Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

THIRD COUNTRY COOPERATION PROJECTS

Mirrors of Europe will provide opportunities for prominent authors from 20 selected countries to spend time in another project country and produce an extended essay on his/her experience and perception of the host country. Each project country would host one foreign author and send one of its own authors to one of the remaining countries. In the essays, the authors will be expected to address the question of what they see as the key signs of Europe in the country they are visiting. The idea is that essays written by foreign authors will allow the domestic readership to see“ their countries through a different lens – in effect

Credits

Cartarescu and Drakulic – photos by Peter Zupnik