Twelve books from 11 countries and 11 languages have won English PEN’s flagship translation awards, and Canzone di Guerra by Daša Drndić joined this stellar list! UK edition published by Istros Books was translated by the renowned Celia Hawkesworth, who already worked on several, award-winning translations of Daša Drndić’s works.

Jurica Pavičić is this year’s winner of the Prix Le Point du Polar européen 2021 for his crime novel “The Red Water”. This French literary prize established in 2003 by the weekly magazine Le Point is awarded each year for the best crime or thriller novel by a European author in French or a French translation.

The publication takes the reader through the journey of the Creative Europe in Croatia: from the very beginning, cultural organizations, artists and creative professionals in Croatia have been a part of the programme, along with their European partners. The readers will discover the amount of energy and creativity poured into these trailblazing projects.

Damir Karakaš’ novel “Remembering Forest” is among the winners of the Italian literary award “Premio ITAS del Libro di montagna”.

The Croatian Government declared the year 2021 the Year of Reading based on the proposal by the Ministry of Culture and Media. Due to this declaration the Ministry of Culture and Media will begin with the implementation of the numerous programmes supporting reading that will take place throughout 2021.

Ivica Prtenjača and Goran Ferčec will guest at a book launch event in Vienna on Monday, April 26th, 2021. The event will be streamed live on YouTube, starting at 7:00 pm.

After 13 years of work and almost 300 published titles, Croatian publisher Sandorf launched its American branch, Sandorf Passage, an independent nonprofit publishing house. In charge of the American branch will be Buzz Polle, editor, while Ivan Sršen, Sandorf’s co-founder, coordinates the printing, largely done in Croatia.

Croatian writer, translator and Hispanist Željka Lovrenčić was named a corresponding member of the Madrid-based Academia Hispanoamericana de Buenas Letras this month. This renowned institution operates throughout the Hispanic area and collaborates closely with the world-famous Andrés Bello Foundation.

The participants are Michel Deguy, Xavier Galmiche, Isabelle Macor, Guillaume Métayer, and Brankica Radić, the authors and translators whose poems appeared in the feature 170 and 171 of the magazine Po&sie.

Ivana Šojat, our prolific novelist, poet, essayist, and literary translator is a guest at the 5th edition of the EU-China International Literature Festival (November 12th – December 6th 2020) organized by The Delegation of the European Union to China.

The 'Anthology of the Modern Croatian Poetry' was launched on October 27th in Beijing, and it represents the most ambitious and extensive presentation of the Croatian literature to the Chinese readers.

Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savičević Ivančević has just been awarded with the Premier roman 2020 Award! Published by JC Lattès and translated by Chloe Billon, Farewell, Cowboy has been chosen among seven translated titles as the best debut novel published in France.

Founded in Zagreb in 1966 by the Croatian Writers' Association, ''The Bridge'' / ''Most'' literary magazine is destined to promote Croatian literature at the European and international culture scene.

The French translator Chloé Billon has received the coveted INALCO 2020 prize for translators for her translation of No-Signal Area (Les Turbines du Titanic in French) by the Croatian author Robert Perišić. The novel was published in France by the publishing house Editions Gaȉa, with support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.

The French edition of the acclaimed novel was recently published by JC Lattès with a translation grant support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media and translated by Chloe Billon.

Poezibao, the renowned French website dedicated to poetry, has published a review by Marc Wetzel on Hrvoje Pejaković's poetry and his recently published French translation.

The 2020 edition of Best Translated Book Award went to the novel EEG written by Daša Drndić, translated by Celia Hawkesworth and published by New Directions.

After the international success of Our Man In Iraq by Robert Perišić, translated into a dozen languages across the globe, his novel No-Signal Area continues to spark interest of international publishers.

The 2020 International Stefan Heym Prize winners are the Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulić and the Swedish author and journalist Richard Swartz.

On this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, held from 16th to 19th October 2019, the 56 m2 long Croatian national stand will be located in the Hall 5.0 (D117).

Roman Simić, the founder and director of the Festival of European Short Story, and Caroline Michel from Hay Festival, will present an important literary cooperation taking place in Rijeka in the June of 2020 and introduce the project “Europa 28”.

As will be shown in the conversation with Croatian authors Slobodan Šnajder and Kristian Novak and Austrian author Norbert Gstrein, the increasing interest for the perception of the self and "Other" is a shared feature of both Croatian as well as German literature.

The existing literary residencies in Croatia open to domestic and international writers.

For the first time, the Republic of Croatia will participate at the biggest book fair in France Livre Paris, which will take place from 15 until 18 March 2019.

As in the past years, Croatia will once exhibit on the Leipzig Book Fair. Croatian authors will appear within Traduki, now traditional literary program, and continue the year-long practice of appearing alongside with other members of the Traduki cultural network.

Publishing house Istros Books has published Wild Woman, English translation of the book by Marina Šur Puhlovski first released in 2018 under the title Divljakuša.

The ninth GavranFest, the international theatre festival which exclusively features plays by the Croatian author Miro Gavran, will take place 1-3 February 2019 in the Sensemble Theatre in Ausburg, Germany.

Another outstanding recognition for Ivana Sajko is the invitation to take part, along with the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Flemish author Stefan Hertmans, in the Frankfurt Book Fair Opening Ceremony.

At the recent 25th edition of the Beijing International Book Fair, which for the first time also hosted the BICBF (Beijing International Children's Book Fair), Croatian publishers Dječja knjiga and Kašmir promet and their authors Andrea Petrlik Huseinović and Kašmir Huseinović received the BIBF – Reader’s Choice Award 2018.

Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers at the Croatian Chamber of Economy, in association with the Croatian Ministry of Culture, is organizing this year’s participation of Croatian authors and publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which will take place 10 – 14 October 2018.

Lit Link Festival 2018 presents American and Croatian authors, hosting events in Pula (June 28), Rijeka (June 29) and Zagreb (June 30). Along with organizing readings by foreign and Croatian authors, Lit Link Festival is equally dedicated to the promotion of the Croatian literary production to international editors and publishers who are its equally important guests.

T-portal’s eleventh literary award for the best novel was awarded to the author Dubravka Ugrešić for the novel "Lisica" / "The Fox"(Fraktura, 2017). The jury concluded that Lisica is a masterpiece by this distinguished Croatian master of narration.

Author Ivana Sajko and translator Alida Bremer are the winners of the tenth Internationaler Literaturpreis for translated contemporary literatures for the novel Liebesroman in its first German translation. Ivana Sajko receives a prize of 20,000 €, Alida Bremer receives a prize of 15,000 €.

For the third time, Croatian authors and publishers will be presented to the Polish readers and industry representatives at the Warsaw Book Fair, which is to take place 17-20 May 2018.

Once again in 2018, Croatian authors will be presented at the Leipzig Book Fair which takes place from 14th to 18th of March. Three Croatian authors will participate at the 2018 Leipzig Book Fair: Slavenka Drakulić, Ivana Šojat and Igor Štiks.

Year to year Croatia is present at the Frankfurt Book Fair as a central place of world publishing industry. This year we are presenting selection of recent works by 11 prominent contemporary Croatian writers, followed by a selection of books published by more than 30 Croatian publishers.

According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), in the first six months of 2015, sales of e-books in the US fell by 10 percent, yet e-books’ share of total book sales remains stable at 20 percent...

The New York Times - Sunday Book Review
‘Trieste,’ by Dasa Drndic

Dazzling, funny and deadly serious, this perfectly pitched novel about the legacy of the Yugoslav war heralds the arrival of an exciting new European voice.

Most recently published issue no. 48 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is featuring six Croatian authors: Gordan Nuhanović, Zoran Ferić, Damir Karakaš, Olja Savičević, Bekim Sejranović and Tea Tulić.