Literature sveta - Fabula
Kersnikova ulica 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 200 3717
Organised byBeletrina Publishing Institute
Frequencyannual
Festival dates1.3.2025 - 21.3.2025
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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. Reflecting an evolving concept, the festival 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.
The virtual Q&A between Mieko Kawakami and Nagisa Moritoki Škof that was accompanied by a butoh performance by Darinka Pillari took place at the Cankarjev dom Club in 2022. It presented Summer Stories, the latest novel by Japanese author Mieko Kawakami - a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan.
Accompanying Programme
Each year, the festival's theoretical focus questions a different social topic. So far, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton, Chantal Mouffe, Eva Illouz, Jean-Claude Milner, Patrick Boucheron, Umberto Galimberti, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others have been guests.
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 so-called Itn's 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.
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