Estlitfest: What Now, Europe?

(This is a past event and is no longer running)

Provocation: What Now, Europe? A future of nation states from Estonia’s perspective with Mihkel Mutt, Tiina Intelmann, chaired by Rosie Goldsmith

Mihkel Mutt is not just a versatile writer, columnist and critic (and Author of the Day at London Book Fair); he also held key positions in Estonian politics. At EstLitFest, he is joined by the Estonian Ambassador to the UK, Tiina Intelmann, to take Estonia’s perspective on Europe in transformation.

Mihkel Mutt is an Estonian writer and a versatile columnist on domestic and world politics. He began his career as a theatre and literary critic as well as a parodist, and his literary debut transpired in the late 1970s. Since then, he has published close to 40 books in a number of genres. He has held a variety of jobs ranging from journalist to dramaturg to propaganda boss at the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

H.E. Tiina Intelmann is Estonia’s ambassador to the UK. She has served as the Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations and is the first woman to have headed the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court.

Rosie Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist. During her 20 years of work for BBC, she has travelled the world covering events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa. She is the founder of the European Literature Network.