Beletrina spring reading in Kibla

Wednesday 21st May 2008 at 8 pm ACE Kibla - Beletrina spring reading with Irena Svetek and Tomaž Kosmač.

Študentska založba publishing house this year prepared a wide range of original Slovenian works within their edition Beletrina, with special emphasis on prose works by young Slovenian writers. These will be presented in reading series called Beletrina spring readings.

Irena Svetek presents a contemporary family novel Sedmi val / The Seventh Wave, the characters of which are individualists connected by the family at a certain level yet defined by completely different things.

Irena Svetek studied comparative literary studies, which she now continues in her doctoral studies. Literary audiences know her for her resounding short stories that were published in literary magazines and on the radio. For several years she has been conducting discussions with renowned writers and preparing comprehensive presentations of new literary editions.

Tomaž Kosmač with his short story collection Punk is dead invites to a humorous circular ride of condensed irony, during which he questions several established social norms.

Tomaž Kosmač lives between Idrija and Godovič, the locations of the majority of his short stories published in collections Driska / Diarrhoea (1988) and Žalostno, toda resnično / Sad, bad true (2001). Following his novel Hvalabogu / Thank God (2006) published using a pseudonym he has returned at his best to the short genre and the look on society form the frog perspective, both of which have been his contribution to the Slovenian literature, offering a fresh, sharp and humorous account of feelings and thoughts of the contemporary underground and its quotidian apocalypses.