Eurasian Creative Guild (London) in a partnership with British publishing house «Hertfordshire Press» is glad to invite our old and new friends V international literary festival “Open Eurasian Literature Festival & Book Forum”, which will take place on 25th-28th November in London in three main venues: The Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre, BBC’s headquarters, and the University of Exeter.

The festival, which helps to promote contemporary Eurasian literature, has been held annually since 2012. The festival “Open Eurasian Literature Festival & Book Forum” is aimed to attract the attention of readers and literature specialists to past and present achievements made by Eurasian authors; to make contemporary writers familiar with publishers, their readers, libraries, universities, and mass media; to facilitate multilateral dialogue between contemporary writers, critics, editors, and publishers.

The “Open Eurasian Book Forum & Literature Festival” has already taken place in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Almaty (Kazakhstan), London and Cambridge (UK). The number of festival participants has nearly doubled from 1300 people in 2012 to 2500 in 2014. As this is our 5th anniversary year, we’re aiming for an even bigger and better OEBF than ever before.

Such well-known writers as Hamid Ismailov (UK), Nick Rowan (UK), Paul Wilson (Australia), David Parry (UK), George Pryakhin (Russia), Shakhsanam Murray (Scotland), and Natalia Kharlampieva are expected to be among the guests of honour at the festival this year. Besides, some public figures including ambassadors, professors of universities and even royal persons such as representatives of House of Lords plan to visit the festival.