Days of Poetry & Wine »Grand Poetry Reading with Nataša Velikonja«
Moderators: Tilen Kolar and Tomi Petek
Participants
Aifric Mac Aodha (IRL), Jordi Julià (ESP), Tomasz Różycki (POL), Nataša Velikonja (SVN), Selahattin Yolgiden (TUR)
Nataša Velikonja (1967, Slovenia) is a sociologist, poet, essayist, and translator. She has published seven collections of poetry, and her first collection, »Season’s Ticket« (»Abonma«, 1994), is considered the first declared lesbian poetry collection in Slovenia. She is also the author of six books of essays and scientific treatises, and has published more than 500 essays, columns and sociological texts in various media, book collections and various publications both at home and abroad. A former member of the editorial board of the Journal for the Critique of Science, she has also served as editor of the Lesbo magazine, a columnist of Radio Študent, and has been a lesbian activist since 1993. She is the founder of the Lesbian Library and Archive at AKC Metelkova and a member of the Slovene Writers‘ Association. In 2016 she received the Župančič Prize, and in 2018 the Kons International Literary Award.
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.
