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History
Established in November 2001 by the Student Organisation of the University of Maribor with the aim of contributing to the development of publishing activity in eastern Slovenia and creating a new space for authors as well as readers.
Venue, Branch
Its bookstore (see below) is a space dedicated to the development of critical thought, literary-cultural production and publication.
Programme
Litera has launched a series of non-profit, intellectual, essayistic and literary programmes based on criteria such as actuality, originality and aesthetics, alongside exclusively literary and local history publications. Since 2001 it has published more than 130 different publications. The Litera book collections are: Piramida (contemporary Slovene literature), Babilon (contemporary world literature), Nova znamenja (humanities), Mladež (youth literature), From the antique world, and the 'Collected Works of Slovene Poets and Prose Writers'.
Projects
In June 2007 Litera organised the Bistrica Literary Days festival called Spogledi at the Slovenska Bistrica Castle.