16th BOOK FAIR(Y) IN ISTRIA
Pula Festival of Books and Authors

Theme: Book&Film

3rd – 12th December 2010
House of Croatian Defenders

Literature and film have many points of intersection, what was presented at the 16th Book Fair(y) in Istria – from the parallel analysis of the literary works and their film adaptations to the presentation of authors that had significant achievements and simultaneously worked in both fields, the revalorization of screenplays and screenwriters and their inclusion in the literary milieux, writings and experiences of film directors, actors, camerapeople, stuntpeople, the monographs of the directors…

At the Fair, 250 publishers displayed almost 22,000 titles, while German actress and director Maria Schrader and Israeli writer Zeruya Shalev – who had the honor to officially proclaim the Fair open – were the special guests of the Fair, symbolizing its central theme titled Book&Film.

Within the scope of the Book Fair(y), a record number of 109 events took place, with the participation of 155 guests. Apart from the Cyclops Award Ceremony, the Festival of Children's Books Monte Librić and the Festival Polis-Jadran-Europa took place. Until that day, no other theme of the Fair neither permeated all the Fair's segments in such a spontaneous manner nor gave rise to so many new programs as Book & Film.

On the suggestion of the Kiklop (Cyclops) Award Managerial Board, the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the historian Slavko Goldstein.