From Record-breaking Bestsellers to Radical New Book-forms: Awarded Slovenian...
Kresnik Award (best novel of the year): Bronja Žakelj: Belo se pere na devetdeset (Whites Wash at Ninety, Beletrina publishing house, rights-contact: petra.kavcic@zalozba.org) – a warm, witty and...
View ArticleTwo Open Calls for Residency Programs: Reading Balkans and Traduki Fellowship...
The Literary Residence Programme ‘Reading Balkans 2020’ is open to welcome fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comic book writers from Southeast Europe (Slovenia,...
View ArticleSeason’s Greetings and Where to Meet Us in Early 2020
The Slovenian Book Agency will be taking part in three international book fairs next Spring:Brussels Book Fair (5-8 March), with guest author Agata Tomažič and her short story collection Ce qu’on ne...
View ArticleUrgent notification regarding our international public calls and tenders
All public calls and tenders for foreign publishers planned for this Friday, 20 March 2020, are postponed for foreseeably 14 days. The deadlines will be prolonged accordingly. List of public calls and...
View ArticleWith all the spring book fairs cancelled – where to meet us?
In hope that the extraordinary pandemic circumstances will be over by summer, we announce the following invitations (with additional information to be followed): June 3rd 2020, Berlin, Germany: A B2B...
View ArticleDiscover “Slovenia’s Best for Young Readers 2020”!
A new promotional catalogue of contemporary Slovenian children’s and YA literature in English language, which introduces 44 Slovenian authors for all age groups is available here. With afterwords by...
View ArticleFabjan Hafner Prize 2020 goes to Erwin Köstler
The bi-annual prize for best translation from Slovenian into German was awarded to Erwin Köstler, an acclaimed translator of Slovenian literature, for his translation of the great historic novel The...
View ArticleDrago Jančar wins the Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2020
Drago Jančar, one of the leading Slovenian contemporary writers, has been awarded this year’s Austrian State Prize for European Literature, which is a life-time achievement award endowed with 25.000€....
View ArticleSupport for foreign publishers – three public calls to be issued later this year
Three calls for foreign publishers were scheduled to open this spring, but due to a new national law on temporary measures during the COVID-19 epidemic, introduced on 27th March 2020, the calls are...
View ArticleHighlight of the month: Plan B - How Not to Lose Hope in the Time of Crisis...
After Boštjan Videmšek, an award-winning crisis and war reporter for the main Slovenian daily newspaper Delo and author of many books, published his latest book Dispatches from the Frontlines of...
View ArticleSlovenian Literature in Translation – What’s New?
If you thought the rights market for Slovenian books stopped during the pandemic, think again! Many new deals and published books in no less than ten languages are listed below: New deals Vinko...
View ArticleSupport for foreign publishers – three public calls issued on 19th June
On 19 June we published three public calls: - Call for Proposals for the translation and publication of books by Slovenian authors in the German language for the year 2020 (deadline: 20 July 2020); -...
View ArticleJoint Decision of Canada, Spain, Slovenia and Italy to postpone their GoH...
Originally planned for 2020, Canada’s presentation as Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse (14-18 October 2020) has been postponed until 2021 due to the changed conditions caused by COVID-19. The...
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