Days of Poetry & Wine »Grand Poetry Reading with Selahattin Yolgiden«
Moderators: Tilen Kolar and Tomi Petek
Participants
Aifric Mac Aodha (IRL), Jordi Julià (ESP), Tomasz Różycki (POL), Nataša Velikonja (SVN), Selahattin Yolgiden (TUR)
Selahattin Yolgiden (1977, Turkey) is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of eight poetry collections, with the most recent published in 2021. His poems have been translated into 13 languages, including English, German, and Italian. Yolgiden is the winner of several poetry awards: the Cemal Süreya Award (2004), the M. Sunullah Arısoy Award (2007), the Arif Damar Award (2011) and the Behçet Aysan Award (2014). He is also a member of the editorial boards of the »Çevrimdışı İstanbul« literature magazine and Offline İstanbul International Poetry Festival.
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.
