The name of the project, Literature vs. Nationalism. Contemporary Literature Moving Borders, signifies the underlying theme of the selected books which deal with things that should never be forgotten – World War II, the holocaust, the shockingly quickly forgotten events of the Balkan area in the 90s, the violence against women and minorities in supposedly […]

The leading objective of this 3-year translation project is to SPREAD THE WORDS and the awareness of extraordinary European literature, and in doing so reach not just existing, but also new audience among readers of different age groups, as well as professionals in the book industry (librarians, teachers, booksellers). We believe this is one of […]

List of books: – Maite Carranza: Camins de llibertat / Poti svobode. Translation from Catalan into Slovene by Veronika Rot. – Iban Barrenetxea: El cuento del carpintero / Mizarjeva zgodba. Translation from Spanish into Slovene by Barbara Pregelj. – Eleni Katsama: Gorillas sto feggari / Gorila na luni. Translation from Greek (Modern) into Slovene: Klarisa Jovanovič. – Jana Bauer: Groznovilca […]

Ulysses’ Shelter: Building writers-in-residence 2 is a literary residency network of five partners from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Greece and Wales. The idea of the programme is to combine literary residencies for young literary authors with a strong supportive programme for local target groups. The residency programme, with the priority of transnational mobility, will give young […]

Every Story Matters (ESM) is a project that consists of a close collaboration between 6 European partners – from Flanders (Belgium), Croatia, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and Germany – that all have a different role and perspective within the literary field. The goal of ESM is to increase the creation, availability and promotion of inclusive books […]

Reading Balkans: Borders vs. Frontiers is a continuation of the project Reading Balkans that was supported by Creative Europe in 2017. This time we have put in the focus topics of borders and cooperation with refugee writers – at the time when old wounds from Balkan Wars have not yet been healed, the question of […]

The second edition of the talent development project CELA – Connecting Emerging Literary Artists – starts in September 2019 and will run for 4 years. In the first two years 11 literary organisations from 10 countries (The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Serbia) will together select and guide 30 emerging […]

List of books: – Kevin Barry: City of Bohane*. Translation from English into Slovene by Alenka Jovanovski. – Ivana Myšková: White Animals Are Very Often Deaf. Translation from Czech into Slovene by Tatjana Jamnik. – Myrto Azina Chronides: Experiment*. Translation from Greek into Slovene by Lara Unuk. – Sunjeev Sahota: The Year of Runaways*. Translation […]

List of books: – Donal Ryan: Spinning Heart*. Translation from English into Slovene: Alenka Ropret. – Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze*. Translation from English into Slovene: Andrej Skubic. – Aleksander Bečanović: Arcueil*. Translation from Serbo-Croatian into Slovene: Polona Glavan. – Miljenko Jergović: Rod. Translation from Croatian into Slovene: Aleksandra Rekar. – Tove Jansson: Moomin – […]

The cooperation project South and East reaches West – digital platform for promotion of writers in post-conflict societies – Reading Balkans aimed to link various partners active in the field of literature promotion and dissemination. The aim was to create new capacities employing a new business model with the Literary Agent for literatures of Southeast, […]