Vesna Lemaić (1981, Slovenia) has published two collections of short stories, two novels, and a radio play. One of her short stories was included in the anthology Best European Fiction. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Best Debut Award, the Fabula Award, the Zlata Ptica Award, and the Novo Mesto Award. She has led writing workshops for young adults and experimental workshops for group writing. She actively collaborates with the NGO ŠKUC in organising the literary-music festival Živa Književnost.
Radmila Petrović (1996, Serbia) has published three books of poetry. As the winner of the 42nd Lim River Poetry Evenings, she published the poetry collection Miris zemlje / The Smell of Earth, and as the winner of the 22nd Desanka Maksimović Poetry Competition, she published Celulozni rokenrol / Cellulose Rock’n’Roll. Her third collection of poems Moja mama zna šta se dešava u gradovima / My Mom Knows the Kind of Things that Happen in Cities was published by the PPM Enklava publishing house in 2020.
Tomislav Osmanli (1956, North Macedonia), a media theorist, writes plays and screenplays, poetry, essays, short stories, novels, and reviews. He is the author of twenty-eight books and has written the first books in his country dedicated to film and comics. His novellas won the Prose Masters Award, his first novel won the Best Macedonian Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Balkanica Literary Prize.
meet select editors and authors from Southeast Europe • discover insights by publishing professionals • find partners
Goga Publishing invites you to the second Reading Balkans virtual networking meeting with a dedicated matchmaking session. The event, highlighting some of the best publishers from Southeast Europe, will help international publishing professionals get better acquiainted with authors from Southeast Europe, understand the publishing landscape, and find new partners.
About the conference
Following on the success of the first Rading Balkans: Connecting Publishers conference, the second edition will continue to promote the resilience and recovery of the publishing sector, help professionals meet their counterparts, and make authors from the Southeast Europe more visible. The event, promoting transnational circulation of literary works, will be an opportunity for discovery and exchange of ideas. Especially with the currently open calls for proposals within the Creative Europe Programme, the meeting will help publishers forge new partnerships.
During the first part, invited writers and publishing professionals will discuss the reasons for, as well as the specifics of, translating authors from Southeast Europe and share their insights. Speakers include:
Velibor Ćolić (France/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Marko Pogačar (Croatia)
Dinko Kreho (Croatia)
Vladimir Jankovski (North Macedonia)
Mateja Lazar (Slovenia)
In the second part, select publishers will introduce their programs. Speakers include:
Vladislav Bajac (Geopoetika, Serbia)
Biljana Crvenkovska (Strange Forest Publishing, North Macedonia)
Maja Šučur (LUD Literatura, Slovenia)
Marija Dragnić (Enklava, Serbia)
The third part will offer matchmaking opportunities for quick one-on-one sessions.
meet select editors and authors from Southeast Europe • discover insights by publishing professionals • find partners
Goga Publishing invites you to a special Reading Balkans virtual networking meeting with a dedicated matchmaking session. The event, highlighting some of the best publishers from Southeast Europe, will help international publishing professionals get better acquiainted with authors from Southeast Europe and find new partners.
About the conference
Since the COVID-19 crisis, publishing has been faced with amplified challenges, particularly in the field of international activities. With major bookfairs having been postponed or cancelled, the reality of regular B2B meetings was radically altered, making networking difficult.
To promote the resilience and recovery of the publishing sector, help professionals meet their counterparts, and make authors from the Southeast Europe more visible, the Reading Balkans project (led by Goga Publishing, Slovenia) will organise a virtual networking and matchmaking event. The event, promoting transnational circulation of literary works, will be an opportunity for discovery and exchange of ideas. Especially with the currently open calls for proposals within the Creative Europe Programme, the meeting will help publishers forge new partnerships.
During the first part, invited publishing professionals will discuss the reasons for as well as specifics of translating authors from Southeast Europe and share their insights. This part will also provide an overview of different funding mechanisms and platforms. It will include contributions from
Susan Curtis (Istros Books),
Andrej Lovšin (Traduki),
Hana Stojić (Traduki),
Renata Zamida (former director of the Slovenian Book Agency).
In the second part, select publishers will introduce their finest authors, of whom one per publisher will also be present in person. Invited publishers:
Buybook (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
Geopoetika (Serbia),
Goga Publishing (Slovenia),
OceanMore (Croatia),
Partizanska knjiga (Serbia),
Sandorf (Croatia).
The third part will offer matchmaking opportunities for quick one-on-one sessions.
