What has been will be again,

what has been done will be done again;

there is nothing new under the sun…

New under the sun is an international literary pop-up festival held in Cardiff between October 16 -17 2014.

The festival, organised by publisher Parthian Books, aims to introduce new playwrights, novelists, works in translation and more to audiences in Wales.

Wales Literature Exchange is proud to sponsor the international fiction event held on Friday, October 17th at the Cameo Club, Cardiff at 8:00pm.

Peter Krištúfek, Francesca Rhydderch and Fatos Lubonja are three award-winning writers from countries on the edges of Europe whose different perspectives on the history of the last century are variations on a theme of internal exile.

Peter Krištúfek’s House of the Deaf Man charts the fortunes of a Slovak family against the vagaries of central European politics (Parthian, October 2014).

Francesca Rhydderch’s thoughtful debut novel The Rice Paper Diaries (Seren Books), set between Wales and Hong Kong during the Second World War, has just won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize.

Fatos Lubonja’s False Apocalypse (new from Istros Books, October 2014) takes a unique and disturbing look at post-communist Albania.

The event is chaired by Gary Raymond of Wales Arts Review and presented by our sister organisation Literature Across Frontiers and PEN Cymru in association with Parthian and Istros Books. Tickets are ₤3, payable on the door.

New under the sun, October 16 – 17 2014, Cardiff

For more information visit the New under the sun website here or follow the festival on twitter here.