Baltic Meeting on Gotland 16 – 19 May 2007
Valtiala: I Linnés fotspår | Blomkvist:The Baltic – a Field of Tensions through the Ages | Ramunyte: Baltijos susitikimai Gotlande | Saxell: Rauhan ja raudan meri
Participants
BELARUS
Natallia Mikhedava, Minsk, translator
Zmicer Vishniou, Minsk, poet, editor of the literary magazine Texty
DENMARK
Viggo Madsen, Odense, poet
ESTONIA
Jaan Elken, Tallinn/Tartu, painter, chairman of Estonian Artists’ Association
Jan Kaus, Tallinn, poet, prose writer, translator Finnish-Estonian, editor
Karl Martin Sinijärv, Tallinn, poet, chairman of Estonian Writers union
Piret Viires, Tallinn, researcher and critic, vice-chairwoman of the BWC
FINLAND
Mirja Hovila (Itkonen), Helsinki, translator
Torsti Lehtinen, Helsinki, aphoristic, prose writer, critic
Bodil Lindfors, Åbo/Turku, poet
Jaana Nikula, Helsinki, translator, secretary of the BWC
Jani Saxell, Helsinki, poet, prose writer, member of the board of the Finnish Writers’ Union
Sanna Tahvanainen, Mariehamn, Åland, poet
Nalle Valtiala, Grankulla, prose writer
GERMANY
Roland Albrecht, Berlin, museum director, visual artist, prose writer
Charlotta Bjelfvenstam, Berlin, assistant of the organizers’ working group
Gerlinde Creutzburg, Langendamm, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, visual artist, director of Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop
Uli Jantezki, Berlin, director of Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
Andreas Lawaty, Lüneburg, director of Nordost-Institut Lüneburg
Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke, Berlin, poet, translator, chairman of the BWC, vice-president of the Three Seas Writers’ and Translators’ Council Rhodes
Rosemarie Tietze, Munich, translator, founder of the German Translators’ Fund
Imre Török, Leutkirch, prose writer, chairman of the German Writers’ Union
ICELAND
Steinunn Sigurdardóttir, Pouzols/Reykjavik, prose writer
LATVIA
Silvija Brice, Riga, translator
Argita Daudze, Prague, Ambassador, translator
Nora Ikstena, Riga, prose writer
LITHUANIA
Rasa Drazdauskiene, Vilnius, translator and critic
Erika Drungyte, Kaunas, poet
Kornelijus Platelis, Vilnius, poet, chairman of Lithuanian Artists’ Association
Jone Ramunyte, Vilnius, translator
Liana Ruokyte, Stockholm, cultural attaché at the Embassy of Lithuania
Vladimir Tarasov, Vilnius, percussionist, visual artist
NORWAY
Tor Eystein Överås, Bodö/Berlin, poet, prose writer
POLAND
Leszek Szaruga, Warsaw, poet, translator, chairman of the Warsaw branch of the Polish Writers’ Union
RUSSIA
Igor Belov, Kaliningrad, poet, chairman of Kaliningrad Writers’ Union
Andrey Bitov, Moscow/St. Petersburg, prose writer
Tatiana Chernisheva, St. Petersburg, translator
Elena Emelianova, Kaliningrad, translator, coordinator for culture, information and press issues at the Consulate General of Sweden
Ilya Fonyakov, St. Petersburg, poet, essayist, critic and translator, vice-president of St.-Petersburg Writers’ Union and president of its poetry section
Oleg Glushkin, Kaliningrad, prose writer
SAPMI
Rose-Marie Huuva, Kiruna, poet, visual artist
SWEDEN
Karin Enberg, Stockholm, theatre director, chairwoman of KLYS
(Swedish Joint Committee of Artistic and Literary Professionals)
Per Olov Enquist, Vaxholm, prose writer
Ulf Peter Hallberg, Berlin, translator and prose writer, critic
Mats Hellström, Stockholm, former minister, former Ambassador, former Governor of Stockholm
Helena Öberg, Stockholm, chairwoman of Författarcentrum Öst, organizing committee of Waltic
Meta Ottosson, Nättraby, Blekinge, translator
Helen Sigeland, Stockholm, Swedish Institute
Hanna Sjöberg, Visby/Berlin, artist
Gunilla Thorgren, Vaxholm, dramatist
LOCAL PARTICIPANTS
Gunilla Forsén, Hemse, director of Hemse library
Anders Granat, Visby, director at the County Administration of Gotland
Inger Harlevi, Visby, chairwoman of the Cultural Committee of Gotland Municipality
Lars Magnus Lahne, Visby, administrative director at Gotland University, chairman of the board of the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators
Lena Pasternak, Visby, director of the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators
Peranders Sandström, Visby, director at the County Administration of Gotland, member of the board of the BCWT
Kjell Espmark, Eke/Stockholm, poet, prose writer, member of the Swedish Academy
Monica Lauritzen, Eke/Stockholm, critic and prose writer
Nils Blomkvist, Visby, professor of medieval history, head of the Centre for Baltic Sea Studies at Gotland University
Ulf Palmenfelt, Visby, professor of ethnology at Gotland University, prose writer, guide
Tord Porsne, Visby, botanist, guide
Åke G Sjöberg, Visby, retired school and highschool teacher, guide
Catharina Ödin, Visby, school teacher, guide