#ReadWithEurope: The Day of European Authors, to be celebrated on 25th of March 2024 is an initiative from 2023 by the former European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and supported by the Creative Europe Programme. The tour of European writers and translators to schools is co-organised by the European Commission, the EWC and its member organisations, together with the consortium of the EUPL (European Union Prize for Literature), to reconnect younger generations with reading and to help them discover the diversity of European literature. Meet our authors:

Brussels, 10 March 2024

About the Day of European Authors

The Day of European Authors‘ aim is to reconnect younger generations with book reading and to help them discover the diversity of European literature. The first edition of the Day of European Authors took place on 27 March 2023. All activities on the occasion of the Day of European Authors will be always tagged with the hashtag #ReadWithEurope and will be presented in our Social Media activities on our channels on EWC on Instagram and EWC on Facebook and Creative Europe on Instagram :

Reading sessions in schools:

25 of March 2024 – Tour of European Authors: The European Commission organises a tour of European authors together with the EWC and the EUPL Consortium. 120 writers and translators will visit schools, libraries and bookstores, read   extracts from their books, and encourage students to discover European authors. The EWC presents here 120 colleagues who take part in this edition to celebrate the variety of European literature.

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25th & 26th March: A conference on reading promotion in Belgium In the framework of the Day of European Authors, the European Commission is organising a two-day conference on reading promotion, gathering Member States’ representatives of the ministries of Culture and Education, relevant public institutions and national NGOs active in this field as well as organisations representing the book and cultural sectors coming from 40 Creative Europe countries. The EWC President Miguel Ángel Serrano and EWC Secretary-General Nicole Pfister Fetz will be actively involved in the conference and the workshops.

Authors on Tour: meet the writers and translators from the EWC member associations and invited writers’ and translators’ unions to celebrate the
DAY OF EUROPEAN AUTHORS and #ReadWithEurope

The participating co-organisers:

1. IG Autoren + IG Übersetzer (Translators’ Association Austria) in cooperation with PEN Austria (A)
2. Basque Writers’ Association – Euskal Idazleen Elkartea (ES)
3. Union of Bulgarian Writers – Съюзът на българските писатели (BGR)
4. Croatian Writers’ Association – Društvo hrvatskih književnika (HR)
5. Croatian Writers Society – Hrvatsko društvo pisaca (HR)
6. Cyprus Writers’ Union – Ένωση Λογοτεχνών Κύπρου (CY)
7. Literature and Criticism Association – Όμιλος Λογοτεχνίας και Κριτικής (CY)
8. Czech Writers’ Association – asociace spisovatelu (CZ)
9. The AC Committee for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights UBVA (DK)
10. The Union of Finnish Writers – Suomen Kirjailijaliitto (FI)
11. The Association of Finnish Nonfiction Writers (FI)
12. The Society of French Literati – Société des gens de lettres (FR)
13. The National Union of Authors and Composers (SNAC) – Syndicat national des Auteurs et des Compositeurs(FR)
14. Flemish Writers’ Association – De Vlaamse Auteursvereniging (BE)
15. Spanish Writers’ Association – Asociación Colegial de Escritores (ES)
16. Association of Writers in Galician Language – Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega (ES)
17. Association of Catalan Language Writers – Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (ES)
18. Sanasto – The Finnish Authors’ Copyright Society (FI)
19. La Scam / Société civile des auteurs multimedia (FR)
20. Association of German Language Crime Writers – Syndikat e.V. (GER, CH, A)
21. German Writers’ Union – Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (GER)
22. Hellenic Authors’ Society – ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΩΝ (EL)
23. Society of Hungarian Authors – SZÉPÍRÓK TÁRSASÁGA (HU)
24. Hungarian Writers’ Association – Magyar Írószövetség (HU)
25. Writers’ Union of Iceland – Rithöfundasamband Islands (IS)
26. Irish Writers’ Union – Comhar Na Scríbhneoirí (IE)
27. Latvian Writers Union – Latvijas Rakstnieku savienība LRS (LV)
28. Lithuanian Writers’ Union – Lietuvos Rasytoju Sajunca (LT)
29. The Association of Writers of Macedonia (abbreviated, AWM; Macedonian: Друштво на писателите на Македонија; скратено: ДПМ)(MKD)
30. Association of Writers of Maltese – L-Akkademja tal-Malti (MT)
31. Dutch Association of Writers and Translators – Auteursbond (NL)
32. Norwegian Authors’ Union – Den Norske Forfatterforening (NO)
33. Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association – Norsk Faglitteraer Forfatterog Oversetterforening (NO)
34. The Norwegian Society of Authors – Forfatterforbundet (NO)
35. Norwegian Writers for Children- Norske Barne- og Ungdomsbokforfattere (NO)
36. Unia Literacka – Literary Union Poland (PL)
37. Portuguese Authors Society – Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores SPA (PT)
38. Swedish Association of Educational Writers – Sveriges Läromedelsförfattares Förbund (SE)
39. Slovene Writers’ Association – Društvo Slovenskih Pisateljev (SI)