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Reading the Heart of Europe
December 6, 2019Project duration: 1. 1. 2020–31. 12. 2020 (2nd year) EU support: Category 2 – Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA): 95.781,02 EUR (1st year); 97.531,65 EUR (2nd year); 99.989,79 EUR (3rd year) 30 literary high quality works translated from diverse European languages write about personal challenges in an increasing troubled world, subjected to profound transformations, trying to find the […]
Reading the Heart of Europe (II)
December 6, 201930 literary high quality works translated from diverse European languages write about personal challenges in an increasing troubled world, subjected to profound transformations, trying to find the core common values, ideas and meanings – looking for the “heart” of Europe, seeing it differently. “But the eyes are blind.” Said Saint-Exupery’s Little Prince, “One must look […]
Cankar Goes West
December 3, 2019Project Cankar Goes West aims to expand readership and grow audience for the works of the “father of Slovene drama” playwright Ivan Cankar (born 1876, died 1918). This two year project aims to translate, publish, distribute and promote a complete playwriting opus of 7 plays, written by Ivan Cankar, regarded as the greatest writer in […]
Litterae Slovenicae – Building bridges between small and major languages
December 3, 2019List of works: – Peter Svetina: Ropotarna. Translation from Slovene into German: Liza Linde. – Tone Škrjanec: Koža. Translation from Slovene into German: Ann Catrin Bolton. – Jedrt Lapuh Maležič: Težkomentalci. Translation from Slovene into Spanish: Marjeta Drobnič. – Uroš Zupan: Počasna plovba. Translation from Slovene into English: Michael Biggins. – Lidija Dimkovska: Rezervno življenje. […]
Reading the Heart of Europe (I)
November 26, 201930 literary high quality works translated from diverse European languages write about personal challenges in an increasing troubled world, subjected to profound transformations, trying to find the core common values, ideas and meanings – looking for the “heart” of Europe, seeing it differently. “But the eyes are blind.” Said Saint-Exupery’s Little Prince, “One must look […]
Reading the Heart of Europe
November 26, 2019Project duration: 1. 1. 2019–31. 12. 2019 (1st year) EU support: Category 2 – Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA): 95.781,02 EUR (1st year); 97.531,65 EUR (2nd year); 99.989,79 EUR (3rd year) 30 literary high quality works translated from diverse European languages write about personal challenges in an increasing troubled world, subjected to profound transformations, trying to find the […]
Literature vs. Nationalism. Contemporary Literature Moving Borders (I)
November 26, 2019The 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 […]
Literature vs. Nationalism. Contemporary Literature Moving Borders
November 26, 2019Project duration: 1. 1. 2019–31. 12. 2019 (1st year) EU support: Category 2 – Framework Partnership Agreement: 57.428,00 EUR (1st year); 68.258,40 EUR (2nd year); 85.619 EUR (3rd year) 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 […]
Spread the Words
November 26, 2019Project duration: 1. 1. 2019–31. 12. 2019 (1st year) EU support: Category 2 – Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA): 59.973,32 EUR (1st year); 58.405,13 EUR (2nd year); 59.892,73 EUR (3rd year) List of books (1st year of EU support): – Janne Teller: Alt. Translation from Danish into Slovene by Silvana Orel Kos. – Véronique Olmi: Bakhita. Translation from French […]
Spread the Words (I)
November 26, 2019The 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 […]