When Women Write

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The project’s aim is to enhance women’s writing and promote their creative and intellectual work in Europe and Italy. Through WWW Voland will publish 11 books still unreleased in our country, written by women and translated by women, selected in relation to the literary quality of each title and their ability to tell universal stories. In an editorial context where men continue to be more published, translated, reviewed, awarded and predominantly hosted to festivals and book fairs, our project aims to deconstruct the stereotype that relegates women's literature to the romantic and sentimental sphere and to an exclusively female public, proposing 11 strong and original contemporary voices that debate the major themes of the present. From the crime novels by the Polish A.Kanotch and the Czech V.Hanišová, to the Romanian I.Pârvulescu, the Austrian A.Baar and the Bulgarian M. Kassimova with the research of an entire generations’ identity, to the German U.Dreasner with a novel about the collapsing of certainties and new life’s challenges, passing by the French S.Daull and the Serbian J.Lengold and their relationship with mothers, families and their past and by the Slovanian B.Bojetu and the Catalan G.Ruiz Palà and their fiction about women’s emancipation, to the EU Prize winner P.Leino, with a modern dystopia about climate changes, nazi-moviments and the research of freedom, WWW strongly means to start and build a public discourse upon the centrality of female thought and writing throughout the creating process of a new European literary culture, in which women are the protagonists and authoritative interpreters. Therefore, a fundamental part of the project will also be the networking of the female players of the publishing chain: translators, editors, journalists and curators, who will be actively involved not only in relation to the proposed novels, but also in the conception of contents aimed at encouraging and spreading the cultural production of European women.