17th BOOK FAIR(Y) IN ISTRIA
Pula Festival of Books and Authors

Theme: Identity (of) Drama

2nd – 11th December 2011
House of Croatian Defenders

At its 17th edition, the Book Fair(y) in Istria hosted more than 200 publishers who displayed more than 15,000 books, while 250 guests appeared in seventy-some programs, thus justifying the title "authors' fair“. The central theme of the Fair, The Identity (of) Drama, permeated almost all the Fair's segments, in a way similar to the theme Book&Film.

On the 1st of December, the Fair opened its gates to the local librarians who were the first visitors to see the newest offer of the Croatian publishers.

Two significant anniversaries were marked at the Pula Festival of Books and Authors - the fiftieth anniversary of Ivo Andrić's acceptance in the circle of Nobel Prize laureates, and the thirtieth memorial anniversary of the bard of Croatian Literature, Miroslav Krleža.

At the museum-gallery space Sacred Hearts, at the top of De Ville Street, on the last day of the 17th Book Fair(y) in Istria, on the 11th of December 2011 at noon, the Kiklop (Cyclops) Award Ceremony for the year 2011 took place. The Kiklop Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Predrag Matvejević.