Days of Poetry & Wine »Grand Poetry Night«
Moderator: Aleš Šteger
Participants
Eli Eliahu (ISR), Carolyn Forché (USA), Anna Gual (ESP), Ivan Hristov (BGR), Kristina Kočan (SVN)
Eli Eliahu (1969, Israel) works at the Haaretz daily newspaper as copy editor and writes on poetry and culture. Eliahu has published three poetry collections: I and Not an Angel (Ani veh lo malakh, 2008), which was awarded the Education and Culture Ministry Prize for a debut book; City and Fears (Ir veh-beh-helot, 2012), and Epistle to the Children (2018). In 2013 he was awarded the Matanel Prize for Jewish poetry. In 2014 he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for literature. In 2018, Epistle to the Children (Igeret el ha-jeladim) was the recipient of a commendation of the First Lady’s Award, and in 2019 he was awarded the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel Brenner Prize. His poems have been translated into English, French, Arabic, German, and Turkish.
Days of Poetry and Wine, one of the most prominent Central European poetry festivals, successfully unites poetry with enology. Every year in the last warm August days the festival hosts over twenty poets from all over the world along with selected domestic winemakers. Korean phenomenon Ko Un, American poet C. D. Wright and Swedish nominee for the Nobel Prize Lars Gustafsson are just some of the 500 prominent names of past festivals. The main emphasis – poetry and wine – is accompanied by a thoughtfully made programme in the field of music, visual, photography, film and other arts for all ages and interests.
