The fourth edition of the Bucharest Literature Festival will start this Wednesday at the Romanian Peasant's Club. Public debates and readings with writers and cultural managers from the UK, Ireland, France, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania will run for three consecutive evenings.

British writer Paul Bailey will join Jean Mattern, from France, Croatian Roman Simic, Irish Declan Meade and Bulgarian Georgi Gospodinov. Romanians Mircea Cărtărescu, Adina Rosetti, Lavinia Branişte and Mihail Vakulovski will also be present at the event. Paul Bailey and Romanian Mircea Cartarescu will talk about adoptive countries at the festival opening on December 7, starting 18,00, at the British Council in Bucharest. The festival will end on December 9.

Paul Bailey is a British writer and critic who wrote 'Uncle Rudolf', 'A Dog's Life' and more recently 'Chapman's Odyssey'.

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