Zagreb Book Festival brings 50 voices to life
Zagreb Book Festival, designed as a regular annual literary and cultural event in the city of Zagreb, which brings together dozens of domestic and foreign authors, will be held on 12 - 16 May in the Cultural Information Centre (KIC) and the Ljevak book shop, bringing together 50 authors, CE Report quotes HINA.
This year's theme is "Vrijeme - od sjećanja do vizije" ("Time - From Memories to Vision" in an unofficial translation).
"Time passes – relentless, elusive. It cannot be stopped or slowed down. Sometimes we waste it without thinking, sometimes we don’t know what to do with it. They say it heals all wounds, but also that it’s as valuable as money. The past, the present, the future, it’s all time. The framework of our existence, the beginning and the end of everything," say the organizers about the central theme of the festival.
The ZBF program begins on 12 May with a conversation with author Lea Ypi.
In 2022, Ypi, an Albanian academic and author, and a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, was named one of the world's top ten thinkers by the British magazine Prospect, and one of the most important cultural figures by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Some of the authors who will participate in this year's festival are literary critic and philosopher Martin Puchner, poet George Mario Angel Quintero, writers Julijana Matanović, Kristina Gavarn, Ena Katarina Haler, journalist Helena Puljiz, former diplomat Božo Kovačević, authors Ekelund Torbjørn, Michael Martens and so on.
