Michael March: A Question of Identity
Michael March and Olga Lomová in Literarní noviny
Olga Lomová: You're a poet, a translator, and the organiser of a literary festival. In the beginning however you studied history? What brought you to history? And what interested you the most about it?
Michael March: I went to study history because American history is entertaining. And it's also short. So I had lots of time for other things as well. I focused on American history – European history is much more serious. And bloody. And also more complicated.
OL: But when I look at the number of slaughtered American Indians it seems to me that there was a fair bit of blood in American history too?
MM: Yes, that's true. But that isn't studied in American history.
OL: And why does American history strike you as entertaining?
MM: I discovered that the American concept of decline hides within it, though in a very open way, the very mechanism of how that society works. You ...
Amos Oz: A life in Writing
'If every last Palestinian refugee was settled in the West Bank and Gaza, it would still be less crowded than Belgium'
Tribute to John Updike
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike died on the 27th of January. He was one of the most important American writers of the last half century.
Jean Genet: Prisoner of Love
In 2002, the Festival was dedicated to Jean Genet whose stories of the dispossessed appear in Prisoner of Love.
