Jan Brokken talks to Gwenan Edwards at the Oxford Literary Festival
Jan Brokken talks to journalist and former BBC News presenter Gwenan Edwards about his monumental book Baltic Souls: Remnarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. On the last day of the Oxford Literary Festival, on Sunday, 6 April in the Weston Lecture Theater in Oxford at 10.00am.
Award-winning writer Jan Brokken mixes stories of his own travels to the Baltic countries with a look at the cultural richness of the region and tales of personal tragedy over eight centuries. Outstanding journalism mixed with pure literary non-fiction.
– “Brokken ponders the natural beauty and tangled history of the Baltic states in this lustrous collection of short biographies of artists and writers who hail from the region. Brokken makes keen observations about off-kilter post-Soviet life that provide a whimsical counterpoint to the many mid-20th-century tales steeped in tragedy he recounts. It’s an amusing and erudite travelogue.”- Publishers Weekly *****
Date: 6 April
Time: 10:00am
Interview: 1 hour
Place: Weston Lecture Theatre,
Broad Street
Oxford1 3BG
Entry: £8 – £15
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