Ready for reading

List of translated works:
– Evie Wyld: All the birds, singing / Vseh ptic petje (2014)*, translation from English into Slovene by Andrej Pleterski
– Rodaan Al Galidi: De autist en de postduif / The autistic and the carrier-pigeon / Avtist in poštni golob (2011)*, translation from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj
– Kęstutis Kasparavičius: Dingęs paveikslas / Izginula slika, translation from Lithuanian into Slovene by Klemen Pisk
– Philip Ardagh: Dreadful Acts / Grozljiva dejanja, translation from English into Slovene by Sandra Baumgartner – Naylor
– Pavel Šrut: Lihožrouti navždy / Lihožerci za vedno, translation from Czech into Slovene by Peter Kuhar
– Evald Flisar: Opazovalec / Obserwator, translation from Slovene into Polish by Marlena Gruda
– Jan De Kinder: Rood / Rdeča ali zakaj zasmehovanje ni smešno, translation from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj
– Uglješa Šajtinac: Sasvim skromni darovi / Skromni darovi (2014)*, translation from Serbian into Slovene by Dušanka Zabukovec
– Aino, Sami Havukainen, Toivonen: Tatu ja Patu supersankareina / Tine in Bine Superjunaka, translation from Finish into Slovene by Julija Potrč Šavli
– Jaume, Daniel, Ramon, Oscar Copons, Cerdà, Cabrera, Julve: Yo, Elvis Riboldi / Jaz, Elvis Riboldi, translation from Spanish (Catalan) into Slovene by Veronika Rot
* EUPL Award

The project Ready for reading features ten excellent literary works from across Europe. It is marked by a carefully orchestrated diversity of the chosen books, ranging from adult fiction to works for children, thus spanning all generations. The highlights include European cult authors such as the English children’s writer Philip Ardagh, the Lithuanian nominee for the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Kęstutis Kasparavičius, and the award-winning Czech author Pavel Šrut. Also included are three winners of the European Literature Prize, Evie Wyld, Uglješa Šajtinac and Rodaan Al Galidi. 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. As an artistic society whose creative force are established literary names, our long-term aim is to familiarise book buyers, especially those who are not regular readers, with top writers from various European and other countries who are as yet not well known in Slovenia. That is why we have devised promotional events that will try to attract readers from outside the established sales channels. Ready for reading is not only an ambitious book programme; it is also a carefully considered series of more than 50 promotional events designed to create an inter-generational and interconnected reading audience. The central role at these promotional events will be played by the translators who will thus get an opportunity to introduce their work to a wider public. The project Ready for reading means a new step for our organization as well. We have teamed up with the Polish publisher EZOP and are ready to take our activities across national borders. That will not only enlarge our reading audience; it will also facilitate further common publishing ventures in an otherwise fragmented European publishing space. (Source: EC)

KUD Sodobnost International

(Leader) Ljubljana

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Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

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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!