The collective monograph examines the development of the literatures of the countries of Central and Southeast Europe in the period 2000-2010s. taking into account the change in the function of the art of speech under the influence of socio-political and socio-cultural transformations and globalization processes. Actual artistic phenomena in the literatures of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia and the Czech Republic are analyzed, a number of new literary names and works are presented.