Not a joke!

List of works (translations into Slovene):
– Karl Modig: Döden är inget skämt. Translation from Swedish: Danni Stražar.
– Martine Glaser: Mij pak je niet. Translation from Dutch: Stana Anželj.
– Gideon Samson: Eilanddagen. Translation from Dutch: Katjuša Ručigaj.
– Ivona Březinová: Řvi potichu, brácho. Translation from Czech: Diana Pungeršič.
– Mina Lystad: Fake. Translation from Norwegian: Marija Zlatnar Moe.
– Tomáš Končinský, Barbora Klárová: Překlep a Škraloup. Translation from Czech: Diana Pungeršič.
– Carolina Schutti: Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein. Translation from German: Tina – Štrancar.
– Gaëlle Josse: Le Dernier Gardien d’Ellis Island. Translation from French: Jedrt Lapuh Maležič.

Not a joke! is our motto for this year’s book selection. The acronym is NAJ, in Slovene it means BEST. So, it’s not a joke we have high standards when it comes to quality of children’s and young adult literature nor it’s not a joke that maintaining these standards and surviving in publishing world for small publishers in small countries is hard as hell. And keeping our young readers from screens and motivate them to read actual books – which is the main goal of our publishing programme and this project – is even harder.

Our main selection of books contributes to diversity of literature as works, genre and authors are underrepresented in Slovenia. They encompass topics such as suicide, grief, tobacco addiction, autism, fake news, poverty, search for identity and immigration issues. All deserve a place in books and books themselves are a starting point for broader reflection on these issues. We’re balancing these serious themes with more positive perspective on teenage romance, which is not a joke either, and a funny view on ageing for our younger readers. Our aim is that the project itself would impact the young readers’ life in a positive manner and would help them make good decisions and build strong moral values as well as stress importance of relationships within society, family and transnationality.

The major part of our activities was dedicated to marketing, public relations and sales promotion in order to broaden and deepen our number of readers. We invited two writers to Slovenia to build partnerships and contacts with Slovene readers and writers. While performing the project we developed our capacity in international way.

Miš Publishing House

(Leader) Dob

Funded projects

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15