A New Release in the 100 Slavic Novels Series
A fresh addition to the 100 Slavic Novels series has just arrived: the Slovenian translation of Serbian author Vida Ognjenović’s novel The House of Dead Scents, translated by award-winning translator Aleksandra Rekar, recipient of the prestegious Sovre award. The novel follows Gedeon Volni, a collector of rare bottles and fragrances in a provincial Vojvodina town, […]
Festival of Slavic Literatures – Fourth Edition
The Festival of Slavic Literature will begin for the fourth time this year and will run from September 30 to October 8. This year’s distinguished guests are Serbian writer Vida Ognjenović and Croatian author Nada Gašić. Festival audiences will have the opportunity to engage with the writers and their works, including Ognjenović’s novel The House […]
Živa 2025 in Trebinje – The City of Sun, Wine, and Cultural Heritage
Trebinje, a city in the far south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, just thirty kilometres from the Adriatic Sea, will host the 11th edition of the Živa Award and Conference from 8 to 12 October 2025. For more than a decade, the Živa Award has been recognizing excellence in the preservation and promotion of Slavic cultural […]
Ljubka’s Trail — A Training Session
As part of the Ljubka’s Trail project, the Forum of Slavic Cultures and the Lojze Bratuž Cultural Centre are establishing a new cross-border walking, hiking, and cycling trail dedicated to the poet Ljubka Šorli and her literary predecessors and contemporaries. The project is supported by the Interreg Italy–Slovenia Small Projects Fund and is included in […]
Translators of Slovenian Literature Return to Villa Zlatica
For the fifth consecutive year, Villa Zlatica hosted the opening ceremony of the 15th International Translation Seminar of Slovenian Literature, organized by the Slovenian Book Agency and the Slovenian Literary Translators’ Association, in cooperation with the Forum of Slavic Cultures, the City of Ljubljana, and the Creative Europe program. At the opening event on August […]