Krokodil Literary Festival Explained

Krokodil Festival (Knjževno Regionalno Okupljanje Koje Otklanja Dosadu I Letargiju) is a literary festival, with the main event held annually in Belgrade, 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.[1]

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 (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 and Ana Pejović.

2016-2017 Association Krokodil participated in organizing the writing of the Declaration on the Common Language.[2]

Visiting authors

The following authors have visited the festival:

2009
2010
2011
2020

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 6th Literary Festival KROKODIL in Belgrade . Traduki . July 2014 . 4 August 2014 .
  2. Web site: Sven. Milekić. 30 March 2017. Post-Yugoslav 'Common Language' Declaration Challenges Nationalism. Balkan Insight. 27 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170427234436/http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/post-yugoslav-common-language-declaration-challenges-nationalism-03-29-2017. live. London. 9 June 2017.