Mladinska knjiga Publishing House

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Mladinska knjiga Založba d.d.
Slovenska cesta 29, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 241 3000
Bojan Švigelj, Editor in Chief



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Mladinska knjiga Publishing House was established as early as 1945 and remains the largest publishing house in Slovenia.

Today the Mladinska knjiga Group has branches in 8 Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. It manages also Cankarjeva Publishing House and the network of about 55 Mladinska knjiga Bookshops round Slovenia, the largest of which (Konzorcij Bookstore) in Ljubljana.

It hosts the Frankfurt after Frankfurt Book Fair and Bologna after Bologna Children's Book Fair, and bestows the Lestikova Award and the Blue Bird Award.


Publishing programme

MK offers extensive and varied coverage of poetry (the collection Lirika, established in 1970, includes over 100 titles of world poetry translations), prose and professional literature. However, its most significant publishing and research project is without doubt the Encyclopaedia of Slovenia, which was issued in 16 volumes.

MK is also the main publisher of magazines for children (Cicido, Ciciban, Moj planet, PIL), and school students (PILplus), runs the educational project Vesela šola ("Merry School") and publishes GEA magazine. In 2004 it started a partnership with Reader's Digest Inc. and began publishing the Slovene version of Reader's Digest magazine.

Public outreach

Mladinska knjiga runs also the Sunflower Gallery that present mostly book illustration by the authors working with and for the Mladinska knjiga Publishing House and those who are publishing their work in the abovementioned children magazines.

It also bestows the Levstik Award for children's literature, and the Blue Bird Award for best unpublished adult or young adult novel.

The Mladinska knjiga book club, called Svet knjige ("Book World") was established in 1974 and has more than 100,000 members.

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The Mladinska knjiga Publishing House was established as early as 1945 and remains the largest publishing house in Slovenia, with a tradition of publishing books, textbooks and magazines for more than 70 years. +
The Mladinska knjiga Publishing House was established as early as 1945 and remains the largest publishing house in Slovenia, with a tradition of publishing books, textbooks and magazines for more than 70 years. +
Mladinska knjiga je največja založba v Sloveniji. Različne knjižne zbirke, učbenike in revije izdaja že več kot 70 let. +
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