Prague Writers' Festival, 6-10 June 2010

[daveh]

Iain didn't make it to Prague last year so is trying again in 2010.

http://www.pwf.cz/en/pwf-2010/

[Conscious Bob]

Maybe this year DownNotAcross.

[daveh]

OK, so the Prague program has been announced. These are just the Banks bits.

14:00 Saturday June 5, 2010
Author Signing: Iain Banks and Bahaa Taher
at Big Ben Bookshop

18:00 Tuesday June 8, 2010
Conversation: "Heresy" in English | translation: Czech
Iain Banks, Peter Matthiessen and Bahaa Taher with moderator Jan Urban
Entrance: 100,- Kč │ students | seniors 50,- Kč

19.30 Wednesday June 9, 2010
Reading:
Assia Djebar - in French | translation: Czech | English
John Wray - in English | translation: Czech
Iain Banks - in English | translation: Czech
Introduced by Michael March, Denis Molčanov, Viktor Janiš
Text read in Czech by Taťjana Medvecká | National Theatre Company
Entrance: 100,- Kč │ students | seniors 50,- Kč

[Viktor Janiš is the translator of the Czech edition of The Wasp Factory so I assume he is the one that will introduce Iain]

See http://www.pwf.cz/en/pwf-2010/program/

[daveh]

Interview from Radio Prague at http://www.radio.cz/en/article/128712 both audio and transcript.

[daveh]

The readings and conversations at the Prague Writers' Festival were recorded and are now online. Iain participates in the Tuesday evening conversation, and the Wednesday evening reading.

The former is at mms://netshow.play.cz/pwf/20100608-1800-en.wmv

In the latter his section begins about 43:50 into the video at mms://netshow.play.cz/pwf/20100609-1930-en.wmv
It starts with some questions from Viktor Janiš and then a ten minute reading from Use of Weapons begins at 01:16:15 .

[Tangendentalism]

Fantastic! Thanks, Dave.