Works of the winner of the Goncourt Prize, French writer Majlis Besri, will be presented on May 2020 in Podgorica, which will be a kind of prelude to the International Podgorica Book and Education Fair, it was announced at yesterday's press conference. Besri is the laureate of the largest French literary award for 1903, which has been awarded by the Goncourt Academy since XNUMX to the author of the best French prose work of that year.
The first literary program of the 18th Fair will be held in the library of the Gymnasium "Slobodan Škerović" at 18 p.m., when the Minister of Culture and Media will address the audience. Tamara Vujović, Minister of Education, Science and Innovation Anđela Jakšić Stojanović, ambassador of France in Montenegro Anne-Marie Maske, director of the publishing house "Nova knjiga" and founder of the Fair Predrag Uljarević, as well as the director of the Gymnasium Biljana Vučurović.
Instead of a new one - an old location and numerous guests
The fair, which is held under the slogan "Read, be a classic", will be officially opened by Minister Vujović on May 10 at 13 p.m. in the garage of the "Big Fashion" shopping center at 13 p.m., and in addition to her, the ambassador of Maska and founder Uljarević, while the program will be led by an actress from the National Theater in Belgrade Vjera Mujović, with musical accompaniment.
Although it has been emphasized several times so far that the Fair will be at a new location this year, in the assembly hall near the temple, at the beginning of Dalmatinska street, the place of the Fair will once again be the garage area of the shopping center, where the previous editions were also realized. When asked by Vijesti about this, Uljarević said that they decided that the Fair "will be in the Big Fashion space this year" due to technical reasons. The daily ticket price is two euros, i.e. one euro for students and pupils, while the entrance is free for children.
"The program of this year's Book Fair is diverse. More than a hundred publishing houses will be present and presented, more than 80 art programs are planned, with the presence of more than 200 participants in those art programs," Uljarević announced yesterday.
Among the guests are Kristijan Novak, Nenad Šaponja, Velibor Colić, Pero Zubac, Vladimir Pistalo, Vladimir Tabašević, Vladimir Kecmanović, Aleksandar Bečanović, Branko Gradišnik, Lejla Nisa, Selimir Radulović, Igor Mirović, Bruno Šimleša, Matej Krajnc, Rajko Palibrk, Maja Vasiljević, Nikola Kankaraš , Muharem Bazdulj, Radmila Petrović, Vladan Matijević, Elizabeta Georgijeva, Mihailo Pantić, Pavle Uljarević, Tanja Ćalasan, Tanja Bečanović, Lidija Vujacić...
An all-day program has been announced in which literary associations and educational institutions from Montenegro will be presented.
The French stand is particularly attractive
Uljarević added that the 18th Fair will be more extensive and richer than the previous editions and reminded that a particularly interesting program was prepared by France as the country of honor.
France's stand will be particularly attractive, it is concluded based on the program that the ambassador presented yesterday. Every day there will be different panel discussions, film screenings, workshops on numerous topics, quizzes, social games, and the like, and a francophone tourist guide will be presented, which Ambassador Maska spoke more about at the press conference.
The ambassador announced yesterday that she will Jean Francois Galt already on the first day to present his book "Travels around a country that no longer exists. Line Belgrade - Bar" at 18 p.m. Promotion of the book "Sea of Stone" by the author Jean Arnaud Derance will be held on May 12 at 18 p.m., comic artist Christian Lax will present his works on May 13, and a panel discussion on the topic "The translator as a bridge between cultures" has been announced, at which he will speak on May 15 Pascal Delpesch.
They expect the formalization of last year's "Podgorica Initiative"
The fair will traditionally be closed with an award ceremony on Friday, May 17 at 20 p.m. On the eve of the closing of last year's Book Fair, a round table was held in which the directors of publishing houses from the region participated, who announced the launch of the so-called "Podgorica initiative", which was announced as a declaration that would work to solve the copyright problems faced by the literary industry today. publishers.
"On that occasion, they discussed cooperation in the field of copyright protection and freedom of expression, the importance of translation and the importance of cooperation between publishers, to which they invited all interested publishers from Europe. The platform for cooperation and the invitation will be published by the participants of this round table next week under the name - Podgorica initiative," Uljarević said at last year's closing ceremony.
When asked by Vijesti about the concrete results and concretization of that initiative, in the work of which, as announced, regional publishers would be involved, Uljarević said that it should be formalized at this edition of the Book Fair, and at the level of associations of publishers and booksellers of individual countries . He announced that a cooperation protocol should be signed.
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