Book as a Place, Place as a Book
The 2025 Tartu International Literary Festival Prima Vista will take place from May 5th to May 10th. The festival’s theme is Book as a Place, Place as a Book. This year’s partner city is Valga, and the festival’s patron is writer Kai Aareleid.
The motto of the Estonian Book Year is A People Begins with a Book. Inspired by this, Prima Vista will focus on the literary mapping and interpretation of Tartu, Estonia, and various places worldwide. Through literature, places become more visible and perceptible, gaining meaning and value. Translations help written places find their place on the world map of different cultures.
New, imagined places are also born in literature: places of memory, refuge, and fantasy. The world expands through poetry and imagination, utopias and dystopias — both in the content of books and in their form and structure. Every book is itself a place or a gateway to a new place, and upon returning, you become more aware of your place in this world.
In one way or another, most of the festival’s events focus on places within books and on books themselves as places. See you at the festival 5-10 May 2025!
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