The Guests of Vilenica 2010

Based on the consultants’ proposals, the Vilenica jury have selected the prize winner and the guests of the 25th Vilenica. The selection criteria remain the same: literary excellence and plurality in geographic, generational and generic sense.

Vilenica Prize Winner 2010
Dževad Karahasan, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slovene autor in focus
Tomaž Šalamun

Vilenica Almanac
Max Blaeulich, Austria
Jacek Dehnel, Poland
Veronika Dintinjana, Slovenia
Kristin Dimitrova, Bolgaria
Aris Fioretos, Sweden
Ludwig Hartinger, Austrija/Slovenia
Enes Karić, BiH
Blaže Minevski, Macedonia
Salvatore Niffoi, Italy
Radoslav Petković, Serbia
Taras Prokhasko, Ukraine
Viktória Radics, Hungary
Maja Razboršek, Slovenia
Joachim Sartorius, Germany
Illya Sin, Belarus
Octavian Soviany, Rumania
Veronika Šikulová, Slovakia
Jáchym Topol, Czech Republic
Suzana Tratnik, Slovenia
Goran Vojnović, Slovenia
Agnv Žagrakalytė, Lithuania
C.D. Wright, USA

Literature from Wales
Siân Melangell Dafydd
Lloyd Jones
Wiliam Owen Roberts
Angharad Price

Slovenian writers in the European Union
Maruša Krese, Slovenia / Austria
Brina Svit, Slovenia / France

Recipient of the Poetry Slam Award at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Marcella Morgan, Ireland

Colloquium
Tone Smolej, Slovenia
Ana Č. Vogrinčič, Slovenia
Norbert Bachleitner, Austria
Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, Slovenia
Meta Grosman, Slovenia
Jernej Habjan, Slovenia
Karin Littau, Great Britain
Miha Pintarič, Slovenia
Monica Santini, Italy
Veronika Schandl, Hungary
Shafquat Towheed, Grat Britain
Literary mediators
Alexandra Büchler, Literature Across Frontiers, Great Britain
Chris Chryssopoulos, Greece
John O’Brien, Dalkey Archive Press, USA
Alberto Princis, Ex Border, Italy
Kornelijus Platelis, Druskininkai Poetic Fall, Lithuania
Sioned Puw Rowlands, Wales Literature Exchange, Great Britain
Laura Seifert, Halma, Germany