The Slovenian Book Agency is announcing four open calls for foreign publishers in 2022!
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The open calls will be published in January and March 2022.
We are looking forward to all your applications. Good luck!
Awarded Slovenian Titles 2021
From the Best Novel of the Year to awarded poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books and The Book Debut award. Below are just some of the Awarded Slovenian Titles of 2021:
Kritiško sito (Slovene Literary Critics Association Award): Muanis Sinanović – Krhke karavane / Fragile Caravans
Rožanc Award (best collection of essays): Robert Simonišek – Pejsaži – sanjati na soncu / Landscapes - Dreaming in the Sun
Zlatirepec award (best original comic book): Jaka Vukotič in Žiga Gombač for Znamenitni: imenitne zgodbe znamenitih osebnosti v stripu / Znameniti: Great Stories of Celebrities
You can find the complete list of the awarded titles on our website.
Slovenian Authors Online
Watch a selection of talks, interviews and performances by best-selling Slovenian authors like Drago Jančar, Miha Mazzini and Erica Johnson Debeljak, as well as Mati Ačko, the Slovenian Slam Poetry Champion:
On December 1 2021, the Slovenian bestselling author Drago Jančar was a guest at the Bozar Center for Fine Arts - Brussels, participating in a talk titled »Meet the Author«.
Drago Jančar also took part in a talk with Swiss author Zora del Buono, currently based in Berlin, at a hybrid event at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin titled »Aufbrüche«.
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After his novel Du existierst nicht / Erased was published by Edition Converso, Miha Mazzini was a guest in the Kulturzeit show at 3sat. The novel talks about the fall through the cracks of the system, after Slovenia gained its independence in the early 90’s.
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American-Slovenian author Erica Johnson Debeljak received the Book of the Year Award for her book Virgin Wife Widow Whore, a memoir about the sudden and shocking death of her Slovenian husband, speaking about the trauma, the grief that ensues and her rite of passage from wife to widow.
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Slovenian slam poetry champion, Matic Ačko, took part at the European Slampionship on December 11 2021 in Brussels. He got 6th place and will be taking part in the Slampionship World Championship in 2022. Congratulations!
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Happy New Year 2022!
