Home / Programme / Are we told what we should read? – NBC Are we told what we should read? – NBC 15th November, 2020 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Literary journals, end-of-year best books lists, book prizes, Goodreads and BookTube are all competing for readers’ trust and attention. In their own way they each play a part in sustaining gatekeeping communities, building hype, recognising literary merit, popular appeal and the titles worth skipping. To what extent are they influencing readers’, writers’ and publishers’ choices? How necessary are they in the making of a thriving publishing and literary scenes? Writer and journalist Teodor Reljić will be moderating a discussion on the roles and influence of various forms of criticism locally and internationally, between Jen Calleja, translator from German of Marion Poschmann’s The Pine Islands (Profile Books, 2019), Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, Prof. Ivan Callus, lecturer of literary criticism and theory at the University of Malta Department of English, and Robert Pisani from the review blog The Bobsphere. This is a live event. VIDEO PLAY VIDEO Close modal SHARE POST Similar Posts Editorial Notes: Noah Fabri – A conversation between the writer and the editors – Aphroconfuso – Stand 7 🇲🇹 9th November, 2025 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Read More Celebrating Italian Literature – Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta – Is-Sala tal-Qarrejja 🇮🇹 9th November, 2025 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM Read More Wikipedia Editing Workshop – Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM) & NBC – L-Atelier 🇲🇹/🇬🇧 9th November, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Read More Celebrating Italian Literature – Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta – Is-Sala tal-Qarrejja 🇮🇹 9th November, 2025 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Read More The President Myriam Spiteri Debono signs Tisjir mill-Qalb – Agenda Bookshop – Stand 42 🇲🇹 9th November, 2025 3:00 PM Read More Children’s Literature in Maltese: What stories are reaching our young readers? – NBC – Is-Sala tal-Kittieba 🇲🇹 9th November, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Read More Editorial Notes: Kurt Borg – A conversation between the writer and the editors – Aphroconfuso – Stand 7 🇲🇹 9th November, 2025 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Read More Editorial Notes: Nicole Borg– A conversation between the writer and the editors – Aphroconfuso – Stand 7 🇲🇹 9th November, 2025 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Read More What about the Very First Maltese?: Book presentation and talk by Veronica Veen and Adrian van der Blom – Inanna Publishers – Is-Sala tal-Qarrejja 🇬🇧 8th November, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Read More