The #ReadNordic literature campaign in the Czech Republic focuses on humour in April. There will be three main events in the program:
19:00 - Kino Evald (Národni 28, Praha 1)
Finnish comedy A Charming Mass Suicide (Finland, 2000, 118 min)
Director and screenplay: Ere Kokkonen
Based on a novel by: Arto Paasilinna
Stars: Tom Pöysti, Heikki Kinnunen, Sari Siikander, Santeri Kinnunen, Kristiina Halkola
More info on: http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/2016/nordic-film-thursdays-a-charming-mass-suicide/
Literary discussion on Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen's The Rabbit Back Literature Society
18:00 at Moravian Library (Kounicova 65, Brno), conference hall
Special guest: Translator Vladimír Piskoř
More info on: http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/2016/nordic-literary-salon/
Book signing session at Book store Kosmas (Perlová 3, Praha 1) at 16:00
Discussion with Minna Lindgren at Era svět (Jungmannovo nám. 767) at 18:30
(Photo by Stefan Bremer)
More info (only in Czech): http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/2016/minna-lindgrenova-v-praze-autogramiada/ & http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/2016/babicky-na-stope-setkani-s-minnou-lindgrenovou/
The campaign #ReadNordic focuses on promotion of Nordic literature in the Czech Republic. It continues till May 2016 when the Nordic countries will be the guests of honour at the Book World Prague, the largest annual book fair in the Czech Republic with more than 35.000 visitors. The campaign is organized by Embassy of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in Prague, coordinated by the Scandinavian House and supported by the Nordic Culture Fund, Danish Arts Foundation and Swedish Arts Council and the Finnish presidency of Nordic Council of Ministers 2016. Read more about #ReadNordic: http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/readnordic-en/
Updated 5/3/2016
