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• Literary readings at Vilenica 2011

• Immpressions of the Vilenica 2011 Guests

J´ai beaucoup apprécié ce séjour chez vous, l’amitié de l’accueil et la parfaite organisation.
Alain Lance, France

I really enjoyed every minute of it and I learned so much from all of the other writers.
Sarah Clancy, Ireland

The festival was perfect.
Pavel Brycz, Czech Republic

It has been an immense pleasure for me to participate for the 1st time in the Vilenica Festival, I am confident that we'll continue to collaborate in the future, It has been an incredible experience for me.
Michele Seguev, Israel

Ne mogu opisati koliko sam uzivao u svemu. U mom književno-festivalskom iskustvu Vilenica od sada nesumnjivo zauzima mjesto broj jedan. Spoj neke ležernosti, opištenosti i uz to veoma jasne koncepcije striktno upućene na književnost, učinio je da se zaista sjajno osjećam tokom cijelog boravka u Sloveniji. Fantastično iskustvo!
Ognjen Spahić, Montenegro

A fascinating stay, an impeccably organized festival: It was just lovely in Slovenia!
Jan Wagner, Germany

The festival was great and a big success.
Mircea Cărtărescu, Romania

Vilenica je z izjemnim vzdušjem in kakovostjo resnično pomembna literarna prireditev tako v našem kot evropskem prostoru.
Ivan Dobnik, Slovenia

Bilo je divno, zaista divno na Vilenici!
Goce Smilevski, Macedonia

Bio je ovo zaista lep, odlicno organizovan Festival (kao i do sada).
Dragan Radovančević, Serbia

Bilo je predivno. Odlicna knjizevnost, interesantni autori, duboka citanja...
Nikola Madžirov, Macedonia

This was my first time at Vilenica festival, and I was very happy to participate in it. The festival, the people I met, the quality of the poetry I heard, the perfect organization - everything was really great. Also this was my first tome in Slovenia, which is a wonderful country.
Vladimir Levchev, Bulgaria

To je odličen festival, ki je izvrstno organiziran in ima tudi zelo visok nivo. Užival sem na vseh branjih in tudi vsak dan v prisotnosti dobre literature.
Xavier Farré, Spain

C'est la première fois de ma vie dans un festival que je reçois un accueil si amical en même temps que si professionnel. Tout a été parfait.
Jean Michel Espitallier, France

• Vilenica Prize
25 May 2011

The Vilenica 2011 International Literary Prize goes to

Mircea Cărtărescu

• The 26th Vilenica Festival will take place from 7 to 11 September 2011.

• CEI Fellowship
4 Fabruary 2011

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
for the
CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2011 awarded by the Central European Initiative in co-operation with the Slovene Writers’ Association
within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document)

• Immpressions of the Guests

I'm still processing all beautiful things that happened at Vilenica, I mean hanging out with great interesting people.
Maja Hrgović, Croatia

A delightful event, and a smooth operation to boot. Horses, poetry, and wine: what else could one possibly ask for?
Aris Fioretos, Sweden

It was such a good and positive experience! Your city and country are wonderful, and the warmth of the Slovenian people we met was felt from the frist moment.
Angharad Price, Wales

I greatly enjoyed the festival, and moreover, there were good contacts made and great opportunities delineated for future collaborations.
Chris Chryssopoulos, Greece

We all appreciated very much the opportunity we had to meet you and understand more about Slovenia, as well as discover other aspects of the festival.
Sioned Rowlands, Wales

We all really enjoyed ourselves, as well as learning new things about Slovenia and its history and literature. Visiting your country and meeting the other writers has re-invigorated me and I will now return to my novel with a new creative relish.
Wil Roberts, Wales

Many thanks for the wonderful welcome we received at Vilenica; the care shown towards us will stay in my memory for ever.
Lloyd Jones, Wales

• Literary readings at Vilenica 2010

• Immpressions of the Vilenica 2012 Guests

I&39;m still processing all beautiful things that happened at Vilenica, I mean hanging out with great interesting people.
Maja Hrgović, Croatia

A delightful event, and a smooth operation to boot. Horses, poetry, and wine: what else could one possibly ask for?
Aris Fioretos, Sweden

It was such a good and positive experience! Your city and country are wonderful, and the warmth of the Slovenian people we met was felt from the frist moment.
Angharad Price, Wales

I greatly enjoyed the festival, and moreover, there were good contacts made and great opportunities delineated for future collaborations.
Chris Chryssopoulos, Greece

• Literary readings at Vilenica 2010

• Return of the Prize Winners- Literary evenings with Vilenica Prize Winners
3 June 2010 at 20.00

During the year in which Ljubljana has become the UNESCO World Book Capital, the Vilenica Festival has invited past winners of the Vilenica Prize to appear again before the Ljubljana public. At three literary evenings, nine of the prize winners will be participating by reading from their current works and joining in the debate on the theme of the Festival, Central Europe and position of the book in present-day society. This is an affirmation of the European prose writers, poets, playwrights and essayists who will not only be appearing at the literary evenings in Ljubljana, but will also creating new texts, which will be published in the year 2010.

On this occasion, guests at the Klub Cankarjevega doma will include Josip Osti and Pavel Vilikovský. The poet Josip Osti lives in Karst and has through his works depicted a stirring poetic image of war in the Balkans. For the past years he has been writing in Slovene and has become one of the central contemporary poets. Appearing together with him will be Pavel Vilikovský, one of the foremost living Slovak prose writers, who through his irony probes into generally accepted preconvictions and truths.

• CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2010
1 September 2010

The recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2010 is:

Maja Hrgović, Croatia
The CEI Fellowship Committee:

The prose of Maja Hrgović represents a new and efficient voice on the Croatian literary scene. Her style that is probably a consequence of her journalistic experience is topped by a theme of women with complicated and complex personalities.
She writes about modern women, who are decisive, intelligent and marked by their social role, the latter often going away from the traditional one and into different domains of men. Precisely this crossing of borders is the second main theme of her prose, which has been much appreciated by her audience and is dealt with a great thoroughness.
This mixture of features marks the project that was awarded this year’s scholarship. It is a story of contemporary female migrants who will change the image of the world and its culture as we know it.

• Vilenica 2010 Prize Winner
26 March 2010

The Vilenica jury have awarded the Vilenica 2010 Prize to

Dževad Karahasan.

• CEI Fellowship
3 March 2010

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
for the
CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2010 awarded by the Central European Initiative in co-operation with the Slovene Writers’ Association
within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document)

• Presentation of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence
2 September 2009

The recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for 2009 is Dragan Radovančević from Serbia.

• Presentation of the Young Vilenica Award
23 May 2009

The Young Vilenica Award is presented by the Cultural Centre Vilenica from Sežana. The 9th Young Vilenica Award was presented in Kosovel Cultural Centre on 23 May.

The winner of the 2008 Young Vilenica Award in the age group 6 – 10 is Jana Stekar

from San Floriano del Collio, Italy.

The winner of the 2008 Young Vilenica Award in the age group 11 – 14 is Gaja Rupnik Caruso from Idrija.

• Appearance of the Crystal Vilenica 2008 winner at Cúirt
21 - 26 April 2009

"The 2009 Cuirt International Festival of Literature, Poetry Grand Slam, was once again a huge success, with a packed house and people turned away at the door. 13 slam finalists fought it out and from a strong line up, Stephen James Smith, from Dublin emerged as the winner and will go to Slovenia. Guest poet from Belorussia, Andrej Khadanovich won the hearts of the audience, with his vocal gymnastics - performing in his own language, with translations from slam MC Pete Mullineaux. The response was tremendous and no doubt Andrej will back in Galway again," informed us from Ireland.

• Vilenica 2009 Prize Winner
5 May 2009

The Vilenica jury have awarded the Vilenica 2009 Prize to

Claudio Magris.

• CEI Fellowship
3 March 2009

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
for the
CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2009 awarded by the Central European Initiative in co-operation with the Slovene Writers’ Association
within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document)

• Award of Academy of Fine Arts and Design of University of Ljubljana
23 February 2009

Goran Ivašić who developed the new overall design of Vilenica under the mentorship of prof. Ranko Novak has received the award of Academy of Fine Arts and Design for special artistic achievements in academic year 2007/2008.

The Candidatates for CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2008
21 August 2008

The Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2008 are: Lejla Kalamujić, Ivana Sajko, Ira Tsilyk.

Presentation of the Young Vilenica Award
24 May 2008

On 24 May 2008 the Cultural Society Vilenica from Se??ana presented the Young Vilenica Award in the Vilenica cave.

Vilenica 2008 Prize Winner
22 May 2008

The Vilenica jury have awarded the Vilenica 2008 Prize to the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk.

The third book of the Vilenica Anthologies
22. 5. 2008

The recently published book of the Vilenica Anthologies series is titled Artuma: Contemporary Lithuanian Literature. The book will be presented with a number of guest authors at the Vilenica festival.

The third volume of the Vilenica Anthologies series, edited by Jana Unuk and focused on less familiar European literatures, bears the title Artuma (&39;closeness&39; in Lithuanian) and is dedicated to contemporary Lithuanian literature. The anthology, compiled and edited by Bernarda Pavlovec ??umer, presents eighteen authors: Antanas Škėma, Vytautas P. Bložė, Tomas Venclova, Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Sigitas Geda, Ričardas Gavelis, Nijolė Miliauskaitė, Juozas Šikšnelis, Kornelijus Platelis, Antanas A. Jonynas, Birutė Jonuškaitė, Eugenijus Ališanka, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Sigitas Parulskis, Herkus Kunčius, Alvydas Šlepikas, Sonata Paliulytë, and Marius Ivaškevičius. The Slovene translations have been provided by Bernarda Pavlovec ??umer and Lucija Štamulak, with Ona A. Čepaitytė Gams as the language consultant. The author of the accompanying study, which traces the development of Lithuanian literature from the first book in 1547 until now, is Kornelijus Platelis – poet, translator, essayist, and consultant to the Vilenica jury. The visual design of the book, which was published with the support of the following institutions: Books from Lithuania, Literature Across Frontiers, and the Embassy of Lithuania in Ljubljana, matches the overall design of the series, the cover featuring a picture by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, a recognised Lithuanian artist.

From the foreword of the editor, Bernarda Pavlovec ??umer:
"A look at Lithuanian literary history and a comparison with its Slovene counterpart reveals unexpected parallels with this geographically remote northern nation. Like ours, their literary development begins with Protestantism, with the catechism and alphabet book; literary periods reach both of us with a delay; literature, especially patriotic, preserves and encourages the readers&39; national consciousness and is deeply rooted among the people. In addition, lively literary activity takes place abroad among emigrants. Like the Slovenes, the Lithuanians are considered a nation of poets, and they like to parade before strangers the saying that each pencil in Lithuania has its poet /…/. The selection seeks to introduce both contemporary Lithuanian literature and Lithuania itself, to bring to the reader a piece of this country, of the Lithuanian national mentality."

CEI Fellowship
13 February 2008

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

for the

CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2008 awarded by the

Central European Initiative
in co-operation with the
Slovene Writers’ Association

within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document, RTF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document, RTF document)

The Candidatates for CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2007
28 August 2007

The Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2007 are: Igor Štiks, Marianna Kiyanovska, Pavle Goranović.

Vilenica 2007 Prize Winner
17 May 2007

The Vilenica jury has decided to confer the Vilenica 2007 Prize on Goran Stefanovski.

Please find more information on the Prize Winner, the programme and the participants of Vilenica 2007.

The second book of the Vilenica Anthologies
17 May 2007

The recently published book of the Vilenica Anthologies series is titled Amanairis: Contemporary Literature in Irish. The book will be presented with a number of guest authors at the Vilenica festival.

Presentation of the Young Vilenica Award for 2007
19 May 2007, at 3 p.m.
Vilenica cave

Mojca Kumerdej, dobitnica kristala vilenica,
na festivalu Cúirt v irskem Galwayu
Ljubljana, 17. 4. 2007

foto: Jo??e Suhadolnik

CEI Fellowship
20 February 2007

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

for the

CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2007 awarded by the

Central European Initiative
in co-operation with the
Slovene Writers’ Association

within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document, RTF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document, RTF document)

Literary evening
Slovene Writers’ Association, Ljubljana, 29 Nov 2006, at 7.00 pm

On Wednesday, 29 November at 7 p.m. you are invited to a literary reading with the Macedonian prose writer Goce Smilevski, the first recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers&39; In Residence.

The event will be moderater by journalist and translator Tanja Lesničar Pučko while the Slovene translations of extracts from the novel Conversation with Spinoza will be read by translator Aleš Mustar.

The CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence

The recipient of the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence is Goce Smilevski, Macedonia

The other Shortlisted Candidates for the CEI Fellowship for Writers in Residence for the year 2006 are:
Nikola Madzirov, Macedonia
Ana Ristović in Jasmina Topić, Serbia

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Presentation of the Young Vilenica Award
21 April 2006

On 20 May 2006 at 5 pm the Cultural Society Vilenica from Se??ana presented the Young Vilenica Award in the Vilenica cave.

CEI FELLOWSHIP
14 March 2006

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

for the

CEI FELLOWSHIP FOR WRITERS IN RESIDENCE

for the year 2006 awarded by the

Central European Initiative
in co-operation with the
Slovene Writers’ Association

within the Vilenica International Literary Festival.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (PDF document, RTF document)
REGISTRATION FORM (PDF document, RTF document)

Vilenica in Frankfurt
19 – 23 October 2005

This year, Vilenica as one of the major activities of the Slovene Writers&39; Association was presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The programme organized by Nova revija included also an interview with Vilenica 2005 Prize Winner Karl-Markus Gauß conducted by Urška P. Černe.

Slovene Writers&39; Association stand

Interview with Vilenica 2005 Prize Winner conducted by Urška P. Černe

Photo: Miljana Cunta