MIRROR – Mirroring the World: European Literary Lifeline

European literature is built on hundreds of overlapping periods, styles, influences, whether linear, historical, and diachronic, or nonlinear, cyclical and synchronic. These perspectives form its DNA coil, its strength and its influence on cultures and societies developed over centuries. No matter how divided by different languages, by its development European literature depended more and more on its translators to interpret the magnificent creations of the greatest writers such as Cervantes, Dante or Shakespeare. The translation served as a linguistic ‘mirror’ into the other culture and society, into the other world we lack the code to decipher. The project Mirroring the World: European Literary Lifeline puts the literary translation into focus as a tool that helps us cross borders, understand the language and culture we were not born in and enter the new worlds writers created in the never-ending pursuit of free spaces. Partners have selected six important literary works originally written in four different languages (Croatian, Slovenian, Italian, Bulgarian) which will be translated to four languages in total (English, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian) and created a plan how to make these books visible and widely read in three countries participating in the project, as well as throughout Europe and the world.

List of works

Vera Mutafchieva: Slučajat Džem. Translation from Bolgarian into English by Angela Rodel.
Nada Gašić: Voda, paučina. Translation from Croatian into English by Ellen Elias Bursać.
Federica Marzi: La mia casa altrove. Translation from Italian into English by Jim Hicks.
Sebastijan Pregelj: V Elvisovi sobi. Translation from Slovene into English by Rawley Grau.
Marija Dejanović: Dobrota razdvaja dan i noć. Translation from Croatian into English by Vesna Marić.
Federica Marzi: La mia casa altrove. Translation from Italian into Croatian by Lorena Kmet.
Sebastijan Pregelj: V Elvisovi sobi. Translation from Slovene into Croatian by Anita Peti-Stantić.
Vera Mutafchieva: Slučajat Džem. Translation from Bolgarian into Slovene by Borut Omerzel.
Nada Gašić: Voda, paučina. Translation from Croatian into Slovene by Sonja Dolžan.
Robert Perišić: Užas i veliki troškovi. Translation from Croatian into Italian by Elvira Mujčić.
Sebastijan Pregelj: V Elvisovi sobi. Translation from Slovene into Italian by Michele Obit.

This panopticon of translations will bring together many regional and pan-European readers discovering forgotten literary gems as well as vibrant contemporary authors.

Funded projects

CAFÈ: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering inclusive cultural expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

DoSEL – Drama of Smaller European Languages

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)