On the threshold of a new year the meeting of the Forum of Slavic Cultures and the writers from the Slovenian 100 Slavic Novels list took place. They agreed that this literary project is something special and that they will be delighted to take part in the evnets marking the 15th anniversary of the foundation.
The opening ceremony of the 100 Slavic Novels exhibition in the centre of Bratislava was held under the auspices of Ľubica Laššáková, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Andreja Rihter, Director of the Forum of Slavic Cultures, and Silvia Stasselová, General Director of University Library in Bratislava. The exhibition will be on display at the University Library in Bratislava until January 2019.
The Forum of Slavic Cultures has published two more of the 100 Slavic Novels, The Great War by Serbian author Aleksandar Gatalica, and The Women of Lazarus by Marina Stepnova. Both authors presented their novels also to Slovenian readers.
This year again, the Forum of Slavic Cultures presented its work at the Belgrade Book Fair. Numerous visitors were drawn not only by the books from the 100 Slavic Novels collection, which really stand out with their visual design, but even more so by the exhibition of the same name.
The International Foundation – Forum of Slavic Cultures presented the 100 Slavic Novels series at the Moscow International Book Fair for the second year in a row. After Moscow the authors representing the series continued their visit to Russia at the Leo Tolstoy’s estate in Yasnaya Polyana where they were special guests of the traditional international writers’ meeting.
A Macedonian publishing house Slovo, the Macedonian partner of the 100 Slavic Novels project, published two new titles in the first half of 2018.
For the second year in a row, the Forum of Slavic Cultures (FSC) participated in the Conference on the Interslavic Language and in the Days of Slavic Cultures Festival which are traditionally held in various towns in Moravia (Czech Republic).
At the occasion of the St. Petersburg International Book Salon the Forum of Slavic Cultures opened the 100 Slavic Novels Exhibition while Slovenian writer Suzana Tratnik took care that Slovenian word could not only be seen but also heard at the city’s main avenue, Nevsky Prospekt.
A round-table of writers from Slavic countries with Jennifer Clement, President of PEN International, took place at the 50th International writers’ meeting in Bled organized by Slovenian PEN Centre. In addition, Slavic writers gathered at the literary evening, moderated by Dubravka Đurić Nemec from Croatia.
Montenegrin publishing house Otvoreni Kulturni Forum published the first in the 100 Slavic Novels series, Drago Jančar’s novel Mocking Desire.
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