CALL: LJUBLJANA BOOK FAIR

Description of the call: 3 authors are invited to participate in the official programme of Ljubljana Book Fair to be celebrated in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 20 and 23 April 2024. 

Opening date: 09/01/2024

Deadline date: 01/03/2024 

CALL ORGANISATION: ALES CIGALE (ZALOZBA MALINC), PIC 934084393

Address: KLANSKA UL. 17, MEDVODE 1215, Slovenia

 

Theme for the proposal: Authors with highlighted careers and with experience in cultural exchanges with students and pedagogy will participate in different sessions organised during the event. 

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 MALINC, the Ljubljana, Unesco’s City of Literature and Sanje Publishing House will evaluate candidates and select 3 authors to participate in the festival. 

Once made the selection, authors will receive the invitation to participate in the festival and will sign an agreement with MALINC. 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 Ljubljana Fair (Sejem na zraku) is an annual, open air one day event, taking place in in the heart of the city, in Park Zvezda. Each year it attracts a large number of visitors who can buy books from local and national exhibitors, smaller and bigger publishing companies. The fair’s commercial aspect is enriched by a rich literary program, including events such as conversations, presentations, round tables, and poetry recitals. The event is organized by Noc Knjige, Ljubljana, Unesco’s City of Literature and Sanje Publishing House. It usually takes place on the weekend close to International Book Day.

Website: Ljubljana Book 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/