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Pranger Festival 2025

22. PRANGER Festival kritike, prevoda in branja poezije
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Radovljica, Ljubljana, Kranj: 23.–27. september 2025

 

Program festivala 2025

Nedelja, 21. september 2025, Layerjeva hiša Kranj, stolp Škrlovec, 17:00 Pranger x Medvrsticami – Razprava Pranger pred Prangerjem Gostja kritičarka Anja Zidar in njeni izbrani pesnici in pesnik Petra Koršič, Anja Novak – Anjuta in Pino Pograjc Moderira: Hana B. Kokot
Pranger pred Prangerjem je dopolnitev leta 2012 ustanovljenega programa Mlada kritika ter rednega vabljenja najmlajših kritičark in kritikov na Pranger. Letos v sodelovanju z Medvrsticami prostor na ločenem odru ponudimo mlademu kritiku in pesnikom, ki jih izbere. Prva kritičarka, ki se nam bo pridružila, je Anja Zidar, na odru bo recenzirala Anjo Novak – Anjuto s pesniško zbirko Žilažili (samozaložba 2024), Pina Pograjca z zbirko Megalomast in Izbruhijada (Črna skrinjica 2024) in Petro Koršič z zbirko Zlato jajce (KUD Apokalipsa 2024). Dogodek bodo otvorili izvršna producentka festivala Pranger Natalija Milovanović, kreativna vodja festivala Medvrsticami Hana Bujanović Kokot in idejni avtor Prangerja pred Prangerjem Dejan Koban, ki bodo predstavili nov dodatek k festivaloma, njegovo zasnovo in gostje večera. Pogovor med kritičarko in avtorji bo moderirala Hana Bujanović Kokot.
Torek, 23. september 2025, Ljubljana, Vodnikova domačija, 18:00 Konceptualna razprava Poezija in hrana Gostji: Vesna Liponik in Aja Zamolo Moderira: dr. Nežka Struc V poeziji je hrana telo, je vonj, je okus, je recept, je lepilo, nostalgija, vez, razkroj, čutenje. Je rastlina, žival, človek, včasih tudi zrak. Je prijateljstvo in uničenje, ki se topi, lomi, žveči in prebavlja. Pojavlja se kot družbena vez, opisuje odnose med bitji ter njihove odnose z okoljem. O filanih paprikah, špagetih, bajaderah, zobeh, kosteh in jabolkih se bomo na konceptualni razpravi o poeziji in hrani pogovarjali s pesnicama Vesno Liponik (aktivistka, branjevka in mlada raziskovalka na ZRC SAZU) in Ajo Zamolo (magistra ekologije in biodiverzitete). Pogovor bo vodila dr. Nežka Struc.
Sreda, 24. september 2025, Ljubljana, vrt Vodnikove domačije, 18:00 Prangerjevo pesniško branje Berejo: Tanja Božić, Alojzija Zupan Sosič, Miklavž Komelj, Ana Porenta, Lucija Stupica Moderira: Natalija Milovanović Pranger 2025 stoji v znamenju sprememb: novi termin, nova lokacija, nova formula za kritiški izbor, nova ekipa, nove barve. Kar pa ni novo, je tradicionalni pesniški večer v Ljubljani za okušino izbranih poetik, preden se tri dni intenzivno poglobimo vanje. Na vrtu Vodnikove domačije v Šiški se bodo z branji predstavili Tanja Božić, dr. Alojzija Zupan Sosič, Ana Porenta, Lucija Stupica in dr. Miklavž Komelj. Peter Semolič bo pa z nami v mislih in v knjigah, ki jih lahko dobite tudi v najmanjši knjigarni v Šiški. Skozi večer bo krmarila izvršna producentka letošnjega Prangerja, Natalija Milovanović.
Četrtek, 25. september 2025, Radovljica 10:00, Čebelarski muzej, prostor “Čebelnjak”: Poezija s čebelcami za najmlajše iz vrtca Pranger in Muzeji radovljiške občine imajo skupen simbol čebele, čbelce: ne samo idiličen simbol marljivih pesnic in pesnikov, ampak tudi kot namig, da bo ta čebela znala pičiti, če bo treba. S prijateljsko literarno kritiko. Prvi dogodek 22. Prangerja v Radovljici bo prav v Muzeju čebelarstva, v prostoru, poimenovanem Čebelnjak, namenjen pa bo najmlajšim, otročkom Vrtca Radovljica. Pravljičarka in bibliotekarstva specialistka Katja Bevk iz Knjižnice ATL bo otrokom predstavila poezijo s čebelcami. 13:30, Šivčeva hiša: otvoritveni sprejem Visit Radol’ca
  • Kašča: otvoritev razstave Ana Štular (poezija) & Andrej Štular (ilustracija, strip) (kustosinja Hana B. Kokot, Layerjeva hiša)
  • Vodenje po renesančni meščanski hiši (kustos Boštjan Soklič, MRO)
Festivalsko dogajanje v Radovljici odpiramo s partnerji iz Visit Radol’ca, ki bodo pričakali naše izbrake_ce in goste_je v Šivčevi hiši, katere vhod je tik ob prangerju.  V galeriji Kašča v Šivčevi hiši bomo obenem odprli razstavo pesnice Ane Štular in ilustratorja Andreja Štularja partnerske Layerjeve hiše iz Kranja. Ko se udomačimo v srednjeveški Šivčevi hiši, ki združuje umetnost arhitekture, slikarstva in ilustracije, bomo vanjo vnesli še poezijo.  14:00 (do 17:00), Šivčeva hiša, Poročna dvorana: 1. kritiška razprava
Petek, 26. september 2025, Radovljica 9:00, Knjižnica Antona Tomaža Linharta: hommage Ivanu Hribovšku in ogled zbirke Mateja Bora   Drugi dan v Radovljici začenjamo z vpogledom v zapuščino iz knjižnice pesnika Ivana Hribovška, ki jo hranijo v Domoznanski zbirki Knjižnice A. T. Linharta Radovljica, ter ogledom zbirke Mateja Bora. Po obeh nas bodo popeljali sodelavci knjižnice, nato pa se bomo v njihovi zgornji dvorani udobno namestili za drugo razpravo. 10:00 (do 13:00), zgornja dvorana knjižnice Antona Tomaža Linharta: 2. kritiška razprava 16:00: vodeni ogled Radovljice, Linhartova soba in Čebelarski muzej Po razpravi in kosilu se dobimo ponovno in si ogledamo staro mestno jedro, v Muzejih radovljiške občine pa še Linhartovo sobo in Čebelarski muzej. Naš vodnik po Radovljici bo Sašo Gašperin. 19:00, baročna dvorana v Graščini: Poezija & glasba
  • Berejo: Lucija Stupica, Ana Porenta, Tanja Božić, Alojzija Zupan Sosič, Miklavž Komelj (poezija)
  • Zasedba: Barva granata, Phylomena – Jasmina Črnčič (romanska harfa, glas), Mojca Jerman (srednjeveška viella)
Osrednje pesniško branje v Radovljici organiziramo v sodelovanju s 43. Festivalom stare glasbe Radovljica. Skozi večer v radovljiški graščini nas bo peljal duo Katja Bevk & Katja Stušek. Slišali bomo pesmi iz Prangerjevih letošnjih izbranih zbirk v interpretaciji pesnikov in pesnic kot tudi glasbene interpretacije srednjeveške poezije. Za slednje bosta poskrbeli Jasmina Črnčič & Mojca Jerman iz ansambla Phylomena, ki si prizadeva karseda celostno predstaviti podobo časa, ki je v več kot enem oziru od našega sicer zelo oddaljen, hkrati pa po izrazitosti čustvovanja in predanosti lepoti življenja v svojem bistvu zelo blizu. Repertoar obsega dela iz srednjega veka 12. in 13. stoletja, avtorice Hildegarde iz Bingna, delo Minneleich Mojstra Alexandra (Der wilde Alexander) in pesem Pierra de Bloisa v stari francoščini. Za prevode sta poskrbela Domen Marinčič in dr. Alen Širca. Partnerja: Visit Radol’ca in 43. Festival stare glasbe Radovljica 20:30: druženje pri prangerju, Malijeva hiša, Linhartov trg 25 Po večeru poezije in glasbe vabljeni še na druženje pri prangerju pred Malijevo hišo na Linhartovem trgu!
Sobota, 27. september 2025, Radovljica in Grad Kamen 10:00, Radolška rokodelska tržnica (Linhartov trg): Visit Radol’ca x Festival Pranger; Kuharska delavnica z Matejo Reš – Okus po cvetju in poeziji Mateja Reš: lastnica vrta, ki ga omenja popotniški vodnik Lonely Planet. Skoraj dve desetletji je združevala poklice kuharice, pisateljice, predavateljice, mame, moderatorke in prodajalke. Potem je z možem leta 2016 kupila dober hektar zemlje pod Obočnico v Zgornjih Gorjah in zasadila sadike z nekdanje priljubljene družinske Vrtnarije Reš v Mošnjah. Sodeluje z bližnjimi restavracijami, omenjenimi v Michelinovem vodniku, njena ekološka kmetija je na kratko opisana tudi v popotniškem vodniku Lonely Planet. Na trenutno verjetno najbolj znanem gorenjskem vrtu si lahko v zadnjem obdobju privoščite tudi doživetje, imenovano Vrt okusov in občutkov: sprehod po vrtu in pokušanje dobrot, pripravljenih v kuhinji pod kozolcem, kjer potekajo tudi redne kuharske delavnice. Pranger je Matejo Reš povabil, ali bi kot umetniško senzibilna ustvarjalka pripravila kuharsko delavnico, ki bi povezala poezijo in hrano, in takoj je rekla: Rožce bodo. Cvetje, ki se pojavlja v poeziji, bomo okušali s poezijo. Mateja je s puncami, ki ji pomagajo na kmetiji, pripomogla tudi k izbiri malteščine kot izbranega jezika 22. Prangerja. 11:00 (do 14:00), zgornja dvorana knjižnice Antona Tomaža Linharta: 3. kritiška razprava 17:00, Grad Kamen, vstop v dolino Draga, Begunje: 22. Pranger x Lamberg – ambientalno branje poezije in harmonika
  • Nastop izbranih pesnic in pesnikov pri murkah in smrekah
  • Glasba: Špela Šemrl
  • Povezuje: Katja Bevk
  • Nagovora: Božena Kolman Finžgar in Peter Kolman
Festivalsko dogajanje 22. Festivala Pranger bomo zaokrožili z ambientalnim branjem z urbano harmoniko. Dobimo se pri gradu Kamen, pri murkah in smrekah na ruševinah gradu pa si bomo po vseh debatah privoščili še sproščeno branje v naravi. Glasbeno nas bo na harmoniki pospremila lokalna virtuozinja Špela Šemrl v ritmih od Drage do Pariza. Po koncu dogodka bomo vzeli slovo od 22. Festivala Pranger z družabnim privezom dušic pod Begunjščico. Partner: Turistično društvo Begunje. V primeru dežja bo prireditev v dvorani Knjižnice ATL, Vurnikov trg 1.
Izbrani jezik: malteščina, zbirka prevodov pesmi Prangerjevih pesnik in pesnikov v jezik Malte. Na pesniških branjih na Vodnikovi domačiji, v Radovljiški graščini in na Gradu Kamen se bodo slišali posnetki prevodov posameznih pesmi v malteščini (bere Abigail Ardelle Zammit). Oktober Program Mlada kritika: kritiška delavnica s Silvijo Žnidar. Prijave do 15. 9. 2025. Sreda, 8. oktober, splet, 18:00
Prevodni Pranger o prevajanju slovenske poezije v malteški jezik
Sodelujejo: Abigail Ardelle Zammit, Immanuel Mifsud, Peter Semolič
Moderira: dr. Nada Grošelj
PROGRAM ZA PRENOS

Kritiki in pesniki 2025

Varja Balžalorsky Antić (Utemeljitev) Jelka Kernev Štrajn (Utemeljitev) Luka Benedičič (Utemeljitev)

Programme 2024

21th gathering of poets, critics and translators of poetry

2 July – 6 July 2024

Rogaška Slatina, Ljubljana

The program of the Pranger Festival 2024 includes reflections on nine poetry collections from 2023, a conceptual discussion on Poetry & Humor, an international discussion called Lyrikbook, the awarding of the Stritar Prize for critics, and a children’s program called ELA – Little Pranger. The direction of the festival focuses on the dignity of art and the reception of art, inclusiveness, and trans-clan openness. The aim is to express opinions kindly and directly while also fearlessly considering the heard criticism, which should be well-founded and polite. Pranger selects three critics, who each choose three poets, authors of new poetry collections.

All critical debates will be hosted by Diana Pungeršič.

Saturday, May 25, 2024, Cultural Center, Rogaška Slatina, 11:00 AM

Ceremonial awarding of the ELA – Little Pranger competition prizes. In partnership with the Rogaška Slatina Library. Program director: Nataša Koražija,

Tuesday, July 2, 2024, Vodnik Homestead Center, 7:00 PM
Conceptual discussion: Poetry & Humor

Guests: Andreja Štepec and Blaž Iršič. Moderator: Ajda Bračič.

Is it worthwhile to take humorous poetry seriously? How seriously can we take witty poets? How deep do the mechanisms of humor reach between verses, is absurdity even funny, and with what power does satire wield its critical edge today?

Humor is a convincing yet delicate literary tool that, like in life, not everyone masters completely. In times of global and personal crises, it can be the last line of defense against despair or a strategy for guerrilla testing of optimistic alternatives.

Wednesday, July 3, 2024, Vodnik Homestead Center, 7:00 PM
Pranger Poetry Evening

Poetry by: Lara Božak, Tonja Jelen, Denis Škofič, Ana Pepelnik, Vesna Liponik, Matjaž Zorec, Primož Repar. Primož Repar’s poetry will be interpreted by actor Niko Goršič. Hosted by: Sara Špelec.

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 2PM (until 5:50PM)

Critical debate

Friday, 5 July 2024

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

Anin Dvor, Rogaška Slatina, 8:00 PM
The Stritar Award for Critics 2024

Speeches will be given by the Mayor of Rogaška Slatina, Branko Kidrič, and the festival director, Urška P. Černe. The Stritar Prize will be presented by Dušan Merc, President of the Slovenian Writers’ Association.

Saturday, 6 July 2024

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

Foreign language in focus: Italian

No one reads as meticulously as avid readers. Poetry allows for its rewritings and new conceptualizations of the world. In the year 2024, Pranger is focusing on discussing the relationship of Italian language towards Slovenian poetry and deepening the relevant, and transformative connections between the languages.

The Stritar Award for Critics 2024

For the eleventh year in a row, we will be hosting the Slovene Writers’ Association, which will present this year’s Stritar Award for Critics at the concluding festival event on Friday, 5 July 2024 in Rogaška Slatina’s Cultural Centre.

Critique studio

Young Critique and Translation Critique are two mentored workshops for beginner critics (non-beginners also welcome) that will be held at the festival in autumn.

ELA- Little Pranger

ELA-Little Pranger workshop is dedicated to our youngest readers who will be able to participate in a children’s poetry competition. Like last year, the workshop is part of a collaboration with Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina and is held separately from the critical part of the festival.

Books in Clothing

Pranger’s chosen books will be treated to an artistic book cover transformation with the help of the Books in Clothing project, a collaboration of our festival with MKC Maribor and Maribor’s Slovenian Book Days Festival.

Join us, the entrance is free!

This event is part of the reading culture programme co-financed by the Slovenian Book Agency.

Pranger Translat 2022

The only Slovenian festival dedicated exclusively to the translation of fiction and the humanities brings new debates, fresh linguistic combinations and a focus on the art of translation that has not yet been highlighted.

The Translation Pranger Festival will take place between October 2022 and January 2023 on Monday evenings at the Maribor Puppet Theatre.

This year, we will focus on translations of Canadian fiction from French, translations of classic works of Spanish literature, and award-winning Hungarian authors translated into a range of languages, as well as Slovenian.

We invite you to join us for festival discussions and to mingle with our exceptional guests!

Translating contemporary Canadian fiction

24 October 2022, at 19.00
Great Hall of the Puppet Theatre Maribor

selector Dr. Tjaša Mohar
discussant Tadeja Petrovčič Jerina
translator Maja Kraigher

The selector Dr. Tjaša Mohar from the Faculty of Arts in Maribor and the discussant Tadeja Petrovčič Jerina will talk about translations of Canadian contemporary literature, which is dominated by two major language systems, English and French. The focus of the evening will be the translation work of Maja Kraigher:

Stories from Canada, an anthology of contemporary Canadian short fiction
(Sodobnost International, 2006, 258 pp.)

Nicolas Dickner: Six Degrees of Freedom
(Modernity International, 2022, 287 pp.)
(Six degrés de liberté, Éditions Alto, Quebec, 2015)

The rest of the programme will be announced shortly.

Tickets

Tickets for Pranger are available online and at the Puppet Theatre box office for €5 (€4 for students and seniors). Unemployed persons with a certificate can enter free of charge. Proceeds will be donated to translation activities.

A free ride from Ljubljana

Please write to prevodni.pranger@pranger.si, to secure your seat in the van, leaving Ljubljana at 15.45 on October 24th, from the Train Station.

We are back

With the exception of one event, this year’s festival evenings will take place mainly at the Maribor Puppet Theatre with only one online streaming, so don’t miss all of them!

Face to face

The Translation Pranger festival management selects one foreign language for each talk and a selector who puts the focus of the evening on two books or journal/radio publications by a translator that he or she feels should be highlighted. The selector uses his/her independent judgement, but takes into account the manageability of the material in terms of scope (including for the audience, for whom it is desirable to read the material before the event), and uses a variety of selection approaches. The selector and the discussant(s) come face to face to explain their opinions to the creator of the translation, who has the opportunity to peek into his/her own translation workshop and to reveal lesser-known facts or textual passages that the discussants may have interpreted in their own way.

 

Translation Pranger is organised by KUD Pranger with the support of the Municipality of Maribor and the Slovenian Book Agency JAK, and in cooperation with the Maribor Puppet Theatre, the Department of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Maribor, the Maribor Library, the Hungarian Liszt Institute (Liszt Intézet – Magyar Kulturális Központ Ljubljana) and the Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lubiana).

Programme 2021

18th gathering of poets, critics and translators of poetry

31 August – 6 September 2021

Rogaška Slatina, Ljubljana

Pranger Festival will give poetry lovers and readers plenty to look forward to with their 2021 programme. Audiences will be able to enjoy a reflection of nine poetry collections published in 2020 and attend The Stritar Award for Young Critics ceremony. Children will be able to participate in the ELA-Little Pranger workshop and adults interested in translation will have the opportunity to join a workshop dedicated to translating poetry from Slovene into German (Frankfurt 2023).

This year’s festival will exceptionally be held at the end of the summer season.

At the heart of the Pranger Festival lie the dignity and reception of art. When faced with a poet, how to tell one’s opinion politely and with good intentions as well as solid arguments, and on the other hand, fearlessly reflect upon the received critique? How to translate poetry and take a road less travelled?

Pranger Festival chooses three literary critics who select three authors with newly published poetry collections. All critical debates will be hosted by the 2017 Stritar Award winner Maja Šučur.

Programme

Thursday, 31 August 2021, Nova Pošta, 7PM

Conceptual debate Poetry & the Holy

Host: dr. David Bandelj

Wednesday, 1 September

Trubar’s House of Literature, 7PM

Pranger’s poetry evening

Poetry by: Maja Vidmar, Krištof Dovjak, Ivo Stropnik, Marko Matičetov, Manca Košir, Nina Medved, Dejan Koban, Muanis Sinanović, Anja Novak – Anjuta

Thursday, 2 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 2PM (until 5:50PM)

Critical debate

Friday, 3 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

 

The Stritar Award for Young Critics ceremony accompanied by poetry readings

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 8PM

Attendees will be greeted by Rogaška Slatina’s major Branko Kidrič, M.A., and festival manager Urška P. Černe.

The Stritar Award for Young Critics winner will be announced and presented the award by Dušan Merc, the president of Slovene Writers’ Association.

Performances by: Manca Košir, Muanis Sinanović, Maja Vidmar, Ivo Stropnik, Dejan Koban, Marko Matičetov, Krištof Dovjak, Nina Medved in Anja Novak – Anjuta

Free transportation from Ljubljana leaves outside the Križanke Outdoor theatre at 5PM.

To sign up write to: natasa.cebular@drustvo-dsp.si. The deadline is Sunday, 8 August 2021.

Saturday, 4 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

Monday, 6 September 2021

Ljubljana, The ZRC Atrium, 12PM

Debate: Pranger Lyrikbook – which Slovenians do Germans like more? Slovenian and international Poetry critics

Host: dr. Nada Grošelj

Foreign language in focus: German

No one reads as meticulously as avid readers. Poetry allows for its rewritings and new conceptualizations of the world. In the years from 2020 to 2022, Pranger is focusing on discussing the relationship of German’s target culture towards Slovenian poetry and deepening the already historically strong, existentially relevant, and transformative connections between German and Slovenian cultures.

The Stritar Award for Young Critics 2021

For the ninth year in a row, we will be hosting Slovene Writers’ Association, that will present this year’s Stritar Award for Young Critics at the concluding festival event on Friday, 3 September 2021 at 8 PM in Rogaška Slatina’s Cultural Centre.

Critique studio

Young Critique and Translation Critique are two mentored workshops for beginner critics (non-beginners also welcome) that will be held at the festival in autumn.

ELA- Little Pranger

ELA-Little Pranger workshop is dedicated to our youngest readers who will be able to participate in a children’s poetry competition. Like last year, the workshop is part of a collaboration with Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina and is held separately from the critical part of the festival. Families with children and mentors will be invited to a formal ceremony, which will be streaming online on Saturday, 5 June 2021.

Books in Clothing

Pranger’s chosen books will be treated to an artistic book cover transformation with the help of the Books in Clothing project, a collaboration of our festival with MKC Maribor and Maribor’s Slovenian Book Days Festival.

Join us, the entrance is free!

This event is part of the reading culture programme co-financed by the Slovenian Book Agency.

Programme 2021

Pranger Festival

18th gathering of poets, critics and translators of poetry

31 August – 6 September 2021

Rogaška Slatina, Ljubljana

Pranger Festival will give poetry lovers and readers plenty to look forward to with their 2021 programme. Audiences will be able to enjoy a reflection of nine poetry collections published in 2020 and attend The Stritar Award for Young Critics ceremony. Children will be able to participate in the ELA-Little Pranger workshop and adults interested in translation will have the opportunity to join a workshop dedicated to translating poetry from Slovene into German (Frankfurt 2023).

This year’s festival will exceptionally be held at the end of the summer season.

At the heart of the Pranger Festival lie the dignity and reception of art. When faced with a poet, how to tell one’s opinion politely and with good intentions as well as solid arguments, and on the other hand, fearlessly reflect upon the received critique? How to translate poetry and take a road less travelled?

Pranger Festival chooses three literary critics who select three authors with newly published poetry collections. All critical debates will be hosted by the 2017 Stritar Award winner Maja Šučur.

Programme

Thursday, 31 August 2021, Nova Pošta, 7PM

Conceptual debate Poetry & the Holy

Host: dr. David Bandelj

Wednesday, 1 September

Trubar’s House of Literature, 7PM

Pranger’s poetry evening

Poetry by: Maja Vidmar, Krištof Dovjak, Ivo Stropnik, Marko Matičetov, Manca Košir, Nina Medved, Dejan Koban, Muanis Sinanović, Anja Novak – Anjuta

Thursday, 2 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 2PM (until 5:50PM)

Critical debate

Friday, 3 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

 

The Stritar Award for Young Critics ceremony accompanied by poetry readings

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 8PM

Attendees will be greeted by Rogaška Slatina’s major Branko Kidrič, M.A., and festival manager Urška P. Černe.

The Stritar Award for Young Critics winner will be announced and presented the award by Dušan Merc, the president of Slovene Writers’ Association.

Performances by: Manca Košir, Muanis Sinanović, Maja Vidmar, Ivo Stropnik, Dejan Koban, Marko Matičetov, Krištof Dovjak, Nina Medved in Anja Novak – Anjuta

Free transportation from Ljubljana leaves outside the Križanke Outdoor theatre at 5PM.

To sign up write to: natasa.cebular@drustvo-dsp.si. The deadline is Sunday, 8 August 2021.

Saturday, 4 September 2021

Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina, 9:30AM (until 1:20PM)

Critical debate

Monday, 6 September 2021

Ljubljana, The ZRC Atrium, 12PM

Debate: Pranger Lyrikbook – which Slovenians do Germans like more? Slovenian and international Poetry critics

Host: dr. Nada Grošelj

Foreign language in focus: German

No one reads as meticulously as avid readers. Poetry allows for its rewritings and new conceptualizations of the world. In the years from 2020 to 2022, Pranger is focusing on discussing the relationship of German’s target culture towards Slovenian poetry and deepening the already historically strong, existentially relevant, and transformative connections between German and Slovenian cultures.

The Stritar Award for Young Critics 2021

For the ninth year in a row, we will be hosting Slovene Writers’ Association, that will present this year’s Stritar Award for Young Critics at the concluding festival event on Friday, 3 September 2021 at 8 PM in Rogaška Slatina’s Cultural Centre.

Critique studio

Young Critique and Translation Critique are two mentored workshops for beginner critics (non-beginners also welcome) that will be held at the festival in autumn.

ELA- Little Pranger

ELA-Little Pranger workshop is dedicated to our youngest readers who will be able to participate in a children’s poetry competition. Like last year, the workshop is part of a collaboration with Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina and is held separately from the critical part of the festival. Families with children and mentors will be invited to a formal ceremony, which will be streaming online on Saturday, 5 June 2021.

Books in Clothing

Pranger’s chosen books will be treated to an artistic book cover transformation with the help of the Books in Clothing project, a collaboration of our festival with MKC Maribor and Maribor’s Slovenian Book Days Festival.

Join us, the entrance is free!

This event is part of the reading culture programme co-financed by the Slovenian Book Agency.

Programme 2019

Programme

At the heart of the festival Pranger lie the dignity of art and reception of art. When faced with the poet, how to tell one’s opinion politely and with good intentions as well as solid arguments, and on the other hand, to fearlessly reflect upon the received critique? How to translate poetry and take a road less traveled?

Festival Pranger selects three literary critics and each one of them selects three authors, who published poetry collections in the year before, thus highlighting a total of nine contemporary poetry collections.

Selection 2019

Festival Pranger, a gathering of poets, critics and translators of poetry, motivates readers to read and reflect in depth upon nine poetry collections with unconventional poetics, that were published in the year before. Pranger’s critics Barbara Korun, Aljaž Koprivnikar and Domen Slovinič have decided to put in focus of the festival’s 2019 programme the works of Alenka Jovanovski, Klarisa Jovanović, Milan Šelj, Maja Miloševič, Andreja Štepec, Esad Babačić, Varja Balžalorsky Antić, Kaja Teržan in Jure Jakob.

Language in focus: Albanian

The same as goes for critics, goes for translators of poetry from Slovene to other languages – poet’s co-authors. They have the chance to meet the poet, while trying to transplant verses from one culture and reality to another.

This year, we’ve shone a light on the Albanian language and together with our translators we will weave new relations with the target culture. Poetry of Pranger’s chosen poets 2019 was translated into standard Albanian by the experienced translator Nikollë Berishaj, participant of a round table, taking place on Friday, 14 June 2019 in Rogaška Slatina.

Stritar’s Award for Young Critics

For the seventh year in the row, we hosted Slovene Writers’ Association, that presented Stritar’s Award for Young Critics at the concluding festival event on Saturday, 15 June 2019 at 8 PM in the Cultural Centre Rogaška Slatina. In 2018, the award was presented to Diana Pungeršič. 2019’s recipient was Martina Potisk.

ELA – Pranger for the Young

The youngest readers amoung us can benefit from the programme ELA, which for the first time took place separately from the main festival’s programme on 25 May 2019, in a tight collaboration with Library of Rogaška Slatina. Young poets wereinvited to participate in a Primary School Poetry Competition, open for entries from 12 February until 29 March 2019. All entries were graded independently by school triads. On Saturday, 25 May, families with their children and children’s menthors were invited to the award ceremony with accompanying literary programme for children and a banquet in Rogaška Slatina. The head of the programme ELA is mag. Nataša Koražija, director of Library of Rogaška Slatina.

Young Critique

Critics-beginners (you don’t have to be young to participate in this programme!) were invited to participate in a workshop, menthored by Maja Šučur, awardee of Stritar’s award for Young Critics 2017. Translation critics-beginners participated in a workshop led by Urška P. Černe. They all presented their work on a separate evening in Ljubljana on 12 June 2019.

Thank you: Javna agencija za knjigo Republike Slovenije, Občina Rogaška Slatina, Zavod za turizem in kulturo Rogaška Slatina, Knjižnica Rogaška Slatina, Društvo slovenskih pisateljev, Grand Hotel Sava Rogaška Slatina, Knjižnica Šmarje pri Jelšah, JSKD Šmarje pri Jelšah, MKC Maribor, MKC Črka, Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti, Mariborska knjižnica, KUD AAC Zrakogled, Društvo Gaja, Trubarjeva hiša literature, časnik Večer, Kavarna MiaMia, Knjigarna Antika Celje, Glasbena šola Rogaška Slatina, Narodni dom Maribor – Vetrinjski dvor, Kliping, d. o. o., Podoba, d. o. o., Vital Mestinje, d.o.o., Atlantic grupa.

Discussions of critics 2019

Thursday, 13 June, 3 PM
Smoletova gorca (Sladka Gora)
Varja Balžalorsky Antić: Klobuk Vere Revjakine B. (LUD Šerpa Ljubljana), chosen by Aljaž Koprivnikar
Milan Šelj: Slediti neizgovorjenemu (ŠKUC Ljubljana), chosen by Barbara Korun
Alenka Jovanovski: 1080 stopinj (CSK Ljubljana), chosen by Barbara Korun

Friday, 14 June, 9.30 AM
Anina galerija, Rogaška Slatina
Klarisa Jovanović: Izgnana (KUD AAC Zrakogled Koper), chosen by Barbara Korun
Kaja Teržan: Krog (CSK Ljubljana), chosen by Aljaž Koprivnikar
Esad Babačić: Odrezani od neba (Goga Novo mesto), chosen by Domen Slovinič

Saturday, 15 June, 9.30 AM
Anina galerija, Rogaška Slatina
Andreja Štepec: Edit Paf (LUD Šerpa Ljubljana), chosen by Domen Slovinič
Jure Jakob: Lakota (LUD Literatura), chosen by Aljaž Koprivnikar
Maja Miloševič: Oder za gluhe (CSK Ljubljana), chosen by Domen Slovinič

Critics & Poets 2019

Aljaž Koprivnikar
Varja Balžalorsky Antić: Klobuk Vere Revjakine B. (LUD Šerpa Ljubljana)
Kaja Teržan: Krog (CSK Ljubljana)
Jure Jakob: Lakota (LUD Literatura)

Barbara Korun
Milan Šelj: Slediti neizgovorjenemu (ŠKUC Ljubljana)
Klarisa Jovanović: Izgnana (KUD AAC Zrakogled Koper)
Alenka Jovanovski: Tisoč osemdeset stopinj (CSK Ljubljana)

Domen Slovinič
Esad Babačić: Odrezani od neba (Goga Novo mesto)
Andreja Štepec: Edit Paf (LUD Šerpa Ljubljana)
Maja Miloševič: Oder za gluhe (CSK Ljubljana)

Critics

Aljaž Koprivnikar

Domen Slovinič

Barbara Korun

MP3

1. Critic’s Discussion, 13 June 2019

Lead by: Maja Šučur, discussing: Barbara Korun, Aljaž Koprivnikar, Domen Slovinič

Klobuk Vere Revjakine B., Slediti neizgovorjenemu, Edit Paf

2.

Critic’s Discussion, 14 June 2019

Lead by: Maja Šučur, discussing: Barbara Korun, Aljaž Koprivnikar, Domen Slovinič

Izgnana, Odrezani od neba, Krog

3.

Critic’s Discussion, 15 June 2019

Lead by: Maja Šučur, discussing: Barbara Korun, Aljaž Koprivnikar, Domen Slovinič

Oder za gluhe, Tisoč osemdeset stopinj, Lakota

Reading room

Barbara Korun: Odpor in upor (Večer, 29 May 2019)

Domen Slovinič: Osebna osvoboditev in brisanje mej (Večer, 31 May 2019)

Aljaž Koprivnikar: Premikanje na boljše (Večer, 2 June 2019)