RECOVERING FREEDOM (RE-FREE)

In today’s Europe, where people’s basic freedoms are being threatened, books have remained an accessible platform that offers solace, shared values and common ground. The translation project aims to help people recover their freedoms, and think ahead to a larger, better reality. The selected group of diverse contemporary and classic European writers all create different and diverse paths to freedom, which is the central theme of the project: freedom for women, freedom of the environment and of (physical) space (overcoming national borders). The project includes 28 European literary works from 10 different languages, 7 of these lesser-used; all works except one are to be translated for the first time. They encompass various literary genres and target different age-groups, from children to adults. While they cover a range of issues, several of them deal with two topics in focus, i.e. gender equality and environment protection. The latter will also be achieved through switching to FSC-certified paper, implementing a new online site for digital promotion, and developing the first audiobooks (as well as e-books) as an alternative to printed format. Through new promotional approaches, cooperations with new partners outside the publishing as well as outside the cultural sector, the project aims to bring the works to new audiences, and raise the profile of the books’ authors, translators and illustrators (as a reference also to foreign publishers). Emphasis is given to the five literary works translated into German (4) and Italian (1) as Slovenia will be the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt and Bologna Book Fairs in 2023 and 2024 respectively. New cooperation with foreign publishers to disseminate, distribute and copromote the works in their target countries will reach the widest possible public. By promoting these works at several locations in Germanand Italian-speaking environments, we will foster and ensure continued interest in Slovenian literature abroad.

List of works

Angela Nanetti: Mio nonno era un ciliegio. Translation from Italian into Slovene by Veronika Simoniti.
Anja Štefan: Drobtine iz mišje doline. Translation from Slovene into German by Marjeta Wakounig.
Anja Štefan: Zverinice, pozdravljene. Translation from Slovene into Italian by Patrizia Raveggi.
Anna Swirszczynska: Poezja. Translation from Polish into Slovene by Jana Unuk.
Astrid Lindgren: Bara roligt i bullerbyn. Translation from Swedish into Slovene by Nada Grošelj.
Astrid Lindgren: Mera om oss barn i bullerbyn. Translation from Swedish into Slovene by Nada Grošelj.
Bertolt Brecht: Die Gedichte. Translation from German into Slovene by Tanja Petrič.
Dita Zipfel: Wie der wahnsinn mir der Welte erklärte. Translation from German into Slovene by Anja Golob.
Franco Arminio: Cedi la strada agli alberi. Translation from Italian into Slovene by Kristina Jurkovič.
Gaja Kos: Obisk. Translation from Slovene into German by Marjeta Wakounig.
Giulia Caminito: L’acqua del lago non è mai dolce. Translation from Italian into Slovene by Daša Perme Jurjavčič.
Herve Le Tellier: L’anomalie. Translation from French into Slovene by Janina Kos.
Honore de Balzac: Le père Goriot. Translation from French into Slovene by Saša Jerele.
Igor Štiks: W. Translation from Croatian into Slovene by Aleksandra Rekar.
Krystyna Boglar: Klementyna lubi kolor czerwony. Translation from Polish into Slovene by Staša Pavlović.
Lale Gül: Ik ga leven. Translation from Dutch into Slovene by Stana Anželj in Staša Pavlović.
Lisa Villadsen: Kvantespring. Translation from Danish into Slovene by Darko Čuden.
Mojca Širok: Pogodba. Translation from Slovene into German by Alexandra Zaleznik.
Natalia Ginzburg: Caro Michele, le piccole virtù. Translation from Italian into Slovene by Anita Jadrič.
Nino Haratischwili: Das achte Leben. Translation from German into Slovene by Mojca Kranjc.
Noemie Marsily, Isabella Cieli: Memet, l’employé du moi. Translation from French into Slovene by Mojca Medvedšek.
Norman Ohler: Harro und Libertas. Translation from German into Slovene by Nežka Božič.
Olga Tokarczuk: Zgubiona dusza. Translation from Polish into Slovene by Jana Unuk.
Philip Wächter: Toni will ans meer. Translation from German into Slovene by Nežka Božič.
Slavoljub Stanković, Slavimir Stojanović: Knjiga utisaka. Translation from Serbian into Slovene by Đurđa Strsoglavec.
Tiago Dejan Stanković: Zamalek. Translation from Serbian into Slovene by Branko Gradišnik.
Tove Ditlevsen: Barndom, ungdom (The Copenhagen trilogy). Translation from Danish into Slovene by Ana Ugrinović.
Vladimir P. Štefanec: Najlepša neznanka svetloba. Translation from Slovene into German by Alexandra Zaleznik.

Funded projects

LIVEUROPE – 2017–2021 (4. year)

LIVEUROPE – 2017–2021 (3. year)

LIVEUROPE – 2017–2021 (2. year)

Soft Control

Future Architecture Platform – 2017–2021 (4. year)

Future Architecture Platform – 2017–2021 (3. year)

Future Architecture Platform – 2017–2021 (2. year)

Future Architecture Platform / FuturA – 2015–2017 (2. year)

Aerowaves – 2017–2021 (4. year)

Aerowaves – 2017–2021 (3. year)

Aerowaves – 2017–2021 (2. year)

Aerowaves – 2014–2017 (3. year)

Aerowaves – 2014–2017 (2. year)

Story Time – Connecting People with the Power of Art

European film screening in 2024

European film screening in 2023

European film screening in 2022

European film screening in 2021

European film screening in 2020

European film screening in 2019

European film screening in 2018

European film screening in 2017

European film screening in 2016

European film screening in 2015

European film screening in 2014

European film screening in 2013

The Film Corner Clubs 2026-2028. From virtual to real (TFCClubs)

Here I am! (HIA)

EUthentic Detectives – Fostering Media literacy of people who face cognitive challenges, their caregivers and young volunteers

CEE Animation Workshop (CEE AW) – 2026

Film in Hospital 3.0 - a pan-European Film Initiative for Young Audiences in Healthcare Structures

First Dog

36. and 37. Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe)

The 22nd and 23rd Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival in Years 2026 and 2027

The 12th and 13th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

Animateka International Animated Film Festival (AIAFF)

Young Stories from the Old Continent (YSOC)

Bookmark – Marking Europe's Best Narratives

No Person Is An Island (NPII)

Immersive European Cultural Heritage Outreach (Immersive ECHO)

European Media Art Platform Extended (EMAP Extended)

EHIN - European Hybrid Intelligence Network

W.Write – Women, Writing, Rights, and Rites: reimagining the ecosystem of Literary Arts

RE-MIND: A Mindfulness-Based Capacity-Building Model for Digital Wellbeing and Intergenerational Audience Engagement in Museums

New Steps: EU’s first steps towards career transition support for dancers

Brave Creative Producers (BCP)

stART point - a platform where performing arts and young people get connected (stART.)

Heritage Understanding & Participation Hackathon: Co-creating Cultural Heritage Experiences with and for youth (Hup Hackathon)

Artificial Intelligence for Artistic Futures and Creative Talents (ARTIFACT)

Cultivator – a cultural ecosystem for collective change

Architecture With an Approach to Regeneration and Empowerment (AWARE)

Upsala – SUITCASES

Invisible painting (IP)

BRIDGE: Building, Revising, Including – Diaspora and Gender Equality

Studio Virc – Mini Slate 2025: Izzvenelo bo, Dolasilla, princesa usode, Tujek, Pobeglo srce

NOSOROGI – Mini Slate 2025: Three Waters Meet, The Healers, Liar, Thief, Flea-Eater

Mono O – Mini Slate 2025: The Happiest Day, The Last Roast, After Sunday

Cvinger – Mini Slate 2024: Before the Eyes Turn Black, Reckoning by the Sea, Project North

Venice Eastern Gate

Innovation through media collaboration: Digital assets exchange platform (MEDEXCHANGE24)

Animation HUB (A-HUB)

Word: Enhancing European Graphic Novel Perception, Circulation and Market Development

Roma Soul Food (ROMASOUL)

Tying the European Cultural Landscapes with Knots and Patterns (Knots and Patterns)

Hiking Heritage Trails (INHERIT)

Sensory Artistic Experiences for the Blind (Multisensory Art)

PASS – Pass the Street (Art), Shake the Hand

Slow Performing Arts Festivals for Improved Wellbeing, Mental Health and Social Inclusion (Festival SPA)

Staragara – Slate 2024 (The Colour of the Doubt, Black Swan, Removal, We would have told each other everything, Kozmonavti)

PAGE: Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

NEB COOLTOURS: Transforming Tourism Through Cultural Innovation and Environmental Stewardship in Alpe-Adria

Bridges

Transition to 8: European societies in flux

ENACT – Easy-to-understand News for Collaborative Transformation

THRIVE – Talent Harvest: Rural Intangible Heritage and Value Empowerment

CAFE: Redefining Historic Cafés as European Cultural Heritage

ArtElevate – Fostering Inclusive Cultural Expression in Europe

CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation (GTMI)