11th Prague Writers' Festival Programme
Dedicated to Primo Levi: “If Not Now, When?”
11th Prague  Writers' Festival 2001
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Sunday, 1st April: "A View from the Bridge"
14.00 Festival opened by Lord Mayor Jan Kasl  
19.00 Gala Evening:
concert: Corin Curschellas & Christian Rösli (Switzerland)
reading: Gore Vidal (USA)
Studio Ypsilon
 
Monday, 2nd April : "Guardian Day"
16.00 Tribute to Primo Levi Italian Cultural Institute,
Vlašská 34, Praha 1
19.30 Guardian Conversation: "The Fall of Humanism" Gary Younge (moderator), Jan Kavan, Jan Kasl, Gore Vidal, Salman Rushdie, Arnošt Lustig, Michael March Studio Ypsilon
 
Tuesday, 3rd April : "The Best Man"
11.00 Press Conference: Gore Vidal (USA) Global One Press Centre
Studio Ypsilon
13.00 Signing : Gore Vidal The Globe Bookstore, Pštrossova 6, Praha 1
15.00 Conversation: "Sleepy Hollow: White Nights in Vienna", Peter Stephan Jungk (Austria) and Robert Menasse Studio Ypsilon
17.00 Talk: Gore Vidal: "Clearer Than Truth" Studio Ypsilon
19.30 Gala Evening: Salman Rushdie (Great Britain)
Visit supported by the British Council
Studio Ypsilon
 
Wednesday, 4th April : "Israel"
11.00 Press Conference and Signing: Israeli authors, Arnošt Lustig and Ewald Osers The Globe Bookstore
17.00 Reading: Etgar Keret and Savyon Liebrecht Studio Ypsilon
19.30 International Evening: Natan Zach (Israel), Arnošt Lustig (Czech Republic) and Vassilis Vassilikos (Greece) Studio Ypsilon
 
Thursday, 5th April : "Switzerland"
10.00 Swiss authors at Charles University Charles University,
Palachovo náměstí 2, Praha 1
12.00 Signing: Robert Menasse and Peter Stephan Jungk The Globe Bookstore
13.00 Conversation: "Piano at the Top of the Alps" Adolf Muschg, Erica Pedretti, Zoë Jenny, Daniel de Roulet Studio Ypsilon
17.00 Reading: Erica Pedretti, Daniel de Roulet, Zoë Jenny Studio Ypsilon
19.30 International Evening: Adolf Muschg (Switzerland), Peter Stephan Jungk (Austria) Studio Ypsilon
 
Friday, 6th April : "Ireland"
11.00 Press Conference and Signing: Irish authors The Globe Bookstore
13.00 Signing: Vladimír Páral The Globe Bookstore
13.00 Conversation: "Breakfast on Pluto" Timothy O'Grady, Dermot Healy, Patrick McCabe Studio Ypsilon
17.00 Reading: Dermot Healy and Timothy O'Grady Studio Ypsilon
19.00 International Evening: Patrick McCabe (Ireland), Robert Menasse (Austria) and Vladimír Páral (Czech Republic) Studio Ypsilon
 
11th Prague Writers' Festival 2001 is organized by:
  • Prague Writers' Festival Foundation Fund, director Michael March
    e-mail address: mmarch@globalone.cz

Tickets available:

  • from 15th March - Studio Ypsilon,
    Spálená 16, Praha 1, tel.: 02 2494 7119