Kulturno umetniško društvo Sodobnost International
Suhadolčanova 64, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 563 5550
Sodobnost International Cultural Society
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Events
- Reading Station, 2019
Project summary - Reading Europe, 2017
Project summary - Our Little Library: Let's meet children's authors and illustrators, 2017
Project summary - Ready for reading, 2015
Project summary - Books connecting the worlds, 2014
Project summary - Our Little Library, 2014
Project summary - Literary translation KUDM Sodobnost (10 books), 2013
Project summary - Literary translation Sodobnost (9 books), 2012
Project summary - Literary translation "Europa 2011" Horizont, New Youth Classics collection (7 books), 2011
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Projects
Together with the Slovene Writers’ Association the society confers the Best Short Story Award. It also bestows the Best Slovene Essay Award and the so-called Sunflower on the Shoulder Award. The latter is awarded for achievements in developing reading literacy among the younger generations.
Sodobnost is rather active in audience building, running various projects that aim to encourage reading and promote literature, also organising book-related public events (readings, workshops, etc). It participates in various international projects of promoting and presenting contemporary Slovene literature abroad.
The project (Iz)brano (a play on the words meaning selected, outside and read) brings translations of ten outstanding literary works from across Europe. The variety of carefully selected works of literature ensures that it will cater to different generations, both adults and children. The authors include, for example, the cult European writer Phillip Ardagh, the Lithuanian nominee for the International Memorial Prize Astrid Lindgren, Kęstutis Kasparavičius, and the award-winning Italian author Luigi Ballerini.
International collaborations
Besides commissioning translations from foreign authors, Sodobnost also runs different joint enterprises with other publishers from around Europe, among them the Polish-based Ezop and the Lithuanian Nieko Rimto. Together with them and (as of 2017) also a few other book publishing houses from Estonia, Latvia and Croatia, Sodobnost leads a cooperative European project called Our Little Library. It arranges for youth literature writers and illustrators to travel around Europe and personally get involved with their young readers (aged between 5 and 12 years). It also involves setting up various interactive and entertaining activities that stimulate reading and a child’s creativity (fabricating their literary characters, writing down their opinions about books, reading letters sent to them by the authors, solving detective assignments, etc). Under the auspices of the project, different publishing business meetings and seminars take place.
See also
External links
- Sodobnost website (in Slovenian)
- Our Little Library project website
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Book publishing is the primary activity of … Book publishing is the primary activity of the Sodobnost International Cultural Society (KUD Sodobnost), dealing both in literature for children (picture books as well as regular works of youth literature) and for adults (classical alongside contemporary works). (classical alongside contemporary works). +
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