CALL: DURANGO BASQUE BOOK AND RECORD FAIR

Description of the call: 3 authors are invited to participate in the official programme of Durango Basque Book and Record Fair to be celebrated in Durango (Spain) on the 7 and 8 December 2024. 

Opening date: 26/07/2024

Deadline date: 06/09/2024 

CALL ORGANISATION: ASOCIACION DE EDITORES EN EUSKERA (EDITOREAK), PIC 897265909

Address: ZEMORIYA 15, DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN 20013, Spain

Theme for the proposal: Authors will participate in a round table where they will interact between them about their works and career, they will read and they will present their works. 

Grant: Each author participating will receive a grant of 1000 € as expenses for their participation. These expenses will be paid after their participation in the event.  

Process of application: submitting CV and letter of candidature to any partner participating in Lit-Up or by email to litupproject@gmail.com.  

Process of selection: after applications closure a committee integrated by representatives of Editoreak Association will evaluate candidates and select 3 authors to participate in the event. 

Once made the selection, authors will receive the invitation to participate in the festival and will sign an agreement with EDITOREAK. In this agreement, it will be registered all the obligations that participants will have with the organiser and with the project following what is stated in the LIT-UP Grant Agreement (101056062)

The Fair: 

The Durango Basque Book and Record Fair, known as “Durangoko Azoka” in Basque, is one of the most important cultural events in the Basque Country. It is held every year in Durango, a historic town in the Bizkaia area, and it is organised by the Gerediaga cultural association.

This event, which takes place in early December, brings together thousands of culture enthusiasts to celebrate and promote the region’s literature, music, and other artistic expressions.

The Durango fair has spaces for the exhibition and sale of books and records in Basque. And it is a unique opportunity to get to know the latest productions of Basque culture. In 2024 it will be held from 5 to 8 December.

Around 300 exhibitors take part in each edition with new products presentations, a Children’s Literature space to encourage children’s love of reading in Basque.  

In this edition, Euskal Editoreen Elkartea is organising the Lit-Up ‘Publishers and authors transnational networking and circulation of works’ event in the context of Durangoko azoka (DA!) 

Website: Durango Basque Book and Record Fair

LIT-UP project: 

LIT-UP is a Creative Europe project aiming at defining and implementing competitive strategies to empower publishers and authors working with less used languages in front of big players in a global context. Strategies defined will try to help them, via activities and trainings, to compete with real opportunities of survival against big languages and players working in their own markets.

LIT-UP addresses directly to the objective of safeguarding, developing and promoting European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage as it will help the publishing sector working with lesser-used languages to improve their skills, competences and capacity to sell translation rights abroad and to promote works in international markets.

LIT-UP has developed a range of activities including trainings and workshops around Europe to boost liaisons between authors, publishers, public administrations at local, national and European level.

To achieve this networking strength, LIT-UP base this methodology in these three steps:

• Promote publishers and authors skills and competences
• Increase their expertise and relationships
• Develop robust strategies to leverage the market impact

With a duration of 42 months between 1st June 2022 and 30th November 2025 and the participation of 8 partners from 5 EU countries, LIT-UP has received funding from the Creative Europe Culture Cooperation Projects (CREA-CULT-2021-COOP)  

More information in: https://litup-project.eu/