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The Residency is pre arranged by Reading Balkans project in cooperation with the Publishing House Goga (Slo), Goten Publishing (MK), Krokodil (Srb), Udruga Kurs (Cro), Poeteka (Alb), Qendra Multimedia (Kos), PEN BIH and S. Fischer Stiftung (De) & partners.
The Literary Residence Programme ‘Reading Balkans 2020’ is open to welcome fiction writers, poets, essayists, playwrights, screenplay writers and comic book writers from Southeast Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Montenegro, Bulgaria).
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Reading Balkans Event – Cyprus, 3 July 2019
Literary event with Ahmed Burić, Lidija Dimkovska and Maša Seničić will be held on July 3rd at 20.30 at ARTos Foundation Rooftop. All three authors are participants of the 2day Cyprus Literary Exchange.
Reading Balkans event in Cernivtsi
Wednesday, 29th May, 18.30 in Paul Celan Literaturzentrum (Cernivtsi).
A literary event with three Reading Balkans authors will take place in Cernivtsi. Tadej Golob, Lejla Kalamujić and Petar Andonovski will participate. We kindly invite you to attend and meet all three authors and their work.
The event website: www.meridiancz.com/de/reading-balkans-in-chernivtsi/
Literary event with Renato Baretić in Novo mesto
Thursday, 23rd May, at 19h, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto, Slovenia)
Join us in Novo mesto where Renato Baretić is currently staying at the Goga Literary residency as a part of the Reading Balkans project!
The conversation will be moderated by Đurđa Strsoglavec.
Literary event with Marko Vidojković in Novo mesto
Tuesday, 26th March 2019, at 19.00, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto)
Join us in Novo mesto where Marko Vidojković is currently staying at the Goga Literary residency as a part of the Reading Balkans project!
The conversation will be moderated by Erik Valenčič.
Literary event with Kateryna Kalytko in Novo mesto
Tuesday, 26th February 2019, at 19.00, Goga Book Store (Novo mesto)
Join us for an evening with Ukranian translator and author Kateryna Kalytko!
We will fill find out something about her work, life in Ukraine and the author herself will read us some of her poetry and short prose.
The conversation, held in English, will be moderated by Breda Biščak.
Reading Balkans Residency 2019 – Open Call Results
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Open Call – Results
Literary Residence Program
Reading Balkans Residency
The Reading Balkans Board received 96 applications for this call. 21 applicants were selected.
The selected applicants for residency Goga (Novo mesto) are:
- Marko Vidojković
- Renato Baretić
- Antonela Marušić
The selected applicants for residency Krokodil (Beograd) are:
- Azem Deliu
- Ana Schnabl
- Lana Bastašić
The selected applicants for residency Goten (Skopje) are:
- Zdravka Evtimova
- Jedrt Lapuh Maležič
- Marija Pavlović
The selected applicants for residency Udruga Kurs (Split) are:
- Tanja Šljivar
- Anja Golob
- Igor Angjelkov
The selected applicants for residency Poeteka (Tirana) are:
- Alen Brlek
- Vitomirka Trebovac
- Marko Tomaš
The selected applicants for residency Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina) are:
- Ivan Shopov
- Stefan Bošković
- Jasna Dimitrijević
The selected applicants for residency PEN BIH (Sarajevo) are:
- Daim Miftari
- Dijana Matković
- Nikola Nikolić
We thank all applicants for the interest they have shown and the time and effort they have invested in preparing their application.
Reading Balkans Board
Reading Balkans Residency 2019
Deadline for the year 2019 has been extended – new deadline is November 4, 2018!
For the year 2019, the call for applications is launched for 21 authors. Each residency duration will be 4 weeks. All residencies will be arranged between March 1st and June 30th, 2019.