19th BOOK FAIR(Y) IN ISTRIA
Pula Festival of Books and Authors

Themes: Socialism on the Bench, A Trip to Russia, Vojvodina – A Region Within the Region

5th – 15th December 2013
House of Croatian Defenders

The fact that the 19th Book Fair(y) in Istria – Pula Festival of Books and Authors occurred - as the natural order of things requires - between the one in which the Fair reached adulthood and the jubilee, the twentieth one, does not mean that it served as a reminder or an announcement. For this reason, or to be more exact, this being one of the reasons, the Fair had not one, but three central themes: Socialism on the Bench, A Trip to Russia, and Vojvodina – A Region Within the Region, while its programmatic course was marked by the scientific-theoretical discussions held at the International Scientific Conference “Socialism at the Bench“, International Conference “Publishing: Trends and Contexts” and Fellowship “Book Society”. More than 200 guests participated in more than 80 events, while 250 Croatian and foreign publishers displayed 15,000 book titles. Another award was established that year: the so-called "readers' award“ that bore the name of legendary Pula roentgenologist, Esperantist, polyglot, but above all - a genuinely great reader and a book devotee, Dr. Ivo Borovečki.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya, Alexander Genis, Oleg Kashin, Sergey Biryukov, Tonko Maroević, Zvonko Maković, Nadežda Čačinovič, Vladislava Goridić-Petković, Slobodan Tišma, Lásló Végel, Želimir Žilnik, Miljenko Jergović, Ivan Lovrenović, Milana Vlaović, Mirjana Dugandžija, Luko Paljetak, Ahmet Ümit, Flavio Soriga, and Ivo Štivičić are just some of the authors that marked this edition of the Fair. The Kiklop (Cyclops) Award for Lifetime Achievement was presented to Milivoj Solar.