At the central event, some of the best contemporary Slavic novelists from 8 Slavic countries read the passages from their works, Svetoslav Nahum (Bulgaria), Nada Gašić (Croatia), Dimitar Baševski (Macedonia), Milorad Mijo Popović (Montenegro), Roman Senchin (Russia), Vida Ognjenović (Serbia), Monika Kompaníková (Slovakia) and Vlado Žabot (Slovenia).