The Fabula Festival will herald spring in 2017 as well. Between March 3 and 11, authors who belong to the very top of world literature will visit Ljubljana, and they will be accompanied by a rich festival program, which will be directed by the Immortality focus.
What, apart from superb art, can be immortal, and how many lives can we live alone and how many with the help of literature? Fabula 2017 will focus not only on literature, but also humanities, socio-political issues and the movie, and part of the program will also be particularly attractive children and young people.
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As part of the festival Literature of the world Fable will visit Ljubljana five top foreign literary guests:
- Mathias Énard, one of the best and most innovative French writers, whose novel Compass won the most prestigious French literary prize - the Goncourt - in 2015.
- Sofi Oksanen, one of the most recognized, internationally established and respected Finnish writers of the younger and middle generation. She made her debut in 2003 with the acclaimed novel Stalin's Cows, and achieved an international breakthrough with the novel Purge.
- Bernardo Atxaga, a Basque writer, poet and translator who has received many of the most prestigious awards for his works, including the National Critics Award for the best prose work in the Basque language for his novel Nevada Days.
- Viktor Yerofeev, one of the most recognizable contemporary Russian writers, who went down in literary history as the co-editor of the almanac Metropol, an intellectual bomb in which authors disliked the Soviet regime published their literary works in 1979.
- Igor Marojević, Serbian writer, playwright, columnist and translator. He has been awarded several times for his prose works, among others he received prizes from Károly Szirmai, Stevan Pešić and the Borislav Pekić and Desimir Tošić Foundations for essays.
More information:
festival-fabula.org
