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)
Ivan Hristov (1978, Bulgaria) is a poet and a researcher in literary studies. He is the author of the poetry collections »Farewell, Nineteenth Century« (»Сбогом, деветнайсти век« , National Prize for the best poetic debut Southern Spring 2002), »Bdin« (»Бдин«, National literary prize Svetlostruy 2006) and »American Poems« (»Американски поеми«, 2013), as well as of an academic monograph. »A Dictionary of Love« (»Любовен речник«), his fourth book of poems, was published in 2018. His works have been translated into a dozen languages. Since 2019, Ivan Hristov has served as Director of the Sofia: Metaphors Poetry Festival International Program. As a researcher. he currently works at the Institute for Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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.
