Poet Jelena Nelević and writers Dragan Radulović and Vladimir Vojinović will be guests of the Leipzig Book Fair, one of the largest book fairs in Europe, where they will present their work.
Vojinović will read the story "Dream" on March 19 at 11 a.m. as part of the Southeast Europe Forum, which has been translated into German for the needs of the fair's organizers, and at the same time, Albanian writer and lecturer at Turkish and Albanian universities, Ervin Hatibi, will present his work. .
Adrijan Klosi from Albania, translator Hana Stojić and the moderator, literary critic from Zurich, Kristina Loetcher, will also participate in the forum.
Jelena Nelević will read poetry at the forum at 16 pm, and Slovenian poet Stanka Hrastelj and Albanian poet Ledia Duši will also take part in the program.
The forum is moderated by Hans Til.
Radulović discussed with a group of South Slavic authors about the conflicts in the ex-Yugoslav territories and the impact of the war on literary creativity.
Apart from Radulović, Belgrade literary critic Saša Ćirić and authors Saša Ilić and Dragan Mladenović from Serbia, Mirsad Sijarić from BiH and Ivana Simić-Bodrožić from Croatia participated in the discussion.
Moderators were Vlater Famler and Alida Bremer.
The guest appearance of Jelena Nelević and Vladimir Vojinović was realized in cooperation with "Plima" and the organizers of the international project Traduki.
The Leipzig International Book Fair opened on Wednesday evening with the awarding of the Leipzig Prize for European Understanding to the Austrian writer Martin Polak.
The expert jury justified the awarding of the award to the Austrian writer, among other things, by Polak's historical reportages, which "also speak of the present".
The fair was officially opened yesterday, and this year 2150 exhibitors from 36 countries are exhibiting.
In parallel with the fair, the "Leipzig Reads" literary festival is held, where 1500 authors will present their works at more than 2000 public readings.
In recent years, the Leipzig Book Fair has been turning to the countries of Southeast Europe.
This year, the special focus is on literature from Serbia.
Smaller publishers are especially represented at the fair in Leipzig.
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