Upcoming sessions
Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
March
Alliance Francaise:
Céline Curiol, Voice Over (Faber & Faber, 2008)
April
Polish Cultural Insitute:
Olga Tokarczuk, Primeval and Other Times (Twisted Spoon, 2010)
May
Slovenian Consulate:
Boris Pahor, A Difficult Spring
June
Austrian Cultural Forum:
Thomas Glavinic, Night Work (Canongate, 2008)
Registration – French Session 2010
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
The French Institute Alliance Française has the pleasure of starting the 2010 sessions of the European Book Club. For its third year, the European Book Club is welcoming Romania and Slovenia as new members, and we hope that you will be as excited about their events as we are!
The French session of the European Book Club will take place on
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 6:30pm
at the Haskell Library
(22 East 60th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues)
We will be discussing Céline Curiol’s first novel, Voice Over, originally published in France in 2005 and now available in the US since 2008 thanks to Seven Stories Press.
Click here for more information about this book.
If you would like to register for this event, send us an email at france.nyc@europeanbookclub.org
Happy New Year!!!
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
The European Book Club team would like to send their best wishes for 2010 to all of you.
Thank you for your unfailing interest in European literature.
As in the past years, the 2010 EBC season will start in late winter or early spring. New titles and dates will be announced at the end of January. Please check out website for more updates.
Thank you.
Second Spanish Session
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
The Spanish session on December 14th is sold out, but you have another chance to discuss The Lone Man: a second session is scheduled for the next day on
Tuesday, December 15 at 6:30pm
Galeria Amster Yard
Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
(between Second & Third Avenues)
Please contact spain.nyc@europeanbookclub.org to register. Please make sure to specify in your email that you are registering for the session of the 15th.
More information about this book can be found on the Spain page of our website.
Not familiar with the Instituto Cervantes? Visit their website now!
Register now for the Spanish session!
Friday, November 6th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Registration for the European Book Club session at the Instituto Cervantes is now open.
Monday, December 14 at 6:30pm
Galeria Amster Yard
Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
(between Second & Third Avenues)
Please contact spain.nyc@europeanbookclub.org to register.
More information about this book can be found on the Spain page of our website.
Not familiar with the Instituto Cervantes? Visit their website now!
Register now for the Norwegian session!
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
Registration for Norwegian session of the European Book Club is now open.
Tuesday, December 1 at 6pm
Norwegian Consulate
825 Third Avenue, 38th Floor
(entrance on 50th Street)
Please contact norway.nyc@europeanbookclub.org to register.
More information about this book can be found on the Norway page of our website.
Not familiar with Norwegian culture? Visit their website now!
New contact information
Friday, October 16th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
If you have questions that are not answered in our Frequently Asked Questions page, you can now send them to us by email at contacts@europeanbookclub.org
Welcome to Norway!
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
We are glad to welcome Norway in the European Book Club. Wasting no time, they will hold their first session this November. Date, time and location will be announced soon.
The book discussed will be To Siberia, by Per Petterson. For more information about this book, visit the Norway page.
Not yet familiar with Norwegian culture? Visit their website now!
Book for the Spanish session announced
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
The book that will be discussed at the Spanish session on December 14, 2009 will be The Lone Man, by Bernardo Atxaga.
Registration for this event will start in November.
For more information about this book, check the Spain page.
Register now for the Goethe-Institut’s second session
Monday, September 14th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off
A second session will be held to discuss The Have-Nots, by Katharina Hacker.
Monday, October 26 at 6pm
5 East 3rd Street
(between Bowery & Second Avenue)
Please contact germany.nyc@europeanbookclub.org to register.
More information about this book can be found on the Germany page of our website.
Not familiar with the Goethe-Institut of New York? Visit their website now!