Reading Europe

List of translated works:
– Phillip Ardagh: Terrible times / Strašni časi. Translated from English into Slovene by Ana Barič Moder
– Kęstutis Kasparavičius: Sodininka Florencijus / Florentius the Gardener. Translated from Lithuanian into English by Jonas Steponaitis
– Luigi Ballerini: Io Sono Zero / Šifra 2.0. Translated from Italian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec
– Selja Ahava: Taivaalta tippuvat asiat / Stvari, ki padejo z neba. Translated from Finnish v into Slovene by Julija Potrč
– Christoph Van Gerrewey: Op de Hoogte / Da boš na tekočem. Translated from Flemish into Slovene by Mateja Seliškar Kenda
– Pierre J. Mejlak: Having said goodnight / Kar noč dopušča. Translated from Maltese into Slovene by Andrej Pleterski
– Alf Prøysen: Teskjekjerringa / Čajna ženička. Translated from Norwegian into Slovene by Marija Zlatnar Moe
– Jan De Kinder: Ben je bang in het bos, Grote Wolf? / Se v gozdu bojiš, Veliki volk? Translated from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj
– Susanna Mattiangeli: Come funziona la maestra / Učiteljica. Translated from Italian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec
– Jana Bauer: Groznovilc v Hudi hosti / Scary Fairy in Wicked Wood. Translated from Slovene into English by David Limon

The project RE features ten excellent literary works from across Europe. The project is marked by a carefully orchestrated diversity of the chosen books, ranging from adult fiction (EUPL winners) to works for children, thus spanning all generations. The highlights include European cult authors such as children’s writer Philip Ardagh, the Lithuanian nominee for the international ALMA award Kęstutis Kasparavičius, and the award-winning Luigi Ballerini from Italy. Also included are three winners of the EUPL.

A special feature of the project are ambitious promotional events, devised to increase the awareness of the diversity of our common European culture among Slovenian readers and to improve the reading habits of all generations. The central role at promotional events will be played by the authors and translators who will introduce their work to a wider public. As an artistic society whose creative force are established literary names, our long-term aim is to familiarize book buyers, especially those who are not regular readers, with top European writers who are as yet not widely known in Slovenia. That is why we have devised promotional events that will try to attract readers from outside the established sales channels. Especially we would like to attract online readers by creating Digital Community, whose role will be to inform online readers about books from the project, engage them now and cultivate them for tomorrow. In other words, our strategy will be to target multiple channels for our books and integrate them with the current generation’s social lives. This means a bigger step into the digital world for our organization.

Another new step for us is entering two new markets (UK, Ireland). We have teamed up with two distributors ready to take our activities across national borders. That will not only increase our reading audiences; it will also facilitate the enlargement of the common publishing space for European authors.

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KUD Sodobnost International

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Funded projects

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

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

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

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

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

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

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)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (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

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

HEROES WE LOVE. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe