STORIES ON THE BORDER BETWEEN DIFFERENT WORLDS
Conversation with authors Sholeh Rezazadeh (Netherlands/Iran) and Ondřej Štindl (Czech Republic)
Moderator: Aleksandar Madjarovski
Two contemporary European literary voices create works that move between the personal and the collective, the intimate and the global.
Sholeh Rezazadeh, an Iranian-Dutch writer and poet, with her novel I Know a Mountain That’s Waiting for Me, creates a lyrical allegory about nature, the escape from urban speed, and the search for a space for the soul. Her stories are often a bridge between two worlds — Western Europe and the Middle East — and carry warmth, tenderness, and ecological awareness.
Ondřej Štindl, Czech novelist and screenwriter, offers a psychological and philosophical analysis of life in the shadow of a global crisis, where the pandemic becomes a catalyst for rethinking the meaning of existence, love, and loss.
The event brings these two voices together in a conversation about how to write in times of global and personal change, how to build bridges between cultures and generations, and how nature and the city, the past and the present, are reflected in literary language.
Both authors have been recognized for their work with the European Union Prize for Literature.
