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Publishing

  • Co-financing books and magazines
  • The public lending right and grants
  • Increasing the accessibility of books
  • Book and magazine portals
  • Promoting electronic publishing
  • Single Price for Books Act

International Cooperation

  • Participating in international book fairs
  • Promotional materials
  • Publishing works by Slovenian authors with foreign publishing houses
  • Artist-in-residence grants abroad
  • International Slovenian literature translation seminar

Reading Promotion in Slovenia

  • Co-financing literary events and the development of reading culture
  • Co-financing bookshop cultural programmes
  • Reading and book promotion campaigns
  • Professional training in the field of books
17. 03. 2023

Planica FIS World Nordic Skiing Championship media event, 26. 2. 2023

On Sunday, February 26 2023, at Planica FIS World Nordic Skiing Championship Media center, an event was held in front of around 150 domestic and foreign journalists, photographers and other guests. The event, titled POWER IN THE SPORT, KNOWLEDGE IN THE BOOK, was organised in cooperation with Government Office for Communication and Cooperation of the Republic of Slovenia and Slovenian Book Agency.

As part of the accompanying program in Planica, a panel of Slovenian athletes was presented: Sara Isaković, a retired professional swimmer and a successful "performance" psychologist helping athletes achieving top results, also a silver medalist at the OI (Beijing, 2008); Tadej Golob, a writer, alpinist, with published book Z Everesta, about his skiing experience on Everest, writer of biographies about athletes (among them Petr Vilfan and Goran Dragić), writer of sport novels (the youth novel Zlati zob, Ali boma ye!) and author of the bestselling crime series about Inspector Taras Birsa;…

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02. 03. 2023

Slovenia at Bologna Children's Book Fair 2023

The Bologna Children's Book Fair, which will be held this year from March 6 to 9, is approaching. Next year, Slovenia will be the fair's guest of honour. The Slovenian Book Agency (JAK) will be present at the fair with an 80 m2 national stand in Hall 29 (Stand C26-D25).

In addition to the presentation of the latest book production, the stand will feature four workstations of Slovenian publishers (Malinc Publishing House, Miš Publishing House, Pivec Publishing House, Sodobnost International). Mladinska knjiga Publishing House and Morfem Publishing House will have their own stands at the fair.

On Tuesday, March 7, at 11:30 a.m., the Slovenian Book Agency will host a B2B meeting of Slovenian and foreign publishers, which will be attended by 25 Slovenian and foreign publishers, editors and agents.

Several events will be held at the fair, presenting Slovenian authors and experts in the field of books.

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 12:45 p.m., in a broadcast from Stockholm, the recipient…

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