Books connecting the worlds

– Jelena Lengold: Vašarski Mađioničar / Sejemski čarovnik*. Translated from Serbian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec
– Iris Hanika: Das Eigentliche / Bistvo vsega*. Translated from German into Slovene by Ana Jasmina Oseban
– Daniela Kapitáňová: Kniha o cintoríne / Samko Tale: Knjiga o britofu. Translated from Slovak into Slovene by Diana Pungeršič
– Vicenç Pagès Jordà: Carta a la reina d’anglaterra / Pismo angleški kraljici. Translated from Catalan into Slovene by Veronika Rot
– Kari Hotakainen: Luonnon Laki / Zakon narave. Translated from Finnish into Slovene by Julija Potrč
– Annie M. G. Schmidt: Jip en Janneke / Lukec in lučka. Translated from Dutch into Slovene by Mateja Seliškar Kenda
– Philip Ardagh: An Awful End / Grozni konec– prvi del trilogije Eddie Dickens Trilogy. Translated from English into Slovene by Sandra Baumgartner Naylor
– Pavel Šrut: Lichožrouti se vraceji / Lihožerci se vračajo. Translated from Czech into Slovene by Peter Kuhar
– Kęstutis Kasparavičius: Kvailos istorijos / Trapaste zgodbe. Translated from Lithuanian into Slovene by Klemen Pisk
– Andrus Kivirähki: Sirli, Siim ja saladused / Sara, Simon in skrivnosti. Translated from Estonian into Slovene by Julija Potrč

*EUPL Award

The project for which we are seeking financial support (Books connecting the worlds) will be realized in three parts. The first is the continuation of the book series Horizont which we have started in order to bring to the Slovenian readers carefully chosen high quality European fiction. In the coming years we intend to publish at least one outstanding fiction work from each of the countries of the EU, including the countries applying for (or hoping for) eventual membership. Five European novels (two with EU awards) will be published as the first part of the project. It is essential for Slovenes to become familiar with the great cultural variety of the continent at the heart of which they have lived for the last 15 centuries. Availability of good fiction from other countries is an important part of raising the awareness of our common European identity. The second part is devoted to books for children, who are most in danger of losing the habit of reading. We have chosen five exceptional books (from Estonia, Lithuania, England, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic) for our children’s series Stargazer and New Children’s Classics. All five books have been very successful in their home countries; we believe that with proper promotion they could be equally successful in Slovenia. The third part of the project is the promotion of all 10 books. We will be organizing literary evenings, literary tours of the published authors, introductions of the authors at universities and schools, promotional material will be widely available at press conferences and disseminated through other channels, we will work with schools in organising literary competitions on selected books. (Source: EC)

KUD Sodobnost International

(Partner) Ljubljana

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

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)

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)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

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!