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International Fiction Reading Group

Join our award winning International Fiction reading group, run in partnership with the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.

The initiative aims to encourage more people to read foreign literature, and is the first book group of its kind in the UK. The group usually meets on the second Wednesday of each month from 1.30pm to 2.30pm in the training room on the 2nd floor of the Millennium Library in Norwich.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 15 May  when the group will be discussing Traveller of the Century by Andres Neuman (translated from Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenzo Garcia) and The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker (translated from Dutch by David Colmer)  Both books are shortlisted for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Further details  from b.epstein@uea.ac.uk

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BCLT is also working with English PEN, Booktrust and The Reading Agency on the IFFP Readers Prize which gives readers the chance to shadow this year’s IFFP.

Criminally Good Books

Looking for a thrilling read? Enjoy crime novels by authors such as Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo, Karin Alvtegen or Henning Mankell? Then join our book group in King’s Lynn run jointly with Norfolk County Council Library and Information Service, which will focus on translated crime fiction.

Further details from b.epstein@uea.ac.uk or from Alison Thorne at King’s Lynn Library (alison.thorne@norfolk.gov.uk)

Read BJ Epstein’s crime fiction blog

International Fiction Reading Group Guide

Interested in joining a reading group but can’t get to Norwich or Kings Lynn? Then why not start your own reading group for fiction in translation?

Download our International Fiction Reading Group Guide (PDF)

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