Moderated By: Biljana Ziki /
Selma Skenderovi (2001) is a master's student in Slovene and Comparative Literature, translator, president of young PEN Slovenia and editor of Mentor magazine. As the youngest author at the age of 19, she won the festival of young literature Urska 2020. A year later, her short-lived debut album was released Why Are you silent, Hava?, which has been translated into several languages. In 2020 and 2021, she received the blitz award for Best Song. In 2022, the Slovenian book agency selected her for the Readers of Europe project with her book debut, in the same year she was nominated for the mira award and her book for the best literary debut, in 2023 she received the award for Best Young author at the Sarajevo Book Fair. In 2024, her novel and if everyone forgets was published at Cankar's publishing house. JAK chose the 2025 novel to translate to 15. International Translation seminar of Slovenian literature. For Cankarjev dom, he curates and conducts a cycle of talks on immigrant literature in Slovenia entitled Who some writes There.
Biljana Ziki / she is a freelance cultural worker, a PhD in media studies and a graduate philologist. It works at the intersection of radio creation, journalism, cultural production, publishing, research and activism. For more than a decade he has been co-creating the programme control of the year on Radio student and our own on the first programme of Radio Slovenia. As a producer, organizer and moderator of cultural events and projects, she cooperates with the central Slovenian cultural institutions, in particular with the public fund of the Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities. He works editorially at the multilingual publishing activity of KC Danilo Kis and the newspaper Parallele (JSKD). He also writes poetry published in Slovenian and regional anthologies and on online literary portals. As the head of the Cultural Centre, Danilo Kis has been developing a supporting infrastructure for multilingual and multicultural authors for many years and promoting cultural practices that transcend national and linguistic boundaries.
The project is carried out in cooperation with Cankarjev Dom and The Danilo Kis Cultural Centre, a non-governmental institution working in the public interest in the field of culture.
Moderira: Biljana Žikić
Selma Skenderović (2001) je magistrska študentka slovenščine in primerjalne književnosti, prevajalka, predsednica Mladega PEN Slovenije in urednica revije Mentor. Kot najmlajša avtorica je pri 19 letih zmagala na Festivalu mlade literature Urška 2020. Leto pozneje je izšel njen kratkoprozni prvenec Zakaj molčiš, Hava?, ki je bil preveden v več jezikov. V letih 2020 in 2021 je prejela nagrado blisk za najboljšo pesem. Javna agencija Republike Slovenije za knjigo jo je leta 2022 z njenim knjižnim prvencem izbrala za projekt Readers of Europe, istega leta je bila nominirana za nagrado mira, njena knjiga pa za najboljši literarni prvenec, leta 2023 je na knjižnem sejmu v Sarajevu prejela nagrado za najboljšo mlado avtorico. Leta 2024 je pri Cankarjevi založbi izšel njen roman In če vsi pozabijo. JAK je 2025 roman izbrala za prevajanje na 15. mednarodnem prevajalskem seminarju slovenske književnosti. Za Cankarjev dom kurira in vodi cikel pogovorov o priseljenski književnosti v Sloveniji z naslovom Kdo neki tam piše.
Biljana Žikić je samostojna kulturna delavka, doktorica medijskih študij in diplomirana filologinja. Deluje na presečišču radijskega ustvarjanja, novinarstva, kulturne produkcije, založništva, raziskovanja in aktivizma. Več kot desetletje soustvarja oddaji Kontrola leta na Radiu Študent in Sami naši na Prvem programu Radia Slovenija. Kot producentka, organizatorka in moderatorka kulturnih dogodkov in projektov sodeluje z osrednjimi slovenskimi kulturnimi institucijami, predvsem z Javnim skladom Republike Slovenije za kulturne dejavnosti. Uredniško deluje pri večjezični založniški dejavnosti KC Danilo Kiš in časopisu Paralele (JSKD). Piše tudi poezijo, objavljeno v slovenskih in regionalnih zbornikih ter na spletnih literarnih portalih. Kot vodja Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš že vrsto let razvija podporno infrastrukturo za večjezične in večkulturne avtorice in avtorje ter spodbuja kulturne prakse, ki presegajo nacionalne in jezikovne meje.
Projekt poteka v sodelovanju Cankarjevega doma in Kulturnega centra Danilo Kiš, nevladnega zavoda, ki deluje v javnem interesu na področju kulture.