networks #in a prose #ProseReadings. The best photo for the author – a surprise! Bench LLMC project Together is located near Riga Natalija Draudziņa Secondary School on the side of Bruņinieku Street.
Society of Young Authors Quarantine will offer everyone 1-6. December to become the author of a text, writing a story on special posters placed in freely accessible places in libraries, bookstores, near the Tallinn Street block, etc.
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