Slovenia at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair

After a year of pause, we are looking forward to a live edition of the Frankfurt book fair once again, which will take place October 20-24. You are welcome to visit us at the Slovenian national stand in hall 4.0, stand B58. This year you can meet seven Slovenian publishers at the fair: Beletrina, Cankarjeva založba, Goga, Malinc, Miš publishing house, Mladinska knjiga, Pivec publishing house and Sodobnost International.

And that is not all: you are also kindly invited to live events with Slovenian poets Miljana Cunta and Anja Zag Golob, as well as musician Drago Ivanuša, and to a B2B meeting, which the Slovenian Book Agency is organizing in the frame of an EU project Every Story Matters – Making Books more Inclusive.

Check out our full program:

Tuesday, October 19

20.30 Haus am Dom, Giebelsaal (Domplatz 6)

The Depth of the Sky: Poetry Concert (in German and Slovenian)

Anja Zag Golob (poetry & voice) and Drago Ivanuša (music, piano, computer, theremin)

Registration required at ha…

Slovenian Book Agency’s Publishers Meeting in Berlin and Study Trip in Slovenia – a Photo Story

On September 7 the Slovenian Book Agency organized a meeting of Slovenian and German publishers in Berlin at the seat of the EU house together with the Slovenian Cultural Center in Berlin. After the presentation of the leading cultural project in the frame of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union – Europe Readr – the publishers listened to two young Slovenian EUPL prize winners, Anja Mugerli (2021) and Nataša Kramberger (2010) and then took part in an intensive B2B meeting.

From September 8-11 a group of publishers and producers from Germany and Austria visited Slovenia for a study trip organized by the Slovenian Book Agency. Representatives of C. H. Beck, Berlin Verlag, Suhrkamp, Literature House Munich, manuskripte magazine and others met several Slovenian publishers and authors as well as visited the famous Vilenica festival, which took place at the same time.

Participants of both events were excited about meeting live and learning about Slovenian…