In the final episode of Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast series, journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets the Finnish artist Sanna Pelliccioni. Sanna studied art, illustration and graphic design in Italy and Finland, and is now an illustrator and author of children’s literature, especially picture books, which have been translated into…

In the eighth episode of Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast series, journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets the Slovak linguist, translator, film theoretician and poet Mária Ferenčuhová. Mária is the award-winning author of six collections of poetry that have been translated into several languages. She also translates prose, poetry and …

In the seventh episode of Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast series, journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets the Belgian artist, illustrator and children’s author Ann De Bode. Born in the Belgian Congo, she now lives and works in Duffel, Belgium. During her rich career, she has illustrated almost three hundred books at home and abroad, …

In the sixth episode of the Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcasts, series presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets the Bulgarian writer Alexander Shpatov. Alexander, 35, was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has never left his home city for more than two weeks. Winner of the 2005 Bulgarian National Best Fiction Debut Prize the Sofia Award for Liter…

In the fifth episode of Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast series, Rosie Goldsmith meets the Italian writer, poet, publisher and traveller Tiziano Fratus. Tiziano talks about his relationship with nature and explains how, in the silence of the Californian forests, he developed the concept of Homo radix (“root man”), the practice of alberograph…

In the fourth episode of the Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast, the journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets Akvilė Kavaliauskaitė, a journalist, screenwriter, director and lyricist from Lithuania. They engage in a conversation on journalism, the political climate in Lithuania, what it means to be a writer today, and Akvilė's recent sho…

In the third episode of the Europe Readr Riveting Interview podcast, the journalist and presenter Rosie Goldsmith meets Axel Lindén, a Swedish author who lives with his family on a sheep farm in southern Sweden. Axel talks about his relationship with nature, his decision to move to the countryside, and the current climate crisis. Axel made his debu…