Prague Writers’ Festival features Germaine Greer and Michael Cunningham

This year’s edition of the Prague Writers’ Festival this year takes place October 16–20, with over a dozen participating authors.

Big names coming to the festival include Australian feminist Germaine Greer, Pulitzer Prize winners Michael Cunningham and Junot Díaz, prolific French philosopher François Jullien. Canadian novelist and essayist Nancy Huston, Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli, and Mexican journalist Alma Guillermoprieto,

Key events will take
place at the Czech Senate, with films at the American Center, kino
Světozor, and University of Economics (VŠE),
and book signings at Art & Event Gallery Black Swan.

The theme this year is Beauty Saves the World. Greer, Cunningham and Jullien at the gala opening will discuss the horror of the world hides behind its beauty. Other discussions are beauty saves the world, with Greer, Huston, and Cavalli; and dancing and drowning, with Díaz and Guillermoprieto.

Aside from the
discussions, there will be readings by the authors, and several film
screenings.

Along with festival
president Michael March, he will also discuss the documentary film
Barney’s Wall: Portrait of a Game Changer, about radical publisher
Barney Rosset. It will screen at the American Center.

Another film at the
festival is To the Mountaintops, with an introduction by director
James Gabbe at the University of Economics (VŠE).
The film explores the rising power of China and India.

Discussions and
readings will be available on online, via Czech TV (ČT).