“Art of living.” The writer in motion and writer in seclusion. Writers as public intellectuals

An open discussion for those who want to learn more about contemporary writers. We’ll speak about how our ideas about creative writing as a profession are changing, and how writers’ lifestyles and public role are changing as well. Wanderers and recluses, public intellectuals and academic thinkers, celebrities and escapists.

Participants:

Moderator

• Natalia Lomykina, literary critic (Russia)

Speakers

• Ekaterina Manoylo, prose writer (Russia)
• Pola Kapola, Chairman, Association of Book Publishers of Athens (Greece)
• Monica Mpambawashie, Vice President of Pan African Writers' Association (Zimbabwe)
• Gourav Mohanty, writer (India)
• María Alexandra Loyola Moya, editor (Cuba)