News

• 12. 04. 2017 Presentation of Slovenian Authors in Leipzig a Success!
  The Leipzig Book Fair, the second largest fair of such kind in Germany, closed its doors on 26 March 2017 after an intense four days of numerous activities. While the leading Frankfurt Book Fair is predominantly focused on publishers, the Leipzig fest focuses on the readers – particularly with the reader-oriented festival “Leipzig liest”.
• 22. 03. 2017 Featured Author: Suzana Tratnik - Bingo or Life!
  This Young Adults/crossover novel by Slovenian writer Suzana Tratnik (b. 1963), a multiple literary award winner, was recently released in Slovenian. The author will be present at the Leipzig Book Fair, introducing her novel (some years after her success with the German translation of the novel My Name is Damian) to audiences at the fairground and in the city.
• 20. 03. 2017 Slovenian events at this year's Leipzig Book Fair (23-26 March 2017)
  The Leipzig Book Fair starts on Wednesday, 23 March 2017. We kindly invite all interested literature aficionados to visit events with Slovenian authors at the fair and throughout the city of Leipzig as part of the "Leipzig liest" festival. You can find the Slovenian national stand at the Fair in Hall 4.0., D503.
• 20. 03. 2017 Drago Jančar up for prestigious russian literary prize
  Slovenian contemporary literary classic Drago Jančar, who is also well known to international readers, is among Julian Barnes and Jonathan Franzen one of the nominees for prestigious russian Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award, which recognizes the most significant foreign book of the year written in the 21st century, and its Russian translation.
• 03. 02. 2017 Visit by the Administration of the Frankfurt Book Fair to Slovenia
  Between 30 January and 1 February 2017, the Slovenian Book Agency (JAK) organized the first official meeting with the Administration of the Frankfurt Book Fair, represented by Mr Jürgen Boos (Director) and Mrs Simone Bühler (Head of the "Guest of Honour" programme), in Ljubljana.
• 16. 12. 2016 The Final Act of the Pula Book Fair Marked by the Incomparable Svetlana Makarovič
  The 22nd edition of the Croatian Sa(n)jam knjige (Dreaming Books) book fair that took place between 1 and 11 December in Pula finally closed its doors. In addition to the main programme titled Transatlantik (Transatlantic), Slovenia, more specifically Ljubljana played an important role as well as it was at the forefront of the regional programme Ljubljana bere – Ljubljana Reads.
• 09. 12. 2016 Slovenian Authors in the Focus of the Pula Book Fair
  The 22nd edition of the Croatian Sa(n)jam knjige (Dreaming Books) festival is in full swing and this year's regional programme Ljubljana bere – Ljubljana Reads has received quite a lot of attention.
• 07. 12. 2016 New Slovenian Cinema Takes Over Berlin
  The second edition of the Neues slowenisches Kino (New Slovenian Cinema) festival, organized by Periskop and the Slovenian Film Centre is about to dawn on Berlin on Tuesday, 6 December 2016.