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Giveaway: NEW YEAR'S BOOK GIFT
Book prizes for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
Apply before 23rd December 2021 (10 p.m.)!
Radka Denemarková & Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki |City of Books Festival
Czech and Polish writer in Ljubljana
from 4th to 7th October 2021
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana & National Gallery, Ljubljana
Seminar for Reading Club Moderators & Slavic Focus
Conference & seminar
14th September 2021 at 8.30–13.30 in 14.30–16.00 in Slavic Library, Ljubljana
Application deadline: 7th September 2021
Migrations in Reality
Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
(2019−2021)
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Pre-application
Pre-application form
(On the basis of pre-application you are sent a message when the new cycle of webinars begins)
Forum of Reading Club Moderators
Forum dedicated to reading club moderators
Giveaway: MIDNIGHT'S DREAM
Book prizes for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
Apply before 23rd June 2021 (10 p.m.)!
E-book Workshop
Publishers' Forum at the City of Books Festival
18th June 2021 at 10.30–13.00
Ekscenter kreativnih praks, Nova Gorica
Deadline: 17. 6. 2021
Liber.ac Book Fair
from 18th to 20th May 2021
Organized by Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
world wide web
Workshop: How to translate film subtitles?
from 2nd April to 18th May 2021
online workshop for students & graduates of Czech studies
Application deadline: 31th March 2021
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Advanced Level
Cycle of 2 online meetings
6th and 13th April 2021 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 2. 4. 2021
ONLINE: Slavic Reading Club 2021 (Season 2)
from 25th January to 22th November 2021
Slavic Library, Ljubljana
TEMPORARILY ONLINE WEB CONFERENCES
ONLINE: What Books Have To Say Reading Club (Season 6)
from 24th November 2020 to 20th April 2021
Prežihov Voranc Library, Ljubljana
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Intermediate Level
Cycle of 2 webinars
16th & 23rd March 2021 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 12th March 2021
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Beginners
Cycle of 2 webinars
23rd February & 2nd March 2021 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 19th March 2021
WEB Reading Club
On Books from Comfort of Your Own Room
Cycle of 6 web conferences
from 10th February 2020 to 22nd February 2021
ONLINE: From Book to Literary Criticism
Workshop for young literary critics and reviewers
16th January 2021 and 23rd January 2021 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
online conference, or Trubar House of Literature, Ljubljana
Cycle of Czech and Slovak film
online or Slavic Library, Ljubljana
from 19th March to 19th October 2021
Festive December
EXTRA DISCOUNT −10 %
from 1st December to 31st December 2020
online Blue and White Bird Bookshop
Book Fairs in December
Knjige n@ recept (from 10th to 17th December 2020, online)
Knjige pod jelkami (from 15th to 24th December 2020, Nova Gorica or online)
Giveaway: NEW YEAR'S BOOK GIFT
Book prizes for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
Apply before 23rd December 2019 (10 p.m.)!
Congratulations to prize winners!
Lara Unuk − Radojka Vrančič Prize for the best young translator of the year 2020
Petra Meterc − Best young film critic of the year 2020 by the choice of Ekran journal
ONLINE: Slavic Reading Club
from 1st June to 16th November 2020
Slavic Library, Ljubljana
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
ONLINE: From Book to Visual Image: Photocomics & Film
4 experimental workshops
from 21st November 2020 to 12th December 2020
Trubarjeva hiša literature, Ljubljana
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
ONLINE: Radio Play Workshop Through Prism of Improvisation Theatre
6 experimental workshops
from 4th October 2019 to 7th November 2020
Cepetka (JSKD, Cankarjeva 5, Ljubljana)
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Advanced
Cycle of 2 webinars
13th & 20th October 2020 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 6th October 2020
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators: Beginners
Cycle of 2 webinars
22nd & 29th September 2020 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 15th September 2020
City of Books Festival 2020
from 11th to 19th September 2020
(book fair from 15th to 18th Sept. 2020)
park next to Bevk Square, Nova Gorica
His Master's Voice: film & book in Kinoteka
Hungarian-Polish literary event with film presentation
Tuesday, 15th September 2020 at 8 p.m., Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana
Giveaway: MIDSUMMER NIGHT
Book giveaway for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
from 23th May to 23rd June 2020
Book Fair On Fresh Air
Book fair
from 19th to 21st June 2020 in Zvezda Park, Ljubljana
ONLINE: What Books Have to Say Reading Club (Season 5)
from 14th October 2019 to 12th May 2020
Prežihov Voranc Library, Ljubljana
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
ONLINE: Translators' views on books (reading club)
from 21st October 2019 to 5th May 2020
Ivančna Gorica Library
TEMPORARILY ONLINE
GIVEAWAY: Books to spend time with!
Free ebooks for Slovenian readers.
Giveaway until 31st March 2020.
All public events cancelled till further notice - MOVING TO INTERNET
Announcement of Covid-19 virus epidemy in Slovenia
EVENTS, WHERE POSSIBLE, ARE MIGRATING TO INTERNET!
Internet orderes are proccessed as usually (from home).
From Book to Visual Arts: Gabriela Gańczarczyk (CZ/PL)
Discussion with dr. Gabriela Gańczarczyk on film subtitling
Wednesday, 11th March 2020, from 13.00 to 14.30
Trubar House of Literature
Webinar for Reading Club Moderators
Cycle of 2 webinars
25th February & 3rd March 2020 at 10.00–11.30
Registration deadline: 11th February 2020
Postponed: Cycle of Czech and Slovak film 2020
Film screenings
from 4th February to 3rd November 2020
Slavic Library, Ljubljana
Giveaway: NEW YEAR'S BOOK GIFT
Book prizes for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
Apply before 23rd December 2019 (10 p.m.)!
Writer Ivana Myšková (Czech Republic)
Author's reading with book signing:
28th September 2019, 7 p.m., Celjska kulturnica (Celje)
10th October 2019, 5 p.m., Trubar House of Literature (Ljubljana)
21st October 2019, 5 p.m., Ivančna Gorica Library (Ivančna Gorica)
Lecture in Czech: 14th October 2019, 13.50–15.20, Dept. of Slavic Studies, Tobačna 5 (Ljubljana)
Image of the Book: Dragana Nikolić (Serbia)
Discussion on book graphic design
1st July 2019 at 5 p.m.
Trubar House of Literature
PREORDER: J. G. Ballard 3 + 1
Preorder of Ballard's novels High-Rise, The Drowned World & The Crystal World + GRATIS The Drought (Slovenian edition).
Preorder until 23th June 2019.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Book prizes for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
from 23th May to 23rd June 2019
Czech literature in light of Slovenian translators
Exhibition
from 8th to 31st May 2019
Slovanska knjižnica (hall)
What Books Have to Say: Reading Club with Iztok Osojnik (Season 4)
from 18th December 2018 to 14th May 2019
Prežihov Voranc Library, Ljubljana
Meteorita 2019
4th Day of Science and Fantasy
13th April 2019 at Jesenice
Cycle of Czech Film 2019
Film screening
from 5th February to 5th November 2019 in Slavic Library, Ljubljana
Man Booker Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk in Nova Gorica
Literary event / prefestival event of "Mesto knjige" book festival
Tuesday, 26th March 2019, 7 p.m., Big Stage of Nova Gorica National Theatre
Bulgarian writer Radoslav Parushev in Ljubljana
Author's reading with book signing
Wednesday, 30th January 2019, at 8 p.m., Trubar House of Literature
Discussion on translation from Czech, Polish & Slovak
Panel discussion with Jana Unuk, Diana Pungeršič in Tatjana Jamnik
14th January 2019 at 10.30, room No. 1
Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana, Tobačna 5
NEW YEAR'S BOOK GIFT
Book prizes and special discount for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
from 26th November to 23rd December 2018
Acts of Resistence, Acts of Dignity – Anna Bolavá
Author's reading with book signing & Lecture
29th October in Trubar House of Literature & Dept. of Slavic Studies, University in Ljubljana
World of Czech literature through translations by Zdenka Škerlj Jerman
Exhibition
from 12th September to 5th November 2018, Slavic Library, 2nd floor (Ljubljana City Library)
2. Fantasy Festival FANfest.si
from 22nd to 23rd September 2018, Celje
THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Book prizes and special discount for KUD Police Dubove newsletter subscribers
from 27th May to 23rd June 2018
What Books Have to Say: Reading Club with Iztok Osojnik (Season 3)
from 13th December 2017 to 13th June 2018
Prežihov Voranc Library, Ljubljana
Czech writer Jan Němec in Ljubljana
Author's reading with book signing & lecture
4th June 2018, Trubar Literature House, Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana (Tobačna 5)
Polish writer Jerzy Franczak in Ljubljana
Author's reading with book signing & university lectures
16th April 2018 at 5 p.m., Trubar House of Literature
16th–19th April 2018, Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavic Studies (Tobačna)
Meteorita 2018
3rd Day of Science and Science Fiction/Fantasy
7th April 2018 (from 11:00 on)
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British author Minoli Salgado in Ljubljana
Discussion and literary event with book signing
26th and 28th March 2018, Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana, and Trubar House of Literature
Reading with Iztok Osojnik (Season 2)
from 10th October 2017 to 20th March 2018
Ivančna Gorica Library
Izabela Morska: On (un)manliness in Polish literature
24th November 2017 at 5 p.m.
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
(Blue Room, 5th floor)
Invitation to the "City of Books" book fair
from 2nd to 6th June 2017
Bevk Square in Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Events with PhDr. Martin Machovec (Czech Republic)
Lecture and literary event in Ljubljana
29th and 31st May 2017 at Faculty of Arts (Tobačna) and Trubar House of Literature, Ljubljana
LIBER.AC Book Fair
from 23rd to 25tha May 2017
Foerster's park behind the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana
A dream can be the highest point of a life
A discussion on The Famished Road by Ben Okri
17th May 2017, 6 p.m., at Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana
What Books Have to Say: Reading Club with PhD. Iztok Osojnik (Season2)
from 23rd November 2016 to 14th June 2017
Prežihov Voranc Library in Ljubljana
Reading with PhD Iztok Osojnik
from 18th October 2016 to 21th March 2017
Ivančna Gorica Library
Echoes of Realities - new and upcoming books by Polica Dubova
Monday, 13th February 2017, at 8:00 p.m.
Trubar House of Literature, Ljubljana
Invitation to the Knjige pod jelkami book fair
from 20th to 23rd December 2016
Bevk Square in Nova Gorica
Word Stations: Worlds by Stanisław Lem
9th December 2016 at 5 p.m.
Blue Room, Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana
The Golden Boat 2016
from 18th October to 5th December 2016
Brno, Košice, Ružomberok, Wrocław, Sosnowiec
(Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)
13th Translation Workshop for Polish Students of Slovene
5th December 2016, from 13:15 to 14:45
Sosnowiec, Poland
Premiere of Václav Havel´s play Problem
5th Deccember 2016, 8 p.m.
Rog Factory, Ljubljana
Radka Denemarková for Czech and Slavic studies audience
Monday and Tuesday, 10th and 11th October 2016
Ljubljana (Tobačna, Trubar Literature House & Anika Šank pub)
Literary reading: Czech novelist Radka Denemarková
Monday, 10th October 2016, 6 p.m.
Trubar Literature House, Ljubljana
What Books Have to Say: Reading Club with PhD. Iztok Osojnik
from 27th October 2015 to 21st June 2016
Prežihov Voranc Library in Ljubljana
Stand on City of Books book fair
from 31st May to 3rd June 2016
Bevk Square in Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Presentation of books by Michelle Perrot & Ana Cergol Paradiž
18th May 2016 at 10.00 a.m. in Tržaško književno središče / Centro triestino del libro
27th May 2016 at 18.00 p.m. in Tovarna Rog / Rog Old Factory, Ljubljana
KUD Police Dubove at LIBER.AC book fair
from 24th to 26th May 2016
Foerster's Garden, behind the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
The Book World Fair and Festival in Prague
Knižní veletrh a festival Svět knihy
od 10. do 15. maja 2016
Prague, Czech Republic
Tea with Literature: Reading Club with PhD. Iztok Osojnik
from October 2015 to April 2016
Library of the I Grammar School in Celje
BOOK IN HAND: A. Jensterle-Doležal, I. Osojnik, T. Jamnik, J. Unuk
Thursday, 21st January 2016, at 5 p.m.
Trubar Literature House, Ljubljana
Get a book present!
Pay 2, get 3!
Special offer from 16.12.2015 to 16.01.2016
Word Stations: Looking for (Non-)Reality with Jerzy Franczak
10th November 2015 at 5 p.m.
in the Blue Room (5th floor), Faculty of Arts, University in Ljubljana
The Golden Boat Festival 2015
6th Festival of Slovenian Culture
from 7th to 12th October 2015
Český Těšín, Katowice, Kraków, Bielsko-Biała, Ostrava
Poland and Czech Republic
12th Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała
10th and 11th October 2015
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Echoes of Realities
Project in the frame of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
2015-2017
Book Fair BOOKS AT THE TROUGH
Small and Pocket Publishers' Book Fair
9th and 10th June 2015, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Menza pri koritu, AKC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Literary event: Radka Denemarková in Mariboru
Friday, 19th December 2014, 6 p.m.
Literarna hiša Maribor, Slovenia
Literary event: A. Peršolja and R. Denemarková in Ilirska Bistrica
Thursday, 18th December 2014, 6 p.m.
Maksa Samsa Library, Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia
Literary event: Radka Denemarková in Ljubljana
Wednesday, 10th December 2014, 6 p.m.
Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Blue Room (5th floor), Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Golden Boat Festival 2014
5th Festival of Slovenian Culture
from 18th to 25th October 2014
Bielsko-Biała, Kraków, Mikołów, Český Těšín, Brno
11th Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała
from 18th to 19th October 2014
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Literary event: Maciej Melecki
Monday, 15th September 2014, 6 p.m.
Literary house Maribor in Maribor
Radka Denemarková in French speaking countries
Literary tour in Brussels, Luxembourg and Paris
from 25th November to 1st December 2013
The European Bridge 2013
International literary tour of Slovenian poets in Munich, Luxembourg, Paris and Tinqueux
from 12th to 19th November 2013
Symposium of French and Slovenian Literary Translators
Paris, 15th and 16th November 2013
The 4th Golden Boat Festival of Slovenian Culture 2013
from 17th to 24th October 2013
Český Těšín (Czech Republic), Mikołów, Bielsko-Biala, Krakow, Warsaw (Poland)
10th International Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała
from 19th to 20th October 2013
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Literary matinee: Radka Denemarková in Olga Tokarczuk
Friday, 13th September 2013, at 11 a.m.
Modrijanova knjigarna (Modrijan's Bookshop) in Ljubljana
Claribel Alegría - KONS International Literary Award 2013
KOPER: Friday 26th July 2013, at 7 p.m. in atrium of Dijaški in študentski dom Koper
LJUBLJANA: Tuesday 30th July 2013, at 11 a.m. in Modrijanova knjigarna
Taja Kramberger, Barbara Korun and Tatjana Jamnik
International Conference:Concepts Of RealityThroughExperimental Poetry
from 17 to 21 May 2013
Škocjan on the Karst & Ljubljana, Slovenia
A novel on modern Schecherazade - Jacek Dehnel: Pupa
on Thursday 28th February 2013 at 6 p.m.
in Modrijan Bookshop (Ljubljana)
Jana Unuk & Maja Novak
KONS International Literary Award: Claribel Alegría
19th February 2013
9th International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua
KONS International Literary Award for the year 2013 was bestowed to the Nicaraguan and Salvadorian poet Claribel Alegría
Symposium of Polish and Slovenian literary translators in Poland
from 30th November to 1st December 2012
Katovice, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
Zlati čoln / The Golden Boat - Škocjan afterŠkocjan 2012
3rd October 2012, 8 p.m.
KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
Srečko Kosovel - The Golden Boat Festival in Slovenia
5th June 2012 at 6 p.m.
Kud France Prešeren in Ljubljana
Srečko Kosovel: Kalejdoskop: Izbrane pesmi/Wiersze wybrane (translated by Karolina Bucka Kustec, forewords by prof. dr. Bożena Tokarz & dr. Iztok Osojnik)
The 3rd Golden Boat Festival of Slovenian Culture in Poland
from May 16 to May 22, 2012
Łódź, Katowice, Bielsko-Biała, Kraków, Mikołów
Srečko Kosovel: Kalejdoskop: Izbrane pesmi/Wiersze wybrane (translated by Karolina Bucka Kustec, 2012)
Iztok Osojnik: Spodnie na niebie (translated by Marcin Warmuz, 2012)
9th International Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała
May 19th to 20th 2012
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
WordSMITHing - KOVAČija besed with Iztok Osojnik
Maribor, 4th April 2012
PEKARNA Magdalenske mreže
Presentation of Iztok Osojnik's novel Swines fly to the sky - 6 p.m. at Infopeka
Poetry reading of Iztok Osojnik - 7 p.m. at Gustaf Hall
LET'S COOK BEFORE 10th KANTFEST FESTIVAL
15th March 2012, 20:30, KUD France Prešeren (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Songwriters & musicians: SIMONA ČERNETIČ, DANI BEDRAČ, LEON MATEK
and a special guest RAY MILLER (USA)
A Leap Forward
29th February 2012 in Kud France Prešeren, Ljubljana
We are joining the The World Poetry Movement (WPM)/Movimiento Mundiale de Poesia (MMP)
The Golden Boat - Slavic Bridge 2011
Slovenian Poets on Tour in Czech Republic and Slovakia
Prague, Pardubice, Brno, Bratislava
from 3rd to 10th November 2011
Conference of literary translators in Prague
A conference of Czech, Slovak and Slovenian literary translators
4th and 5th November 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
Stanisław Lem's 90th anniversary
Solaris in Kinoteka and Kinodvor
12th and 13th September 2011, Ljubljana
The Slavic Bridge 2011: Literary tour in Bulgaria and Serbia
from 7th to 13th June 2011
Sofia (Bulgaria) & Niš, Belgrade (Serbia)
8th International Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała in Poland
from 28th to 29th May 2011
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2nd Golden Boat Festival in Poland
from 24th to 28th May 2011
Mikołów, Sosnowiec, Katowice, Kraków, Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
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KONS International Literary Award to Iztok Osojnik
2nd April 2011
Pavlova hiša/Pavelhaus in Potrna/Laafeld, Austria
An evening in memory of a sci-fi literature giant Stanisław Lem
28th February 2011, 7 p.m.
KUD France Prešeren, Ljubljana
The Golden Boat Festival of Slovenian Culture in Krakow 2010
Festiwal Kultury Słoweńskiej ZŁOTA ŁÓDŹ w Krakowie 2010
31st May – 2nd June 2010
Krakow, Poland
7th Internationa Translation Workshop in Bielsko-Biała
from 29th to 30st May 2010
Bielsko-Biała, Poland