The most high-profile literary festival, which has attracted many modern classics and the most penetrating thinkers of our time to Slovenia, will take place for the sixteenth time this year. The participants will be able to listen to eight foreign guests and guests, and the central ones will also get Slovenian translations of their books, which you can buy at the festival price. The rich program will start with Fabula before Fabula (from February 27 to 28.) and the Fabula 2019 festival will open on March 3. The event is intended for all generations and is widely accessible to visitors, and you can get free tickets at the box office of Cankarjev dom.
All lovers of literature will welcome spring in the company of top domestic and foreign writers at Fabula 2014.
The association of versatile literary creators was created under the general desire of the founding members - to be heard. As young writers, theoreticians and theater newcomers, they cannot find the right place to work, so they decided to create their own medium.
Good news for bookworms. People who read books live longer than those who don't. A study in the Proceedings of Social Science & Medicine notes that one of the positive effects of reading books is a longer life. Check how many years longer regular readers live than non-readers. Gustave Flaubert was so right when he claimed that it is easier to endure our existence if we regularly turn to literature.
Some books are labeled as "literary classics" for a reason. There are books that put your brain to pasture and books that broaden your horizons, change your view of the world, and impress you with the beauty of words. We've collected 15 of the latter for you - 15 of those you've probably already heard of, even if you didn't pay much attention to Slovenian at school. 15 book classics that every earthling should read, along with 15 of the most famous quotes for a taste.
The great Bill Gates, the founder of the famous Microsoft, is not only an outstanding entrepreneur, full of innovative ideas and one of the richest Earthlings. In his busy schedule, he apparently also manages to squeeze time for reading, and so a few days ago he published a list of six books that impressed him the most this year and that he warmly recommends to all of us for summer reading.
The actresses Aleksandra Balmazovič and Maja Martina Merljak have started a new joint project, a fresh and urban literary movement, which uses the term literary freestyle. It is by no means a classic example of a literary evening, but rather a considerable departure from the classics, where the emphasis is on collaboration with the audience, on freedom of expression, on encouraging creativity and, above all, on cultural and entertaining socializing.
Frankfurt is moving to Ljubljana with books and invites you to the 27th sales exhibition of foreign books, the largest book fair dedicated to the presentation of foreign books in our country.
In this article, we reveal to you some wonderful books with a "women's" theme, which refer to the literature of fantastic women writers. Their works are based on complex, elaborate, atypical and perfect female characters and their life stories.
Haruki Murakami is a great writer whose pen knows no bounds of imagination. As one of the most important contemporary Japanese writers, he wrote several collections of short stories, travelogues and essays in his lifetime, but we must not overlook the literary masterpieces that also leave musical traces.
In March of this year, you could pay for coffee or tea with a poem in 49 Slovenian bars during the Pay with a verse campaign. Feri Lainšček collected the best and created the poetry collection Momentek, which contains everything.
The bookworm club is not a closed organization. Anyone can join and enjoy free membership benefits. Among other things, regular reading of literature is associated with increased emotional stability, general knowledge, better expression and better abilities to regulate interpersonal relationships. But reading, more than anything else, is a skill that needs to be learned. If you want to increase your pile of books you've read, take a look at the books that will help you get into the habit of reading easily.