Eye of the Word Festival
Programme
Every year, a different theme is put into focus, with the aim of underlining and discussing an array of issues related to youth literature. By inviting foreign authors, the festival stimulates the exchange of experiences and promotes Slovene literature on an international scale. Papers, reports, and interviews with the Večernica Award nominees and winners are then published in the journal The Child and the Book (Otrok in knjiga).
The Večernica Award ceremony, a Slovenian literary prize for the best children's or youth literary work of the past year. The 26th Večernica Award laureate was Slovenian literary critic and writer Maša Ogrizek, Eye of the Word Festival 2022.