Nika Prusnik Kardum

Join the Festival of Hope's opening event on Thursday, the 21st of January at 6 PM CET! Our first round table discussion focuses on Belarusian political and social situation, hosting the Belarussian poetesses Valzhyna Mort and Julia Cimafiejeva and the Belarusian philosopher and activist Olga Shparaga. The discussion is led by the Slovene reporter Boštjan Videmšek and interpreted by Vienna based interpreter and translator Mascha Dabić.

This year seems like a year in which the fate of humanity might be decided upon again. Politically, socially, ecologically, emotionally. Is it the End times? Or were the times before the outbreak of covid-19 the end times already, but we somehow failed to notice? Is it New Times? Or simply - a mess? The authors of the Versopolis' 8th eBook - among them Bruno Latour, Bojana Kunst, Ahmed Naji, Lionel Manga, Olivier Marbouef, Yasmin El-Rifae - tackle some of these questions.

From another epic another history. From the missing narrative. From the multitudes of narratives. Missing. From the chronicles. For another telling for other recitations (Dictee, 81) What does it mean to write and speak in a language which is not your own? And as a writer, how important is it to feel a sense of literary heritage or ancestry, which one is connected to, is able to access and feels part of?