Beletrina Academic Press

Stall of Beletrina Press at the 2019 Slovenian Book Fair.

Beletrina Academic Press is a Slovenian publishing house, originally founded in 1996 by students of the University of Ljubljana as the Študentska Založba (Student Publishing House). Co-founders include notable Slovene authors such as Aleš Šteger and Mitja Cander.[1] It has operated the Beletrina Bookshop, which opened in Ljubljana in 2010, since 2014.[2] In addition to physical books, it also publishes the online magazines AirBeletrina and Versopolis, and hosts two literary festivals, Days of Poetry and Wine Festival and Fabula Festival, since 2004.[3] Through the AirBeletrina literary journal, it hosts a short-story contest; the publishing house also organizes creative writing courses.[4] In 2013, Beletrina launched Biblos.si, the first Slovene eLibrary and eBookshop.[5] Beletrina also issues recordings of authors reading from their own work. As a non-profit publisher, it receives funding from the Slovenian government with an aim to "foster a literary atmosphere throughout Slovenia".[6] Beletrina also receives subsidies from the European Union, the Slovene Public Agency for Books (JAK), and different ministries of culture in Slovenia.[4]

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  2. ^ Posedel, Andreja (21 June 2017). "The Best Bookstores in Ljubljana". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  3. ^ "Beletrina Publishing Institute". Culture of Slovenia. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  4. ^ a b Mohar, Tjasa (2016). Alice Munro's Short Fiction against the Slovene Literary and Cultural Background (Thesis). ProQuest 1850382239.
  5. ^ "Biblos - vstopna stran". www.biblos.si. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  6. ^ Davis, Robert Murray (Winter 2001). "Out of the shadows: Slovene writing after independence". World Literature Today. 75 (1): 59–65. doi:10.2307/40156316. JSTOR 40156316. Gale A76628975 ProQuest 209410968.