Celebratory Literary Evening:
Marking 30 Years of the Prišleki Collection

Launched in 1996, the Prišleki series published by LUD Literatura celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026. To date, 140 titles have appeared in the series. Previous editors include Urban Vovk, Goran Dekleva, Petra Koršič, and Andrej Hočevar, while Veronika Šoster – moderator of the event – has held the role since 2021.

The Prišleki series publishes new Slovenian novels, short story and poetry collections, often introducing entirely new literary voices to the Slovenian publishing landscape. Alongside award-winning titles, the series has also produced numerous longlisted and shortlisted works, including Veronika Dintinjana’s poetry collection V suhem doku (Jenko Award), the Novo Mesto Short Award-winning collections Obvoz by Franci Novak and Leteči ljudje by Ajda Bračič, as well as recipients of the Kritiško Sito Award, presented by the Association of Slovenian Literary Critics to emerging authors Jernej Županič, Muanis Sinanović, Ajda Bračič, and Ana Pepelnik. In recent years, novels from the series have regularly been shortlisted for the Kresnik Award, while the collection has twice received the Brumen Award for outstanding Slovenian design for its iconic covers by Zoran Pungerčar.

To mark this milestone anniversary, authors published in the Prišleki series will gather in Alma Karlin Hall to reflect on past achievements and read excerpts from their works – from Andrej Blatnik’s novel Tao ljubezni (1996) to Nika Nikolič’s novel Zataknjeni v vezju (2026).