Upside down / ZalaUp

List of works (translation into Slovene):
– Arnfinn Kolerud: Snillionen I Milijonček za prijaznost. Translation from Norwegian by Darko Čuden
– Jenny Jägerfeld: Comedy queen / Kraljica komedije. Translation from Swedish by Danni Stražar
– Barbro Lindgren in il. Eva Eriksson: Sagan om den Lilla Farbrorn / Zgodba o starem možu. Translation from Swedish by Danni Stražar
– Roddy Doyle: Wilderness / Divjina. Translation from English by Tina Mahkota

The programme of our Zala publishing is focused on children’s and youth literature, which is why we chose 4 titles by reputable authors and translators. Our project is titled Upside Down. Every upbringing is actually an upside-down world, for better or worse, everywhere in the world, in every European country: it is full of laughter, hope, even loss and getting on one’s own two feet, of finding one’s place under the sun. The aim of the project is to bring excellent translations of high-quality European books to young Slovenian readers. Selected books, some for children and some for young people, tell stories of growing up in various European countries, namely Sweden, Norway and Ireland. The titles are intended for children between the ages of 5 and 18. The stories and characters are compelling and depict growing up and living in other countries. And yet these are stories of growing up, which share fundamental issues with the whole of Europe. We have chosen from award-winning works by renowned authors that bring hope, open doors, horizons, yet still present the reality of today’s life to young people. All selected works are multifaceted, offering numerous opportunities for reflection and conversation – between peers and between different generations. Only in this way can young people develop their (critical) view of the world and constructive thinking about it.

This is not literature that would, on its own, invite young people to reach for it. We thought carefully about the promotion, from including conventional and e-tools, from reading to music, from visits by authors and translators to cooperation with Ljubljana Puppet theatre (LGL), NGO Gallery (KUD Galerija C.C.U) and other collaborators from various cultural fields.

We did not reach for the literature with the EU prize for literature, the latter works are intended for adults. We strictly want to follow the path we have outlined: to educate young readers into critical, constructively thinking and active adults.

Zala Publishing House

(Leader)

Funded projects

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)

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!