The morning was passed in voting for the new board members and the
resolutions about situations in too many countries that have to change. 
The resolution about Belarus was one of them. The Russian embassy is at
walking distance of the Harpa, where we work all week. So the resolution
was brought to them and given to the ambassador. A short, but
effective action which gave us a bit of fresh air.
The New Voices Award is a prize for young writers who read for us and the jury telling us why they were part of the short list. We listened to the reading s of these young, new, promising writers and I did admire the diversity: One from Mexico, one from South Africa and one from Canada. All three wrote about there own place, grounded in their different realities. After we had a talk about 'Languages with few speakers', never say a 'small language': if you can translate Shakespeare in it a language is rich and not small...
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