Drago Jančar, one of the leading Slovenian contemporary writers, has been awarded this year’s Austrian State Prize for European Literature, which is a...
The bi-annual prize for best translation from Slovenian into German was awarded to Erwin Köstler, an acclaimed translator of Slovenian literature, for...
A new promotional catalogue of contemporary Slovenian children’s and YA literature in English language, which introduces 44 Slovenian authors for all ...
In hope that the extraordinary pandemic circumstances will be over by summer, we announce the following invitations (with additional information to be...
The Literary Residence Programme ‘Reading Balkans 2020’ is open to welcome fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comi...
There is a number of awards annually handed out to literary creators, from the Kresnik Award for best Slovene novel (bestowed by the newspaper publisher Delo) and the Kritiško Sito Prize (bestowed by the Slovene Literary Critics Association), to the Rožanc Award for the best collection of essays, the Veronika Award and the Jenko Award for the best poetry collections, and the Desetnica, Večernica and Levstik Awards for best children’s and young adult literature. Here is a short overview of awarded books in 2019.