Subprograma

Culture

Acción
Literary translation projects

Tipo de actividad

Paises participantes

MK

 

Fechas de inicio y fin
16/01/2017 – 15/01/2019

Estado del proyecto

finalized

Subvención

Coordinador

DRUSTVO ZA IZDAVANJE, PROMET I USLUGI GOTEN GRUP DOOEL SKOPJE

MK

 

www.gotenpublishing.com

 

“The Baltic Viral thru Literature on the Balkans” encompassed publication of 10 books from European literature, some of which belong to one of the least present geographical region in North Macedonia and in the Balkans – the Baltic region. The project included works by outstanding authors, five of them winners of the European Union Prize for Literature. Through the publication of works from countries that have almost never been translated into Macedonian language (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), we managed to acquaint our audience for the first time with one whole cultural region. Thus, we created new future readers for some national literatures that almost did not exist on the readers’ map of North Macedonia. By organizing promotions with the presence of the authors, but also with numerous on-line activities, we managed to reach a new audience, as well as to develop the interest of the audience for the European literature. By creating audio books from each of the books and delivering them to people who have vision problems, we have increased the scope of those who will have the opportunity to be recipients of new trends in European literature. By creating short videos for each of the authors in the project, we reached the audience whose main source of information is You Tube and social networks. By informing the media about the publishing of the books, by the visits of our editors to the national televisions we have made contact with the general public. Two of the promotions of the books were part of the official program of two important literary festivals in the country – “Another Story” and “Bookstar, the festival of European literature”. At these festivals, we promoted the books and authors with the audience focused on quality literary events. Finally, by publishing e-books versions of all tittles, we managed to make these books available to everyone in the country and abroad who are interested in reading quality European literature in the form of e-books.