Bookstan. No East, No West | Sarajevo International Literature Festival | www.bookstan.ba /// official channel
Where is East, where is West? Where do you cross from one to another? Can you understand one without the other? Can you be or have both? The easiest thing to do is to keep them separated, imagine or build a wall between them. But what if you canāt have one without the other? What if you donāt have to choose? What if the distinction matters only in the field of basic geography? What if there is a literary Festival with guests who create spaces where there is neither East nor West, but just humans and their stories?
Aleksandar Hemon
Co-founder and Curator of Bookstan 2016
July 2016