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| name                = World Literatures - Fabula Festival
| local name          = Literature sveta - Fabula
| logo               = Slika1-Fabula.jpg
| street              = Kersnikova ulica 4
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone           = 386 (0) 1 200 3717 
| fax                 = 386 (0) 1 252 2618
| email               = info@zalozba.org
| website             = https://festival-fabula.org
| organised by        = Beletrina Publishing Institute
| organised by 2     = Cankarjev dom
| frequency           = annual
| dates and duration  = February, March, 2 weeks 
| duration weeks      = 9,10 (2012) 9,10 (2013) 9,10 (2014) 9,10 (2015)
| festival dates      = 28.2.2015 - 8.3.2015, 27.2.2016 - 7.3.2016, 3.3.2017 - 11.3.2017, 2.3.2018 - 10.3.2018, 2.3.2019 - 9.3.2019, 26.2.2020 - 8.3.2020, 8.5.2021 - 6.6.2021, 4.3.2022 - 15.4.2022, 1.3.2023 - 30.3.2023, 1.3.2024 - 22.3.2024
| contacts = 
{{Contact
| name                = Aljaž Koprivnikar
| role                = Artistic Director
| telephone           = 
| email               = aljaz.koprivnikar@beletrina.si
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{{Contact
| name                = Kreativna baza
| role                = Public Relations
| telephone           = 
| email               = hana.soucekmartinc@kreativnabaza.si
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|accounts= https://www.facebook.com/LiteratureSvetaFabula/
https://www.instagram.com/festival_fabula/
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| image = 1 Fabula - Literature of the World 2023 Opening of the Fabula 2023 with Oksana Zabužko.jpg
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[[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. Each year, the festival aims to select five distinguished writers, while the Fabula Hub devotes attention to promising, up-and-coming authors. In addition to hosting renowned writers and establishing live contact between international literature and Slovenian audiences, translated works of the chosen five are also published as part of the festival. The festival also features a theoretical focus addressing a relevant social issue every year - raising topical socio-critical issues it addresses contemporary challenges.
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== Background ==
Founded in 2003, [[Fabula Festival]] has hosted many modern classics: Herta Müller, Irvin Welsh, Jonathan Franz, Hanif Kureishi, David Grossman, Janice Galloway, Richard Flanagan, Taiye Selasi, Tatiana Tolstoy, Eric Vuillard, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, Jokha Alharthi, Bernhard Schlink, Vladimir Sorokin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and many others. The festival’s concept has evolved and improved throughout the years and is now based on a curator’s pick of five authors, who are already considered literary classics or who have made a significant mark on world literature in recent years with their work.

{{Image|4 Fabula - Literature of the World 2022 Mieko Kawakami.jpg}} 

== Accompanying Programme ==
In addition to the literary part, the festival also has a theoretical focus, which each year questions a new relevant social topic. So far, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton, Chantal Mouffe, Eva Illouz, Jean-Claude Milner, Patrick Boucheron, Umberto Galimberti, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieand others have been guests in the theoretical focus. Fabula Festival is also distinguished by an extremely varied accompanying program, which is intended for all generations of readers and brings everything from children's and youth programs (''Young Fabula''), interactive literary installations to public space (''Fabula polis''), collaborations with Slovenian publishers and bookstores (''Fabula selection''), genre intertwining between literature and theater 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.

{{Image|2 Fabula - Literature of the World 2023 Fabula Hub - Bernardine Evaristo.jpg}} 

{{Image|6 Fabula - Literature of the World 2021 Brglesita exhibition.jpg}} 

{{Image|3 Fabula - Literature of the World 2022 Fabula Fotelj.jpg}} 

== See also ==
*[[Beletrina Publishing Institute]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.festival-fabula.org Fabula Festival website]
*[https://www.cd-cc.si/en/fabula-literary-festival Fabula in Cankarjev dom]



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