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| name                = World Literatures - Fabula Festival
 
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| dates and duration  = February, March, 2 weeks  
 
| dates and duration  = February, March, 2 weeks  
 
| duration weeks      = 9,10 (2012) 9,10 (2013) 9,10 (2014) 9,10 (2015)
 
| 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
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| 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
 
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The underlying concept of the [[World Literatures - Fabula Festival]] has been to promote readership and the culture of reading in Slovenia. The main focus of the festival is no longer on short stories but on storytelling in general; in addition to book presentations and evening readings, the festival features screenings of films based on the works by Fabula festival guests. Besides renowned European story writers, numerous Slovene authors are featured in the festival. The event "World Literatures – Fabula 2010" opened the [[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010]] (WBC), while the 2011 edition wrapped up the [[:Category:World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010|WBC events]] in April.  
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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.
In 2016 edition of the Fabula hosts Matthias Göritz, Cees Nooteboom, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Sjón, while Slovenian guest is illustrator and artist [[Samira Kentrić]] presenting her new graphic novel. The festival's topic is ''Newcomers'', a pressing issues being a subject of discussions with Igor Štiks, Peter Vermeersch, Jean-Claude Milner, [[Alenka Zupančič]], Srečko Horvat, Teofil Pančić, [[Ervin Hladnik Milharčič]] and [[Anica Mikuš Kos]].
 
 
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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
The [[Fabula Festival]] has been organised since [[Established::2004]] by [[Študentska založba Publishing House]] (today [[Beletrina Publishing Institute]]) in collaboration with [[Dnevnik Newspaper|Dnevnik Publishing House]] and since 2013 in collaboration with [[Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia)]].
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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.
 
 
The festival started off as a ''Fabula Festival of Stories'', taking place in several cities round Slovenia. The 3rd Fabula Festival of Stories 2006 hosted in three weeks 10 world-famous writers – Milorad Pavić from Serbia; Miljenko Jergović, Krešimir Mišanović, Krešimir Bagić, and Robert Perišić from Croatia; Claudio Magris and Diego Marani from Italy; Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria; Kader Abdolah from the Netherlands; and Toby Litt from the United Kingdom – who presented their work at more than 20 literary events. A public discussion entitled ''Dramatisation of Novels'' took place at the [[Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana]]. Also accompanying the festival were a panel discussion about Slovene and Croatian fiction entitled ''Jeziki mesta'' [Urban Languages], and a conference on film stories. In 2007 the theme of the festival was ''Death'' and the festival featured some panel discussions involving artists, doctors, sociologists, and anthropologists.
 
 
 
== World Literatures Fabula Festivals ==
 
 
 
''World Literatures - Fabula Festival 2010'' was one of the core events of the [[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010]]. The festival hosted Herta Müller, David Grossman, Jonathan Franzen, Michal Viewegh, Daniel Kehlmann, and Richard Flanagan and presented the new translation of their works into Slovenian language. Screenings of the films based on the works by Fabula guests took place in [[Kinodvor Cinema]].
 
 
 
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The festival programme brought the book and literature into the streets and squares of the city: the promenade at Breg Street in the old city centre turned into the authors' cities: the words, music, film and smells depicted the cultures of New York, Jerusalem, Prague, Vienna, and Sydney. Music concerts featured the Chili dogs, Keel Klezmer Band, [[Godalika]], Saxophone quartet 4saxess, AHIMSAUrban band, as well as a huge choir event: eighteen Slovene choirs accompanied by the Philharmonics orchestra sang works by Slovene poets. Secondary school students wrote down Prešeren's epic ''Krst pri Savici'' [Baptism at the Savica] on the Ljubljana promenade in free typographic forms, accompanied by the rap authors [[Boštjan Gorenc - Pižama]] and [[Klemen Klemen]].
 
 
 
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In 2011 the festival "World Literatures – Fabula 2011" hosted César Aira, Niccolò Ammaniti, Per Olov Enquist, Cristoph Ransmayr, [[Drago Jančar]], and Margriet de Moor. Again the festival presented a fabric of talks, books, and the related films, sounds, fairy tales, and images of the writers' countries. The topic of Islam was dealt with by connoisseurs from Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Turkey, the latter being the country in focus within ''The International Within the Local'', a poetry and translation project. The international symposium focused on [[Edvard Kocbek]], whose susceptibility to complexity and paradoxes of human psychological structure and social existence often made him a victim of the ideologically uniform times. The [[Fabula Award]] for the best Slovenian collection of short stories from the past two years was given to [[Lado Kralj]] for ''Kosec koso brusi'' (A Reaper Grinds His Scythe).
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The 9th Fabula Festival in 2012 hosted Hanif Kureishi (UK), Amitav Gosh (USA), Mikhail Shishkin (RU) and Leena Krohn (FI). On this occasion a book by each author was translated into Slovene and published along with a short story collection by five Slovene authors: [[Dušan Čater]], [[Mojca Kumerdej]], [[Andrej E. Skubic]], [[Suzana Tratnik]] and [[Goran Vojnović]]. Authors presented their work at 5 main literary events accompanied by 20 other events such as literary readings, round tables, symposia, children’s program and other events with guests from around the world. The [[Fabula Award]] for the best Slovenian collection of short stories from the past two years was given to [[Dušan Čater]] for his collection ''Džehenem'' (‘hell’ in Turkish).
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== Accompanying Programme ==
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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.
  
In 2013 the Fabula guests were Irvine Welsh (GB), Ilija Trojanow (BG), Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles (VE) and Dorota Masłowska (PL) along with Slovene authors: [[Stanka Hrastelj]], [[Milan Kleč]], [[Marko Sosič]] and [[Dušan Šarotar]], in 2014 the guests were Péter Esterházy, Juan Goytisolo, Jacqueline Raoul-Duval, Thomas Brussig, [[Gabriela Babnik]], [[Nejc Gazvoda]], [[Alojz Ihan]], [[Vesna Lemaić]] and [[Miha Mazzini]], who tackled the festival focus ''Faces of Freedom Revealed''. In March 2014 arrived a special guest, Michel Houellebecq, well-known to Slovene readers through the five translated novels.
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In 2015 the festival hosted Janice Galloway, a representative of contemporary Scottish literature, young French author Clément Bénech, internationally acclaimed Dutch author Stefan Hertmans, and a versatile Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov. Five Slovenian authors presented ([[Desa Muck]], [[Žiga Gombač]], [[Barbara Simoniti]], [[Milan Dekleva]] and [[Mojca Kumerdej]]), contributed their stories for the book ''Moč lažnega'' (''The Power of Deception'').
 
 
 
 
 
== Venues ==
 
 
 
The Fabula Festival takes place in several cities round Slovenia. The Fabula Festival of Stories in 2006, for example, was organised in Ljubljana, Maribor, Postojna, Izola, and Koper.
 
 
 
The events of the 2010 festival took place in Ljubljana ([[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]], [[Kinodvor Cinema]], the [[City Museum of Ljubljana]], the [[Slovene Ethnographic Museum]], and [[Beletrina Bookshop]]); in Maribor ([[Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor]]); Ptuj ([[Ivan Potrč Library Ptuj|Ivan Potrč Library]]); Ribnica ([[Mikl House Library]]); Koper ([[Mladinska knjiga Bookstores|Dom knjige Bookshop]]); and Trieste, Italy.
 
 
 
The venues of the Fabula 2011 included also hospitals, homes for the elderly, and crisis centres, as well as urban streets in collaboration with an initiative of the homeless, the magazine ''The Kings of the Street'' [Kralji ulice].
 
 
 
Recently the main part of the festival programme has been located in Ljubljana while the pre-festival events take place in Kranj, Koper, Celje, Novo mesto, Maribor and Trst/Trieste.
 
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
*[[Beletrina Publishing Institute]]
 
*[[Beletrina Publishing Institute]]
*[[World Book Capital Ljubljana 2010]]
 
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*[http://www.festival-fabula.org/eng Fabula Festival website]
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*[http://www.festival-fabula.org Fabula Festival website]
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*[https://www.cd-cc.si/en/fabula-literary-festival Fabula in Cankarjev dom]
  
  
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1 Fabula - Literature of the World 2023 Opening of the Fabula 2023 with Oksana Zabužko.jpgOpening event of Fabula Festival 2023 hosted the Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabužko, author of the novel Field Research of Ukrainian Sex, that was interpreted by drama actor Mario Dragojević. The conversation with the author was led by Ksenija Horvat.

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.


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.

4 Fabula - Literature of the World 2022 Mieko Kawakami.jpgThe 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

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.

2 Fabula - Literature of the World 2023 Fabula Hub - Bernardine Evaristo.jpgThe 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

6 Fabula - Literature of the World 2021 Brglesita exhibition.jpgThe Fabula book collection of 2021 lives through the illustrations of the designer and illustrator, Jure Brglez aka Brglesita, which were presented at the exhibition at the City Hall Atria in Ljubljana. Artist is accompanied by the artistic director of the festival Aljaž Koprivnikar. Photo: Jaka Gaser

3 Fabula - Literature of the World 2022 Fabula Fotelj.jpgThe artistic director of the festival Aljaž Koprivnikar at the home of the senior citizens DSO Fužine where he presented FabulaFotelj, special project of the 2022 edition of the festival, an interactive and movable armchair, equipped with audio books that was created together with prostoRož.

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