Slavic Authors to the World

The Forum of Slavic Cultures is already the publisher of the 100 Slavic Novels collection, an international literary programme of contemporary Slavic literature written after the fall of the Berlin wall. The collection represents a highly successful example of literary exchange among the Slavic cultures, establishing close ties among the Slavic writers, translators and readers. With a well thought-out selection of ten novels, published after 1989, from each of the member countries that participate in the programme, it fills a literary gap of modern Slavic literature. With the translation project we strive to make a step forward to bring Slavic authors not only to Slavic countries, but to the world in general with the first English and Portuguese translations of the prominent novels. By choosing distinguished first-rate translators that have decades of translation experience with leading authors, the Forum of Slavic Cultures with its partners guarantee prime quality of the planned translations. The English translation of the proposed novels and one Portuguese are directed to the wider readership interested in contemporary Slavic literature. The Forum of Slavic Cultures will publish and market books via classic and on-line bookstores in print copy and e-book format. The promotion of the translated novels will be implemented through book fairs and book festivals, websites and social media tools, digital book marketing activities and attractive book presentations with authors and translators. All the associated partners will promote the translation project and books through their institutional activity, in particular when related to public events with wide resonance. In addition to general communication activities (promotion, public relations, special events, web and social media, agenda setting) the project will be presented in the European context and relevant European events. (Source: EC; look also FSK)

List of translated works:
– Drago Jančar: Posmehljivo poželenje, translated from Slovene into Portuguese by Tarcio França Cesar dos Santos.
– Laslo Bašković: Madonin nakit, translated from Serbian into English by Randall A. Major.
– Anton Balaž: Tábor padlých žien, translated from Slovak into English by Jonathan Gresty.
– Dimitar Baševski: Bunar, translated from Macedonian into English by Ljubica Arsovska and Margaret (Peggy) Reid.
– Jani Virk: Zadnja Sergijeva skušnjava, translated from Slovene into English by Tom Micheal Sidney Priestly.

Forum of Slavic Cultures International Foundation

(Leader)

Funded projects

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CARE – Culture for Mental Health

Glassmaking Between Tradition and Innovation

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DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

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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

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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

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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)