Krokodil Festival (''Knjževno Regionalno Okupljanje Koje Otklanja Dosadu I Letargiju'') is a
literary festival, with the main event held annually in
Belgrade
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Serbia. The festival mostly presents authors from the region of former
Yugoslavia (
Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Slovenia,
Montenegro,
North Macedonia and Serbia) with exceptions like authors from Germany or Denmark. The main festival event is the ''Belgrade Summer Krokodil'', a three-day or two-day festival held in June.
Overview
The festival was founded in 2009. Since then there were eight main festival events held in Belgrade and several one-day festivals in
Pula
Pula (; also known as Pola, it, Pola , hu, Pòla, Venetian language, Venetian; ''Pola''; Istriot language, Istriot: ''Puola'', Slovene language, Slovene: ''Pulj'') is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, and the List of cities and town ...
(Croatia),
Ljubljana (Slovenia),
Leipzig (Germany) and
Inđija (Serbia) – as part of the "Krokodil – On the Road" programme.
Festival events have been held in the locality of the
Museum of Yugoslav History.
The festival is directed by
Vladimir Arsenijević
Vladimir Arsenijević ( sr-cyr, Владимир Арсенијевић, born 1965) is a Serbian novelist, columnist, translator, editor, musician, and publisher. He lives and works in Belgrade. Arsenijević won the prestigious NIN Award for the Y ...
and Ana Pejović.
2016-2017 Association Krokodil participated in organizing the writing of the
Declaration on the Common Language.
Visiting authors
The following authors have visited the festival:
;2009
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Lamija Begagić (text in Serbo-Croatian)
;2010
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Bekim Sejranović (text in Serbo-Croatian)
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Bora Ćosić (text in German)
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Petar Luković (text in Serbo-Croatian)
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Slobodan Tišma (text in Serbo-Croatian)
;2011
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Clemens Meyer
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Goran Vojnović
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Ivana Sajko (text in Croatian)
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Mirko Kovač
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Predrag Lucić (text in Croatian)
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Saša Ilić (text in Serbian)
;2020
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Lana Bastašić
Lana Bastašić ( sr-Cyrl, Лана Басташић; born 27 August 1986) is a Bosnian and Serbian writer, novelist and translator. She was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
Biography
She was born in Zagreb to a Serbian family in 1986 and immigrat ...
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Rumena Bužarovska
Rumena Bužarovska ( mk, Румена Бужаровска) is a fiction writer, literary translator, and social commentator born in 1981 in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her book ''My Husband'' (Dalkey Archive Press) has received critical acclaim in E ...
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Monika Herceg
Monika Herceg (born 1990, in Sisak) is a poet, playwright, editor, feminist and activist from the small village Pecki near Petrinja, Croatia. She was awarded multiple literature prizes. She is known for being a prominent young poet of the new gene ...
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Lejla Kalamujić
References
External links
Krokodil Literary Festival Belgrade official website
2009 establishments in Serbia
Recurring events established in 2009
June events
Festivals in Serbia
Literary festivals in Serbia
Serbian literature
Culture in Belgrade
Summer events in Serbia
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