Aberystwyth University to lead major new international literary initiative
Literature Across Frontiers (LAF), an initiative based at Aberystwyth University, has been selected for funding under the New Platforms strand of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union as one of three successful applicants from among 47. The grant of 455,425 Euro will support the first year of the project Literary Europe Live launched by LAF as leader of the 16-member platform. The funding was announced at Aberystwyth Arts Centre prior to the staging of “Words, Words, Words”, a multilingual poetry event organized by the North Wales International Poetry Festival and featuring poets from Wales, Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia and Spain. The project is co-funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe Programme and by Aberystwyth University, the Arts Council of Wales and the 16 members of the Literature Across Frontiers Platform. The total value of the project is €570,000. Through the Literary Europe Live project the Literature Across Frontiers Platform will: - create a foru...