World Literatures - Fabula Festival

Contact

Literature sveta - Fabula

Kersnikova ulica 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana

https://festival-fabula.org

info@zalozba.org

Phone386 (0) 1 200 3717

Organised byBeletrina Publishing Institute

 Cankarjev dom

Frequencyannual

Festival dates1.3.2025 - 21.3.2025

The Fabula Festival – Literature of the World is the biggest and most visited literary festival in Slovenia and the wider region. Produced by the Beletrina Publishing Institute in collaboration with Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, the festival brings together world-class authors through well-considered curatorship. The festival selects distinguished authors each year and devotes attention to promising, up-and-coming writers. In addition to hosting renowned writers and establishing contact between international literature and Slovenian audiences, translated works of the selected authors are also published as part of the festival. The festival also features an annual theoretical focus on a relevant social issue, raising sociocritical issues and addressing contemporary challenges.

Programme

Founded in 2003, Fabula Festival has hosted an impressive set of modern classics. Reflecting an evolving concept, the festival is now based on a curator’s pick of a handful of authors, who are already considered literary classics or who have made a significant mark on world literature in recent years with their work.

The virtual Q&A between Japanese author Mieko Kawakami and Nagisa Moritoki Škof that was accompanied by a Butoh performance by Darinka Pillari took place at Cankarjev dom's Club CD in 2022. The event presented Summer Stories, Kawakami's 2019 novel.

Accompanying Programme

The festival's highly varied accompanying programme is intended for all generations of readers. It brings everything from children's and youth programmes (Young Fabula), interactive literary installations to the public space (Fabula polis), collaborations with Slovenian publishers and bookstores (Fabula selection), projects at the intersection of literature with theatre and other art genres (Fabula outside literature), to projects establishing the festival as an incubator of new literary ideas and future literary trends (Fabula Hub), thus strengthening the space of the wider literary and social community.

The award-winning British writer, academic and long-time fighter for greater inclusivity in literature, Bernardine Evaristo, joined the 2023 edition of the festival at the Itn Literary Breakfast (hosted by Fabula Festival and Itn.). Photo: Nina Pernat

The 2021 Fabula book collection lives through the illustrations of the designer and illustrator, Jure Brglez, aka Brglesita, which were presented at an exhibition at the City Hall Atria in Ljubljana. Here, the artist is accompanied by the festival's artistic director Aljaž Koprivnikar. Photo: Jaka Gaser

Fabula Festival's artistic director Aljaž Koprivnikar at the senior citizens home DSO Fužine, where he presented FabulaFotelj, a special project of the festival's 2022 edition. The interactive and movable armchair equipped with audiobooks was created together with ProstoRož.

See also

• Beletrina Publishing Institute

External links

• Fabula Festival website
• Fabula in Cankarjev dom

Gallery

Israeli author David Grossman during World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010 in May 2010