From May 24 until May 28, the international HeadRead literary festival will be held in various venues in central Tallinn. Five days will offer 60 events with nearly 40 international and more than 50 Estonian writers, poets and musicians.
Readers can meet Mikhail Shishkin, a Russian-born writer living in Switzerland, the popular Danish crime writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, Lithuanian art historian and writer Kristina Sabaliuskaité, British screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and Swedish writer Elin Cullhed, who wrote a novel about the life of Sylvia Plath. Younger festival audiences are treated to the tandem of Ukrainian artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, Danish young adult author Janne Teller, and Swedish children’s author and psychologist Jenny Jägerfeld, whose works deal with finding a balance between being yourself and the societal expectations.
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