Jubilee

10May 2025. Sonja Ciric

Ten years of talking about the love of reading

Ten years of the Literary Festival on the ship will be celebrated with the promotion of the monograph "RandeLJvu with writers and books" by Đorđe Randelj. The ship is a large white Zeppelin ship on the Danube at the foot of the Novi Sad Fortress, and the festival is like no other anywhere

Recommendation

22April 2025. Sonja Ciric

Two books to think about theatre

The two latest books by Svetislav Jovanov deal with theater theory, and are not meant to pass the time. They are for those who need theater, who think about it

About the book

05march 2025 Dr. Slavica Garonja

A search for roots with a happy ending

The recently published autobiography of Princess Jelisaveta Karađorđević Far away is a story, apart from her, to a large extent also about Prince Pavlo and Princess Olga. There is also Queen Elizabeth, John Kennedy, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Grace Kelly, Warren Beatty, Jean Cocteau, Benazir Bhutto, Trump...

Jubilee

22February 2025. Stanko Cerovic

The Eternal Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš was born 90 years ago today. On this occasion, we are publishing Stanko Cerović's text "Kiš, silueta s one strana... SC" from "Vremen" from February 18, 2015.

Books

22January 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

Ill-mannered, vile, genius brat

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Selected letters N. R. F.-u (1931–1961), translated by Bojan Savić Ostojić; Zepter, Belgrade, 2024.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Steering, translated by Gordan Breberin; LOM/Laguna, Belgrade, 2024.

Book promotion

17January 2025 RV

"Apocalypse": A Book of Social Collapse

On Sunday (January 19) from 18 p.m., the promotion of the illustrated book Epocalypse by the Serbian artist Bojan Mitrović will be held in KC Grad. In dialogue with Albrecht Dürer, unique style, text and drawing, the author deals with the social collapse that could precede our extinction as a species

Publishers 2025

04January 2025 Sonja Ciric

Titles appropriate to the current moment

Merkel's memoirs at Kontrast Publishing House, "War" and "Autocracy" at Clio, "Belgrade Noir" at Official Gazette, Kadare's "General of the Dead Army" - these are examples from the publisher's plans for this year, which they know will be more difficult than the last.

Ventilation

25December 2024 Goran Vojnović

Who tells the story?

Stories have become just one of the weapons of mass destruction, which is why all of us whose profession it is to tell stories have ended up as suspects for participating in crimes against humanity. We are all potential manipulators and seducers, we all invent and twist

Region

29November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Belgrade books in the Zagreb library

In Zagreb, in the Serb minority library "Prosvjeta", an exhibition of books bought at the Belgrade Book Fair was held, where most of the purchases are made every year.

Pravda

27November 2024 Sonja Ciric

The Ministry of Culture helps libraries

The State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture appealed to the Ministry of Economy to review the document, which would even mean its abolition for libraries. This is the first reaction of an institution regarding the librarian's appeal

Interview

09November 2024 Sonja Ciric

Vladislava Vojnović: How to promote the Cyrillic alphabet

"Cyrillic is ours too, it's not just theirs - those who use it in the manner of 'divide and conquer' divide us even more than we already are, poor, lonely and terrified that whoever is not with us/them is against us/ them," says the editor of the "AzBučni red" edition, which has been promoting the Cyrillic alphabet for years

Interview: Džesika Stojadinović Stoya

09October 2024 Mila Jovanovic

"I feel more comfortable in Serbia than in America"

"In Serbia, the value of women is often based on their potential to be mothers, while we have safe access to abortion if we want it, while in the USA half of the federal states have taken away the right to abortion," the author and former porn star told Vreme. films by Džesika Stojadinović Stoya

The country and the book

20September 2024 Sonja Ciric

Publishers on the imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet: Who is still afraid of the Latin alphabet?

"Using both letters preserves the wealth of Serbian cultural heritage and adapts to modern needs," says Zoran Hamović. "And if we are already talking about the Serbian national interest, it could also be adequate and continuous care and support of the state for expanding the presence and influence of Serbian literature in the world," says Jasna Novakov Sibinović.

Interview: Aleksandra Đurić Milovanović

18September 2024 Jelena Jorgacevic

The untold story of the ways of the Nazarene

"Pacifism largely determined the identity of the Nazarene believers, and influenced their conflict with the authorities. (...) That is how the Nazarenes, from the beginning of the establishment of communities in the area of ​​today's Vojvodina in the middle of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, were in conflict with the state as conscientious objectors"

Roman

11September 2024 Zoran Jankovic

Every east is promised a west (and vice versa)

One has to live under the shadow, and often under that visibly tattered "umbrella" of words, which, well, are not able to fully and accurately reflect even what the mind easily comprehends and what the soul quickly empathizes with. Raimanova excelled in exactly that area - in the field of unspoken recognition of weakness

Recommendation

17June 2024 S.Ć.

"Soccer Facts": Good publishing move

"Creative Center" has published a book for readers 8+ that is full of interesting facts about anything and everything related to football, and all this on the occasion of the current European Championship

Recommendation

12June 2024 S.Ć.

Ivan Ivanji: Once upon a time in Yugoslavia

"I must honestly state that I testify about my sighting of a certain person or a specific event." If it's wrong, it's my fault. Whoever disagrees should forgive me," wrote Ivan Ivanji in the introduction to the book "Once upon a time in Yugoslavia", which was published a few weeks after his death.

Movie Idols (2)

24April 2024. Sonja Ciric

Memoir of Shotra's actors

His book is a moving tribute to the actor, film art and the time when film was considered a sublime art, an autobiography, a document about the 65-year career of director Zdravko Šotra, and at the same time local cinematography, and much more. My 500 actors which was published by "Official Gazette" and RTS

World Book Day

23April 2024. S.Ć.

Do Serbs really like to read?

For a population of 6,6 million, publishers in Serbia publish 12.470 books, and 1.988 of them subscribe to 1.377,797 libraries. In addition to libraries and publishers, one party - the Green Left Front - called for the celebration of World Book Day