Tartu International Literature Festival Prima Vista 2010

Tartu International Literature Festival Prima Vista takes place for the 7th time in May 2010. Since the beginning the festival has gradually expanded both in duration and space with various literary events taking place in many different places in Tartu city centre during three days. The festival programme includes meetings with writers, book presentations, discussions and lectures, a book fair and Park Library, also concerts and film programmes. The festival features guests from abroad as well as several Estonian writers; in 2009 the guest of honour was the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. In 2010 the festival has foreign guests from several countries and cultures including Russia, Hungary, Germany, UK, Latvia, and Finland. The main theme of this year’s festival is The Art of Survival. Prima Vista 2010 takes place on May 6.-8. in Tartu and on May 9. in Põltsamaa, the warm-up events, though, offer events and meetings already during the first days of the month. The patron of Prima Vista 2010 is Estonian poet Hannes Varblane.