Date: April 7th
Time: 19:30
Cc: Free entry
Place: TCG Nordica
Kjell Espmark
Professor Kjell Espmark, now an 86-year-old Swedishpoet, literate, lifelong Academician of the Swedish Academy, and Former Chairmanof the Nobel Prize in Literature Jury (1987-2004) is coming to visit Yunnan University for lectures and TCG Nordica toattend the Poetry Night we put up in honour of his visit.
Professor Kjell Espmark won Swedish Bellman Prize inLiterature, Transtromer LiteraryAward, The DeNiro Literature Prize of Italy, and many other importantliterature awards. He fully deserves the reputation of a master in literaturein contemporary literary world.
ThomasTranstroemer is the T in our TCG Nordica (Transtroemer, Café andGallery). Transtromer was a highly accepted poet from Sweden and a importantfigure for who TCG Nordica has become today. Thomas Transtromer acknowledgedTCG Nordicas as a unique culture center and for our use of his name.
Thomas Transtromer won the Nobel Prize ofliterature in 2011. This year is his 5th year anniversary and thisnight we will honour him by reading some of his poems.
Thomas Transtromer also has an award namedafter him in Sweden called: TrastromerLiterary Award, which our visitor Kjell Espmark once won.
This night in cooperation with YunnanUniversity we will have:
Live music (Gu Zheng) ,
Invited people to read poems,
the Performance Art group “Paper”will have a performance
and we will have open stage to share and readmore poems.
We are looking forward to share thisintellectual poetry night with everyone.
Literates and artists of any kind willhopefully be inspired by attending this event.
