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EWC is grateful for the support provided by its funders, also including: Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening (NFF) / Norwegian Non-fiction Writers and Translators Association; The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS, UK); ProLitteris (Switzerland); De Stichting Literaire Rechten Auteurs (Stichting LIRA, The Netherlands)

EVENTS

1st EWC EUROPEAN SEMINAR: STRENGTHENING AUTHORS’ ORGANISATIONS

The 1st EWC EUROPEAN SEMINAR: STRENGTHENING AUTHORS’ ORGANISATIONS was held successfully on 19-20 November 2009, organised and hosted by the European Writers’ Council in Brussels.

Sponsored by the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society, ALCS (UK), the first seminar of its kind covered the following topics:

o         Authors’ Rights Awareness

o         The Importance of Collective Management

o         The European Union Prize for Literature, 2009-2010-2011

o         Characteristics of a Successful Collecting Society

o         Digital Issues, and the USA Google Book Settlement Agreement

o         Overview of the Policy Process in the EU

o         EU Culture Policy

o         Public Lending Right

o         Other topics identified by the participants as their priorities.

Delegates from the following associations were invited:

The Union of Bulgarian Writers Съюзът на българските писатели

The Union of Cyprus Writers Ένωση Λογοτεχνών Κϋπρου

The Basque Language Writers’ Association Euskal Idazleen Elkartea

The Croatian Writers’ Association Družstvo hrvatskih književnika

The Writers’ Union of Latvia Latvijas Rakstnieku Savieniba

The Lithuanian Writers' Union Lietuvos Rasytoju Sajunca

The Maltese Language Academy L-Akkademja tal-Malti

The League of Hungarian Writers in Transylvania Erdélyi Magyar Írók Ligája - Liga Scriitoilor Maghiari din Ardeal

The Writers’ Union of Romania Uninuea Scrütorilov din Romania

The Slovene Writers’ Association Drustvo slovenskih pisateljev

The Union of Belarussian Writers Грамадскае аб’яднанне “Саюз беларускіх пісьменнікаў”

The Union of Flemish Writers Vereniging van Vlaamse Letterkundigen

The Guest Speakers for the 2009 seminar were:

Owen Atkinson, Executive Director and ALCS Chief Executive.

Barbara Hayes, Deputy Chief Executive, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society/ALCS.

Myriam Diocaretz, European Writers‘ Council Secretary-General

Fran Dubruille, Director, European Booksellers Federation/EBF for the EUPrize for Literature consortium.

Samantha Holman, Executive Director, Irish Copyright Licensing Agency/ICLA

Jim Parker, Registrar of Public Lending Right, UK

Valerie Panis for Xavier Troussard, Head of Unit, Culture Policy and Intercultural Dialogue, European Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture.

Olav Stokkmo, CEO and Secretary General, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations/IFRRO.

The “EWC-FAEE AISBL” Annual General Assembly and XXIII EWC Congress took place on
Sunday 21 June 2009 at the Salle de conférence, Hôtel Mercure, 1 rue Neuve Saint-Martin, 13001 Marseille,
France.

The programme included the ratification and welcome of the following new Members:

1. L-Akkademja tal-Malti – The Maltese Language Academy, Malta.

2. Europäischen Autorenvereinigung Die KOGGE e.V. – European Authors’ Association Die KOGGE e.V., Germany.

3. Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega – AELG Spain.

4. Društvo Slovenskih Pisateljev – Slovene Writers’ Association – SWA

5. Belarusan Writers’ Union – BWU, Belarus.

The session on authors’ rights featured the Board’s proposal of the main themes of the
EWC 2010 European conference on “Authors’ Rights in the Digital World” to be held in Brussels in 2010.

The Assembly culminated with the 2009 ELECTIONS OF THE EWC-FAEE EXECUTIVE BOARD
for the period 2009-2011.

Forum MARE NOSTRUM V

Marseille, France, 19-20 June 2009

and

“EWC-FAEE” Annual General Assembly

XXIII EWC Congress

21 June 2009

The Forum MARE NOSTRUM V is a conference organised by the European Writers’ Council (EWC-FAEE) in cooperation with the Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL, France), with the support of the European Commission Education and Culture DG, and SOFIA (France). The Mare Nostrum series was created by the EWC as a European forum for the dialogue between cultures in the Mediterranean area and the rest of Europe. The previous events were held in Delphi (1999), Barcelona (2001), Cyprus (2004), and Trieste (2007). Historically, Marseille has been more than a symbol of the crossroads of cultures, and its region is an important foundation of European culture. The themes chosen for the Forum Mare Nostrum V seek to explore the crossroads between literature and the Mediterranean, expanding towards Africa and the Middle-East.

The focus was on three major areas:

—Translation as the “language of Europe” (concept proposed by Umberto Eco)

—The influences of the North in the South and of the South in the North

—The writer in the Mediterranean: A militant or a conveyor of peace?

* Conference languages: French and English (simultaneous interpretation)

The full programme in English: PDF

The full programme in French: PDF

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