It is quite like planting trees - here, in the wild land that is my hometown of Radomir - and knowing that they would bear fruit in 30 years, translator and writer Zdravka Evtimova says in an interview to Europost.

The story of a poet forced to flee his motherland because of the totalitarian regime, a poet who spent years in a psychiatric facility in Britain, actually reflects 20th century history, writer Martin Reiner says in interview to Europost.

I take great interest in people and I am a very careful observer. This is evident in my books, in the minor details I describe, they draw my attention. When I am writing a book, I penetrate deeply into each character and look at the world through their eyes, writer Carolina Schutti says in an interview to Europost.

The 6th Sofia International Literary Festival is set to take place from 11 until 16 December under the slogan “Four countries - one language”. The foreign segment of the programme will be entirely dedicated to German-language literature.

There is also immediacy about a movie that is hard to beat. It is as if you were in the room yourself, watching. A novel has to work hard to give you that feeling, author Ian McEwan says in an interview to Europost.

A World War II story by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1956, is being published for the first time this week in the summer edition of the Strand Magazine - a literary quarterly that has released obscure works by Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck and others.